skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true, but only because the Tesla Roadster has twice the battery capacity (53 kWh vs Leaf's 24 kWh). The Roadster battery costs about $36,000, which is more than the sticker price of a Leaf. The Roadster is supposed to get 21.7 kWh/100mi, which is about the same as the Leaf (22.5 kWh/100 mi) and the Volt (25 kWh/100 mi). Given the current (im)maturity of the electric car industry, I would say those numbers are too close to differentiate.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf]

[http://www.businessinsider.com/theres-no-way-the-model-s-jus...]
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The article has too much fluff and too little data. It almost reads like a self-help book on "learning to love your introverted self"

The whole thing reeks of subjective validation bias:

>> Possible aptitudes:

>>

>> Hands-on task-organizing ability, spatial orientation,

>> sensory threshold/overload point, body memory, common

>> sense, green thumb, competitiveness, auditory

>> identi/fication, day/night alertness, intuition,

>> synesthesia, healing, affinity for animals, seeing auras.

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/29/subjective-validation...
Having recently talked with some people at Paypal, I would never want to deal with the regulatory challenges they have to deal with. The challenge is dealing with that and fraud. Square might be on to something with requiring credit checks, but then you're narrowing your market. Do you have some ideas for dealing with these considerable hurdles?
Just use a public library. Most have free wifi, almost complete quiet, large tables with quality chairs, and--best of all--nobody cares if you're there for 8 hours without giving up a penny.
My takeaway: it's easier to get money than to get traction. A powerful and sobering thought. I've never been present at the attainment of traction. I've either worked for big companies who already established traction long ago, or startups that could never find it. In my projects, no traction. It's starting to feel like the Moby Dick to my Ahab. TRACTION WHERE ARE YOU?
Drug Punishments around the World
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http://www.amiando.com/ seems to be pretty popular among event organizers these days, there's a couple of other providers also specializing in the event ticketing market. In fact I think Amiando even did the Launch48 event which was sponsored and hosted by PayPal.
It doesn't really matter much that Flash has vulnerabilities, being the #1 google result for facebook login, or a fake login, or a scam email, or a fake app is more than enough to exploit people.
My friends and I have been contemplating doing exactly that: there are countless jobs where someone who is good with google is going to be better than someone with a degree but who isn't good with google.
It’s a shame these advanced languages don’t get more attention, since they are clearly better languages than the ones most programmers use day to day, and would solve their problems if only they tried them.

Or, maybe programmers aren't as dumb as some people think and there's more to making a language productive than optimizing for 10 line examples?
The sight of those two almost-imperceptibly-different images makes me want to throw down my iPad in disgust.
I do it (http://www.forescoregolfstats.com) for a very simple little web app that I developed a few years ago. I only suggest the one-time fee method if your app requires little maintenance and support. I receive a support request once or twice a month at most and the app runs on lightweight web hosting.

I don't actively push new updates. This month I set aside a few days to rework the interface a bit but other than that the feature base has been pretty static since launch.
I would like to know what EventBrite's take is on this (they are the ticket management agency this and most events seem to use, the facilitator of the payment to PayPal, and lead generator to PayPal).

The issues PayPal are raising (Events are risky, don't make PayPal much money) are the same for every one of EventBrite's customers.

On their own each event is powerless against the might of PayPal, but in aggregate EventBrite has some leverage against PayPal given the amount of business they send PayPal's way each year.
We've used amiando for the MIT Enterprise Forum in South Florida. They are an absolute pleasure to work with.
Are they too good for disclaimers?
I've used Ubuntu for about 3 years, and use Firefox/Firebug, Emacs plus the emacs-goodies package. While emacs is a bit long to learn, I find that it's incredibly efficient. I also use Apache, nginx, Python/Django, PHP, and MySql to do local testing.

Every now and then I try some different envrironments, and last week was one of those times. So far, I've liked gedit a lot and may switch to it eventually -- it has some nice plugins: colors/syntax highlighting, integrated shell, autocomplete, etc. It's fast and a bit easier to use at first than emacs.

I liked NetBeans, but I couldn't get any of the plugins to work, so I ditched it. I'm retrying Eclipse since the last time I tried it, it started to be painfully slow. I also will try PyCharm as soon as I can get it to build.
I assume by "mileage" you mean "range"? But yes, the Leaf has a shorter range than the Tesla Roadster, and is also a lot cheaper. Price vs range is the basic tradeoff when building an electric car. Nissan could build a more expensive Leaf with a longer range if they thought there was a market for it.

I like the Chevy Volt's best-of-both-worlds solution, since it will do your sub-40-mile commute on electricity but still fire up its petrol-powered generator if you want to do hundreds of miles on the weekend. For an electric car, a zero risk of getting stranded is a huge selling point.
> muscle in and eat Tesla's lunch

This would largely depend on whether Tesla would strive to become a mainstream car maker or would choose to retain its focus on building luxury/exotic cars. Think Aston Martin kind of company.

