skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of like initializing a fresh OS install to something useable.

Their our-boxen template[1] installs homebrew for you as well as some other software.

[1]https://github.com/boxen/our-boxen
Interesting. Thanks for the feedback :-).
Huh did no one notice CNN proving musk right and NYT to be lying ?
I Have Seen the Beginning of the End of Cloud Migration
Presumably, if you already have your own git server running elsewhere (and if you're considering this, you almost certainly have some solution for hosting git repos, GitHub or otherwise), there's no reason you couldn't just host your boxen repos there.

It's a great cross-sell, and one I think'll be successful for them, but as far as I can tell there's no explicit lock-in.
Algorithmic trading based on news "evaluation" alone could account for that. For those people who actually sold by hand, I doubt they actually evaluated the data. For those people who actually evaluated the data, they're just waiting for a signal that they can buy Tesla at the best discount.

TL;DR: stock price says... meh.
Density and Time.

Density:
A meteor's energy release could be described as a long narrow cone. An atom bomb would in a dense sphere/hemisphere. To make it comparable you'd have to get the meteor to expend all it's kinetic energy in one spot (due to interaction with the atmosphere this is unlikely). The shockwaves are spread out over a larger total distance. I.E. Less concentrated.

Time:
A nuclear weapon releases all it's energy in milliseconds into a single pressure wave. A meteor tends to shred itself slowly in the atmosphere (relative to a nuke). Time is immensely important when measuring the destructive force. Slowing a car from 50mph to 0mph is the same 'total energy' if you do it in 10seconds or .1 seconds, but the car will suffer significantly more in the .1 second scenario.
He mentions that it looks fresh everywhere, but the page isn't laid out via responsive breakpoints (as far as I can tell). What technique are they using to load the CSS conditionally on mobile screens versus desktops?
> LLVM is a VM

Despite the name, LLVM is more a compiler IR actually,

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...
This is undeniably true, but I think misses an important correlation: in my experience, people who are best able to find and access "minor facts" like this when needed are precisely those who are commonly considered "walking encyclopedias". I strongly suspect this was true of Einstein too, even if he couldn't pull up that one figure.

I think penalizing someone for not knowing any fact in particular is silly. But throwing a ton of questions like this at a candidate just to see how many they hit has, IMHO, more value than is commonly admitted.
It made me think of a (more drastic) plot point in Neuromancer, but I guess Tintin far predates that. :)
It does not matter who you think is winning or losing this argument. The point this post makes is sound: unless you're sure that Musk is crushing Broder in the eyes of a disinterested prospective Tesla customer, Musk harmed Tesla more than he helped it.

His response took a bad review and turned it into front-page news in a way that would not have happened if Tesla's response hadn't been combative.

The reason the author wrote this post is to educate you, startup founders, that Musk's tactic was dumb. Tesla will survive it; Musk can afford to pick fights that raise awareness of Tesla's negatives. But you probably can't afford that for your own company.

You can respond to this post with yet another 10,000 word thread about who's more credible, Musk or Broder, but to do so is to miss the core point of the post.
interesting!!
You think we're having a big debate, but we're not. Your central thesis: "Most couples are like this. Women are like x. Men are like y." You have zero evidence for this. We're not having a discussion at all. I am saying "There's no evidence" and you're arguing with tautologies -- "If women don't CHOOSE to be with men like this, then either A) women are with men like this, but not by choice, or B) women aren't with men like this, by choice." That false binary choice includes a big assumption. Do you see it?

I never claimed that narcissism like in the video is prevalent… nor did I claim that it isn't. What I said was "This video is from a wholly narcissistic viewpoint."

I didn't say THIS company was disregarding ethics. I made no judgment other than "this is narcissistic" and (in that twitter conversation you extracted) "This video isn't guy-focused, it's narcissist-focused. If I was a guy, I'd find Couple's apparent opinion of me insulting."

