skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing: actions have consequences. Bad actions result in bad consequences. Such is the learning process of lots of species. Do you think training pets by reinforcing good behaviour and punishing bad behaviour is modern and supported by "state propaganda", whatever that means?

I do believe that prison systems can be good at rehabilitation. Maybe not in the US, where you seem to be from, but it's working in many other countries in the world, look at the Nordic countries' prison system if you want proof. And even if the prison system doesn't manage to rehabilitate the person, it serves as a punishment. I don't see what's wrong with punishing behaviour that has been deemed unacceptable by society. At least it's better than doing nothing, and in my opinion has more of an impact than doing nothing and surrounding him "with a loving community".
This argument is what the monopolist uses when they are faced with regulation. It isn't correct, because the user _isn't_ really going to be able to post on another forum.

This is just like if telcos say 'go to some other provider if you don't like my terms and conditions'. except, they have a monopoly.
As a plugin prius owner. I find it a bit annoying that they don't just work with existing charging networks like ChargePoint to help expand the accessibility of electric car charging.
Fantastic Globe with CSS filter shaders - currently works on Chrome canary
The average person is not using Opera :)
How many discoveries in the past (and even in the present) were made by people who believed in Creationism?

Why didn't that belief stop them from advancing science?

Why would it now do so?
If they can build the 5000 cars they claimed for this year (honestly, its doubtful) then they have ~$75k (rough guess on avg car price) * 5000 = ~$375m coming their way this year. And they have a huge backlog of orders (~13.8k), so it's really just a question of if they can scale up their production fast enough to close the gap. It'll happen, possibly without any bridge financing.
Contactually has a creepy mannequin, though.
What would you recommend for this kid, apart from counseling?
"I wonder if the extra electricity generated from the solar panels will go into paying the rent for the spaces."

The article definitely made it sound like that would be the case. They might also be counting on charging people in cars other than Tesla ones.
I'd poop, garnish with caramel and a lil chocolate or icing on top and gift wrap it nicely in a box or gift pack and if they choose to taste it out of curiosity ............. I WIN!
As a child I went to private schools that taught creationism. I can't speak for how creationism is taught in other schools, but in the schools I attended it was nothing but a complete denial of science. It took me a while to figure that one out.

Science fits together. When you deny the existence of biological evolution, decide the earth is under 10,000 years old, and say there is no such thing as the big bang, you end up with huge gaps in the scientific explanation of the universe.

Once you do this, the world and the universe it sits in transforms from a place of logic and explainable order to one of superstition and chaos. If the earth is 10,000 years old, how is the Milky Way galaxy 100,000 light years in diameter? If there is no biological evolution, is genetic science a pseudo-science?

Creationism taught in others ways is little better.

This type of thinking destroys IQs.
It seems emotion-driven to me, ironically.

It is entirely a signaling/tribalism question. For example, I get asked whether I'm a creationist on a fairly regular basis by people who a) are aware that I'm religious and b) want to figure out whether that means I should be on the Enemies List. I'm not creationist, so I get marked down as Whee You're A Fellow Scientist (TM). It is not obvious to me that my views on, e.g., the Resurrection would merit that conclusion, but that is not the issue the two tribes picked to wage ultimately meaningless squabbles over.

(Ironically, actual creationists have been pretty tolerant of me not being creationist. My guess is this is because I do not go out of my way to soulcrush them while screaming "I am a threat to your entire way of life.")
I notice that they have multiple stations along the 5 between SF and LA, but nothing between Gilroy and Los Angeles, which is around 350 miles. Why not a stop in Santa Maria or similar?

I suspect the problem is no where isolated enough that they won't have to worry about large numbers of local residents choosing to just go to Supercharger station rather than charging at home. As an occasional use to make people comfortable with a Tesla (long trips are possible), this is probably well worth the money. But it's unlikely to sustainable if owners choose to forgo the home charger.
(Mildly offtopic, but replying to my own thread, so TIOLI.)

