skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My family's q7 has default cabin illumination when the headlights are on. It took me 2 months to notice that was the case. As long as the screen dims automatically when not in use, I think that most people won't mind, but I could be wrong. I'd also imagine that Tesla was smart enough to think about having a way to hibernate the screen.
Avaaz - ACTA: la nueva amenaza a la web
My disappointments with Amazon DynamoDB
I was really excited with Amazon’s DynamoDB annoucement. After developing for few days with it and using it in production, I was a bit disappointed.
I think 50k is still a bit high for their cheapest model. Hopefully they'll be able to offer cheaper models in the 25-30k range in a few years.
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Where can I find scripts/software components for a variety of languages and frameworks I can purchase? I am a software developer but I often have too much on my plate. Thanks in advance.
http://www.dataliberation.org/

I'm not saying Google is perfect, but they seem to take customer choice seriously. That's the exact opposite of Microsoft 10 years ago.
The appeal seemed half-hearted to me. His answers were basically "no", "no", "no idea", "i don't know"... Maybe he doesn't really care to be reinstated. Although he cared enough to write an article and post it to Hacker News...
I think it's a joke, dude.

"Pick a fight ~
But obviously not with us because then our minions will destroy you."
Are gift cards the Next Big Thing for ATMs?
Google Search isn't a startup product. You can't just tack on big sections of stuff smack in the middle of the top results and claim that it's just a WiP.
Hopefully the system for detecting this type of thing has improved since then.
Code Canyon is a marketplace for that: http://codecanyon.net
Not sure about the interior, but I wouldn't mind that GPS http://cl.ly/3s2V0H2w3p0I2B1d2q21
You may have been able to get by with never spending more than $9k on a car, but somebody has to buy the car when it is new. Don't call those people insane when you depend on them to subsidise your vehicle purchases.
Please don't confuse the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC, providers of legal services to numerous FOSS projects) with the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC, a GPL enforcement organization who holds some of the copyrights to Busybox). In particular, even if you don't like the work of the SFC, please don't use that to complain about the SFLC, an entirely separate organization.
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Sounded like a real serious health issue to me actually, and it was 100% relevant to me since my life pretty much revolves around technology projects and trying to deal with my health issue without insurance.
Throughout my life, my parents have drilled into me:

If you lose your money, you lose a little.
If you lose your friends, you lose a lot.
If you lose your health, you lose everything.

No one is going to write you a beautiful eulogy if you collapse at work because you were so loyal to your paymasters. If you're feeling sick, then you need to take a break and get it looked at, end of story.
Great tips Aymeric. I'll read the book and try to find the interview on mixergy.

I have a similar story. In 2003 I made a chat-website in my country, in first 3 month 1 million people was registered and daily 400-500 people had chatted there. Some have dated and married through my website. It was biggest online chat portal in Azerbaijan. But I was only 18 and didn't know anyting about marketing, monetizing, etc. And after starting to study medicine, I killed it. Maybe my biggest mistake of my life.

For your last question: I can, but it's very dangerous to teach everything to someone what I do and how I do it. When someone will know all the secrets, how to do the business, he can make his own business. I made a non-compete contract with them but it's only 2 years - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause

Therefore I broke the work down to the several parts, hired some workers, teach their part of work. But someone must manage them, and for now I do that.

The reason why the business is so successful, that there is no other company doing what we do, because they can't.
Google is psychotic about AdSense and very hard to deal with. They make billions from their platform, but refuse to provide even a basic level of support. They could charge for tiered support and that would be perfectly acceptable; take a few points off the margin for example in exchange.

It's obnoxious to make Google six figures in profit in advertising, and have to go through message board proxies (that don't even work for Google) to get any attention to an issue.

