skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what blows my mind in both directions:

1) A reporter not recording everything he does in the age of GoPro and a 2 TB harddrives at Best Buy.

2) Tesla did record damn near everything: GPS, battery, display, temperature (internal and target), charge duration, etc.

Metrics are king, and I think we are ushering in a new age of "you can't bullshit me, I recorded it too" journalism.
the electoral college appears to favor Democrats. A tie or small Romney win in the national popular vote, for instance, would have more likely than not equated to an Obama win

Do you remember the year 2000 at all?
I also had to use SolidWorks at school and while didn't find it to be anywhere near as hard as the author makes it out to be.
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I'm in AZ as well, as far as software development goes... the pay:cost-of-living ratio is really good, so is the unemployment rate... we had the bubble bust in late 2001 (just after 9-11), and it recovered a little faster here, compared to California... Though a lot of the jobs in IT are on the more boring side, there are a lot of user groups for everything from .Net and Java to Python or NodeJS.
Sex sells, even for resumes?
a video for the Valentine's day from www.resury.com

Does that kind of stuff work??
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How should I hack my Tesla Model S?
There is absolutely no reason you cannot run these games on a distro other than Ubuntu.
PS I wholly reject the argument that setting up your own systems and maintaining your own machines, and being responsible for your own data is "too technical" for the average person.

If we are intelligent enough to raise babies, drive cars, operate propane barbecues, SHOOT GUNS for f*ck's sake (in the USA anyway), then come on people, it's time to man up.
There is no advantage to having different one-way latencies, as long as the round trip time is held constant.

A player with all delay on sending TO the server will have to wait for their actions to be received, whereas the player with a large delay on receiving FROM the server will be reacting to 'old' states. These two situations happen to be indistinguishable.
Google scares me sometimes.
I wish I was at your place working. It's been freezing here lately! (Moraga, CA)
> 3D charts require a web browser and system that support WebGL.

I guess I'm not getting a Valentine this year.
In regards to #2: It's possible for people to create Connect applications that are read-only:

https://stripe.com/docs/connect/reference see the `scope` under request parameters.
Or they could report a "minimum safe distance remaining". Or some sort of warning that says "batteries unconditioned, don't trust readout". And so on. There are a lot of different things that don't require "doesn't exist in a good form yet" tech.
Also living in Columbus. I just look at it as that there are far worse places to live in Ohio (not to name any of them) :)
Google groups should modify its robots.txt to avoid showing up in SERPS. Gmane was around first.
> Is it really a replicable test?

Yes.

> They'd need the same weather patterns, traffic conditions

Okay.

> and the same car

Find an honest 3rd party who already owns the same model.

> not a different, "equivalently equipped" model.

Now you're just being obtuse. Consumer Reports gets to test a car that's the same model. They're not required to come to your house and test your car!

> In the documentary Revenge of the Electric car, there's a scene where Musk walks into a warehouse full of cars, all having different issues preventing shipment.

That's a completely different car! They were taking Lotus bodies and fitting them out with batteries and motors, somewhat by hand. This one is built on a bona-fide assembly line and designed to be electric from the ground-up. Sorry, but this is a huge stretch.

> For all we know, there was a problem isolated to the particular car Broder drove AND, at the same time, Broder was embellishing his story. In other words, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

I'm sorry, but this tactic of thinking of all the confounding things you can, then throwing up your hands and saying "middle!" is the sort of thinking you expect on Fox News or on the playground. If replicability can't settle such debates, then science is in deep doodoo. However, we know from the history of science that it can settle debates 10X more acrimonious than this.

To be fair, you are right that the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Exactly where is important and something we can get a good locality of through replicating.
But they're doing some conversion on the for .doc/.xls files to output a pdf. Also, Crocodoc lists them as a customer.
The OP din't claim to have created this (although arguably it's implied by it's posting without comment). Rather, that's just one of quite a number of such functions posted here before. I don't know their origin.

So well done for remembering it, and reposting it on an appropriate day; or more likely someone else remembered, and this is just a cross-post of a cross-post of a blog of a re-post. But well done anyway.
Tesla's CEO produces logs contradicting Model S story
I wasn't able to download it. Clicking the link on this page took me to the Software Centre saying "Not Found - There isn’t a software package called “steam” in your current software sources.". So I go to the main landing page of the Software Centre and find a link to Steam there. There is a banner saying "Free" with a button "Buy" next to it. I click it and it asks me to log into to some sort of payment service...

I love linux and Ubuntu but this is the kind of thing that I am starting to get sick of having to deal with. Can't I just use apt-get?
>Wow, this is just scary.

