skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that people need to put a little more thought into a car that's fundamentally different than standard cars today.

Your last paragraph is making a bad comparison to try and put down this point: a laptop operates off of all one reservoir, while the current ICE car uses gas to drive and a battery to operate the "other stuff". We watch the gas gauge and see that it drops in a direct correlation with our driving and for the most part ignore the battery charge gauge.

When an EV starts pulling both driving and "other stuff" power from the same reservoir, we're surprised because we weren't aware before of the usage of the other things. Thus, a bit more mind needs to be paid to aspects that we didn't care about before. Though it's not the best comparison either, travelers switching from horses to cars had to start thinking about things like fuel reservoirs; it can just be the nature of disruptive advances.
Honestly this story should not have been posted. Elance and other such sites are full of idiotic requests like this.
You almost make it sound as if it could be done if you didn't care about scalability and "nice to haves". Make me the site he described, and have it work for only 1 user, even half the time, and I'll give you $1000 gladly.
I think this highlights the black market.
So the lack of consideration for the load testing was the part of that post that stood out to you?
If those are ads, per FTC rules they need to be marked as ads. "Recommended Content" does not = ads, if anything it equals a false endorsement, which is mislabeling, something worse than an omission by some respects.

Some one decided "Whats this?" is all they needed. That might be more passable if it was hosted on a site which they own, but its not, its being syndicated to countless other publishers, and in effect hijacking those publisher's own credibility.
This. I wonder how much of the controversy comes down to left vs. right brain, East vs. West Coast, liberal arts vs. engineering discipline thinking. Are we just siding with our "team" here?
I wonder if there's a way to hook this with amazon mechanical turk: pay a cent for a person to just open up youtube and watch a video. Then set up a network where people pay money for views, and profit from the spread.
Good point. Google's reputation in part is based on the exhaustive mechanisms they have in place to combat click fraud and assure advertisers they're getting billed for quality. I remember once bringing their wrath down on me because of accidentally clicking on one of my own AdSense ads. Took me 9 months of grovelling to get my AdSense account unsuspended after that.
No, no, no, no and no. This guy wants "Amazon" not "load testing". Do you honestly think he knows that load testing is?
wget --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links --domains amazon.com --no-parent http://www.amazon.com/

There you go. 30.23.35.463, or 1J5dzkNu3SqPUSjerA1JSjvBjXgKktcz5Z if you prefer btc.

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Now all you need is some cheap hosting and you too can have a website like Amazon.
beautiful rio de janeiro :)
I thought this kind of thing doesn't happen to programmers because of the demand there is for them. I thought you can just leave jobs like these. Why are you staying here?
Who needs HP and Dell? Facebook now designs all its own servers
The point being, he was not.
Linkedin is pretty confounding in that regard, because usually you can see at least a public profile of a linkedin member if you're not logged in. Usually I open an incognito window in Chrome with Apple+shit+N and read the profile there. You could also open a 2nd browser where you're not logged into linkedin. Nonetheless, I hate it when sites try to base features around the technical shortsightedness of their customers.
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Looks like a better option:

http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/
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Agreed, developing software is complex and expensive, I think sometimes we jump the gun in thinking we do actually have to expend that effort.

Not referring to this request specifically but sometimes people just need pointing to something like webstore.amazon.com. This may well be a sufficient MVP for a customer who needs an e-commerce presence.
In a national campaign, anywhere you don't advertise, you leave up for grabs by your competition. Currently, candidates can get away with leaving most undecided voters on the table, because the mechanics of the electoral college mean that their votes don't matter anyway.

That fundamentally changes if I can counter your Times Square billboard with a direct mail campaign in Minnesota.
Obligatory:

http://whartoniteseekscodemonkey.tumblr.com/
I've got 99 problems but too many push notifications telling me I made money, ain't one. :)

I have a couple things in the works that can help reduce the number of push notifications you get. For example, for my account, I'm only getting notifications for charges over $100.

Ping me (billy@pay-pad.com) and do some wizardry behind the scenes for you if filtering on the dollar amount would help you out.
These roll through Stack Overflow pretty frequently too. I saw these just the other day:

"I am planning to create a site almost similar to freelancer in Dot Net. I was hoping to use some kind of open source if available also I am open to you suggestion for the same...."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14868403/looking-to-creat...

"I really don’t know enough about web technologies to know the trade offs involved in using one language over another and I’m looking for some guidance as to how to go about developing what I need. I will actually be outsourcing the work but I want to be sure that the developer will be using the best mode possible and I will probably dictate the language to use."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14863070/language-to-buil...