I used AdSense for around five years total. I found you couldn't match it up with almost any form of social media content because a single slip of a single word (in any language) was enough to get you in trouble with their heavy handed censors.
The SEO links on Blekko are really useful but I could never go without my !bang syntax. DDG and chrome are my default with google just a !g away.
You could just use URL plumbing and nginx for the uploader. This looks promising: http://didipkerabat.com/post/2724838963/nginx-file-upload-an...
Basic guide to CSS syntax:
http://procssorapp.com/help/topics/syntax/index.html
> Having tactile feedback would be preferable, I think, to a touchscreen with soft buttons

The 2004 Prius (and many other cars after that) has proven that touchscreens are viable for key functions... certain functions are not accessible in any other way (e.g.: climate control)... and touchscreen failures are not widely reported as a problem.
They do... This is the "Options" page. Here's the Model S homepage:

http://www.teslamotors.com/models

Apple has gnarly comparison pages too:

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-compare.html
One of the better arguments I can think up against the npm coding style is probably found in the Matador framework, specifically its router: https://github.com/Obvious/matador/blob/master/src/router.js

Note: I actually rather like Matador. I just find this particular style--high density, no semicolons--much harder on my eyes. I'm sure many others can read it better than I can, however.
hey Sullichin... morgue file is not free.
I hadn't heard of Blekko, so I Googled it, but I accidentally typed it "blekki". Google autocorrected it, and Blekko was still the top result.

That didn't happen on Blekko. I got a lot of results about Bill Lekki. Then a few minutes later the results changed and the Wikipedia page for Blekko was the top result. Weird.
Don't you have that backwards? More options forces consumers to spend longer making buying decisions, surely.
I suggest adding interactive examples for each section where a user can type in some HTML to see what it does. This way it reinforces what they have just read, and it can be easier to learn when they are doing things hands-on.
Which edition of Office 2007 is right for you?
Why did SocialCam split off from JustinTV? Did JustinTV turn into TwitchTV and then divest SocialCam since it wasn't directly related to the direction the company was going in?
I'm struck by how you somehow manage to pimp both Cassandra and DataStax on every post which has something to do with databases and/or datastores. :)
Alexa data would suggest that their popularity is increasing: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/blekko.com#

I really like some of their services like "Grep the Web" however I'm too used to Google to change (plus I don't see any other search engine drive anywhere near the volume they do).
From my 19 years of experience on the internet watching platform flame after platform flame (yes, OS/2 was clearly superior to NT 3.1!): No. No it is not.

Clear principled opinions are wonderful things. Some people have them. Most, sadly, do not. Virtually everyone, however, cheers for some team or another. Lacking other arguments, these people will cleave to whatever argument of principle they find in front of them. Thus: Google is Evil.
I was surprised to finally see my own blog showing up in the results when I googl-, err, searched for my own name. But then I searched for "name /blog" and my blog disappeared. It did however show an irrelevant GitHub page with a pull request I once submitted. So it seems to work for rough searches but refining needs some... Refining. I won't be making the switch today.
> An internal combustion engine has thousands of different parts - many of them moving, unmonitored and uncontrolled.

And it's century-old tech... and millions of people know how it works at a very low level. Lots of the problems are known or solved.
Pretty close. Usually around 5 to 15 percent when taking off the top 2% of customers.
There's often exceptions for interns. I don't know about the US though.

It's a common dodge in Australia to put people on as "trainees". I think it can be illegal if they aren't really being trained, and there's lots of other rules (like it must be an educational course requirement).
Not exits. From pg's writeup linked above:

> For 18 of the top 21 I used the postmoney valuation of the most recent funding round.
an insiping tale - http://zerodistraction.com/blog/2012/1/26/thinking-bigger-ab... and the chrome-ui alertbox - http://useit.com/alertbox/ui-chrome.html
A serious problem with the controls and intent.
"dental coverage isn't part of the plan"

Healthcare, at least where I'm from, doesn't cover preventative dentistry, but it does include anything life threatening which includes the situation from the article. I would sincerely hope the US system would behave similarly.
True story: Two friends are walking towards a car equipped with a proximity-sensitive sensor. The car turns on (without the need to plugin the key or even to take them out) and they drive away. The driver drops her friend at her house and drives off. A few blocks latter the car shuts off.

