skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were much, much cheaper, a one-seater plus room for groceries would make a fine commuting vehicle.

The problem, as always, is cost. My family manages with one vehicle plus public transit, but that vehicle has to be big (people and cargo and distance). Most of the time we could use something smaller, but the minority use case is enough to require the behemoth.

If it were cheap enough, we could really use three vehicles: a commuter, an efficient four-seater, and a seldom used cargo/distance vehicle. That's not how the economics work out, though, so one vehicle has to serve all the purposes.
Why Kindle is a winner.
Dijkstra on Correctness as a Guiding Principle for Program Composition
Dempsy: Distributed Elastic Message Processing System
Fair enough. May be it's me but I find Python/Perl docs more intuitive. I find it difficult to figure out how to do something by reading Java docs.

Personal preferences aside, I would say Python/Perl docs are as good as, if not better, than the Java docs. Ruby's documentation is not as good, but rails documentation is very good http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ For C, we have the man pages(though archaic, they are pretty good). My point is I don't see how Java leads in terms of online documentation.
I understand that this is far better than what has previously been available.

But damn, why must medicine be so creepy?
You need to factor in the medical bills, though. With a loaded weight of under 1000lbs, in any sort of collision, this thing will lose. Doesn't really matter how strong the frame is, it's just simple physics.

Similar situation with the "Smart" car. The passenger cell can take a 60mph impact into a barrier just fine. The passengers - not so much, the g-forces inflicted are much higher than a traditional vehicle. Even 12-18 inches of crumple zone would make a BIG difference.
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There are only two parties hurt by this

This kind of statement first has to be qualified as "two parties immediately hurt by this. It is common for price moves in a well known stock to exert a strong psychological influence on similar stocks and on the broader market. All markets are subject to flux but where things have fluxed to currently, it seems quite possible that others could be "injured" here.

Sure Facebook's move could, might, be good for the tech industry if investor perception separated Facebook from the rest of tech industry. If not, it is easy for things to go from irrational optimism to irrational pessimism.
I wouldn't guess that. The newspaper industry is pretty well known for malarkey like this. A few years back the American newspaper industry famously accused Google of ripping them off by including their stories in its SERPs without paying them.

A couple of references:

http://searchengineland.com/google-testifies-before-senate-a...

http://searchengineland.com/would-someone-please-explain-to-...
To get and keep talent you need not just a good work environment but cold, hard cash. Paying employees with stock options and grants on a stock on the way up is a very efficient way to encourage people to work for you or to stay working for you. You can also pay people with actual cash, but that's significantly more expensive to match the same level of reward. People who worked through the elbow at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc. became millionaires. And there are plenty more elbows out there for the taking in silicon valley, in new york, and elsewhere. It can be hard to compete for and retain employees who are talented enough to earn their millions by seeking out some other company. This is a huge problem at Microsoft, for example, where the stock has been flat for a decade.

Certainly there are many good reasons to work at facebook, but how many of those reasons can make up for missing out on millions of dollars? This is all the more relevant right now because so many of the early employees have gotten their millions through the IPO, and that has all the makings of creating a cultural divide in the company between those who got theirs and those who haven't, and won't.
Bitly Gets a Makeover Focused on Bookmarking and Privacy Controls
Nice work Shane. How do you find the rebuttals?
I think that it is far more common mistake for mass-market targeted software to be hard for novice users than it is for software targeted at power-users to be insufficiently programmable.
"And speaking statistically, research shows that parents are no more happy than are those who are not parents."

"Contrary to recent scholarship and popular belief, parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning in life than people without children, according to researchers from the University of California, Riverside, the University of British Columbia and Stanford University. Parents also are happier during the day when they are caring for their children than during their other daily activities, the researchers found in a series of studies conducted in the United States and Canada. [...] The findings are among a new wave of research that suggests that parenthood comes with relatively more positives, despite the added responsibilities. [...] The consistency of their findings across all three studies 'provides strong evidence challenging the widely held perception that children are associated with reduced well-being.'" [1]

These findings are from this paper, entitled In Defense of Parenthood: Children Are Associated With More Joy Than Misery [2], to be published in Psychological Science. [3]

From the abstract, "The results indicate that, contrary to previous reports, parents (and especially fathers) report relatively higher levels of happiness, positive emotion, and meaning in life."

[1] http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/...

[2] (Note: PDF) http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~sonja/papers/NKEDLinpress.pdf

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Science_%28journ...
All hail Google, our new digital overlords (Google Consumer Surveys)
This is just my prediction. In a month's time I'll read back over my comments and, hopefully, I'll see this, check, and have an answer.
The logo is confusing me a bit. What's the connection between icosahedral gems and unicorns? Is this some pop culture reference I'm missing or is it basically a stopgap considering that Unicorn itself already has an eponymous logo?
To be fair, FB doesn't need to get $100/user to be worth the $100 billion valuation.

