skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were plenty of Ivy League grads in my mailroom class. Even a few MBAs, and a Harvard JD.

Was this type of prestigious degree more or less required? I get that a gajillion people are trying to get these jobs, is this what employers are looking at to differentiate candidates, and is an MBA or JD program the best to prepare for the type of work you'll be doing?
I think the point there is that anyone purchasing an electric vehicle should do some basic research about electric cars and batteries. It's not that they should know this because boat owners know it; instead it's that they should take it upon themselves to find out this important and simple piece of maintenance, just as boat owner's have done. In other words, when you buy a boat, you understand that it's different from your (gas/diesel) car and you find out what you need to know. An electric vehicle is different, too, and you should act accordingly.
> I suspect older than the author of this piece

he's 31
Yeah, that is what I picked up from this post. But, I still don't understand how towing and recharging the batteries can cost $40k. Either the original claim about the cost involved in recharging is wrong, or this post claim that the fix is to recharge the batteries is wrong. There is a third highly unlikely case that Tesla is fleecing the customers, who in its mind, made the mistake of letting the charge fall down to zero.

For the sake of electric vehicles, we need to know which of the three scenarios is true.
Twilio Client iOS SDK Puts VoIP In Any App, Turning iPads Into Call Centers
"We are used to our bills being paid automatically, as long as our account balance allows for it;"

This is my favourite bit. Point 3 of a manifesto. This will definitely go down in the great manifestos of history. Just laughable, I've met a lot of kids who grew up with the web, but none so overwrought and entitled as this one.
You may be right - I don't have any outside sources that I know of (yes, okay, or care to) to corroborate either side.
What's hilarious to me about this is that I just spent a week writing a whole dock/draggable windowing system into a web platform that had resizable tiled windows, because of an overwhelming number of customer complaints that they couldn't put large windows on top of each other and everything was too small or required too much scrolling.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect the consumer to do research of any sort. It would be very easy for Tesla to mention this at the time of purchase, document it, and also provide a dashboard notification of some sort.
A conventional weapon capable of doing that much damage would need to be delivered by a large truck or aircraft. The Oklahoma City bomb weighed 7,000 pounds, for example, and didn't even destroy one city block. The Davy Crockett weapon, on the other hand, was small enough to be transported in a single jeep and fired by one person.

Additionally, since it was designed as a tactical weapon of war, the quarter-mile lethal radiation dose is what really matters. I believe this was particularly important for tanks, which are robust against nearby explosions but whose armor provides only poor shielding against radiation, meaning that you'd likely end up killing the crew even though the tank itself would still be mostly intact.

The fact that you could set these up ahead of time and have them manned around the clock would have made them an incredibly effective defense in Europe in the event of war with the USSR. Over two thousand were produced, and many positioned around the countryside. Delivering the equivalent in conventional explosives would have required hundreds or thousands of aircraft, vulnerable to getting shot down, and needing much more advance notice and planning, while making those aircraft unavailable for other uses.

I'm not saying that deploying a couple thousand man-portable nukes around the border areas of West Germany was necessarily a good idea, but it did make sense given the situation at the time.
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Considering the original article didn't actually cite sources, just made stated that a manager claimed this, a customer claimed that, it'd be pretty hard for him to talk to the service manager.
J.K. Rowling has deal to write novel for adults; title, details not revealed
Use a strap like they do with iPods for joggers, you are now wearing your computer. I think the point is the smartphone can be considered "wearable" simply because you can, not because people already do.
When you buy a Tesla the following happens:

* You are vebally told about this.

* You are then shown a document to sign that you were told about this

* Your car will beep loudly when its under 5% charge

* If its a newer Tesla it will beep and also log an issue with the service center, who will then continue to call you to tell you to plug it in.

No boat experience required.
Why Do Some People Learn Faster?
MySQL was very, very easy to get started with, getting to a cruise quickly. PostgreSQL offered more of a curve.

In the Windows world the same is true of SQL Server -- the setup, connectivity, and basic usage is so incredibly easy that it made it the first choice of many teams.

This seems incredible -- that products are chosen on such an irrelevant-in-the-long-term basis -- however it has proven true across almost all of the computing market, even targeting highly skilled developers. PHP has few competitive merits, yet it was the default option for many because it was so easy to make something basic in.

There's a lesson there in that.
SQL is a very, very poor implementation of relational algebra. For example, the output of an SQL query is not even a valid relation variable (in E. F. Codd's terminology).

