skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a significant fraction of my net worth invested in TSLA and have done so since the IPO. I believe TSLA will become a $50 billion dollar company over the forthcoming decade as it rides 2 cost trends and global GDP growth. Elon Musk does too - his renumeration package has TSLA pegged at a possible ~ $43 billion (http://seekingalpha.com/article/786711-a-43-billion-tesla-mu...).

I add to my position every month when vol. gets high - so please don't buy it :)

Fundamentally what people must understand is that electric cars have reached ICE parity in cost, use and ease of maintenance. Furthermore they either have, or will surpass, ICE vehicles in all categories over the coming decades on a total cost of ownership calculation. Finally by the end of the decade the lump sum cost of a comparable middle class electric vehicle at the dealer (or website) will be lower than an equivalent ICE vehicle on the day that you buy it.

There are 2 fundamental price forces driving this phenomena - and that is peak oil, in addition to Li-on battery production related to the explosive growth of smartphones/laptops/tablets over the last decade. Indeed this is what I look for in any investment strategy - where is the falling waterfall in cost, who is going to get fucked, and who is going to ride the barrel down. Falling prices drive the future - look for converging falling cost trends and a convergence of secondary technologies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... || http://www.amazon.com/Running-Money-Honchos-Monster-Markets/... || http://gigaom.com/2006/10/26/jawed-karim-how-youtube-took-of...).

> In the talk, which is about 45 minutes long, Karim also points to the confluence of broadband penetration, Flash 7, digital cameras and phones, and cheap bandwidth as environmental factors for YouTube’s birth on February 14, 2005. Then he plays the company’s very first video. Uploaded April 23, 2005, it shows Karim himself standing in front of elephants at the zoo. “The cool thing about these guys it they have really, really, really long trunks,” he says. That’s about it.

Gas prices will increase over the next 2 decades whilst battery costs will fall, squeezing ICE vehicles out the affordability range of most Americans.

Back in 1900 electric vehicles died because battery tech was not cost competitive with ICE vehicles, and rightly so, they sucked. In 2012, ICE vehicles began to die, because they were no longer competitive with electric vehicles.

Welcome to the future.
You can opt out to the extent that Google allows and to the extent that Google is transparent about it.
So if I'm reading this correctly, the VC makes $27m and the original founders and team who worked an entire year on the project make $0. Is this correct?

There is more than one takeaway in this story.
I am building an OpenFlow-based fabric where the switches have no configuration; all decisions are made by the controller and pushed down to the switches as soft state. STP is not used, so no ports are ever blocked and all forwarding is shortest-path. The goal is to be fully dynamic so that adding links or switches triggers hitless path recomputation as necessary.

This technically doesn't come out until Tuesday, but here's a peek: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2012/eproceedings/con...
> isn't it more accurate to say that the natural sciences today explore models for the world in which we live?

This is entirely true, and there are absolutely areas of natural science where the "right models" are pretty unclear, such as theoretical physics, as you mention. In this sense my distinction is somewhat fuzzy.

I am likely biased to perceive a large gulf because I work in molecular genetics, a field in which the there is a lot we are certain about; much of what we do is filling in holes and fleshing out the details of overarching models that are known to be largely correct.
>>http://benryves.com/images/nostromo/bsp/2010.11.28/Walkthrou....

Not bad but it is not a 3D Physics engine. Just a renderer. Not the same thing. Still pretty impressive.
Don't they then need to be able to support mergetool? I mean editing, which this essentially is, seems to open a whole can of worms. What if someone else creates a README and pushes to the same branch while you are in the process of creating a README?
Ask HN: Would the Bay Area be benefical?
A little about myself:

- Been programming for ~4 years
- Self taught
- Wife and one child
- Only ever worked telecommute
- I'm in my late twenties
- Canadian

I'm wondering if moving somewhere like the Bay Area would be beneficial for my career. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Monitoring systems are usually extra boxes that you place as either pass-through on the cables, or you tap the signals with attenuators on electric cables, or you bend the fiber enough to tap about 10% light off them, enoufg to regenerate the signal. Other solutions such as just using mirror ports on an ethernet switch exists as well.

