skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the children on airplanes complaints might be down to the way children are loud and you're stuck near them for hours on end.
What is the performance of your JOIN system?
I hate buying anything at Apple stores. Maybe it works for some demographic besides me, but I find it to be more work to actually purchase an item there than in any other store.
Demand is not an issue. There were 12,200 reservations as of July. That's enough to keep busy for the rest this year and into Q2 of next year. If demand were truly an issue, we would see some sort of advertising spend. When was the last time you saw a Tesla TV commercial?

The next six months are critical because it determines whether or not Tesla can be a profitable venture. Can they make a profit with full production? If they have any unforeseen expenditures they are screwed. If there are any recalls, they are screwed. However, I am pretty confident Tesla will be able to pull through given their track record.
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sniping and negativity is the norm and I just ignore it. You should too.

HN != "The Internet"

I somewhat agree with the OP... HN has (had) almost something of a "family" or at least "tightly knit community" vibe to it. Traditionally feedback here was expected to be honest and not sugared down, but polite in tone and constructive.

No one is saying that feedback here should consist of nothing but "Wow, that's GREAT. You're definitely going to be the next Zuckerberg." And no one expects all of us to get together around the campfire, hold hands, and sing Kumbaya. But there's no reason people can't be encouraging and supportive while also being totally honest.

Example:

"Congrats on the launch! Here's hoping your project succeeds wildly. I took a look, and while I like the Froozit and Gizamble features, I do kinda think the Frizgombit could use some improvement. I also have some concerns about how you will make money from this? Is the market for a Zvezkikit for octogenarians really big enough to support this? Anyway, best of luck!"

I mean, is it that hard to show a little support, throw some encouragement to the app launcher, while also giving useful feedback? This isn't "The Shark Tank" or an interview with pg (unless pg is the one giving the feedback, in which case it kinda is) where you go in mostly expecting to be challenged and not really encouraged.

All of that said, I don't think HN has totally descended into "nothing but negativity." I still see a lot of great comments and feedback here, although I would agree that the tone may have shifted a bit over the years.
I usually place it to the edge of the table, and upside down.
That's either rose-tinted glasses or selective recall, or both.
> Actually this is quite low. BMW sells around 110K units a year in the US alone...

I could be wrong about this, but I suspect the median selling price of a BMW in the U.S. is about $10,000 less than the cheapest Model S. Selling 20,000 cars that start at $50K would be a feat.
How can I get on the closed beta?
That's why I and most people haven't. I considered supporting App.net for ideological reasons alone, but it's not exactly in the clear in that department either. It's a product of a 3-year old VC-funded company. By the time enough people move to app.net, they will be looking for an exit and who knows what they will do then. So, to me personally, they are not that much better than Twitter.
What if the hotel isn't hiring any cleaning staff at that time? Not to mention, I would imagine that cleaning staff and other people who have access to keys would be first on the list of suspects.
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Using Perl, I love how Text::Xslate does exactly that by default, unless you "| mark_raw" the data that you know needs instead to be interpreted as HTML. That's the way to do it!
I'll give it to you that you aren't a hypocrite - you have no problem with cell phone conversations at the table, and you'd grant other people the right to do this in exchange for your own right to do it.

It doesn't work, though. What you're proposing essentially allows the lowest common denominator to impose a low standard of basic courtesy on everyone else.

Can you think of anything you wouldn't want someone else doing at the table, even in exchange for your own right to do it?
I should do that with my husband! I need some new tech.

I keep my phone in my purse...if I get a notification (email/text), I'll glance at it and act on it only if it's important. If it's a phone call, I'll only answer if it's my mom (who only calls if it's something important) or my husband. Every one else goes to voice mail.
well I'm on the road often, and I constantly listen to music. But the player stays in my pocket as I hate having to carry it the whole time. And I actually enjoy being away from the internet, and news in particular, from time to time.
Well, of course it matters how often you do it. I would not do it in loops, or often called event handlers, such as scrolling. If you do it once on page load, sure, it hardly matters.

But if you do it a lot in your code, that just means you can easily copy and paste it from a nearby place? At least that's what I often end up doing.
Progressive Settles On Case That Went Viral
Those people were not extradited. If you want to talk about illegal renderings then the UK is much more complicit in those than Sweden and it makes no sense that he would be safer in the UK than in Sweden.
I do that, and I put my keys on top of it to indicate that I don't plan to pick it up or answer it.

Funny, I didn't realize until just know that I was doing this.
worse than that, 'charge-discharge' efficiency is terrible compared to any kind of battery. it won't save any energy vs conventional car as measured in well-to-wheel efficiency.
Do you think those are contrasting points? There is a subtle wording difference that means the world.

