skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a Tesla shareholder, so I definitely believe in what they are doing, and think they are a revolutionary company. However, it is more than just the short-term revenue adjustment affecting the stock price - in addition to revenue drop, Tesla also announced an additional stock offering[1], essentially diluting existing shareholders.

With 105M shares currently outstanding, and Tesla planning to offer 4.34M shares, 4% of today's drop is likely just the market adjusting for upcoming dilution.

As a (very very minor) shareholder, I am glad they are doing this - relying on the current cash position and cash flow to get to profitability would have been cutting it too close for comfort, IMO. From an investor's perspective, I view Tesla as not much different than investing in a biotech - it is likely either going to be a huge hit, or a huge miss. The difference (for me) from a biotech is I feel I can understand and follow the tech in Tesla, and I believe in the company.

[1] http://ir.teslamotors.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=709221
The tablet test sounds sensible.
I don't expect journalistic excellence from Gizmodo, but is it too much to ask to have at least one other person just proofread the thing?

"How does this guy who got in on the ground floor of Apple only to turn on them years later?"

I'm pretty sure a 6th grader could spot the problem with that sentence.
Indeed. I consider myself fairly well informed compared to most of my peers, but the sheer choice of technologies for building modern web apps (responsiveness, other front-end UX considerations) is daunting. I'm trying to build up a list of modern web design/development links for myself, but I'm already lost. The parent comment about "modernizr" made me sigh with frustration: yet another tool/tech I don't know about or have time to learn.
Wouldn't that significantly increase "the variance" and segregation of different political ideologies across the world, thus promoting more international tension?
I truly am going to stick to my word and ignore the rest of your commentary about Python: there is a long thread with a lot of context started by an article that is at least attempting to disagree with your premise; the things you are asking me to explain are thereby all "assumed state" for this tiny sub-part of the conversation, so you can take up your issues with someone up-thread who might feel less insulted by the overall direction of the argument you are making.

However, I will defend my wording, as I think that is unrelated: the phrase "once you get it into your head that" (even with that direct "you", rephrased from "people get the idea into their heads", about others) is a statement about the virility of the idea that someone now believes; in contrast, "get this into your head" is a direct command given to a person used to indicate that they are being dense and thereby are unable (or unwilling) to understand the idea in question.

To make this distinction more clear, you can look at something generally considered positive: "once saurik gets it into his head that something should be built, he builds it" or "people get the idea in their heads that things should be built, and then they actually build them" are both fine; "get this into your head: once you determine something should be built, you should actually build it" is both harsh and patronizing: it is an entirely different concept for the sentence, used as an attack.
Honestly, like SEO, it will be a game of cat and mouse. It's pretty easy to see big changes if a company gets a lot of tweets. Then it becomes an investigative matter and figuring out how to find real vs fake. It's not perfect, it never will be. But I think it's a step in the right direction (I could be biased ;) )
Sure doesn't sound like him. He's headed up the first company to commercially resupply the International Space Station, for pete's sake.

You bet your ass he quadruple checked those numbers.

I'm guessing that the supply at these stations will be much higher than the demand for charging, so they'll make up the cost of "free" by selling wh's back to the grid.
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Sidebars don't add anything necessary to the user experience. It's just clutter. If there's enough horizontal space, I suggest using columns instead, they fit the purpose better.
What a waste of my time.
Based on this article 12% of the 400 richest people have been in the tech space and are 'scary' smart. 12% seems like the upper range of a bell curve. This is link bait.
Terrible article. The problem with it is that you effectively explained why typical responsive design (specifically) is not worth it. The older you get, the more accustomed you become to expecting everything the same way. Accept change! There is nothing wrong with it!
I wouldn't be very surprised to see something like that in next version of iOS.
Scrap that. I would be surprised not to see that in next version in iOS.
Opera supports websockets, thank you very much. They're just disabled by default.
Given the battles that are heating up over wind turbines, I'm not sure rural areas have any more sense of community than anywhere else. Though perhaps things were different a century ago.
Asha 308 and Asha 309 announced
Elsevier have done some dodgy things in the past, such as printing fake journals which appeared to be peer reviewed but not disclosing sponsorship.

(http://classic.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27...)

Pharmaceutical companies used to spend vast amounts promoting their medications to English GPs. (Estimates suggest over £10,000 per GP, with 40,000 GPs in England.) And, because of our tight regulation that sum was probably less than in the rest of Europe. I'm pretty sure that has now stopped.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3700513)

> And anyone with an ounce of brains should be very cautious about drugs.

