skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If the info there is as outdated as you say, where could one find a reasonably complete and up to date intro to car computer technology?"

You won't find this in the public. You would need to work in the industry to get access to all the specs. Much of it is under NBA between companies.

' Are there any tools out there that can be used for simulating a car network (CAN bus, ECU etc.) for lab purposes?"

Yes, Vector CANOE is probably the most widely used tool for this. It has a scripting engine called CAPL that closely resembles the C programming language. dSPACE is another one.
This question is basically the textbook example of "too broad" – is it any surprise that it was deleted?

Perhaps you can take issue with the fact that StackOverflow doesn't allow overly broad questions, but personally I find it helpful. When I find something on StackOverflow (or more commonly Cross Validated), it's almost always someone solving or pointing to a way to solve a problem very similar to what I encountered. Allowing extremely broad questions would diminish the likelihood that these results can be easily accessed.
Questions with many upvotes do require more deletion votes. E.g. this question needed 10 votes, rather than the usual 3.
Post-privilege is impossible by definition in any society where scarcity exists. Even if various identities are all elevated to an equal level of acceptance, the term "privilege" will simply be shifted to more nebulous concepts.

Finally, the conclusion that reaching post-privilege will result in a feasible post-privacy does not follow at all. What, is the implication here that white men "on stages" have nothing to hide? I don't get it.

Leave it to some people to turn a human rights issue into an identity politics issue.
If you have a solution, this is the best way to do it. You won't get the reputation points for it but when somebody is Googling for that problem, they will be happy you stuck it on your blog. That is the goal, isn't it? To help people?
Yes, you're right, like I said in my other reply, I'd assumed the parent poster's engagement with the agent had been trimmed down for the sake of the story, that there was more substance they left out because that was the overall thrust of the story.

And I think you're also right that they'd do some investigation, but I imagine the investigation would be over very quickly. This "people are uploading filth to my website" situation isn't so uncommon like it once was (back in my day, sonny!!).

The chance that that individual is trying to buddy up to the FBI in order to escape detection is more of a Hollywood fantasy than how real life would play out. These agents are human beings too, and they know that if someone's coming to them to ask for help, they're all on the same page.
What are his ideas to 'fix' the system?
Yeah, looks like he's still stalled.
What a childish, fallacious argument ...

Parent wasn't talking about answering calls while on the road. Parent was referring to missing a call. If they need to have their phone on, that's completely reasonable. Maybe they're even an emergency driver. It doesn't mean they won't pull over when there's a call.

Having the phone on doesn't mean talking on the phone while driving. In fact, I'm pretty sure siri is disabled during phone calls, so this is a feel-good farce with very dangerous implications. One that's more likely to cause crashes than prevent them. Thankfully this happened in a low density country with safe roads.
In the UK at least, you are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of colour, creed or sexual preference.

However one must demonstrate that said party has been disadvantaged.

For example if you say that women must use red font, and men must use blue. It is arguable that you are choosing a different path for each gender, but not causing more work for either side.

in the case of the nonwhiteetcetcetc license, you are allowing one group to potentially profit more from derivative works than the other. (one group is allowed to represent the work as their own, potentially allowing greater profits.)

However you'll have to prove it, which requires examples, or brilliant lawyers.

##Supplemental##

My personal feeling is that any discrimination, that is the deliberate act of choosing one type of person over an other, on the grounds of anything other talent for the position in question is wrong.

Having been parachuted into a position, not because of talent, but because of social engineering, allowed my peers to legitimately mark me out as not belonging. Ultimately did nothing to tackle the root cause, and possible re-enforced on both sides that someone like me is not meant to be in that position.

Social hacks are just that, nasty. tackle the cause not the symptom.
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As with most renewables (e.g., wind, solar, wave), I would imagine that just because production of energy outpaced its consumption on a given day, the same may not be true on any other given day.
While you may capable of putting arbitrary restrictions into your license, both state and federal laws will trump your agreement.

If nothing else, I suspect that Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights act would interfere with a license attempting to discriminate using race.
On a related note, I find it rather awkward that software, and online services are allowed to discriminate by applying automated classifiers to datasets.

For instance, an insurance company could deduce from the fact that a person likes black music, that he is 2x more likely to be involved in an incident of some kind.

To me, it seems that this is a form of prejudice and discrimination, that, in real life, would not be accepted. So why do we accept it from these big companies?

And here comes the main point: this should apply even if "black music" is replaced by some trait that doesn't touch upon racism, and the company is not an insurance company but, for instance, an advertisement agency.
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I know it's hard to accept sometimes, but the world changes. Cycling is becoming more prevelant in auto-dominated America, whether autoists think it should or not.
My bad.

