skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it we are still debating parts of this which have clearly been settled and which there are clearly logical explanations for?

engaged in unrealistic driving patterns to get the car to run out of juice--stuff like driving around in circles

Broder's response: I drove around the Milford service plaza in the dark looking for the Supercharger, which is not prominently marked. I was not trying to drain the battery.

Musk accused Broder of "driving around in circles" for 0.6 miles. What kind of car would this be if an extra 0.6 miles was sufficient to cross the line into "the battery is now fully drained"?

Occum's Razor dictates that the reason for driving around "in circles for 0.6 miles" is easily explained as being lost while trying to find a location you've never been to before. Someone doing extra malicious driving would probably go further than an extra 3000 feet.

What is more realistic than driving around lost?
Fair enough, but there's a huge gap between "ideologically-motivated, intentionally dishonest smear campaign" and "essentially accurate review that was a little sloppy on some details"
Listing Node.js as a framework pains me.
This is a common refrain, sometimes used as a slight, as if Google is just another Don Draper firm, that just happens to have some tech in its portfolio.

As a rank-and-file Googler, my personal experience is that most Google engineers perceive that we are a technology company and advertising is often off in the edges of their mind. Yes, advertising is the majority revenue product, but like many startups, the people working on moonshots are not thinking about the business model, they are thinking about the problem to be solved. When most people go work on a 20% project, some of which become top Google services, they don't start out thinking, for example, "How can I increase ad revenue by making voice recognition better."
If anytime I have to use a 'managed' language, I go for python and haskell. Though, most of the time, I work on my video game renderer engine in evergreen C/C++ , I am quite satisfied and productive :)

There is no use of C#, Java or VB for my work, and for good reasons ;)
Minor note: we don't do signatures at the end of comments on HN.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't sign comments, especially with your url. They're already signed with your username. If other users want to learn more about you, they can click on it to see your profile."
It's one thing for a programmer not to know about the existence of Python, but it's another thing entirely for sysadmins not to know (their websites run Debian). To make matters worse they are trying to develop their own cloud platform, so they would need somewhat more sophisticated sysadmins than if they were just hosting a simple PHP website.

I would guess that at some point one of the developers/sysadmins brought up the fact that their name conflicted with an open source programming language, and management choose to ignore them.
But can you imagine this world? Where you are sending your transcripts to the bank, proving to them that not only will you finish college, but be able to get a job afterwards.

And every month in college having to send your grades to them so they can be sure you're still a good investment.

It makes sense to me but... can you imagine the feelings that would be hurt by this?
Canadian court rules you have the right to Google for a lawyer
Wow this really brings me back, what was the name of the game with the bow and arrows? that was another favorite of mine "back in the day" Thanks for making this!
If I've said it once I've said it a million times: Use a template, don't use truly random passwords, those aren't helpful to anyone, instead create a template and follow for each of your passwords, here's an example of what I mean:
for gmail your password could be Goog@mailYoz
your pandora password would be Pand@radioYoz
iMDb: Imdb@movieYoz

In case you don't see it the pattern is:
first/four/letters/of/sitename@service/first/three/letters/of/username

that's gonna be at least 8 characters every time and should be good enough for most services...

PS. I wish I had thought of this when I made my template this is way more creative than what I came up with, sadly now that it's out-and-about I wouldn't feel safe using it
PPS. if the service doesn't allow special characters (here's looking at you Bank of America) just substitute the number that key shares. or create a whole new template for this case-type.
I am trying to send a verification email so that I can verify my account. But it will not show up. I have tried multiple times with 2 different email accounts, and I have checked the spam folders on both accounts, but I am not receiving the verification email. Can someone in administration please tell me what to do or send me the verification to peter41144@gmail.com.

Thanks,

-Peter
Nobody will believe me, but I just came to post this. Experienced programmers have so much to offer to young programmers.

I even came up with a name for it - progrAMA
Nanotubes Seen as Alternative When Silicon Chips Hit Their Limits
> Certainly the default position should be that medical professionals know what they are talking about

In general I agree with you. When you're faced with a large amount of literature from many doctors and specialists in the field you should be able to assume that someone has done the research, and that most of the medical profession agree.

It'd be great if more people could read and understand research. But we're stuck with sub-optimal reporting, and people struggling to understand what is really meant by "50% reduction in risk" or "20 times less likely to die".

Having said all that: Here's an off topic rant.

There are very many examples of doctors not using scientific method but relying on their "expertise".[1]

This has caused significant harm to many people.

Doctors tend not to talk about stuff that is obvious nonsense, and a lot of their interventions sound plausible. But that's the sneaky danger! We know woo is woo, and if people want to fund research into it good luck to them. But for things that sound plausible? That's exactly when we need good research, because common sense and expertise is fallible.

