skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tesla flunked the test due to cold weather energy loss.

This might sound pedantic, but the logs don't actually show any overnight cold-weather energy loss. What they do show is that it costs more energy per mile until the battery heats back up.

This makes a big difference when looking at the expected performance, because it means that it doesn't much matter how long you park it in the cold, only how cold it is when you start driving again.

It looks like energy loss, because the system apparently knows that a low battery temp will cause the batteries to drain faster and compensates in the range estimate.
The anti-technology counter-culture is pretty widespread already.

I don't have a facebook page because of their policies and attitude toward privacy.

And that is 'anti-technology lite'. I know a guy who bought a goat and honey farm and literally lived in a hole in the ground for a few years until he could get his mud hut built.

But, ultimately, technology is useful and those that don't utilize it will be at a disadvantage.

I, for example, promised my wife I would go ahead and re-activate my facebook account soon so she could stop relaying messages to me. Utility conquers all.
I can re-enable the plug-in and make a snapshot, let me do that.

edit: done, snapshot added to the post, you probably will have to do a shift-f5 to see the update.
In addition to the Heinz margins, most grocers rely on only 1% margins.
One thing that's fun in this day and age is that you can actually check out the buildings from space!

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Panmunjeom,+Kaesong,+North+Ko...
I have an aversion to hosting 3rd-party functionality on my sites for this very reason.

They do not work for you, they do not answer to you, and their motives are usually quite different than yours.

Thus, don't be surprised when they act to satisfy those motives in ways that you may not entirely agree with.
So this has been going on earlier than December, at least as early as October, according to this Disqus blog post (which says they started it in August):

http://blog.disqus.com/post/32684337804/expanding-promoted-d...

So how sure is the OP that he didn't just miss the emails/announcements about it? That said, yes, those links are kind of annoying (especially when unstyled) and can clash with the content.

As much as I want to switch my blog to Octopress, at least I can have a commenting system through Wordpress.
Announcing Balanced Payouts (YC W11)
and by secured u mean what exactly?....
There are a few good ones in here, but this list like almost all of them reads like a trivia quiz asking about a bunch of acronyms that a developer may or may not know and never really digs into the core principals.

Companies will never isolate a good developer from a quiz or code test. The best way to spot talent is to look at something they built, look at the code that they wrote for it, and ask questions pertaining to that code. From that you will be able to gauge passion and learn about their decision making process. All this other stuff is just ego stroking because the test writer chooses the trivia questions they know.
Don't feel too bad, the title misled me for a few seconds too.
Xbox co-creator on where the console is now: ‘Stupid, Stupid’
Tech Thoughts and Ideas from Italy
Serious developers take an interest in making things as simple as possible, ideally each piece have singular responsibilities, and no magic. Software engineering is hard, and it is heartening to see more people realise and promote awareness of some of the more dangerous anti-patterns we see in frameworks like Rails.
"If you aren't paying for the product/service then you are the product/service being sold."

EDIT: Wow. Why the downvotes?

Do people still not understand this saying? I understand it hurts if/when you get burned but it shouldn't come as a surprise when free services change to something less desirable to monetize their business models. I wouldn't be surprised if they soon offer paid "premium" accounts that don't show ads.
Yes, but some OEMs may ship machines without Windows 8 certification, and Microsoft cannot do anything about them shipping with no way to turn Secure Boot off, an ironic consequence of the DoJ lawsuit against them.

Thus, the OEMs need to be named and shamed. However I am not holding my breath for richij (who also appears to be the article author) to name the OEMs.
To elaborate further on the volatile and memory barriers in C: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git...
The United States Redrawn as Fifty States with Equal Population
Musk's emphasis is "drove in circles for over half a mile."

I read that as "drove in circles for over half a mile." I.e., not really enough to make it conk out.

