skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have read quite a few biographies on Tesla. Unless every single one of them are wrong (they all had citations), the inaccuracies of that Forbes article are not even funny. Do they always post articles that haven't been fact-checked?

Edit: Just saw The Oatmeal's response. Good for him, but I doubt many of the people that read the Forbes article are also going to read the rebuttal.
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App.net - A network for the elite?
I wonder if you have tried building gcc recently?

While it doesn't require a C++ compiler, in the last few years it has required an increasing list of fairly modern libraries. I don't think requiring a C++ compiler will make things that much harder.
Previous discussion - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828134
Why are you bootstrapping on an embedded platform?
That's a nonstarter. The NSA started putting back-doors into aluminum back around the time of the Roswell Incident.
Fair point, but he's "wanted" badly enough for a European arrest warrant and for extradition treaties to kick in.
Did anyone not see this coming? Does he actually think they won't go after him to the full extent they are capable?

The thing about being a martyr for a cause is that they usually don't walk away from the experience unscathed. I think this man thought he was untouchable and acted accordingly, deciding to be a celebrity instead of a quiet hero. Well, the hammer is dropping.

Good luck, Julian, you completely unlikable but necessary bastard. Hopefully the people who carry on in your stead are a bit more careful.
I'm on month 7 of 12 of doing just this, really enjoying it. About $3500/mo expenses on average (includes my wife and I), mostly in south/southeast Asia (lower cost) but housesitting is making Europe doable on the same budget. Current house even has an LCD to plug into, so I'm back in the warm embrace of vsplits :)

Edit: clarify expenses, not income; so utilization is <100% of a 40HWW.
Show HN: nodefetch, quickly download multiple libraries
Ok good to know, thanks :)
I feel everything since VC++6 (released 1998, if I'm not mistaken) has been going downhill.

(I don't really like .net -- I'm referring primarily to the C++ IDE; and I also think the VB6 IDE is nicer than any VB.NET one)
That title is supplied by the submitting user according to some informal recommendations. Every so often, there will be an argument over whether the submitted title is appropriate for the content. HN doesn't scrape anything for it.
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That's a good point. As cars become more automated and perhaps evolve into a fleet of roving cars one "hires", or even the personal ones, I can see where a driver or passenger has to be "authenticated" as they are let in. In addition, the automobiles would be in constant communication about any state with a central office.

Something to this effect would obviate the need for external cameras, as one might assume this level of automation would allow for the autonomous vehicle to know if it was able to drive/ambulate legally or not (i.e., I'm not in compliance, do you wish to override, you can override 5 times before having to take it into a shop to have it re-registered and validated and authorized to carry people, etc.
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Israel is the India of the US Defense contracting.
In Texas for now, speed camera's or any automated system is against the law. This is due to the same credo that a weapon safety is a mechanical device that can and will fail.
Show HN: My latest project Phlipster.com, Instagram on the web.
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YC and more (about $4.5m): http://www.crunchbase.com/company/humble-bundle

They're expanding out into the "Humble Store".
Two orders of magnitude (which isn't all that "many") would make that 2,400 people working on the Visual Studio shell. Although its likely there are many more than pictured, I can't imagine it being thousands.
Agreed. If I had twice as much bandwidth available to stream Netflix, I'd much rather have twice the bitrate than 1.4x more pixels in each direction.
I second everything said here. All very good advice.

Just one thing:

> introductory texts [...] University Physics by Young, Freedman, and Ford [...] to learn calculus, Calculus by Larson and Edwards [...] should take you a year or two to consume [...]

I disagree. Two years? I think six months should be enough time for the modern youth to learn all of first year physics, calc one and two included.

The only limiting factor is the time it takes to do the exercises, because, like you said, the main part of learning physics happens when you are figuring things out on your own. I bet that one or two semesters with a good book with exercises with answers in the back can be enough to learn how to use all of first year math and physics. If only there were such a book that teaches calculus, mechanics, E&M and linear algebra, all in one sitting. ;)

I will close on a personal recommendation from 1914. Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf
The UK government is showing its true face, that of a tyrannical authoritarian government, who's legitimacy is threatened by the exact kind of transparency that Assange's organization intends to protect.
I know there's competition in this space already, but I'm throwing my hat in the ring. Feedback most welcome!
He is a pompous ass and so is Kim Dotcom. The problem is that the charges against each of them appear to be completely exaggerated or made up[1].

1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4280532
We recently added support for transit directions in the Javascript API. So, if your site uses the Google Maps API, you can add directions to your existing map:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
Apple actually let's you have 2 versions of the game, one free with IAP and a paid version without IAP.

Also I believe developers go with a IAP to unlock the full game to avoid having their game pirated and downloaded for free on jail broken devices.

