skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2011 if you googled "blender is ", you get these autocompleted options:

blender is slow

blender is too hard

blender is hard to use

I know this because I was so frustrated as a newcomer and took a screenshot that I still have today.

Now if you google "blender is " today, you get these:

blender is hard

blender is damaged

blender is confusing

blender is free

blender is slow

In 2013 Andrew Price led an effort to work with the Blender community to point out why so many people have difficulty with Blender's UI. Check out the video & transcript here: http://www.blenderguru.com/articles/fixing-blender-part-1-wh...

Despite being a thoughtful and very patient man who made a great case, Andrew was met with a lot of pushback from the community that already thought Blender's UI was easy and usable. Unfortunately in the years since not a whole lot has changed (some improvements like tabs, context menus, and not assuming users have a numpad and 3 button mouse).

Blender tries to be everything to everyone - a game engine, a sculpting modeler, a mechanical CAD modeler, a video editor, and a dozen other things. What you actually get is a mess wrapped in a UI that is alien to everyone except for the initiated. There's a reason why Autodesk and others have so many individual products catered to industries and use cases - it's because there's simplicity in specialization.
Earthquake topples buildings in Taiwan city of Tainan
He also did a good podcast interview about Diesel and about Rust (and what makes a Rust ORM special with compile time magic) a week or so ago:

http://bikeshed.fm/49
> Utopias require a slave class

That's not true. If you look at what most people consider necessary for utopia (food, shelter, medicine, architecture for fun activities) and do a first principles analysis of the labor inputs required, it comes in far lower than the comfortable output of the people being supported. Even if you use 100% manual labor and only use computers for information tech.

The only reason we seem so overworked is because ~70% of our labor goes into moat maintenance for our employer, profits for the capital class, and production of harmful products.

People used to sustain themselves quite comfortably all over the world. And they didn't even have the internet or electric motors.
> Change your number?

Expecting someone to change their number to protect themselves from telemarketers is asinine.

> Threaten to sue? Actually sue? Call the parent company?

Threaten whom? The telemarketer? Instant hang-up. Their boss? Good luck getting them on the phone. Their actual company? Good luck getting a telemarketer to tell you that information; that's an instant-hang-up.

> Call whatever company that is hiring them (whose products they're trying to sell you), and complain?

Assuming there's even a legitimate item being sold, that's an interesting idea. The next time I get an offer to get an estimate for having siding put on my residence, I'll take them up on it.

I'm afraid, though, that the person who shows up to the apartment complex I'm renting from will just be a local contractor, who's actually completely innocent party who was duped by a "marketing company" into paying money for leads. Then I'll have wasted their time. I'd feel bad about that; not about a telemarketer.
This about sums it up
Currently my average commission is about $5.
> The World-Sized Web -- can I call it WSW?

I call it IFTTT
Interesting article, thanks for posting. You may want to update the url posted here to https://cugablog.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/lets-talk-about-lo... so that it will continue to point to that article after you post the next one.
https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-and-panasonic-collabo...

> “Being selected by Tesla to provide cells for their current and next- generation EV battery pack is a tremendous validation of Panasonic’s nickel-based chemistry and the extensive investments Panasonic continues to make in lithium ion R&D and production,” said Naoto Noguchi, President of Panasonic Energy Company.

TSLA patents are in regards to batteries: collections of cells working together. But the Lithium needs to be turned into a cell... before collections of cells can turn into a battery.
I think sustainability plays into people throwing out electronics instead of repurposing them.

> earth metals aren't going to run out any time soon

The fact that they will ever run out is generally not sustainable. You really think our use of them is going to DECREASE? Unlikely, unless people take conservation of materials more seriously than the convenience of throwing away rare metals.
Sure, it's nasty and unfair. And we're all being involuntarily politicized.

But we don't have to let it get to us, and upset our inner equilibrium.
Nissan has tried this with the Leaf and hit hasn't worked well. Dealerships aren't incentivized to provide charging and I don't see that changing.

Also there is no currently deployed charging standard that comes closer to SuperCharger. Chademo is 60kW spec but usually 40 or 50 depending on how downrated the charger has been. I've never seen less than 118kW on a Supercharger and had multiple Chademo's that have throttled down to 35kW in some cases.

It's going to take years to build out that infrastructure while Telsa continues to deploy SuperChargers and Destination Charging.
It seems more of a problem with the people than technologies.

Why would you need 16 m3.medium (60GB RAM total) to store 600MB of data ? I've used Oracle Coherence and other grid technologies and something doesn't sound right here. It is just a couple of distributed Java HashMaps we are taking about here.

