skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they'll "partner" with them in the sense of buying the bare car from car manufacturers, but they'll probably be Google Robot Cars.
There's also plenty of Server Frameworks with First class support for Mono:

I'm apart of the core team that delivers http://www.servicestack.net (A REST, RPC, SOAP + MQ Service framework) which we've been hosting for years on Linux, initially on CentOS and we're now on a Hetzner Ubuntu vServer which worked out to be 11x cheaper than a lower speced instance on Azure!:

https://speakerdeck.com/mythz/what-is-the-servicestack?slide...

We've gotten great up-time with Linux where our last server reached 480+ days up-time before we switched hosts: http://www.servicestack.net/mythz_blog/?p=838

There are other traditional Windows/.NET companies exploring deploying on Linux/Mono since it allows them to scale at $0 licensing cost, here's a post from 7digital showing how they deploy on Nginx/FastCgiMono using Capistrano: http://blogs.7digital.com/dev/2012/09/25/atomic-mono-deploym...

NancyFx (http://nancyfx.org) and SignalR (http://signalr.net) are other great .NET frameworks with Mono CI builds and first-class Linux Support.
OSDI '12 proceedings/videos/slides/etc. available
Ask HN: How to Gauge Interest While in Stealth-mode
I have an idea for a site that I suspect would be useful to members of a niche online community. I would like to float my idea around to gauge interest. The problem is that the idea is somewhat easy to implement and the community is made up of technically-skilled people with free time. Is it a good idea to announce the idea and create a sign-up site to collect emails and/or opinions? Does anyone know of a better way to gauge interest?
Nintendo of America gets patent infringement lawsuit against it dismissed
Should it really be illegal? Every time legislators get involved in these Internet legalities, they don't understand what they're doing. While we (technical young folks) understand the similarities to breaking and entering, somehow they end up seeing similarities to trucks and "series of tubes." Big business can be annoying, but they are nothing like big lobbyist groups like RIAA and MPAA, and as soon as legislation comes up, these people end up being primary influencers. Or the legislators push through favorable bills for these people and immediately leave and become their chairmen (Chris Dodd/MPAA anyone?).
Whether the story is completely true, whether it has another side, or if it's a complete farce, we understand this situation could happen under the agreements we make to Amazon and just about every other digital services provider (yes, we've jumped from goods to services). When we understand that, don't take action, and continue purchasing from any of the companies that legalese themselves onto a fortified high ground that disadvantages consumers to this degree, we're part of the problem.

The very fact this story is this popular is because we all understand it could happen to us, think that by upvoting it, commenting on it, and sharing it, we're making a difference, but then we go right back to Amazon and purchase more things. Perpetuating the cycle.
The Roadsters sold for that much, but are no longer on sale. The Model S price is a little over half that. You can get above $100K with the right combination of options, but most sales probably won't be for anywhere near that.
The whole region is down, you just calculated the chance of at least one machine having an error.
We're only hearing one side because Amazon refuses to say anything.
The LDS Church does employ many developers, but they also benefit from a lot of volunteer contributions.

They have a neat program for organizing volunteer efforts:

https://vineyard.lds.org/
I enjoyed it, I thought the talks were very motivating. Everyone was really friendly wish I could have mingled more but late flight in and early flight out.
Understanding and appreciating are very different things.
Isn't the point of the article that we do have other great guides, the failures. They are a great example of how things when wrong. Maybe by paying closer attention to the failures we can see how to fix what they did wrong and fix it.
Dev here. They actually launched a new feature to reload comments for us. We're still working on the comment thread bugs. Using the new api and changing the domain + urls made migration complicated. It was working just fine pre-launch, of course.
"It's true that kindle books don't work like regular books, but being ignorant of that fact isn't an excuse."

Have you tried explaining to a non-technical person about remote wipes?

I had a 20 minute discussion on this subject with a 58 year old friend of mine who has a doctorate, presents at conferences, etc.

