skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Paradox of the Sleeping Beauty
Yes, that is one of the EV issues. Primarily why, I assume, hybrids and electric cars like the Volt have seen more widespread use because they have a gasoline fallback. The popular counter argument is that the vast majority of daily driving amounts to less than 40 miles.
That site made me feel like I was looking at a cyberpunk shop inventory.
This is fantastic. I've always heard about lisp machines, but the subject always felt foggy and intimidating. This is a excellent read.

Can you imagine a paper like this written about a language like Ruby or Scala?
The horizon would be a plane traversing the lab

No, it wouldn't. That's the point. The horizon is an outgoing lightlike surface; with respect to Frame X (or to any inertial frame that straddles the horizon), it's moving radially outward at the speed of light. It's not a plane stationary in space.

The singularity would be in one direction perpendicular to the horizon

No, it wouldn't. The singularity is to the future of the horizon; the direction from the horizon to the singularity is timelike, not spacelike.

There's a coffee mug in front of me now. Regardless whether it's a spacelike or timelike direction, the mug is in that direction.

This is not correct; timelike directions are fundamentally different from spacelike directions. What direction is next Tuesday from you now? That's a timelike direction, and it's not the same direction as the direction of a coffee mug, or any object that is in the space around you now. It's not even the same kind of direction. But that kind of direction--the kind that next Tuesday is in from you now--is the direction the singularity is in from the horizon.

I'm not seeing a problem with the diagram.

That's because you evidently don't understand what the curved spacetime around a black hole is like. It's a perfectly self-consistent model; but it doesn't work the way the web page author, and evidently you, think it works.
Are there any features in SourceTree that TortoiseHg does not provide?
Indeed .. because the article was under-researched drivel.
Agree with overall idea expect the call for government involvement. Let the market figure this out. If the math makes sense for most people, then it makes sense. If I could get a 25-35k electric vehicle with free or cheap charging and 150 miles on a charge, I'm in.
Thanks for the elaborate answer.

My take: If the fail2ban solution bans 9000 IPs - why would you care? If password authentication is disabled (is it?), who cares? What's _gained_ here, except for a potentially smaller log file?

Everything that uses ssh allow port customization
(and I wouldn't trust something that doesn't).

Sure. I agree. The problem starts, if you mix a lot of clients. Say, I'm using two different OS' (Windows, Linux). For Windows that means putty for me (one interface) or WinSCP (two interfaces to manage). On Linux I'm using ssh (ssh foo@host:port) or scp (scp -P port ..).

I certainly CAN manage .ssh/config files and reduce that mental overhead a bit. But my argument is that this makes no sense. It - in my world - doesn't buy you security, but might cause mental laps and cache misses that annoy you.

So, I still fail to see a reason to do that..
If I knew which ones to pay attention to, I'd be a rich investor by now!
I've been idly looking around for compilers that generate PHP from less awful languages so that when circumstances dictate using PHP, I can at least distance myself from it a bit. What I've found so far is Pharen, but I'm not greatly excited by it. The prospect of a statically typed language is a bit more appealing. Pratphall looks pretty interesting, and I'll try to play with it a bit when I find some time.
Oh, so we have been hoodwinked, duped, and bamboozled by the mysterious "political industrial complex" huh? All this time, electric vehicles have been perfectly viable and competitive with internal combustion? It is all just a big conspiracy?

That is a perfectly interesting opinion...but it also happens to be one that will make me disregard any further opinions you might have.
Hey, cut us some slack. It's been a while since Nirvana, and we need new cred. :-P
Is MongoDB certainly declared "bad" now or something? I still thought Mongo is a viable option? Why would they give you crazy looks?
The idea of theft of 'digital goods' is absurd.

Goods are defined as "commodities that are tangible, usually movable, and generally not consumed at the same time as they are produced".

