skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the informality of this post.

Just "hey, guys, we're gonna flick the lights on and off sometime tonight; just a heads up in case you're working on something."

Never change, HN.
Amazon sells good stuff, but a lot of crap too. Their mission is to be comprehensive, not curated.
This is true, but who has the time and energy to fight every stupid Kafkaesque battle like this?
I do it manually.
Both A and B have valid viewpoints.

The OLPC is a bold experiment. After all, it is bringing a piece of technology that is ahead of the prevailing infrastructure or markets. We don't really know what this will lead to.

These kids can't turn work in PC repairs when people don't have electricity.

These kids can't compete with children from India or China who have formal education.

There are no consumers, no customers, no investors in the village.

However, there is a chance OLPC team might have created something emergent. That when the opportunity arises, these skills will be repurposed. I look forward to what happens next.
Skeumorphism: The design battle that’s tearing Apple and the tech world apart.
Realistically, how much time did he waste over the benefits of the actually selling the item to someone who pays for the item. You take a risk when you enter into a contract without knowing what you are doing. How bad was the experience really? He said he got back MOST of what he wanted, but it appears that he needed to get $2 more in order to close this case, but they would not refund an unrefundable $2, that I would bet is told to you when you hit the confirmation page.

The OP goes to the extreme length saying to never sell on eBay, which is a crap response considering what he got back. eBay is a reasonable place to sell products to legitimate customers. Bad experiences exist everywhere, but it is not the overwhelming culture the OP makes it out to be. The generalization of his "bad" experience is not reasonable, so I'd like to know his rationale for doing that.
That seems to be specific way of traversing Linked Lists (which ostensibly is different than all the other ways it has been done in textbooks, published code etc.) , not Linked Lists themselves. If you find a way of traversing a list in a way that has not been done before you can apply for a patent fort that technique. If i were to use that technique of traversing linked in a product that i sell, you could sue me. However, if came up with that particular, specific way of traversing a linked list in an interview, no patents are violated anywhere. That's just silly.
The Human Side of Crowdsourcing
hmmm... and just how did we get to the "world we live in"?
You can't get rid of software patents, because of grandfather's clauses. Those who own patents will always own them, our Government has given them a certificate of lifetime ownership over that entity. Realistically the only solution is to just abolish ALL of them or make their effects that hurt people much less severe than they are (or could be, given the right idiot for a judge) today.
This article disregards everything we know about how people learn for the sake of a cute analogy.
Isn't it saying something more like: only the top 5% of people are worth reading.
"You just need some electricity."

If you wave your hand enough anything is trivial. The "some" you are talking about is 250A @ 400V (100kW) which is a trifle more than a typical gas station can readily supply (especially if you want to charge more than one at a time).
What I meant by "inconsistencies" is that Emacs's keybindings and other conventions differ from, e.g., Firefox's, which differ from Vim's.
I believe these problems are already somewhat solved. The Chevy volt uses a hybrid system. Runs off electricity exclusively, with a small gas powered engine to charge the battery pack when need be. The backup engine can perform at its most efficient rate of rotation, and electric motors are so much more efficient than their combustion engine counterparts. As a Mech eng, I would be willing to bet that burning gas in a modern power-plant would be more efficient than using the fuel in a car. So much of the energy is lost in the form of heat, that lost heat could be harnessed. These problems are already addressed; it’s about what you require out of your car that should determine what type of car you need. I don't travel outside of the city. If I do I use public transit (GO tansit, live in Canada). The future will require trade-offs, there is no way that the status quo is sustainable
I’m very much looking forward to it! Good luck with the site.
In context it may be more impactful. In the book "Made to Stick", the authors make the point that most people think that the their final "one-liner" is the most impactful portion of their writing or their speech, but it turns out that the story leading up to that sound-bite is usually much more important and memorable. This may one of those situation. (Which, in all fairness, would probably have been noticed and not used as a pull-quote had the book been written in more than 3 days)
also in Seattle, and I can verify from my sample of friends that at least 80% of them are into going to SBP, and 100% of those people work at Amazon.

Sounds like a great place for networking.
Pretty sure you can still get charged back with Amazon.
On the bright side, the internet will make it possible for linguists to reach out to these people in a way that is not accessible before.
Good Guy George Lucas on Education Reform
Ah, yes, that was the other implication, which I took for granted. Generally, though, only people in the top X% of anything are worth attention, I think.
This is a story about Uber Black, not about Uber's taxi program. Your link isn't germane to this story.
Nassim Taleb: Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity [pdf]
The more I think about it, the less I understand this common concept of sweating and working NOW for the good you might one day reap... having been born in the West, you are in the extremely fortunate position of being able to perfectly work on skills and slowly building a career while at the same time enjoying life to the fullest. It is a very strange thing we always put the good times off for later and slave away now only to make more money to one day finally eventually reap all the benefits when we are 50, 60 or 70 - a time in life when your options are way more limited than they were in your 20s and 30s.

