skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was arguably better to keep them on life support as a means of providing a much more controlled transition from ICEs to EVs.

Ultimately, the ICE car companies still have the innovator's dilemma in front of them. It's not that they don't see the benefits of new technologies, they just don't have a path that allows them to maintain their current size and infrastructure at the same time.

A few of the things Tesla is capitalizing on:

1) Dell's "just in time" manufacturing.

2) Google's use of commodity hardware for scaling. Big iron servers vs linux boxes that can fail individual is like the the li-ion batter pack with several thousand cells vs large nickle-based batteries.

3) Toyota's quality based on open, healthy, workplace relationships that put quality ahead of quantity.

4) Apple's retail store model that seeks to inform without a pressure to buy using a simplified comparison model.

5) The benefit of being the disrupter instead of the disrupted.

6) Engineering focused leadership instead of sales focused leadership; a solid product sells itself.

7) Infrastructure to support interstate EV travel.

In time, the entrenched auto companies will likely fail or shrink to shells of their former selves. Much of what needs to change has been a problem for 30 some years and runs orthogonal to what they're used to.
What you are describing isn't even a proper binary search, it just gives you a lower bound that is guaranteed to be no more than 50% smaller than the solution.

Let's assume doing an actual binary search. What you are getting, in every step of binary search using your oracle, is an upper bound U (D(TSP, U) ==1), for which we know that there is a solution smaller or equal that U, and a lower bound L (D(TSP, L) == 0) for which we know there isn't. This is where your confusion between finite and integer-valued comes into play: If the problem were integer valued, you would have the optimal solution S as soon as L_i=U_i (implying U_i is S), which would be guaranteed after a polynomial number of steps. With real valued weights, all you get is a sequence of intervals (L_1, U_1], (L_2, U_2], ... where the size of the intervals is halved in every step. What you actually want is the exact value of the solution. For that, you would need to show that there is no hamiltonian path between L_i and U_i, which isn't something your oracle can determine.

Note that this probably doesn't show that a polynomial oracle for the TSP decision problem will not yield a polynomial solution to the optimization problem in general, it just deals with your proposition.
Edit: Not -> Note
As someone already pointed it out, you should have written the translation as "I - hamburger", not "I hamburger." This implies a pause in speech. I am native Russian speaker and Russian also has this case where the meaning of a sentence has to be deduced from the context of previous sentence. But in written Russian you could look at that sentence only and understand that someone is likely replying to something. I don't practice my Russian daily as my day-to-day communication is only in English. I tend to forget words when i communicate with my Russian friends via email, so i use Google Translator a lot to translate from English to Russian. I actually find that Google is pretty good at translating formal sentence structure you'd see in literature and absolutely abysmal at everything else.
Historically speaking, there's not strong evidence of this. Despite bootleggers' existing alcohol production and distribution infrastructure at the end of prohibition in the US, they didn't end up as major players in the liquor market after prohibition was repealed, and it's pretty easy to see why: no sane consumer would choose to buy a product from a gangster in an alley when they could just as easily buy from a reputable liquor store down the street. This was all magnified by the fact that government regulation and corporate oversight ensured safer and higher-quality products at lower prices.

There's no reason to think the same thing wouldn't happen with pot: if you could buy it at the pharmacy, why would you go through a dealer? Maybe if there were huge discrepancies in cost because of high taxes, there might be an opportunity at the margins for some arbitrage, the same way there is for cigarette smuggling in Europe, but I'm skeptical, especially because most of the cost, today, of buying pot isn't paying for direct production costs (materials, fertilizer, electricity, etc.), but rather compensating the various players involved for the risk they assume in producing and distributing the product. This all goes away with legalization.
The video is a nice idea but it would be better if I could browse the demo shown in the video myself, just try the UI out, w/o register, w/o uploading photos. Just see how it looks and works.

Edit: Just found the demo, but it is too close to the "Register" button. I didn't notice that it is a separate button.
An interesting concept, but that's what the downvote arrow is for. And looking at your BS-magnet post, it appears to be working fine.
http://mono-project.com
> How else should we see it?

I see it as it is; a constantly morphing organism, made up of thousands of people with conflicting interests and ideas, trying but often failing to present a cohesive image of itself to the public.
I just sent an security issue (via github).
Why did you guys abandon the SSD focused storage engine for MySQL? I was excited about that.
One of the sites I built recently has a ton of backbone.js dynamic loading.

I tried to test it in IE 6, and the browser just immediately crashes. Not like an alert box, just an instant shut down!

In the past I would have started the unpleasant task of figuring that out and fixing it up, or perhaps detecting and redirecting to a more lightweight page.

This time I said screw it - I'm done with IE 6! Call me irresponsible or lazy or whatever you want but I'm just done with IE 6 and it feels great!

