skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, but moultano's HN profile says this:

"I work at Google trying to make your search results not suck."
I did not get the appeal until I got addicted to this incredible mix: http://soundcloud.com/erwtenpeller/war-of-the-worlds
After reading through that thorough dissection of those rules, I'd be interested to see the author's suggestions for a deck of his own.
Slashdot isn't what it once was. http://www.google.com/trends?q=slashdot.org
First, Top Gear is testing on track conditions, and that will certainly give different results than the 220 mile range found on the EPA's ideal testing conditions. Top Gear has previously shown that a BMW M3 gets better mileage than a Prius in track conditions, but I don't think anyone believes this is representative of the cars on the whole.

Second, there's very few data points on the range aside from Tesla's press releases that I can find, but the two I can find are much closer to Top Gear's number and were also from less aggressive testing than what Top Gear did:
93 miles: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20080124/green/398811820/163...

95-120 miles (says 105-120, but I think there's a math error on the writer's part): http://green.autoblog.com/2008/01/29/so-whats-the-downside-t...

Third, Top Gear says Tesla calculated the 55 mile figure themselves, so not sure how they can sue them for that claim.
Actually the article is about add-ons, which according to FF terminology include extensions, themes, and plugins.

Of course there's not a chance that Mozilla will stop supporting Flash in its browsers, but I thought it was a funny comment on the performance of HTML5 video/interactive content vs Flash.
No, it's not just marketshare, it's the first derivative of the marketshare too. Nokia and RIM are slipping, while PC gaming is growing and console gaming is shrinking. And remember that since PC game sales are mostly digital now, the amount that publishers actually receive on selling a PC game is much higher (70%) than on console sales (~30-50%).
Considering the tenuous relationship between the presenters and the studio as portrayed in the show, it's pleasing to see the rest of the company getting behind Top Gear and providing a united front.
Interesting, having built Django apps for a few years now I haven't noticed this ravenous Django fanboyism myself, but I'm about to start a full time job working with Rails so maybe I'll catch some flak as I mix my community participation a bit more. Granted, I have my own list of Django pet-peeves anyway, so I don't tend to let any "Django rocks, fuck Rails" comments go uncorrected.
Suing over a stolen slogan is a bit different than suing over slander/libel. When you read this excerpt from the article it does sound like Tesla is trying to either force Top Gear to give a better review or give them more publicity:

Why even last night the Top Gear office accidentally received an email sent from a Public Relations firm to The One Show, asking if it would like to have the Tesla spokesperson on their programme to talk about the case. It says: “PHA Media represent Tesla and this could make for a fantastic interview.” And the PHA man’s not finished there. “The presenters could have some fun with this.” He adds. “Matt and Alex could even take the Tesla for a spin and test it out, reaffirming its virtues?”
Actually, the papers they've filed with the courts specify damages <100k GBP. Which further makes one wonder why they would bother.

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/tesla_-_claim...
I dont watch Top Gear and while I follow tech news and new technology, I'm not a car person.

That said, this public débâcle has not played out in Tesla's favor to this consumer. It seems to me that they got an unfavorable review and aren't happy with it, and it seems that Top Gear is winning the war of public relations.
No, I want to look at market share trends. By which argument, PC gaming is (slowly) killing off consoles.
Are you familiar with British libel law? It's infamously plaintiff friendly. People have lost even though the statements in question were, in fact, truthful.
How old are you? I'm curious, not accusatory.
Dan Benjamin has some good stuff

ex: http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-ra...
Holy crap, thank you. Screencasts are great and all but I'll take text over video almost anytime when it comes to programming tutorials.