I agree with you, we live too much in the "one glorious day" fantasy world and we agree too much to become chased rats battling for minor increments of personal wealth when the truly wealthy people of the world are absolutely untouchable and forever out of our reach.
Iran and China could censor on political and cultural grounds - tienanmen, pron, etc. Max Butler hosted his CC forum in Iran at one time, but I guess banking fraud is quite neutral in said terms :)
You caught me ;). I know the FAQ says it's only a minor reason, and that it's just more readable, but I like to leave that part out since it's wrong =p.
I'm sure there are some good ones here, but the few that I checked had Alexa Ranks in the millions.

Sites in that range generally have negligible traffic.
The proof is that you listed the items which is clearly logged and visible.. The charge is for the listing not successfully completing an auction/sale.
Well, for starters, if money is no object then everybody is free. It kind of defeats the whole point of the argument to take such an important constraint away and then pose the question "how am I constrained?". Keep in mind that Apple's whole ecosystem is closed, not just their devices. I can't read their iBooks on my Android tablet, play their games on anything but Apple hardware, etc. Even the connector is patented to control every single digital bit that travels to and from the device. So in 10 years from now you might be up for much more than "hundreds" but thousands or tens of thousands if you have accumulated your lifetime library of content there.

But more seriously, your solution works only as long as there is "something else". So you're predicating the whole thing on the fact that there's an external entity out there for you to flee to. The problem is that we're moving headlong into a dystopian future where there simply isn't any ecosystem left where you can go. The least worst option at the moment is Android because it allows side loading and is open source so if Google turns evil enough you can be sure that someone else will come in and fork it to compete with them (you can argue that already happened). You can even create your own builds and deploy them to your phone if necessary. Now I'm not advocating any such extreme tin-foil type things in reality, but I do think it's vitally important we preserve at least the ability or freedom for these options to occur, because they keep all the other players honest.
> Changing. Rapidly.

That doesn't negate my point.

> And perhaps you forgot, but building tens of thousands of gas stations all over the place wasn't easy

You're not the only one to bring this up and it confuses me why. The gas infrastructure has already been built. It's a sunk cost. EV infrastructure most certainly is not.

> Tesla's range is already over 250 miles; this is getting very close to that of many gas guzzlers.

For significantly higher capital cost, with (probably) much lower shelf life. And when the "gas guzzler" hits its range, what does it do? Spends a few minutes filling up and does it again (as opposed to recharging for 8 hours).

> Uh, you can transport electricity to people, too. We have power lines for that.

Yes, that was my point. Look at all the people in NJ/NY/CT without power.

> Er, no. Do you know what an order of magnitude IS?

Yes, but we're talking about the battery tech and the batteries are only some portion of the total cost of a vehicle.

> you can recharge at night.

Given a fairly narrow use case, sure.
Memory leaks? If you're in the market for a Performance and Availability engineer with 15 years' experience in making this sort of problem a happily-fading horror story, send me a message. ;)
I finally realized the world is just. Half a dozen one way and six the other. Read the "turn the other cheek" passage.

God says...

free copyright licenses, and every other sort of contribution
you can think of. Money should be paid to "Project Gutenberg
Association / Carnegie-Mellon University".

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The Old Testament of the King James Version of the Bible

The First Book of Moses: Called Genesis

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters.
I don't think he was claiming that Chomsky IS language theory, or even that he pioneered the field. However, to say his contributions to science are "negligible" is absurd.
How does the restarting affect people filling out the application form? As long as the restart happens between pressing the save button, would there be any problems? The only problem that I can forsee is if the save button is pressed while the server is restarting.
He says you can't revoke existing software patents legislatively, so abolishing the ability to get NEW software patents would take 20 years to fix the problem (for the existing ones to expire). By saying those existing patents can't be enforced the problem is fixed now.
I had no idea eBay worked like this. The whole strategy doesn't make much sense if buyers don't know about it.
“Kharma”
Other than being single, I'm in the exact same position as you. I'm pulled between building a career and travelling the world.

I graduated last spring and spent the summer backpacking in Asia before starting a boring desk job. I live with my parents still so I'm saving almost all of my income.

Now I'm seriously considering quitting in six months and heading back to Asia until I figure out what I want to do. My job is terrible, especially since I was effectively lied to about what I'd be doing, but I'm more or less getting paid to do nothing. In six months I'll have enough money to spend a year backpacking across SE Asia, Eastern Europe, South America, wherever.