It depends on how it's implemented. There's nothing wrong with the shareware model, surely?
haha, I love the florida man twitter account! But really, Florida ain't so bad ... I live in Orlando. There's lots of activity going on, lots of meetups, and lots of energy.
That is a good point, except he followed up with tangible details relatively quickly. It took a few days for his technies to compile the blog post, but Tesla did provide the data--it's not doubt for doubt's sake. Now that the data is out there, we see the picture is not as clear as either side wants it to be. In hindsight, that's the obvious conclusion.

I wish that Broder had been running a few cameras in the car during the whole trip. Then we could have some data to compare against Tesla's. For example, we could correlate the readings from the car's speedometer with video evidence from which we could calculate speed.
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just for the record, in order to warn any non-western members:

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X]

source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1127343?ln=en
Amy, I agree with your analysis, except for what you leave out:

Most couples are like this.

The woman IS a silly, child-like, passive, docile baby, and the guy IS a silly, narcissistic, self-absorbed robot.

These are the ways women behave, and these are the kinds of guys women fall for, because that's what our culture encourages.

If you detect a sexist tone in what I'm saying because I seem to be blaming women, I can only say this: in modern western culture it IS women who ultimately choose who sleeps with who. Criminal activities like rape aside, it is women who choose which guys get to be in a relationship with them and which guys don't. So I don't think it's unfair to attribute the bigger part of this to women.

Anyway just my opinions.
Not everything has to be an overthought, standard UI element. It adds a bit of Fun, and is harmless in its consequences.

It would be nice to be able to undo though.
"Temporarily."

Yes but at any given point in time it's always the case that change X will generally favor party Y and party Y's states aren't going to favor for change X. They won't vote for it and if they previously had that is likely to be undone.
It still isn't clear to me whether your purpose here is inclusive (you don't want to lose the right to use "Python" as a trademark) or exclusive (you don't want this company to be able to use "Python" for its server products). At first I thought the former, but a close reading of your post suggests it may be the latter. Please clarify.

If your purpose is exclusive, then I can't support you. There is an open source Common Lisp implementation, originally developed at CMU in the mid-1980s, whose compiler is called Python. It is still in use. I think a compiler and a language are close enough that you have no exclusive right to the name.
omg this demo just gave me the biggest dev bonner i have had in a while :D, looks awesome. anyone else loving the retro mega man theme song?
I'm not sure I follow.

You want to calculate the total employment of all industries enabled by oil and then say that the next barrel of oil is responsible for a proportional number of that total?

What about those industries that use oil only because it's still currently cheaper than its alternatives? What about those industries that are already transitioning away from oil and would barely notice if oil became even more expensive? What about those industries where oil is crucially important, but is a fairly minor cost concern and even a doubling of price wouldn't seriously impact their ability to produce products, profits and employees?

How in the world would we even calculate that out to determine how many jobs would exist or not, based on whether we drill the next oil well?

And how would we calculate where those jobs would exist?

Because, oil being fungible, lower production just drives global price up. And the losers in such scenarios tend to be the poorer people and industries, which tend not to be in the US. (It would take a much larger jump in the price of oil to make the next US job in an oil-reliant industry infeasible, than it would take in, say, the developing world.)

And when we do drill that next well, it just lowers (or keeps low) the existing price of oil, and the primary place we'd expect oil-dependent jobs to be created that would not have otherwise been economically feasible without that cheaper oil, is again in the developing world.

So if you want to say oil is massively important, I agree. I never said otherwise.

But if you want to say that the next oil well will necessarily create lots of US jobs, I continue to disagree on the basis that the next oil well simply doesn't directly add many jobs.

And if you want to say that cheaper oil also tangentially creates jobs, I will again agree, but stipulate that new jobs created only because of that cheaper oil, will overwhelmingly be created outside the US.

So I will continue to disagree that the next oil well in the US will have a large impact on US employment.
Elance and sites like it are crazy uncharted territory for me.

Are there really folks who run bots to scrape Elance, put in a bid for the minimum budget price (someone did bid $750, according to the min/max spread on there), and hope they get picked?

What happens when they do get picked, and they just agreed to build Amazon for $750? At that point I guess $750 is just so low an amount that neither party really cares to fight over it when the "developer" can't deliver?
That's not the way trademarks work. Trademarks cover one or more industries, so your snake is completely safe. In fact, if you wanted to make a car called the Python or a chair called the Python or just about anything else called the Python, you would be welcome to it (assuming somebody else hadn't trademarked that). Even in software, you could incorporate the word Python as long as it didn't cause confusion (for instance, making the game "Snake: a Young Python's Journey" would most likely be fine [note: IANAL]).

