skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So heroku doesn't want these $20,000/mo accounts, just technically understaffed startups paying $1000/mo?

> I think heroku does want to be a long-term technology choice.

Oh, I'm sure Heroku wants to be a long-term technology choice. That doesn't mean they're trying to be one with their current product offerings.

Consider their product choices since launch: they've added dozens of small value-added technology integrations. Features for a few bucks a month like New Relic to upsell their smallest customers. The price drop was also a big move to reduce barriers to using their platform - which also targets smaller customers. They launched Clojure as their third supported language! Meanwhile, they're singly-homed and have had several protracted outages, and have no announced plans to build a multi-homed product. Scalability has gotten worse with this random routing development.

I think Heroku has known for a long time that they don't have a long-term platform product and that they can't keep big accounts until they build one.
Europeans seemly have some Schizophrenic policies sometimes.

I mean, there are fields (like IP) where they make the best, and worst laws, at the same time.

They don't decide if they want freedom or not it seems.
> For a gas car that doesn't happen

correct, for a gas car, at least in the old days, the battery would die and you couldn't get anywhere...or if it was a diesel you'd have to go plug in the engine warmer or you wouldn't get anywhere
Tesla publishes Model S driving logs that show The New York Times’ blatant lies
right, open source your stuff and the community is willing to help you
True, but that starts at 10 TB/mo
Berkshire and 3G Capital to Buy Heinz for $23 Billion
Free Software Day
I'm in Cardiff, and I'd attend a Bristol meetup.
Man Builds Tool for Hacking Comic Strips
It’s a tool that lets you use computer code to build comic strips about the kind of people who use computer code to build comic strips. In other words, it’s a hacker idea of fun — in more ways than one.
Every dev needs Ketchup ...
Large dataset addiction :)
Always curious, I gave my email address. The result is a mailing list preference panel. Thank you but no, I'm not hackable. -> [Unsubscribe] -> bye!
Energy is more than Oil, gasoline, and internal combustion engines. A failure to recognize that by a NYT reporter is odd.
Microsoft Has Sold 24 Million Kinect Sensors
> He got caught embellishing facts for a pre-determined narrative

Pre-determined narrative? Huh? Now you're embellishing the facts.
It's a ratio of distances -- the benchmark distance is 20 feet but that's non-essential. 20/10 means you can see the same level of detail at 20 feet that somebody with "normal" vision can see at 10 feet.
The beta is coming soon, there are no plans to use your email for anything other than information about the early access.
Adobe CEO refuses to answer Australian pricing questions
This is a good point. Thanks for bringing it up.

But I think you miss the gist of my statement. My apologies. I should have been clearer. I said "...anybody else with access to the box can tell exactly how you've been driving..."

The issue here is that the car is automatically equipped to provide such tracking. Whether the tracking is turned on by default, by court order, by the police hacking your system, by the company in order to verify test drives, by your insurance company convincing you to give them the data -- all good and interesting situations for discussion, but not germane to what I was saying.

In fact, it's not the company I worry about. It's consumers who will easily be lured into turning on tracking by their insurance companies -- and then this data will be available to anybody who has system access. We are our own worst enemies.

Your car -- a large, heavy, physical piece of reality which you trust to get you from point A to point B -- is now only so much software. That's a big deal.
hurrah Linux? New Distro?
The final statement
I've had two experiences with the press. I have many friends who have also had far more interaction with the press than I have.

I will tell you this:

Both times I made it into the paper, my feeling while giving the interview was that the reporter was writing the story their way despite what I was saying. I was asked leading questions, questions that asked me to come down on one side or another of a complex issue. I was asked repeatedly the same question in different ways to elicit a response that would support a conclusion I didn't agree with.

My friends confirmed my suspicions when they saw the articles that were written. If you dont think that a significant percentage of the articles you read in the paper are pushing a particular viewpoint despite contrary evidence, I'd like a little of what you are smoking.