Dave
...has been going downhill.
...I'm referring primarily to the C++ IDE

How, specifically?
Why would they do that? Google stands little to gain and a lot to lose by offering a good Google Maps app for iOS.

Many of the features they offer for Google Maps on Android haven't been implemented for iOS (turn by turn navigation, interior views, floor plans, 3D models, etc.)

Google is already polluting the iOS Maps app with sponsored listings, degrading the user experience severely. I doubt that a separate Google Maps app for iOS will be any better.
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Today, we're going to try to speak only in Steve Jobs quotes.
APIs are hard. You need to give it time.
Also note that Google has a secret working relationship with the NSA so thoeretically your search data is also being 'outsourced' to Israel.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/217550/google_comes_under_fir...
Adobe has been, and probably will always be, one of the worst software development companies in existence. It is only within the last 5 years or so that they have become even remotely competent. I do believe all decent programs they have ever published (think Photoshop) have been bought from another company and rebranded under the Adobe 'seal of death'.
I am starting to think that the event Julian Assange fears most is that he'll end up in Sweden, walking down the street either a free man or after serving some time in jail, and have to wonder "what should I do now?"
I thought the context was established to be hitting on, as one might do in a bar. The problem with framing it as being about "harassment" is that the term is prone to equivocation in these types of discussions. Some would argue that any attention of a sexual nature would be harassment. This is probably true in professional settings, but the grandparent established the context of discussion as a bar setting. This is what I was replying to.

How to handle actual harassment and assault is obvious: you call the fucking cops. I'm not sure why that warrants a discussion at all.
Consumer GPS devices do not work above 60,000ft for regulatory reasons[1]. They are required to disable themselves so that they could not be used to build intercontinental ballistic missiles. This likely contributed to the failure to receive GPS data.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCom
Sounds like a No True Scotsman fallacy to me. I've commuted daily for years, plus occasional longer trips, on a used bike that cost $150 (plus another $100 to add lock, rear rack, fenders and lights). Maintenance may be a little bit more with a used bike, but it rides great.
Presumably Ecuador could respond in kind.

It may well be that the wonderful British police or SAS could smoothly extract Assange, however, what happens if the not so wonderful Ecuadorian authorities decided to lay some sort of siege to the British Embassy in Ecuador? Are British authorities really prepared to risk that?
So, just to make sure I'm keeping up, the UK is threatening an act of war against Ecuador in order to extradite an Australian who's wanted by the US to Sweden. okithinkigotit.
No. I remember a situation, though no longer the details, where someone was accused of spying during the Cold War and fled to an embassy. He was effectively trapped there, just like Assange, but whoever was after him didn't violate the embassy. Like I said, I can't remember the details, not even the country involved, but I think he ended up spending several years confined to the embassy.
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>> he doesn't have an outstanding arrest warrant

According to Wikipedia he is the subject of a European Arrest Warrant (this is presumably why he's hiding in a non-EU embassy).

Edit: arrest warrants don't always/usually imply that any charges have been filed. This is not unusual. The unusual part is a person accused of rape hiding out in the embassy of a country of which he is not a citizen, in a country of which he is not a citizen, while people cheer him on for being righteous.
Just pointing this out, for those unfamiliar with the Android Humble Bundles, you also get the Mac, Windows and Linux versions. So it's worth getting even if you don't have any android devices :).
Eh, even if they get him, it's not like it's going to change much for WikiLeaks - the platform will go on, probably stronger than before.
The politicians will pat themselves on the back for a "good job" catching Assange, while the leaks go on and people find out stuff they weren't supposed to know (and most of them don't even care either way).

The UK should be like, "well, whatever, he'll come out eventually" instead of issuing threats against other countries. Maybe they'll send in the SAS next - that would be interesting to watch...
"giving the company access to your data is a fairly small price to pay."

define data, define human rights.
Someone ran a script to extract the patent numbers from that list and put together a table of application/grant/expiration dates: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists#H.264_pat...

Looks like the last one expires in 2027.
App.net up to 15,000 posts/day
From an email I just received:

We wanted to update everyone on the status of the Alpha. We’re thrilled to see all the activity – already over 15,000 posts just today – along with the growing list of apps in development.

Just a reminder that alpha.app.net is just that: an early prototype. It was launched as a test and to provide a proof of concept for our fundraising campaign. It is not yet an operational service, and we ask that you please be mindful of that and be respectful of one another.

Still, we want you to be able to test the alpha, play around, and send us your feedback (use #feature, #bug, and #design in your alpha posts). We’re working hard to make this possible. We will be charging credit cards over the next few days, and cards will only be charged as alpha access is granted.