Likewise if 600MB of data is expanding to 12GB in MongoDB then something is very, very wrong with the design of your schema.
At Linkedin you are the product. Don't ever think otherwise. They are mercenaries about building up the social graph because it is how they build up the data they need to sell to the job spammers. The biggest "secret" of LI is that you get a score based on the "quality" of the people you are linked to. Know lots of ivy leaguers and fancy MBAs? You get a +10 bonus. Rockstar talent with no high rated buddies to link to? -10 for you.
As a holiday job during my undergraduate degree I worked at the iThemba Labs particle accelerator in Cape Town. They have a braai (barbecue) event annually.

I was told we were eating a quagga, an extinct species of zebra that was being bred back on the grounds of various facilities in the area. They have to periodically cull the quagga that roam free on the grounds of the particle accelerator.

When people ask how it tasted I say "rare".
Is this actually really positively available right now? I don't see any link to kickstarter or a preorder link or a video that says "But now, we need your help". If so, it's refreshing.
I live in Seattle.
"very difficult"? I'm not casting a nam-shub on them; I'm just giving them the option of talking on the phone, which is literally what they get paid to do.

Like I said in my comment above, it's not cruelty.
Well, in 2025 it will be exactly at the computational capability of a brain.
Yes, quite literally:

This is a program for hackers by a hacker.

-- Linus, on the comp.os.minix newsgroup, in 1991

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/4995SivO...
Mind posting a screenshot of what you're seeing? All our code samples are `font-family: monospace`
What about... World Wide Web?
You should watch the videos on the website before assuming things. According to him, you can freeze your device when you lose it.
This happens all the time, scammers calling from India via voip and scaring elderly people into installing malware onto their Windows computers.
The police say they can do nothing about it, but this service would be a perfect way to make these scams unprofitable by tying up their operators.
Legislation making companies force themselves to have backdoors doesn't stop terrorists from using encryption.
Last I'd heard (I believe) the creator of Alpine Linux was looking for work and the future of the project was a bit uncertain. I'm happy to hear that he'll be able to continue working with Alpine Linux and that we'll still be able to make great Docker images with it.
Yeah, at the cost of increased volatility. If two engineers, each with a 10% chance of losing their job in the next 2 years, do this then they both are much more likely (19% chance) to face uncertainty in that time.
Why is

Post::belonging_to(user).load(&connection)

an improvement over

SELECT * FROM posts WHERE user_id = 1;

?

If you use this, it nails the database schema into your Rust code, because this needs to know the table formats. If someone adds a new field to a row, you have to rebuild all your Rust programs that use the database. Now your deployment process just got much more complicated.

It's a neat hack, but seems an overly complex way to do something that's not that complicated. Unless this has some huge performance gain over rust-postgres[1],
it's probably too much.

If rust-postgres is too slow, it would be worth having an optional generic for rust-postgres to help with unmarshalling returned rows. Rust-postgres returns row objects from which fields can be extracted. Converting that to a Rust struct is the only operation which needs to go fast.

[1] https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres
PL/Proxy?
Mostly because I don't have as much money as you, and thus have to be more selective in my stock purchases.

I congratulate you on your success, but I'm very far away from "investing for shits and giggles". Not everyone has millions of dollars they can give to a company just because they are morally aligned to them. If a company stock isn't going to be a good place for me to store money for the next 5 to 10 years, then I cannot purchase it.

I simply don't live in that kind of world financially.
Absolutely. The point is, when they get RIFed, they are screwed.

IBM was particularly brutal about this stuff when they were eliminating people still on the pension plan.
Change my number...to what? They're already calling at random, or have got "my" number, so that changes nothing.

Threaten to/actually sue...who? Number withheld; comedy foreign accent. I'm going to hire a private detective or hacker? Abduct them and bring them to the UK for trial?

They're often doing a survey on stuff like spending habits etc so it's not obvious who they're representing, or it's fraud like helping me "get money back" from a bank or insurance company. You understand these are criminals calling me, right?

"How "large" is this group of people? Are you sure the loud complainers on the internet aren't causing overestimation on your part?"

Huh? I'm only concerned with me and the calls I receive.

"They may not be inconvenient if they are selling something you actually want. While this is unlikely, it is possible, this is the same rationale for other forms of advertising/marketing"

Lol! That's adorable.

"BTW, the same derogatory tone with which you mention "crack dealers", people also used (and still use) for people who sell pot (which is now legal in a few areas). Pot and crack are not the same, but the tone with which you're criticizing people who sell crack cocaine the substance is the same tone that people used while weed was illegal (and still use today)."

Pot! Lol! You mean reefer? Cannabis should be legal; to grow, sell and consume. If you sell crack you're a cunt, though, because crack is exclusively used by end of the line idiots who sadly don't always die before they've caused other people to suffer.
Yes, the caller has done many rude things. There is no point, however, where responding kindly is not an option. You always have a choice on how to respond.

Also, I'm not against making this more expensive for telemarketing companies, I'm just against this particular means, and the seemingly prevalent groupthink that every telemarketer on the end of any phone line is a scumbag trying to harm you and your family in any way possible.