People are assholes.
"The bill helps protect homeless people from discrimination in employment, ..."

|face-palm|
Your advocacy site is confusing 'city' with 'metropolitan area', probably deliberately. Here's some real stats:

In 2010, the fifty largest metropolitan statistical areas had a population of 166,033,000 -- 53.8% of the United States' 308,745,000 people.

In the 2012 election, Los Angeles County alone had more voters than any of thirty-two of America's fifty states.

Also in the 2012 election, just 150 of America's 3,033 counties - less than five percent of the total, and all attached to a metropolitan area - made up 50% of the vote.

Given a limited amount of time to get in front of the voters, where do you think the candidates are going to go? Do this thing, and the days of candidates getting outside an urban area are pretty much over.
But that alternative usually requires driving at higher speed, which more than cancels out any gains from avoiding stop and go because of the increased loss from drag and friction. There aren't any highways where you can drive 400 miles at 25 mph cruise.

Metcalf's description does say that he accelerated and decelerated very gently; see my edit to my upthread post. So he was trying to approach the ideal of driving at a steady 25 mph as close as he could. If the car's regen system had had lower losses, regen would have saved him some energy on those unavoidable decel/accel cycles.
WOW. That count half :-)
Meet this all the time And people saying we have this big idea, we can't say what is is because we are afraid that you will take it (its that good). But how much does it cost us for you to create it?
ActionScript? Me thinks he just picked words that sound fancy.
Elance/oDesk gets ridiculous - but I've heard stories of the Digg prototype being the product of oDesk freelancers and a couple thousand dollars.

Never have found proof/merit to this but I still wonder... anyone know?
Interesting read, but the author needs to ease up on the bold text. Bold text is for key points only and loses its meaning when overused.

I counted 159 words in the summary, of which 85 were bolded (53%).
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"We just don't know."
well done sir. well done.
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Visual Basic earned large numbers of people large amounts of money and allowed them to make exactly what they wanted. Specifically, what they wanted was a solution, quickly that they could cobble together themselves without having to hire some person that would tell them all the time how what they wanted was not possible.
Kind of and not really. bcrypt's "memory-hardness" is minimal--it relies on the 4KB Blowfish setup cost (which stays constant.)

Designed for? Not for GPUs specifically (it was released in 1999), but the choice of Blowfish and its 4KB overhead was deliberate, and it makes hardware implementation harder. Effective against? Reasonably, but not compared to e.g. scrypt. Of course, SHA and friends still don't come close to bcrypt--they have a different purpose. (That also means that PBKDF2 is particularly bad in terms of memory cost: it's extremely easy to parallelize if you're using e.g. HMAC-SHA.)

scrypt tries to maximize the required die area by doing unpredictable (and tunable) memory access, and is significantly harder/costlier to run in parallel on ASICs and GPUs: http://i.imgur.com/iUpUk.png (from http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf)
You couldn't have proved my point better.

This is why we have a federal government - to prevent our government from being run by people who think like this. Presidents have to govern everybody, not just the people they like.
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Here's a justification for private property. How will there ever be an orchard otherwise? Orchards don't just burst spontaneously into existence.

Imagine that no one 'fought the natives for it'. Instead the land was a vacant waste with no one living there and nothing growing there. Over the years through hard work, dedication and sacrifice the land was amended and the trees grew creating the orchard. The only thing the farmer asked for in return was to sell his surplus. Lowering the cost of apples to all.

Then some jackass jumps off a train and expects it all handed to him for free or he'll attack the farmer.

I can understand the idea of not wanting to participate in a capitalist system, but I can't understand what makes someone 'evil' just because they've created something that you haven't.
How much would it cost to do it yourself (through amazon mechanical turk or through some other task-based service)?
I'm a developer at a fortune 500 company focusing on Business Intelligence. We spent 2 years pumping out report after report, dashboard after dashboard on a new BI web platform. The first question always asked was "How do I get it in Excel?" Luckily after years of hearing this, IT management acquiesced and I am now in the middle of rolling out a data virtualization platform that allows users to connect directly with Excel to "virtual" databases that insulate them from having to write complex SQL. Lesson? You must bow down to Excel.
I live here because I was born here. :) Always thought I'd move somewhere else, but now I can't imagine myself doing it.
Good farmers aren't Luddites.

I grew up spending half my childhood on the farm and half in the city. My uncle after surviving Korea, farm-raised fish decades before most, diversified into real estate and finances, had leading edge GPS, radio, sat computers and irrigation gear and sent his sons to college to get an edge in business, biology and computers. The family farm(s) and related enterprises are worth somewhere in the nine figures. (Not to mention the wind and solar power farms which they had been playing with on a smaller scale since the '70s to power pumps...)
ActionScript? That's the thing that really threw me....
Growth is definitely something PG advocates, but probably has little to do with HN algorithm. Spare yourself reading this speculative post and hear it from PG himself: http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
Awesome app. I really like it that you can use it offline. Hiking himalaya, suddenly a note, yay : )
The Digg prototype was the product of a single freelancer and two hundred dollars.
Help me explore the space between founder "lows"and depression
heh, very neat. You can also play around with the parameters and equation of the graph.

