skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beautiful. I think it's also important to recognize that all tools have their warts, and to stop trying to pursue The Perfect Language/Framework/Environment™, because aside from marginal slow improvements, many modern tools are not that much better than their peers.
> I'm not going to be lining up to buy the first Tesla car for sale in Minnesota unless both the charging network and the car's cold-weather performance are massively improved.

Who cares?

Why does everyone want to voice their opinion so loudly on a product that doesn't even meet their needs?

It is that you can't accept some status-symbol high-tech gadget wasn't made with you in mind?

Of course the Telsa is not for everyone, it's new and cutting-edge and trying to re-define something common-place, which will likely take years or even decades.

I'm not buying a Ford F-150, or a Porsche, or a freaking smart phone either, but all of those are products that many customers are buying and finding a very good use for. Good for them. I'm going to keep my mouth shut about those products, because they are not for me.
... or if the order was a prank and they want to find an asshole to pin it on.
That doesn't seem very plausible. What's the other comment? Averaging 81 MPH is nearly impossible in the Northeast.
This is fun, but for it be useful in production the control scheme would need to be made more GUI-like. Great start!
Really? When my nexus 7 had a broken screen I tried to phone them up but the only number was in the United States. That may be wonderful if you live in the United States, but it seems the rest of the world will just have to do without ...
And that's crazy. Why wouldn't you want test results to affect policy? I posit that the UFT is being a bit disingenuous.
This is typical RIAA/MPAA accounting logic in action.

If OpenOffice cost actual money, it'd be probably worth somewhere about zero because nobody would use it.
Yeah - I recall looking at them a few years ago when they allowed for "multi-dimensional" spreadsheets. One of their other big selling points was that they were less error-prone than spreadsheets.

http://www.quantrix.com/Quantrix_vs_Spreadsheets.htm
Very cool. To make the code site even more beginner friendly for those peeps who find this tool via google, I suggest you generate a github page for this project. Just go project settings it seriously is pretty much auto generated and takes 5 mins.
To add to Patrick's experience: You will find these people at the cheap end of just about everything, not only SaaS. For example, our ad department finds that the people who purchase smaller ads are vastly more likely to cause trouble (e.g. "The ad is nice, but could you make it pop?" "OK, it pops more, but I would like a photo of my pet parakeet in the corner." "Can you move the parakeet up half an inch?" "Find clip art of another parakeet so he has a friend." "I want a discount on my $35 ad because I don't think the parakeet clip art you found is cute enough." vs. "OK, corporate approved it, let's run with it").
I wonder if there's two equilibria here - at low levels of robbery, there's a Nash equilibrium (law enforcement and robbers as predator/prey). However, because there's a limit on how much police and prosecution resources can ultimately be increased, eventually the robberies overwhelm law enforcement and you reach an equilibrium at a high level of robbery limited only by the availability of potential robbers.
Comcast to Acquire GE's 49% Share of NBCUniversal
This makes me think you may have interpreted my criticism as either PhoneGap or Objective-C bias. For the record, I believe in the right tool for the job, so it does not at all bother me that 37signals went HTML5/PhoneGap/etc.

What bothers me is the slight of hand with the principals they are selling. In some broad respects, 37signals is the Oprah of the web biz - I know that sounds nuts, but I do believe that they sell a philosophy of betterment of the small business. There is a social responsibility, in my opinion, to uphold the tenets or at least explain why they are now different.
$ echo `grep ica$ /usr/dict/words`
Africa America Angelica Antarctica Attica
Britannica Corsica Dominica Erica Formica
Jamaica Jessica Monica Patrica Podgorica
Spica Veronica basilica erotica harmonica
lexica mica pica replica sciatica silica
It's not really shocking, is it? When the next big thing that is getting great reviews doesn't work for you, that's a big disappointment. It's like living in Verizon country back when the iPhone came out as an AT&T exclusive.
You missed the point. If you (or your payment provider) add, say, 5% padding to account for exchange rate volatility and then you also pay 1% to Coinbase, your total fees are 6% which is way higher than credit cards.
Standard practice in government and large enterprise is still physical destruction, for exactly the reason you mention.

http://www.monomachines.com/shop/intimus-crypto-1000-hard-dr... or you can get a service to come out and do it on site.
It's interesting that Cuban takes this position, when he's the owner who likely treats his team like more of a business than any other owner in the NBA. Cuban, unlike Donald Sterling and many other owners, actually tries to deliver a good product and good service to his customers. That's what businesses do, and that's how they remain successful. Just because you have passionate fans doesn't make the business different (and in fact, teams have passionate fans because they run good businesses). Sports fans aren't any different than the fans who camp out for the latest iphone or playstation, run message boards for their favorite bands or celebrities, or plaster "MOPAR SUCKS" stickers all over their Fords.