If you want to look at how SQL might have looked if it had been relational, take a look at "Tutorial D", the language proposed in a book called The Third Manifesto, by Hugh Darwen and C. J. Date: http://thethirdmanifesto.com/. There are several experimental implementations.
Geoloqi Launches Powerful Next-Generation Location-Based Service Platform
Any small portion of the Möbius strip "looks like" a chunk of 2D object, but the entire object cannot be placed directly into 2-space. The surface of a sphere is a similar example.
Man invents great fried chicken recipe. Tries to sell it. Fails. Tries to sell it. Fails. Repeats this cycle 1000+ times until eventually someone buys. People call him Colonel Sanders.
It was never disputed by Tesla's PR + leaked emails point out the same number:

http://jalopnik.com/5887504/tesla-emails-gallery/gallery/1
> but PUT is now a fairly standard part of most HTTP APIs.

Is it? I know Rails uses "put" for editing a model, but it was my understanding that it simulates this via a hidden field in the form and actually issuing a POST request.

Why does it behave that way? I thought it was because many browsers don't support PUT, but maybe it's for other reasons?
Wait, sorry, do you mean you (personally) or you (Google)?

I'm aware of other microdisplay-based goggles like the Recon Instruments stuff - where a microdisplay approach makes more sense, but it's not covering your FOV.

Have you worked with HOEs at all? Or worn these glasses? It's true that you need to place the image carefully, but, for example, in the case of the Lumus display it appears about 10 feet out from you, which was alright for me on the showroom floor.

At CES 2012 Vuzix claimed they'd have $600 goggles in Q2 2013. This fall they are doing a monocle for $2500. No pricing at all from Lumus. Of course, I am appropriately skeptical about these claims, but HOEs are eminently manufacturable, pico projectors are cheap, and as you say, the renewed attention on this space is pretty rad. I'm optimistic. If the Google Device doesn't use the future looking stuff, I'll just buy the Vuzix set and develop on that.
Javascript module pattern: When to use it and why
There's been a few criticisms of the pattern, and I wanted to clear the air a little.
White House proposes one-click solution for online privacy
Yeah, this should be on a memorial somewhere. Or at least in one of those "pretty silly in hindsight" quote books.
Are you sure the Davy Crocket has any lingering radiation worth worrying about? Fallout ought to be a function of radiation flux over volume, plus the unconsumed portion of the bomb, and for three stage devices the unconsumed portion of the uranium tamper as well. I seem to recall that most fallout from your typical nuclear weapons comes from the tamper - replacing the uranium with lead reduces yield by around 50%, but reduces fallout by a much larger fraction. I'd expect that after three days the blast site would be almost safe for habitation, and that you could safely travel through the site of the explosion immediately if you're in a tank or APC.
Storing an entire notebook in a single document would be the most obvious.

The cost of course being that a change to any note in a notebook yields a save of the entire document. Not a problem in simple cases, but that sort of mass-write-amplification can kill you (talk to Digg about that).

Also - I have found a hybrid between nosql (mongodb) and sql (postgres) is ideal - who says you need to use a single database?

Simplicity. Coherency. Maintainability. And on. Sure, it might make sense, but if you already have you toes in the "SQL" world, it is usually worthwhile to dunk your whole foot in. Many SQL products also offer the document functionality of MongoDB, for instance. SQL Server, as an example, lets you store XML documents to your hearts content, which you can index and intelligently query upon, etc. Your scheme is boundless, and on and on.
Folding plug launched after three-year design journey
Heh, Cox.

In all seriousness though I can only dimly remember a time without the Internet in my house it's changed so much in so little time it's crazy.
As if to demonstrate the point, the page does not load any content unless javascript is turned on [Firefox], even though the server does not require it in order to provide the article text.

One of the questions in my mind is in regards to Chrome, which I have not used for some time. Does it still send keystrokes from the address/search bar to Google servers in order to provide suggestions?
Yeah, I don't see a reason why the entire stack has to be on one machine. It simplifies configuration a little but there's a trade off in the granularity of resources allocation that comes with the tiered approach.

1st, web servers are are distributable by design. If the web app in question can not be distributed, then a reread of Fielding's dissertation is in order:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm

So if the web tier is designed correctly and is simply a state-less, data transformation engine then what's left is making your data tier be distributable and elastic.

Even better we could put an elastic web service layer between the frontend web tier and the data storage tier to provide an even better separation of presentation and logic.