Bob is taken to hospital. Bob is unconscious. Or Bob has a learning disability. Or Bob is going through psychiatric crisis. Or Bob speaks a different language than all the clinicians. Or Bob is under the influence of drugs / alcohol. Or Bob is not that bright.

I agree that people should be careful with medication, but it's a shame that we have to do so. I trust doctors, and I sort of trust pharma (I wish there was better regulation), but I'm still wary of meds.

(In the UK about 10,000 people die each year because clinicians make mistakes with medications. Compare that figure to Road Traffic Accidents (about 3,000))
Holland right? Is that the place he is talking about?
I wonder how he feels about Switzerland, or say Canada?
You are proving my point. There are many difficulties to fixing the system. Broken system persists because 'solutions' cannot be easily/successfully implemented.
The editor and publisher have left the building!
Since China does not permit dual citizenship this wold be tough for Woz. Not to mention that even if one were to move to China full time Chinese people would never consider you Chinese. You would always be the foreigner. China just doesn't work like the immigrant friendly countries in this regard.
Lessons learned from this (a little bit sad) story: never give up your ideas, look beyond them, and persist in pursuing them.
Bypassing WAFs with non-alphanumeric XSS
His employer doesn't matter. It doesn't add anything productive to the discussion. If one of Bing's developers had laughed off articles about Microsoft's architecture as "look at the adorable little journalists running around throwing big words around", I would not expect it to rise to top comment.
Good points. It's very easy to fall into the 'desktop first, mobile second' camp. Again it depends on the client and requirements.
>>But national defense (or really, defense of any kind) is about more than just the ability to successfully repeal an attack; at certain scale, it's about ensuring that nobody even tries to lift a finger against you. And then there's the 'implied offensive' angle where others fear what you might do.

We don't need a huge military to have that effect. We already have nukes.
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Definitely staged, otherwise please explain to me how "Justin" adds a link without using his mouse at 02:03.
It was about a 75ish mile trip now that I look at it on on google maps, that was the closest White Castle there was. ;)

In any event, New Jersey would make a really small country. I know of people in this country who have to drive further to do their shopping.
In all honesty, I didn't mean to jump all over your comment, there's plenty of worse offenders in the thread for that kind of reply.

However, it still stands that we just don't know enough to make any judgement call. It's in society's hands as it were now anyway, and all the best we can do is hope for something good to come out of this.
Here's a safe version of the exploit that displays your IMEI:
http://kristofferR.com/samsung.html

Check the html in your desktop browser first, for all you know I might as well be a malicious douchebag.

The exploit seems to require a stock Samsung Galaxy dialer, works fine on my cheap Samsung Galaxy Y but not on my friend's modded S3 with a vanilla Android dialer.
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You're probably not old enough to have had a walkman?
ImpactJS is a fantastic tool and Ejecta solves a real problem in a smart way. Phobos Lab does awesome work.
You can get a Chrome like experience, as it uses a UIWebView under the hood, with limited features compared to the default Safari browser.

It is better than nothing, but still far from what we can call a browser choice.
> Giving people food, money etc, gives people incentives to not bother working.

I find this kind of attitude totally bizarre. People do not stop having output just because they have food security. The notion that giving away food is bad because of work is a very capitalistic idea that actually serves to perpetuate hunger and starvation.
I like what they are trying to do, very pretty and visual... but there does seem to be a lot going on - perhaps a bit confusing. Hard to tell without being inside of the product itself and just watching a video.
Why, in this day and age, is there still publicly funded research that is not open access? Also I could rant for hours on the need to make your data available for any peer reviewed publication.
I do not think that kids should be trained like pets. They are more intelligent and react to a more nuanced approach. My point about punishment just means that bad actions should be sanctioned and good actions rewarded.

My parents never physically punished me, but as soon as I was old enough to understand what was going on, just knowing that I'd disappointed them would make me feel extremely bad. There's no resentment there. They taught me how to behave in a way that is acceptable in society and if I misbehaved I was aware that I was wrong. Hopefully that's how everything would go.

But as always, there will be bad apples (and good ones, too). What do you do when someone's such a sociopath that they don't care when they hurt other people? That's when I believe that punishment should be carried on by the society and not the parents, in the form of jail, probation, juvenile court, etc.
This fails for me.

I selected Developer, budget between 101-250, for "something else", while being comfortable managing it myself.

That something else is all my projects/websites essentially, which all differ a lot.

I doubt running that on Shared Hosting is a good idea?!