I'll grant you that a lot of people (a) assume coding isn't a creative act, and (b) assume that what they enjoy everyone will enjoy.
I find myself from time to time having questions that I know would be immediately closed at SO by hyperactive mods, though probably many users, potential googlers etc. would like to find the answer to the same question.

What is a good place to pose such questions? I don't believe Ask HN is one, since time-on-frontpage is very short, and if thread does not get upvotes quickly, it goes into oblivion, and also, while too broad for SO, they're probably too specific for HN :)

Any recommendations?

Maybe there's a business case for a portal "TooBroadForStack.com" or sth like that ;)
"a persecuted group in the USA right now are gun owners."

Pardon?

That stretched the meaning of 'persecution' past the breaking point and into the realm of meaninglessness. Every driver needs a license, and the car needs to be registered and with a license plate. Car licenses are used for taxation purposes and to help the authorities identify the owner of a vehicles.

Watch out! Come the next revolution, when the cyclists, skateboards, and horseback riders take over, all you murder machine operators will be the first against the wall, and they'll use your driver's license to track you down! Slowly!

(Hint: in general, persecuted groups don't tend to have majority of the government, with full legislative control, a president who goes skeet shooting and a vice president that says 'if you want to protect yourself, get a double barrel shotgun'.)
I'd agree for the most part but especially in North America, there is a culture of beating around the bush and most people avoid confrontation or directly addressing the problem of course unless the other person has an inability to recognize the issue. I'd say even for someone who has a large stake in a publicly visible company, it'd be tough to break that mold even more.

I agree that it could've been better worded without coming out as blunt or being overly polite and politically correct. But then again, Ellen Pao sued her former employer based on questionable grounds (gender bias cried the wolf) and timing (her husband is bankrupt after scamming investors).

If I was in Sam's position, I'd be careful not to awaken the bees nest and just hope that the cold season comes and they all die.
Am I the only getting stuck on OpenVPN instructions? Are they copy-paste easy or need some know-how? All I get is errors about can't open /etc/ssl/openssl.conf and list from --help command saying that -config is unknown option. Build-dh hungs
Agree completely.

I have had to configure some relatively large forms in an application using JSON. Its not a particularly easy to read format, and when the nesting is deep its easy to loose a brace, or not notice a trailing comma in a list.

(I don't know if YAML solves all of those problems, but it certainly looks easier to read).
As a driver, the only thing you have to do is pay complete attention to the road and drive safely. It is not Toyota's fault if you stop doing that to fuck with your phone, even if they disabled your nav.
Some states have included sexual orientation as a protected class. Not sure how that would work with a software license though. But if state law says a customer walking into a store can't be discriminated against based on sexual orientation, I would think it would transfer to a software license in some way. If not I am sure there is some attorney somewhere looking to make a name for themselves that would be happy to make an attempt.
Its certainly true if private companies have to disclose what they collect to the government. If the government doesn't have any records about who's collecting what, its a bit more difficult to make them turn it over.

Of course, we are taking about business people, so they'll always be some who will sell it for the right price.
In my experience, unless you enable all the crazy type system extensions (which isn't a terribly good idea IMO), GHC doesn't really spend that much time typechecking programs. Most of the time is spent on optimizations, which are (0) possible thanks to purity [hooray!], (1) necessary to overcome the limitations of laziness [dangit!].

In any case, Haskell supports exploratory programming just fine. It's true that Haskell's definition of "exploring" (refine your design until you can convice GHCi and QuickCheck that it makes sense) is somewhat idiosyncratic from a Lisper or Smalltalker's point of view (refine your design until you can convince yourself that it makes sense), but that doesn't make it any less legitimate. It's still experimenting, except now you have a tool to validate the degree to which the experiment has been a success. It's experimental science, not experimental art.

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On the specific topic of nils, I think it's fair to say they're an absolute mistake in a statically typed language first released as late as in 2007. Standard ML and OCaml, both much older languages, have parametric polymorphism, algebraic data types, freedom from nils, and fast compilers: Poly/ML and OCaml's bytecode compiler, respectively. In addition, both Standad ML and OCaml have unrestricted imperative facilities, so freedom from nils is perfectly possible in an imperative language.

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Regarding the classes of errors that are still possible in type systems like Haskell's, I have found only one that really matters, and where the usual workarounds (e.g., phantom types) don't help. Haskell, being a mathematically-inspired language, favors programming in terms of "timeless" entities whose existence is unaffected by the number of times you use them. While appropriate for manipulating pure data (numbers, strings, lists, trees, etc.), it's awkward for manipulating ephemeral computational resources, such as file descriptors or open sessions.