Just reading this makes me wonder how any person on this planet ever manages to successfully exchange work for pay. How did we get to a place where governments go on and on about "creating jobs" but it takes a double major in law and finance to legally work anywhere anymore?

</rant>
Right, owners of the "S" model can charge free for life. No word on what owners of subsequent models will pay for it. I'm eager to see whether they can trim that 30 minutes down to, say, a max of 15. 30 minutes every three hours is too long, but 15 would work. Get out, plug in, go take a bio break, come back, wash your windows, and you're just about ready to hit the road again.

These are exciting times to live in.
Both terms are correct, based on the 2-house model we have.
not entirely randomly, but processing stuff that's been "on your mind" and not packed away in long-term memory.

I imagine it (non-scientifically) as the brain's trash compactor, finishing up all the half-completed thoughts of your day, not necessary in any sort of logical way, like mashing the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle together regardless of how well they fit, to get something that just barely fits together at a glance.
You sure about that? See here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4568396
I wouldn't go quite that far. A belief in a creator can be tempered with rationality. Let's not forget that Newton, for example, devoted more of his writings to Christianity than he did to science and in fact sought natural laws because he believed that God would create a universe that behaved like clockwork. Einstein's intuition that a simple solution existed to the Michaelson-Morely paradox also derived in part from some kind of unempirical preconception about how "God" (his was impersonal) operated the universe.
Oddly, I just finished reading that. Can't say it's terribly prescient -- it was published just three years ago -- but it does echo lots of things that are just happening now.
Only for Model S owners, it will presumably be phased out sometime in the next couple years.
Well for one, you presumably get paid to put power back into the grid. Secondly, is there not value in putting as much power into the grid as you consume anyway?
Maybe because of this fact (according to Wikipedia)?: "The more elements that are added to the set, the larger the probability of false positives."
Undoubtedly. I didn't intend to generalize.
IOS6 and the Two Year Life Span
Nice PR hit for Goog!

> Employees at Google, for instance, are offered the chance to nap at work because the company believes it may increase productivity.

What percentage of employee-days at Google actually involve a nap? 1%? 0.01%? Is it any higher than the traditional comic practice of "curl up under your desk"?
Elon Musk alone has an estimated $2B fortune, so at least five years at that burn rate? :)

Facebook's IPO bled much more money out to bankers than all Tesla has spent so far, it's not like they are doing bad. Tesla has the potential to take over a sizeable slice of the (huge) automobile industry.
I believe it is more nuanced than that, if you understand how science works, then you cannot believe a literal interpretation of genesis, thus if you do believe in a an earth that is less than 10,000 years old and humans appearing 10,000 years ago, then you didn't learn science correctly.

Then based on that reasoning, (and this is the nuanced part), you may find your self opposed to things which are based on scientific investigation and a risk to the community. The most popular example is vaccination risks and benefits.

One of the problems is that people are told that to believe in science means you cannot believe in God, and they have a strong belief in God so of the two they toss science rather than God out of their life. Its a poor choice.

EDIT: I, like patio11 apparently, believe in both God and science. So its possible :-).
Web.go is sort of the Golang equivalent of Sinatra or Camping, not really of Ruby on Rails.

What you're looking for is Revel. http://robfig.github.com/revel/
It's time to start using Tor.

I don't mean only for browsing the web. I mean it's time to have services in Tor:

- We need a Youtube in Tor that won't censor a video because it's an unauthorized remix of some other music videos.

- We need a Twitter in Tor where users don't get subpoenaed.

- We need a Facebook in Tor where I can use a pseudonym if I want to.

- We need a Gmail in Tor where messages won't be so easily eavesdropped by Governments.

- We need services in Tor that won't need to fear patent trolls.

PG, please unblock Tor for HN.
Making a "charging station" that could take the place of an existing gas station would be huge feat of engineering.