Besides that, awesome job - I like the idea, most review sites are filled with fake reviews just to make the website owner make the most via the programs that pay most..
I was taught it costs 100million dollars with one in ten chance of success
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I'm impressed. It's like rdio meets Facebook meets Pinterest. I actually love it. Makes Facebook look stodgy. Plus fucking 1.
I'd like to know how many times he has been able to use NFC in the US. Does he seriously believe Apple can't throw in a little chip? There are other reasons they don't do this, mostly because of the inability to have much impact on how payments are performed at this time, and NFC hasn't changed things much.
And they've had LTE on their latest ipad, just a matter of time before it was ready for the iPhone without destroying battery life.
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This is one of the things I chose to leave out of my massive post before, but since you mention it:

"According to the editor of the British Medical Journal, Dr. Richard Smith, 'The major journals try to counterbalance the might of the pharmaceutical industry, but it is an unequal battle -- not least because the journals themselves profit from publishing studies funded by the industry.'

The journals benefit from the publicity gained from publishing large drug company-sponsored studies. This increases the value of their advertising and enables them to sell back to the drug companies reprints of articles, which the drug companies then distribute as marketing tools to doctors. According to Dr. Smith, this can amount to more than $1 million for a single article. At the same time that medical journals are given incentives to please the drug companies, they are also given strong disincentives to go against drug company interests. According to Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of NEJM, editors of medical journals exercise self-censorship -- trying to avoid offending their chief advertisers, the drug companies.

Dr. Robert Fletcher learned about this firsthand. In 1992, he was editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine when it published an article reporting that 44 percent of drug ads in medical journals were written in a way that would lead doctors with no other source of information to prescribe improperly. The article also reported that 92 percent of those ads were in some violation of FDA rules. Writing in The Lancet in 2003, Dr. Fletcher said that as punishment for publishing this article, the pharmaceutical industry 'withdrew many adverts' and showed that it was 'willing to flex its considerable muscles when it felt its interests were threatened.' This is a price that medical journal editors would prefer not to pay." Source: Overdosed America, p. 113
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It's synergy. I am working the same way with my own plans.
Sounds like a great success story.
I'd hope it's a great cheap device for getting kids into programming (a bit) with other resources they have lying around like a tv.
I'd think those kids can probably teach us something by now :)
The parasitic fly is native to North American and only recently started infecting honeybees, which were brought over from Europe.

Interesting. If the fly has evolved to infect bees, then it might take a while before the bees evolve resistance to it.
Honey in America might be about to go up in price.

And how is the rest of the world making sure these American flies don't make it out of America?
Still grasping at straws I see, now it's argument from authority, any more fallacies you want to throw out. Laws are not morals, illegal does not mean immoral nor does legal mean moral and I don't care who you quote, you're wrong and they're wrong.
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I was referring to credibility not traffic.
Doesn't that say more about Opera than Myspace? It even works in lynx. https://twitter.com/tuxtux/status/250605928691417088/photo/1...
Preface by saying responsive design _can_ be worth it.

That said: If your mobile phone has so much trouble displaying a 960px width static centered website (the norm on the current web), so much so, that your mobile browser demands a different design, then I posit your design isn't broken, some mobile browsers are broken.

I expect that in the near future, when resolutions get upped and mobile browsing experiences advance, responsive design becomes more and more unnecessary. To me responsive design for mobile devices seems more of a band-aid for less capable devices. Less capable devices with post-stamp sized browsers, we will soon drop in the same pile as IE6 -- Because soon we can expect any browser on any device to be able to display a 960px width static centered design just fine, without responsive design. If responsive designs stays necessary, to me it would mean the failure of mobile hardware and software manufacturers.
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When clients pay for value delivered rather than effort spent, they are willing to pay more because they have less risk and have no need to worry that you're padding your hours.
This is a decent start: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freeman
You're surprised that the market cares more about short-term profit than long term gain? No offense but have you been living under a rock for the last 20 years?
OP here, available to answer your questions if you have any.
I don't know, I wouldn't use Glengarry Glen Ross as an example of something you'd aspire to. The play/movie is a criticism of the sleazy "sales animal" culture where the product doesn't matter, closing sales is equated to virility, and the players are so desperate for a sale they'd lie, steal and ruin other people's lives for it.
I was also thinking of this as a perpetual motion machine but perhaps the slightest attempt to use force of the moving ions would cause the rotation to stop. My non-physicist brain says if you have something that will move forever, it sounds like free energy!
Perhaps considering the ramifications of your actions beyond the narrow focus of personal interest, near-group interest, or economic interest.
I know what his answers was, it was exactly the same as the statement that prompted that guy to ask the question in the first place. It was useless. As is this thread now.
A surprising (or unsurprising perhaps) number of negative responses to this article. I do see why people are so generally defensive of responsive design, I mean it just seems like the right thing to do, it fits with what we wish the commonly accepted wisdom should be.