Just in case you were asking, one of the reporters I'm talking about works for the New York Times. This is the article I was talking about:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/18/national/18harvard.html?pa...
Building Sample Apps in Ruby, NodeJS and PHP
Sure, it's basically a 3d visualisation of real life cities using the latest Web technologies. Part data visualisation, part game, part art – it's ambitious and will be an interesting view of the cities we live in.

The aim is to have the beta up and running soon.
Have you ever had contacts put on your eyes ? I think that almost anyone who wears contacts has had the same reaction as you ; I tried contacts for the first a few years ago, and I thought exactly the same thing, that I could never, ever, touch my directly my eye with my fingers. The doctor put them for me the first time, and it turns out that it's something that you can learn to do (and not fear) pretty quickly.
I'm glad this got to the front page. I encourage everyone to look through the new documentation. BruceM is leading the OpenDylan revitalization project, I just got on board with it too. You could learn a lot, the language has been rapidly updated in the last year or so.
It appears the "!" got stripped from the article; perhaps a moderator should simply remove the "Hurrah" :)
Incidentally, that story you're talking about was a false alarm. Stripe isn't releasing a beta in the UK.
White House-Led Effort to Create Online ID Standards Proceeding
Understood. We'll definitely add more information in the near future.
The account brought a tear to my eye as I read it. It's very sad.

fail at human rights and people's right to free from an oppressive regime.

You can try to blame the regime; but really, this is the life that the generation in control during the Korean war chose. They fought with their lives to live under tyrannical communist rule.

It's such a shame that their progeny have to live with the consequences of those decisions in perpetuity.
I have a problem with log data being released with analysis being imposed over it. I understand there need to show that they are in the right and NYTimes is in the wrong but as it stands now this is just pure marketing. If they had released the data plain and unadulterated i might feel differently, but at least as of the link provided i saw no link to the raw log material. So as it stands this is marketing, and that is really sad. If this data were indeed true(and i am not saying it isnt) it should be able to stand on its own up to 3rd party analysis. One can always make data look the way they want for there cause, and this goes for the NYTimes review as well.
How startups can succeed in healthcare innovation
This guy has been writing for the Times for 14 years; recent budget decimation didn't cause them to stoop to hiring him.
Yahoo 5 Years Behind on Java Security
ah; you are correct. 5.2 was the issue. once i switched to 5.1.4 debugging worked.
What did Nintendo put the A and B buttons the wrong way round?
I think this article has woken some people up to what a lot of us have known since 2003 (or earlier), namely: Don't believe everything you read in the NYT.

In case anyone is unaware, it was recently revealed that when the government announces that "X militants were killed", that the word militant actually refers to any military age male that is killed, and does not imply there is any evidence to suggest the person was anything other than completely innocent.

Furthermore, the NYT continues to parrot the government claims, and to use the word militant in it's reporting, despite this revelation, without mentioning that in most cases there is literally no evidence at all.

In fact, the NYT public editor recently wrote an article complaining about this fact.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/public-editor/questions-on...;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/15/drones-b...
He did not have to sit around 8 hours for the full charge, just enough to have the estimated range match how far he needed to drive. Then if it did not make that range, he could truthfully say that the car missed fell short of its estimate. As it is, he left on a 61 mile trip with the car telling him he only had 32 miles left.
Web development is nuts! We need new web tools and stop trying to fit round pegs into square holes.

Too much effort is wasted working around old obstacles.

Javascript was meant as a bridge to a Java based browser. That never happened and we're just left with the afterbirth.
Huh? He writes about many, many other energy-related topics. Just page through his stories. Climate, natural gas, EPA regulations, wind tax credits ...

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/peopl...

That this guy could be repeatedly accused here of being an industry shill reflects much more poorly on hn than on him.
BlackBerry Creative Director Alicia Keys Blames Hackers for iPhone Tweets
PG’s Hidden Message To Startups In Hacker News Algorithm
Apple is about to eat their lunch.
The ones I have worked so far:

Timex 2068 (My first computer)

ZX Spectrum 48+ (2nd computer)

ZX Spectrum +2A and +3 (at friend's place)

Amstrad PC1512 (at school)

Amiga 500 (at friend's place)

PC Compatible 386SX, P75, P166 MMX, AMD K-7, ...