Or I could just quit now and go find a job I like. I'm honestly not sure what to do.
I think you need more examples of something complex that is made easily accessible. And show some of the advantage involved in using you as an API around third-party APIs.

Plainly, show, don't tell.
So wait, you basically got a full story about my frustrations and issues with a major company and you posted a comment about the least important part of the story (the $ value)? Whereas there are other people who have legitimate complaints about being lied to about >50% of campaign promises along with facts. Wow... I really do want to understand the rationale behind this. Explain.
I learned something today.

The 4th ammendment states:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Note its not private property so if you have a large multi-acre plot of land apparently you do not have a right to prevent it from being searched without a warrant (except the area immediately surrounding a residence). This has been upheld in court in a previous case where the defendent's land was searched without a warrant and they found a marijuana field a mile away from the home.

This ruling extends that precedent to include hidden surveillance cameras.
Here in Vancouver there is definitely a lot of programming types at the rock climbing gym and at the crags. Other professionals that seem to be attracted to it are Engineers (of all types), Geologists, and Environmental Sciences people.
It has to be said, that's one of the worlds best domain names. Can't have been cheap!
Closures In Straight C
> it's built into our genetics at a very fundamental level.

Chomsky's evidence for this is.... iffy at best. Yes, I think we are predisposed to HAVE language, but I don't think we can learn as much as he proposes about the structure of modern language from the human genome.
The wonders of continuation-backed web development. Have you ever had an "unknown or expired link" issue on hn? Im pretty certain they are the same problem.
It is still lower than the item + shipping on etsy. which is $23.95
How does the Model S solve the longer trips issue? On a road-trip I might drive 500 miles in a day. The priciest Model S gets 300 miles at 55 miles an hour. And with climate control on that is likely to be less in reality. If this trip were in cold weather (ski trips and such) the range would be SIGNIFICANTLY less.

As a comparison, my gasoline-hybrid can squeeze out over 500 miles on a tank at 55 miles an hour. And I never worry about being 'stranded' as I might with a fully-electric car.

Another issue I have with battery-based solutions is the potential lifespan of the batteries - they are warrantied only for 8-years. A new pack costs ~30k (pulled this unofficial figure from discussions in the Tesla forums).
Combating Poverty at Its Roots
Yeah, you never really know how the sausage is made. You can watch all these videos and conference presentations of our-awesome-system-to-ensure-super-duper-scalable-uptime, spend hours debating this or that architecture, and generally be less productive than if you just kick the box in the right place, every so often.
And this is a special case of a directed graph.
A blogpost at rickfalkvinge.se recently talked about a few of those cases (site down for the moment). In particular, I was referring to the Ian Tomlinson case, but there have been similar events in Sweden and elsewhere.

I have yet to hear a police brutality case where an coverup was fully prosecuted to the point where all police officer involved (and who did nothing) was sentenced. It just do not happen. By the time it gets out, it has become personal and political.
If you're on the moon, combustion based engines wouldn't work, so there is that... A freak natural disaster isn't a great reason to stay away owning an electric car. Of course there are going to be places around the world where the adoption of EVs isn't a good idea, but there are places where owning a boat is more useful than owning a car. It's about the needs of the consumer and the ability of local infrastructure to support it.
Is there a law against filing lawsuits that you don't believe have merit?
Common thing for a large transaction is to meet in a bank.
Changing his name to Kim Mega would be a great stunt.
So let's say you sign up with a hosting provider and they are just terrible. Your site's down all the time and FTP is slow as molasses, etc. You go ask for a refund because not only did they not provide the level of service they advertised, they actively wasted your time. You'd be just fine if they said "Sure, but only most of it because of reasons"?

There's a lot of people echoing my experience here. So if there's a lot of people selling on eBay and getting nothing out of it but losing small amounts of money each time, I'm cool if that's something I prevent.
Pootch was asked to implement a doubly linked list, ie a linked list with axillary pointers that allows an alternative transversal.
> The dichotomy between software implementations and hardware implementations is unhelpful

Actually it's quite helpful. Something implemented in hardware has one fixed royalty per device, no matter what operating system or other customization has been performed. That implementation becomes a capability of the device, a manufacturers selling point. A software implementation is "shipped" over and over again as the software is updated, the user changes software packages, etc.

I'm pretty ambivalent on hardware patents, having grown up reading Don Lancaster, etc. But they could be a workable way to fund codec development while not encroaching on software freedom.
Scammers, confusing auction settings, limited integration with paypal despite owning them, terrible invoice generation, image uploads that don't work without Flash, etc. I despise eBay.

