skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I help run barrapunto.com, a Slasdhot clone in Spanish backed by a Spanish company. We have a Python topic that refers to the Python language. We lost some of our early content, but currently our first story on that topic is from October 2001:

http://softlibre.barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/20/0982...

Using Archive.org, I can find a story about the release of Python 2.0 from October 2000:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001214042200/http://barrapunto....

This last one is shown on this front page with a different design:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001018174909/http://barrapunto....
While the whole discussion makes me skeptical of both Broder and Tesla's customer service, I'd like to add here that Tesla most probably would need permission to do that. Even releasing GPS data is already a questionable move - IANAL, but I believe in Europe this would be pretty much unthinkable, except if he gave explicit permission on paper first (general agreement terms probably wouldn't be enough, because of the surprising nature of such a term).
People should realize that the flip side of mass customization is actually just better search tech. Do you really need to design a different collared shirt when there are 10K already out there to buy?
I haven't smiled this big in a while. Good work.
Gradiente is a dying company, they just want some cash. BTW, they don't make those phones, only rebrand then.
The only person to mention the federal government was you.
Yes, notifications are a mess on many platforms. I especially agree that pushing advertisements as notifications is unconscionable.

By the last several months of my ownership of an Android phone, I had nearly surrendered to notification purgatory--wherein you just give up on dismissing them. The ones that really got on my nerves were notifications from the Android Market ("Google Play") about application updates, caused by applications having auto-updated or by those that would not auto-update because they wanted to promote their permissions in some way. The irony being that I installed virtually no third-party apps on that phone so the notification noise was particularly frustrating. Oh, Google Finance updated itself? Who cares?

So far, I've found notifications on Windows Phone to be far less annoying. Though by making them less intrusive, they've also made it slightly easier to ignore them. And that too may be a problem in some cases. All told, though, I'd rather ignore a few than be bothered by to the point of surrender by notificatrivia.
in the financial services industry... in the real world

You're not trying to tell us there's some overlap between these two places are you?
Hallmarks Database – The guide to silver and gold metal marks for iOS
I mentioned mine on that other thread[1], but basically these are the main things I can come up with that seem even slightly worthwhile:

1. I was formerly Fire Chief of a volunteer fire department, and one of the youngest people to hold that position in my area.

2. I was one the youngest, if not the youngest, Firefighting Instructors certified by the NC State Fire & Rescue Commission.

3. I ran for Lieutenant Governor of NC, appeared in a statewide televised debate with the other two candidates and got about 125,000 votes (roughly 3%).

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5220936
got any sources for "other reviewers" regarding the Model S? The roadster isn't really part of this discussion.
The apps look nice. Videos are solid and the product seems to be well built (without having seen the app itself).

Most important thing to keep in mind is that your target market is parents, not the kids. Your challenge is to convey why this is a valuable app for them to put in front of their children.

You waste real estate at the top of the page on things that are good for you and not the user. Half of the visible page is allocated to Facebook, subscriptions, and other linkage. Not a good user experience -- I'm not bragging about your app until I have it and love it.

If you believe in your product and the app is good, the biggest focus for you should be to get as many people to download at least ONE of your apps as possible. To that end:

--If Matryoshka is free, TELL THEM and get it in their hands. If they like one of your apps, they'll download more and pay for them. Don't make the price a surprise, and highlight it if there is none.

--Matryoshka is not a good name for an app. I can't pronounce it, which guarantees it will undermine my ability to tell other parents about it.

--Nothing speaks louder than customer testimonials. Grab app store reviews and show them off so parents get interested.

--I don't want to download apps via a desktop site. Why don't you give people an option to text them a link for download, or otherwise get this link to their phones ASAP.

--What if I don't want to watch a video? Give me pictures to look at.

This is a competitive space with a lot of power behind it. Being able to market your games is about differentiation and proving value. Parents will download anything if they think it will help their kids.

Rely on happy customers to grow your audience. You seem to have a decent Facebook/social following -- I'd focus on how to curate that base and incentivize happy customers to share with others.
You are correct. Just adding, Brazilian IP law is not similar to the american. The trademarks must be very specific and cannot be used for more than, usually, a single product. That said, you can't own a word, you can obtain exclusivity of naming a specific good (in that case, a cell phone).

I own two trademarks here and guess what, not even the domain name I managed to reclaim, the owner uses the same name for a different type of business which I don't own the exclusivity rights.

Brazilian IP law is one of the most free in the word and among many things, software cannot be patented, non-specific, generic ideas are not even evaluated for a patent. Music can be freely played and shared unless you are doing it commercially.

This is why I can't even download bass tabs on most sites, RIAA managed to block brazilians from 40% of youtube, etc.
"Elon Musk has a billion dollars riding on calling the NY Times a liar and discrediting them."

No, he doesn't. It's one review out of many, the vast majority of which are far more favorable to the car.