Theft is defined as "the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it"

Access to New York Times articles is not a tangible commodity, and bypassing the paywall in no way deprives the New York Times company of access or of a unit of access to the article.
As someone who has been on that team at Blizzard, those Halo rumors were the kind we laughed over. With the talent and experience in game design, lore and art which the company (and that team in particular) has access to, it seems silly to imagine Blizzard going out and borrowing a game universe from elsewhere to base a game on.
I've heard uncensored 50 Cent & Eminem in the toy section of Japanese department stores (as well as elsewhere in the stores, but hearing in the toy section was most memorable). Many of the locals don't understand most of the lyrics, but liked the tune or beat.
Wii U has historically bad January, sells about 50,000 units in U
Would be neat if the battery itself was something that was like a module. You could drive up to the driving station and some kind of robotic arm would just hook up - swap out your battery module and replace it with a charged version. In essence companies owning the charging stations would own a pool of batteries that they would charge and swap in and out of drivers cars.
The graph processing room was recorded, as were the lightning talks, but I don't know if those videos are available yet.
Reminds me of SlamWhale (2011) [1], but the added meter rules makes it even better.

[1] http://www.slamwhale.com/
Fair enough - but you'd need a charging station at your destination to make the OP's argument work, because if you charge your car at home every night like your phone, you're on the hook for the electricity (which probably costs more per mile than gasoline - I don't know, but I know it's cheaper to heat with diesel then electricity, so I assume auto fuel is similar)
essentially ...

"Still, if Nintendo's hardware sales numbers stay this low for much longer, a downward spiral of developer and customer expectations will have the Wii U entering the desperation territory of systems like the Dreamcast and the Virtual Boy before too much longer. If Nintendo is going to turn this boat around, it had better do it quickly."

my take: mobile is eating game consoles.
These times are only assuming you stop at a 440V Supercharger, of which there are eight total nationally, and only on three road routes, six stations on two California routes, and two stations on a single route between DC and Boston. The 440V high amperage charge also lessens the life of the battery - Lithium Ion cells don't like high amperage or temperatures. Fortunately battery replacements are only $40,000.

A 240V 24A charger which is much more common, and which is not paid for by Tesla so has its own terms, can recharge 18 miles of range per hour of charge, so 13 hours are needed for a full recharge.

A 240V 40A charger can recharge 31 miles of range per hour of charge, so 8 hours are needed for a full recharge.

Tesla also notably recommended that people drive low speeds on long trips to increase the chances they will see ranges of 240 miles as opposed to the 170 or so that seems to be under more typical driving conditions.

When one is off of the Tesla routes on the west and east coast, and driving a steady 60mph without climate control, one can travel 240 miles per 12 hour period if they have access to the higher capacity 240V/40A charger exactly every 240 miles (20 mph average speed), or 240 miles per 17 hours with the 240V/20A station (14.1 mph average speed). This is assuming there is no cold weather. If there is cold weather or faster driving, that reduces to a 170 mile range per 12 or 17 hour period (10-14mph average).

Tesla plans to address this with a nationwide network of Supercharger stations which will reduce the full recharge time dramatically, at the cost of shorter battery life.

Tesla claims that all energy for the network, which requires the ability to deliver to 4 cars simultaneously in 1 hour about 100kWh total of power per 85kWh capacity charge, will run exclusively on a small 30 kW max rated capacity installation of solar powered panels at each 4 car charge station and that customers will not only "Drive for Free. Forever. On Sunlight.”, but stations will produce a surplus of energy that will be sold at a profit.

source for recharge times: http://www.teslamotors.com/charging#/outlet

source for solar powered car claims:
http://www.visualnews.com/2012/09/26/tesla-electric-cars-dri...
Wasn't Triton supposed to be a Blizzard property? Is Blizzard's role here to contribute development and artistic resources to what will ultimately be a Bungie game?
I also wrote a filter over Twitter for iambic pentameter once, and had a friend write a web frontend to it. Here's my (messy) code; http://glozer.net/ wrote the frontend in Erlang but AFAIK never released it.

https://github.com/darius/versecop

Pentametron is cooler. I did try filtering for rhymes too, but there wasn't enough data in the free feed, at least back then.
I read this and still have no clue what this business is. You may want to consider the possibility that Silicon Valley isn't massively broken and you simply don't have a good elevator pitch.
Yup, the paywall has gotten stronger and will probably be getting even more upgrades. And they know all the tricks.