By the way YouTube shows a giant warning on their page if you view it with IE 6, saying that it won't be supported in 6 months.
Love the video. What did you use to make it?

How do you differentiate yourself from all the other "feedback" buttons out there (e.g. UserVoice, Qualaroo) ? I see Notifications -- but it feels more like advertising than targeted messages.
Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Right Now?
On shaky legal ground, IIRC.
For Myth 4, you're agreeing with his point. He says:

> For the record, the MVC Framework is [also] completely open source... [thus] This is not a differentiator for Rails.
Hmm, what does jQuery provide that is so essential that someone decides to add a dependency this big for something so simple? It seems that everything requires jQuery these days, even when a 5-line for loop would do.
Indeed. I've been a developer for about 13 years. The last 6 and change has been doing Rails and JS app development (I started out doing VC++ apps for Windows). I haven't thought about MS stack at all since about 2002. And I don't recall any presentations at RailsConf this year about .NET. No one in my circles even gives .NET a second thought.

ASP MVC may be pretty rad, but I personally hate C# (Ruby is an amazingly better language) and I don't feel like buying into the Microsoft ecosystem. It's not one that shares my values and culture, and from the outside it seems to be losing momentum and relevance. I'm not aware of many developers who would decide to adopt Rails over .NET due to these "lies" - the choice is first cultural, then technical.

I'm not suggesting that .NET shops are worse places to work (although that has been my personal experience) but there's something about the MS ecosystem that puts .NET shops at risk of turning into overly-stuffy/corporate, aesthetically-unpleasing shops. There are exceptions of course (FogCreek/StackOverflow) but they don't appear to be the norm.
No nonempty interval of real numbers can be represented in a finite number of bits.
Dude... $6 billion. How much more can you possibly need?
and flamebating is for people feeling unsecure about their choices.
Yes, I haven't enforced proper security yet. Proper throttling handling should be added too. Will add. Thanks!
Go turns three
Correct. http://www.infoq.com/articles/java-dotnet-patents

But what isn't? Plenty of Rails is sitting atop JRuby and friends. Nothing is immune.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a massive supporter of .NET (outside of XNA) by any means. My point is if legal issues are what you're looking for; you'll find them; everywhere. It's just all so ubiquitous it's simply not cause for concern.

Anything can be made to be seen as illegal from a certain perspective. Everyone is suing everyone else. Does that mean we all pack it up and go home?
Thinking about it, I'm mildly amazed that the browsers themselves didn't solve this problem back in 1996 or so.
We need car salesmen so every new car can be sold at a different price, thus capturing max revenue from consumers.
I am glad you liked the video. We engaged an agency for getting the video done.

We are different from UserVoice because we are a private feedback tool (no concept of community). Also, there are dynamic fields and the cool screenshot feature in the feedback form. Try the tab on our site.

We are different from Qualaroo, because customers can "target" our surveys at specific audiences on their websites. More here - http://webengage.com/survey/features/targeting-rules.html#ta...

You'd love to use Notifications. There's so much you can do with it. Plus, like surveys, they too can be targeted in a similar manner.
You have my sympathy. I've been waiting some decades for a real solution to this problem. Unfortunately, the physics involved and available so far have proven fairly intractable. (I've tried variations of most of what's been posted here. And I can't use music as a block -- too distracting.)

If someone really takes on this problem, my anecdotal experience is one of having encountered a significant number of people who would buy in. People looking for an Apple-like experience: High quality manufacturing and performance combined with a simple choice or set of choices. This includes ergonomics; for example, in addition to not providing complete attenuation, tightly sealing over-ear muffs can become extremely uncomfortable, tiring, and physically distracting during extended wear.
The simplest solution would be to run your own email server, quit facebook, and encrypt your files locally before uploading them to any remote storage provider.
Pardon my ignorance with Minecraft but a family members plays it constantly with friends. Their birthday is coming up and I wondered if Minecraft sells things within the game I could buy them for as a gift?

I am aware its a MMORPG, but don't know too much more about it.
Suggestion to use a Microsoft product to serve content or maintain a database in 2012 insults my intelligence.
I am responding to his "open source about corporate agenda or personal motto". Working with open source frameworks and libs(at least for me) has nothing to do with corporate agenda or personal motto.
You're talking about current illegal drug prices. When taxes on legal drugs are high enough, criminals selling legal drugs on the black market could still make a tidy profit while undercutting the cost of legal drugs. Granted, those profits won't be nearly as obscene as those garnered now from the sale of illegal drugs, but profitable enough to stay in business.

Legal cigarette prices in the US are nowhere near the price of illegal drugs, but the taxes on them still provide enough incentive for organized crime to get involved in smuggling cigarettes and selling them on the black market, and enough incentive for cigarette users to buy black market cigarettes.