There's some cost to Tesla to letting the review stand, but it's certainly not a billion dollars, or even hundreds of millions.

What is certain to happen now is that some credible auto review magazine is going to take a closer look at the way the car runs in cold weather.

If Musk is lying, he's going to get nailed. That's going to hurt a lot more than the one review.

The reporter, on the other hand, has no choice but to stick with his story now.
>Granted, it's the government, not the private sector but few people realize that most computers owned by the federal government still run Windows XP. Additionally, the approval process for getting new software usually takes 1-6 months.

We're still using IE7 in my government office. Good times...
How would this meditation prove that death is permanent (or not permanent)?
MyLyrics – The app to find a song from the lyrics
The "fundamental attribution error" refers to our tendency to overattribute others' behaviors to their dispositions, while reversing this tendency for ourselves.

From: http://lesswrong.com/lw/hz/correspondence_bias/

Also, this:

We tend to see far too direct a correspondence between others' actions and personalities. When we see someone else kick a vending machine for no visible reason, we assume they are "an angry person". But when you yourself kick the vending machine, it's because the bus was late, the train was early, your report is overdue, and now the damned vending machine has eaten your lunch money for the second day in a row. Surely, you think to yourself, anyone would kick the vending machine, in that situation.
> 0.6 miles is not very far to travel, especially when 0.2 miles are accounted for by the offramp.

The graph seems to me to clearly account for the offramp. It doesn't start counting the 0.6 miles until his speed has slowed down to "I'm turning in now" conditions (0.1 mi after the origin point), and the graph itself tops off with the y-axis at 30mph—well below interstate offramp speeds—so at least some of the rest of the 0.2 mi long frontage is simply omitted off the left side of the graph.

I agree that this particular complaint is probably the weakest in Musk's post.
Debt collecting isn't the same across countries though, so it could be tougher depending on where and whom you're operating with.
The more people that track your movements, the more potential for security breaches or malicious use.
Who gives a f* about the bullshit between NYT and Tesla?
Take it to the restroom...
I've brought it up here before, but I really like the fact that (large) pixel art is still appreciated and produced. Coming from the inventiveness of the ZX Spectrum days I had a genuine sense of loss when SVGA and "photo-realistic" graphics turned up in the late 80s/early 90s.

It wasn't that some 256 colour demo in a computer shop wasn't impressive, they blew my tiny litle mind - it was more that I saw a pattern of "Some day people will be looking at photos and videos on these screens as if they were TV!" - abhorrent idea at the time to someone who liked a memory mapped display. It was as if the intricately crafted, detailed pixel art I had grown to love would become obsolete.

These days I'm less of a stickler and look forward to owning a high colour depth "retina" 28" monitor to use vim on, but I'll never stop pining for the days when a pixel could be seen from across the room on a 14" TV with blurry RF.

Anyway, I believe this counts as rambling... tl;dr, this game looks ace and plays really well, performance is great. Great work!
The funny thing is that Apple sells those locally made products for about the same price they sold the imported (taxed) ones.
Haxe NME is getting WebGL support on the (js)HTML5 target, with shaders. Also crossplat for flash and cpp compile targets. Take a peek at foo3d: http://code.google.com/p/foo3d/
A quote: "About three hours into the trip, I placed the first of about a dozen calls to Tesla personnel expressing concern about the car’s declining range and asking how to reach the Supercharger station in Milford, Conn. I was given battery-conservation advice at that time (turn off the cruise control; alternately slow down and speed up to take advantage of regenerative braking) ..."

This is unbelievable. The advice is quite wrong, what remains is to discover whether Broder actually got this advice from someone at Tesla or made it up (or misremembered it). If Tesla offered this advice, someone needs an education in electric car technology (stop-and-go driving can only hurt battery life compared to driving at a steady speed). If Broder made it up, it casts into doubt the remainder of his account.

For the record, regenerative braking is not something that one can take advantage of -- it's always less efficient than not losing the energy in the first place. It's only a way to minimize the energy loss involved in braking, it can't eliminate the loss.

As to cruise control, in level terrain, it can only help the car's range by preventing the driver from wastefully changing speeds.

"... that was later contradicted by other Tesla personnel."

Ah. Well, then. Tesla should have phone records, but probably didn't record what was said (in many places, recording phone conversations is illegal without explicit consent).
This is such a stupid debate.

Batteries aren't that great yet for long range travel.

This has made me respect the NYT and Musk much less for the mudslinging alone.
> "without a massively efficient capitalist system"

Efficient is a tricky word. Burning through non-renevable fossil, freshwater, (arable) land and mineral resources at an accelerating pace, with no regard for the environment or future generations has allowed the world to reach levels the overpopulation that China spent thousands of years reaching -- in less than 200 years. But without any structure, government or system that has any hope (or indeed even any goal) of breaking the pace of expansion in a way suitable to avoid massive disasters and system failure.