Many other franchise owners don't act like Cuban precisely because the government has created an environment where sports teams don't need to operate like other businesses. The leagues are granted state-sanctioned monopolies and, due to Americans' abundant free time and income, many teams get to coast by on revenue generated by other teams. Owners like Donald Sterling got to print money for two decades despite the dreadful fan experience or the team's record. That's what makes owning a franchise a business unlike any other.
Not liking yourself is a serious hindrance to a happy life. Learn to accept yourself with compassion, flaws and all, or you'll pay the price later!
SEEKING WORK

Location: Bucharest, Romania / Remote

Experienced web developer with solid front-end knowledge.
Proficient in: JavaScript, Java, HTML/CSS. Used to be proficient in PHP, now a bit rusty. I really like Python and Ruby, little work experience with them though.

Good computer science and development principles foundation (algorithms, testing, CI, deployment).

I don't have a freelance portfolio because I haven't done much before. Right now I'm waiting for a work permit and have quit my job; I want to do some work on the side until I relocate.

I am open to any type of work as long as it's interesting, I will charged based on my experience (i.e. I will charge less for Python, Ruby or mobile app development as long as you're willing to accept a slower development pace).

If you're interested, you can find my email in my profile.

Thanks!

Github: https://github.com/cimi

StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/182629/alex-ciminian
Since that entire piece is mostly opinion and devoid of any measurable facts, it's fair to judge where that opinion is coming from.

Tearcherken's blog is pretty axe grindy, in case the URL didn't give it away:

http://teacherken.dailykos.com/
Templates... ok - that's fairly convincing. I'm less convinced about keeping the model and controller client side, because they end up replicating stuff that still has to live on the server anyway, to some degree. That just seems to make things harrier than they were to begin with.
Saying that Open Office isn't as good as MS Office because it's trying to imitate them is a very ambitious statement. Especially considering that the developer base for the two are different in many respects.

More importantly, let's say that Open Office does try to blaze a trail to an extent that you mention. I would wager that it would probably come out like Blender, where Blender tried to make the ideal 3D creation toolkit (compared to say Maya). Blender's great! It's very powerful, it can do ALL kinds of things. However, before the v2.5 UI overhaul it was incredibly goddamn hard to learn and so it was only useful to a small section of their potential interested users.

By avoiding this, Open Office tries to cater to what people are familiar with so they can use it right after installing it. They don't have to waste time trying to adapt to a new piece of software.
Basic compliance is absolutely necessary in any working environment. It sounds like you're advocating anarchy as a viable education model.

"You are claiming that time-wasting assignments with no educational value are a necessary thing for students to work through."

I am absolutely not saying that. I had hoped your reading comprehension was better than that.

I said: "asking students to complete a worksheet, even if it utterly lacks value, is not a violation of their fundamental human rights." I stand by this statement. Note that I am not in any way advocating time-wasting assignments.

Time-wasting assigments may indicate a poor teacher. However, refusing to do them and/or skipping class is more a reflection on the student than the system.

Regarding your final paragraph: there are a LOT of assumptions there based on how you think I run my classroom. You have assumed incorrectly at almost point. I do literally everything you suggest in my classroom.

Edit: here's evidence of that from a couple of years ago [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093221
I'm curious if it would be practical even for some workday commutes on a very cold day.

I live just outside of Toronto (there's a Tesla store here), and while it's not as cold as Calgary or Winnipeg, it can get pretty damned cold. Power outlets aren't widely available in all parking lots.

I know people who make ~75 mile round trips commuting from the burbs. After reading the NYT article, I'd be a little nervous to make the trip home if I had to leave my car out in the blistering cold for a full work day where there was no charging station even if I did charge the battery fully the night before.

--edit-- I also read somewhere that there are no Supercharger stations in Canada... yet.
The Romans were just copying Stephen Wolfram.
"Why does everyone want to voice their opinion so loudly on a product that doesn't even meet their needs?"

It's a reflection of HN karma and sorting system: if anyone else posted the remark (and indeed, there are multiple people doing so), it would have seen the normal trajectory down the page. The current algorithm seems to favor remarks from certain people even if they aren't the highest voted remarks.

Comments like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5209213 (and the ensuing discussion) would find themselves at the top
The last two paragraphs are hilarious, thanks for taking the time and writing this! Like anyone else I had my share of ridiculous shipment problems, but this guy remains playful (and cheerful!), wow :)
Our entire system of democracy -- of jurisprudence -- rests on informed citizens...

Indeed. And as most experienced teachers will tell you, very few parents take the trouble to inform themselves about what's going on with their own children. The children of those who do are generally doing quite well.