When I go from the SF bay area down to LA, I get gas at kettleman city (because of the in-n-out :) and I go to the chevron station there. From google street view, it looks like that station can fuel 12 cars at a time. And when I'm there, there's often a line for a pump.

A gas stop takes, say, 2 minutes. A tesla charging stop takes 30 minutes. So serving the same peak flow of cars would take 15 times as many car spots: 180. Land looks cheap in that part of the central valley, so it might be feasible to have that much space. But 180 chargers, peak, each using 100 kilowatts would use 18 megawatts.

Great scott! That's a lot of power. So it looks like this is still in the range of luxury-car, low-volume stuff. I can't imagine what it would look like as a mass-market thing.
Come on, 30 minutes for a charge that'll get you just 180 miles? I just checked the 2012 Honda Civic specs[0], you can fill up with 13.2 gallons in 2 or 3 minutes, and that'll get you 13.2*32 mpg combined = 422 miles. There's no way this is gonna work unless the charging process is much faster or they swap batteries instead.

0: http://www.edmunds.com/honda/civic/2012/road-test-specs.html
I actually expect higher adoption to drive improvements in charging technology. Of the top of my head a naive way to make batteries charge faster is that that they could make the individual cells as smallest as possible therefore reducing the amount of time that individual cells need to charge[1]. The batteries would be made up of thousands of these cells that could then be charged in parallel.

If they can make it so that each cell can get charged in only a couple of minutes then one of the major hurdles of electric cars will be gone.

[1] I'm assuming that the smaller the cell the faster that it can be charged. Anybody knows if this is true?
There are of course ways to argue about the accuracy of these techniques.

What's fun is that it doesn't matter which technique you use - the numbers turn up the same no matter what. That's why this 'science' thing is so cool.

Measure the error rate of polymerase in lab (the protein which makes your DNA). Calculate the percent difference ("error") between humans and chimpanzees and you can get a ballpark number for the length of time it took for the species to diverge. It's astounding that these numbers end up quite similar to the numbers you get when you find bones, compare the isotope of carbon in it with the known decay rate of Carbon-14, and the ratios of it in our ecosystem. And these numbers correspond quite well between any elemental analysis we know.

Have you ever told a lie? (we'll pretend you have for argument's sake) You know how quickly and difficultly it is to create a story that accords with the lie? And yet somehow telling even the most outlandish of true stories causes not even a momentary fluster? Everything just fits together. Were evolution or such things based on a single finding - then sure, be skeptical. But when evidence from a geologist, a physicist, a geneticist, a radiologist, a biophysicist, and many more all arrive at the same conclusion using wildly different techniques - then be much much less skeptical.

Each user of each technique knows its error and precision. Some techniques can get you +/- a million years out to 100 million years, some +/- a decade out 1,000 years - some +/- a second out 3 days. Or for polymerase - +/- an event every .0001 seconds. But while each idea may be tenuous on its own - they all work in tandem to draw something really powerful. The most robust of these concepts span from the picosecond to 13 billion years - from the picometer to 13 billion light-years. It's fantastic. 200 years ago it was more like the millimeter to the kilometer, from the millisecond to the century.
If Craigslist can assert copyright protection over classified ads and can make people grant exclusive licenses to the ads they submit, then why didn't newspapers do this before the web? Shouldn't there be a nice line of precedent for Craigslist to cite in its Complaint?

