skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting model, but I predict we'll see it way before 2029. We're not going from the first engine to the first mass-produced automobile, and manufacturing, technology, and operations improvements are orders of magnitude higher than a century ago.
Tesla creates cars, not just manufactures them - that includes their battery packs.
Social scientists try very hard to capitalize on the epistemological clout associated with the word "science", epistemological clout derived mostly from the successes of physics, chemistry, and biology in the industrial/medical/policy arena.

The "not science" squabbles are an inevitable result of physics/chemistry/biology not wanting their brand diluted, and the social sciences wanting to, IMO, inflate the value of their own brand.
Normally when I'm working on a new project without clearly defined platform requirements, I'll start with most the modern platforms available and then work my way backwards. It speeds up development and causes less grief.
What if further frustrating is that with today's computer/data systems, it would be easy to correlate appeals with equipment service and train schedule data, and to make reasonable allowances. (Although there would have to be enough policy and procedure to mitigate arbitrariness and bias.)

The ticketing machine was broken, and you appeal your fine? It should take an administrative employee a minute or two to resolve this.

And, reasonable preference should go to believing the customer. Not only is it good public relations, it's a good incentive to maintain equipment and to properly manage schedules and capacity.

For example, as the business, you are worried about people seeing a broken machine and deciding that they can ride for free? Well, that's a good incentive for you to fix the machine.

Good businesses don't take advantage of their customers with crap services and unfair fines, just as they expect their customers not to take undue advantage of them.

The nature of a civilized society. Something having more than a bit of appeal in Switzerland (so I understand).
I don't maintain HN, but that doesn't mean HN is serverless.
I'm really surprised to not see a .NET backend especially since StackOverflow, etc. was built on .NET MVC. I would love to hear the design decision behind that.
Will this eventually look better on small screens? Right now it's lackluster (I'm on an iPhone 5).
> I've seen a couple of air-blade installations, and in those they have slowed things down because paper towel dispensers allow you to take a towel, step back, and dry your hands while another person gets a towel.

I largely agree with your points, but I wanted to point out that most modern bathrooms(and certainly not bathrooms that may have this device deployed) don't have paper towel dispensers. So it isn't a question of paper towels vs this technology, but this technology vs the hot air fan, or the dyson air blade, or other similar non-dead-tree tech
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Cross-platform development is in a better place now than it was when Java first tried to tackle that challenge.

I'm not a huge fan of maintaining installed software, though -- if you have a silent auto-updater, that's not bad, but otherwise you're going to be either annoying people with frequent updates, or supporting (often accidentally) scores of old versions all the time.

What else is there besides Java that can run in the browser and do audio recording, MIDI input, realtime audio DSP, etc.? Obviously not everyone wants fancy audio capabilities in the browser, but I imagine there are plenty of other "niche" capabilities that other people need that are impossible in the browser w/o Java.

I do get a sense now that we're going to see the Java security hole largely closed (thanks to browser limitations and Oracle fixes), but the damage has certainly been done.
>So the article claims that the primary reason to start with an expensive sports car is to build a brand, and that technical and practical concerns are less important.

I didn't read it that way at all.

The writer says it's more important than selling a lot, but it's hardly an exclusive statement. You seem to be reading an awful lot into it.

>And as a consequence of that the car has to be a sports car, because the high price low volume model doesn't make sense otherwise.

There are other high price/low volume segments in vehicles.

>Creating a sports car also makes building a brand easier -- but that's just a nice side benefit. Nothing more.

That seems like quite an understatement. They didn't just need to build Tesla as a brand, they needed to build the concept of fully electric vehicles beyond golf carts and buses.

>So the article gets the causality wrong.

Not really. The article spends 1162 words discussing a number of things, of which branding is just one. You chose to quote just 37 of them and provided your own assumptions to flesh out an argument that doesn't necessarily exist and certainly wasn't the focus of the piece.
I am desperate for graphene capacitors to become viable.
OpDemand or perhaps putting your time momentarily into Chef might pay off? I am still skeptical about the first but it might be cheaper to start with while Chef does a fairly good job of automating provision, configuration, and integration. Problem seems to be initial setup and if you have an unconventional platform.
> functions have to be either one line or in a separate file

Hasn't been true for a while now. You can have sub-routines and scope-local functions within functions now; embedding a procedure within a script is, of course, still impossible. So the situation has improved ever so slightly...
Yes, it does upset the balance slightly for people who want to wash their hands, but not dry them, and for people who want to dry their hands, but not get them wet.

Those are the only scenarios where your argument holds, however.
We think you'll be able to suppress elements in the default design that you don't want with a custom theme or skin.

The default design (by Matt Grantham, great work by the way) is only supposed to be "good enough", not so good that you never want to change it.