Though they have already announced an average-priced sedan version that was scheduled for mass production in 2012, so I guess they are going after the behemoths.
Yeah, might as well use a merchant account. Not cheap but still...
...they will submerge...

Freudian slip?
"But confidence to the point of arrogance is practically a degree requirement for computer scientists."

Spot On.
True, but don't confuse ticket management for payment gateway. They are two separate steps.

Honestly, EventBrite or Amiando should offer their own payments system as they easily have enough traffic to make it worthwhile I would have thought.
Maybe it's a problem with English. I can say that I don't believe in the existence of life on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, but that I don't believe in the non-existence either. In other words I have no data, so how could I believe either one?
Hey guys, I didn't mean to relate this post to DDG at all. I was just trying to find a good image, and I figured why not use the DDG compete one, though I purposefully left out the title and the y-axis.

That said, I'm happy to answer your questions. Andrew, I didn't see a dip on my end. That's something weird with compete, which is known to have various biases (and is only US). Axod, not much advertising $$$. From 1/1/10-6/1/10, ~$500 in online advertising, ~$250 on reddit. Most of DDG traffic is actually direct.
Ask HN: Review my weekend project - HackerBlogs
A fellow HNer asked days ago about a place for hackers to share their blogs and I dedicated the last week to work on that project, it has been an interesting experience and I wanted to show you all the result. HackerBlogs is an aggregator specifically taylored for developers and entrepreneurs. Please take a look and let me know what you think.
Do you mind sharing revenue numbers?
Link: http://www.hackerblogs.com
Even if it is to the detriment of society at large, including you? I don't know if it's changed in the last couple of years, but Wal-Mart used to help its employees apply for food stamps, Medicaid, and other aid programs because they didn't pay them enough. They performed an experiment that showed that having a single security guard patrol the parking lot at night completely eliminated crime (mugging, car break-ins, etc. that occur with regularity in Wal-Mart parking lots), but they did not put it into effect to save what? $75,000 per year? They have been damaging to the environment in several cases and often tend to kill the local economy in small towns.

Just because a business sells something that seems cheap, that doesn't mean it actually is cheap. Consider the portion of your taxes that is going to supplement the workers' income, to pay police to address crimes that occur in Wal-Mart parking lots, to pay extra taxes because Wal-Mart only enters areas that will give them tax breaks, and so on.

The way that corporations are designed precludes them from being moral. Society would be much better off if we could restructure the incentives of corporate America to make morality part of their make-up.
Anyone have any experience with both Fake and Selenium that would care to explain the benefits of Fake?
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if down the road Tesla became a Toyota-owned & operated brand, much like Scion is today.
Your local cornershop does more business selling milk, cereal and cans than many non-internet non-startups. So I'm not sure how meaningful your point is.
Distribution pact brings better streams to Netflix users
Yeah, sorry about that, I guess that would have made my comment a little less worthless. My interpretation of that clause includes tools such as this, and though it is hardly some gross violation, I do find it amusing.

I know Selenium RC does the same thing in sample scripts for some of its bindings, and I'm pretty sure I've seen it in other tools as well.
Even so, the numbers are still off. Everyone that down voted me never backed it up with a reason. Also, my point about Al Gore profiting from his legislation still stands.
I bought Things and have been loving it. It's simple, intuitive and syncs with Things on OS X.
Awesome. The colour scheme seems very familiar.

What do the numbers mean?
You mean the Aston Martin that was part of Ford until 2007?

Ford still own a portion of and to which they contribute the parts and engineering know how.
While your comment is a bit snarky, I too wonder how it compares to Selenium before I give it a try when I get home.
Or they could say "thanks for the technology, suckers!", write off their piddly $50 million investment in Tesla, and start cranking out electric Corollas from a factory in Yokohama and/or Guangzhou.
Seriously? We're discussing warez sites on HN now?

Half you people would throw a tantrum if some site published 0days or shared logins for your webapps. But it's OK if it's just someone else's books?
Todo, syncing with ToodleDo's annual subscription for sync and web access.

I own Things, OmniFocus, Todo, and others, and at the moment, I prefer Todo. My objective is simplicity of entry with "GTD" style task management, with OTA sync across multiple Macs and devices.

For non-techies with just one Mac and one iDevice, I tend to recommend Things, while for sales, I tend to recommend Daylite.

(LAN WiFi sync doesn't count, only OTA sync ensures you're up to date.)
It's based on data. ... Lower student to teacher ratios imply an improved environment for instruction

That's a logical inference, but certainly not data. And sometimes what intuitively seems true winds up wrong.