The tweet you excerpted was from from a separate, subsequent conversation:

DANIEL: I meant my original tweet slightly in jest: Could a company potentially be OK with their sexist video if it got them results?

ME: well no point in asking THAT, since avg corporate ethics is clear for all to see. :) q: do they KNOW what they're doing?

You COULD rebut the idea that the average corporation will gladly use sexism to sell things, but it would be a waste of your breath.

My question: "Do they KNOW what they're doing? Do they SEE what they're portraying with their video? Do they know what narcissism is?" is a useful one, on the other hand.

You said:

> If most women aren't like this, who's the company's marketing aimed at? A tiny minority?

Tautology. "It must work, or else why would they do it?" This is not a safe assumption. See again my useful question above.
I'm confused by this blog format. This seems to be a posting of the apology not a response. Did I miss something?
Good point but probably need to look at the beta for TSLA before estimating what effect this PR flap is having.
How about the Interior Minister's own website?

http://ogmundur.is/annad/nr/6578/

(In Google translation) he says porn is already illegal in Iceland (which it is [1], punishable by prison), and he's advocating more enforcement of this, with police resources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region#Iceland

nice map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pornography_laws.svg
Even if Jonasson's claims are checked out by evidence, nannying a country's population by censoring offensive material is not the right course of action. You do not change public perception or progress society through censorship.

The internet is a new phenomena that has given individuals unprecedented power to indulge in all forms of media. Instead of arbitrarily obstructing information that they deem to be corrupting, the Icelandic government should recommend their citizens to learn the psychology behind desire and addiction [1], perhaps even Stoic philosophy [2], and how to set up a web filter for their children. They should trust that the adults of their country are generally smart enough to think for themselves and do the right thing; anything less is an insult to their intelligence and is likely to foster a mistrust of their government.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKDFsLi2oBk

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/01953...
Each his own opinion... As soon as Broder published the first report I warned you guys here about how smelly that was. Just like Top Gear's first review of the Tesla was "faked": they were all too happy to film themselves pushing a fully working Tesla as if it was empty.

Broder was obviously way too happy to publish that picture of a Tesla being towed away.

Car journalists are liers. They do lie. And then they lie more. And eventually they lie even more.

I don't think that a journalist who hates Porsche 911 (one of the Top Gear guy) should be allowed to test 911 just as I don't think that guy who hates electric cars (Broder) should be allowed to test an electric vehicle.

They'll lie and then they'll play on words and say: "Oh but I didn't say that, hence I didn't lie".

His last paragraph of his "answer" to Elon Musk is a perfect example. Musk says Broder was deliberately driving in a place where there was no easy access to a charging station. Yet Broder focuses on the fact that during their phone call Musk did apologize and offer to do a second test. But he's not addressing the fact that Musk clearly writes out that Broder did purposefully pick a spot where he couldn't easily charge the car. You know why? Because Broder was all too happy to publish that picture.

Ask this question to Broder: did it make you feel good to publish that picture of a (supposedly) empty Tesla needing assistance?

The answer is yes. He may lie about it. He'll probably say he doesn't give a shit. But the truth is he liked it so much.

That guy isn't worthy of being a journalist.

You know what? F^ck the NYT and f^ck Broder.

Tesla: you don't need these intellectually dishonest clowns to become very succesful.

I wish you the best. And your log data makes me want to buy one of your cars. Thanks for that marvel of engeenering.
I noticed that on the original blog post as well. Very clever. Though it seems on the blog posts that some people maybe don't understand what rapgenius does and end up saying things like 'WHAT ARE THESE BOXES WHY AM I HERE WHY DO I NEED TO FILL THIS OUT???' in the context notes. But clever nonetheless.
Thanks for the feedback.

The number eight signifies that there's 8 stories on the frontpage that you haven't read yet.

You also read the story itself in the browser (I don't wanna go back and forth from the browser). You can see that "functionality" if you click on "web view".