In this set-up I believe we have the best of both worlds, the elasticity of the confederated design because each tier is designed to be fault tolerant and elastic with the resource allocation granularity we get with the tiered clusters.
The rebuttal is in many cases a car will act like it's bricked, but can be returned to service without replacing the battery pack. I have had laptops do the same thing where after a deep charge I needed to go though a specific procedure before they where in full working order again. Honestly, 'reboot the battery management system' sounds like the same basic procedure.
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Pengobatan Tradisional Ny. Djamilah Najmuddin
Reading poorly written English is hard. When the author can't keep their focus and weave together the structure of several disparate arguments into a cohesive essay, it can be very difficult to understand their intentions. It can be near impossible to follow them to their conclusion and decide what it is they're getting at if they muddy the waters with poor writing.

The same is true of software. Well written software is a joy to read and expresses an idea clearly. I love reading code like this. I love writing it even more.

If we want to write code that is easy to understand we should spend more time reading code than simply writing it all the time. Practice makes perfect but introspection reveals the path to self improvement. Absorbing the good ideas of others and filtering out the bad is part of being a good writer and is especially important to the programmer. Read more code!
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This whole bricking story is a little ridiculous.

There are any number of easy ways to 'brick' an internal combustion engine, and yet we're not all torches 'n' pitchforks over them. Partially because ICEs have been around so long that the relatively short list of "things to avoid" is burned indelibly into the popular consciousness. Partially because over a hundred-odd years of continuous engineering, a typical ICE can take a hell of a lot of abuse before it fails.

And note that the "shit that might happen to you" column still isn't trivially dismissed on the ICE side, even after 100+ years of safety engineering. We physically pump highly-flammable liquids into our gas tasks; people still occasionally get burned or even die doing that shit!

Couldn't find many stats, but this is interesting:
http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/PDF/Research/FireSafetyVehi...

Let's assume the $40k figure is at all likely for a vehicle owner that RTFM'd. I'm pretty sure anyone ever burned in a gas-fueled vehicle fire would gladly go back in time to fork over $40k to avoid that experience.
Monitoring your health with mobile devices
Interesting. What part of Cox's web division in particular? I'm actually working for a small group of newspapers that were spun off of Cox about 3 years ago.
Yes you can refer to each point by only two dimensions if you use a particular non-euclidian metric.
It also doesn't let you read it if you block cookies. I use Chromium for Google stuff and Nightly with ghostery/noscript for everything else.
Facebook Angels? Don't Count on It
You're Not a Genius
I think the point OP is trying to make is that just because you have Photoshop, that does not mean you have graphic design skill (and artistic skill it is not as simple as following directions on a tax form).
Although more manual, Moom achieves the same effect. Manual means more flexible in this case, for me anyway.
Amazon to Launch 10 Inch Kindle Fire in Coming Months
Another great example of a gov't regulation that isn't in sync with the marketplace.

If you are a company that produces product A and product B, and the gov't says you can only produce a limited amount of A+B, why wouldn't you automatically shift all of your production to the product with the highest profit margin. This is economics 101!
Show HN: Our fight against terrible restaurant websites
Today we've launched happytables ( http://www.happytables.com ), a squarespace / wordpress.com for restaurants. I had posted on HN before about a previous iteration we performed ( http://bit.ly/sn0FWc ), and am really satisfied how far we've gotten with it all.

The entire solution is built on top of WordPress, it's allowed us to quickly prototype and build various components. It'll be interesting to see if other solutions pop-up for unrelated niche markets using WordPress too (i.e. real estate, sports clubs, etc.).

Would love to hear your feedback on our concept and would gladly answer any questions too...
Link: http://www.happytables.com
That's exactly what I'm talking about; we just magically went from "people are trying to target you with ads that are relevant to you" to "the secret police are going to make you disappear."

And that's the connection made when I specifically request an argument that's not slippery slope.

And I'm downvoted for specifically requesting a valid argument. Thank you, HN, or should I say, Reddit Lite.
Do Not Track: First they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win
Well I am running with what the original post had in it. Yeah it could be an lie, and if it is, it would be very easy to check, it is not a nebulous claim. Tesla just has to respond and say "no we never charged $40k" if it is in fact not true.
Redefining Hick's Law
Comcast launches Netflix competitor
That's a really bad method of sharding. Names do not distribute equally over the alphabet.
"They probably aren't actually bricks, but cars in need of servicing."

$40k bill is not a "servicing" - it's a new car.

My problem with counter-arguments that use "drained oil" as an example, is that oil change is done every few thousand miles (say, 3000 miles in case of my car). Now, this is recommended (albeit, strongly) frequency. This means that if I drove my car around 3000 miles, then went to airport, left my car sitting on the parking lot for a month, chances are I'll drive back home sound and safe, and my bill for oil change will be the same $30, as it would if I get it change on or below recommended 3000 miles. Note that I don't need to trickle-change the oil in this case.