I spent the first 15 minutes convincing him that the ebook publish had the right to do a remote wipe.

He remained unconvinced that an ebook publisher would ever do a remote wipe because it would be bad for business.
Did you have backups of your notes in college?
Five Habits of Companies That Catch Insiders
"Don't be too skeptical. Most of the people on HN had some big company restrict/kill an account by some BigCo at some point."

Most? That is a pretty serious statement, and I really doubt you can back it up. I don't have statistics on this and don't know where to look for them, but I would guess that the numbers of HN'ers that have had an account closed by a BigCo is actually much less than 1%, never mind more than 50%.

Am I grossly underestimating here? Keep in mind that these stories tend to be very popular, so there could definitely be a lot more of these stories around than is statistically correct.

P.s. As for one of cletus' point above, I've also noticed a few of these kinds of points eventually bring out more details which tend not to confirm the events, as told in the original posts. Nothing specific to this case of course, I've just caught myself a few times thinking "hmmm, looks like it wasn't such a crystal-clear case of the company being wrong".
Business Model Fiddle
In seriousness, I think it is right to poke fun at this statement because - the way events are portrayed in the article - this is simple sexism. The person in question seems to be annoyed by the lab simply because there are male members in it.
Okay, I don't think we are too far apart. We probably just disagree on how strong an impression a name can make. Similar to bad design and user experience, a product can be successful with a bad name. That doesn't mean user experience, design, or the name is not important.
They reserve the red mark for "The world just exploded". Orange is reserved for "The datacenter got bombed".
I use it with Heroku's pg service via a JDBC driver, and I've never had a problem. Do you have any links? Can you elaborate?
haha, looks like 5 people reserved it so far. No one gets anything if 100 people haven't reserved one in 21 days though :)
Gerard Holzmann on Mars Code: Securing the reliability of Curiosity's software
I'm surprised you're so high on MonoGame, though I guess if you started with XNA it makes a lot of sense for you.

I find the project to be deeply hurt by being tied to the XNA ecosystem (the content pipeline is a mess, especially as you can't build content stuff in MonoGame itself, and Android support is atrocious--dealing with a destroyed context is insanely messed up). I'm also pretty disappointed in the lack of professional behavior--no CI, few/no automated tests, and few/no code reviews have led to some serious WTFs that sneak in that are really unsettling. There's a lack of project leadership, too, in that if you'd like to contribute there are no real designated maintainers or developers with responsibility over submodules (I've tried myself, multiple times, to no real success).

I think the best way forward for Mono and games would be a library, starting with MonoGame or not, that followed better practices and didn't try to make square pegs fit in round holes. There are a lot of areas where it makes sense for Mono to ape the .NET APIs but this doesn't seem like one of them.
I think that's what Tesla is hoping for. However, I don't see it happening.

Tesla wisely is going after premium buyers, that market is niche by definition. They've done that because car is a major purchase unless if you a lot of money and you are more willing to take a chance on a new car company.

But beyond that, it doesn't matter if Tesla is building a better car, it matters if consumers think Tesla is building a better car. And tesla doesn't have the same brand loyalty in a very competitive market.

Secondly, if you're buying an electric car for environmental or gas price reasons, there are other options. I can lease a Nissan Leaf now for $199/month. The amount of money I save on daily gas cost driving my Honda will almost come to $199!
It means I can have a car for 3 years for free (minus the $2000 singing fee). Tesla just can't compete with that!
Woops, thanks! Meant to go back and fix those at the end but forgot. Fixed Travis Kalanick and Tom Preston Werner but didn't see any other typos - which were they?

edit: got the rest, thanks! You might have to hard refresh to see the changes.
The internet works because it provides very weak consistency guarantees compared to what businesses might require out of an EC2 management console. (IMO.)
Chile has a GDP per capita 50% higher than that of Brazil.
I suppose you are talking about IronPython, because there is no way you could "compile" CPython, if yes, Mono can be integrated with IronPython:

http://www.mono-project.com/Python
Running Ubuntu off an SDCard on the new ARM Chromebook
Developer mode confirmed for the new ARM Chromebooks and Olof Johansson@Google has preliminary instructions for running Ubuntu off an SDCard.
Equity goes into* your name; it usually doesn't get extracted from your name.*

