skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cheaper" is relative. Perhaps two weeks off could be spent on traveling or exploring nature. Instead you spent that time working on a car.
A basic income would create a larger supply of labor by increasing mobility.
> But Goodenough is equally dismissive of such tinkering and its measly 7% or 8% a year in added efficiency.

7% extra efficiency per year means electric cars will have twice the capacity in 10 years...and then double up again in 10 more years...and so on. That's a far greater rate of improvement than for gasoline-powered cars, even if we're impatient and we want our $10,000 500 mile on a charge EVs now.

> But the path he has chosen involves one of the toughest problems in battery science, which is how to make an anode out of pure lithium or sodium metal. If it can be done, the resulting battery would have 60% more energy than current lithium-ion cells.

I don't know how "real" its technology is, but SolidEnergy promises a 50 percent increase in energy density using an "ultra-thin metal anode". The company promises commercialization for phones in 2016 and for EVs in 2017.

http://www.solidenergysystems.com/technology.html
I can guarantee that your Loyale is not comparable to the safety ratings of any new cars. That's a HUGE deciding factor in the used vs new car debate. I'd wager you didn't factor that into your purchasing decision.

People with families have passengers' safety to think about when buying a car.

Aside from that, while you seem apathetic about the social value surrounding your car - others see the status of a new car as well worth the premium. For those people it can be a hobby or a source of major self-validation and pride.
And also (IIRC) the reason why they couldn't fire the ridiculous gun with which they were equipped.
Indeed, that seems very appropriate though arguably many years too late. I am not an American myself, but I hope for their sake that it makes it through Congress this time.
Well that would require a lot of energy !
Redesign of the iOS notification center
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That's one of the problems with practicality of such plans - the numbers are never "big enough".

People take into account today's income and capital gains revenues, and assume that they can safely increase those rates by a wide margin causing no change in underlying behavior.

In reality a top-income earner who made eight digits or above can safely take the next 2-3 years off without driving his family into the soup kitchen situation, and as far as capital gains goes, people become more cognizant of harvesting capital losses before they sell anything that appreciated in value (or simply sell a smaller chunk of their assets, if we're talking highly liquid investments).
Losing my mindfulness
More like 80% Samsung 10% everything else.

Because Samsung pays for it.
For bulk transfer of many files, and especially transfer over a local/nearby network that may be hold true, but as a general practice, and especially for serial/one off transfer of very large files, GNU parallel won't help. However, all the tools mentioned multiplex connections. They are better for transferring individual files, and you can also use them in parallel.

A combination of your network, a CPU threads, frame size, etc... are your ultimate bottleneck when you are transferring very large files.

We've transferred exabytes using bbcp and GridFTP. bbcp is very easy to use once it's set up.

At some point, you run into much different issues when trying to routinely transfer very large files across continents at speeds greater than 10Gbps.
Just announced - "Stripe and Facebook are going to sponsor @gnupg development with $50k/year each." - https://twitter.com/stripe/status/563449352635432960
Why not? I’m pretty sure Helion (helionenergy.com) doesn’t have a working prototype.
I was expecting college students, high school students, etc. who just needed basic reliable {mostly} transportation.

But no. I ended up selling it to a lady whose car had been totaled in an accident, and $1200 was what the insurance pay-out was. She had never driven a manual transmission before, so a Honda was a good choice for her to learn on. It was painful to listen to her grind gears as she drove away, though...
Stripe and Facebook are going to sponsor gnupg w. 50k/y each
From the article, "Every time the sensor blew, the onboard computer would shut the tractor down. It takes a technician at least two days to order the part, get out to the farm, and swap out the sensor."

This is just a guess since that passage is vague, but it sounds to me like he isn't able to order the part himself. It might be a proprietary thing that only a (John Deere approved) tech can order. Either that, or maybe he isn't able to overcome some kind of anti-tampering hardware to install it himself.
I don't disagree with assertion about Apple and similar companies but they end up selling you a physical hardware product.

Bufferbox offered a service and didn't sell you a product therefore I don't think they were "hardware" company. The hardware was means to an end.

I don't think it lessens what they did. It was a good service.

Walmart has a large IT infrastructure, with sys admins and in-house developers. They also manage a lot of buildings, and warehouses. I wouldn't consider them an IT company, a property management company, or a logistics company.
Wow, and that was fast. Is there some sort of secret Silicon Valley startup hotline where these deals get set up?
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Why do I need to acknowledge that? That's not a knowable thing.

In fact, I'd argue that they're the most profitable company IN SPITE of B&M stores.