Realistically, they need to be making somewhere on the order of $6.7 billion/year to have a "healthy" P/E of 15.

So, assuming that costs scale linearly with profit(they won't), FB needs to really be making around $25/user for the $100 Billion valuation to have a healthy P/E.
Can you expand on that a little... I'm looking to buy a D5100, is this using the LCD or the viewfinder?
I am using Fedora 17 on Acer 11.1 network, AMD 1G dual core
it works so far the best in speed - compared to the mint 13 (both Mate and Cinnamon), ubuntu 12.04 that I tested. Everything works out of the box: suspend, wireless ... Initially Selinux stops the dropbox to work, but I found the tweak online to go around it easily. Used to be a huge fan of ubuntu, but the divided states of unity, gnomeshell (for some reason gnome shell under ubuntu works too slow on my machine), MATE, cinnamon ... kept me away (for now) from my favorite debian based distribution ...
It pays to become an expert in your own (or your family members') medical conditions, because you'll quickly become more of an expert than 99% of the doctors you will rely on for care. It helps when they all ask the same dumb questions, which they will do. If your condition is mildly rare, you'll notice when you see a new doctor, that their knowledge will be limited to what you found out in the first hour of internet research on the condition, unless they are a specialist on that particular condition.

I have a slightly rare genetic condition, and I've only met 2 doctors who know more than I do, and that's because they do active research on the exact condition and have authored or co-authored multiple research articles on it.
I didn't think it was fawning, in fact quite the opposite - that some of these details were intended ironically, and the tone of the piece was actually more negative? Did I just read what I wanted to see?
They actually said the drop in income was just because of timing of stock grants. After all, revenue was up YOY.
>"Why don't we focus on the real issue being people rights to privacy and the shady practices of FB?"

These things are all connected. The public is being sold the idea that this is a $100BB company, one of the biggest in the world. Yet when some of us look at it (yourself, even) we see a great tool that doesn't justify the price as a business: as cletus says at the top of the thread, Facebook may just be another ad network that depends on its massive, engaged user base. Yet FB has problems with how it actually treats those users, through privacy issues and shady practices..
> SHA-1 is very fast though

SHA-1 is fast for a cryptographic hash function, but it's orders of magnitude slower than "hashmap" hashes. crc32 is more than an order of magnitude faster, and as you can see in TFA's table it's ~half the speed of the best non-crypto hashes.
Discuss smartphone Job Apps
Yeah, that is what I am saying -- but then my parents have never been that rational.
Computational biology is a field with much room to grow.

Finding a mutation is just the start of the journey for someone like Bertrand.

Once you find the mutation, you have to figure out what the mutant gene does versus the normal gene.

Duke had to work with a lab, culturing cells from my son and poking at them to figure this part out.

If we were better at predicting the structure of proteins from the DNA that encodes them, we've taken a big first step toward automating/simulating the "functional work."

Protein folding is a nasty research problem at the intersection of chemistry, biology and computer science.
Evil Analytics: How What You Measure Becomes Your Master
Trinitrons look great when they are new, but wear out way too fast. I stick to shadowmask screens for that reason (and still use a nice CRT at home)
All employees since 2008-ish have gotten RSUs, not options.
What can be done to speed this process up? What parts can be automated? Is the process for every gene unique or can some steps be factored out?
9.4 Trillion SMS Messages Will Be Sent By 2016
What does 80X coverage mean?
Option based compensation usually has a strike price at the value of the company around the point of hiring. Options are more volatile than stock. If the share price drops further, the options would be worthless. As the share price rises, the option value rises even faster.
xrandr --output $OUTPUT_NAME --rotate left

To physically position the monitor, changing to an external VESA-mount arm is a good solution. Since the hole pattern is square, you don't have to opt for a rotating mount -- though many such arms will do that for you, as well.

To rotate a laptop display, better plug in an external keyboard and pointing device. Then you need to figure out a rest for it...
It's 6 months for most employees.
Awesome news. Still waiting for you guys to come to Canada so I can give you all my money!
I could actually understand that, since Google actually copied their text and was selling ads next to the copied text.
You're not controlling variables. Of course you won't sell these into the existing market. But the existing market is unsustainable (fuel costs alone would change your calculus about "same cost as a car" today), so what will you sell in the future? Bikes, or these? I know what I'd buy.

