skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in order to make the electric car go mainstream, we need to move past the idea of car ownership.

For a lot of people, car sharing provides people with the benefits they need from a car without the hassle of owning it.

In the case of electric cars, where a huge barrier to using one is the charging time, car sharing nearly completely solves the problem. Because cars are returned to the same locations in between reservations, they will be constantly charging during the time they're not being driven. Plus all the infrastructure cost is shared over the members (if, for example, you live in a city, you might not be able to install a charging station because you have on street parking)
I think the notes about transactions are quite valid as the point of a HS post. However the author didn't have anything else to add ("I look forward to more insightful commentary. There’s a lot to make sense of") yet felt the need to keep writing, and filled the article with style and attitude rather than substance.
This article leaves me uneasy. We need to separate the process that societies use to determine laws and customs from the outcomes themselves. I'm also against many of the outcomes described in the article but the process used to get there in the countries where Jacques and I live in it's the best process we know of. OK, maybe the least worst is more appropriate but I can't really think anything else I would like to replace Democracy with.
Why couldn't the images in the article have shown these:

Corning’s headquarters in upstate New York looks like a Space Invaders alien: Designed by architect Kevin Roche in the early ’90s, the structure fans out in staggered blocks. From the ground, though, the tinted windows and extended eaves make the building look more like a glossy, futuristic Japanese palace.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Corning+headquarters&t...

In some cases, a Prince Rupert’s drop can explode with such force that it will actually emit a flash of light.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Prince+Rupert’s+drop&t...
Australia doesn't care which other country you are a citizen of, as long as that country doesn't care you are a citizen of another country.

Therefore, the only time Australia makes you give up your citizenship is when the other country tells them they should.
I'd say a 150+ mile daily commute isn't practical :)
How is it clear from the quote that Google did not offer unreasonable terms? Would you mind expanding a little?
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Are you against standardization? What specific actions would you take to "minimize red tape"? You do know that TCP, UDP, and POSIX were all developed by committees right? How exactly is the Web in any way like Animal Farm or 1984?
Go away.

And anyway, that's two lines masquerading as one. Semicolon insertion won't work and this won't compile.

sm <- commandData{action: length, result: reply}
return (<-reply).(int)
I don't think you understand where Google business is going. See, even with 60% of market share with Android, Google still makes less money in a whole year with Android ads than Samsung does in a quarter. Mobile ads just don't pay that much. It's clear to Google that even if they get 80% of market share (which is very unlikely), they'll still make less money on mobile ads in a year than Samsung does in a quarter by selling phones, not to mention Apple.

I think Google is going to go full on with Motorola and start selling their own phones. If they can manage to grab 10 or 20% of market share, they'll make way more money than with mobile ads now. And with HTC and Samsung eyeing on Windows8, Google may be forced to ship its own phones anyway. That's just my opinion obviously but it's easy to see they're taking Motorola very seriously (and is not just a patent deal) given that they put one of their best guy in charge.
Urgh, this is not "Unsuitable for Education", it's unsuitable for one pretty narrow (albeit central to the system) educative purpose around System-on-Chip's and GPU's.

Kids can still have a fully working linux system hooked up to their tv for $35, which regardless of the OSS status of the hardware is still a win for education in my opinion.
I believe this statement about college guaranteeing a job has become the poster-motivational-tool used on kids and parents in an effort to motivate them.

Concerning failing graduates: I think the problem is that many graduates today are at the uncomfortable crossroads of existing in a knowledge economy after passing through an education system pushing an industrial age mindset. They need to take a step back and realize that passively sitting in 1000 seats in 1000 classrooms for 1000 weeks following 1000 instructions does not equate to what's considered real competency in a targeted job area and in general a happy and successful life.

Maybe there should be a warning attached to every college application:

Warning: The shiny glorification of what a college education actually provides you may cause blindness to reality.
You're taking things too literally. I took PHP as a language that was very popular for web apps in the past, and much less so nowadays. PHP's popularity for the web in 2003 is not dissimilar to Python's popularity for the web in 2012.

Anyone predicting in 2003 that PHP would become less popular and/or suitable for the web would've turned out to be right. Yet, I bet anybody who might've made such a prediction just learned a new language (maybe even Python) and is still enjoying creating great software just like back then.
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I remember thinking that http://historio.us was a neat idea.