My evidence is clear: ALL OTHER BUSINESSES on the "most profitable list" do not have B&M stores. Proof is in the pudding, the list of most profitable companies is a list of no store companies, and Apple is an outlier not a rule.
Just don't run your pendulum simulation for too long if you're using the Euler method!
Yeah, you could maybe even get the JSX-style syntax with React by using Scala's XML support. I'm not sure if it would actually work, but it's a cool idea.
Named for Wau Holland, one of the founders of the CCC (and the Datenschleuder):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wau_Holland
that hasn't been my experience, I drive a '99 benz station wagon with 140K miles that I have had for 4 years. It's only required routine maintenance tasks such as filters, belts, brake pads/rotors, tran fluid, tires, engine sensors and oil changes.

I will NEVER buy a new car ever again. When I was young, dumb and still in college I bought a '99 Mercury Cougar off the lot and it was constant problems from day one and completely unusable at 80k miles.
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I love the hero image.

Nothing says "state of the art" quite like a highly pixelated image on your "we got hacked" response letter.
You are confusing trademarks and copyrights.

As an iconic trademarked character, Disney is the only company able to produce new entertainment or durable consumer products featuring Mickey Mouse.

By use of copyrights, Disney can also prevent the legitimate purchaser of a 1928 film reel from turning it into a digital video file.

The difference can be seen more clearly in the character of Peter Pan. The copyright on the original publications have expired in most of the world. But GOS Hospital and Disney can still claim trademark over some elements, inasmuch as they continue to be used in their business. You can write a new novel or play about Peter Pan, but woe to you if you make a new animated film, or use it to promote your children's hospital, or even try to use it to sell peanut butter.

Trademarks do not expire, as long as they are defended. But trademarks are more narrowly defined, and restricted to a particular purpose.
donated 20 EUR, was at 99987.
Sounds like the sensor swap might need a firmware reset from the technician and their magic box.
This only holds true so long as all data is on tape and you don't need a replica before sending it off, in case someone hits your petamobile.

That's because your bandwidth is limited by your tape library, the drives, the network to your tape library, the latency of retrieving/writing/copying to tape, and few other things.
>economics is the study of something that is 100% man-made, yet we cannot explain many of its aspects. Heck I am more confident in physicists able to explain physics, and mathematicians able to explain mathematics

You could easily argue that mathematics is something that is man-made.
Thinking about that metaphor. I guess our current network is built for low latency, not high bandwidth!?
Can you provide a real world example of an interaction, and how it would be improved with pushpin in front of it?
I think five year increments might be a little short, but I agree with the general idea. One of the biggest problems with indefinite copyrights is that you wind up with big chunks of culture that get sucked up into this copyright black hole. They are too locked up to safely use, but it's difficult or impossible to tell why might actually own the rights. Then it's only a matter of time before large sections of our cultural past fade away forever.

"At the 150 year mark Disney can decide for themselves whether another 5 years is worth a billion dollars."

That's one reason that the plan would fail. One of the reasons I like explicit registration is that allowing these sorts of indefinite extensions for some works makes it less likely that companies would lobby heavily against the plans. By making it deliberatively punitive for these scenarios, you put the plan up against the same forces that are already fighting (and successfully, at that) for blanket copyright extensions.
> Do you have any reading recommendations?

Not really. I remember using a table which gave you the optimum aperture for maximum sharpness, based on the distance that the lens moved when focusing between the front and back of the subject. That kind of thing is only really useful for MF and larger, and I only used it for things like landscapes where sharper was always better. The problem with small formats is that it's hard to know how far the lens is moving, so you can't really use this technique.

In the most general terms, opening your lens all the way gives you aberrations, closing it all the way gives you diffraction, so you'll typically shoot in the middle unless you have a reason to do otherwise. For a rule of thumb, take the apertures you use for 35mm and adjust them by the crop factor. So if you liked to shoot everything at f/8 with 35mm (a common choice), then lean towards f/5.6 with your 1.5x crop digital. Conversely, if you start lugging around a 6x7cm camera, you'll use f/16 as your default.

Yes, for really small cameras, this means really big apertures. The iPhone 4S always shoots at f/2.4, for example.
Net Neutrality Would Be a Mistake
I bought a 2009 Toyota Corolla a few years ago from Hertz. At the time anyway, their Rent-to-Own program gave you up to 3 days to decide on whether you wanted to keep it. The no-haggle price is given to you up front. In the meantime, you were renting it at their usual rate. If you returned it in less than 2 hours, you could get the rental fees fully refunded to you. In those 3 days, you would have plenty of opportunity to have a mechanic look it over for you, and for you to drive around for awhile and see if it suits you. If it doesn't, you return it and pay the rent. If it does and you buy, the rent is waived. You receive paperwork in the mail to sign and mail back, and you must have the money wired to them.