On a related note, I was recently directed to http://asciicasts.com/ for railscasts in text format... quite nice.
No. Aren't them radioactive? (in a small amount)
Clever but I think:

>> ar = [["a", 100], ["b", 200], ["c", 300], ["d", 400]]

=> [["a", 100], ["b", 200], ["c", 300], ["d", 400]]

>> Hash[ar]

=> {"a"=>100, "b"=>200, "c"=>300, "d"=>400}

Is going to be a bit more practical (and readable) most of the time...
I do think Clarkson is a bit over the top anti-conservation; but suing him for that seems like the worst possible response. Something along the lines of a clever rebuttal in the form of a short video could've scored them some goodwill points.
As someone who also works in the business of helping companies with developer platforms, api strategies, etc I would concur with this sentiment.

The types of folks and companies/startups that are already using this good stuff are not our audience. There are a ton of people out there running platforms or wanting to build APIs on top of their stuff that have no freaking clue what GitHub is because they have their own processess.

That's why they hire people like us to help them understand where the developers are and how to incorporate the types of tools developers on HN feel at home with so that their API offerings don't feel unfamiliar.

Welcome to the business of APIs
What's beating Apple (in terms of market share) is that they aggressively protect their control and massive margins.

If you buy an iPhone, a ton of dollars find their way into Apple's pockets and a comparatively smaller pile of dollars make it to carriers, handset makers, and even companies like Pandora/Kindle as Apple moves to own ANY subscription that originates on their phone.

If you buy an Android phone, a lot more companies get a taste of the revenue pie... Basically incentivizing carriers, handset makers, and companies like Pandora and Amazon (Kindle) to spend their marketing and R&D dollars pushing Android.

This is what happened with Apple v. Windows. Apple's product brilliance + marketing dollars simply couldn't match the market power of Microsoft + all of the hardware & software companies that wanted a piece of the action.

The new fight is more interesting-- Apple has a much bigger head start in the market, ownership of the new tablet market, and near-domination in the music vertical with iTunes. But Apple is setting themselves up to be tangling with the combined (and increasingly aligned) market might of carriers, MSFT, Google, Amazon, music labels, and more. Helluva battle coming.
I disagree.

PCs had a different (open) hardware architecture using chips, chipsets, motherboards and other components from a variety of manufacturers (Intel, AMD, Cyrix, Nvidia (later), etc).

Macs had their own architecture from top to bottom from the Motorola chips (680x0, PowerPC, etc) to even the system interconnects.

This custom hardware slowed down the innovation at Apple and drove up the cost at a time when horsepower was really important.

What killed the Mac was cost and scale so when the final nail in the coffin came with Windows 95 (which exceeded the technical capabilities of MacOS in about every way, UI sensibilities notwithstanding) the disparity was vast.

Now? The upper bound on power isn't cost or availability, it's something far more immovable: battery life, size and weight. All the while, CPU differences are largely nonexistent (Snapdragon, Apple's A4/A5, etc).

So, to be clear, you could buy a better (specced) PC for less money than a Mac. Now you can buy a worse Android phone for less money. There's obviously a market for low cost handsets but I don't think anyone can argue that any Android hardware is significantly better than Apple hardware in any way that consumers actually care about.

You see this in, say, the TV market too. If the cheaper but worse hardware argument held then Chinese TVs would kill off higher quality brands. I once heard there are three tiers of TVs: Japanese (top), Korean (middle) and Chinese (bottom).

Chinese TVs are obviously a big market but they aren't the entire market. Nor are Samsung (Korean), Sony or Panasonic going anywhere anytime soon.
Check NOVA/YouTube. There are several, ranging from interviews to his search for Tuva. There are UK analogues for Nova, but I forget its name.
I'd like to see references for that. Truth is an absolute defence against libel.
None of this matters when you have Adblock Plus.
IANAL, but it seems that mens rea (intending to commit a crime) would play a big role in this area. While you are correct in saying that Abbey Road might under some form of digital encoding turn out to be the number "34", this wouldn't make distributing files with the number 34 illegal unless you can demonstrate that the people sharing the number knew what it was for and how it was encoded.