AS/400, Aix, HP-UX, Solaris Workstations (At work)
It is already open source and available at Sourceforge: http://www.vbox.me/source-code/ .

GitHub are probably much hotter then Sourceforge this days, but Sourceforge was what we used back then :) Do you think that it is worth the effort to change to GitHub? Will it be easier to attract more developers then?
Now that sounds cool!

Are the simulations(games?) multi-user?
Ask HN: Best intro to Photoshop
A few days ago I posted an Ask HN thread on independently learning design. The responses gave me enough direction to know the theoretical books, blogs, and sites to look through. And the commenters stressed that I need to pick up my own project. That's refreshing since I learned how to code in the same way.

I am starting to recreate designs that I like in Photoshop. Are there any tutorials, books, and/or blogs that I should be reading for a good introduction? I am starting as a complete beginner.

The thread I started a few days ago is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198352
Alan Friedman’s Astonishing HD Photographs of the Sun Shot from his Own Backyard
Not to be pedantic, but because I think it's interesting:

The Lisa's OS was written in Pascal.

http://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~jwalker/lisa-legacy/

"The majority of Lisa programs were written in the Pascal language by Apple with a few programs written in 68000 assembly language. To give an idea of the size of this effort the Lisa operating system was written in around 90,000 lines of Pascal and each Lisa program (eg LisaWrite) contained somewhere around 50,000 lines each."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)#H...

Like others in this thread, I learned Pascal early on and was befuddled by C for a long time. I wrote some Pascal on my Apple //e, played with Lisa (had access thru work), completely missed the Mac boat, cut my teeth on TurboPascal. Gods, I loved Borland.
Show HN: vPass2, web-based generator of secure passwords.
Founder of Sparkfun tells how to bootstrap a 75M$ business with passion
Does WebRTC have any sort of extension mechanism whereby I can drop in my own version of NAT traversal logic?

Speaking from past experience, STUN and ICE are OK, but they got the whole process fundamentally wrong. They let the clients drive the traversal process. This is substantially inferior to letting a dedicated mediating server do that instead. I did that with one of my past projects and it helped with connecting peers in a large number of obscure scenarios.
Well, he's not a developer, but I see your point.
Inspire With Your Vision Not With Success
Musk: "The final leg of his trip was 61 miles and yet he disconnected the charge cable when the range display stated 32 miles. He did so expressly against the advice of Tesla personnel and in obvious violation of common sense."

NYTimes article: "Looking back, I should have bought a membership to Butch’s and spent a few hours there while the car charged. The displayed range never reached the number of miles remaining to Milford,"

So what Musk is correcting isn't actually in dispute.

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Musk: "Cruise control was never set to 54 mph as claimed in the article, nor did he limp along at 45 mph. Broder in fact drove at speeds from 65 mph to 81 mph for a majority of the trip and at an average cabin temperature setting of 72 F."

This seems disingenuous since there is clearly a good chunk on on the graph where the reporter was driving below 55 mph on 95 in CT, which I would not recommend. Musk is comparing the "majority of the trip" before the range troubles with the parts about cruise control from the parts with range troubles.

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Musk: "For his first recharge, he charged the car to 90%. During the second Supercharge, despite almost running out of energy on the prior leg, he deliberately stopped charging at 72%."

NYTimes: "Instead, I spent nearly an hour at the Milford service plaza as the Tesla sucked electrons from the hitching post. When I continued my drive, the display read 185 miles, well beyond the distance I intended to cover before returning to the station the next morning for a recharge and returning to Manhattan."

Reporter never said he fully charged it, and didn't have any reason to if the range gauge was accurate. Musk is basically saying the reporter should have been worried about the range and overcompensated.