Things worked out well for me. The Corolla was a tad scruffy but otherwise presentable, and my mechanic gave it a clean bill of health (except for two of the tires being over-worn, which Hertz replaced). It's been a while, but I remember the price being ~$11k (4dr sedan, 43k miles, about 1.5 yr old), and all said and done came to ~$12k (taxes, titles, fees, what-have-you). The car was young enough and under-mileage enough to still be under manufacturer's warranty. The Hertz warranty was 60 days.

The 3-days rent is not much risk (maybe $200) versus $500 deposit most used car dealers want. This is probably not an easy way to go if you need to do this on a car loan. But if you can raise the cash, I think this is a good way to go.
The data-driven world doesn’t run on data: it runs on trust
How do you validate your JSON?
I agree, but somehow the stock jumps over 9% in after-hours trading.
and oddly works fine in IE
Man, do I feel old.

Back in undergraduate school, we were taught to learn programming (FORTRAN) through physics, not the other way around.

The idea that the process could be turned around really hammers home how much things have changed due to the access to computers at a young age that most kids have nowadays.
Building a great search engine is still a hard research problem but building a search engine good enough to solve that problem is within the skills of any good fresh CS grad with a month to work on it.
Achieving nuclear fusion should provide us with the energy.
I wonder what happened behind the scenes that basically killed Ubuntu in its tracks.

Circa 2008, before the Unity and Pulseaudio switches, it was considered by pretty much everyone the premiere Linux distro. I don't see why they could not get support contracts with Dell, HP, etc to sell Ubuntu computers and provide the tech support in exchange for positive cash flows.

Even today Dell is still doing Sputnik and in European countries you can buy HP hardware with Linux. Why is Canonical not taking advantage of the fact that they could be making money off support for their desktop OS through all the hardware vendors?
Big data and bacteria: mapping the New York subway's DNA
They would be encrypted. The point is privacy. Icloud gives you none.

In 10 years time the NSA are going to be sucking up every single photo and email and Facebook post they can, storing it for posterity in Utah, analysing every single one, facial recognition and categorisation automatically.

They can have mine encrypted.
A patreon would be a good option. I would happily give $1 a month
I am sure if he quit someone would pick it up.
for the senior C++ engineers and the likes, any chance for visa cum relocation?
We have a lot of cool things coming out soon. Regarding specified content though, you can current select a specific area by clicking and dragging that you want to monitor instead of monitoring the entire page.

Great idea on Zapier. Definitely some valuable feedback. I appreciate it.
In reply to the three who've replied up to now, I'm not suggesting the farmer do the repair work himself, and he could finesse putative prohibitions against him getting one by having his local dealership hold it for him.
Given what happened before you really can't fault him.
Todays landfills are tomorrows mines.
What this and all other software projects need is marketing. There is just too much noise out there. We landed on a comet last year and we still needed marketing to let the people know about it. If we invented free energy tomorrow, we'd all hear about it via some sort of marketing. Marketing is much, much easier to implement than cultural and structural change.
Sometimes mechanics will write the date they changed the belt on the cover. Other times you have to look for tool marks on the timing belt cover and/or crankshaft pulley. But the best way is to have paperwork showing it's been done. If none of the above are definitive, go ahead and pay to have it done - it'll be far cheaper than if the belt breaks.
Apparently Stripe and Facebook just stepped in to pledge $50K/year each.

https://twitter.com/stripe/status/563449352635432960
Facebook and Stripe are stepping up:
https://twitter.com/stripe/status/563449352635432960
By year is pretty cool. Even a film made in 1900. Working my way to the future now.
that to me is an irrational market, because the analyst expectations was based on what exactly? i will use the product, i won't invest in the company.
As in projects that are attracting lots of donations are probably important? Or as in projects that aren't getting many donations probably need more?
AirBnB is rife with technical glitches, oversights, poor product design, and inconsistent numbers. (Ie fees not matching when you look at the mobile app vs the text they sent you vs the website.) It's pretty embarrassing for an established company of their size, funding and cash flow, and I think speaks to the nontechnical nature of their team. Would switch in a heartbeat but hey, they're the market, for now.
Hey we understand. This is just an MVP. We have a lot of stuff in the works and appreciate the feedback. It's very valuable.
Charles Murray threw out a number like $30k for the average family but that was based on $10k per person.[1] But let's do a very generous envelope calculation and say that all of the 109 million Americans who current receive some form of welfare assistance suddenly become eligible for $10k per year. That's $1.09 trillion in new spending. BUT -- we currently spend about $450 billion annually on welfare programs, so your net increase is only $559 billion.