There are other things in Musk's post that make me worry about Broder's reporting, but not this.
Lua Scripting Support Being Added To NetBSD Kernel
Solving this problem is easy: Run haproxy, and he'll have detailed control over the balancing algorithm, including balancing by least connections and a number of other measures (if he, for example, wants to segregate the long running requests on a specific set of backends, it's trivial).
I think it's great you're helping out people who want to learn with posts like this.

A couple critiques:
When I was first learning, I was desperate for Hello World code I could paste and run. As basic as this tutorial is, sometimes even a little abstraction makes it hard for newbies to grasp. For example, why not make the doWhatever function do something, so they can run the code and see how it works?

Same with assignment vs eval... demonstrate it in a fully functioning piece of code they can copy, paste and hack themselves.

Analogies to noble gases aren't the best... since non science people may not even remember what that is. Also, a can easily be changed, so I'm not sure the analogy even holds.

Nice post overall. I think Hacker news should have a way to easily find all articles like this.
Any video streaming demo?
The reason you I on those sign in with x is because I am either too lazy to type an email or because I don't trust the site.
Thanks for the candidness and honesty. It is really refreshing to hear the details--mistakes and all!
TIL. Thanks. I think. ;)
Stripe Enables Cloud Payments with StackMob
> without tests nothing prevents a teacher from spending a year of math class discussing how they students feel when they look at numbers and why math is inherently sexist

Tests with no consequences don't prevent a teacher from doing so, either. My experience (and that of teachers I know) is that bad teachers don't particularly care how the tests turn out, since there aren't direct consequences, while good teachers do care and adjust accordingly. This comes about because bad teaching correlates (unsurprisingly) with not caring how the school as a whole looks compared to other schools.

> Could you explain why?

If we abolished tests, bad teachers would continue doing what they do now and what they did before testing, while good teachers would stop spending all their time teaching how to memorize facts and take multiple choice tests, and leave time for teaching how to think.
I guess that would be Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet.

I remember him saying he wouldn't bet one nickel that the Surface Pro would come with a unlockable bootloader.

He should've bet a million, he would've won!
I looked around and didn't see a SIM slot. Tesla hasn't disclosed the carrier in use either.

They did however say that you'll be able to tether a phone with a data connection to the car via USB to avoid paying a subscription for the car.
AOL founder Steve Case argues for immigration reform in the Senate
Love the simplicity, the name and the presentation. I'll try it out right a way on a project, I was just getting to the part where I'd animate stuff with either jQuery or CSS3 and it looks like this will make it a breeze. Thanks!
It's so hilarious to see people write things like this as if they have discovered or thought of something novel. Have they not read any of the major cyberpunk or sci-fi novels of the past century? Have they not studied any history of technology? The article doesn't mention Luddites even once.

Personally I view anti-technology, anti-progress, and anti-intellectualism as perhaps the greatest threats to our society. I want to get as close to a Ghost in the Shell-like world as possible in my lifetime, and those forces are directly in the way.
To expand on this:

You have to remove the port declaration from the line for Unicorn in your Procfile, and then add a line like this to your unicorn.rb file to define the listener port along with adjusting the backlog size:

listen ENV['PORT'], :backlog => Integer(ENV['UNICORN_BACKLOG'] || 100)
Another reason this is dumb is that this is the kind of thing that Google doesn't much like. They don't want to index and rank content highly just for it to be mostly inaccessible.

I have no idea how much new traffic to Quora comes from organic search, but I have to imagine its not unsubstantial.
It's too bad that RSA was hacked but what was inexcusable was how they responded. Basically they wouldn't tell anyone what happened unless you signed some NDA or something.
Then they said they'd replace your current one's with new free one's. Yea the keys to the kingdom were stolen, let me get some more of that please!
Not sure if this is the same thing the OP is talking about, but there is a 'Recommended Content' section with a bunch of ad-type links at the bottom of each post's comments on http://avc.com
What you say is true. But most people also did not foresee the USSR collapse in the early 1990s. At least not with the speed at which it happened.
An interesting question is why do developers prefer runtime extensibility over compile time extensibility? Runtime extensibility trusts whatever happens to come on the wire, compile time extensibility explicitly whitelists the exact set of functionality the server will support.