However, due to the "fight for it or lose it" nature, if this company was given the trademark, they would have no choice but to threaten legal action against the PSF and everybody who produces something with Python in the name: a very large group of people, products and companies.
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The conflict is over which side has the objective facts.
For reference, it looks like he's referring to this:

http://freecode.com/articles/suse-new-krb5-packages-fix-remo...
From the "only in SF" files:

"When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator ... they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team."

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Human-waste-shuts-down...
>The Roland of the article cost more than 3 thousands dollars. I could make eight Prusa reprap (I did it for a University course) for this price

Yeah, or you could make a small 3 axis CNC for $400 as well.
While there will naturally be a suspension of data collection, much of the work is around crunching the numbers of the huge amount of data already collected which will continue. Expect further breakthroughs in the next 2 years.

Also, I can highly recommend going on a tour. If you're going to be anywhere near Geneva, book early as they fill up quickly. It's not possible to see the collectors while the LHC is running so this is an opportunity to do so. I went after the last (unscheduled) shutdown - serious tech porn.
We ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for the MADE (http://www.themade.org) in 2011, and I have to say, the real spot I expect most people get stuck is in the reward fulfillment.

I come from the magazine industry, so I knew what was in store, but for newcomers to this game, I expect the sudden prospect of having to pack up and ship 400+ individual packages could be fairly daunting.

We went to Noisebridge, formed an assembly line, got pizza, designated one person as the central source for names, numbers, items, and then spent about 4 hours packing and readying for shipping.

Then, and this is the real kicker, I had to take all this stuff to the post office and mail it out. It took about 4 more hours, and cost a good chunk of change, almost $1000, as we had to ship to the east coast, overseas, etc....

But this is the kind of silly little detail you don't think about when you do a Kickstarter. You really need to do your numbers before you create a project. Make sure you can afford to print all those shirts, and stuff all those envelopes. And, if you can, get all those prizes out ASAP.

I cannot imagine the pressure of having to bring to market a major product from a Kickstarter. It's hard enough to get something made at scale. When you work in private industry, you have 3 or 4 people who want your blood if you screw up, or miss a deadline. Imagine an angry mob waiting on your doorstep when you slip up by a few weeks.

Just look at what's happening on Code Hero. Those donors are preparing a class action lawsuit, and it's only been a year since the Kickstarter. Most 3D games take far longer to create, but neither the creator nor the investors there seemed to understand this. Imagine if Duke Nukem Forever had been Kickstarted? Broussard would have been Shot in the open at E3, Jack Ruby-style.
I am the co-founder of a cash-positive company that provides services to the crane industry, and while we do encounter a few problems with the older generation for the most part they are very receptive. I think that the older generation is losing that distrust for young innovation, and they actually enjoy and appreciate youthful interest.
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It's true that the mainstream media has been overhyping this technology, and some of the mainstream tech media as well (Wired, for instance). From the way everything becomes "3D printing" in the news, you'd think that a 500$ reprap is a few years away from being able to print human organs, cars and houses. Some journalists need a reality check: hobby and consumer 3D printers are able to make simple plastic pieces with some caveats about overhangs. They only recently started appearing with dual extruders. They're still very fussy machines that need frequent adjustment. And those that don't are either very expensive or very limited in capabilities.

On the other hand, there are very legitimate uses for these as they are right now. I guess it's hard to get excited about replacing a broken plastic handle on a beach cooler or a broken knob on a washing machine, but you can make cool stuff with them. I printed a docking station for my Nexus 7 with mine.
Good point. It seems like there is a variation on Poe's Law here, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

It works as a honeypot either way.

On a more practical note, Derek Siver's advice at [1] to ask bidders to post a "magic phrase" of some sort has worked really well for me. I literally just select a couple of random words from /usr/share/dict/words and add something like:

To prove that you have actually read this listing, please include the words 'FOOLHARDY PARADIGM' somewhere in your response. Any bid that does not include these words will be ignored.

prominently in the listing. You might be surprised how many responses that filters out. I was a little surprised at how legitimate some of the automated (or at least, thoughtless) responses seemed to be. I almost certainly would have wasted time on some of those without this little test. (I probably rejected some responses from real people too, but evidently people with insufficient attention to detail.)

[1] http://sivers.org/how2hire
Oh, if that's the case then I'll withdraw my hatred. Thanks. :-)
I think there's this conceit floating around, perhaps, that the web is supposed to be some kind of overunity money engine for which the laws of supply and demand need not apply. Photoshop, SaaS sites like Wix and Business Catalyst, and freelance sites like elance, play a bit part in fostering the idea that what we do (at any level) isn't necessarily work, and seem to cater at various degrees to the desire to outsource or eliminate developers altogether while still gaining all the fruits of the development.