-- This is a good articulation to remember.
Maryland's speed cameras are only active in school zones (which are not school zones outside of school hours) and work zones (which are usually not work zones on the weekend).
giggle

Mass production has no beneficial effect when the incremental cost of each unit is indistinguishable from zero.
That would be the ultimate testament, maybe the only stunt they could pull to PR themselves out of this mess.. if www.amazon.com ran on the same set of EC2 servers and systems as us muggles
I'm a little biased but I'd say buenos aires :)
Yes, I can. But I'm not going to go down this road with you - we'll be stuck all day fighting over definitions of what is an "actual" paradigm shift and where rules "really were" updated.

Instead, feel free to make your point. I pointed to an article and made a very specific case - the issues people talk about today, and think are unique to our time because of technology, are not unique, and have been discussed before our time. As proof, I linked to an article which has excerpts from talks given during the 1800's.

I'm still unsure what case you're trying to make, and whether you agree or not that my statements were correct.
Ah, I missed your update, thanks for posting that.

I guess we can't be totally sure that the red light tickets in question are automated. But it seems pretty likely given that Baltimore does have automated red light ticketing (http://cityservices.baltimorecity.gov/parkingfines/), and this dataset seemed to only contain automated versions of moving violations (ie, it had mobile and fixed speed cameras but not policeman-in-a-cruiser speeding tickets). Also it's just a ton of red light tickets, and in my personal experience street cleaning or meter tickets feel way more common than manually dispensed red light tickets.

I was a bit disappointed that this (and other datasets in Baltimore and SF) didn't have a codebook anywhere to explain the data. I'm guessing you weren't able to find one, either?
This is what deprecated means. You can't just remove an API that's existed for years and scripts may depend on without giving them time to adapt. This shows a warning when it's used so it's clear which scripts should be changed.
CloudApp seems to have trouble too
I initially got an "Error: Your application used more stack memory than the safety cap" message running that.

This solved it: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/346

tl;dr:

rvm get stable

then reinstall jruby 1.7.0
Analogy:

>If you ever do find yourself working for a startup, here's a handy tip for evaluating competitors. Read their job listings. Everything else on their site may be stock photos or the prose equivalent, but the job listings have to be specific about what they want, or they'll get the wrong candidates.

>During the years we worked on Viaweb I read a lot of job descriptions. A new competitor seemed to emerge out of the woodwork every month or so. The first thing I would do, after checking to see if they had a live online demo, was look at their job listings. After a couple years of this I could tell which companies to worry about and which not to. The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous the company was. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or Java developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers, that would be a bit frightening-- that's starting to sound like a company where the technical side, at least, is run by real hackers. If I had ever seen a job posting looking for Lisp hackers, I would have been really worried.

If you're on HN and state plainly that language is no obstacle, I assume you have an interest in meeting driven, energetic individuals like yourself. Whether that's because you're interested in meeting others who will help you grow intellectually/emotionally/spiritually/etc. or because you're interested in meeting the Larry to your Sergey will help guide your specific choice, but either way you'll be able to apply the above principle. Whatever you do, pick a place with high barriers to entry. How high? What kinds of barriers? Depends on what kinds of people you want to meet. If you want to meet other students who, unlike yourself, were unwilling to learn a new language, study abroad in the UK or Australia. If you want to meet some ballsy-ass motherfuckers, study abroad in Shanghai. Etc. You get the idea. (Really though, I met a couple who just came back from 3 years in Shanghai, and they both said anyone and everyone there who spoke native English was somebody worth getting to know.)