But Seen Before requires less effort on my part as a user -> I am more likely to use it. I just continue to google as per normal and now I have an extra option on the right to filter results.
These are the most important once (had the same question 2 days ago) :

https://developers.google.com/chart/ (free)
http://g.raphaeljs.com/ (free)
http://www.flotcharts.org/ (free)
http://www.jqplot.com/ (free)
http://www.highcharts.com/ (paid for commercial use)
Hopefully Woz comes to Melbourne, we have better coffee and 85% more awesomeness.
Yes, any device you can't resynthesize from VHDL is completely unfit to introduce middle school children to programming. I mean, who ever managed to understand even the tiniest bit of python without mentally reducing it to the electrical patterns in the circuits of the CPU?
yes, i'm looking forward eagerly to rust, especially because it has algebraic datatypes and pattern matching. not sure how it will stack up to D speedwise, though.
Never? You're telling me that in a thousand years, we won't have electric cars able to sustain a 300 mile daily commute?

This isn't a discussion of if. It's a discussion of when.
have you taken a look at D? it cleans up a lot of c++ warts, while not being any more kitchen-sinky.
I deliberately used the inflammatory phrase "in your head" because you used the phrase "What really seems to happen with Python is that people get it in their heads "developers should not be using this old feature"". The 'people' you are talking about there are the Python core developers. Those are specific people, not abstract entities. I figured that since you used that phrase with them, then I would reverse it, when saying that that wasn't the point.

I've been using Python now for 15+ years. I've read articles about bemoaning the lost opportunities of Python for almost as long. It needs static types otherwise all is lost. It needs tail recursion otherwise all it lost. It needs macros, it needs to get rid of explicit "self", it needs blocks, ... and so on. People thought for a while that Python development was proceeding too fast. There was the language moratorium so others could catch up. Now you say it's going too slow.

If you want to give me specific details about how Python is losing in popularity, please do. You haven't. Nothing I've seen tells me that there's anything more than the usual churn of people moving in between languages, of hipsters talking about the language de jour, of industry people insisting on certain trends. But what you've written describing your experiences with Python's 2-3 transition does not mesh with my own experiences and readings of the experiences of others. How did the change in division cause problems? Why weren't the existing mitigation mechanisms good enough for you?
The user base is small because the user base is small.
The US between 1800 and 1824.
Now if they could only invent a version with a matte finish. Maybe even Apple would finally abandon this retrograde glossy crap and make viewable displays again.
Ben Goldacre: Here’s the foreword to my new book, Bad Pharma
The original BitTorrent client was the first to offer decentralized [...]

Is not the same as "from day one"
It's a win, just not as big a win as it might be. Still, a win is a win.
>Frankly, given the choice of a rock and a hard place, it is better to have a criminal in jail half his life and terrorizing society half his life, then terrorizing society for his entire life.

If what you care about is the damage done to society, someone who spends half their life in prison and then gets out will (on average) do far more damage in that half-life than they would have done in a whole life spent outside prison. Prison is quite literally worse than nothing when it comes to preventing reoffending

(though community service is better than either prison or nothing, IIRC)
That doesn't address the central part of taligent's comment. Yes, Google is an advertising company but they fear a future where their products (and therefore their adverts) are frozen out of smartphones. If Android didn't exist and the iPhone was the only game in town then perhaps that is exactly what would have just happened to Google Maps.
As far as I know, he refused to attend some meetings pertaining to iPhone and he eventually decided it would be best for him to resign.
Isn't the main point here that it's not the parts themselves that are expensive, but that the shipping for those parts is disproportionally expensive? So the company does in fact not loose anything by providing the designs, since they never made any significant money on the spares anyway. Still, it's a cool idea.
Thanks. I just found out my misguided opinion was from when Rupert Murdoch was forced to get rid of his Aussie citizenship - that was due to him wanting to own a US TV station.
The unordered list is an overused and inadequate replacement for properly structured prose.
This is true. The use cases are a bit different, but I still don't know exactly how this works so I can't say.
Yeah, I think it is more about the lack of choice aspect than the result, depending on which country you find yourself in. Coming from a rich country at least you have enough mobility to eventually overcome immigration rules and move pretty much where you desire. Not true of poorer countries though, at least not for most people living in them.
> Also, if you want the Foundation to send more documentation to you, they require you to provide a business model.

No they don't. That section talks about broadcom, who are the ones who you will need to give business info to to buy the chips. The foundation don't manufacture, sell or provide documentation for the chips.
most android people i know use a third party browser that pretends to be a desktop browser to avoid those crappy mobile sites.
That seems interesting. Will the book make me more or less obsessed with walking-on-the-street safety?
My gist of that: society and economy are weird. (Although a few points are, well, a bit silly)

Welcome to the human condition, geworfenheit etc.
You need to work on stemming and clustering terms, I think... I've visited a number of Postgres related pages, and some of them contains only "Postgres" while others contains only "PostgreSQL", and searching for Postgres will only give me the former pages. It confused me for a little bit.
CleanIT's response to it: http://www.cleanitproject.eu/edri-publishes-clean-it-discuss...
HighRoller.io - rapid integration of Highcharts JS using PHP
Saw a new type of phishing email the other day - a fake order confirmation page from Amazon saying someone in Florida had ordered a widescreen TV on our account.