That being said, I'm surprised nobody mentioned selling on Amazon. Blindingly easy to setup your sale, if you choose the lowest price on a popular good someone will buy it within the hour. Amazon will generate an invoice and mailing label for you, plus deduct shipping charges from your payout. Scammers are mildly annoying, but they waste very little of your time and don't cost you any money.

I've sold a few iPhones and an iPad on Amazon and it has been great. I'll never sell items anywhere else if I can possibly help it.

Edit: in addition to the iPhones/iPad, I've sold a few games and other electronics on Amazon. Out of maybe 10 sales, two were "bought" by scammers. Amazon sends me an email saying that someone purchased my item, but they may be a fraudulent account. Do not send anything until Amazon confirms that they are valid. It's such an easy, friendly process.
> Hydrogen vehicles are just plain stupid from an efficiency stand point - where are you going to get the hydrogen exactly? Purifying it is too expensive - and since it's lighter than air - there is no economical source of hydrogen on earth. It'd be cheaper to fuel your car with coal.

No, it is expensive _today_. Which is different from saying it would be expensive at scale.
I think you're wrong. Especially going forward, how about apps that run on your TV, your tablet, your phone, your computer, etc. Want a chromebook? Runs there. On a friends phone? Load it there. What happens if a platform dies out? Or another becomes significantly more attractive to you because they release a poor maps application? What if you want a cheap tablet for your kids? There's a ridiculous amount of use cases that do matter to most people. The reason you're happy with your platform is actually because they've locked you into it. If another closed platform came around with all the new desirable apps, you'd be unhappy for the same reason you're happy about it now.
There's exceptions i guess, if you like the startup founder's ..the idea and feel that your contribution as tiny or as big as it may be will put this great product out to market quick, then why not drop your rates. Other than friends/family referrals, ide stick to your normal rates. You never know what your " serendipity" karma may come back to you and that small startup you helped remembers what you did for them and does something awesome for you. i dunno i guess my two cents.
I never even knew you could.

Guess I'll check that out.

Thanks!
Anybody notice the table of contents and page numbers?
Which is again not consumer based hand-held 360 degree panoramas? And jesus, we're talking about the experience of having it a phone. How far do we have to stretch this to try to discount ONE feature added to 4.2?

If we want to play this game, I remember my dad finding some trial-ware when I was a kid and we took a few photos and were able to stitch them, I had to have been in middle school. yikes, 8-10 years ago, anyway, my point wasn't that it's the first time a real human being has been able to take two photos and stick them together.
Of course you can. But for now, scammers seem to be relatively rare compared to eBay. And maybe, just maybe Amazon has better dispute resolution and anti-scammer policies than eBay/Paypal.
My Segway LiFeMgPO4 (mfg by Valence) batteries are five years old with 7700 miles. They provide about 90% of the range they did when new. Your "year or 2" is well taken, but suggests cheaper (e.g. some Chinese knock-offs) cells or systems that aren't very smart about preserving battery efficacy. Long life is possible with appropriate care.
How does this contribute to the discussion at all? Answer the damned question. The immaturity that emanates from this is amazing. :) Go troll somewhere else. EDIT: Sure this could have been phrased better had the parent poster show some respect. I said I wanted to know the rationale behind the post, he chose to add an empty post, so yes this is warranted. I did not say anything vitriolic enough that warranted the parent post. If you didn't like the "explain" portion, that's fine, point it out and respond appropriately.
> Also, since everybody peaks in their twenties

Oh how you're going to laugh at that one later on.
Yup, and in the end, I'm fine with the choice I made - pay them and then let people know how awful the experience was. This has been worth $2 for me, I hope it was worth $2 for them.
Exploring Lenovo's new 10-inch Android tablet
It's not like it even matters. Apple is dead, and these are just their final gasps of air.

Apple is pulling the Edison maneuver to protect their rapidly dwindling monopoly on mobile consumer hardware - and they will lose because Tesla (aka Android) is better for both the industry and consumers.

Android is open, Android is iOS equivalent, Android is cheap, Android is backed by the rest of the world's electronic mobile manufacturers. Apple can't win - the world is now chasing their profits with ravenous rage and hundreds of billions of dollars in invested capital. They will be commoditized because all they sell, and all they have ever sold, was glass with a grey backs. The only thing that protected Apple - really protected them was iOS. Those apps made Apple. And the openness of Android will commoditize them.

Apple can shock elephants (ban tablets) and write false accusations about the merits of AC (Samsung sucks) all they want - it doesn't change the fact that their monopoly in mobile hardware is in a terminal and rapid death spiral.

Samsung made Apple. And Samsung will destroy them for the fundamental reason that style can and will be copied vociferously for the betterment of the consumer, but the substance behind it cannot.

Glass with grey backs are commodity. Market saturation is imminent. Competitive equivalence has occured.