Once you start paying, you realize how much great content is on there. Well worth it.
> You are making the assumption that getting an 8% return is something that is easy and safe to do.

But it is. It's as safe as anything you can name. Or would you prefer a bank savings account, insured against loss, that produces a return of less than 1%?

A bank savings account is safe by one definition, but since it's an example of sanctioned corporate theft, it's not safe at all.

> The assumption that your money won't run out is not a given.

That assumption depends on the wisdom of those who run the accounts. There are any number of ways to prevent eroding the principal, primarily by paying attention to investment growth and inflation.

> I don't know what the story is with these retired by 30 people, but I would be willing to bet a fair number of them will find themselves broke and returning to work at some point in their lives.

Well, I happen to be one who successfully retired young. I wrote a best-selling program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer) in 1980 (wen I was 35), made a bundle, and retired. I sailed solo around the world for four years, had a lot of adventures, and every year I travel to Alaska in my latest boat to photograph grizzly bears. And in constant dollars, I have approximately the same nest egg that I did when I started.

It's simple -- all you need to do is pay attention to your investments and to inflation.

> You also aren't accounting for inflation, which means as you age either you're going to have to cut your expenses ~3% a year or you're going to have to increase your withdrawls ~3% a year.

What? No, all you need to do is adjust your withdrawals to account for inflation. That's simple -- it's as simple as multiplying two or three numbers together as in my prior post.

Required nest egg = desired annual income * inflation factor / investment return

Nest egg = $50K * 1.03 / 0.08 = $644K

This could obviously be rearranged to change the expected annual income instead of the size of the nest egg.

And if the rate of inflation changes, you change the inflation factor and recompute before going to the bank.
I can't recommend Pomodoro enough for most tasks!

Don't use it for writing and similar things though, the breaks will be noticeable in your output.
A sign of times. In the end the majority will be geeks like us. But if Software Testers can be hot on Billboard, there's hope for the rest of us ;) PS. Wanz retweeted link to this HN. Universe bless the Internet.
I'm fairly sure that moving to a pull queue would generate more overhead for each request, granted it would probably solve their current issues. However IMO sticking with a push setup and solving the brokenness would be a higher performance solution, mainly due to the simplicity.

It really sounds like they need to shard their current setup as a minimum, and preferably find some way to synchronise the session table over the routes within a mesh, so any one router is aware which dyno's are blocking/available for that queued traffic.
The Blizzard project is titled "Titan".
This fails the "don't make me think" test. You're taking something that needs no explanation ( a registration form ) and making its functionality entirely unobvious.
When you only have a few pieces of information, it's easy to presume that they're the most important ones.
Addresses goes from specific to general mostly in countries influenced by British empire. Because international standard require to put city and country at the end, many countries have addresses with mixed order: street, home number, apartment number, city, country.
You want every possible sonnet? OK: http://wry.me/sonnetron

(slight exaggeration, yes.)
you can ship actual disks/drives to AWS for bulk loading
or set up a high connection tunnel with them for bulk loads
I think you've hit on an important point here which the article has missed. Peer-pressure is responsible for most of the unwanted consumption that the author mentions. If we lived in a society where reading and debating on books was considered an accepted and revered social activity, then we would have many more people reading books than (say) watching sports.

I don't really blame most people for having that kind of feeling (we are humans after all) but it does help to sometimes take a step back and ask ourselves why we live our life the way we do.

Ben Franklin used that kind of peer-pressure to learn new skills so it can be used for doing good too
I'd like you to move to Posthaven
If you stick with native styles for device elements (such as the action bar & notifications) that should cover 99% of requirements.