Thanks for the tip :-).
Seems to me that this is the whole correlation and causation thing (a 'questionable cause' logical fallacy). There are probably great benefits that come from having access to the Internet. The question that needs to be answered here is whether or not having access to porn is a requirement. This has not been shown by /Slate/ in their article.

The article goes on to say that, because access to the Internet does not reduce the prevalence of homicide but does lower the prevalence of rape, having access to the Internet reduces rape.

Here are some other reasons rape might be down (just off the top of my head):

* As a society, we're getting better at catching rapists before they rape again (and before they rape the first time)

* Sex crimes are less acceptable than they were some years ago

* There is more help available for those who are prone to this type of crime
It's a separate mobile view entirely- mobile isn't sharing assets with desktop.
>> but it bugs me when I end up with opening 5-10 tabs each time I go into HN

haha, too true. I'm a bit of a tabaholic I suppose. It's nothing to have 10-20 tabs in a window, with separate windows open for different stuff (HN window, work window, mail/FB window..) Heck, I'll stumble across tabs I meant to read last week or last month all the time...
Click on the yellow/green bits. Rapgenius is a lyrics site that allows people to give context to lyrical meanings inline. See alexdevkar's comment below.
Kind of ironic that Iceland is on one hand being held up as the freedom/free speech haven of the world, and on the other hand they want to ban porn. I suspect this is just one whacko politician, not the mainstream, though -- most of the Icelandic people I know are fairly pro porn :)
I think it's a valid opinion. This will get me thousands of downvotes, but I have been wondering, too, why some men seem to be eager to proclaim "yes, we are pigs". I'm sorry, I'm fighting it, but sometimes "good doggy, good doggy" is shooting through my head :-/

Edit: I will now log out of HN and vow to not log back in for at least a week. I don't have the time for another of those discussions.
This is damn cool. Im just curious as to why the developer, and a lot of developers, dont fully utilize css to handle positioning? Example, when the window resizes, some JS runs. If the colors' containers were percentage-based, the percentage would only need to change when one is added or removed, not when the window is resized. It makes me feel like people dont fully understand how to make certain layouts work without JS (I'm sure this dev does).
Is this meant to be sarcastic or serious?
From the article -- they're hoping the fully-developed vaccine would last 6 months to a year.

That's a big deal -- you decide "yes" once, and even when the going gets rough, you don't get to change your mind for many months yet... you'll have a much better chance to build better habits, etc. before you have to decide yes/no again.

Much, much better than something you have to take daily, or even weekly.
> You seem to be very hung up on surface syntax. The importance of a VM is not the syntax of its language but the semantics.

I'm protesting that there is a syntax to this 'VM'. It's rather indicative of Mozilla's approach to life, namely, write everything in JS out of some pseudomasochistic desire for backward compatibility hacks.

I would really, really like to see some benchmarks comparing NaCL vs asm.js, and I won't buy this as a viable compilation target until there's data to back up these (dubious) claims. If they do, then perhaps a frontend would be useful.

> The importance of a VM is not the syntax of its language but the semantics.

The semantics of JS are pretty horrible too.

In short, what appears to be Mozilla's idea for the future: http://i.imgur.com/B5KRsHI.jpg
Looks like it's UA sniffing. Not good.
I've been eyeballing a GoPro for a dash cam since it also overlaps with my other hobbies (cycling and ATV riding). The big drawbacks seem to be the low-light filming and the fact that it doesn't automatically turn on or automatically rewrite when the disk gets full.
Seems like reddit is very pro Elon, to the point of many wondering when Broder will get fired. I wonder if there's an old media/new media divide here?
I really like social experimentation (to a sane degree, of course). Why shouldn't Iceland ban pornography (if it does so through a democratic process)? I'd quite like to see what happens.
"All of those are what I would call common knowledge that an average human being should know."