If I'm at dinner with a casual friend or workplace peer, my family and even critical professional activities are more important than them to me. That doesn't make me more important than them, though, which is what enrages so many people, sure that they need to put people in their place.
We should subsidize things that are already affordable instead? Um...
Do you need an exact-matching domain name?
I read HN in Google Reader as well. Do you use the regular or big RSS feed?
Not really that weird at all. Cars maintain a healthy resale market so if you buy a car with a couple of owners and a lot of miles for $8,000 and drive it for a few months, you can often sell it for the same, or just a little less, than you paid for it. It's not an $8,000 gamble, it's more like a $500 gamble.
Yes, 5.4 introduced breaking changes such as the new array syntax (finally!), among other things. There was also a very heavy amount of refactoring internally in the Zend Engine, which could cause extensions to break.
Same with me: I hate having stuff in my pockets when I sit, specially with jeans.

But now that I'm aware that it might send the wrong message, I'll try to keep just my phone in my pocket (the first Galaxy S, it's not very big) if I have lunch with some I do not know very well.

Edit: As others have commented, I do always leave it face down on top of my wallet which hopefully always comes across as "I'm just leaving my crap here."
I've been here 5 years as well, and there's always been an element of knee-jerk negativity, but if anything I've noticed less of it lately. The community has always valued intellegent discussion over mindlessly cheerleading eachother. I do see unconstructive negativity here and there, but it tends to fall to the bottom pretty quickly.
"maybe it means that I have different values."

Id say it means that you generally don't value the time spent with the person you are in the physical presence of. There are always exceptions, but if you agree to meet me for lunch or dinner it is because I value that interaction. If you blow me off for some routine call or SMS/MMS, expect me not to invite you or accept an invitation in the future.
Will people stop referring to share price when talking about company value? Share price isn't comparable over time due to stock splits and buy outs and other shenanigans. Please refer to market capitalization instead.
I see we're going in circles, considering

it's convenient that App.net is so clearly positioned as for-pay Twitter because trying to explain what Twitter is or why you'd pay for it is impossible if people don't already see the value in what Twitter does.
Retric's other comments explain why this is legally and factually accurate based on the current state of US and UK copyright law.

Basically, a "derivative" work product that is mechanically (i.e., algorithmically) created from another copyrighted work is infringing because there is no creativity in the second work and the torrent hash's sole use is distributive. The selection of algorithms or parameters generally is not sufficient "creativity" (but can be, in very limited circumstances).

Ergo, a torrent is an infringing derivative work.

A summary requires some creative thought, specifically, what plot elements to discuss and which to leave out, how to state the plot, etc. The summary generally also has a non-distributive use in its own right. Consequently, a summary is also a derivative work but is not infringing.
Being able to recreate the original work is not a requirement of "derivative work" under U.S. Copyright law.
How, exactly, do pleas and charge reductions work when the person conducting the prosecution has none of the incentives for leniency that the state does?
Those are flat adverbs, actually. :p
Great when they finally will start mass producing this technology - perfect for large cities in India, Argentina and Brazil e.a where already lots of small vehicles run on compressed natural gas (CNG).

BTW - This story has been all over the I-Net the last days (again). A link to the actual manufacturer / technology company behind that.
http://www.mdi.lu/english/

If such energy storage technology becomes available at low prices lots of additional "synergies" can be envisioned - e.g decentralized & cheap storage for small solar power (e.g. 50KW) - seen some DYI solutions for that with compressed air - overall the issue with compressed air storage is the low energy density.
Slavery's a pretty good social problem to start with! I mean, if you're gonna solve any of them.
From my readings around here these negative comments are most often attributed at developments that partially aim at creating controversy. If someone starts a Twitter clone country club or runs away from Diaspora to start a meme blog it seems save to assume that this is going to result in some form of dissonance. I personally find the "Ask HN" section extremely civil never really saw someone tearing down a project. Most backslashes seem to appear if a project promises more than it can deliver. The community seems fortunately resistant against too obvious forms of hype.
I dislike eating with people who use their phone at the table, but face-down phones on the table don't bother me at all. If you're with someone that you're particularly worried about offending, flip the phone to airplane mode (or off) before you put it on the table and mention that you're doing that.
So I shut down (albeit people can still sign in) a site called favilous which was a bookmarking site. And recently I read a book called Join Me by Danny Wallace and thought it would be cool to see if that translated to the web so I created www.11kclub.com but got castigated by HN for being unoriginal, for being a rubbish idea and for the manner in which it was posted. I accept people will be negative and won't like everything that's published but I feel the old HN crowd used to seek the positive first and then give their negative feedback which was always done in a constructive way. I'm a young guy who is just trying to follow a passion and work for myself - but I find myself increasingly demotivated but hey Maybe that's more down to me than HN
Yep, 2900 psi; and I just read that they plan to upgrade to 4400 psi tanks.