This only costs money, not bandwidth.
This Surfboard-Sized Robot Just Propelled Itself Across the Ocean
Do your kids a favor and teach them to code
I most definitely agree. However I don't know how they would go about integrating the IDE while maintaining the healthy git workflow that many have come to love.
Agreed. The ability to edit files from the browser made fixing website typos on-the-go trivial, and this gives even more power to developers whose current machine limits terminal access (Prompt on the iPad + a remote server works wonders, but too often I've had only a colleague's tablet or smartphone to work with).
Devops Reaction GIFs
Portal's physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator
How do you plan to get users to install the extension? Why not cut out the "user" and just buy the data from internet providers?
The actual results page http://transparency.org/cpi2012/results has a link to download the data set (http://files.transparency.org/content/download/533/2213/file...) and within the file there are two folders containing more information about the methodology and sources.
YES! This drives me totally nuts because people using their clients never become knowledgeable about how git works making those people terrible to collaborate with. The vocabulary they teach them is just totally wrong.
If that's the case then thinkful might want to consider rewording "Your new CEO just fired _you_ and..." on that landing page
Yeah, I was mildly sympathetic until it got to the part where they said in passing "oh, unfortunately, we just sort of liquidated the company."
Thanks! Yes, we know that's a problem, and we're working on it. We were thinking of adding a number on the thumb of the slider that changes as you move it. What do you think?
What indirect methods show that as an underestimation?
I do most of my stats work in Matlab, why should I use R?
I understand that tweets were sent because a user opted-in and use some setting to elect to share activity on the site. As a developer I know how tempting it is to defensively declare "that's not a bug" when you feel that no error exists in the implementation itself. However I also think that is a weak excuse and one which you should stop using because it reads as you trying to pass off responsibility for what happened.

Yes, the system did what the user told it to. That doesn't matter. @julien51 seems to have sent 208 "I'm enjoying..." tweets between 10:31 and 10:34, more than a tweet per second for three minutes. To the product's user, and anyone following them on Twitter that's a bug. They don't care (though you certainly should) if the root cause was poor UI design or unclear documentation, or a poorly written background job, or a bad data migration, or whatever else could have gone wrong.
You really only have two options when communicating about your features to your users; either "its broken" or "its working as intended". If you're lucky you might have enough credit with them to be able to add "its working as intended for now but we have plans to improve it in the future".

I don't mean to be too harsh or attack bradfordcross or Prismatic specifically here. I've certainly been responsible for my share of bad user experiences through bugs or "not a bug"s. This just struck me as perhaps a poor way to represent a product to an audience that might trust it or be hearing about it for the first time.

I'm curious, if you had considered the root cause to be a bug what difference would that have made?
There are in fact only a few comparison sites in the U.S., but dozens of lead generation sites where you enter your details and then get calls from agents (often asking for the same details again).
These sites are nearly worthless, as they only give you quotes from a few selected companies (usually the companies willing to pay for leads). None of them includes more than 2 or 3 of the top 5 carriers by price and customer satisfaction, based on J.D. Power surveys.
That's why I built EZquo (http://ezquo.com). It's a simple website that lets you enter your details only once and get a private link that you can pass to any agent for a quote, saving you hours as well as your sanity.
Does anyone have any idea (anecdotal or broad) how often this happens in startups dealing with large companies? Was the Best Buy case the exception or the rule? Pretty egregious.
How about making instagram.com awesome so that it's a better experience than twitter?
I doubt you're reading that correctly.
I am curious as to why that would be ? I think that the product that I helped develop would provide immediate value for someone in this situation, and I think it would be unethical to suggest it without at least a cursory acknowledgement of my bias.

Or does the fact that I work at a company solving these problems preclude me from participating in the conversation ?
That is an excessively sensationalist headline. Portal, physics and graphics-wise, does way more than that graphing calculator.

To imply that they are equivalent is shameful and ignorant.
Author of Stashboard here, love what you guys have done. I'd love to integrate your frontpage design as an optional template.

When I wrote Stashboard, monitoring was explicitly not a requirement. Since it has an API, the idea what to write your own tools for monitoring that would update Stashboard in the event of an outage.

Pingdom support is something that's been asked for many times, so it might be time to dedicate some time to adding integration.
Very interesting read. This sort of thing is pretty much the bread and butter of corporate litigation, though you usually don't get to read the details like this if you aren't involved in the suit.

Thank god for it too--if people stopped trying to screw each other over all the time, I might have to find another line of work!
Some Erlang Magic
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Minor nit: according to Google Finance the market cap of Best Buy is $4B not $50B. Revenue is around $50B.
I strongly doubt that anyone in Citi you'd want to hire for a startup is working under any kind of illusion that Citi is an employment project. If your unit isn't profitable (enough), it's shut. Of course the stock market likes that - or rather, dislikes the opposite.
There is a simpler way to put this.

Don't put words in my mouth. Ever. If you try, I will hate you. Even if you think that I have given you permission, I will hate you if I do not get a chance to review and approve those words. Because it is my mouth that they will appear to come from. And I value my reputation.
Links only to reddit, which doesn't host mature content (just links to it).
Looks good I may use it. Looks like you are using the MIT license which is nice and permissive but could I suggest that you leave the heading ("The MIT License") in so that people can see at a glance that it is that.

That assumes that you haven't changed the licence at all.