Hypothesis: developers don't like code generation. Partly because build systems are unreasonably difficult to tweak, partly because debugging tools are too crude to handle code generation graciously.
Based on your link above it appears that you can turn off the "discovery box" in the Disqus settings and have "just comments" if you wish.
No, we attempt to prove it and sometimes fail to do so, at which point we are justified in rejecting the null.
There was very little "How" in that article.
To me it depends. Something like Disquis where they were giving it away for free I agree. However if it is a for-pay service where you are exchanging money for service, they have some incentive to do right by you, so that your money does not go elsewhere.
Don't spend more than half of your budget on 1.0.
danilocampos, I'm usually inclined to give Kickstarter projects the benefit of the doubt. I have backed so many projects that I have come to expect delays as part of the normal course of action. Keep in mind even the Pebble hardware was supposed to ship in September. But the team knew they would miss that date and communicated that to their backers. This is what a good Kickstarter project is all about.

However, not only their lack of communication but REFUSAL to answer questions about it (as evidenced by this post) is an unacceptable way to treat your backers and supporters. It would take Eric no more than 5 minutes to respond on the forums or do a Kickstarter update.

Still waiting...not so patiently.
I've tried looking for something exactly like this before to no avail. Really awesome assuming it can deliver!

That said, being more transparent in the Readme on Github about the browsers that are currently supported and that plan to be supported would be appreciated. Blob is only Chrome 21+, Firefox 13+ and IE 10+ according to MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Blob), and judging by the "FileBlob API is not supported" comment under the TODO section, there isn't any backwards compatibility yet. How far back are you planning on supporting?
That's bullshit. Traffic isn't that bad in manhattan. I've driven there for 10+ years now. Two miles is going crosstown. At worst it might take you half an hour. Typically, it's more like 15 minutes.
> I think America is the best country in the world, that doesn't mean I don't think everything is broken or that America is the best at everything. I feel like America is certainly weak in certain key areas, but in many areas America cannot be beaten.

Most importantly, how are you trying to fix the areas that are broken? Are you even doing anything towards fixing them?

> Where do you live, might I ask? Have you spent significant time in America?

I'm in Canada these days, I lived a year on the West Coast of the US and a year on the East. I've spent another year driving all around, I've spent time in ~40 states.

> In fact, in every country the people I've interacted with have universally complained about the same issues that are fundamentally broken in America (healthcare, immigration, education, etc).

Right, because they're interested in constant improvement. It doesn't matter how good healthcare in Norway is (brilliant) - it can always be imrpoved upon.

That is the mentality that is lacking in America these days - the drive to constantly improve upon things are sometimes good and sometimes bad.

> I've never had the impression that any developed nation would provide me a better quality of life.

You're OK with more than double the chance of being murdered? or involved in a violent crime? You're fine with double the chance your kids or their friends will be born into poverty? You're happy your child is massively more likely to be obese and have serious medical complications because of that? How about incarceration rates? How about police violence rates? Student debt? (you don't even realize you graduate into servitude)

If you're happy, that's great. Other countries do it better.
They've been doing this for months, and it's done revenue-sharing style, so if you're getting a lot of comments, you stand a chance of making a couple of bucks through the ads. (If you go to your admin page and click Analytics, you'll see the discovery tab which tells you how much you've made.)

I've gotten multiple emails on it, so it certainly wasn't a bait and switch. A piece from November on the matter:

--

The new Promoted Discovery for Disqus was a major release for publishers like you who are seeking ways to drive business around content, community and conversation. We’re very excited about the results so far. There’s strong engagement in discovered content and excellent flow of new high quality traffic for websites using Disqus. This tells us it’s winning for both publishers and their readers.