Otherwise, it would seem that you could infringe copyrights all day and as long as the traffic was encrypted then you could argue that you're not sending MP3 files, just numbers that after some massaging with keys turns out to be data useful for feeding to an MP3 Player. (Heck, you could probably slippery slope the analogy to simply taking the twos compliment of the digital representation)

So unless I'm mistaken, they are not claiming to own a number, but rather, are claiming to own "imaginary" property in that anything digital that resembles and is being _used_ to replicate the artist's performance is infringement and thus illegal.

But I agree that the whole thing is still crazy and full of logical loop-holes.

EDIT: For a similar concept that's brewing, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
Since I grew up in Europe, I wasn't familiar with this story. Here's some additional information for people unfamiliar as well:

http://www.adslogans.co.uk/ww/prvwis09.html
Hehe. Yes, I appreciate your clarification. That is true - especially as LTCM was full with PhDs. Though it also extends to a multitude of "empty suits" positions.
These bright minds needed to think in that structured fashion in order for them to have the world make sense to. It is an excellent point. Nevertheless, with experience and ambition judgement becomes better.

I would like to point out research in low-probability events, response to too-big-to-fail, fat tails and black swans in defense of emerging Financial Engineering and Risk Management. The best defense of it that I have ever seen was in the book "The Black Swan".
Compete sucks big time. It shows the same for my site... when my traffic is x5 bigger then in March last year.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe client-server applications were a new idea in 1996. Instead of having a fat client, generate HTML and go back to the HTTP server for every request. The application wouldn't be fast and the code probably wouldn't be pretty, but it would definitely be a software application that runs purely on the web.
Looking for feedback on this Internet forum idea I've been working on
11 Features to Watch for in Windows 8 (Part 1)
Just remember to be careful with changing permissions on your hosts file. You wouldn't want an unprivileged user to be adding lines to it.

69.57.123.17 your-bank.com
I wish I could remember where I heard this.

This is similar to a story from the Talmud. When two travelers come across a treasure lying on the road.

The Talmud actually says, claim the whole, and be satisfied with the half. (Or something along these lines.)
Then you were a snob and you deserved the markup. Just as today if you want your coffee beans personally picked by Howard Schultz it'll cost you more than most people think of as "a reasonable price for coffee".
Alexa.com seems to work quite well...
Here's a much better IP address to use: 66.135.33.106 (try it out http://66.135.33.106/ )

Using localhost can make things awful confusing if you ever happen to run a webserver on port 80 while developing something.
I just got a cheap android smartphone for the equivalent of $100. I was afraid it might be crappy but I'm delighted with it.
It has resistive rather than capacitative touch which aparently is not as good but you then don't miss what you never had.
Imo the market works great though I've only downloaded freebie apps so far, chess, sudoku, google sky map.
Glad I didn't fork out 5 times as much on an iphone.
Google have done me a big favour
Git helps me get round to using source control
Just to be a contrarian... don't feel so bad. You're in good company.

"Perhaps fifteen of his [Leonardo da Vinci's] paintings survive, the small number due to his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination.(" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci (emphasis mine)

"One of the problems I've faced throughout life is that I'm kind of lazy, or maybe I lack will power or discipline or something."

- Paul Bucheit (http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2011/02/two-paths-to-succes...)

(I've quoted that before, but it seems appropriate again here)
Mainly trying to figure out what are the rough edges and the stuff that gets in peoples'way when using the site.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Thanks.
This is an incredibly well written blog entry. Having followed the accepted pre-court etiquette that Andy mentions in the past, this inspires me to take a different approach next time around and have my say in hopefully as professional a manner. [...In close consultation with my legal team as I'm sure Andy did]
> I've barely seen a recent success story of a startup where less then 100% of the founders were technical.

Groupon and Zyngas's founders aren't programmers. I'd say they're the two biggest hits of the last 5 years.
That seems more like the result of too little funding than too much. I don't understand how you square these too statements.

Too many scientists. Federal funding (and funding of other nations seeking to improve prestige) has inflated a science bubble.

Being a scientist is awful.

To me it seems that the more likely explanation is that people who would have made great scientists aren't attracted to the profession.
Tesla's corporate officers have a fiduciary duty to respond to something that hurts their brand this badly. Top Gear is the most popular car review show globally with around 350 million viewers world-wide.