I challenge you to show empirical evidence that smaller class size improves educational outcomes. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I've only ever found one such conclusive study, and that was only applicable to kids from lower-income families; in particular, no advantage was observed for average and above-average kids.

And even for the slice of the population that might be helped (according to that study), we've got no evidence that these decreases in class size are occurring in schools having those students, as opposed to, say, more affluent schools that are presumably (there I go making an assumption) better able to afford more teachers.
I just took a look at the job listings. There is some really interesting sounding work there.

Not sure I'm ready to leave Montana yet...
I use ToDo (iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/todo/id282778557?mt=8 and iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/todo-for-ipad/id371787147?mt=... ). They work great and have good sync support with ToodleDo. The iPad version especially is so useful that it's on my dock.
"There is no great literature, there is old literature and moving literature, but they are not the same thing."

And when most people talk about great literature, they aren't talking about either thing. Most people mean something like Adler's Great Books criteria when they talk about great literature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books
Not only does it help, but it helps even those of us without the prerequisites. Never underestimate the power of good writing.

Thanks.

(Mind you, I'm still not convinced this is worthwhile, since it appears that the point could be made more clearly without the linguistic exercise, but I haven't made any attempt to read the original so I know that's not entirely fair.)
I am confused by our comment, jaekwon. It seems as though you are asking for proof and then give it. Maybe I am just misunderstanding, but the wikipedia quote does state that there is a new model along with the Model S.
The war is for the NO CONTRACT consumers in order to gain some quick profit. Most of the us are locked into overcharged contracts ... no change here. The cellphone market is rediculious in Canada.
By that logic, no startup that somehow touches on established players markets would be worth doing.

A bit like saying Writely should never have built a web-based text processor because Microsoft can "easily muscle in" and eat their lunch.
Where can I get liquid nitrogen?
This is going to get worse.

Walk into a high school classroom, write a sentence on the board, and ask the students to label the parts of speech.

Don't be too surprised when only two or three students even bother to raise their hands.
I used the same color palette from HackerNews and HackerMonthly, trying to make HackerBlogs part of the family.

I hope I don't get sued.

Numbers to the left are just clicks, like showing how many times people has clicked on such article. Maybe I'll show a top ten of the day or something.
I like OmniFocus for iPhone, and find it to be the perfect companion to OmniFocus running on my laptop:

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus_for_iphone/
Stylesheets only block rendering if they're included after <script> tags (which is ySlow recommends that you link them prior to linking script tags!)
I'm embarrassed it had to come to that, but the testsuite was lacking tests for templates in folders and a bug sneaked in.
That's a great idea, it really helps the community, unfortunately for me, I got some casual advices that couldn't really help me, it reads like a copy paste answer, I was trying to figure out what's the best strategy to gain traction for a mobile service targeting mobile devices and I got an answer saying I should create some slides....that email was extremely annoying, but maybe I just set my expectations too high, a reference to your traction vertical blog entry would have done it at the time.
Sibilant: Lisp for Node.js
It feels different from the regular warez, though.
Introduction to Puppet: Streamlined System Configuration
Great idea. I suggest you also give petercooper's coder.io a look. It's amazing for Ruby/Rails news, but I'm sure it's great for other topics.
Only a small number of the language websites listed on the emerging langs camp site have any code on them, and that includes those with maybe just a couple of lines for an edge case scenario.

I guess a bunch of those languages are highly academic and the meat is in the implementation as opposed to the syntax. But language developers need to start putting some effort into the non-code parts of their projects. I'm not going to get inspired to pick up a new language by bullet points. At the same time, I'm working on my own language project so I know it can be challenging to use just the right code to give the best first impression.
I think you and I are calling a boolean variable by opposite names. What do you mean by "lose"?

I was solely addressing the missing options, and approaching the matter strictly from a truth-table perspective :-)

AP has two options: pay up, or go to court. Where each has two outcomes, "Success" or "Failure" from Woot's point of view. If AP pays, it's a success, if it doesn't and ignores it's a muted failure, since Woot doesn't need the 18 bucks. If AP goes to court and wins (i.e. doesn't have to pay) it's a success, but if it loses and is forced to pay, then that will do nothing but establish that online content should be paid for.

It seems like you and the parent are ignoring that nasty bottom-right quadrant.

If this wasn't a joke, and Woot pushed the issue to court, and "won", they risk being the first jackasses to sell everyone's online freedom for $17.50.
Stickers are Unique Marketing Tools
Almost all the printing products can be utilized for marketing purposes. Stickers are no exception to this rule as well. But, they are unique in terms of size, variety, cost and customization options.
Clickable: http://zerocater.com/
Yeah that's a gain; besides, that's what we do right now.