Check out my "tan" heart :
5 + (-sqrt(1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))tan(45((1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))), x is from -1 to 1, y is from -1 to 1.5, z is from 1 to 6
Minimal FreeBSD desktop
desktop usage on FreeBSD
I was also born and raised in California (Redding to be exact). I've since lived in the bay, NYC, Minneapolis (amazing city BTW just freaky cold winters) and AZ. I'm currently in AZ (for the third time) and am staying. The startup scene out here is frowning and there's a lit of resources and meet ups and like minded folk out here. I highly advise folks to check it out. For what would cost you 1.2-1.8 Million for a house in the Silicon Valley you can get the same here in az for 200-300K with a much larger a pool and a bugger back yard.

If anyone reading this is from AZ, let me know.
Appreciate your honesty. :)
The one question that I always ask (and instantly makes me unpopular) of the hippie/transient/counter-culture types, is, "Do you realize you would all likely be dead of hunger withing two to three weeks without a massively efficient capitalist system supporting you?"

They are able to exist because of people who are willing to work to support them. Even the communes rely on fertilizer, fuels, metals, foodstuffs from 2000+ years of increasingly efficient capitalists economies.

Don't get me wrong - I love spending a week to ten days out on the playa, and have never had such a wonder experience of "community" anywhere else - but I never, ever kid myself into believing that such a lifestyle is sustainable.

I don't like to use the word, "parasite", but I can't really think of a better word to describe the Haight street pan-handlers/garbage divers. They can't survive without people providing for them.
Wrong continent.
Whatever you think about cap and trade, it's not a free market thing.

By definition a "free market" is free of government interference. A system created by and run by the government, with mandatory participation is about as anti-free market as it gets.

If a company can't opt-out of participation then it's not a free market.
Ask PG: Is there a way to see "Ask" submissions over a certain number of points?
For example, is there something like:
http://news.ycombinator.com/ask/over?points=100

If not, would you be open to making that url work?

Thanks for everything.
I am equally skeptical about the SHA-1 claim. I am just commenting that as a general rule customer protection falls under the purview of the FTC. There are certainly corner cases where industry specific regulations introduce additional oversight when it comes to customer information protection, e.g. OCC/OTS/NCUA and GLBA[1], or HHS and HIPPA[2].

[1] http://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2005/nr-ia-2...

[2] http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachno...

Side Bar:

If you are bored and want to get your wonk on search regulations.gov for sha-1[a]. It looks like most of the proposed rules mentioning SHA-1 come from HHS, FRA (Federal Railroad Administration) and the NIGC (National Indian Gaming Commission). However there is one reference to SHA-1 in an FCC rule about the Commercial Mobile Alert System[b]:

CMAC-digest
Optional element. The code representing
the digital digest (``hash'') computed
from the resource file. Calculated using
the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-1) per
[FIPS 180-2]. Alert Gateway uses the CAP
digest element to populate this element.

[a] http://www.regulations.gov/#!searchResults;rpp=25;po=0;s=sha...

[b] http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FCC-2008-0002-...
Most startups I know add analytics of some kind to their products before they launch them, but they almost never allocate time for analysis after the fact. I think this approach of deciding in advance why you're adding the analytics, and what decision you're trying to make is a good one. Analytics are useless if they don't result in a real change to your product at some point.
But it's just a bunch of HTML, I could do that

It sounds like you might have the wrong kind of client. I can only recommend reading this great piece by fellow HNer patio11:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/09/21/ramit-sethi-and-patrick-...

It's full of gems such as:

The general thing that people find both in pricing products and in pricing services is that at the low end of the scale you deal with people who perceive less value from you, less value from your offering, and have more and more unreasonable demands. Like if you’re writing iPhone apps, you’ll receive reviews like “This 99 cent flashlight app didn’t do my taxes, one star!”
Like I said - truly scary.
Apple cuts MacBook Pro (Retina) price to $1499
"the electoral college appears to favor Democrats."

The electoral college has several distortions. The big one and it's raison d'etre is that it distributes power towards rural states and away from population centers. There's little question which party that favors.

Now it's certainly possible that Romney could have won the popular vote and lost the electoral college due to the first past the post distortion that dilutes big majorities. But that really says more about the relative competence of the two campaigns then it does about whether the electoral college structurally favors the Democrats. Romney clearly needed to run quite a bit farther to the middle than he did.
Sometimes it is a lack of communication. A client has no better way to explain what they want than to point to another site they have seen recently and say I need that. They may not need all that, but they want some aspects of it and can't describe it in more technical terms because they lack the experience to do so.

