skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Anyone interested in doing that should be well aware of how to spoof a user agent."

You are not answering the question. Why block a user-agent, if the check can be easily worked around?

Edit: I mean why block as opposed to display a simple warning ("this site is known to not work well with your browser").
To be fair immediately above the point you mention it says

"... The Tesla battery is optimized for nightly charging: topping off frequently enhances the longevity of your battery."

So though I agree that the author has a good argument he should have mentioned that Tesla does advise nightly charging albeit for battery maintenance rather than to guard against charge loss.
How is that a no-brainer? As a software developer, I do not delegate outside of the technical community on how to do my job (Note - Inspiration is drawn from the outside, but not explicit direction.) This is probably true for most tech people. It seems to unreasonable to hold teachers to different standard. Heck, as a community we often pride ourselves on being opinionated on a specialized area.

Then again, maybe that's close-minded of me. For all I know, the next billion dollar software company might have all of its technical decisions vetted by a panel of soccer moms.
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Several years after the release of Duke Nukem Forever.
That doesn't answer my question. Hosting Matters wasn't in the list.

They also have many higher-priced offerings, and their low-priced offerings include 70 megabytes of data and not, a la Google Drive, 100GB.
Yes, you can over-subscribe RAM either through ballooning or just by over-subscribing the host.

Both KVM and Xen use QEMU for their device models so the machine they emulate is very similar (at least in HVM mode). Xen and KVM use different paravirtual I/O drivers but everything I've ever seen indicates that I/O performance is better in KVM.

Xen PV guests are a mixed bag. On the one hand, they work on boxes without virtualization hardware (which are rare anymore) but on pre-Nehalem/Barcelona processors, they are much slower than using HVM (especially 64-bit).

I've never seen a good Xen HVM benchmark either comparatively speaking... Of course, I'm more than a little biased :-)
You're extending your experience to that of a public school teacher, and that's simply not a fair comparison. I'll try to touch all of the ways in which your situation is different and why this has a bearing on the subject at hand:

-You have fewer students. This is a _much_ bigger deal than you make it out to be, especially at higher grade levels. When you have to give feedback to close to 200 students (over 200 it not unheard of), you can't make it as meaningful as you'd like. There are things you can do with a couple dozen students that simply does not scale.

-You are dealing with an easier subset of children. If their parents want them to have extra lessons, and are both willing and able to pay for it (or even fill out scholarship forms), then you're not dealing with any of the difficult kids. Parents who don't care about school beget kids who don't care, and they are orders of magnitude more difficult to work with.

-Its clear that you are not aware of how much material these standardized tests expect you to cover in a course. I'm sure it varies by state, but this is from the perspective of VA testing, which is where I grew up and where I know many teachers. For just about any tested middle or high school class, they have the material mapped to within 3 or 4 days of the length of the school year. A couple of unexpected days off and they have to start cutting material that the test expects to be covered. There's absolutely no time to do the things you're talking about unless you want to blow off the tests - and then you're out of a job.

Standardized testing, _in its current form_, is an unmitigated disaster for students' educations. If you can say otherwise having actually faced the system you are so happy with (or even talked to a few who have), then we have a conversation.
I think it's more about letting people know about alternatives, which may turn out an option for their needs...

It's similar to IE era, when majority thought IE is the internet and couldn't imagine other browsers.
Not at all: it's you who don't seem to have read the post. He reaches a person, who completely fails to help in any way. Eventually after a further series of emails, someone cancels his order and fails to ship him the actual phone he'd been waiting for. I can't see how calling Support earlier would have helped.
A quick google search for "LiteIDE screenshot" shows the following URL for screenshots for those interested:

http://mac.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/LiteIDE-X-Screensho...
Might want to emphasize your lib's dependence on jQuery, especially since your article says it can be installed in "just one line", the opposite of what the Github README shows.
It is cool that people are doing this (Karateka, etc.)
1. Mathematica
or
2. Just pick a random cool name, how about: pipe | (they use pipe in wolfram|alpha)
Why rewrite applications that already exist?