We are in the process of resolving username conflicts, and once this is complete – today, hopefully – we will resume sending out invites to the alpha. There are approximately 4,000 people in the alpha currently with another 7,000+ requests for access in the queue. Invites go out in batches, so please be patient if yours hasn’t arrived. To request access, email join@app.net.

If you're interested in a developer account, but chose the member tier when joining, just email dev-support@app.net (please use the subject "upgrade to developer").

Thank you again for all of your support.
The App.net team
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Threatening to invade an embassy is.
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Why does Ecuador even want to stand its ground on this? Why do they want to harbor Assange in the first place? Seems silly to escalate this to the national level when they don't seem to benefit from it in any material or practical sense.
They probably would not call it an act of war without backing it up --so I doubt they would. If they did bluff and get called, next time hostilities flared up with Peru or Columbia, they might not be taken seriously.
If you walk away with your life you're by definition not a martyr.
I recently crashed my mountain bike wearing a full face (think motorbike) helmet.

I can personally attest that even those won't protect your face in certain circumstances. No helmet is perfect.

(here are pics of me. WARNING: blood http://imgur.com/a/UgGTI )
Pretty sure it was there on the first one, I remember setting 50/50 split between devs and Humble tip on my first purchase.
Isn't it funny how people reacted to Quora showing everything you read to everyone else, and now almost the very same people react totally different when a government tries to protect them from this?
I think that's a reaction to there being a blog post about liberal and conservative programming languaged on the HN page a bit ago.

(And yes, we should absolutely not use them. )
>embed the inter-frame analysis into a single 3d sliding adaptive octree //

I've no idea what this means [yet] but it sounds too awesome to ignore. H266 here we come?!?
That's only available to Premium users, too bad. App is incomplete (no editing and archiving) and it wants me to be a premium user. Hah, not in this world.
Concern: if the peer group does not have a critical mass of people who do disapprove and are willing to vocalize it, could this backfire. I sadly can see a situation where a group of the worst offenders that buddy around together in an otherwise indifferent environment decide to just all hand red cards to every woman who tells them off, doesn't reciprocate/comply, whatever, essentially using these as a weapon of shame and terror. :(
Well the victim of espionage is the state, and the state has nothing to gain by imprisoning the spy themselves rather than letting the spy imprison himself in a foreign embassy. With rape, there's an actual victim.
Where is that talk?
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Thank goodness for that!
Wasn't evidence gathered by interviews on foreign soil inadmissible, or something?
I agree 100%. I wonder if those defending Assange would do so if he were accused of raping someone they care about.
Of course it's annoying. Facebook wants you to feel pain whenever you try to manage your own social presence in a way they can't monetize.
Actually, since the focus for the Android bundles is Android and not the other platforms, IMO they aren't worth getting. The Android bundles always have older, lower end titles because of the bias toward mobile.

Once again that's the case. I can't speak for anyone else but I've had most of these titles for one to two years on my desktop and phone, and I only paid a dollar or less for them at the time. That's rarely the case with the real Humble bundles, where you frequently have a chance to pick up a newer high profile indie title for cheap.

In fact, the youngest title in this bundle is over a year and a half old. Average is about 2-4 years, with Uplink taking the cake as an 11 year old title. I typically avoid the Android indie bundles for that reason. Judging by the sales numbers for those bundles vs the regular bundles, I'm hardly the only one. Without an Android device, these bundles offer little in the way of new content.
Tesla vs. Edison, the age old fight of the Manager vs. the Engineer.

As much as Edison seems to be vilified by The Oatmeal, I can't help but think that many of the things Edison did were in the context of the times pretty commonplace. That said, Tesla really is an unsung genius.
In the US, perhaps the real market might be for motorcyclists where the surrounding culture attaches negative traits to helmet use -- dislike of freedom, lack of bravery, etc.

It is now so common for skydivers to use automatic activation devices (deploys one's reserve canopy if he passes below a certain altitude traveling at least a certain velocity) that many dropzones refuse to allow the use of "rigs" without them installed. I recall being told that, when the Cypres (www.cypres-usa.com) was first introduced, a major marketing feature was that it is not visible to those casually observing the skydiver or his rig. So, a user could avoid the stigma associated with choosing to reduce the risk of death from skydiving. Over time, the culture reversed so that those not using a Cypres were deemed foolhardy.

I should note that I stopped jumping a few years ago, so my information is somewhat out-of-date.
Police in the UK have had these devices in their cars for a long time. I have spent time with the police watching how it works and it's pretty impressive. While sitting in the police car, a bus was travelling towards us and you should of seen the way the camera/software was scanning all the different numbers on the bus before it found the number plate. In the UK the police download a copy of a database before they leave the station and the software accesses that locally to determine if the vehicle should be pulled over. They check things like insurance, mot, tax and if the registered owner of the vehicle has a valid driving license.