Now, if we compare battery drain to fuel tank depletion (which is technically more correct, since battery is the fuel for Tesla), then comparisson is even less pleasant for Tesla.

Having said that, I don't see anything wrong to bringing the potential battery bricking issue up (especially in light of arrival of more affordable vehicles from Tesla) - Tesla should've used this as an opportunity to educate people and do right by the owners of bricked cars by picking up part of the repair bill with some strings attached.
Do you have a Mac? You can run the iOS simulator and figure out when it's popping up and roughly what it looks like. In this case the problem is you're setting focus on the search field.

In iOS the keyboard automatically pops up when there is an input field focused. That's also why you need to have a touch event to set focus because it gets annoying having half the screen disappear (so for example when visiting Google the keyboard does not pop up and the search box does not have focus).
Evolution of Pinterest From 2010 to 2012
Journals Warned to Keep a Tight Lid on Diesel Exposure Data
Faster-than-light neutrinos could be down to bad wiring
I don't think of a genius as the person from whose head ideas burst forth fully-formed and ready for battle, like Pallas Athena.

I think of a genius as the person who knows how to think properly and works through hard problems in combination with outstanding insight to progress further than others have.
This is easily the most worthless piece of journalism I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot. "Author signs deal to write book" ... Ok, great, that's what they do. "Movie studio says will release movie in 2012"
Amusingly, it requires more syllables to say ‘W.W.W.’ than it does to say ‘World wide web’.
Why not have a database for each user? Evernote's data is partitioned perfectly for that. Notebooks and notes are accessible to one user or are public. There is no sharing notes between users.
LOL @ "One project I worked on actually had a data type called a FuckedString."

On another note, things like Eclipse's refactoring tools have exponentially increased my ability to keep my codebase clean and easy to read. Renaming variables to stay consistent etc is extremely easy using these tools and I have to wonder why people still struggle with issues like this.
It's not in any way the first attempt to produce a portable HUD.

It might be the first attempt to produce a "low cost" mass market portable HUD, though.
The problem is that everyone has a different idea of what's nice to read. Some people are more comfortable with an algorithm in a for loop, while others would prefer to write it recursively. Who's to say which is objectively nicer to read?
Do you wear your belt, or is it just always with you, hooked through some loops on your pants?

This isn't meant sarcastically -- the idea of "wearing" something is pretty tied up with the context of the object (e.g. is it "clothing") and less to do with how you're actually carrying it around, which can make "wearable" computing something of an oxymoron depending on how it's interpreted.
What is interesting to me is what the author does not dispute - that Tesla charged $40,000 to fix the problem.

Anecdote is not evidence, but last year I had a dealer offer to reset my cars computer to reflect a scheduled inspection for $220 when it was in for a windshield replacement - this wasn't for the inspection, which is part of any routine service, but for resetting a 32,000 mile cycle which displays a warning.

The reset process is relatively arcane, but only took me about five minutes, including digging out the printed instructions which I had downloaded from the internet following an oil change and a couple of false starts.

So it wouldn't surprise me that a dealer would seek $40k to reset a system.
Badoo blazing a new path in social networking?
This website should probably have more than just a video of the application; right now I'm on a wireless network that gets less than desirable speed, so watching the video would take a lot more time than I would care to spend. If I could scroll down and see some screenshots, and I see none, then I might have tried out this app.
GoSquared Developer API & some cool projects
Based on what drzaiusapelord said I don't think there is any research required of any sort.

When you buy a Tesla the following happens:
You are vebally told about this.
You are then shown a document to sign that you were told about this
Your car will beep loudly when its under 5% charge
If its a newer Tesla it will beep and also log an issue with the service center, who will then continue to call you to tell you to plug it in.
No boat experience required.
The 3D art behind America's great engineering projects
How is this sobering? I find it fearmongering. Or is there any meaning behind this other than "The humankind has powerful weapons to destroy itself and you are not safe"?
White House announces new privacy "Bill of Rights," Do Not Track agreement
Shouldn't zoomed photographs of smooth objects have mostly identical pixels, with the 9-dimension coordinates clustering around the all-pixels-at-the-same-intensity axis?

Edit: Oh, the papers mention this is about feature extraction and they filter for high-contrast patches.
Obama Says Privacy Isn't Dead - Calls For 'Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights'
Why can't I read this on my iPhone? For some reason, it asks me to log in.
You don't need to track people to show them ads and in no case should you track people without their consent.
I was actually toying with the idea of building a product around online behavior modeling with things like evercookies (http://samy.pl/evercookie/), but after digging into what was possible with them I figured it was almost certain to be cracked down on at some point. Looks like that was a good move.