[Edit: License does seem unchanged. I've sent a Pull request if the creator does want to make this change.]
Content Delivery Networks: A Primer
The key thing is that the data is "Corruption Perceptions" not actual corruption.

Here is a link with to their FAQs which explain more details. Also they mention there is a detailed sources description document if you download the raw data.
http://transparency.org/cpi2012/in_detail

EDIT: D'oh, looks like jlmendezbonini beat me to the punch.
>>> Some advisors don't even care if you are coding in Python or in stone tables, as long as you "have three stars in your results table".

That is beautiful. It perfectly describes the situation!

I still to this day have scripts that collect data on a variety of markets, but I tend to favor applications to platforms and multi-sided markets. My main one was mobile apps and app stores, but I also am researching video games, hotels, desktop CPUs, to name a few. The questions that interest me most are antitrust problems and finding creative ways to measure competition in an Internet market. I also enjoy IO theory, with my absolute favorite topic being low-price guarantees. To this day, I'm still digging for a creative way to do an empirical study on low-price guarantees to test a theoretical hypothesis I wrote a paper about in an IO theory course I took in the 1st semester of my PhD (was the only 1st year student to take a field course in year 1).

In the first semester of my 2nd year of my PhD (left after year 2), I got my solo work into a conference held jointly by Harvard and MIT called the "First Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day", but my advisors didn't seemed to care much. The conference was awesome and my work got a lot of attention there, including a long talk with the Chief Economist at Microsoft.
U.N. summit votes to support Internet eavesdropping
Sophisticated botnet steals more than $47M by infecting PCs and phones
Citi was one of the best places I have ever worked.

Sure it was tightly controlled with various security precautions, change control and the other banking regulator requirements which made it impossible to be a hacker and to get things done quickly.

But as a workplace it left me with fond memories.
skyfallsin, would this be considered an example of online-to-offline?
Actually, if you notice, the purl.ly link has the original link after it. Even if purl.ly goes down, there's at least SOME reference to be tracked down. Relatively graceful, especially when compared to a WebCite link: http://www.webcitation.org/5IfzstWm1
I read the message as "Your industry sucks to work in now, doesn't it? Why not come to our website to study web programming online so you can come join the tech startup industry instead?"
For those trying out the automatic start, I'd be curious to see how your experience compares with Zite's auto-twitter/google reader/fb startup, if you're willing to give it a shot.
Is there any advice you're able to give on how to distinguish situations where you need secure RNG from those that don't matter?

For instance, you definitely need it in poker hand generation - would you need it for random loot generation in an MMO?

Also by "secure" you mean /dev/random, and /dev/urandom is used as if it was rand()?
But would they be good matches for tech jobs? On what basis are you reaching that conclusion?
Certainly, I didn't mean to imply it is, just use it as a benchmark against which you can get an idea about what the 84 is actually capable of (the Portal thing isn't really a great demonstration of that).

(It is not in fact even a 3d engine, but rather a vector BSP 2.5D one that is technically similar to Doom. To the extent with Doom has physics (pretty much only momentum (seen prominently in how explosion knock back effects entities) and gravity, so not really) that demo kind of has physics. Actually I don't think he actually does momentum, and his gravity is primitive. He's pushing the calculator pretty hard, I'm not sure how much more you could add, but the 89 can do much better.)

Basically I think you could get something close to this on an 89 (with dramatically worse graphics/graphical abilities): https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/QW/client/p...
But that makes you the outlier in most American households. Lots of American families have a car for a specific purpose: minivan for the kids or a pickup for going to Tahoe.

There is no reason that the Tesla has to make a value proposition which assumes it wont be paired with a more utilitarian vehicle by buyers. And with the superchargers, you really can drive the SF-LA corridor, which in CA at least, is very very good.
At the risk of sounding like a heartless bastard upholding tired old stereotypes, enterprise scale retail banking is probably the last place the majority of startups should consider a 'talent pool'. In places like Citi, change is something to be feared, silos are everywhere and 'lean' is probably unheard of (at least in IT circles).

Kudos for at least providing an opportunity for people to improve themselves though. And the sentiment of course.
The biggest advantage I think they would get is a central configuration through all their routers. No need to have a complex interdependent configuration on a dozen routers. One controller can forward the changes to everyone when their made. Also my knowledge here is limited, but I was under the impression that if I added additional routing bandwidth the system would learn about that and automatically make changes to the routing tables to utilize the additional bandwidth ?
I'm pretty sure USA and some parts of europe are red by my standards.
You probably can't go wrong with the Introduction to Statistics class from Udacity

http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/st101/CourseRev/1
Interesting observation - the pricing stays constant at $21/user/month till 2999 users. It changes to 'Contact Us' zone after this.