And that's assuming everyone gets $10k without considering the 50% decrease in aid for each additional dollar earned. If we use the $360 billion number someone else threw out, you could actually reduce spending by $90 billion annually if BI replaced large federal/state welfare programs.

And none of that is counting the extra economic activity when people on SSDI -- which has stopped being a long-term disability program and become a stop-gap aid for the "systemically unemployable" until they can collect Social Security at 62 -- are allowed to openly perform some work at their ability level. Right now they have to keep up the charade that they are "disabled" even if their SSDI qualification is only because they lack the skills to find a job during the 10-15 years before Social Security eligibility.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/libertarian-charles...
> It's also used in countless applications to encrypt data at rest

exactly. Given the number of corporate laptops encrypted by the corporate IT with that software , and thus definitely some "license" style good money were paid by the corporations to some entities ... i never believed in the magical concept of trickle down and sounds like it doesn't work here too.
> This is a great example showing how little we understand economics, which is very ironic: economics is the study of something that is 100% man-made, yet we cannot explain many of its aspects. Heck I am more confident in physicists able to explain physics, and mathematicians able to explain mathematics, than in economists able to explain economics.

Physicists and mathematicians often have the advantage that if they run an experiment / solve a problem by using the same inputs, they can expect the same output. Obviously this is not the case for economics, which at its core is driven by human interactions. Not only does it often have many, many variables, but they're also difficult to control.

In my estimation, it's actually impressive we have as good a grasp as we do on economics.
...the happy path there is intend level 0?

if err := doSomething(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("something failed: %v", err)
}

Or,

x, err := doSomething()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("something failed: %v", err)
}

log.Print(x)
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Ubuntu itself is a central part of their cloud business, so Ubuntu is indeed profitable for them. What's not profitable is their desktop and end users' market.
> These are property taxes, not land taxes, unless the article is lumping them.

I am not sure I understand. The property tax in the US is the tax on land + additions, both subjects to appraised value, so yes, the rates listed do include both.

> Also the biggest effect would come from replacing income tax with land tax, as the most productive people would gain the most

How would this be sustainable for farmers or ranchers? If they have to radically increase their prices to account for new 30% land value tax, does the society benefit or lose?

> There's nothing valuable in risk.

He provided liquidity to the market when somebody was willing to sell that piece of land. If you're taxing someone for providing liquidity, the price of the underlying good will plummet, as that removes incentives for current buyers, and then you're back to square one - low tax revenues collected from land owners.

> Your argument works even better for buying a piece of a rock for a million dollars and expecting profits

People do invest in gold and silver.
Sure, in the parking lot, you are choosing between backing in or backing out. I find backing in to be the better option for two reasons. The first being that you can drive by and see who/what is in the spot. Second, like you said, the access to the spot is better controlled.

In the farm case, you can always drive forward. It was part of the engineering of the workflow for that operation; for every operation, there is a forward path to completion. You don't have to chose between anything, you just have to know that you can't drive backwards.

Comparing the risk of parking a car backward into a parking spot and backing a large truck with no rear windows is apples to oranges. But if we must compare, the risk of damage is much higher with a truck that can back over a small car with little effort, when you are in the middle of a field you don't expect anyone to be there, like in a parking lot. But people do drive out into the middle of a field in a little pickup to deliver that case of oil or a sandwich or fuel up your truck or combine. (Sidebar, it's not uncommon to bring a fuel truck along side another truck or machinery and fuel it in motion). During harvest, the work day is usually 16+ hours which doesn't include breakfast or dinner and from the start of harvest to the end there are no days off unless it's raining. Add to that that driving in circles for 16 hours a day is a very boring job. Also note that many old grain trucks have poor breaks or breaks that are overloaded when filled. Needing to drive backwards implies that you've pulled the nose of the truck into something of value then used your breaks to stop before you hit it. Given all that and the space that you find around most farms, why would you risk driving backwards?
Don't lose heart - working in the industrial safety business, the 'just check the boxes' tactic is very familiar. Things are finally coming around after many years (and many, many incidents) though, as companies, and the courts, realise that ticking boxes isn't the be all and end all.

At the moment, it's very easy for companies like Anthem to claim that they were the victim of a 'very sophisticated' cyber attack, when in reality they were probably just wilfully negligent. As understanding seeps into the regulators and law-makers minds, businesses will start to comply with the spirit of security / HIPAA, not just the boxes. In the mean time, the best you can do is continue to advise clearly and calmly why things should be done. If the management doesn't accept your reasoning, at least you have done your due diligence.