We’re only getting started. As we grow, we'll continue to evaluate new opportunities for you to grow and make money with us. We think you’ll like them because, like Promoted Discovery, they will be complementary to the user experience. If you’d rather not try out these features, you can always turn them off in your settings.

The next feature we’re piloting lets you get credit for the traffic you drive to ecommerce sites like Amazon or eBay. If you already do some form of affiliate linking, we do nothing to those existing links. Soon, you may begin to see the impact of these in your reporting dashboard (we’ll be rolling this out slowly over time). Of course, all of this happens seamlessly behind the scenes — the experience for your readers doesn’t change at all. You can learn more by reading this page.

At Disqus, our core philosophy is to remain native to the core user experience and provide the best community experience possible. As always, I welcome your questions and feedback.
You are absolutely right that volatile is inadequate for ordering C/C++ concurrent algorithms, and memory barriers/fences are additionally required. I tried to focus on the hardware in this article.
Frequent Travel, Miles and Points: Time to Give Up?
This supports some of the rumors I have heard but raises more questions about why the silence on it to all other backers.
"If Gecko and WebKit both support the same signature..."

That's a big if, and eliding the whole reason for vendor prefixes in the first place.
Wouldn't that fall under the "seriously sensitive information" that is recommended not to be sent? From the FAQ:

"That being said, you should always be careful. We recommend you do not send any seriously sensitive information through Ghostmail and refrain from corresponding with people you do not trust."

That being said, congrats on building something. I still haven't gotten that far.
The 'P' stands for platform. Providing the platform as a service absolutely means catering to the specific needs of the platform. There is no generic platform. If you want to support multiple platforms, then you support multiple platforms. You don't stop supporting any platform at all.
Auto-review journalists are, if anything, much worse at basic facts than normal journalists.
That's how things are for now. His point is that all the cards are in place. Switching to default logging won't happen with fanfare.
I am not sure it is accurate to call Facebook a "technology," any more than it is accurate to call driving from your house to work a "technology." Facebook is built on technology, but you are using that same technology when you post a comment on HN. Not using Facebook is kind of like only driving to pick up groceries, and riding a bicycle to work.
>"Are you trolling? No, you don't have to drive it 'slow'"

45 mph isn't slow to you? You must not drive. Broder is criticized for driving too fast. Elon knocks the fact that he drove an average of 60+, and calls him out for driving 80. So what if he did? I do all the time. That's how people drive. If speed is irrelevant, why does Elon harp on it in his blog?

>"No, you don't. You're just making things up."

Huh? Elon is saying "Look! He turned the heat up!". So what? He wanted it warmer. This is not a problem in an ICE vehicle.

>"No, it's not. You know what's craziness? Humanity driving cars that burn things and pollute our atmosphere to the point of causing and accelerating global climate change, driving species to extinction and gunning towards global upheaval. That's craziness."

Yeah, because the machinery required to dig all those precious metals out of the ground to make these batteries aren't burning a ton of diesel in unstable countries around the planet. Nor are the machines that need to build the charging stations in close succession, because you have to charge these cars far more often than you have to fill up with gasoline (and gas stations are already too prominent on the landscape). Glad you'd like to see more. Nor is the electric grid that most people will charge from "dirty".

Why do you take this so personally? You seem really angry that people aren't as impressed with this thing.

Elon's argument is essentially: he drove too fast, he set the cabin temperature too high, and didn't charge long enough. As a guy who puts 30k miles per year on my car, those are things that would annoy me and I wouldn't expect from a car approaching six figures.
Hitler may have been on the verge of breaking the RAF before switching to bombing cities, but a land invasion is quite another thing entirely, and can't be assumed to have succeeded.
I don't know why the author is annoyed at this, it's not as if he's paying for the service.
I have not received an email, there is no opt-out switch, and honestly I have not seen this on the comment section of my blog until it showed up just now. Elsewhere in this thread there are people that say they don't have it right now so it appears to switch on/off according to some hidden criterion.