I think those web developers who actually think they "own" UGC may be in for a rude awakening if something like this ever goes to trial. As a UGC site they are providing access, and that's all. There may soon come a day when users will not need third party websites in order to provide access to data they want to make public. Web developers should consider themselves lucky if they are running a UGC site and managing to make people believe they, not the users, own the content. Cease and desist letters alleging copyright infringement claims that have no legal basis (where is the case law that says anyone can copyright classified ads?) will only work for so long.
YouTube-funded show makes first leap to network TV
In the case of carbon dating, plants take in carbon-14 from the atmosphere. Carbon-14 is radioactive and decays at a known rate. Once a plant dies, the carbon-14 begins to decay. By finding the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 and carbon-13 in a sample, we can estimate how long it has been since the sample died. Since animals consume plants directly or indirectly, they also take in carbon-14 and can thus have their ages estimated in a similar fashion.
Porting Apple's GCD to Windows
I remember talking to a friend who worked for an oil company, who told me that the shops at gas stations actually make 2-3 times more than the revenue generated from the gas. If you were an oil company which dealt exclusively with the consumer (which of course non of them are) you would in fact be a catering business which sold gas on the side.
In my opinion, to situate this conversation in a framework where "alternatives" are to be considered is to already assume an authoritarian stance. I believe that the model you are assuming is one in which there is some sort of established "government" which selects among alternative systems sharing the property that they are maintained by varying degrees of implicit/explicit use of force.

I would never claim to know how to set up a working mental health system or a functional system of criminal rehabilitation. What I claim is that the properties that these institutions have in the U.S. are MAINLY determined by historical accumulation (trauma -> reaction) rather than by organic growth from well-defined principles. I advocate the decompilation of these institutions and the organic outgrowth of new, community-based (preferably non-governmental) institutions.

I agree that there may be cases in which a "criminal" (your word, not mine) must be separated out from society [1], but that these cases are far, far rarer than most people believe. Most "criminals" in the U.S. are ethnic minorities suffering under an incoherent and evil system of drug criminalization.

From an unsystematic/non-governmental standpoint, I also believe that society needs to do more work in increasing its acceptance of different psychological and mental needs from a younger age. I'm very lucky that I was put in a "gifted" program because, had such a program not existed, my rage would have been intense, long-lasting, and I honestly may have killed someone. If my talents had been treated as a "difference" in the way that most peoples' are (exclusion from social events, bullying, emotional and mental abuse, punishment, etc.) I would have turned out very differently indeed.

Perhaps the reason that I feel so strongly about this topic is that there is a great deal of darkness in me (I don't believe everyone is like this). I throw a tremendous amount of personal effort at overcoming it/transforming it/thinking about whether it's really "darkness." During certain periods of history (including this one) homosexuality was seen as "darkness" in many places - now we think back on these periods as being backwards/bigoted/wrong. I must accept that some of my personal darkness is NOT bad/evil (e.g. some of my perverse sexual tastes) but that it only APPEARS bad to many people in society. I have come, through discussion and queer community support, to accept parts of myself that I have been ridiculed for and told were evil from a very young age - which ridicule and torment drove me deep into despair and hatred.

I suppose that I am ultimately advocating acceptance of darkness because I don't really believe in darkness. I believe that if we accept what we currently think about as dark (ultimately, for instance, it would be great if we could accept death) then we will see that it is not so dark after all.

THEN WE CAN LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER, THE END.

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[1] Let me be clear, here. I can't even really name any. Maybe certain serial killers/mass murderers - but who else? Who, really, needs to be put in permanent time-out, anymore? Can you even name anyone?
Claiming that evolution is wrong implies that all science is wrong. If you don't teach the basic scientific principles to young students it gets harder and harder to convince them of more complicated topics. You get into a science vs religion debate where no one wins and the students always loose.
As you point out, in both cases the program will crash, which for many people is preferable to the program churning along with invalid data. In Go with multiple return values, it is possible to have a code path where there's an error but still use what would've been the result of the procedure. In ML or Haskell when using sum types, that code path does not exist.
Not understanding Evolution effectively locks students out from large swaths of science. The issue you see isn't merely that they don't understand evolution, but that the people preventing them from being exposed to it are also teaching them to be opposed to it.