The same is likely to happen with legalized marijuana, unless the price (including taxes) is kept low enough to make buying black market marijuana not worth the trouble -- much like it's usually not worth the trouble to buy moonshine in the US, when there's plenty of relatively cheap, legal and safe alcohol available.
Ask HN: which Android devices to get for development?
I'm an iOS developer considering branching out into Android development for my F2P game https://itunes.apple.com/app/alphabet-connection-logic/id560852073 . I have a limited budget for hardware, so I'm looking for advice on which Android devices to start with.

There is a lot of info out there but I'm asking this on HN in hopes of obtaining the most current information. Thanks.
Please let this happen, so that we may all come to believe more fervently in the goddess of karma.
I don't think it's set up like that. The functionality was intended to be single player from the get go (with MMO functionality tacked on), but I haven't played it much since it's official release.
You should disable the Google Ads in the video.
It appears to me that They're opening up their economy more to western influences, but they're trying to maintain control of their own party and keep everybody in line, similar to what Putin has done in Russia.

My theory is that as they open up more economically, the citizens will be "enlightened", so to speak, and there will be more protests. If China officials know this, they may be trying to stop this enlightenment before they're put out of power.
Textmate to VIM
That depends on your user base. If it's just the wider internet that's accurate, but if you're aiming at government or big corporate clients, you'd better check your analytics first.
Taxes and It is also a hedge against rupee devaluation ( which it tends to do in bursts ). Companies don't want to get caught up at wrong end of the Rupee sliding further.
I`m planning to sell my startup - Mu6.me.
I`m the founder of Mu6.

Mu6.me (http://mu6.me) is a social sharing service. It`s fast, easy-to-use and cross-platform. You can easily share your music file to your friends with only 3 step without register. It also has an intelligent music detection to read the detailed information from uploaded music. Mu6.me is massive with Facebook social traffic and the top 8,000 website of Taiwan. It got nearly 20,000K PV a day maximum and uploaded over 58,000 musics. Everything sounds good, and I love this product.

Well, as the founder of Mu6, with difficult decision, I have a lot of personal reason that I have no enough funds and resource to continue keep Mu6 servicing now, so I`m planning to sell this product to one of company that can keep Mu6 servicing for the world.

The business mode is clear and easy to promote, and the domain Mu6.me is also exclusive and high value.

If any companies interested you can contact me directly, or if you are the kind of person who can help me to sell this to other companies, you will 5%-10% of the price.

My email is angel.lai.cat@gmail.com

The Mu6 demonstration video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibWPY-eKPvc

Looking for you, thank you!

Sincerely!
Angel Lai

m(＿　＿)m
Cigarette taxes? Please, in NY a pack of cigarettes costs $11. Say for argument's sake that's a $10 tax.

2.5g of marijuana on the street costs anywhere from $50 - $60! That would equate to a $50 tax on half a pack of marijuana cigs. That's what people are paying right now. If you add in the safety and convenience of picking up MJ cigs at a bodega on the corner I could see people paying far above the current price with no problem.

I know these are current street prices but I'm just trying to show you the already absurd markup. $11/pack for marijuana cigarettes is a $10 tax that no one would complain about and no cartel could compete with.
Could you add a version number to your script for this reason? It'll also make diff'ing much easier.
I was thinking about this the other day and I thought "How is this not standard!?"

Good job!
Look, you can throw up all the theoretical scenarios that don't relate to the specific laws all you want, but it does not change this:

does a car manufacture have a place displaying their car in which the car can be ordered.

Apple is not party to any of the car franchise laws (there are no computer franchise laws) and McDonalds doesn't make cars. We are talking about a case relating to actual laws.
I wonder if you should have some sort of icon or text indicator (per field) that shows there is saved form data available, but don't populate until the user triggers it, or an option to restore all available form data in one click? There are situations where I want to clear a form so I'll refresh the page if a clear option isn't available. I guess the solution would be for everyone that uses garlic.js to make sure they have a clear option.
Minecraft is not a MMORPG. People either play locally, with the possibility to invite people on the local network to one's own game, or on servers that are run by third parties (the Minecraft makers don't run any). Some servers may have extensions installed that allow trading, but they are not part of the game itself.
This is not Steve's Apple
Pretty sure my mom has never tried to guess a URL. URLs should be great, you should treat them as a first-class user interface, but not the only one.
Hmm. Sounds like great technology - but how exactly are they going to tell that your Kinect is pointing at the same room in which people are watching video, as opposed to, say:

1) A towel draped over the aforementioned Kinect?
2) The wall?
3) The hallway outside the room where the movie is being played?
4) Exactly half of the room, with the people who would bring your movie to an Unauthorised Number Of Viewers sat in the other half?
Great comment. We're in the enterprise space and we also see many competitors do the tech blog rounds and then fall off the face of the earth after a few months.