Widgets are a different matter. Suffice to say the big difference there is between Samsung/HTC who displays full-sized widgets and Nexus/Motorola/Asus who force widgets to use way too much padding.
Measuring Battery Capacity with an Arduino
Australia cuts Microsoft bill by $100m
> What's _gained_ here, except for a potentially smaller log file?

- Smaller and easier to parse log files

- Less time wasted parsing log files (or creating scripts to filter out automated attacks)

- Less RAM & CPU cycles (particularly important when running low memory VMs)

I still fail to see a reason to NOT do that.

It won't increase your overall security, but it doesn't reduce it either, so why not do it? Just to save you from adding 'alias ssh=ssh -P xx' to your .profile?
350 developers is a lot. Lets say, for the sake of simplicity, that they cost $85k a year (salary plus benefits like insurance). We're talking about almost $30 million a year just on those developers- and that's not even counting administrative staff, buildings, equipment, and all the services that go around that.

At the same time, they have basically no other games coming out. They have no licensing for Halo, so that's all Microsoft's baby now. Other games they've talked about launching have failed to reach market.

The point being, they're burning through a lot of cash and don't seem to be producing anything but this game. If it flops then Bungie will probably continue to exist, but it certainly won't be the same company it is now.
Great read, but a bit too much blowing sunshine.

The idea of 'free' energy for purchasing a car which will last significantly longer than your current car could have major long-term economic ramifications which could need to be considered in the long-term.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be doing these things, it's great, it's innovative and disruptive. But cars that last longer and don't need as much repairs (theoretically) means less being built, less being repaired, less jobs all the way down the line from the manufacture of spare parts to the installation and general maintenance.
There are similar implications for moving from the massively complex oil industry to a much simpler and flexible electric one. Particularly if solar is the chosen source, vs. hydro or nuclear where, I think, more people would be needed in the process.

Lastly, a reduction of spending and resulting taxes (which for fuel are currently huge) would also have mass implications for government.

Maybe we don't label any of these things good/bad. They just are, and will need to be dealt with.

I hope people are looking at these opportunities and the implications for the economy.

Lastly, how do people feel about calling Elon Musk the 'heir to Steve Jobs and the second coming of da Vinci'? To me, he is as different from those two as they are to each other. Prolific and brilliant, absolutely, but Steve Jobs isn't the second coming of Rockafeller, so why the comparisons, and do they fit?
If You Are Buying Into Ubuntu Phone Claims, You're Being Duped: Aaron Seigo
As another comment on here points out, the power produced from the solar panels is nowhere near enough to power the charging station. At best, it helps them offset the costs slightly due to the difference between the price they sell the (solar) power to the grid, and the price they pay for power from the grid - there's a 18-20 cent/kWh difference in their favour.
SSHD Rootkit Rolling around
Curious if any of the security-minded folk here have heard or looked into this?
Look, if you're going to be pedantic about it, at least be correctly pedantic. It's not Lego®, it's LEGO® (all caps), as in "LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group..." etc.

:D
Yeah, because of cowboy and Erlang's design it is going to out perform a single process evented server hands-down.

1. The evented servers are bound to one CPU, Erlang will use all CPUs
2. any bit of blocking code will stall the other code, even it just for a moment.

It is a little unfair to compare the two approaches.
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You left out HDPI and TVDPI. While they don't correspond to specific pixel sizes, it's easiest to think of dp as px that scale for you based on a 320x480 screen.
Did you try it? I think it has a 30 day trial
Interesting article but too many holes to hold much weight.

In no particular order..

You only don't pay for the charging electricity when using a supercharging station. If 'free' travel involves spending an hour a day at a service station waiting for the car to charge, then it doesn't seem quite so free! It would be more convenient to charge overnight at home but then you pay for this energy.

A minor point, but name any consumer device made in 1985 still receiving regular updates, software or hardware.