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Musk: "When Tesla first approached The New York Times about doing this story, it was supposed to be focused on future advancements in our Supercharger technology. "

Seems odd they lent him a car for a test drive then.

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Musk: "In his own words in an article published last year, this is how Broder felt about electric cars before even seeing the Model S"

Musk should have stuck to the logs. Here is more of that paragraph:

"Yet the state of the electric car is dismal, the victim of hyped expectations, technological flops, high costs and a hostile political climate. General Motors has temporarily suspended production of the plug-in electric Chevy Volt because of low sales. Nissan’s all-electric Leaf is struggling in the market. And the federal government has slowed its multibillion-dollar program of support for advanced technology vehicles in the face of market setbacks and heavy political criticism. "

Are those facts untrue?
The Internship: Owen Wilson And Vince Vaughn Put The Goof Into Google
Business development ?
Especially considering the fact that they are bombarded with anti-American propaganda. So much so that they still celebrate the capture of the USS Pueblo, which is on display as a museum in Pyongyang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)
If this were the olympics of mental gymnastics, you would take the gold medal in every category.

> So, here's the story: He is expecting a number at around 100 miles because he thinks he's being more efficient now. He sees 50 miles. On a digital display at a hotel at night, he misreads the 5 as a 9, and this fits with his expectation, so he goes to bed thinking he has 90 miles of range. He wakes up and the Tesla has lost 5 miles of range inexplicably -- but it therefore has become 45 miles, which looks totally different. He calls them up complaining that the Tesla lost half of its charge overnight and some sympathetic tech support describes it as a "software glitch."

Pure gold. Thanks for the laugh.
Did you go to a boarding school? (I graduated from a public HS boarding school.)

Far from structure, outside of class, it is much easier for students to become distracted, since one residential advisor cannot possibly supervise a hall of 30 students and keep track of there whereabouts and how they're spending time.
Unofficial documentation of the Tesla Model S REST API
Thanks for sharing Sieuwert
On MacOS X and Unixen it is just a command-line toolchain, though the Emacs support is excellent. On Windows I believe the Harlequin IDE is available.

Apple's Dylan environment was never released in source form.
Like what? Numbers and studies? Khan Academy said that they have very promising results in which students perform significantly better on standardized tests.

Without numbers and studies, this sounds like self-selection to me - people doing Khan Academy courses are surely more self-motivated than people attending colleges and universities, a substantial percentage of whom probably don't really enjoy being there.

I think it's quite obvious that it's better to watch a recorded lecture than to see the teacher perform the same lecture years after year.

Do you mean obvious from some study you've heard of, or obvious to you? Because that's not at all obvious to me personally - in fact, the opposite is true. I think I learn much better from in-person lecturers (providing the lecturer is good, which would have to be true in a video lecture too). I think there are two forces at play that make this true - first, the lecturer can gauge the response of the audience and tailor his presentation - timing, level of explanation etc. Second, the atmosphere makes me pay attention more - in much the same way as going to the cinema or to see a play in a theater is more engaging that watching the same thing on TV or YouTube.

I know that basically everything I've said is all anecdote and presumption, but my presumption seem just as valid (to me, more valid :-P) than yours in the absence of hard data.

On your point that we should [give] the teachers and students better tools based on cognitive science that we discovered a long time ago, I wholeheartedly agree, but it needs to be done based on scientific conclusions, not anecdata (yours or mine).
IIRC it was 15-20 in Songkick's original offices at the back of Spitalfields market (although physical size wise it was probably about the size of a living room), it frequently over-flowed into the corridor.

They used to make everyone introduce themselves at the start, modern HN meetups lack that sense of intimacy :)
Google's default new-tab page has always seemed "salesy" to me.

I use Speed Dial 2 as my new-tab page, so I didn't even see this.
This just isn't true. The entertainment angle was not at all why the judge threw out the case. It was because they felt Telsa's claims were vague and that people understand that cars perform differently under different circumstances:

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2012/02/23/tesla-libel...
What is your vision for a happy successful life?
It means that something like the excellent annotated source reviews by Fabien Sanglard of Quake[1], Quake2[2], Q3[3], etc.. aren't possible.