To add to your morale point, I look at tech blog coverage as great for recruiting engineers, as that's where engineers tend to hang out to find the next "hot" company (vs. websites specific to your vertical, where your customers hang out).
You're generalizing too much. 1 and 2 are actually internal products and should be planned and budgeted out by higher-ups as projects. I have no idea what would constitute #4 the way you describe it, but it sounds like a business requirement that should also be dealt with as a project or internal feature. Lastly, #5 is business continuity and a primary function of IT in general.

This leaves #3 as a sector where the manual/automation see-saw can be improved by tooling. The others are more aspects of business that do not happen otherwise. Tooling is more concerned with easing the jobs of people who implement the thing being streamlined with the tool. In a sales context this would be something like switching to a shared address book or whiteboarding an in/out scheduling chart, both of which they can do for themselves. Interdepartmental deliverables are not tooling.
> but I personally hate C# (Ruby is an amazingly better language)

I won't argue about Ruby being a better language(I like C# and Ruby and I am not inclined to pick a winner). But what version of C# have you used? If you had a brush with earlier versions of C#, I suggest you http://www.manning.com/skeet2/excerpt_contents.html read the first chapter.
Beautiful Product esp the push integration's. I also loved the instant Live Demo integration.

Couple of suggestions -

1. Feedback opens up and makes requests every time it loads.
Can that static form be downloaded on page load and saved?

2. The Notification push message, takes Significant Real estate of my browser window(on my 11 inch Mac)
and the size is not proportional to the browser window.

3. Screenshot attachment for specific parts of the web page will be cool.
Vanilla minecraft does not have in app purchases.

Some privately run servers do have perks you can buy.

Your family members might enjoy some merch like a creeper mug or a diamond mug.
Ericsson tests LTE in extreme conditions
First off, such a great question.

I think there is a danger in trying to make your own life too easy at the expense of making your customers lives easier - especially during a startup period.

I think for tools you have to just do the math. If it takes you 10 minutes once a week and the tool you build takes three hours to develop - then the effort will start paying off in 18 weeks. If it takes you 8 hours to build the tool the you don't break even for 48 weeks (almost a year).

There could be other reasons to build a tool, though. For example the process is error-prone and a tool will ensure it is done properly. Or it enables a non-tech staff to take over something that allows them to help customers better.

Lastly one task is always worth automating - that is data backups.
When it was live then you only needed like 10+ upvotes to get on the front page
I think you're within your right to ditch IE6. I don't even support IE7, users just get a chromeframe prompt.
To be fair, they named it ASP.NET MVC, not just MVC. Considering that it is Microsoft's official MVC web framework on the ASP.NET web stack, I don't think it is an unreasonable name.
Serious politicians study GOTV the way serious generals study logistics. The technical capacity to maintain a supply line is a crucial strategic detail and is carefully monitored by the most senior military officers. They don't manage it themselves but they make quite sure that it is being managed and managed properly.

Several accounts state that Orca positively thwarted traditional Election Day GOTV efforts. Campaigns think those matter enough to put considerable effort into them. So yes, this could well have made the difference, and its failure does have me rethinking Romney's actual management ability.
Thanks! It's a useful (and colorful) overview.
And Plug-In Makes Four: Reviewing the Many Priuses
Got it, thank a lot.
Ironically enough, I think this guy misunderstands TSP. I wrote this comment on his blog:

Let's define a new problem, TSP-cost-optimize, which returns the cost of the best Hamiltonian. It's NP-Complete, because it reduces to TSP-decide: Just do a binary search on the space of possible scores; even if that space is exponential, we're fine, since binary search runs in the log of the size of the space.

TSP-cost-optimize's certificate can be the steps of the binary search; that will be polynomial in size, since it's a polynomial number of TSP-decide certificates, and you can verify it in polynomial time.

Given TSP-cost-optimize, I can in fact provide a polynomial-time-verifiable certificate for the result of TSP-optimize: The result of TSP-cost-optimize on the same graph! So under your definition of NP, TSP-optimize is in fact in NP. (This also makes sense if you use the non-deterministic Turing machine definition of NP.)

What's not clear to me is whether given the result of TSP-cost-optimize, you can actually find a shortest path in polynomial time. But I expect you probably can.
> It is also a hedge against rupee devaluation

This makes perfect sense. I've never thought of it this way before.
Indeed. With lambdas, closures, LINQ, and dynamic types when I want them, I find that C# feels sort of like a nice midway point between Java and Ruby.
Federal prosecutors are fairly independent, so Obama has less control over there actions than you might think.
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Ask HN: What do you use to create icons and simple artwork for your mobile apps?
Hi, I am wondering the question above. Is there a simple, cheap(or free) graphic editor (on Mac) that one could use? I don't need elabrate graphics.