What do you think happened? Turns out the driver had given the keys to her friend for safe keeping while they were shopping at the mall (not sure why so don't ask). Unfortunately the friend forgot to return the keys before she got off.
I had open heart surgery just over 4 years ago, from a bacteria infection that is typically caused 50% of the time by bad teeth. This bacteria, literally ate my hart valve (they have no blood so cannot defend themselves). As a consequence I now have a titanium prosthetic Aortic heart valve. In a very quiet room, if you stand beside me, you can hear it click every time my heart beats. I had a fever for 4 weeks lost 25 pounds of weight. Serious stuff. Teeth infections can cause Endocarditis (heat valve deterioration)or in some cases meningitis.

When you get told by the heart surgeon that there's a % chance you can die in surgery, you start to evaluate differently. Whether you believe vin things beyond death, or not, I believe we are here to learn, develop, experience and make a contribution to humanity. Ultimately the way we treat ourselves is tied with how we treat others. respect yourself, respect others...
Aside from a few swash buckling libertarians,

There might be 5 or 10 of us...

Never mind that conflating "health care" with "health insurance" is silly in the first place; or that we could focus on lowering the cost of health-care, enabling people to afford health-care without having to resort to the corrupt, ridiculous system we have today.

But never mind the libertarians... just keep telling yourself that if we just pass enough laws and regulations and implement enough subsidies, kickbacks, programs, and create enough forms and bureaucracy that everything will be OK. I mean, that's worked so well up to this point, why not pile on more of it. These knobs go to 11, right?
It's a bit ironic that the typeface on this blog is unreadable. I hate to say it but it really sucks.
DynamoDB's one of the signature offering is it's guaranteed throughput. The size limitations might be the tradeoff for it. Its pretty much optimized hash table and binary tree on large scale, things such as contains would not be possible without sacrificing the performance.
Same here. I currently have a 3.2, but before last semester, it was a 3.1 (I'm done with 6 of 8 semesters). I had a internship with Amazon this summer, and they invited me back for this winter/summer (8 month coop). Before that, I was at Philips medical. I know a classmate that also has a 3.0/3.1 and had an internship with Google this summer.

I don't go to a extremely highly ranked school either.

Just reread the article, and I'm going to call nonsense on the GPA part again. From my exp, if you have a >3.0 you're good to go, as long as you know your technical stuff. The only co I have ever had a problem with is NVIDIA, which explicitly required >3.5.
You have to say that?
While apathy certainly explains many mediocre instructors, I know for a fact that some outstanding scientists desperately want to be good at teaching but just don't have the magic touch. As a mathematician might put it, knowing the material is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for being able to explain it.
Yes, the batteries are very expensive. Doubling the battery capacity adds $20,000 to the cost of the car. Most likely the batteries will have a 5 year lifespan, so the amortized operating costs of the batteries may be around $20,000/5 = $4,000 per year. There's also the issue of the environmental costs of the manufacture and of the disposal. These factors are seldom mentioned or discussion tolerated these days, buried under talk of going green and the low cost of the electricity to recharge.
True, it's a similar deal.

A bit less drastic, as a 'second-class' Google stock is just 1/10th of the vote, whereas a 'second-class' berk is 1/20th (25th?, dunno) of the vote, but more importantly doesn't cost 100k/share. I don't know what berk b's price is at, but there's a much smaller set of people who can actually buy berk a shares. 100k is a lot for the average joe to invest in a single share :(
No its rather apt in my opinion.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405297020462420...

"Google acknowledged in the settlement that it had improperly and knowingly assisted online pharmacy advertisers allegedly based in Canada to run advertisements for illicit pharmacy sales targeting U.S. customers."