Highly annoying.

"At Disqus, our core philosophy is to remain native to the core user experience and provide the best community experience possible."

I hate language like that.

And I'm 100% sure that I have never seen these ads before.
John Broder must change from journalist to QA.
Whether it's comments, posts, email, OS, government etc... what you don't control, you don't own. Period.

I enjoy reading comments (despite their negative vibe lately) since there are still some nuggets of gold amid the asinine BS. The deluge of rubbish is really from unmoderated places (news blogs are particularly notorious), but if an admin keeps on top of these, comments are a beautiful thing. Another blog losing comments is a damn shame. It's just one more nail in the coffin for interraction away from the shadow of walled gardens.

I think this was already mentioned elsewhere on HN, but Stallman was right.
"The system could easily be built so that it by default only aggregates those services where the configuration indicates they can handle a concurrency below a certain level, and does random balancing of everything else."

Let me know when you are done with that.
Jesus.

Maybe OP doesn't like sci-fi, and so no he hasn't read any of those books. I'm a nerd and I probably haven't read most of the books that you were bouncing around in your head when you made this comment.

And he never claimed to be Socrates. He simply had an insight and chose to share it.

Why so angry?
Thanks for your feedback! You can post issues on github, if you have and troubles or questions.
Show HN: Using QR codes to pay bills
Whatever the case, you can turn it off:

http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/666278#disco...
Tactics - Feigning Retreat. 3 Classical Battles: Salamis, Chaeronea, & Hastings
Right, until they change things again and you get a new 'feature' for your benefit which you auto opt-in to.

That's the kind of behavior that turned me off from having a facebook account. That you need to review their terms of service all the time to see what they are up to now.
Researchers create crash-proof, self-repairing, inspired-by-nature computer
> The anti-technology counter-culture is pretty widespread already.

Your anti-technology example isn't really an anti-technology example.

> I don't have a facebook page because of their policies and attitude toward privacy.

But your not having a Facebook page isn't an objection to technology, it's an objection to Facebook's privacy policies, which isn't a technological issue.

> And that is 'anti-technology lite'.

Not really. If you were unwilling to have an airplane-style black box in your car that recorded your every move, would that choice be based on your attitude toward privacy, or your attitude toward technology?

If you were the leader of an Al-Qaeda cell in Pakistan, would you refuse to use a satellite telephone because (a) you didn't want to be blown up by a drone strike, or (b) you were against modern technology?

Not all rejections of technology are based on a rejection of the technology itself -- there are other equally valid reasons.
It has an active 3G connection at all times and can be queried for its GPS position ? Damn, future is both exciting (tech wise) and scary (privacy wise).

Now that I think about it I'm sure it's not the only car with this, but I didn't realize before
It should have defaulted to 'off'. You can break trust exactly once.
Totally agreed. A quick search turned up this White Paper written by a few LMCO employees (PDF):

Intelligence-Driven Computer Network Defense
Informed by Analysis of Adversary Campaigns and
Intrusion Kill Chains -- https://www.vita.virginia.gov/uploadedFiles/VITA_Main_Public...
Method Raises $3M Series A To Spread CRM To Accounting Platforms
I think that's a little unfair. BH is buying Heinz for the same reason it buys as much Coca-Cola as possible.
> "I want to get as close to a Ghost in the Shell-like world as possible in my lifetime"

GITS is not exactly a ringing endorsement of its own universe. We're talking about a universe where indentured servitude is the norm, xenophobia runs rampant, entire people are hacked and puppeteered by blackhats, the class divide is wider than ever, and there are constant, violent clashes between the techno-elite and the have-nothings who rely literally on scrap cybernetic implants to survive. And in all of this, no one is safe - even the rich - everyone is subject to the whims of hackers on both sides of the law.