As for the US, given the wast resources left, and the (comparatively) sparse population -- it appears to me to be one of the few countries that actually could become more efficient (resources spent per capita) -- without forcing particularly bad consequences on in its citizens.

But yes, a group producing no, or little value, paying none, or little in tax could indeed be seen as parasites. I can think of a few group that I'd consider harmful parasites, though.
He says it's a simple demo and not a proper game but I found it a lot of fun!
I work a $DAYJOB as a software consultant at Open Software Integrators[1]. Basically I travel and work on projects ranging from greenfield development to performance tuning, to architectural consulting, training, proof of concept projects, etc., etc. Mainly we focus on OSS Java related "stuff" like JBoss, Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, Neo4J, Hadoop, etc.

The tough part is the travel bit. When I'm on the road, it makes it a lot tougher to collaborate with my cofounder, meet with potential customers, etc. But I'm not out all the time, and I manage to work around it all somehow, even though it's pretty stressful.

[1]: http://www.osintegrators.com
There are profound differences, but let me focus on one:

Jobs and Apple tried to make the claim that people were holding the phone wrong, without ever making the claim about the proper way to hold the phone. They never said anything about the "right" or "wrong" way beforehand, so while the comment is strange it isn't hypocritical.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/apple-responds-over-iphon...

It's a very strange response, and clearly foolish, but Apple never made a claim before the launch that the phone could be held that way. And of course, we can be generous in retrospect because Apple eventually gave free bumper cases. But Jobs didn't make a claim on the website which was contradicted by the behavior.

In contrast, Tesla claimed that leaving the car out for a long time shouldn't cause much battery loss: "The Model S battery will not lose a significant amount of charge when parked for long periods of time. For example, Model S owners can park at the airport without plugging in."

http://www.teslamotors.com/models/facts

It strikes me odd because the claim, prima facie, suggests that you can leave the car for multiple days without charging. Musk is contradicting Tesla literature here, which is why you should always be careful about the marketing material.
Now you're showing your naiveté. Do you think for a second that if the US wasn't out there securing the supply that the price would be where it is?

SO MANY nations enjoy the umbrella of protection that is provided by the unipolar geopolitical environment we live in now.
I think having hope even if it's terrible odds is far better than knowing you will fail. IMO, working in a nursing home or a hospice is far worse as that really is all about waiting to die.
Me too, a lot of people made a lot of money in the 80's by doing ports to home computers that weren't this good.
I didn't think Apple sold iPhones in Brazil before they started building them there; are you sure you aren't referring to gray market imports? If so, there is probably some amount of tax avoidance going on. Doesn't Brazil have a high VAT?
You shouldn't try to start a business if you don't have a warchest to last you some time

I can't possibly disagree more. I mean, yes, it would be nice to have a pre-saved warchest. But if you reach a point where you realize it's time to start the startup, you shouldn't not do it just because you don't have a warchest. Bootstrapping and self-funding while working a $DAYJOB is certainly possible. Is it easy? Hell not. But it's possible, which is what counts, IMO.
My point was that the parent post was misrepresenting the original story. I'm not sure how that's disproved by what you're saying.
PLOS Welcomes Introduction of US Legislation for Open Access
In a modern economy, inflation acts as a tax on idle cash. This encourages people and organizations to keep their wealth in forms that help the rest of the economy. A thousand dollars under your mattress isn't doing anything for anyone, but in a bank account, equity, or bond it can be used by others to finance their business.

The higher the inflation rate, the more pressure there is to invest instead of hoard. Governments adjust the inflation rate via mechanisms such as making large loans to major banks ("printing money") or selling bonds. The goal is for the economy to experience constant slow growth at the minimum practical inflation rate.
I worked for the brazilian IRS for twelve years, I will say you just invented that.

Imported iphone taxes: 60% import taxes + 7%-15% sales state tax if you are a reseller or 0% if you are the customer. 0% industrial tax.

Made in brazil taxes: 7-15% sales state tax, 6% industrial taxes.
I cringed when I read Musk's charge that he circled the parking lot, suggesting it was done out of a desire to kill the car that just wouldn't die on its own. Who among us hasn't circled a parking lot a few times? There are so many other possible reasons that making a charge like that, something that if true could forever tarnish a journalist's career, was inappropriate.

I don't blame Musk for his desire to reply and "clear his name." (I'd be surprised if he didn't identify personally with Tesla). But I think he let his inner-geek shine through too much. That post of there's was in the classic slashdot style of point-by-point refutation. You don't win friends that way.

Maybe a better strategy would've been to politely refute the conclusions about cold weather -- since when is this guy a batter scientist -- but then suggest that some bad luck and confusion had more to do with Broder's experience than the cold weather, and possibly invite somebody to spend a little longer with the car -- a week, a month -- to come to conclusions not as tainted by circumstance.
Also, Team Fortress 2 for Linux [1] was officially released today (it's been in open beta testing for quite a while).