Though I can't play piano, I can judge the virtuosity of a piano player quite well - because their performances are public. And it is easy to qualify and quantify what constitutes great piano playing. The complexity of the teaching job is neither public nor easily quantified, regardless of the wishfullness of (clearly) unqualified dreamers and schemers.

As a (previous) K-12 teacher I could talk for hours about the weaknesses of public education. You would leave understanding that few of them are due to the lack of qualified, capable teachers. And you would be the one in 10,000 willing to spend the time to become so well-informed. I recommend that, if you're as concerned as you feel you are, you take that opportunity to talk at length to a local teacher or two. And you'll discover that quick-fixes are not in the cards, that most teachers work long hours for inadequate rewards, and that no algorithmic approach is useful in approaching this difficult (and (potentially rewarding) problem.
Yeah it does not appear to be a *required field but still throws an error. I say its bad design. Just right click and inspect and delete that input field parent.. =) class='all_plan_group_row' to be specific
It it just me or is Tesla getting all the running in the electric car stakes?

either they are atreets abead of Toyota and GM or are the other car manufacturers simply letting Tesla take all the knocks as consumers get used to the new ideas?
I don't get why people keep promoting the "no chargeback" aspect of Bitcoins, since the potential for chargebacks is often a good thing, and essential for establishing trust. Furthermore, Bitcoin (like any reasonable currency system, including cash) allows you to layer a protocol on top of it to allow intermediaries that can do chargebacks in the case of bad behavior.

"No chargebacks" = "hey, just like with physical cash, someone can just run off with it once you transfer the money". Sure, sometimes that's what you want, but it's not something you have to accept as a result of using that currency type or unit.
There's also the issue that the battery is fairly valuable and can be damaged/depleted. If I normally charge at home, take care of my car, and have a good condition battery, how happy am I going to be if I take my car on vacation, do a battery swap at some station far from home, and only when I return do I realize that the new battery has been heavily used, and only has 80% of the capacity of the one I swapped out?
Google’s Biz Chief: 50 Percent of Ads Will Go Online in the Next Five Years
Adopting new technologies doesn't always mean you try to follow trends or be cool. There are plenty of reasons that new ways of doing things come up all the time(be more productive is one of them). You may start slowly, but with time it pays off. I mean teams that can evaluate new trends and see if they get any benefits or not...

I personally think "just ship the damn thing" is BS, I'm pro delivering often, but good quality of product/service starts in back-end, again I'm not saying it should be perfect, but it MUST be open for new changes and be ready to scale... no one wants to wake up and be impotent with number of users they have, if you don't expect to scale, why are you doing this in 1st place?
Or, you buy a $299 Nexus 4 and sign up for $45/m no contract service instead of $80+/m 2 year contract.
To be clear: range anxiety is not irrational because no-one should be concerned about range. Range anxiety is irrational if and when someone is giving outsize importance to the edge cases.

It's specifically about the people who don't do an objective analysis of how often the edge cases happen, whether alternatives are sufficient, etc.
That's great to hear! I really hope LightTable works out.
In 1992, I was living with a bunch of college-aged folks in a big house in Olympia, WA. My best friend at the time was a big square-headed bruiser who pushed me to do too many drugs. (I'm a lightweight, so not much.) He was a great guy, and a loyal friend where it mattered, but it was awkward when it came to talking about his writing. He was proud of his writing because he could correctly form sentences, but didn't seem to manage much beyond that. Apparently, this put him near the head of his writing class at the community college he had attended. Yet his writing lacked any coherence at all in areas like subject-verb agreement, agreement of tense, logical structure, and so on. This was serious writing which he carefully revised, not off-the-cuff like my comments on HN.

He was insightful and intelligent. I always enjoyed talking to him. However, I was disturbed that he was apparently in the top 10% of what his school could produce in terms of writing. I wondered, if this was typical around the country, what did it say about the quality of education in the general public?
Non-meaningful interaction might be saying hello, asking if the student is present, asking the student "Where is the homework assignment you were supposed to turn in?"

Meaningful interaction is checking in with the student regarding their understanding of the course material. Providing clarification if the kid is confused on some point. Allowing opportunities for the student to ask questions. That sort of thing.
> no luck on the Linux front, although they seem to offer WebDAV access

You can always use davfs, it worked out for me:

http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.davfs
CloudEnvy: Development in the cloud
90% of the world's data is in spreadsheets. There is nothing wrong with sparse data. However, I also know that incompetent Excel usage and over-reliance (by people who have other skills) is costing our business literally millions.
this has now been corrected.
I ordered an item from Amazon with free 2 day shipping (prime). The tracking never said anything more than that the label had been created. I waited about a week and contacted Amazon. They immediately sent me a free replacement. Eventually the lost package came as well.