This isn't to say there won't be many, many other factors involved in your decision. Certainly, all other things being equal, cities with tech industries are preferable to cities severely lacking in tech, cities with angels/VC's are preferable to cities without, etc. But if you just weigh things like that, you may as well "study abroad" in SF, no?
Awesome response. Thanks!
The market is optimised for efficiency not morality.
I had a starkly different experience when I visited a Tesla store (in Newport Beach). The product specialist was super helpful and we sat in a Model S for 10 minutes while he explained all the features. They didn't have a car to test drive but he apologized and said they were making them as fast as they could.

The store was clean. Lots of people were in and out. And the whole experience did a good job to highlight the innovation behind the Model S (they had an entire powertrain on display).

The Newport Beach store didn't have the Roadster, but if they let me test drive a Roadster for $300 for a half day... I'd jump on it. It'd be a very fun half day and well worth the few hundred dollars.
Only good content that is tangentially commercial. I would read Dan Shipper's article "Selling Umbrella's in a Synagogue" for perspective on this

http://danshipper.com/selling-umbrellas-in-a-synagogue
You seem biased. He offered a valid argument.
Seems like they're solving a similar problem to what I'm trying to with ntor. This is obviously way more built out and polished, though.

https://github.com/davidbanham/ntor

I'm very keen to check out their social sharing aspects. Pity they don't seem to have a mechanism for ad-hoc search.
A vendor-independent comparison of NoSQL databases: Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB
Hackathon.io will be coming out with a directory of every hackathon in the U.S. in about 12 days. Signup at hackathon.io and we'll e-mail you more info soon.
In the comments of that page:

Q.) "I’m really interested in the game, but dont want to support paypal. Is there any other method of purchase?"

A.) "The only easy way for me to distribute through my own site was with Paypal. I did have Amazon Payments, but Amazon randomly locked down my account for reasons unbeknownst to me and they only gave me generic automated responses."

This is becoming a habit.
I should have posted this earlier when people were still reading this thread, but Dan Shipper's "Selling Umbrella's in a Synagogue" is really, really relevant to this

http://danshipper.com/selling-umbrellas-in-a-synagogue
The psychology behind lines
7 Things from Failing
EIP remapping is all messed up as well. api errors. console for it does not work either.
Venngage is raising $1M to make data more fun to look at
I'm sorry, am I in a time machine? Didn't this exact thing happen last year, and didn't these exact people explain exactly how they were going to make sure it never happens again?

What the hell is happening here?
Something very similar happened to my seller account late last year. The emails were very similar -- including the cause for the closure (alleged linkage to a previously closed account). Story here:

http://aaron.kavlie.net/2011/12/web/amazon-com-just-closed-m...

My story got to the top spot on Hacker News and, thanks to the exposure there, Amazon reversed its decision. At no point did I get anything that looked like a personalized response -- just terse form emails that didn't divulge any details.

What surprises me the most about this story is that they use the same approach with the consumer end of the business. I figured that the ham-handed treatment I got was due to Amazon's lack of care for that particular piece of their business, and that any issue with buyers would be taken up with more personal attention, and provide ample opportunity for appeal. Guess I was wrong.
No, I calculated the error rate for the region. If us-east-1 has 5 times the machines (or availability zones, or routers, or EBS backplanes, or other thing-that-can-fail) as us-west-1, we would expect to see us-east-1 have each type of error occur about 5 times as often as us-west-1.
I'm not a native English speaker, but isn't the proper term for that "rent"?
Awesome. Went from free plan to basic and then to $10/month in 30 minutes.

Integration with movies.io is amazing. And they will automatically download Daily Show from rss feed...

Already downgraded my netflix to 1 movie.
Hello all ,this is a very nice thread Its open oportunities for those who wants to share new ideas

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Anyone calculated how many 9's Heroku is down to this year?
The argument I like goes like this:

Flushing one buffer one level down costs O(1) I/Os. It moves B elements, so flushing one element one level down costs O(1/B) amortized I/Os. The tree has fanout O(1), so it has height O(log N). Therefore, each element must be flushed O(log N) times before it reaches its target leaf. So the cost to get one element down to its leaf is O((log N)/B) amortized I/Os.