This isn't from doctors trying to deceive people. It's from good clinicians who are not aware of their limits.

[1] A great example is "Arthroscopic Knee Surgery No Better Than Placebo Surgery", from about 2000.
An AMA with people like these would be awesome! I wonder if we could get them into a forum where anyone from HN (and anyone who happens by) could ask them anything.

We could set up a whole site aimed at it. Maybe we could call it reddit.com/r/IAmA ????

It would be the perfect place for anyone from HN to ask these people questions!

(Seriously: why? If you want to ask these people questions, just ask them on Reddit. Unless you can offer a better experience or audience, there's no win here.)
I am trying to send a verification email so that I can verify my account. But it will not show up. I have tried multiple times with 2 different gmail accounts, and I have checked the spam folders on both accounts, but I am not receiving the verification email. Can someone in administration please tell me what to do or send me the verification to peter41144@gmail.com so that I can finish setting up my account?

Update: I still have not received any emails from coinbase to either of my gmail accounts, so I decided to try sending the verification email to my yahoo account. That worked! Then I went to account settings and switched to my gmail account and clicked on "save". Everything looks good now. But how can I know for sure that my gmail account is actually connected now to my coinbase account? No emails have been sent to either my gmail or yahoo account letting me know that I had changed email addresses in my coinbase account settings. Is there a way I can verify that peter41144@gmail.com is now actively connected to my coinbase account?

Thanks
If you are doing a heavy front end, you should avoid something heavy on the backend like Rails. It will only get in the way. Something like Flask, Rack, Grape or Restify is a better option for the server-side component.
Different games exist for different purposes. Not every game allows infinite saves and redos.
I live in Utah, and here I've noticed the same trends. A bachelors degree for Science/Math is not enough to land a "good" job. Where good is defined by me as over 50k and promotion opportunities. Employers weed out based on possession of a bachelors degree.

However, the market for software engineers is much more merit based right now. Many good engineering jobs that pay 6 figures require "a bachelors degree in a technical field or equivalent experience".

I'll be the first one to argue that attending a university is a good idea for someone who want to call him/herself a developer, but lack of a degree is not a showstopper to a great job. The reality though is that if/when the market for engineers slows down, employers will probably begin to apply the same filters. Even if a degree isn't required today, it might be a necessity in 5 years for someone starting out.
Microsoft's Outlook.com Email Product Takes On Google Gmail
Anyone else finding that the demo is broken, particularly in Firefox on Linux? I filed an issue: https://github.com/enyo/dropzone/issues/34
Oh yeah, I own a Subaru. I know the pain of changing those spark plugs, too.
I suspect you're missing his point

No, I get the point, I just saying he's wrong.
This isn't surprising, the #1 search we get at Blekko by robot (aka programattic) sources is to find pages with unpatched Javascript or PHP bugs.
Hacker News should be made as simple as possible: one page of links only for hackers. (link to AMA is just another link)
Judicious execution of Javascript in a Rails app
Nietzsche said the meaning of a thing is a function of power rather than truth. If someone had written something better and with similar exposure, people would give that assessment more authority.

Books and essays like "Management secrets of Gengis Khan" are an attempt at invoking this kind of power, that the writer is both knowledgeable enough and the topic is relevant enough to the times in which it appears to hold sway in some way (if only for book sales, natch). If nobody cares who the "Gengis Khan" author is and their way of describing what they're talking about reaches enough people to operate a (sub-) cultural transformation, then the words will therefore have little meaning in the practical sense.

To be sure, writers write from their own subjectivity. This cannot be avoided, so to critique something as having too much of the author in it is a little beyond the pale (pace Derrida). The last century-plus of philosophy and critical exercise have taught us that objectivity doesn't exist (irony intentional); there will always be hints of the writer's mind, biases, and so on. So of course the Jargon File is going to have ESR's fingerprints all over it.

We can talk about how the JF's corpus is weak and riddled with a particular subjectivity, but the simple facts are that it's accessible, easy to digest, and an early description of many, many concepts of the subcultures affiliated with computers. It acquires authority this way, regardless of followers-on and critiques. It's the same problem the Bible and other major religious texts have, but it's also germane to the scope of things like operational best practices, equity allocation, and any other topic where there are schools of thought. The critique raised here is simply another front in a battle between schools. Steven Levy articulated an infinitely more detailed description of hackers, but that has a concomitant inaccessiblity (length), but in my mind equally valid. At the end of the day, we may as well be talking about what band is the most Rock.
I have to think Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies with even more force on kurzweilai.
Bitcoin: Now Trading Dangerously Close To Its All-Time High
My take on this:

* Those that put in enough to just 'click' say yes.

* Those who want to participate in the conversation say 'no'.