Obviously, first reaction of a non-techy user would be to click on the Amazon link in the email and enter their account details to check their order history.

And that's how they get your Amazon account details. I think this works because the "OMG my account has been hacked!!!" panic overrides you're natural caution about phishing emails.
How long does it take to afford a beer?
Facebook called to answer for its crimes in France
This Bloomberg report says that he actually didn't comment on whether or not a Maps app had been submitted:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-25/google-s-schmidt-sa...

The Verge also notes that Reuters has softened the tone of their original report:

http://theverge.com/2012/9/25/3386598/google-maps-app-store-...
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the Indian Government's fault. I remember Google saying something about not being able to offer paid apps in all countries before.
Fans revolt over Amazon 'adware' in Ubuntu desktop search results
There is a strong case in the modern world for upping the age of maturity to say, 25.
The essence of the (flawed) argument Jacques is making is in his passport section

I need permission from my government if I want to leave
the country.

Oddly, that's not true. A passport is necessary to get into a country, not leave one. The distinction is subtle but important. You can if you wish as an adult, leave the country you are in, and if they will let you in, enter another with a different set of obligations. At worst you can just bob around the Atlantic in a bath tub for a bit.

The whole set of complaints boil down to, are there other countries which have a better setup than the country I am in? Can I go now?

The answer for anyone in the West is of course, not such that you would notice. And yes, no-one is stopping you. (But I would not recommend the bathtub option)

Edit: I just realised that it could read as "well if you dont like it F off." It honestly was not meant like that - but its hard to reword the whole comment now.
"how are you going to eliminate corporations if you have anarchy?"

I think that's a different issue. Corporations exist because of the law. Corporations shield the owners from personal liabilities, including debt. It is the law which prevents me from going after the owner of a failed company which owes me money.

So if there were no law, or no enforcement of the law, there would be no companies.
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I challenge the 'quite a bit of money' part. Fees for a Dutch passport amount to about US $100 at the UK embassy e.g. (I'm Dutch, but live in the UK):

http://www.dutchembassyuk.org/page/index.php?i=158

Sure, $100 sounds low for many people, even though it's a fortune for some. However, spread across a 5 year period, it's a little more than 5 cents a day.
I think "Life as a Slave" would have been more suitable.
Surprised he didn't pick Europe.

China is also rolling out a NBN (to be completed by 2016!). At least he didn't try to become Chinese. :P
Much better article here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535417
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There are already android devices that fit where a car stereo does: http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/bluetooth-hands-free-car-...

The only difference would be the integration of key data points from the car itself. But then we stray from navigation and entertainment into core functionality of the vehicle. And at that point I'd want the device to be proven to still be fine for the operating parameters of a car, which requires a different level of engineering/quality than an entertainment and navigation system.
Frozen out by who? Being one of the most popular apps in the app store is far more valuable to Google than being preloaded on devices. Why? Because it enables word of mouth and discoverability.

If Android didn't exist, Google maps would be an external app on Blackberry as it is and other OSs.
there are those that believe that the act of registering a birth is construed in law as registering the life of the child to the state, much as a ship is consigned to a port.
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Prior to 2002, Australians who took up a foreign citizenship automatically lost their Australian citizenship. Murdoch was required to be a US citizen to own the TV station, which forced him to give up the Aust citizenship. I have heard the law was changed partly because of his high profile situation.

[http://www.citizenship.gov.au/current/dual_citizenship]
This is a rather poor attempt at philosophy that basically rides on yesterday's blog (the pendulum one) remark about Life-as-a-Service.

If anything it should teach people about how to keep the blog audience interested.

I was pretty sure I could down-vote by now but apparently I can't downvote articles. I guess I should just upvote everything else on the page...
This is a 1.0 project I completed a while ago but never announced/promoted.

It's a free PHP wrapper for Highcharts that is licensed by Gravity.com and released using the Apache 2.0 license.