And I hope FOR THE LOVE OF FSM that we've created a default design better than the bottom of the barrel that is phpBB or vBulletin, otherwise, geez.. ouch.
Sweet, now you can get your own URLs that are as ugly as Google+ ones.
Yes, its actually pretty despicable. For a house that my parents were considering buying, the architect showed them the floor plans, which was done in Autocad. I realized this not only because I'm familiar with the way Autocad prints look, but there were, in large letters printed 'FOR TRIAL USE ONLY'

Until they start enforcing copyright protection, quality software alternatives will never get the boost they need.
Yeah, I agree, one of my interests growing up was martial arts and I went as far as competing as an amateur kickboxer.

When I eventually came to the crossroads of either turning pro or focusing on purely intellectual pursuits, I chose the latter for economic reasons -- my idols were decorated world champions who were also broken moneyless men in their 30s, so the decision was a no brainer (though a very difficult one because I loved the sport).

If there was a possibility of a comfortable retirement after a 10 year pro career, I would have gone pro for sure.
Google’s big problem: Galaxy brand is starting to beat the Android brand
The Model S already uses space differently because of that, it can seat seven and still have lots of room in the (front) trunk.
Well, I wont go so far calling Rackspace a 'bad' company as such, afterall they have an excellent customer support - but there are somethings which should never be overlooked or , for that matter, never be done when you have such a huge customer base. Rackspace is just taking a wrong turn here!
hmmm. It says I don't have permission to access that course - what gives?
You should use medians rather than averages for this analysis. The median salary for those who play an entire season before getting cut is around $800,000. The median career length is not reported anywhere I can find. Since all sources besides the NFL claim the average career is 3.5 years, I'll overestimate the median to be 3 years.

So, rather than $12M, we should be talking about $2.4M for a median career, and that's just those who play an entire year before getting cut. Since the NFLPA is toothless most NFL "contracts" allow a player to be cut at any time for any reason and then he doesn't get any more money.
Forums haven't changed in 10 years because they got it right back then. I don't think you really need more than a forum and an IRC for a good place for a community to gather. I honestly have yet to find a configuration for online communities I like more than the classic forum and IRC combo.
I Screwed Yasser Arafat Out of $2 million (and lost $10 million in the process)
Definitely a contributor! These are favorable times to have a solid business model and a bunch of healthy growth. Capital was pretty cheap and allows us to try to build a long term, sustainable biz!

Patrick Moran - VP, Marketing, New Relic
How is this accomplished? Does the car talk to your home router via Wi-Fi? Is there a cell connection?
By the time you were fighting in the amphitheatrum novum, you had already survived a bunch of other fights and proven your abilities. And of course the citizen of Rome came for the same "intense display of athletic skill". There isn't much enjoyment in just mindless slaughter, so you add animals and weapons and shields.
How to be a real gentleman?
This cute and really funny picture desribes something that you could see really rare, but it shows how to be a real gentleman no matter how old are you.
Not sure how to fix the title.
It wouldn't let me go over 79 or 80 chars.....so I deleted the word How.
chrome on mac.
I have the same question. As a social phenomenon it intrigues me, but nobody I know uses (or at least, has admitted to using) Snapchat or Facebook Poke.
...of course, most people (including myself) may be incapable of the intense concentration that a genius like Poincaré could muster. Therefore, it's hard to know how useful this fact is to a typical person.
In addition to what asynchronous13 mentioned, the Iranian Air Force maintains and fields several US exports (notably the F4 and the F14). It wouldn't be terribly surprising if their techs were already proficient in English in order to service those aircraft.
The whole point is to be able to keep playing the game, but make it safer. Tech can help identify the players who should be checked for a concussion and get those players off the field. Players don't report their symptoms so the technology enhances overall awareness of the topic (helping the social problem) while adding an extra set of eyes on the field (tech component).
>UI that gets out the way.

This is the biggest problem with the current fad in web design. Designers are designing for their own sense of "look what I can do" instead of for users. People need to stop designing UIs for the sake of seeing how much crap they can stuff in front of my face and start designing UIs to be used.
You're inadvertently helping me make my point. You've framed $1000 as a high(er)-end laptop. The cheapest Retina MacBook Pro is $1,700; $1,000 is the cheapest laptop Apple sells. That the entry-level price point to the Apple system is at the high(er) end of mainstream PC laptops was essentially my whole point.

Higher price points let them include higher specs, even on non-obvious pivots like pixel density and overall build quality.
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I've found a good SQL library (like Alchemy), a good migration library (like Alembic) and a DB with non-blocking migrations is much nicer to use, since it makes data migrations very easy.
Candidly, I was using the funding as an opportunity to introduce our mobile offering via email to our users. That sounds sneaky, but we've invested a lot of effort into our platform and want as many devs to be aware of it as we can! Definitely sent too much email today, tho... sorry, lesson learned. - Patrick Moran, VP, Marketing, New Relic
[OP / Firebase founder here] We certainly aren't trying to be disingenuous with the 'serverless' title. The piece of code on GitHub allows you to build WebRTC functionality that doesn't require you to run a signaling sever. (or, any server if you want to go that far) Though, yes, we still run and maintain the Firebase servers to make this happen.