Nor any ports to attempt ot make it compileable/runnable.

Code isn't supposed to be hung on a wall. If you can't even collaborate to make it work again, it does lose a lot, and waiting ~95 years isn't really a practical alternative.

Will the website stay up that long? Is archive.org allowed to preserve it?

[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/index.php

[2] http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/index.php

[3] http://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/index.php
Hmm, I may be a little more cynical than you here.

To my eye practically all journalists are sloppy: when I read a newspaper article about a topic I know well, it no longer comes as any kind of surprise to read something inaccurate or incomplete.

I can maybe trust the facts in a New Yorker piece (their editors' attention to detail is legendary) or in a WSJ feature article, where someone has had a lot of time to put things together and probably knows 10 times more than they bothered to write down … but that's not how most news works. Most newspaper stories are a "first draft of history" and I'm pretty much prepared to accept that when I read a story, it is one person's interpretation of what happened that is likely to deviate from reality in some hopefully minor way.

I'd like to understand whether I'm being unduly cynical or whether this is really a common quirk in how people tell stories -- hence my suggestion that I'd love to see an experiment where we measure empirically how good people are at aligning their story with easily measured facts.
Oops, didn't realize the DOx family were psychedelic amphetamines. Thanks for correcting this.
503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.

:/
This cuts both ways: if Google had a use for less skilled employees (I'm not saying they do, but anyone looking for customer service on her Nexus order might), they might still decide not to hire such employees specifically to avoid the regulations (and protests, apparently) involved with that.

Wal-Mart has to hire these workers, but we can be sure if they had any reason to hire fewer of them they would.
Yes, we try to put a link into our tracker with the ticket in their tracker for both bugs and spec ambiguities. Note that several are a few years old and are still open.

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11663
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12986
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12968
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12964
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10509
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12577
The fundamentals of this transaction will be outside the scope of understanding of the HN crowd.
Event Based Programming: What Async Has Over Sync | Nettuts+
Yes, there is a limit to how much correction you can do to an eye with that method. I have a -8 correction and it seems that it's already too much.

Also heavier correction gives not as precise results as small corrections : it depends of the cicatrisation of the eye. You might end up having a better vision but still requiring to have glasses.

It seems there exists alternatives like putting a lens inside the eyes which gives really good results and is also reversible. The lens is visible if you look closely. I didn't try the method though.
New York City Mayor Bloomberg to to ban Styrofoam?
The mobile quora experience is pretty horrible. The site has some gems of information but at the same time a vast amount of questions go unanswered and there is a not insignificant troll ish community growing. Hopefully they can find a way to turn it around.
Over the last few months I've been noticing a lot of adverts for Heinz products on the radio. They go like this:

"When I was younger dad would take us out for fish and chips. We'd walk along the canal and feed the ducks, even in the rain. Then I'd unwrap the bag, with the steam rising, and squirt on a dollop of ketchup. And, like always, it has to be Heinz."

I'm always amazed at the ability of brands to sell £0.20 products for £2.00, and the supermarkets who then sell £0.16 products for £1.00 and claim it's value.

I worked for Lucozade (UK Gatorade) for a while. Our total cost, delivered to retailer, of a bottle was 12p. We sold it to them for min 50p and they sold it for at least £1.

Ultimately this is a bet on the longevity of consumer brands, which I think is probably a wise one.
Just a little thing: why can't we just say "servers" and "requests" instead of "registers" and "customers", because stores don't get 9000 customers per minute and don't have 500 registers. Everybody here would understand servers and requests.
DevOps as a service, WebOps in the cloud or anything you'd like to call it. We made it because we had the same issues as all other devs with Heroku. I hope we built something useful.
KDE Akademy and Qt Contributor Summit Join Forces