Also, all you're going to do is start an arms race. If it become profitable for telemarketing companies to hire developers to find ways to detect this "solution", things will just go back to the way they were.
Tainan in southern Taiwan hit by magnitude 6.4 earthquake
Who’s reading my iMessages?  How iMessage end-to-end encryption works
That's what I don't tell anyone what my previous salary was. I am looking for X dollars per hour, do you have anything for me in that range? Yes or no...

That's it. I'll generally let them know it is open to negotiation as well.
Wait, so Steve Jobs wasn't a visionary. He was just a salesman exploring unexploited markets as any salesman does? Albert Einstein wasn't a visionary. He was just a physicist that explored unconsidered theories as any physicist does?

It seems to me that in philosophy there is just as much "groupthink" as in almost any human endeavor—there is a maybe little less in the hard sciences where the systems give you feedback about whether an idea is correct or not.
> Is there a new generation of entrepreneurs who have realised their path to riches is to found a PR machine masquerading as a tech company?

...Yes.

I wouldnt call it "new" or a "generation" but rather there are always those who can get by with hype and no substance. Nothing new but the amount of people doing it goes through boom and bust cycles like everything else.
I've worked in NY and MA. They are very enforceable there.
I only ask for compassion or understanding, not sympathy.
It's unlikely that the drop in the company's value has that much to do with their silly practices.
omg, live and learn.
Is there a list of these somewhere?!
I have very similar questions...
I meant mechanics of the business model. I.e., finding the right roles you need to grow.

Good luck.
Roughly, the .plan or .project file from finger?

In Unix, finger is a program you can use to find information about computer users. It usually lists the login name, the full name, and possibly other details about the user you are fingering. These details may include the office location and phone number (if known), login time, idle time, time mail was last read, and the user's plan and project files. The information listed varies, and you may not be able to get any information from some sites.

In some cases, you may be able to use the finger command to verify an address or find more information for someone at another institution about whom you already have some information. The finger command is available on most Unix systems. It differs from the whois command, which you can use simply to find the email address of someone at another institution.

To use finger, at your Unix prompt, enter:

finger username@node.domain

Replace node.domain with the appropriate machine and domain address, and username with the name of the person or the person's username, for example:

finger dvader@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

See: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aasp
I had no idea that .rs was conventionally for Rust projects, but I'm also not too bothered by having to figure it out.
If they are interested ranking results based on the profile they have on you (search history, interests, demographic++), trying to predict the ranks is understandable.
Zerocash offers far stronger and more complete privacy than anything I'm aware of.

Reusing an old comment about Cryptonote (which is what monero uses IIRC). Similar analysis applies to Dash, which I believe uses some (no doubt "improved") version of CoinJoin. :

All anonymity is not created equal: you're better off if we can only figure out that one out of 6 billion people bought a Nickelback album, then if we know it was either you or one guy in Tristan da Cunha. The size of your anonymity set matters and Cryptonote provides a rather small one in comparison to Zerocash. This is not to say Cryptonote is worthless, there are tradeoffs between the two, but Zerocash has a distinct advantage in terms of anonymity and I think it matters.

Cryptonote's ring signatures scale linearly in the number of people your transactions are mixed with. As a result, you can't mix an individual transaction with that many people without it getting too big and too computationally costly(chaining transactions doesn't solve this). In contrast, Zerocash mixes every transaction with every other transaction ever[1].

If you are worried about maintaining privacy given repeated interactions with merchants or others who already have some partial information about you, the size of the anonymity set matters considerably. Longterm intersectional attacks are a major problem with anonymity systems. The smaller the set you mix with on any given transaction, the easier it is for some third party to use outside information to eliminate everyone else in the mixing set (e.g because she knows no one else in the set was online at the time of the transaction or was in your approximate geographic area), and determine the true spender. One of the few effective defenses we have for this is to simply include as many people as possible in the anonymity set. If you want to avoid companies building financial profiles of users from the blockchain, this is precisely the type of attack you need to thwart.

[1] Technically, up to 2^64 transactions and the networks ability to handle the spent serial number list. So there is a limit, but it's rather large.
In order to simulate human-level intelligence, the machine doesn't necessarily need to be modeled on the human brain. It doesn't even need to use neural nets.

In order to simulate a human (which by definition only has human intelligence) then only your point 1 is true. Point 2 is not, because the standard way to know we've got 1 right is uploading/emulation: take existing humans, scan their brains at a sufficient level of detail (which will probably require destructive scanning), and use that as the base information of the simulation.
I don't see how this is much different from key generation software running on a phone or any other device. Useful as a 2nd factor for authentication and a little less friction (more convenient, less secure). I've yet to see any technology that can replace an old fashioned master password as the 1st factor. All the hype around biometrics a few years ago seemed especially silly given that it's pretty easy to steal fingerprints and once stolen, of course, they are pretty hard to change. Maybe I'm an outlier here but I think in 20 years we'll still be using password managers with master password type in authentication into a dashboard with varying degrees of additional authentication required to access sites/services within, based on relative sensitivity.
Neat idea but how would it protect against a relaying/signal boost attack?
On the road, way past retirement and chasing jobs
> Expecting someone to change their number to protect themselves from telemarketers is asinine.