Sorry for any confusion. I'll add some explicit language in the README on GitHub.

Thanks for checking out the code.
It says fourteen seconds. Washing your hands in the sink then walking over to the dryer/paper dispenser, pressing levers or waving your hands, easily takes 30s. Plus you'll never find a bathroom that has a dryer for each sink, so there are massive gains in parallelism :)
Soccer? That's like watching paint dry.
We're using it at http://sprint.ly/ . In general, I like it.

I wish...

- I could search w/ meaningful results
- I could group by exception type.
- I had a better method of seeing the different input data that caused the exception (without next/next/nexting).
- there were lots more information around my source code.

I could probably come up with a few more if I were pressed to. All that said, we'll continue to pay for the service b/c its useful to our business.
Pagination as in when a forum displays its topics in numbered pages? I've never had a problem with that.
Humans learn by playing. They're wrong about it "not being for toying around".
DoE Hacked in “Sophisticated” Attack
The article is of course right, which is why we should celebrate the opposite cases -- plotlines in which mathematics seems a natural part of the story:

http://www.subzin.com/quotes/Twilight/I+don%27t+want+to+know....

In this example (Twilight (2008)), Robert Pattinson's character rattles off a bunch of hypothetical answers to unasked questions including "1.77245", to which Kristen Stewart instantly replies, "I don't want to know what the square root of pi is."

Obviously a rare occurrence in American filmmaking.
I don't dispute any of that. My point is that it's a risk that everyone, to a great extent, knows about and are willing to take. Most of the NFL players don't care about the health effects until it gets extremely drastic, they are willing to risk their health to get the chance to make a life-changing amount of money. Some people, like Peyton Manning who suffered a grave neck injury, already have the money, but want to do it for the sheer competitive thrill.

To put it into context, it's similar to a couple of college grads spending all their time trying to make a startup. Their chance of success is extremely small, and yet they are still willing to go for it. And if they work 100 hrs a week, they could suffer health problems too, including physical and mental health issues, like depression. There are several stories of startup founders committing suicide because of their lack of success.

How would you feel if a bunch of non-practitioners were sitting around, and added regulations that limited your ability to form a startup because they feared the risks that you were willing to undertake for the chance to "make it rich"?
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Thanks for posting this. I'm running at tech-driven nonprofit right now, and I've been racking my brain about how to attract tech talent on our team. This post helped to highlight that there are way more similarities than there are differences. The most striking and difficult one for me to navigate is the "lottery ticket," though. It seems that most hackers I meet are looking for the next big thing (the next Instagram) and can't be bothered with a nonprofit's world-changing mission. Where are all these altruistic hackers?
Actually if you read that link carefully - complete (or even complex) nematode behavior has never been simulated. Different teams have simulated different traits of behavior such as reaction to pokes on the head, non-spontaneous sinusoidal locomotion (there are different kinds of nematode locomotion triggered by the viscosity of the environment). Nothing resembling a learning nematode, indistinguishable from the real thing in terms of behavior, has ever been achieved (unfortunately).
Obligatory SMBC comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2778
Again: the stupid, sensationalist comparison to bloodsport is not helping your case against anyone who doesn't already agree with you. Normal, rational people will read your comment and say, well, there are no swords or lions in football, nor any caesar giving the thumbs up or down, and almost no one dies on the field. Clearly this guy is off his rocker.
How does Sentry compare to Bitbucket or Github's bug tracking experiences?
Do they have a WebGL one, too?
> If I were able to make millions of dollars for 8-10 years and risk having concussions and other physical problems later on in life, I would probably take it, especially if I came from an underprivileged background.

throwing money at poor people to injure themselves for the entertainment of others is ethically problematic. writing it off as "conscious choice" ignores the fact that people can be pressured by economic incentives into doing things that are not in their overall best interest, but which they are incapable in their present circumstances of realising are a net loss.
You stating your philosophies won me over, mostly because I agree with them. I generally test using the builtin stuff, and only on models. Never controllers or views.
This could be useful.
I've found HTML5/JS games an interesting experience. I'm currently writing an online Pictionary-type game, like Draw My Thing, with HTML5, JS, and PHP. It's been pretty smooth.
agreed. We have multiple email segments for our 300,000+ users and prospects and while its more complex than this, we fumbled our Marketo settings and people with more than one New Relic account in our system got... more than one email... :(

It stinks because our intentions were to get people excited about what's to come... instead you want to strangle me with my power cord.

ahhh... some days...