On the other hand, Atlassian's enterprise offering, Stash, has a different pricing structure with only a one-time payment. Infact, for 2000 users, the upfront costs are 48K versus Github's 2000 user pricing at 500k per year.

I wonder about this large discrepancy in pricing structures between two kind-of-close competitors..
At a guess, it's because you don't describe how it would help.

"Just do a TopN report" is not a diagnosis, analysis, or furtherance of the discussion. If you want to do an effective shameless plug, write a few sentences about how your product would have helped from the beginning of the incident, through its resolution. Show how it would have saved time/effort and given more visibility into the problem.

This was a multi-hour incident with code-level escalation to the network hardware vendor; assume complexity.
On Application Configuration
I wonder if something could be done with the appearance proxy, or even something as simple as a #define from UIView to NUIView in the pch, that would make this even more drop in.
Evaluating the skew in the web counters. Again - it's not a clear proof. Rather it's a reason not to take web counters like a proof.
If anyone's interested in contributing, one of the next things we've got lined up for Gittip is integrating an ORM (It looks like we're going with SqlAlchemy).

Join the discussion at https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/129
I am a UX guy who specializes in community design, and I see some fundamental areas you should work on:

1.) How is this better than Dribbble; a popular, well-respected site with precisely the same pitch? That's not a criticism so much as something to think about.

2.) You forgot half of your target audience. Community like this has two user types that support each other: designers and critiquers. Ideally the critiquers are designers too, but these are two separate behaviours, and your site is designed for one of them. You're never going to reach critical mass until you cater more to the majority (non-uploading, non-commenting lurkers).

3.) It's hard to browse. The start page has a few clickable images and once you choose one, you're doomed if it wasn't something you like. I bet the exit rate (Google Analytics) on that second page is through the roof... what should I do next if I didn't like it? Hit the back button? That's a no-no.

4.) The users are too downplayed. In a community like this, people discover the users through their content. Then they want to follow and see more, which motivates registrations. You should make it obvious who has posted each design, with a clear link to see more.

5.) You did a good job of selling the concept on the start page, and the path to registration is obvious and clear, but I don't want to sign up for something as time-consuming as a community without trying it and exploring a bit first. That's the part that isn't so great right now.

6.) I don't get the metaphor. Is it military or something?

7.) On a purely aesthetic level, you might consider simplifying your brand... there are a lot of colors, and mid-tones, and textures, and geometry, and it's forcing you to use lots of boxes and stuff. It's hard on the eyes. Pick a couple colors, a motif/pattern or two, and reduce, re-use, and recycle. ;)

Good Luck! Nice effort so far!
Ohh, that is very nice, thanks for the link. We happen to have G8264's at the center of our network ...
I've got a fact. 1 != 2. Dedicated Ops [Guru] != no outages (Re: Google outages).

Just because those performing operations tasks are also performing development tasks doesn't mean anything substantial, other than it is more likely the Operations and Development teams are closer to being on the same page and there is less potential for someone getting to sit on their thumbs and spinning.
Ask not what you can do for your hobbies, but what your hobbies can do for you
More delusions of positivity by Tim Draper
NASA releases stunning photos of Earth at night
We're in trouble
Historically, my biggest obstacle to understanding pieces of "real math" was the intimidation factor of the very dense material and the fear that I wouldn't ever be able to understand it.

The best tip I have, one that helps me not be intimidated by "real math," is to find a method of forcing yourself to slow down while reading. I've found that I get intimidated and frustrated only when I'm trying to rush through something. The best method I have for slowing myself down is to keep a notebook open, and write down definitions as I go (and lemmas, and theorems, but from here on I'll just call them definitions). I try to write a definition that is more clear (likely only to myself) than how it was presented in the text I'm reading. I also try to write down important implications of the definitions.

I think the procedural way of thinking about mathematics is natural for someone without much exposure, and is indicative that you're still trying to work out minor details of each definition you encounter. That's fine. If you have to think about a summation as a for-loop to understand it, go for it. After seeing a bunch of summations, eventually they'll carve out their own mental space. I think that writing down definitions will also help to solidify the declarative nature of mathematics, and definitely helps me to move through math more fluidly.

When I'm learning new math, I find that I'm least frustrated when I plan on moving very slowly. I feel that I'm making good time through a mathematics text if I read a page an hour. Next time you encounter some "real math", grab a pen and paper and really dig in to the text.
The way they describe the deal structure, my guess is yes.

The entrepreneurs held stock in TechForward, which sold its assets to a third party but kept the lawsuit. Total investment was only $5.7 million (per Crunchbase), but the lawsuit payout is $27 million. The investors put in more money (hundreds of thousands) at unknown terms, but my guess is that this means a modest number of millions for each of the two founders.