Microsoft Office for Linux did not and does not already exist.
Indeed, if that location data's GPS, it can get pretty distorted in the city. Especially if there's a lot of thick cloud coverage.
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You make it sound like rewriting MS Office is a bad thing. At its core, MS Office is a very solid piece of software, so why spend resources and divert focus to try to improve on something Microsoft has already made near-perfect? And rewriting it under the GPL license (so it's free) adds value to the project as well. Not to mention that by rewriting it, you make it easy for people to pick up your project easily.
This. If I could replace my original post with yours, I would. This is exactly what I was trying to say.
Agreed. I didn't expect anything, merely warning other people not to waste their time.
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It's good that other car manufacturers did not throw in the towel when they saw how successful Ford was. Sadly, they mostly copied the cars and production techniques. Although some have dared to innovate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8

What is amazing is that an open source project comes anywhere close to keeping up with what is one of the flagship products of one of the largest, most profitable companies the world has ever known.
A backdoor that bricks the device, but only if it's the first packet received, isn't terribly useful. The more plausible explanation is that it's a bug that was introduced by the actual backdoor that still remains undiscovered.
I couldn't downvote this, but here's why a downvote is merited:

In a Porsche Panamera S, start-stop driving and idling for an hour in traffic going from Secaucus NJ to Manhattan through the lincoln tunnel a month ago (had to install a new server in NY4), I used approximately 2 gallons of gas (less than 10% of capacity). It's certainly not trivial, but it's nowhere near the drain that Musk is effectively claiming.

That, combined with the fact that engaging in stop and start driving was a natural conclusion of the advice that Tesla gave him while he was driving (regenerative braking), really seems to suggest that Tesla gave poor advice (and you can't blame the author for following poor advice).
To me, "language" implies freely available to use. This is not a critique of mathematica nor its pricing, but merely when I think of "computer language" I think of python or c++ or java etc.
What? Haskell barely has any syntax as well. Slightly more than lisps, but nowhere near to C family languages.
Those aren't arguments, they're opinions.
It really depends on the problem. The canned text exists because certain issues are so common that they can be resolved with a pre-written response. That's typically the first thing the staff lean on when they see a contact from a customer.

The bigger problem is that customer service is a McJob, and pays like one, and the staff only deliver service on par with the salary they're given. Generally the people serving you could be getting paid multiples of their current salary if they could find a pizza delivery gig (no joke, pizza delivery can pay up to $30 an hour counting tips).
I wouldn't think a book is necessary. A short "pamphlet" basically could be really great for (a) convincing people that statistics can be done more flexibly than they might think and (b) showing a number of case examples as to how to do it.

The value of further published material might be improved by this kind of publication as well.
If you're building NBCnews.com, sure.

If you're building a fun hobby project, you can do whatever you like, including building it in a specific environment.
I'm willing to put up with a certain amount of bullshit to save $150 on a phone (that's effectively the discount you get by ordering the Nexus 4 from the totally broken Play store).
Pretty sure that the laws of all 50 states considers that to be fraud.

If the person committing the fraud is poor however or very young, the will to prosecute the fraud is often absent, but you cannot count on that.

For example, someone was prosecuted here in California for helping a friend without health insurance obtain medical care by trying to get the hospital to believe that his friend was him.

IANAL though.
Makes no sense to measure fluctuations without a reference. Are you saying the numerical value solely determines the price? If so, the pizzas were very very expensive in Italy before they got the Euro.
I remember during the late 90's early 2000's RT was used in almost every NOC because it was one of the few options available.

From the screenshots it looks like it hasn't gotten any better since then. Are you sure your positive experiences aren't just from lack of exposure to newer tools?
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Or--ask them in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Cleveland, etc.--when they pick up stakes and move the franchise.

(Free trivia tip: both of Baltimore's major teams used to be called the Browns.)
Awesome!

But for Journey there's little hope. (https://getsatisfaction.com/thatgamecompany/topics/will_jour...)
Erm, really?

Love it when people write about OO without OO experience.
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I find it funny that 2 out of 3 replies to your comment are explaining why it is impossible, and the third is a link to the company that made it work.
Actually, it is quite easy to devise a system that will scale within reasonable cost.

// Initialization
For each grade in 1 to N-1
let teacher[grade] = class[grade].teacher;
end for
let teacher[N] = peerFromNearbySchool();

// Main loop, do term after term.
For each grade in 1 to N
let teacher[grade+1] = (grade < N)
? class[grade+1].teacher
: peerFromNearbySchool();
//Basic adversary strategy
//1. Have someone with actual situational awareness
// and stakes on the game choose the measures.
let teacher[grade+1].design(exam[grade]);

//2. Implement checks and balances to avoid abuses.
teacher[grade+1].send(exam[grade], principal);
try
principal.disclose(exam[grade], teacher[grade]);
catch UnfairnessError(err)
let principal.dealWith(err.complexSolution());

//3. Measure, take decisions and deal with corner cases.
for each student in class[grade]
note = student.take(exam[grade]);
if (note < std.threshold)
student.flunk();
else
student.pass(grade+1);
if (student.isALuckyIdiot())
let teacher[grade+1].dealWith(student,
next_term);
end for //student

end for //grade

//
Yeah, I bet he'd say the same thing to his car service technician, just fix the f*king thing, use duck tape if needed...
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You want to buy a pizza for yourself or someone else. At some point your transactions will have been gathered together to do so, either in the merchant's wallet or elsewhere.