To commit at least one logical fallacy:
Those who would participate in the AMA intelligently say 'no'.
They need to know how to run A/B tests on the product site. This requires some technical knowledge, but nothing a good hacker cannot setup properly. This ability will allow the business co-founder to be able to grow the business much faster.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm disappointed because it seems like a really cool car and I really like what he's doing, but the way Musk viciously attacks critics is a serious turn-off. I think the essence of Broder's complaints about the range of the car and cold weather and getting used to a car with different operating constraints are entirely legitimate even if they weren't written with the precision one might expect from the NYT (and, it's worth noting, it wasn't an altogether negative review). It's disappointing that he would attack not just the review, but the reviewer personally.
... and it's from the Emacs distribution
($EMACS_SRC/etc/JOKES)... :]
Google's fiber leeching caper
Mine. From a long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away.

#python SQL injection paradise.
sql = 'SELECT * FROM %s' % table
Building the Next Big Enterprise Startup
You can always post this as a question to http://patents.stackexchange.com and then add the answers you have collected already as an answer.

I encourage you do so since I do not know a better place to document prior are for patents.
Do you have any recommendations for development in the analytical space?

I mean, either you develop on Twitters API or you have a gaping hole in your social media analysis product... Game over?
I think the OP realises pg would not go for this easily, so by making a poll that's a ahem run away success the OP hopes to present pg with evidence.
Actually, I think that there are both benefits and costs to tightly controlled languages, and it's not clear at all that the costs outweigh the benefits. Indeed, arguably C#'s great progress in the last decade compared to Java is due in large part to Microsoft's hegemony as opposed to Java's community process.

Regardless, as I understand it (though IANAL) Oracle's copyright argument was over Android's reuse of Java's APIs (including signatures and documentation), not over the Java language itself. Basically they claimed that just like a cookbook is subject to copyright even though an individual recipe may not be, so should the collected Java API be even though individual method signatures wouldn't be.
Yes. At first the appeal of the AMA was the insight it provided into the lives of other redditors who just happened to have an interesting job or experience. It was only after it became "a thing" organically that it started to become a PR tool for celebrities and politicians--a direction that sadly seems to be accelerating.
Maybe feelings need to be hurt...A lot of people expect things to just be handed to them these days, especially with the "everybody is a winner" culture that is pushed in the elementary schools currently.
Microsoft adds 22% to price of Office for Mac 'to make Office 365 look better'
No.

Ok, sorry that is a bit snarky. I dislike space.com (best read using lynx(1)) and I really dislike reporting on the hint of results from an unpublished paper which probably isn't what you think because oh-my-gosh we might be able to confuse a few hicks into clicking on one of these adverts we just threw under their mouse when they weren't looking. Woo hoo! Another buck fifty for us sucker!

Read this: http://ams.pg.infn.it/~zuccon/Pubblicazioni/ams/physicsrepor... and then decide for yourself if you think their theory holds water or not.
Wringing every ounce of income out of someone who is otherwise a waste of space seems like a feature not a bug. I just laugh at moral outrage over stupid white americans getting "screwed." Especially when it's entirely voluntary.
I was looking at the sentiment analysis tab of the project. I really wonder how the algorithm works. It seems that for almost all pages and most books the sentiment is either negative or neutral. The absence of positive sentiment can be observed immediately.
Don't miss the moment Bitcoin passes the $30 mark
Thanks! This was always a pain, figured there must be an easy way to setup a fresh dotfile pull.
Like.
Aside from the UK part, maybe make it possible to switch....
Does the OP describe what tools he used to perform the analysis? I'd love to learn!
So its a hot glue gun with a fine tip and auto-feed?
"Art Institute of X" where X is not Chicago usually implies a for-profit institution owned by EDMC ("educational management corporation").

Academy of Art (in SF) is quite similar, but perhaps more known regionally: in both cases they seem to provide some kind of legitimate training in commercial art (by itself a respectable discipline), but it's probably fair to say that they draw in students who aren't quite aware of what they've signed up for and the how far they will go into debt.

Many students at these schools aren't even interested in art, fashion, or film per se: for some it's the last chance at graduation (some came after transferring through as many as six schools, etc...)