"I actually used to work in a wolframium mine"

Credibility shot.
Fear of Putin
Yep. Redshift is based off of ParAccel. We used that DB for some really awesome large scale analytics on a previous project.

http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-redshift-paraccel-in-costly-appl...
Okay, fair enough. I like the "I don't know enough to speak" attitude, and I don't know enough either. (What do you mean, five minutes on Wikipedia doesn't make me an expert?!?! :P )

My reply to your core point is that you can so compare (not least because deaths-over-time have dramatic economic consequences too). Maybe we're just gonna disagree about this one. :)
I'd put forward another downside of angel groups, from the prospective of an entrepreneur:

Collusion - whether intentional or not.

The mere fact that you're meeting all, or a large percentage, of the possible investors for your round at the same time, and they all know each-other, the greater the chance they will be able to dictate terms and the entrepreneur may have little negotiating power. If one group (as may be the case in Dayton, OH - I have no idea) makes up a large percentage of local investors, look out!
>Overall I think Broder acquits himself well, and his explanation about circling the Milford parking lot makes sense.

No, it doesn't. Remember, the original article was a review of the Supercharger network. Whether or not the Superchargers are hard to find is a very important detail. The decision to buy a Model S very likely hinges on whether one can use the Supercharger network. Finding the station is almost as important as whether or not the stations exist at all.

So, given that, why would he omit this particular detail from the original review? Broder wrote three pages in his original article, and wasted a lot of space writing about the bitter cold inside the cabin. Are you seriously suggesting that such a talented writer (and I do believe he is that) was not able to find space in his review for this very important detail?

It strikes me that the simplest, and most logical, explanation is that Broder was not actually looking for the station a the time he was allegedly "driving in circles." Rather, it seems like an excuse cooked up after the fact, to explain behavior that, should it go unexplained, would be quite damning.
I can think of a few.

1) The gallery and buy now overlap but not enough. You should be able to buy prints from the actual print page. Consider using the buy style view as your gallery (Much like a product listing page)

2) The homepage is nothing but a directory. The carousel is moving too fast, use it to showcase recent or popular prints (no carousel.)

3) Consider why the user might actually be coming to the page? The entire bottom half (about, recent posts, twitter) can be combined into a sidebar which would be more economical space-wise

There are just a few starters.
Yes, and supposedly "any publicity is good publicity." Let's not assume there's a lesson to be learned at all unless we know how it affects Tesla's bottom line.
The vaccine will (if it works as planned) last 6 months to a year.
After I clicked, new columns were continually added as fast as my browser could render them. Blackberry 9900
[Show HN] Say Hello to the New Minus – Now on iPhone and Android
Yes, because all VMs are as bad as the JVM, which was never intended to be run through a browser.
I took his post to imply that the purpose of dash cams in Russia is in response to the savagery of the roads, not that cams turned people into savages. I'm not sure that anyone in their right mind would argue that in any situation.
Awesome idea. Thanks!
The Best-Laid Schemes O' Mice An' Constructors Gang Aft Agley
This article pretty much sums up my response to this whole mess. The person responsible for PR at Tesla must be tearing their hair out.
Potential customers might take a look at this exchange and wonder if Tesla will treat them the same way.
This looks very nice -- automated workflow setup for developers. It's essentially generalization across every "developer setup guide" you could possibly imagine.

Now the question is: can we get this for Linux users?
You should develop it if you want it. But I would not count on making much money or impact with it. Not that many people read Hacker News, and most of them are just fine reading it in a browser.

I understand why people are tempted to build apps around HN...we're all builders, and we spend a lot of time here. But that doesn't mean it's a good business decision.

In general, 3rd party apps for reading a website are a bad idea. They compete directly against the content resource upon which they are totally dependent. See: the fate of Twitter apps.
Of course not. That's why societies have things like police and prisons. Making it illegal is, of course, about reducing its prevalence, but it's also about society saying, 'these are our standards'. One will never stop all men from beating their wives, but I would not care to live in a society where it became legal.
Steam-Powered RC Cars (+Hamsters)
There is still no such thing as the "Make Website" button, and there never should be.
Clever name. http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/b/boxen.html
Somehow you have to monetize your product. If you can't sell your videos you have to sell advertising, and porn producers aren't going to get the same rates as other industries because so many companies don't want their brands associated with porn.