The style of "creationism" in America that is seen as the opposition of evolution (versions of creationism that appear compatible with evolution exist. See: the RCC) is not defined merely by the absence of evolution but also by it's warped and twisted "versions" of it (strawmen) and often some healthy dose of conspiracy theory (evil scientist conspiracies).

This basically 'immunizes' children against what would normally be a trivial education in evolution. I say this from personal experience. In retrospect evolution is embarrassingly simple and obvious, but it took years for it to truly sink in for me. A quick 10 minute youtube video can explain it great, but once a certain degree of damage has been done it can suddenly take a lot more.
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Show HN: scalable media storage system 
Coming out of stealth-mode and looking for feedback:
http://pbtechnologies.net

Do you have hundreds of gigabytes of media? If so, how do you store it? Would you distribute it over several machines?

Thanks!
Blows. My. Mind. Amazing, amazing work.

I wish we could see this level of design work for products that aren't for hipsters and celebrities though.

From a look at Josephmark's webpage, it looks pretttty similar to We Are Hunted (http://wearehunted.com/a/#/emerging/) and The Global Mail, which are their works. I imagine the conversation went something like this:

MySpace exec: "Nice work on WeAreHunted! Can you replicate basically the same site with some venn diagrams?"
Josephmark: ::shrugs:: Sure, how much?

All cynicism aside, it doesn't really matter where myspace got the idea, the video actually looks like this is executed pretty well. I hope myspace will resurrect into something cool and useful to people.

Congrats to the design and dev teams!
Observe: you have constructed a tribe out of whole cloth, described them as The Other, and made anyone who carries an arbitrary signifier of membership into that tribe into your automatic enemy.

Rationally speaking, if you're very vexed about vaccinations, you should ask whether someone is in favor of vaccinations, rather than attempting to guess their opinion on vaccinations by asking something orthogonal. If someone is opposed to vaccinations, it matters to you little whether that is because they're in the Tribe of UnScience (as evidenced by being biblical literalists) or if they're, e.g., against vaccinations because they're strict vegans and morally opposed to anything which might, at any point, involve an animal protein.
It shouldn't be your target price, but it's useful to keep in mind as your "cost" level. Below this, you're actively loosing money (over a regular job) and at that price point, there's no financial upside to compensate you for the downsides (risk, uncertainly, stress) of consulting.
I was going to respond, but this video highlights the issue better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBv2CFTSWU
I think one of the things a lot of developers and entrepreneurs fail to completely grasp is that there are a few very good reasons for the long sales cycles and the lack of pricing transparency. Primary among them is that when people label something as "enterprise software", the traditionally mean software that plays a critical part in a specific business process or sest of processes, or is an infrastructure compnent that's part of a large, complex distributed almagamation of crap that's accrued for generations.

nrmehta notes Box.net, Splunk, and Workday as enterprise software startups. I would argue that only Workday fits the classic enterprise software definition. Box.net is a straightforward productivity tool, Splunk is very simple analytics for orgs not inclined to roll their own, but HR Information Systems are incredibly complicated with a plethora of laws, rules, and regulations governing them spanning corporate, national, industry, and regulatory agencies. Being able to handle that is the enterprisey aspect, and learning the specifics of a given enterprise -- which quite likely mean the software sales agreement is accompanied by a professional services contract, too -- is why it's difficult to create a standard pricing model. If you look for counterpoints you might think of Salesforce.com, which publishes list prices for various levels of accounts for SalesCloud, as well as for several of their other services (e.g. Heroku). However, if you are a large enterprise and you are interested in engaging with Salesforce.com, it is exceptionally unlikely -- nay, impossible -- that these numbers prove meaningful. It's an advertising tool for Salesforce.com, but only that. In additional, an experienced and knowledgeable sales exec + sales engineer pair can be invaluable to an enterprise considering or evaluating a potential solution (hardware or software). I know that's common sense, but generally speaking I don't think startup culture educates adequately on enterprise as compared to the consumer world, and learning more about this would be useful for most of us.