And I don't see anywhere where it claimed that the gyros would work in a collision that would destroy the vehicle; that's silly. The point is they won't tip over in a fender bender.
> In addition to the API documentation, there's the "Java Learning Trail", which is a set of step-by-step tutorials with numerous screenshots and tons of example code:

If you are already a programmer, you will be able to complete this tutorial in less than 2 hours http://docs.python.org/tutorial/, and can start programming Python. Want to learn Perl? http://www.perltutorial.org/. This tutorial thing isn't something that is unique to java, and personally, I find the Perl and Python versions higher quality compared to Java's tutorial.

> Personally I think having both a tutorial and browsable API documentation is preferable to dealing with unstructured prose for everything.

Unstructured prose for everything? What are we talking about? How is http://docs.python.org/library/random.html (description, methods and usage, example code) unstructured prose? When it comes down to which doc is better, it comes down to personal preference. But Java has the best online documentation is far from the truth.
Spend VC money like this, work 4 days a week and then finally go down. !! :(
When Will It Be Done?
How about a time machine to take all the retail investors back to 1999? Back then everyone just piled in their orders without thinking twice. This attitude is what Wall Street was hoping would return.
(The following is off-topic:)

I noticed that the Stripe blog doesn't allow comments. I think most people find it odd or frustrating when they can't add their 2 cents to something (for better or for worse!). Any idea which things might have driven this decision?

- Not wanting to deal with how most people act on the net? (Or maybe they're in a highly competitive space where the juggernauts wouldn't think twice about trying to destroy their image.)

- To encourage people who want to discuss the blog entry to submit it to their favorite discussion communities?

- To avoid possible PR issues sitting right on their company's blog? (Related to point #1)

There is a kind of beautiful simplicity to the page that comments would probably destroy.
This is a cool concept, although I doubt it will be ready by 2014 at their current rate. My reasoning on that is that you have to have a complete pre-production vehicle before you can even start safety testing. But that isn't a knock, I like optimism as much as the next person.

The horizontal flywheel concept is quite cool, and I'm glad they avoided the problem of earlier attempts which just had one (cars that did this would change their front/back weight balance going around turns in a non-helpful way) Having both (and running them in opposite directions!) means you can cancel out that effect.

I'd worry a bit about the need to keep them spun up at 'idle', its a work load that electric vehicles don't normally carry, but you do get some of that back in efficiency gains when using them as dynamic energy storage so perhaps it is a wash. Would love to see the math on that.

If they wanted to hit the tri-fecta of buzzword viral bingo they should use a 3D printer to print the body out of carbon fiber or something :-)
Right, so Facebook could potentially grow by 150%, maybe. But their valuation is predicated on them growing by a factor of 10x or more. That's the issue.
Employees are not allowed to trade in FB options.
The last thing I would really want to do is outsource customer service, esp. in the early years of business.

I wrote a small piece on What Your Startup can Gain by Delivering Great Customer Service: http://www.happyfox.com/blog/what-your-startup-can-gain-by-d...

As a passionate founder, you would have the right tools and people that will keep you customer service going.

+1 for founders to be part of customer service irrespective of the size of business.
How WPMU.org Recovered From The Penguin Update
Whow, are you arrogant. Can you even contemplate somebody who doesn't want to have children?
The reason it's a stupid way to design a virus currently is because that was one of the primary attack vectors in the past. Yes, most decent mail systems will protect against this. But some might not -- might as well use what's worked in the past as well as other options.

Also, what if the mail component were used to hide/archive the virus? Hide a virus attachment from someone to themself, then have some bootstrap code (Outlook/email client exploit, perhaps) that loads the email archived virus back onto the comp.
> I'm confused over the significance of the P/E ratio.

Ratios have to be considered in context of expected future growth and expected future profit margin (revenue grows a little but profit grows a lot). Even considering that, some ratios seem extreme.

FB Forward P/E: 44.85

FB PEG Ratio: 1.67

AMZN Forward P/E: 85.52

AMZN PEG Ratio: 5.92

CRM Forward P/E: 69.06

CRM PEG Ratio: 3.29
Not really. Iff the newspaper allowed it in its robots.txt, Google would copy the page title and a short description of the page. This is the same thing every search engine does with every page on the Internet. Google did not copy the actual articles and sell ads next to them. The newspapers' Web teams even knew their publishers were talking crap, which is why they didn't just delist themselves and stop complaining about it.