At the same time, we're sometimes quick to take what they say literally and scoff at the rate they want. While some clients really do want what they're asking (and a smart developer will run away quickly in the opposite direction), there's some that are just lacking the knowhow to describe it better. It all depends on if one wants to deal with such clients.
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Stupid auto correct. Should say "the startup scene is growing" not frowning. Doh.
Actually, he wants more than Amazon for $750 to $1000

"I want all amazons catergories plus

#1. Freelance Jobs ( just like fiverr )

#2. Auctions ( ebay catergories )

#3. classifieds ( Craigslist catergories without Personals) need to be able to charge or make free for listings

#4. Forums "
Damn... any links/references to share?
Unfortunately, working lots of man hours for a smaller or set fee is still tantamount to underpaying. A project where you are overworked is not worth the hassle.
i dont know actionscript :(
"Budget: $750 - $1,000"

Too bad. I would have done it for $749.
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I am not even sure I would dare give a distance estimate.

If I look at some mobile devices I have access to:

Dell laptop: estimates time remaining in hours and minutes; in my experience, that estimate isn't reliable.

iPod Touch: the most concrete it gets is a warning "20% battery charge remaining". Is likely to show it multiple times. The display only shows a tiny bar.

iPad (and, I think, the iPhone): goes a bit further; can show a numerical battery percentage.

For both iOS devices, the Settings app also shows a "Time since last charge" section with "Usage" and "Standby" times. It does not dare give a time remaining.

Mobile phone: 5-bar battery full indicator.

Back to the electric car: especially given the short range for a full charge, I understand owners will want a distance remaining estimate, but I would say: if you can't give a reliable one, don't. 'Percentage charge remaining' plus a 'at similar speed and weather, you typically would have stretched this for x miles' indicator, IMO, would be better. And that is even more than a gasoline powered car will give you.
That particular client was from my earlier college days of starting out in freelancing. They didn't give me any real issues after that point, but yes, they were not the ideal client to what I would want now :)

Patio11 also has some great articles, so I have to agree with your link.
Can't copy and paste into the password field... sad panda :(
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22ask+hn%2...
If I remember an episode of diggnation correctly Rose paid $10 per hour, though this is probably wrong. 20 hours is doable for a prototype of the first version of digg.
Is Tesla allowed log data without informing the users? Will these logs also be generated by cars that people purchase?
Actually we are quite different since they only work with dairy farms. Cool to see other startups helping farmers though!
I teach high school, and one regular time-sink is going over transcripts with students. Transcripts are textual documents that list the classes students have taken. To figure out which classes students need to take in order to graduate, we need to sit with each student and find the "holes" in their transcript.

I started writing a python script that would analyze a transcript for each student, and generate a visual representation for each student showing which classes they have taken and which they need. I started writing the script, but switched to Excel for maintenance reasons alone. I know that I could write a good script, and would enjoy maintaining it. But I want my contributions to live beyond my time at any one school, so I want new staff and students to be able to use and maintain the tools I create.

I made an Excel document where students enter their classes on one worksheet, and another worksheet generates a visual transcript. [0] It has already improved students' understanding of where they stand academically. I trust that staff, and even some students, can work with this document and keep it part of our school's culture when I move on.

I have new respect for the role that Excel can play in making some organizations more efficient.

[0] - http://peak5390.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/rethinking-the-high...
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Apparently they need that seed money for the product :/

We are definitely in a bubble ...
Three hackers in Alaska so far. That's a hacker density of one hacker per 195,470.66667 square miles.
How about this: http://blog.fortify.com/blog/fortify/2009/02/20/SHA-3-Round-...?

Granted, these were just candidates and not actually NIST defined algorithms, but the point stands that algorithms can be fine while standard implementations have bugs.
Oh, you mean like potential remote code execution in AES?
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... and then ignore it if it's bad so as not to offend advertisers.
pay a monthly fee for group chat;
happens on someone else'e servers;
for the love of all that is holy, this exists already doesn't it?? and for free??

It seems "web 3.0" is all about making tarted up existing free software with hipster interfaces, selling it for $$$, and putting it "on the cloud" (i.e. on someone else's machines).

I know this is the way the world seems to be moving (backwards, back to the 1970s if you ask me, to mainframes and dumb terminals (chrome book anyone?)) ...

but I for one would rather see a world where local users controlled their own machines, their own data, their own encryption, and a peer-to-peer system for communicating

maybe someone can invent a standard.

TCP/IP anyone?

-grumpy old man
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