Apparently they first started using them in London in fixed points around the city watching for known terrerist vehicles entering the city.

Dave
It's not an act of war - it's, at worst, a violation of a convention. An embassy/consulate/mission is the territory of the host country and not, as is commonly thought, sovereign to the country who's located in it.
Kx system's kdb+/q query language.

It looks almost like SQL; the main philosophical differences:

a) it embraces order (that is, every query result has an implicit "running index" field (called i, starting at 0).

This single handedly solves a lot of inconsistencies in practical SQL having to do with order, which is abhorred by the relational data model, thus not a first class concept, but is often required in practice, and thus inconsistently bolted on.

b) columns can nest, and do not have to have the same type - which means that aggregations like count, sum, max, min and distinct are not special in any way.

c) there's a simple underlying programming language, so if you have an intermediate select result that you need twice, you just give it a name by prepending a "name: " to the select.

temp: select from grades where age>10;

b1: select from temp where eyecolor=`blue;
b2: select from temp where eyecolor=`brown;

(compare to the mess that is correlated sub-queries, or alternatively, horrible "create temporary table x as ..."
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That's a biased source being discussed there, along with some wishful and imaginative thinking about what various interpol notices indicate.
Wrong. All you have to do is make a major sacrifice.
About time we started applying the pressure...

Assange is taking his supporters for a ride, if he's not guilty why doesn't he go back to Sweden and face the questions?

As for this "I offered to talk to the Swedes in the UK" business it's bollocks, since when has law-enforcement done things at the convenience of the 'accused'

The whole extradition to the US is a red-herring - have you seen how easy it is to extradite someone from the UK to US if a US judge says they've got a case to answer?

Ship Assange out, if not Sweden then Australia, he's taking the piss (to use an UK colloquialism) and lots of people are falling for his conspiracy theory rubbish.
Thank you for confirming my reasons for not letting my son play those games yet.
In Sweden, you can't charge someone without questioning them first.
I wish I could upvote this 10,000 times.
You are wrong. I lost multiple games I had in my bag back in 2002. That crap couldn't have just fallen out.
Data point: in Feb 2012 I got pulled over by CHP (California Highway Patrol) for exactly this (registration sticker was still stuck to the registration paper in my glovebox, as it was mailed to me). So he was actually using his eyes...
Facebook also uses PHP...

In all seriousness, Facebook's requirements are for high availability, with data integrity only mattering to the point at which it affects the usability of Facebook.

In other words, Facebook can tolerate a high degree of shit in the system before it becomes a problem. That isn't bad in and of itself, but you need to investigate your own needs before using something because Facebook/Google use it.
Nitpicking. People are often called 'martyr for a cause' if they end up persecuted or imprisoned.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/martyr

Definition #2. It helps if you die, but it's not required.
I don't think this is necessarily related to the Third Reich, but more about common sense. How much should a private company with the reach of Facebook and Google should collect about their users?
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If he did, he could not very well be the leaky wick.
Do it! I commented elsewhere in the thread, but for my wife & I together we spend 3500USD/mo and are quite comfortable. Travel's a blast. I found I really prefer contiguous blocks of work (several-week chunks) so work and travel don't each distract me from the other.

Travel slowly, immerse yourself in the daily in-and-outs. Rent apartments, do housesitting. Stay at least a month in a big city, use it as a "home base," and make shorter excursions out from there.

At the same time, there's adventure to be had coding and traveling at the same time... had to mute myself in a Google Hangout daily standup once because the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohri drums from the Delhi streets below were drowning me out. Brushed death on a Bangkok mototaxi in rush hour traffic en route to a give a meetup talk. Most exciting of all: found novel timezone bug in an app once by working in a zone (India Standard Time) with a 30-minute offset.
You honestly think it's easier to extradite someone to the states from Sweden as opposed to the UK? I would kindly suggest that you yourself should consider thinking this through.
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I'm so excited about F# type providers I can't even put it into words. Strongly typed access directly into datasets is going to save me so much frickin time.
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Hmm, well if you're looking for more comparative analysis type stuff, usually a good starting point is the classic Five Geek Social Fallacies:

http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

Also, if you follow the rabbit hole of what geeks think about the term "creepy", you start to find all sorts of stuff. The Captain Awkward blog is a good resource for that.
If the endgame was to extradite Assange to the United States, why go through Sweden? Wouldn't it be easier just to extradite him directly from the UK to the US? It doesn't make any sense.
But it's pay what you want! You pay whatever you think it's worth! You can pay virtually nothing if you want to.

[EDIT] Also, who cares how old they are? Humble Bundle had Psychonauts, a 7 year old game. Sure, maybe they're not as good, but that's why you pay less for them.