Hey presto, there's some information. Either about liking to buy pizza, having friends in country X, or being based in country X.

Trace it backwards, you have a list of people potentially involved.

I'm not saying that a single transaction will identify you. However, much like that EFF browser identity page, it doesn't take many bits of information - plus a few "likely good with computers" type guesses - to start putting together a list of very plausible identities.

You're kidding yourself if you believe otherwise.
> Problem is, ticket response time isn't an indication of quality.

I didn't say it would be easy... you'd have to have a somewhat subjective metric of "did a person answer?" and "did they tell me something useful?". Maybe you could use Amazon's mechanical turk or something like that...
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So non technical users go "oh, I'll take a look in Chrome", not "this thing's stupid, nothing works".
Apparently the reporter was averaging 81 MPH, going by an earlier comment. I don't know if that's true or not, but that is a very high average speed and it will have serious effects on fuel economy.

To average 81 MPH in traffic, you are going to need to spend a fair amount of time north of 90 MPH. If the charging station intervals were based on expected speeds closer to 55-65 MPH, then the idea that the trip could be made at 80+ was questionable from the outset.

So, yeah, there's adhering to posted speed limits for best fuel economy, there's driving with the traffic for maximum safety, and then there's full-blown Mad Max mode, which is apparently what you do when you want to make the car you're testing look bad.
Amazon always has the cheapest price?
Well, sure, but maybe not at the Vatican.
It's a proof-of-concept hobby project, as far as I can tell.
back then we really only had Assembly as an option for games. It was a speed issue more than anything else.
Microsoft hasn't made Office perfect, that is the point. Why is Open Office spending all of their considerable resources on mere copying, instead of producing something valuable all of their own?

Open Office is inferior to Microsoft Office because their mission is to be Microsoft Office, rather than to surpass it. They can never be a perfect copy.
I also signed up, but had a very different feeling. Sync is hard to get right, and so far (other than a brief but inexcusable security sanfu) Dropbox has been rock solid. Just absolutely rock solid, which is something I can't say about many services. There are many ways to screw this up; just look at Apple.

Dropbox is also the most transformative pieces of software I've ever used. It's not an exaggeration to say that it changed the part of my life that involves a computer. Finally I can keep multiple computers in sync easily, and if a system ever goes down or I get a new one I can have all the data/documents I need on it in one step. This is ONLY possible if I trust that system completely. I'm not sure anyone will ever unseat Dropbox for me. I pay them with a smile.
JSF is not dead ... yet
I think most people would parse "rational thinking community" as a community interested in rational thinking, similarly to how you'd parse Python community as a community interested in Python rather than one that was implemented in Python. English is generally very prone to ambiguity, and if there's a valid interpretation of what someone said that makes sense it's usually best to assume that's what they meant unless further evidence indicates otherwise.
I want to provide a nice blend between visual editing and source code editing (I'm a developer). Poses and transformations should be edited visually, but scene structure should be edited by hand via the code. This way you get total control over document structure. Creating good visual-only editor would require too much work and maybe it is not possible at all. Do you know any successful FrontPage-style HTML editor? Quite frankly, I don't need it myself, so that is the primary reason, I'm probably not going to build it at this point.

Heads should be customizable in the future:
https://github.com/darwin/cmx.js/blob/master/app/lib/cmx/ent...

Actually the system already supports attach points, so you can attach items to hands, foots and necks (right now the bubble is attached by default to a head bone).

The last generic piece which is missing will be <drawing> element. Right now it just allows you to specify lines. In the future it will enable you to insert any SVG which is convertible down to paths. I will just resample them and convert them into XKCD-style lines while keeping other styling. This will enable you to insert arbitrary SVG drawings in the scene. I won't create web-based photoshop for SVGs, I will let you import SVG created in other tools as long it is convertible to paths. Imagine it as embedding bitmap images into HTML files. This will be similar idea.
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There's a difference between saying that for many things, MS Office wins and some of the spittle-flecked rants about OpenOffice that one sees.
It is pretty easy to fork bitcoin and create your own cryptocurrency with your own monetary policies. Good luck.
5-whys is a common root-cause algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
I'm sure a nice infographic and a simple article that requires zero research are significantly easier to whip up than a good analysis, presented in a way understandable to people, of a detailed set of logs.
Of course :)

However, it does limit feedback for any of us not using Chrome. Author is probably cool with that though as it appears and I commend them for not making us jump through hoops to try it anyways by switching user agent.
False dichotomy. There are a million other potential explanations. As for what it is in each specific case, quite possibly different.