For reference, I put about 40 psi in my car's tires.
A fair concern but probably unwarranted since a larger company would snap it up at some price. And then you might actually have better (more, at least) service options.
If I'm running a multi-million dollar SausageCo, Inc., then yes, I would very much like to know how the sausages I'm responsible for are made.
How would Google offer you this service if they didn't "collect" your data?
Fedora. Yes I know it's bleeding edge and probably has vulnerabilities, but I can't imagine what kind of organization lets a single developer patch OpenSSL without oversight and then ship it. For me, its a matter of principle, not practical security.
I spent a brief time selling burglar alarms door to door. I can tell you that on any given street, even in a high crime area, several of the houses won't have alarms. They won't have fake alarms, siren boxes, stickers, nothing except the neighbourhood watch sticker. Why would a thief spend even five seconds looking up your alarm model? They don't "case the joint", they hit every house on the street that has no-one in at the time they're there, and they move on.

One trick I've heard of that would defeat a fake alarm (or a bad alarm, which is 90% of them) is to throw a brick through the window, cheese it, and see if anyone turns up 10 minutes later. If not you're good to go, regardless of whether or not the alarm is going off.
Zuck is the marketer/Bizdev guy. He didn't do any of the interesting technical things beyond the CRUD implementation that is any small social network.
So if all the negativity and people complaining is what made you hate HN so much you are leaving it, why do I have to read about it on... HN?
More like you're giving off the impression that the people you're with aren't as important.
Germany debates plan to pay stay-at-home moms
This is for a Charity? Well they botched that then IMO.

After clicking the top "alpha.ihave50dollars.com" link (and others) you end up at heello.com. So I then understandably thought the site was a "snark-attack" by the Heello/Twitpic guys.

After all, Heello was started by Twitpic when Twitter was just starting to clamp down on their API usage and was about to start their own photo service -- so Heello was started pretty much in the same spirit as App.net was -- at least in the sense of "Hey! I'm pissed at Twitter, so now I'm gonna make a competitor clone".

So I wonder, why doesn't anyone mention this Heello? Does the App.net guy have more Hacker Mojo than the Twitpic guy? Is this Heello guy pissed that App.net got paid $700k+ for doing what they wanted to do 1-2 years ago?

Hmmmm...
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> Hacker News now is about correcting grammar

I vehemently agree with this. Aside from a few parent comments on each thread, the comment threads are sure to have somebody being overly finicky about the minutia of another comment. Diction is important, yes, but an important tool to any conversation is understanding when NOT to correct somebody, or make them clarify their obvious statement. It's kind of like HN's much crueler version of a Reddit pun thread, with the notable exception that, as soon as I see one, I will immediately collapse the former.
They'd want you to succeed and they'd try and help you succeed with feedback that would ultimately help you.

You're seeing what you want to see. If your idea is truly noteworthy, you will get lots of usable feedback on this site, despite all the negative (but still relevant) criticism. Two recent examples are Ouya and App.net; these ideas received tidal waves of negativity, but they were interesting ideas, and the ensuing threads were filled with useful and valid criticism (as well as supportive comments from backers). If your idea is only receiving negative comments, it's probably because it isn't compelling enough to merit the attention of thoughtful critics.
you can't convert it with calibre?
I can't speak for other users, but I'd rather see more project launches than any of the following types of submissions:

- Rumors about what Apple will do next week, and the ensuing flamewars between Apple fans and Android fans

- TorrentFreak articles of any kind

- Overbearing hype about the latest fad (App.net at the moment)

- Mindless hatred towards the latest villain (Twitter at the moment)

- Anything political that's posted under the justification that "all hackers need to care about politics"

Sorry to see you go, I hope that you find somewhere with more civil discourse.
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Or rather we should subsidize things that need to be affordable. Luxury cars are explicitly not meant to be affordable, so his point stands. What both of you have missed is the actual reason for subsidy, which is the fuel efficiency.
Is MySQL becoming less open source? Test cases go internal now
Brilliant. Everything about this just emphasises his point :)
FWIW, I've been feeling like the comments on HN have been more negative and combative than usual over the last month or so, too. (I've been a HN user for about 5 years, too). I've not been quite sure why - there just suddenly seems to have been a bit of a tidal wave of snark.

It may be seasonal, or something similar, and I'll admit to having anecdotal evidence only, but I have had a similar impression to the OP, albeit not quite as strongly.

I wonder if some of it is defensiveness from users scared HN will turn into Reddit? Certainly, I've seen a lot of "downvote this post, it's not something that should be on HN" comments lately.
self-reply: this whole thread makes me wonder: what did people actually do like 15-20 years ago, when there were no cellphones to distract them? Have interesting conversations instead? I'm pretty sure children (well, I was) were playing around (if the particular place allowed so) or else maybe playing boardgames/cards whatever on the table. Not sure what the grown ups did though.
"Why would a thief spend even five seconds looking up your alarm model?"