This is how customer support should handle this type of situation.
Not the same problem but my Nexus 4 stopped recognizing SIM cards. I do not have a landline. Only way to make first contact with Google Support is by phone. Therein lies the rub. Once I did get my friend to lend me their phone it was pretty painless but it was still silly that the only means of making contact is by phone and then every other bit of correspondence since there was by Email.
No they do not. I personally use T-Mobile $30 monthly prepaid plan with 100 minutes/5 GB/unlimited text. The service is no way inferior to any regular service that T-mobile provides.

Whether you buy Nexus 4 from T-mobile for 50 bucks and pay more monthly bill with contract, or choose one of their prepaid plan and pay less TCO, the phone and software is exactly the same. I thought you would know this, you work at Google.

The cell companies do what you have effectively said before, they price differentiate based on who can pay what. Don't have money to buy phone upfront, well we will sell you for cheap and make the difference in contract rate. Have more money? Well then BYOD and get our cheaper prepaid services.

I will concede on one point, the big 4 (except T-mobile) make it incredibly hard for you to find and compare their prepaid services, for obvious reason that contract customer bring in more money over years.
With projects like Mathics[1], that aim for Language compatibility with Mathematica, on the horizon it makes sense to want to separate the language from the implementation.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196551
It's interesting how nomenclature changes your perception of a business. It is acceptable for a tech startup, for example, to pursue try to increase adoption rate by giving away a service for free in the hopes of securing investment. It would not be nearly as acceptable for a restaurant to give away free food to get more diners in an effort to lure investors.
Pipe to gist
Sync used to be part of the paid plans. They've made it free now.
Seems like a PR person screw-up. Testing the car at almost maximum range in the winter is just a disaster waiting to happen. You can quibble with the details and things the reporter allegedly did wrong, but I would bet that a decent percentage of these attempted trips would end in failure. What if the reporter had hit traffic in the NY Metro area? I mean, that never happens, right?

That's just dumb for a story you are setting up in the media.
Stupid, Stupid xBox
The number of write cycles to any block of flash is limited. Once the write counter for a block has hit the manufacturers hardcoded limit, the SSD will not trust that block to have data written to it anymore.

The whole point of this piece of software is to be smart about how and when it flushes data so it can minimize impact on the write counter.
There are always people that will mistakenly pay for something they don't have to pay for. See http://flightprosim.com/
Add to that RemoteBuddy if you have an apple remote:

http://www.iospirit.com/products/remotebuddy/
"A polynomial time algorithm for the N-Queens problem": http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.57.4... (haven't completely read it, but I think they waive their hands too much when argumenting that their algorithm will not get stuck too often)

Also: "Explicit solutions to the N-queens problem for all N": http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=122322 (paywalled)

Haskell code for a (that?) closed-form solution: https://gist.github.com/IanCal/1858601
It has a WYSIWYG editor.
Ask HN: How do you securely share tax forms like 1099s with non-techies?
I don't want to email my SSN. Curious to know how people on HN deal with this.
Our PR Crisis with TechCrunch and How We Came Out On Top
Tread lightly, this attitude is dangerous. There are really customers/managers who are not technical that instead rely on your previous words and commitments to gauge what's possible and what is getting done.

These people act dumber than they are, so they can extract more information with which to evaluate your character and disposition.
Awesome. I'm looking forward to EC2 integration.
Not endorsing the guy's ideas (at all), and obviously Hendrix College doesn't particularly owe him anything, but I thought this was interesting:

> Hendrix does not provide a venue for individuals to promote personal projects.

I don't see how it's more of a personal project than any other project being advocated for by a person, which includes just about everything. I think they mean to imply it's unserious or hobbyist in a way other speakers/advocates/whatever are not. The actual merits of his ideas aside, it seems reasonably serious, organized, and "real". Are they sure they don't just think it's a "personal project" because he's so young?
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/08/31/for-dont-want-emails-i...
You have to click the "Show more detailed revisions" button.
Twitter Death - Suspended Accounts: "Your account is currently suspended"
And a development session would have looked somewhat like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDPlfqpgW8c

(I may miss the Merlin assembler, but I don't miss disk ][ drives at all.)
Yet you did basically say that the reason teachers hated NCLB was because it would reveal them not doing their job properly, in the same paragraph as you basically saying that police hate recordings because it would reveal them not doing their job properly, or doctors hate malpractice suits because they reveal them not doing their job properly.

Which I guess isn't exactly the same as saying that only bad teachers hate NCLB, but the distinction is minor and irrelevant.