(Full disclosure: I work on newspaper sites. I was actually one of the people who had to have the "Well, we could opt out" "BUT THEN WE'D LOSE ALL OUR TRAFFIC!" conversation.)
Social Network Of The Living Dead
If people want to buy a managed platform that is their choice. No organization with the word 'freedom' in their name should be actively trying to take choices away from consumers. That's just bizarre. It's like arguing StarBucks shouldn't sell me a coffee because it takes away my freedom to make my own coffee at home. Of course it does not. Just because you like to make coffee at home doesn't mean you should be able to force me to do it.
Which is better: Python or Haskell?
I believe the intended meaning of compromise with regards to marriage is about not always getting "your way."
I don't know for his talk show or the page views of his website but I can tell you (even if it doesn't necessarily mean anything) his number of followers on Twitter increased of about 1000+ since the original break-up announce.
> In the grand scheme of things, no achievements are significant or meaningful

I'd scale that back a bit and say "it's entirely possible none of your achievements (or your children's) will be seen as 'significant or meaningful' to others". But the achievements of people like Norman Borlaug or Alexander Fleming have had a profound impact on the entire world, so when I see "no achievements matter" it gives me pause.
Among others: because of completely arbitrary and I'd dare to say weird rules. Programs are not meant to be written in idiomatic language. They are meant to resemble the C implementation. In many cases you can see that the program representing the language in the comparison is neither the fastest nor the simplest of the submissions.
They already have them on kids bikes. Now they just need to upgrade to adult size, lower the weight, strap on an electric motor...

http://www.thegyrobike.com/category-s/93.htm
The honest-to-goodness justification you're going to hear is that Facebook is a nascent company, the potential earnings of which are only loosely a function of current earnings. That's to be contrasted with the likes of Google, Apple, and others as those tech staples have more predictable future earnings potential, which is at least relatively more bounded by current streams of income from reliable businesses.

NOTE: This is not to say I think a P/E of 100 was remotely justified.
It also depends on age and marital status. Young couples tend to be less happy with children, according to this study. I'd bet it also depends simply on how strongly the individuals want children. If you don't feel like you want kids, then it's probably a bad idea to have them.
Noir's indifferent to how you get your HTML; as long as you return a string, it'll serve it up:

(defpage "/welcome" []
"<html><head></head><body>Hi there!</body></html>")
Is there a CouchDb mug?
A UILabel clone with animated transitions
The AWS CISO on AWS Security
One thing that is said about Amazon a lot is it sinks its profits into growing the business. That makes it more attractive as a growth stock since they are actively expanding their business into new areas, but affects their current bottom line with all the R&D overhead.
The Truth About Working Conditions at Square
>"I would target the shit out of you for Volvo, Volkswagen, Acura, Infiniti, Mercedes, BMW and Audi."

And why not Lincoln, Cadillac, Lexus, Saab and Jaguar? In fact, Volkswagen isn't a luxury brand (no more than Honda, Nissan, Toyota), and hardly fits among the brands you mentioned above. Yet it's a preference of the OP. So, I think you've proven his point; your targeting hardly tells us anything.
Someone needs to do their homework. The dates have been official for at least a month.
Satelite Docking in Space Using a Google Phone and Kinect
I can see a case being made that a consumer product shouldn't add features that will hurt its main consumers for the benefit of a minority of users. That said, it's reckless and short-sighted to proactively exclude power users.

When someone becomes proficient with your product, guess what they become? A power user. And if you don't have any features to cater to them, do you expect them to be using your product much longer? And once they stop using your product, do you expect anyone else to as well?
You assume that the number of shares being offered was static, hence the price drop by half.

More realistically, Facebook should have sold less shares, which would have kept the price at that target. But I guess it couldn't sell less: they had a bucketload of people who wanted to sell, and all the biggest potential buyers had already bought... Lesson learned: don't get talked into secondary market abuse...
It stifles innovation and prevents competition

I disagree. iOS is not the only mobile platform. It's not even the most popular one. Apple keeps an eye on other platforms and when something works they implement a similar feature. Their customers get to skip the whole ugly process of trial & error that often fosters that innovation. That's exactly what Apple is good at. Some of us pay Apple to curate and manage the platform for us.
I agree with you there are alternatives in the market. I don't agree that therefore I shouldn't speak up if one player is doing something I don't agree with and that I'd like them to consider that if everyone acted like them the world would be a worse place.

You bring up another excellent example in Flash. We can add that to the list of things (a rich multi-media internet) that likely would not have happened if every computer since 1982 was as locked down as iOS.

I don't believe we have to chose between stability/interface quality and an open platform. I believe we can have both.
I find this to be a very interesting idea, although I'm still a little dubious about it. I first heard it from an interview with famous Libertarian [Milton Friedman][1] (whom I adore) in his twilight years. The self-regulating mechanism of a system like this would be tort law, allowing consumers to sue companies if they haven't done adequate research and testing on their drugs before selling them. I have mixed feelings about this because I have a hard time picturing a class action suit being able to adequately take on a large pharmaceutical company with its own dedicated legal department.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDV0YII6lk&t=4m10s
Down voted? Nice community bro.