After all, freelance sites like elance exist based on the premise that developers will claw over one another to underbid for a project, and they will. Just try to win a contract there charging more than twenty dollars an hour. It's absurd what rates people (on both sides of the table) will accept just to get any business done at all. It's terrible, and unjust, but on the other hand enough of us are willing to participate in a system stacked against our own interests that we prove its efficacy to business owners, because we need the work.
Yeah, that was weird. Talk about learning the wrong lesson, or learning the right one and applying it to the wrong thing.
Indeed really nice, and happy that they're doing this -- I absolutely love the idea.

But please don't making the viewing application be a constricted frame of a sort, that I have to use the nested scroll bar for. Let it encompass the entire page... otherwise it's just too small to comfortably see. I have the same issue with scribd. I prefer Google's PDF preview for this reason (complain with that is when I do ctrl + to enlarge, the toolbar panel is also enlarged and occupies too much of the screenspace).

I'm always a little bit flabbergasted that really smart folks consistently keep looking over this... I zoom into everything, and so do many other people. This is a super important readability issue.
Working pretty great for me on my Ubuntu+AMD desktop. Laptop is a clusterfuck of drivers though, Linux switchable graphics support sucks :(

Edit: Though I haven't tried anything too fancy yet, just FTL and Bastion. So maybe 3D gaming might not be as good as Windows but that's mostly fine for me for now. I'm fine booting into Windows to get my Starcraft 2 fix.
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I think that when everyone is pointing to a technology as "the future", that's a sign it might not be, at least not the way they imagine it. If 3D printing is so great, where are the huge revolutionary changes? 3D printers have been around for several years. What are we waiting for, exactly?
I'm 1.5 hours from Knoxville in the most rural possible direction.

(Lived in the Bay Area in the past, still like to visit.)
I don't know. I don't find it impressive for a company to aggressively refute bad reviews. It comes off as insecure to me.
I have everyone prepay me for Rails development. I think the reason it's not an issue is that they've worked with bad freelancers, and people that drop the ball, flake out, stop answering emails.

They don't want that so bad that they will prepay me because they believe I'm not going to do that to them, they really want me to do their project, and so prepayment is a non-issue.

Edit: I haven't asked for $30,000 in advance before; more like 20 hour blocks of time, or thirds of projects paid in advance
How hard is it to find someone who won't lie in a story? What's the yearly compensating differential on that? $20,000 a year? Hell, I'll not-lie for only, like, $50 extra a year.
I wonder how many orders of magnitude more money it would take to build something like that and how long would it take...
I too want to know what happens here, I've been working as a web developer for over a year now and am just now confident in my abilities to want to do some freelance, and all I see are these horrible responses all over sites like these.
If I wanted to play dirty, I'd have mentioned ASN.1. :)
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>> Sorry, but this is a huge stretch.

Why? Even individual cars produced in assembly lines can have problems.

When I worked at Toyota, there was a problem with a Lexus model that was so hard to isolate. Eventually, after a long data collection period, they found that the problem was only existent in cars painted in a certain color.
Definitely when it gets into quantum chemistry, the boundary between physics and chemistry breaks down.

The problem, though, is not everything is like particle physics. Particle physics is able to be publicized as a field which will give us a total understanding of the entire universe: a Theory of Everything.

But the example I gave is not as fundamental. It can give us a Theory of Understanding Many Types of Useful Molecules, which is awesome, but I would argue that it really just isn't as sexy a subject to the general populace, and so it simply cannot get as much funding.

I think this is what I'm trying to say: some projects are very accessible, like drug discovery. These will get funded. Some projects are extremely esoteric. But they are potentially revolutionary - particle physics, which theoretically can lead to us understanding everything, ever. But for all of those projects, there are thousands more that lie somewhere in between: esoteric enough that the benefits of the study are not immediately understandable, and without the potential of enormous impact. These, I think, will not get funded.

But science is not built entirely on revolutionary work that redefines our understanding and existence, even though many of the most-admired scientists are typically people who did this type of work (Newton, Einstein, etc). Most of it is small additions to the body of knowledge that is currently known, and does not have the same wow factor or potential application. And these will have a much harder time getting funded.
Their editor may have wanted a clarification for interested but non-technical audiences. And "screenshot", while inaccurate, is a pretty good approximation of "summary, not raw data," in one word.
For a professional reporter writing in the New York Times, I think it's right to lump "semi-true" with "flat-out lied."
>Safari does not support them probably because of its longer release cycle.

Safari doesn't support them simply to avoid having Mobile Safari apps compete with the App Store. Same reason there's no in-DOM audio playback, IMHO. iAds are allowed to use WebGL, but not ordinary web pages.