I created this wrapper to make it easier to create Highcharts objects in my PHP projects. I have employed it successfully in Zend FW and in ToroPHP (http://toroweb.org/)

HighRoller is endorsed by Highcharts and is available on Highcharts.com's download page http://www.highcharts.com/download

You can read more about it here (http://johnmclaughlin.info/introducing-highroller-a-php-wrap...) and here (http://www.gravity.com/labs/)
Ben Goldacre was on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning discussing his book with a representative of the pharma industry.

Platitudinous and evasive answers from the industry rep while referring to Goldacre's 'extremist' views. He's hit a nerve and they don't appear to have a good rebuttal.

For those with iPlayer access you can here it again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mw2d4

Edit:
Ben Goldacre piece was at 08:34. Excerpt of just that section is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9754000/9754505....
If it would be detrimental to him to "grow up" then will it not be detrimental to society to put him out in a world where he could do harm to others? Especially given that he already has a history of doing exactly that?

If the premise here is that this man-child is too immature to take on the responsibilities of adult society (such as the right to own firearms, the right to drive automobiles, the right to drink alcohol, etc.), that he is in some way developmentally disabled, then should he not be kept away from society and denied the ability to hurt others?

You are setting up a false dichotomy here. You are saying that the choice is either that this person be sheltered by a nurturing and loving community who protects him from the consequences of his actions and if not then his life will be ruined utterly. He needs to face the consequences of his actions. He needs to learn that it is necessary to abide by just laws in order to live in society and to fail to do so will result in very serious consequences. If he cannot accept any responsibility then he has no place in civil society.

What are the possible consequences of someone being sheltered from the consequences of their vile, hateful, violent acts? That person can become mentally and emotionally twisted and their hatred and lust for wanton destruction can grow. And this can occur even within the sheltering arms of a loving community. And then the hurt they cause others and the irreparable damage they do to themselves becomes even greater until they become a monster. A rapist, a serial killer, or merely an outcast who cannot mesh with society.

This is not about moral high towers, this is about ensuring that society does not become burdened with so-called adults who have never faced true responsibility and are incapable of functioning properly within society.
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One would think that if one was to renounce its citizenship, waiting for a predefined age set by whom you will be renouncing would be rather odd.
I wouldn't say annoyed, most disappointed. Google have never thought of Android as anything other than another avenue to peddle their services. They're on record stating as such, it's not the other way round. Google were making Maps for BlackBerry and I'm sure other services will follow. In fact, I'd be mighty surprised that should WP8 get a decent market share, you won't see the full GApps package for that. You can't run your products as a shared entity that epitomises the business. You run your products independently with the best interests of the business at heart. Going back to the Samsung example, the exact reason why Samsung can owe Apple a billion and yet still be making them chips.
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After reviewing the conduct of a number of 25 year olds, I find this comment somewhat amusing.

I wouldn't say that increasing it to the age of 40 would be crossing the maturity threshold, either.
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That's defeatist in the extreme.. get a grip.
So in 10-20 years, we'll be exactly where we are now?[1]

https://thepiratebay.se/browse/605
> It's not so hard to move the energy out of the desert either.

It's tougher than you realise. Energy is lost when transmitting power over long distances - like from a desert to an urban area. I'm not an expert but as I understand it there are major challenges. A lot of solar installations tend to be located where the power is used (next to data centres, on people's roofs).
How will that help? You don't solve the problem of people being immature even into adulthood by delaying the official onset of adulthood yet more. You solve it by treating teenagers as adults in training. Which used to be the case until very recently. Now we avoid giving responsibility to teens, we treat high school like day care or a prison, and we wonder why our "kids" don't magically acquire maturity when they turn 18, or 21, or 25, or 30.

Maturity and responsibility are skills that must be taught. And they cannot be taught at a distance, they must be taught live, with the real world, because it is only through learning that actions have consequences, sometimes serious ones, that maturity is acquired.
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Who was capable of explaining modern glassmaking. At some point, your degree stops mattering when talking about labels like "scientist" and "engineer".
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Sony patents biometric data identification technology
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the diference between the big win and win is so nugatory as to be pointless for the use case the Pi is designed for.
I recently took Sedgewick's course on algorithms, and you wouldn't believe how hard people on the forums worked to game the grader.
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Which to be the correct amount?
What constitutes an original patentable idea in software?
Nope. For us, that's perfectly legitimate. But it likely isn't for Apple who seem to follow the philosophy lately that any phone that's not an iPhone should be illegal.

And that would make a patent agreement entirely unreasonable for Apple
You need a passport to leave Australia. Australia has immigration on exit. Though, that is the only place I've seen this.
Google Maps App Hacked Onto iPhone 3GS Running iOS 6
Furthermore, why must I live inside this sack of greasy skin, with all these disgusting organs?