A language that fares better in this regard is Rust. Rust has parametric polymorphism, algebraic data types, freedom from nils (are we seeing a common theme?) and type classes, but gives up on interactive programming in exchange for precise control over data structure representation and resource management. Rust's type system design understands very well the ephemeral nature of objects: When a non-`Copy` object is passed around elsewhere, it's truly gone from the current lexical context.

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Now, I don't want to give the impression that I think verification is the be all and end all of computer programming. There's plenty of room for languages that let you develop "fast and loose" solutions, as opposed to follow some principled philosophy. (Ruby comes to mind.) However, Go's very own marketing suggests that this isn't what they're trying to achieve. They do want a language that enforces a programming discipline. They just happen to have designed a language whose discipline doesn't provide enough benefits to justify the freedom restriction.
I'd agree that the original question is not very SO-like IMO, but phrasing aside, the content is still valuable. Still don't think deleting was the correct option.
Thank you @tenpoundhammer, I'm glad you like it! :-)

I feel almost every book out there can be re-written to bring impactful visual/substance that's possible only because of the web. There can be cute books written with toddlers on the mind, easy-to-read books for younger children and good college books that explain the fundamentals to adults like children.

Let me know if your wife likes it (although this demo book is slightly for a more senior group, above 10th grade) I'll be happy to do something for toddlers and middle school too! Hit me on marvin@bubbl.in :-)
No, what causes the accident in your scenario is a driver illegally fucking with their phone while driving—not the ad that disabled their nav.

Don't misattribute the responsibility.
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I'm on my second account on SO. A few years back I was fed up with the "SO police" and asked Jeff Atwood to close the account for me. I've been back for almost 2 years now but I'm not an active member by any means.

Having said that, SO has been nothing short of amazing when you look at the vast amounts of information it provides. However, I never really had a good experience receiving responses on anything I've ever asked. I'd typically get a comment or two but answers are rare.
> but ultimately the people in there seem to be involved with themselves and their affairs to an extend that makes it next to impossible to perceive them as an viable agent of change

They're still the best option though. The other parties have by and large long since foregone wanting to shape the future for the better. They're mostly bureaucrats and administrators with a general lack of a positive vision.

It's no use complaining. If you want to bring about change you'll need to get involved yourself. Besides, the Pirate Party had some successes recently regarding copyright and freedom of panorama laws so to some extent they already are a viable agent of change.
Ahhh, the holy grail! I think there are a lot of people who would prefer an alternative to alcohol as a social lubricant.

I myself really detest the way even moderate amounts of alcohol make me feel the next day, and the effect of alcohol on my sleep.

Its all well and good to go out to a bar and not drink but you are on a different wavelength than the rest of the crowd and it's just not the same.

So not drinking definitely puts a damper on my social life in this small coastal village I live in.

You can try phenibut, and it will work as well for your purposes as anything else on the market.

its my second favorite nootropic from behind the iron curtain. Phenibut, as the story goes, was created for cosmonauts who needed something to calm the nerves while stuck in tiny metal capsules risking their lives. The existing drugs all dulled the senses. So phenibut exists as a kind of smart benzodiazepine alternative.

It is habit forming though and you want to avoid a dependency.

Update because I can't reply:

Phenibut is not a benzo, and I don't use it in place of alcohol, but for the questioner, its probably the closest replacement to alcohol that I know of, but still very different. And for those who would otherwise drink to relax a far healthier choice IMHO.
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They are not requiring the driver to do what you claim they are requiring the driver to do.
It’s called an emoji
> … give you (?) a sense of what institutional discrimination feels like.

> As a white heterosexual male, it does make me think.

As a white heterosexual male, I've been the victim of institutional discrimination. In fact, people like me are the only ones it's considered okay to discriminate against.
i got letter 01F4B3 in box what does it mean?
I recommend using Swedish snus to quit; it worked for me, and when I was using it, I had to bulk import it from Sweden rather than it being available at every 7-11.

First tried it out of curiosity when I was at a tobacco shop and saw the strange cans in a tiny refrigerator behind the counter, and before finishing the can, noticed I had been completely forgetting to smoke (20 year 1 pack a day habit.) I had accidentally quit within 2 months.

2 years later I quit snus entirely also, and I've been 3 years without a tobacco product of any sort. Snus is far easier to quit than smoking because you lose the hand thing, and the inhaling thing, and the exhaling thing, and basically everything that is fun about cigarettes, and are simply left with a pure addiction. That can't be said about electronic cigarettes, which are pretty much an drop-in replacement for cigarettes.

In that, just the switch to snus is like half-quitting in itself. Snus is also well-studied, with no known negative health effects other than an assumed link to higher rates of a few rare pancreatic cancers - based on the fact that it contains a chemical that has been linked in cigarettes to higher rates of those pancreatic cancers, but snus contains that chemical in about a tenth of the concentration.