I think for-profit universities (and perhaps, lower-tier private law schools) represent the educational bubble very well: in all cases I think they provide legitimate training and can be a value-add to many individuals. Problem is the rate at which they (effectively) sell degrees is much higher than the rate at which the (already limited) market for holders of those degrees grows. This is definitely thanks to the ease of getting student loans.
You have no facts to back anything of what you said up. And that "driving around in circles" bit is debatable when you actually see the chargers in question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3fO_OHpyYw

Oh and that giant, lit up structure is NOT the chargers.
Maybe this has to do with the "Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis" :) -- http://jumpingjackflashhypothesis.blogspot.com
I disagree that telling kids that there are hoops to jump through is the problem. There are hoops to jump through. The problem is telling kids to major in what they're interested in. The "follow your bliss" crap instead of "follow a paycheck."
You would expect so you know, since it's actually Mike Bostock's profile. (he created d3.js)
This. Meeting people is the most important part of uni by far. Loads of people will otherwise not meet other motivated people to take on big things.
Problems with Mandiant's report on APT1's cyber espionage activities
I doubt that their amicus briefs are driven by PR considerations as opposed to actual business concerns. How does a court filing that most of the public will never see help them shift public perceptions of Google?
Inside the Founder Institute
I guess one can read the post and see what they want.

> Taking imprecise notes is sloppy, but it's not dishonest or even necessarily misleading. It certainly doesn't prove whether the review was done in good faith.

> I agree with the Public Editor that, at this point, parsing second-by-second detailed logs are unlikely to be illuminating unless they show some new rock-solid evidence of malfeasance.

> Your last point I don't follow at all. It's perfectly reasonable to believe the test drive was done in good faith and also believe that there is room for argument in some of the conclusions. I'm sure that's true for a great many reviews; it doesn't mean the review was malicious or even wrong.
> I personally believe that errors of omission and misleading details are identical to dishonesty

Pot calling the kettle black there.
I know timing has a lot to do with number of upvotes, but I posted an off-topic[1] article that got 59 votes and over 100 comments (and, thankfully, was heavily flagged); and I posted an on-topic article that got 4 votes and no comments.

It's easy to see why bad articles get posted.

[1] I was under the influence of Zopiclone!
What makes you think that, as college degrees become more common, employers will "carefully consider" candidates instead? They are just as likely to look for other cheap, easy filters: like college ranking, graduate degrees, etc. You already see this in some fields. E.g. it's almost impossible to get a decent-paying job with just a BS in Chem/Bio these days.
All over the net I'm reading comments from naysayers who claim this will never happen, or it won't happen this century.

Even many neuroscientists are saying it's impossible. But although they might know about neuroscience, they don't seem to have grasped the concept of exponential technology growth yet.

I'm so glad Obama is not a naysayer.
I started using adblock plus filters to remove the worse portions of space.com and it was a pretty good experience. Got rid of social networking crap, got rid of their top bar, their bottom bar, the sidebars, the header, the masthead, the next article prompter, and the site was becoming readable, and then I slipped up and whoosh out went their content and voila, and like many inventions, one error led me to realize a greater creation than I had originally thought possible.
> "there is no redo in real life"

Psychologically speaking, failure is not a good teaching tool. Learning is much more effective through experimentation and success.
Obviously the public are not going to read the court filing, the judges will. And if the court accepts an appeal there will be years of bad PR for Google as the world discusses how and whether Google "stole" the APIs for Android. Even if Google is cleared there will still be smear on their name from people perceiving that they are profiting from something they didn't really make themselves.
With sites like github this is true for any tech job. Think how much code you could write and put on github if you didn't go to college and worked solely on you own projects for three years.

This is true for any field where you are required to create things (art, design, etc.).

It's harder for subjects like history, but if you put your mind to it you could do a lot of your own research in a particular area over three years and write your own book, for example.
Similar case with my uncle and colon cancer. The anxiety of knowing made the situation worse.

For most of us, the money can be attained, as evident by the electronic devices littering our homes and offices.

Related, I've found that many young people don't want to know what their credit card or bank balance is, for fear of seeing how little money they have left (or saved).

Terrible way to live.
Academy of Art in SF is an awesome business scam where the owners turn student loans and international student tuition dollars into tax free real estate holdings.

"For those keeping track, Academy of Art University now owns 1.93 million square feet of space in 41 properties in San Francisco. This includes 22 academic and office properties and 19 residential buildings.
The school owns everything from historic landmarks like the Cannery on Fisherman's Wharf to St. Brigid's Church on Van Ness to prime south financial district buildings like 79 and 180 New Montgomery St."

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/201...

Google "art academy sf real estate" - there's articles like this going back to 2001.
Nature.com makes it sound like the scientist leading this is playing games with the press. Why call a press conference with over 100 reporters and live stream it if you have nothing to announce yet? Pretty cheesy.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/dark-matter-search-from...
Gary Vaynerchuk Chats with Dave McClure, Calls Entrepreneurs a Rare Breed
Toy Story Blended
Not very often you see an idea, and think, this is so simple, why didn't this already exist?! Going to be a massive hit in art class! I'd like one just to bring my drawings to life.
What's the difference between this new support and the nginx-push-stream module? https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module
Your argument is: "Because Elon Musk and the Tesla team have done an amazing job with the Model S, it is impossible/improper/wrong for people to be upset/disappointed in his behaviour." Really?
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