For us, it's a combination of factors:

1. Our lower plan is for freelancers. Freelancers are basically by nature unprofessional, and suck at business. (Saying this as a former freelancer who fit that bill for a long time.) Freelancers go out of business all the time, and they also don't engage in professional practices with any great will. Larger plans -> larger teams -> more professional and more durable as a business. They also tend to evaluate software more carefully and then stick with what they pick because A) they don't get paid to try out infinite software packages, B) they do actually want to get paid and not procrastinate or diddle around pretending to look for the perfect tool, C) getting a whole team off one tool and onto another takes valuable time & energy away from actual work.

2. Cheap customers are always the worst. Always. This cuts across all industries. People who shop on price are not the people you want to deal with… they are the most demanding and again far more likely to quit! You'd think lower prices would mean lower expectations but it seems the opposite is true. These people can scent a low price a mile away through the muddy waters of the internet, and once you attract them, the only way to shake them is to raise your prices.

We have friends who run software that's more urgently needed than time tracking — something that couldn't, theoretically, be replaced by a nasty Excel spreadsheet -- and they see exactly the same behavior even though in theory even their smallest, cheapest customers ought to be professional and on the high end of the tech savvy scale. You simply cannot believe how much happier they are since they dropped their lower plans entirely.

We too have seen a decline in crazy support emails since we raised our prices across the board.
There is something to be said for a vehicle that works just as well for a trip to the grocery store as a trip across the U.S. The thinking is that I can have one car that does everything I need, rather than two cars or one car + renting. Two cars doubles your costs and renting, while possibly reasonable cost-wise, is hugely inconvenient compared to just getting in your car and going.

An electric car would be fine for me, even with a range of just 100 miles (in a Minnesota winter, with the heater on). The 265 miles that the Model S can get would be questionable for my parents, though, given the frequency of long trips they take. They would need charging stations in the same order of magnitude as gas stations to avoid range anxiety.
Trade: Rails Tutoring for Venture Capital/Finance Lessons?
Just thought I'd throw this out there. I'm a VC associate trying to learn programming, but it can be a struggle to self-teach. Would any rails dev be interested in trading "tutoring lessons"? In return, I'd be happy to trade any finance/VC services (including cap table, financial modeling, tutoring on those subjects, etc).

Please shoot me an email to scott.chang.83@gmail.com if there's any interest. Thanks!
Reading Greek feels a lot like reading somebody else's Perl. Now if only it felt like reading my own...
Another interpretation of those facts is that mechanical interconnections between various deterministic processes can result in emergent behaviours which are profoundly beautiful. What if the glass is half full?

www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html

All of those images are generated with very simple deterministic rules but they are still sublime.
Administrative consideration often is the due process. If you look into decisions by courts on administrative law, you'll find that 'due process' is by no means limited to the judicial branch. A lot of people seem to think 'due' is practically an abbreviation of 'judicial.' It isn't.
(This should be obvious without saying it.)

As the first commend on /. mentions, there's no point in trying to make an accurate estimate of a free piece of software's worth because it's FREE. Everyone that is interested will download it, but you can't tack on a competitor's value to that download because they didn't pay for the download.
OP is missing the point - the markup idea is brilliant.

The WYSIWIG will come in it's million forms later and you shouldn't focus on it.

I just need comix.vim and I'm good.

I'm imagining real time comics. Chat comics. Comic discussion forums. It's endless! ;)
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For sure it's a bit of hyperbole, but I think its essentially true.

Lets say you make min wage, or $10/hour...

Lets say Open Office costs you 5 minutes per day in horrible interface, making docs work with office, etc.

Lets say MS Office actually costs $150...

($150 / ($10 / hour)) / (5 minutes) = 180 days

Basically after 1 year you've paid for MS Office.
Some sincerely hopeful numbers there.
An LLC is a very lightweight, easy to establish corporate vehicle that provides personal protection for the business owner. When running a sole proprietorship, if your business gets sued, they sue you for your personal money. If your LLC gets sued, it's much, much harder for them to go after your personal property. Today's society is too litigation happy to risk personal homes and wealth with a simple sole proprietorship/partnership. An LLC or C or S-corp is easy and fairly cheap to establish compared with how much it's possible to lose.
I really disagree with you regarding complexity.

Think about how Google's search engine works. That's a seriously complicated piece of kit, storing vast amounts of data.

Do you really think analysing millions or billions of rows of incredibly database-friendly records is that tricky by comparison?
Well, yes and no. It took quite a while before the western universities got their Aristotle etc. translated directly from Greek rather than via Arabic. But they--the translators apart--mostly were reading their Averroes and Avicenna in Latin translations.
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Amazon has to mark up products over wholesale to cover the cost of things like... the customer support that they actually provide. In the Play store Google can sell the Nexus at wholesale to make it look cheaper.