The product (by way of the video) seems to be for commercial businesses that have a problem with break-ins because they have things that people repeatedly find profitable to steal. So I don't think it's the same situation as residential burglar alarms.
In case you intended to take that advice to heart, you can use 'right' and 'wrong' as adverbs in all but the most formal contexts, and possibly even then too. They're called 'flat adverbs,' and there's a great video post from MW that you can find if you Google the term.
It is open for everyone now. You could sign up on the website

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"If I'm at dinner with a casual friend or workplace peer, my family and even critical professional activities are more important than them to me. That doesn't make me more important than them, though, which is what enrages so many people, sure that they need to put people in their place."

I think it is a confusion of expectations that creates the conflict. You expect it to be understood that this is how you prioritize. Others may not have expected the same priorities.
Visa is a multi-billion dollar international company with strict regulatory controls.

For them to say that "preventing some of our employees from breaking the law is hard" is not good enough.

I accept that no organisation is going to achieve total legal compliance. But sometimes it feels as if some companies feel above the law; as if they are untouchable.

As if, indeed, they are too big to fail.
See Nobody ever got ﬁred for using Hadoop on a cluster: “A single ‘big memory’ (192 GB) server we are using has the performance capability of approximately 14 standard (12 GB) servers. … for about an eighth of the total cost.” http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/163083/hotcbp12%20final.p...

And The Seven Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing Research: "When designing a parallel implementation, its performance should always be compared to an optimized serial implementation, even if only for a small input data set, in order to understand the overheads involved. It is also worth considering whether distribution over multiple machines is required." https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud12/seven-deadly-si...
Hi Steve,

I don't know if you are going to read this, but I'm going to write it for the rest of the audience too.

I think the trend of dismissing critics and commenting along the lines of "sour grapes" or "haters" very disturbing. Yes I go against your commentary. The great thing about internet and communities based on pseudonyms is that you get the first reaction that people have. Very few will take a few minutes to give their opinion, weight the different possibilities etc... It's brutal, it's direct. If you have run a service online you certainly know that you receive very angry/ threatening emails from people that use your services and are displeased. If it disturbs you it means that you are not ready for having a personal project on display, it's as simple as that. People in life and particularly on the internet are very angry and you have disturbed individuals. Opening a service with your name and your address is becoming some kind of "celebrity", people will HATE you for no good reason.

To come back to what I think is bad/annoying on Hacker News is of a different nature and I'll list a few:

* Well thought comments are often ignored and not read ( not up/downvoted, just ignored )

* Stardom: No matter what they post some ""famous"" people around here get their post on the front page. By courtesy I won't list who they are but everybody can spot it pretty easily. I'm very disappointed by this attitude personally, and it doesn't speak highly of a place that is supposed to be almost a pure meritocracy.

* Fads/ Jealousy: A lot of people here want to be rich and famous thus it creates tension. It allows me to come back to your point: these people are likely going to dismiss your ideas based on jealousy.

* Over-repetition of some stories ad nauseum: dumb benchmarks to see the number of req/s, analysis App.net, Education sucks...

All that being said it remains an interesting community but with some drawbacks. I guess nothing can have it all.
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U.S. copyright laws and enforcement are not as bad as nerdom make it out to be. Indeed, the U.S. is frequently the opposition to extending copyright durations and other copyright regimes (ACTA, etc., notwithstanding).

In the U.S., copyright infringement is only a crime if done for money (because there is an element of fraud, i.e., selling goods that you do not own). Outside of the U.S., copyright infringement can be a crime even if no money is involved. Furthermore, a lot of the "rights" in the criminal justice system are actually features of only the U.S. system (i.e,. right to a lawyer, right to a fair trial, right to a jury) and are not actually shared by most other legal systems.
March 1994: Linus releases Linux 1.0,
November 1994: GNU sponsers the creation of Debian.
But renditioning for torture: http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-b...
And life imprisonment in somewhere like GITMO (a la Bradley Manning) is just fine I suppose!
Oh yes, I'm sure if you were Assange you'd feel SO much better now!
Wake the fuck up!
Law as written bears NO resemblance to what happens in practice (when it doesn't suit the Powers That Be), and that is just a very small part of what Assange is fighting against.
Goddamn it gets tiring having to persuade/enlighten people who don't even realise Assange and Wikileaks are highting THEIR BATTLE for them!
Show some bloody gratitude and at least educate yourself about the realities of this sordid world we live in. I think its the LEAST you can do to say thanks to people who ARE actually putting their life on the line for these principles.