And by well studied, I mean really well studied: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=swedish%20snus&btnG=Sea...
Be careful with this... some think that it can help with Alzheimer and Parkinson.

Unless there's a demonstrable, important (life affecting) effect, I wouldn't care too much about nicotine. Maybe some people are even naturally balancing some of their brain chemistry with it.

I wouldn't surprised if in 30 years we 'discover' that nicotine was okay all along, just like eating fat.

By the way, what is your opinion on caffeine?
Why does persecution have to reach epic proportions before it becomes safe to acknowledge it?
No, it cannot cause that. You may illegally choose to then grab your phone while driving to fiddle with the settings, but that is your own reckless and negligent choice.
This is my favorite because it is so pleasing:

alias ffs=sudo

example usage:

$ grep 'something' some.conf
grep: some.conf: Permission denied
$ ffs !!
Password:`
> you got to stop finding excuses about smoking, smokers are addicts

So are coffee drinkers. Do you give them a hard time?
Facing disadvantages and being persecuted are differences of a significant magnitude.

Besides, we're currently in the middle of several moral panics. Most of them come and go, but it feels like things are really bad when you're in the midst of them.
Excuse me? I neither praised nor condemned the practice.
It seems that it would be rather trivial to circumvent this:

1. Ask a friend who is not {male,white,hetero} to fork it on github

2. They make a small change

3. They change the license from this to MIT/BSD/GPL/whatever

Regardless of the legal status of the license, it only (ostensibly) has any effect on straight, white males who know only straight, white males.

(Also I find it mildly disapointing that it makes no mention of trans people, as a straight white trans man would also be "excluded" by this license)
We have the equivalent law against "dataintrång", lit. computerized trespass/intrusion.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataintr%C3%A5ng

https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K4P9c
It's also called baduk and weiqi, both should give good results
And you don't understand what it is to be poor either.

I live in a country (Colombia) where plenty of men waste their paychecks in beer. I see it every month. Less now than when I was younger, but still.

It has made the beer company very rich and profitable, but I can assure those were not good decisions made by the men, and it was not the fault of the government.

What happens when someone doesn't want to fit in to that mold? Their own friends call them cheap, not so close friends try to con them from their savings, and general people think of them of 'the bourgeois who we have to steal from'.

There are polls where people in Colombia are self-described as 'one of the happiest in the world'. It's actually 'we have to pretend to be happy' just to fit in society. And that involves wasting paychecks in booze with friends and/or family.

Think about people in NY pretending to be rich. It's the same here, but the pretension is: we-party-more-than-anyone.

I even remember when parties had to be until 6am or even 11am of the next day to be considered 'normal' and not a failure.

And all this has the consequence of most people having no savings at all.
Yep, core os technologies would be the way to read it.
Just to be clear, you can put whatever you want into a contract. Whether it's enforceable, or would be immediately discarded as "not a valid contract clause," is the question.

The severability clauses are all about that--if some part of a contract is deemed unenforceable, the rest still holds, etc.
Professional session musicians play directly from the
sheet, and can promptly forget the piece afterwards. They
do not intend to learn the music.

As someone who has had 'both sides' where classical and folk[1] music are concerned, I can say it is only[2] the professional classical session musicians that do this. From personal experience, I can say that most classical musicians miss out on one part of music learning entirely; that is, the 'learning things off by heart and playing it from memory' part. Whereas all the folk players I've met have not only the ability to efficiently sightread, but also to carry around the equivalent of several volumes of sheet music in their heads; ready to rattle off at a moment's notice. A few of the players I've met (myself included here) see the music as nothing more than a formality, and instead prefer to both learn by ear and play from memory.

Another thing that the classical teachings seem to ignore (or view with distain (People in my orchestra viewed it as 'hard work')) is cultivating the ability to hear a long piece of music and replicate it -- something that a significant minority of folk players also seem to be able to do.

[1]: celtic/irish folk, in my case

[2]: Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule
I hear this regularly, and I'm really curious what kinds of things you're searching. I practically never experience this.
Did you really just steal a reddit comment and make it into a blog post?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3cvdq2/what_...
Yes, that's why I addressed "can you put it in" and "is it enforceable" as two separate aspects.
> However you'll have to prove it, which requires examples, or brilliant lawyers.

So this is awkward, because white heterosexual males have much better than average access to brilliant lawyers.

>the deliberate act of choosing one type of person over an other, on the grounds of anything other talent for the position in question is wrong.

If you seek to be neutral in this way, even if you are successful, then you are allowing advantages from other sources to carry over. You are deliberately allowing white, heterosexual males to retain their existing advantages. You are not accounting for hidden, quiet, long-standing social engineering that is in favour of existing power structures. That is not neutrality.