What I find particularly interesting about this is the time-limited item giveaway. Valve did something very similar when they released the OS X version of TF2, where anyone who logged in on a Mac received a free cosmetic "earbuds" item. The promo triggered a mad scramble of players to find a Mac to play on, and when it ended, the buds acquired a huge scarcity value -- they currently trade at the equivalent of about US$30 a pair, even though they have no effect on gameplay.

I don't think the penguin will end up valued as highly, but what it will cause is a sudden influx of relatively non-technical gamers trying out Ubuntu for the first time. Should be interesting to see what pain points and rough edges they expose. There are already tech support threads popping up in the Steam forums, e.g. [2]

[1] http://www.teamfortress.com/linux/

[2] http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30729...
"Bootstrapping and self-funding while working a $DAYJOB is certainly possible."

The worst thing you could do is start while working at $DAYJOB and find out after the fact that your employment contract stipulates that they own all associated IP. And yes, in many states people have those types of contracts.

I highly recommend quitting and sitting out a relevant noncompete first, because the worst thing that could happen is sacrificing, succeeding and ultimately having to hand everything over to an employer over employment agreement issues.
> If there is one thing that will use up large amounts of energy it is electric heating, I find it hard to believe that using a heater as a consumer would regenerate the battery capacity in excess of what the the heater is consuming unless most or all of the energy was directed at the batteries.

If temperatures are low and if the charging station can deliver more power than the batteries need to charge up, then using the heater may warm up the battery pack and allow it to charge more efficiently, then discharge more efficiently after leaving the station.

When batteries are cold, they neither charge nor discharge efficiently. Batteries benefit from higher temperatures (but not too high, as the recent Boeing Dreamliner battery story reveals).
I'm currently undergoing exams because I got bad blood results and I'm crossing fingers it's not cancer.

But I'd like to comment on something in TFA:

"I wouldn't be here without science, and without the work of people who believe in science."

As a whole, so far, science seems to be positive for us: longer life expectancy, less painful death, etc.

However it's not guaranteed to stay this way. Neuromarketing is also a side-effect of science. Creating food and drinks which create highly dependent people is also a result from science (directly done on rats in labs).

So for example one could reasonably say that the number of obese people in the U.S. in the state is directly linked to science: both in the way the product creating these obese people are conceived and marketed.

What if an obese people got a bypass allowing him to lose weight or a heart operation saving its life... When the very thing that created this condition in the first place was science.

Another example: the epidemiologic test to see if cellphones do cause braincancer or not are being tested right now, on nearly every single citizen. We'll only know for sure the long term health issues (if any) in ten or twenty years.

Many people could then have cancer due to science.

Sure science can help too, but what if the condition in the first place was due to science?

Hiroshima. Fukushima. Tchernobyl.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not a luddite and I'm for science. As much of it as possible. Let's open the Pandora box and see what is inside.

BUT I fully know too that a lot of our illness (including obesity) are directly linked to science too.
Facebook is up. I am logged into Facebook throughout the day, and it has never been down any time that Hacker News has told me it is down.
I find I'm using Google Sheets for everything I used to use Excel for. It's easier to script, much easier to share, and if necessary it will export to Excel. I haven't run into anything I need that it won't do.

Of course it wouldn't be ideal for a business with a lot of legacy stuff in Excel.
> Gradiente is a dying company

Not really. They probably will be one of Brazil's big players in the next 10 years.
Yep, oil is totally non-fungible, and oil-rich nations wouldn't reap the immense profits of selling it on the massive global market without the US government specifically forcing them to.
Ask HN: Suggestion on Ruby programming books to learn advanced concepts?
I am looking into learning more about Ruby. I am already well versed in the basics of the language and have written various scripts and assorted easy stuff, just through my knowledge gained by Google and Stack Overflow, etc... But I am looking into getting more serious with the language, and wish to learn more about the concepts and advanced Ruby programming to start programming full-featured applications with it. I really hope to try to master Ruby itself before I move onto Rails, so I am looking for a real Ruby programming book that you would highly recommend. If you have any Rails books that you would recommend, please recommend them too!

So, any recommendations?
Adobe’s CEO Completely Refuses to Answer Questions About Unfair Pricing
Wyoming and California have similar (when compared to the primary price driver) overheads in airing any given commercial, the price differences are mostly going to be market driven, and the 10k eyeballs in California won't end up costing as much as what you'd have to pay for 10k eyeballs in Wyoming.
You are very wise.

I want to do DMLS or another technology that will make metal parts.

I haven't heard from you guys in a while. Shoot me an e-mail.
If Only Elon Musk and Tesla Read This Before Trying To Get Press