Oh hello whats this? Google execs knowingly assisting illegal operations peddling illicit drugs from manufactures unknown? Since when does their 'lets not be evil overlords' policy include knowingly taking cash to help peddle drugs coming from illicit sources.

"By the end of the operation in mid-2009, agents were buying Google ads for sites purportedly selling such prescription-only narcotics as oxycodone and hydrocodone. Agents also got Google's sales office in China to approve a site selling Prozac and Valium to U.S. customers without a prescription.

"Google's employees were instrumental in bypassing policy regarding pharmacy verification," Mr. Whitaker told the Journal. "The websites were blatantly illegal."

At the agents' direction, Mr. Whitaker said he signaled his illegal intent to Google ad executives, including Google's top manager in Mexico. As a tape recorder ran, he walked Google executives through the illegal parts of the websites. He said he told ad executives that U.S. Customs had seized shipments, for example, and that one client wanted to be "the biggest steroid dealer in the United States.""

Seriously what the fuck? The anti-google sentiment is nonsense?

"The government's case also contained potentially embarrassing allegations that top Google executives, including co-founder Larry Page, were told about legal problems with the drug ads.

Mr. Page, now Google's chief executive, knew about the illicit conduct, said Mr. Neronha, the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island who led the multiagency federal task force that conducted the sting. "We simply know from the documents we reviewed and witnesses we interviewed that Larry Page knew what was going on," he said in an interview after the August settlement.

Mr. Neronha declined to detail the evidence, which was presented in secret to a federal grand jury. Other people familiar with the case said internal emails showed Sheryl Sandberg, a former top Google executive who left in 2008 for Facebook Inc., had raised concerns about the ads."

I'm sure it was just a rogue employee of one of their far off subsids, oh wait nevermind I guess it went to the top, lulz. Sorry for posting so much of the article but your simple ignorant line deserves all the filth contained in the url, I'd rather not depend on you clicking to read it.

The actions listed in that article even at their most innocent leaves me with such a foul feeling that it can be nothing else but Evil.
Elon Musk, Tesla's founder, is well-known in tech circles from PayPal; that, combined with the new-tech angle and the Bay Area location, has gotten Tesla into the Silicon Valley press circuit.
Building dynamic SQL strings for comparison can sometimes be handy (e.g. with LIKE), so it's really too bad there's no server-side SQL escape function, at least in the sql dialects I'm familiar with.
How does that new hip saying go? "WAT?"

https://github.com/twitter/time_constants - Time constants, in seconds, so you don't have to use slow ActiveSupport helpers

Seriously?? Just look at the freaking source code: https://github.com/twitter/time_constants/blob/master/lib/ti... - Luckily, it appears that it is generated.

I realize that Ruby is slow and all (we experience it daily), but holy crap people. I also realize that Twitter is a mega scale business, but at what point does this kind of library become a good idea?
Hey, you'd like a macbook air?

11 or 13?
slow or fast?

4 options - for model s and macbook air.

I'm quite happy they have a range of options for battery.
I'm not saying it's OK to violate the terms of open source licenses, but the GPL has never fit with my idea of what Free Software should be like. I see Free Software as a gift given to the world as a whole, regardless of what they plan to do with it. Thus I see GNU and the FSF as terrible gift-givers.
That $100 LCD isn't automotive grade, nor will it hold up to federal safety standards or intense daylight visibility. Adding a 17" pro-cap screen on top is not a cheap proposition either.
"Semantic structure" is definitely not layman['s] terms.
Does this comprise updates to the Arc codebase, a rewrite in Arc, or something else entirely?
No, mainly because I don't have any reason to believe that current forecasts are underestimating their future growth. I do think they'll be quite successful in the mid-term future, but I think that's already priced into the stock.

I could be wrong, I just don't have any personal information or analysis that leads me to believe I can beat the market on this one, so not enough reason to divert money from an index fund to pick this stock.
Hey, what you lack in speed you can make up for in wisdom and mentorship.