Patrick Moran
VP, Marketing
New Relic
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It's not ticket tracking like those, instead we automatically collect errors within your application and aggregate them together.
We (http://www.fool.com) are currently using Sentry with a few Django sites, a few Wordpress sites and (very sparingly) with some C# code. There have been a few hiccups here and there with the UI, but we have been extremely happy with the service so far.

As a side note, we also have a legacy internal log error application that we also use, but it is nice to not have to deal with any of that infrastructure :).
Dell is getting out of the hardware business and into the solutions and services business.
Well, we hope that we can popularize Rails to better approach the "it just works on every server everywhere" PHP ubiquity.

And what's, er, worse? PHP everywhere, or Ruby everywhere?
Prior discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5172905
Leading with the _crown_ of the helmet will get you a 15 yard penalty. The second infraction should get you ejected from the game. Leading with the front of the helmet (e.g. planting your facemask in the opponent's chest) is still perfectly legal.

If I recall correctly, this rule ("spearing") was introduced to avoid _neck_ injury, as leading with the crown of the helmet puts an incredible amount of strain on the vertebrae in the neck.
We buy them through amazon. They did suspend our prime account though! No more free shipping for us!

- Patrick Moran
VP, Marketing
New Relic
The "right tool for the job" mantra often cited whereby you run N different data stores for different use cases heavily discounts the true implication of running multiple data stores: you have to run multiple data stores. You have more ways to get burned by your lack of expertise. You need more eyeballs for the same amount of confidence in your system since those will probably need to be different types of experts. You need to know how to monitor them and tune them. Discussion about which data store to use for a given use case becomes a constant drag on discussions. There is less consistency in modeling since you have to work with multiple paradigms. Your software needs to be built to be able to deal with multiple data stores. All your export/import/backup/etc software efforts that are 1-to-1 with each data store need to be multiplied.

The bottom line is if you drop in a second data store because you have a few fields in your database that are a pain to model with a schema, you are doing yourself a disservice compared to just doing ALTER COLUMN foo hstore.

My colleague mcfunley wrote an article about this blind spot when people talk about these issues:

http://mcfunley.com/why-mongodb-never-worked-out-at-etsy
It's not a bug tracker, as in tickets. It logs exceptions and debug messages from your application.
If you practice something 4 hours per day, 365 days per year, you'll hit the legendary 10,000 hour mark in about 6 years and 10 months.

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Does this mean that each of us has a reservoir of about 4 hours of intense concentration per day? When we perform a less-intense task, like driving or facebooking, are we using those 4 hours at a reduced rate?

This sounds like it could feed into another idea - that each human has a limited number of actions per day. Performing actions costs concentration, and so we pay for each action from our concentration reservoir?
Nope. If you were trying to submit it tomorrow, it'd be rejected though.
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But in this case it's not really the CFM that matters, it's also the static pressure. Especially since they're trying to make a nice sheet flow at good speed.
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The non-programmers aren't going to want to ditty around with copying files from a CD, they will just want to run setup.exe.

If someone is going to setup and run a forum figuring out how to deploy a RoR should be a minimum barrier to entry worth an hour of research.
Hey guys - I replied above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5173296) but the short story is that until quite recently we didn't have enough traffic to really help organizers sell their tees, and didn't want to imply that we did by offering a marketplace.

We also didn't have a huge amount of cool campaigns at any one time (up until recently) - which would have made for a pretty poor browsing experience!
Worrying about somebody's safety does not mean I want to take away their freedom. I want people to make an informed choice. I also recognize that we often use information to rationalize decisions we make largely because of our surrounding culture.

I have two uncles who played NFL football and their lives have been enriched greatly by their careers. They may have been lucky to not suffer any CTE. One had a 1 season career because of knee injury and the other's 5 year career as DB and special teams doesn't seem to have caused him any chronic health problems.
Can you tell me how this helped Avaya? I'd love to hear your perspective on the changes they made after going private.
Apple may deny service for an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that is Jailbroken
You have to look at the other choices to appreciate part of it. I know, this is a little bit like saying "we are the prettiest object in a room full of ugly objects".. but.. well, see for yourself:

http://www.forumcon.com/

There are very, very few 1st tier forums that are fully open source, too. None that I know of!
how do you deal with sharded mongo clusters?
It's annoying that I can't see the images in a tiled / gallery fashion. For now I'll still use gramfeed.
Everyone knows what repeated concussions do to a fellow - boxer dementia is age-old - there are regulations against fielding concussed players, yet athletes play on, out of a sense of team spirit, or something. If players and coaches don't go by the information they already have, what will cause them to listen to an electronic box? This does not seem the way forward. Since it's impossible to fight team spirit the rules need changing.