Finally, Selling a vehicle that only needs replacing every 50 years isn't going to be much of a business plan.

Negativity aside, I think its a great idea. I rarely drive more than 60 miles a day and I'd love to have an electric car. I'd even hook it up to some solar panels and I'm sure the economics would be comparable to a fuel car. If only the cars were a shade cheaper.
It's not a specific percentage because it does fluctuate (not going to look up what it's based on just now), but effectively it will never be eliminated. This is precisely my point to the original poster who postulated that increases in worker productivity were making it easier to support those not working.
"without English(the colonial hangover)"

Korea was never colonized by English-speakers, as far as I know.

Japanese, yes.
It is known as the 1951 USAF Test Chart, and it is and was a standard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_USAF_resolution_test_chart
Why does it need a robot? Just put a handle on the battery.
Then the attitude is the problem, and you need to work that. Fix the system to change the attitude.

As an aside, no one commenting on this post really understands it.

She's saying: look, it's not a person problem, it's a systematic problem. If you look at everything this way, it's a better paradigm; it opens doors, it allows you to grow, instead of shutting down based on incorrect assumptions and false pretenses.

In fact, I'll go broader: few people on HN or in the business community at large really understands that people problems are really systems problems.

Systems thinking. That's what she's talking about. And she's absolutely right, it's the most powerful paradigm shift available, and more people need to have it.

This guy applied it to management: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

Her music teacher applied it to piano. Both geniuses.

Everyone here should apply it to business. Trust me.
Not true, but close enough.

Even in Arabic, numbers are the exception, written from left to write.

انا من مواليد ١٩٨٦.
I was born in 1986.

You will notice the number sequencing, although slightly different looking, is the same as in Western orthography. Why? Arabs took their numbering system from the Indians, and adapted it.
Another thing that occasionally cheeses me off is the restriction on canonical ports < 1000 to user 0. Yes, I know it's standardized. Yes, I know that when it was codified the world looked very, very different. It's still annoying and requires cargo-cultish hoop-jumping (albeit well understood hoop jumping) to run a decently secure service.
> which probably costs more per mile than gasoline

Though electric cars are much more efficient [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#Energy_efficiency
Ask HN: Good Social Sentiment Analysis Tools?
I've been looking for a social sentiment analysis tool (One that scrapes data from social sites: Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc and lets you run analysis on said data) I.e. Heartbeat, Social Mention, Viral Heat.

This is one of those go mad by the amount of choices research topics...The main thing making it difficult though is that it's hard to find any real reviews or information outside of the different platforms' websites.

So does anyone have any experiences with these platforms and could give a recommendation?

I'm aiming for a nice balance between price and power, so nothing absurdly expensive and if it's cheap it has to do its job well.

Thanks!
on the other hand, maybe it shows how much confidence/love the developers have for the project :)
More close to extrinsic/intrinsic is the traffic problem itself.

Is traffic created by individuals, or is traffic created by a larger systematic effect?

If you have the first perspective, then you're likely to be upset at people and at the traffic. If you take the second perspective, you're likely to understand its true nature and possible ways of fixing it.

In my experience, the systematic perspective is almost always the correct one. Individuals are merely operating their best within their system. Exactly as in the original post with her fingers and the piano. Brilliant analogy.

We need more systems thinking, beyond just intrinsic/extrinsic understanding.

I don't know any good reading on the psychological effect you speak of, but good reading to start on systems thinking is Deming and go from there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
This isn't true. Almost all indy games aren't shooters (or if they are, have some interesting twist). Admittedly this may reflect that non-shooters are an area in which low-budget developers/studios can still compete.
I run a YouTube Stats website so my audience is loving this :) Nice job =]

http://hsmaker.com/harlemshake.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocialbl...
Can A Computer Make You Cry?
A shame more people haven't read Deming. Brilliant stuff.

Thanks for sharing. This is indeed right up his alley.