That said, building anything more interactive than a blog layout with it is actually very hard. It is time consuming, there is tedious work to do to tweak for each individual mobile browser quirk, and it may not be the best thing for a startup to invest time in. "Mobile first" certainly sounds nice, but "desktop first" is probably a faster more efficient route to product-market fit.

So I'd just recommend caution in how strongly we parrot "responsive/adaptive all the things" as common wisdom without discussing the possible downsides. It isn't black and white.
And I, to yours.

No one is saying that it takes extra time and money. Everything that is done in your life takes time and energy. But if you can do x amount of work and get y amount of gain, where x < y, I don't see the fact that x exists as a negative.

To your second point, please see my conclusion. I agree with you.
Important Note: it seems that Gmail detects beathound results as a spam.
> Sidebars don't add anything necessary to the user experience. It's just clutter.

This is a really weird argument; sidebars are preferable to a lot of other patterns depending on the site and doesn't at all mean the content is less important than anything else on the page.
Libertarianism is not anarchism, nor does it ever purport to be. In fact, libertarianism holds that a government should be in place, and that its job is to protect the rights (defined by libertarianism--most often, the Bill of Rights is pointed to) of its citizens.
You're absolutely right. Honestly, the hosting recommendation tool is designed more for people that don't know anything about hosting right now. Making good suggestions for developers is hard. It's one of the things that definitely needs improvement.

That said, given what you put in, what sort of recommendation would you expect/want? I have some ideas but I would rather hear yours first before injecting my own opinion.
Exactly. Your cost is a floor, not a ceiling.
If you work on a day, you charge for that day. It is that simple. Work five hours? Charge for a day. Eight? A day. Eleven? It isn't your company and you only owe them eight, do I would avoid making a habit of that, but it is one day. Spend half the day thinking and half doing? Charge for the day. Spend six hours waiting for decision maker to get in for the meeting? Charge for a day.
Who wants to be a 'mobillionaire'?
I'm confused. Is this argument for responsive versus standalone desktop or mobile, or responsive versus two sites, one for each.

Because I'd like to say that managing two projects, be it two code bases that both have to be created and configured, takes just as long if not longer, than simply building the edge cases needed for an intuitive responsive site.

But there's points for both methods in my books. I just think not accounting for mobile either way is ridiculous (unless a client is unwilling to pay for it).
How is that this esteemed organization of technical people doesn't know how to md5 passwords before storing them in the database?
Apple's Lightning port dynamically assigns pins to allow for reversible use
I am referring to networking and storage, not graphics or audio.

At first glance it looks like the top-down massive surface area standards approach is making progress. But the APIs are really sub-par when compared to TCP, UDP, POSIX and what open source could do if given the chance to grow around them.

The security reasons keeping raw TCP out of the browser apply to web pages, not web apps (trusted, installed, annointed with raw machine power to act on the user's behalf). This means that it is not possible to build a SMTP/POP/IMAP etc. client in the browser without the use of a third-party proxy (which introduces additional security concerns). This is a terrible blow to web apps. WebSockets are a diversion.

WebRTC is a herculean effort. UDP should be beneath WebRTC not bundled alongside it. Again, web page security issues have been projected onto web apps, hence no directly exposed UDP.

There is no decent offline storage mechanism in the browser. No POSIX. No fsync. No way to build any kind of performant database. IndexedDB is the only thing available. It is poorly designed to begin with and implementations at present are slow, buggy or lacking. It looks good in the to-do list demo's but beyond that is a pain to work with. I have seen Chrome's IndexedDB reboot Windows over and over again on occasion. All the great open source database implementations are locked out. Everyone is forced to grow over IndexedDB. Much better if LevelDB were directly exposed. But POSIX is what is needed.

The major issue going forward with regard to web apps, is that they need to be seen as distinct from web pages, and when installed by the user, given access to the last 40 years of computing progress.
Can anyone confirm that this is not only a safe USSD, but that it triggers the exploit? I am not an owner of a S3, but would love to be able to help show some of my non-tech friends whether they are vulnerable to this or not
This looks like a news article, but is actually a press release. The giveaway line:

> By next year, we plan to install Superchargers in high traffic corridors across the continental United States

(It does say that it is a press release in light gray text, but that is effectively hidden.)