Apparently a lawsuit is the best response they could come up with.
While it didn't directly involve Tesla, what got me about that episode was the claim that battery cars are totally irrelevent because of 'hydrogen power'.

They point out that the power for electric batteries has to come from somewhere, and completely gloss over that for hydrogen.

Why they didn't go all the way and advocate fusion powered cars is beyond me.
Mainly it makes him look color-blind, and used to people not designing accessible visual experiences.

The fact that he found the site difficult to read (like everyone else), he attributed to the most likely cause of such experiences in the past, i.e. his color-blindness, rather than the fact that the design is just really hard to read.

That the design is so difficult to read is done mainly to make the form pop out by contrast. It's a cool effect, but there's no way i'd deploy that for mass consumption. It's a piece of artwork in it's current state (albeit a really cool one).
The main problem I think is that the episode showed the Tesla apparently out of juice, being pushed into a hanger by the crew. Clarkson's closing comments were along the lines of 'it doesn't work' (before hailing fuel-cell cars as the future because they can go further without a charge).

Tesla are arguing that this event was staged and in the script produced the day before the road test was filmed, that the car didn't actually run out of power on the test track, and that the episode unfairly paints the vehicle in a bad light.

It's worth remembering that the modern Top Gear is an entertainment show that happens to be about cars. It hasn't been about accurate consumer reviews for many years, it's very scripted and not at all unbiased.
I genuinely didn't feel as though the piece on Tesla was particularly biased though? Sure, they pointed out the flaws inherit to the car (recharge time) and filmed the car being pushed in for entertainment, but overall the piece still came across as pretty positive about the car: at times he was gushing about its performance and how enjoyable it could be to drive.

I'm sure if I were invested in Tesla it's easy to feel that they're "biased" against me, but the review didn't come across as any more negative than 90% of car reviews on Top Gear.
Once I read in a book, "Everything you wanted to know about drugs and were afraid to ask", that some people smoke dried banana peels. The books tells you that you have to dry them in the oven, and it's not guaranteed that you are going to get high by smoking it. But if you have the right company, music and are in the mood, you might even get high.
Oh, that's interesting. And yes, boggles the mind why they'd bother.
isn't this too off topic for hacker news?
Two of the three images in the article are bitmaps. Page load time factors into UX.
About a year ago I was in a coffee shop and a firefighter walked in to the room. He had the firefighter pants on, with the suspenders down, and a back fitted t-shirt with his unit's logo on the left breast. He was pretty built, well over six feet tall, extremely handsome, soot on his face, and an absolute air of confidence.

As he walked through the room, the energy shifted in a way I have never felt in my 30 years of life. Everyone stopped and stared at him. Gay women. Straight men. Everyone. It was electric.

I've seen extremely attractive women have a similar effect on a room, but to a much lesser extent. Super attractive women often create in a room a mixture of intimidation and resentment along with the admiration and captivation. The firefighter gave this air of "it's OK, I am here to protect" along with his "look at me I am pure beauty". It was wild.

He kept walking up to the counter and I left and went about my day. But I will never forget the feeling. I had no idea a man could do that.

So, firefighters. I understand why kids want to be one.
A lot of professional analysts use comScore but it's a paid service unfortunately.
What is your sample size for your observation about 100% of the founders being technical? a) "startups" doesn't just cover high tech and social networking. b) There are a lot of quiet successes out there.
So, where are the cool kids hanging out these days? I like True Reddit, but it's a bit slow...
The Belgian railways have a similar thing, which is on an official site: http://www.railtime.be/website/traffic-trains
There's not much traffic now since it's midnight. Also, the banner on top is completely Javascript.
Unfortunately, some of them are just too persitent, and come back. It's like whack a mole: different IPs all over a geographic region. It's hard banning library IPs, because you shut yourself off to a large group. They may keep coming back, but often they're very easy to spot :)
Do the tags get applied to users as well? What is this about unit vectors? You mention a torus - but I bet it isn't.