Maybe jiggy2011 is right, but I'd have to see some numbers before I accept it. As I said, people are used to getting porn for free - how many will be willing to pay for cams?
This is one of those times where I hate my job. I work every single Saturday. :(
The most interesting thing about this for me is the YC company vs. YC company fighting.
I am curious as to why you wrote your own session store. Is this to allow true load-balancing without the affinity requirement of a machine-based session?
VM standard != VM implementation standard
Basically, vaccine induced allergy.
There's an argument about the "long game" though. The point of marketing isn't to get customers money right now, that's what "sales" is about.

If you believe (FWIW: I do, but let's please not get back into that here) that Broder's review was sensationalized nonsense essentially intended to spin every minor glitch into a negative story, then what this hissy fit did is make sure, by making an example out of Broder and his editors, that all the other journalists out there don't try the same thing.

Basically, Musk is trading some instantaneous bad press for fairer press in the future (which is sort of already happening, c.f. the CNN ride yesterday which contradicts Broder and certainly wouldn't have happened without the controversy). That may or may not be a net benefit, but it's a more subtle analysis than the "did he harm more than help" one you are arguing for.
If you're plugged in, just charge the battery.
Useful if you want to hire someone you could steal ideas from... Someone like Tesla.
Heard about this a while back from a beta user. Very excited to start playing with it!
haha all CNN proved is that they can play lapdog for Tesla. Let's make it clear: the weather was much warmer yesterday and today, the CNN people didnt stay overnight, and they made sure to spend extra time charging. Those were not in the Broder case, so its an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Review http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224618 (the comments to the original post) for a more detailed criticism
Wow, I really was expecting at least one of these comments to have meaningful discussion of each of his predictions with facts/figures. Instead, half of the comments are arguing about Lisp and the other half about XML / JSON.
Alaska is a popular place for cold weather testing among many manufacturers. Subaru, in particular, beats the crap out of their cars for extended time periods in sub-zero temperatures.
Regarding the fuel, there are some details, along with some discussions of operating temperature, in the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_diesel_fuel. The temperature ranges suggest that you're unlikely to have serious issues with your diesel car, if you buy fuel appropriate for the season. The inconvenience factor of owning a diesel car compared to a petrol one is pretty minimal, as far as the sort of cold weather that most people who might consider buying a car (as opposed to something with tracks, skis, or 4' tyres) will generally encounter.
There is no reason not to. "Should I develop it" always has the answer "yes".
As lifeisstillgood suggested, you are doing some sloppy reading here. I wrote:

To me, Clojure is interesting for 2 different reasons:

1.) the language

2.) the eco-system

You clearly read #1 but you seem to have missed #2.
Introducing Logic Transfer Protocol and Abstract Parallelization
Consider me dumb but I still don't get the relation with Russian girls. I know quite a few of them and they don't strike me as particularly sociopathic. If you mean to say that such generalizations are not applicable then yes, of course not everybody in the country is like that, but at the same time I doubt you'd see young people throwing themselves in front of cars in order to be able to sue the drivers in many other countries. And that kind of behaviour has its roots in how the country is run, and most Russian people would agree with that. At least, my Russian friends do. People with skills in demand abroad leave in droves, the Russian mob is firmly in control and they can only be that way because the authorities are about as corrupt as they come. Compared to other countries that have managed to get rid of the so called communists former Russia and its component states have it worse than any of them.
I remember watching some reality COPS show with John Bunnell and they went to Russia to follow some of the detectives there.

When the Russians would bust drug dealers, they would take their drugs and give them to addicts who informed on them. Pretty crazy stuff.
The divide is between people who have been following this story critically and those that haven't. Most of reddit and many people here have been suggesting he's an oil industry shill that was determined to see the car fail, but they were already looking to side with Elon.