Compare this with a B-tree, which costs O(log_B N) = O((log N)/(log B)) per insertion.

I'm pretty sure your math is right, though it attacks it from the other direction and I've only just skimmed it. It seems sound though.

The point query tradeoff is there in the theory, you're right, but it assumes a cold cache. In practice, most people have enough RAM for all their internal nodes, whether they're using a B-tree or a fractal tree, so either way it's typically 1 I/O per random point query in either data structure.

Be careful with asterisks here. :)
Looks less powerful but has a "touch slider". For $13 just try it and see, right? :)
This is the great irony of Android. Not only do many iOS users never use it (and thus when they think Android, they think Froyo or even Gingerbread). That, and they're so used to their iPhone that is the standard. Even when I can do things just as intuitively or easily.
With classes in English but really solid technical courses, you might want to consider one of:
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
Aquincum Institute of Technology
Math in Moscow

The first two programs are both in Budapest, and the second one focuses on computing while the first one is (obviously) more focused on mathematics. If you have a theoretical bent these are good choices.
It's an EBS issue and something with ELB's as well.
While we are on eval suggestions - MBED [1] has always sounded interesting to me - primarily because of the concept of a collaborative web-based compiler that works from anywhere.

Seems aimed at prototyping and ease of use for non-hardware developers (who are familiar with C/C++) , but looks like there is a straightforward route towards mass production just using the microcontroller if required.

[1] http://mbed.org/
The Biggest Technological Threat to Cell Phone Privacy You Don't Know About
same here, no fail-over
End result : the method may not have been "nice", but achieved measurable results (GDP per capita, etc).
This is why I trust Google's data centers http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/
No, I wasn't able to find anything explaining the data either. I actually called a couple of offices to ask how complete it was, and nobody knew what to do with me. The first number I could find was the mayor's office. The person who answered transferred me to the DMV, and the lady who answered there had no idea what I was talking about and put me on hold. I hung up after a while. :/
> given that the individual is dead and utterly incapable of accepting or rejecting anything.

In Mormon (& indeed, most Judeo-Christian-Islamic belief), the state of dead might be defined as "Transferred to different plane of existence, still a cogitating being".
Ask HN: Should I make the switch to a Mac?
I've been contemplating buying a 13" Macbook Pro for a while now. I do all my development on a Windows laptop, and everything works well enough. It just seems like most of the tools and tech are geared towards a mac/linux environment with windows being more of an afterthought. Plus, I've never owned a mac before so it would be a good learning experience/exposure for me. But, the cost... Oh lord, the cost. It seems hard to justify paying that much more for a laptop.

What do you guys think? Is it worth it? How does Windows play running in a dual boot situation? Any feedback is welcome.

Thanks!
This has NOTHING to do with Hacker News.
I can confirm this - with my Galaxy Nexus, if I don't turn off the data reception before bed, the phone won't make it through the night.
Is that the same as Willard's Y-fast tree? If so, then no they're not very similar. If not then I'm unfamiliar and I should read that paper.
these benchmarks also include the time it takes the vm to start up and may not include full JIT performance. locally in jruby pidigits.rb 2000 takes 4.132s, running it twice it takes 4.965s. jruby is quite annoying for running small little scripts because of the startup time but it an be quite nice for full applications.
He was fired relatively quickly and at the time Max hated him for trying to kill PayPal and overruling his technical authority. So no happy snaps.
I doubt that would matter in this case. Different laws apply to different jurisdictions. The fact that Amazon US and Amazon UK are two different companies is a red herring; a purchase in one jurisdiction may entail different rights than a purchase in other jurisdictions, even from the same company.
Now if only more people would use Mono and more community .NET projects. Everyone who wants to use .NET feels that if it's not Entity Framework, SQL Server(Azure), Windows Azure, .NET 4.5 that it's not worth even considering.