It's not at all clear what the mechanics are, and I find it hard to locate tags I'm interested in from the tag cloud - that problem will get worse.

But I'm interested in the experiment.

Added in edit: Won't let me login with my username - it claims it's too long.

Added in edit: Not sure if it has a point, or a focus. To get traction I suspect you will need a subject.

Added in edit: Are we supposed to post links, text, or something else?

Added in edit: What's "Entropy"? The mechanics are completely unclear. Many people won't care - I do.

Added in edit: OK, found the FAQ. I'm going away and will read it later.

Added in edit: I don't think the v_i are in S^1. Aren't the v_i in [-1,1] ?? That's not S^1. I guess I need to read the paper, but I can't now.

I'll wait for your replies.
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Jeremy Clarkson's column in The Sunday Times shortly after the Top Gear review is an interesting read and covered most of the points made in this article back in 2009.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/art...
Ah well I guess I saw the site post focus loss.
Apologies in advance for not answering your question directly. Frankly, I wish I could have caught you before you paid for Textmate, as I would have encouraged you to try VIM.

VIM has become one of the most popular editors among Rails developers and many Textmate users are making/have made the switch (myself included). It takes a week or two to get familiar with VIM, but once you are comfortable you'll never go back to Textmate. Having just gone through the VIM learning process, I think you should do the following:

1) Download MacVIM (I assume you're on a Mac) and understand that your VIM configuration is stored in your ~/.vim folder and ~/.vimrc file

2) Search for example .vimrc files-- Tim Pope has a nice example at https://github.com/tpope/tpope/blob/master/.vimrc

3) Build your own .vimrc file from scratch-- research everything you add to your .vimrc using :help (:help is huge, don't discount this) and Google. Think of this step as building your own text editor. VIM is extremely customizable, but unfortunately it doesn't ship with all of the functionality that users expect enabled

4) Install pathogen, then install each of these plugins in the bundle folder in your .vim directory:

- rails.vim (syntax highlighting, navigation, and much more)

- snipmate (easily create custom code snippets)

- nerdtree (browse project files)

- command-t (find/open files within project easily)

- vividchalk (color scheme)

- ack (text search within project)

There are probably 100 other plugins people will recommend, but I think these are a good start

5) Write a blog article about your experience. I'll be posting mine soon!
I've been here with several things in life. While winging it has been the source of some "winning" in my life, it has also been the source of many losses.

I'm more of a creative mind/sales guy. I'm an okay web designer, with very minimal programming skills. I tried to develop a tech driven start up and handle everything on my own including the programming. I worked so long & hard trying to take care of things I wasn't skilled enough to do that I was too exhausted to maximize on my talents.

So, I would say focusing on your strengths is a key to success. Marcus Buckingham has nice insights on strengths. Check him out.

-Cheers
Everything practical-wise is done my the boss, who is painfully slow at anything practical (salaries, supplies, workstations, etc etc). My project is a sideproject, others have projects with constantly changing features, deadlines and requirements.
I also suspect that corruption in India plays a role - if policemen are constantly hassling people you know...

This also probably explains the low respect the police get in certain communities in the US - cops harass black Americans a lot and get very low respect in the black community.
You can eat banana peels, but beware of pesticides because the producers assume you're going to throw the peel away. I'd go for organic or once you grow yourself.
Compared to a lot of car reviews on Top Gear, Tesla got off lightly.
Elite Firms consider MIT, Brown, Dartmouth Second Rate Schools
Curation is the new Open.
Realtime heatmap with canvas & js
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/sep/20/richard-dawkin...

Simon Singh has since won that case last I heard, but it was by no means a given. That it took so long for him to get off for saying fucking chiropractors of all people "quacks" (if they aren't, who possibly could be?) should say a lot about the extent to which correctness or belief in correctness is a real defense.

edit: spelling
Here's a little script I wrote to block all of my popular ones - https://github.com/leftnode/get-shit-done