Asinine options are options. It is hyperbole to imply that someone has zero options.

Also, your comment is contradictory -- you detail a possibility on how to find the company that is "providing leads".
That's because their Kickstarter (linked from the bottom of the website; [1]) ended in November 2014. The original shipping date for customers was March 2015; they now claim that they will ship by March 2016, but they also started a second crowdfunding campaign on IndieGogo [2].

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/everykey/everykey-the-w...

[2]: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/everykey-your-only-key
Ehh... nobody can really set the tone. Most analysts don't know jack. What a lot of analysts do is look at comparables. What can you compare Tesla to? The answer is pretty much nothing. There's no company that does what it does. You can only bank on growth and expected growth - and earnings means nothing at this early stage in Tesla's development.

I would also not make any claim that Tesla's recent product rollout has failed - or use its stock price as a proxy for that decision. The near-term effect of $30 oil is quite impactful on many industries in many ways which we still have yet to fully comprehend. It could be that $30 oil is Tesla's undoing, simply because people don't need electric cars. We just don't know yet.
Agreed. Handsontable is an amazing library, and I'm so glad that the author was able to take it "Pro" and get paid for all of his hard work.

For a great use-case of handsontable, everyone's favorite HN'er wrote a great blog post last year: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/01/28/design-and-implementatio...
I had the battery swelling in my 2007 Macbook Pro in 2013, and they happily replaced the battery for me. So in 2013 I had a 2007 Macbook Pro with a brand new battery =)

Also, at the time it had some ridiculously low cycle count due to a bug in the batteries firmware.
You're spending 50% of your monthly post tax income on rent. That's not what I would call affordable.
Sure, they are part of the problem, but are they responsible for creating the problem? If you remove every telemarketing caller, does the telemarketing industry disappear?

Do we blame Hitler or every person in Germany? The leaders bear the majority of the responsibility.
And in the case that they just develop technology to detect this?

Or even worse, develop technology to make telemarketing calls even more efficient?
There is a big button in the top right corner that says "buy now" which is next to the "shop" link and the page loads JS from stripe.com.
I felt the author didn't like what happened to his friend and grasped at everything possible to rile people against spotify. Spotify is a music distribution platform that works in a free market. If you dont want to listen to a track from them, look it up on many of the other platforms. Given musics ugly history with piracy, I doubt we will ever find ourselves in a world where spotify has a monopoly and we would see the effects the author is describing. If you have legitimate fans, you and your fans will find a way to connect, with or without spotify.
This times 100. A bad tenant can cost you tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention peace of mind. I once had one who lied about owning my property to have a 60 year old tree cut down. It was a nightmare (it turned out he had sued his previous landlord in a bogus sexual harrassment and basically extorted a hundred grand from an elderly woman).

I would much rather have someone who pays less, but is financially and mentally stable. So yeah, rents will drop pretty fast once the market softens.

SF in particular is a unique market because you have one population that is hell bent on staying here, and another that is primarily here for work opportunities. The latter population will clear out pretty quick once the work starts to dry up.
The link you posted is from 2010--roadster days. The cells used in the roadster are not the same as those in the Model S. And Model 3 will be using new cells as well.

There's been immense R&D by both parties since 2010, and the latest supply agreement was finalized July 2014.

I'm hoping for something a little more formal than a PR blurb--like an SEC filing as grandparent alluded to.
Congress should join the war on poverty.
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"Hi Supernintedo Chalmers" LOL...this is freaking awesome. GIFs would be an improvement :)
...Well...they were not visible for me earlier today...when I clicked on comment timestamps, there was no flag link. But now the link is there...so, I uh...don't know what to say, LOL.
What are all of the other twitters? There is so much undocumented space! I want to know what it all is!
In the getting started guide, it looks like they use an as-yet-non-existent Post struct to create the migration SQL. Where is the migration CLI getting the struct's fields from if it hasn't yet been written in that part of the tutorial? Am I missing something obvious?
Not really. 18650 cells are still being deployed by TSLA. The hypothetical Gigafactory 26650 cells aren't out yet.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/panasonic-backs-teslas-gigafac...

But considering the $1.6 Billion investment from Panasonic, it looks like Panasonic owns at least half of the gigafactory. This suggests that Panasonic still owns the cell technology / chemistry.
That is highly overestimating the amount of tech jobs in the rest of the country. For SF, yes, I agree.