I'm mid-career (30), and finding more and more my real wins come from outside pure ability to cut code. They're tending to come from outright theft of ideas and concepts from other industries and domains.
I think more than captcha, i think spammers lack the number of unique IP address they can use to create account. I am curious, if they would clear out if the Trojan communicated with some other server than the yahoo.
You need to take a break. You are putting way too much pressure on yourself, and your body can no longer take it. Don't take it as a sign of weakness. You don't have to give up on your goals, but definitely take a 3 month break and get your life back together. You're breaking apart at the seams, you need to take a mental break otherwise you're seriously headed for a bad fall.
Looks promising, but what does the fungi convert the polyurethane to and how quickly does it eat it?
I used to work for a "big adnetwork" and this is how it worked there.. AdSense is probably similar.

We tracked conversions, where possible, on our advertisers end and used that data to calculate conversions per click for our publishers. We'd use this metric, mixed with a few others (ctr, # of impressions, # of fraudulent clicks, etc, but mainly weighted towards cvr) to generate a quality score for the publisher. The quality score was between 0 and 1, 1 being "awesome" and 0 being "awful".

We'd use this quality score to discount the price per click publisher was paid. AdSense is likely doing something similar because their CPC/CPM rate/split is undisclosed and very private- likely because publishers will get paid drastically different amounts per click depending on their traffic history.

Anyways, when a publisher falls bellow a certain quality threshold, we'd drop their account because they are, in the end, not making the advertiser any money and likely hurting our future relationship with the people that pay the bills.

Social traffic usually falls into this poor quality area into this area because it doesn't convert well, has a low click through rate, and includes lots of accidental clicks.
ok, in that case should also include data of the terminal value of companies that shut up shop.
> managers can abuse the process limitlessly to block transfers

There was some eye-opening stuff about Google's promotion system here on HN yesterday:

Google New York is pretty 9-to-5 these days, except for people who are gunning for promotion... and it's pretty hard to build up the rolodex (due to the "2-up rule", which is that promotion from level N to N+1 will be decided by a panel of N+2's) to gun for promo every year. So most people work 9-to-5 (actually, more like 10-6:30, because of the dinner) except before a launch if they believe it will lead to promo. [1]

I can't imagine how this works well in conjunction with the "choose your own team and product" ethos we've heard attributed to Google in the past. Maybe Google's historic growth and profitability has been masking serious issues in its talent management process.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3526263
As someone who has desired each of a Maserati, a Jag, and an Aston Martin in the past, I really am not complaining. Especially since this is cheaper than each of those.

And yeah, the performance package puts this in pretty absurd company. Last model M5, had similar 0-60 numbers, I believe.
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This article mostly seems to be suggesting that vendors derive more benefit from GPLv3 - which is more focused on coming into compliance, rather than punishing companies that get it wrong.

I'm not sure what this has to do with busybox, save that under GPLv2 there are vendors who are afraid to use them because they have actively been pursuing an aggressive course of action under GPLv2 for several years.
If you doubt that this is official, it's right there on their blog: http://blogs.blackberry.com/
I wonder how much you could improve PNG just by giving it some more appropriate filters for truecolor images?
The xml-part is a personal concern, I realize most users would think like in your example. :)
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> If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

I don't think this principle is universal in software, and I don't think you need to embrace it as a prerequisite for writing or distributing Python code. My personal preference would be for a statement more like this, "If the implementation is more complicated than it needs to be to do what you want, it's probably a bad idea."

> Regarding using Python as a replacement for shell scripting: if you have to rewire the language to do what you want, why are you using a different tool for the job?

Well that's easy to answer. It's cleaner and more readable than bash, has some nice features that shell scripts lack, can be used to call into python libraries, allows a single unified codebase if you're already writing python code . . . I could go on.
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