But! Please look around and check how many people prefer this kind of communication with distant people when in the same time they could communicate in a more valuable way with people around them. That's what I'm trying to condemn here.

Social networking can give a more lasting value if someone is consciously treating it as a kind of trampoline to reach those people IRL finally. Which is huh 0.0042% of social networking usage?
Team teaching is still around. My wife, for example, team taught for two years. The school she has been at for the last five years has had at least two teams each year typically at the second and third grade level. She was at an older school that had very large class rooms which made it possible. Most of the newer schools in my area have no team teaching because the classrooms are simply too small to accomodate two full classrooms of children.

As far as empirical evidence on the smaller class room sizes, can't really say much about it. I'll provide a couple of anecdotes from my wife's experience. Larger classroom sizes make it significantly harder to provide personalized help to students during the day, this can be a serious problem if those students don't have anyone at home that can or will help them. At the school my wife has spent the last five years at a good portion of the parents were illiterate and couldn't provide any help to their children though many of them wanted to. Additionally larger classroom sizes can mean significantly more of the teachers personal time (off contract) must be spent on prep, grading, conferences, etc. That was something we had to deal with and significantly impacted our personal lives.

One problem with trying to measure the effect of classroom size changes are that they are not the only change being made. Schools change curriculum, lunches, teaching styles and everything else. Some measurements also need to be done over many years. For example, locally about six years ago all day kindergarten was implemented in poorer areas and where second language learners were prevalent. The students that started in that program and were immersed in school activities and english language activities all day just finished fifth grade. Across the board there have been significant improvements in test scores with that group (math scores have been decent, specifically the reading/writing scores went up a large amount). Due to budget issues all day kindergarten is being cut. The reason being that there's no "empirical evidence that all day kindergartens were the cause of the increased performance on test scores." I'm paraphrasing, but it's a common issue in how education is measured and tracked.
I thought they chose Just In TV because streaming content is always just in, but it awkwardly sounded like someone's name. Now it's awkward for a different reason: what does that guy's name have to do with streaming internet TV?
I use OmniFocus, in spite of their bad UI and general priceyness.

* Things: has a lot of things going for it, but syncing is terrible. You can't directly sync from iPhone to iPad for example without having a copy of Things.app on Mac on your local LAN. If you're only using one device, I guess this doesn't matter, but it's a big deal for me. I seriously tried to switch to Things, since it was so much easier than OF, but the syncing support sent me back within a week.

* RTM: No projects support (tasks inside tasks). This is a dealbreaker for me, since I like to organize my tasks into groups. RTM just seems really lightweight to me for organizing my whole life.

* ToodleDo - sync is a problem again. It syncs to RTM, but you have the same projects problem. It syncs over Bonjour/WiFi, but you have the same Things problem.

OF's UI is terrible, but it is powerful and can basically be configured to work however you want. I wish there was a more painless way to do start/end dates for tasks like Things, and I wish they had a native iPad client. And I wish they moved towards tags and away from tree hierarchies. But overall, not bad.
2010 Immigration Policy of UK
I saw coder.io on HackerMonthly as I was working on HB, great source of inspiration.
Are there specific game engine tools that could be re-used for web work? It's a rather tedious process at the moment, pulling out sprites and arranging them on a sheet. Keeping them updated and so forth.
New look for BBC News website
Isn't that what this (http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6209/show) bill is supposed to resolve?
Naruto outmatches Sonic and Mario?
Guess that money doesn't print itself.
Some priceless comments from the comment thread in the story:

"It will be pretty intresting to see the profiles on facebook/myspace of some of the 'top raiders.' Maybe pull up some DMV records and see what kind of mount they have IRL."

"Finally I can stalk that pretty Draenei even more so."

"Solution... (I hope) I'll be changing my name in my contact details. Sure, the mailman might be smirking as I have to sign under 'Zortan the Mighty' for any Blizz purchases but at least some psycho won't be able to google me"
I hope you all help me grow the site by just registering your blogs, no need to create accounts or anything annoying, just enter your blog address and I'll fetch your feeds everyday for new content. Only personal blogs, no meta-aggregators or commercial blogs will be allowed, so no techcrunch, digg, reddit, et al. That will help reduce the marketing noise, fud and payperpost we get all the time inundating our beloved news sites.

HackerBlogs: for hackers, by hackers.
Since domain.com is in the same market as you then I would find a different domain. If they were in a completely different market, then I would not be as concerned.

Even though you think the other website will not gain much traction, you will be driving traffic to them. If someone hears about you and goes to domain.com and sees a product in the same market, they may very well assume that it is you. Nothing good can come from this. Either they don't like what the see and leave or they buy from the competition. Why take that risk.
Hack animates all image formats, not just GIF
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