skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely agree. I've been in this position as a frontend dev many, many times. And that's WITH a decent contract, no bad gut feeling, great communication throughout. Ultimately, I can't control whether a client feels like paying my invoice or not. I commend this developer, he's done something I've always wanted to do.
> In fact, in public discourse often the opposite is true.

This isn't just true in public discourse by the way. It's true in proposal/grant writing, legal argumentation, or even just arguing with your parents. You should always lead with your strongest arguments, and think very carefully before including any weak ones. Humans are just bad at doing weighted analysis of persuasive arguments. Say you have an argument, with three points, with weights: 0.9, 0.05, and 0.05. Your opponent destroying your two weak arguments is going to convince the reader or decision maker far more than the 0.1 combined weight of the arguments.
Downvote if you don't? :)
Almost as hilarious as PHP being a recursive acronym. /ugh.
I suspect the answer is "significantly". It would have been better to post in the morning.
If you don't pay the mechanic, you don't get your car.
If you don't pay the webmaster, you don't get your website.
True. I overstated.
Have you car just park itself in a parking garage
>> What's great (rare) about this story is there's published data

I've only seen precompiled analyses, including the charts and graphs from Tesla's blog.

There is no real data per se - Wired requested the raw logs several times and have been declined by Tesla (http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/tesla-logs-nytimes/ - last sentence).

And I don't get how there's this perception here on HN that Tesla's data is ironclad.

The logging routines were probably written by humans, so there could be bugs in them. Logs are usually written to text files, which can be edited. The people interpreting the data could be making mistakes with the analysis before it even gets to Musk (look at all the posts about the problems with Excel on HN in the past couple of days).

Tesla's a startup. Startups can be a little chaotic. Their procedures and controls with respect to their data may not be as robust as, say a credit card company's, yet there's this big presumption that the data is all good and pure.

I would give Tesla the benefit of the doubt, since it would be very stupid to doctor up the data, but let's not all kid ourselves and not assume that Tesla's not going to shade their "analysis" in a way that is favorable to their argument. It's not much different than what the NYT reporter and the NYT are doing.
Elon's own arguments are absolutely killing the credibility of electric cars:

-Turn the heat down for more range? Who the heck wants to drive around cold in an extremely expensive car?

-Drive slowly? Again, what?

Elon is simply agreeing with the reviewer's most damning findings: The consumer must make considerable sacrifices - in addition to spending more money - in order to properly use their Tesla car.
These are the most populous states, so you are correct. The better metric would be to figure out the "hacker density" of each state.
You seem to be focused on what Disqus has the right to do, while jacquesm is talking about user expectations and the consequences of violating them.

I'm inclined to agree with him that displaying ads on the user's site without explicit opt-in is a major faux pas with the potential to destroy a company's reputation permanently.
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There are several good ones shortly described here:
http://wiki.ludei.com/cocoonjs:engines

The issue is that mobile is eating up all the web traffic, and HTML5 in mobile browsers has terrible performance. So you need technology like CocoonJS to reimplement a subset of the browser needed for gaming with decent performance.
heh heh. If you poke around my comments, you'll find my story where I describe how an NYC reporter egged me on and put words in my mouth to sex up a project I'd done. They don't have to be a completely trashy paper; they only need to jazz up the truth a little bit to edge out others. That way they stay on the "truthy" edge and can tell their integrity story, while helping themselves to "drama dollars."
Silent Circle releases source code to encrypted phone and text messaging apps
Seems like message here is that if you use an off the shelf solution you need to work around its limitations. In this case random load balancing may sound dumb but it's actually quite a reasonable way to spread load. The customers real problem is the single threaded server bottleneck compounded by the sporadic slow requests. Seems like they have outgrown Heroku and a more custom solution is required. Either that or rebuild the server in whole or in part with a more concurrent one.
Anyone in Knoxville? :)

I knew California would be pretty high up there because of SV but I didn't realize so many people on here live there. For people who are in CA, do you live there because that's where most of the tech start-ups are or because it's a nice place (or both)?
Apple's finite loop
I think it's clear this journalist is not a techie, evidenced by your example and:

>> screen shots of the car driving logs.

I've never thought of jpg graphs as "screen shots".
You are missing the point. The original code was making detours instead of using True as the list index (which you can do).
I'll take your word for it, but I bet that has to do with the fact that once you get big enough for the FCC to care you probably know enough to properly store a password.

They've certainly fined other companies for other transgressions of a similar nature.
Despite the overreach of the Federal Government of the last few decades, some say since the Civil War, we are still a collection of states to attempt to present a united front. But the apparent lack of that united front is bigger than just discussing the pros and cons of the Electoral College.

The EU structure from what I know is a similar idea, but I'm not familiar enough with the details on the EU to comment much more than that.
Is the idea here tortious interference w/o contract, with the designers interfering with business relationships between SF Fitness and their customers? That makes more sense.
It would be interesting to see the results of this weighted by state population.
"Here's the most important data point: Musk says Broder unplugged the charger after charging to a range of 32 miles and then drove off for the final segment of his trip which spanned 61 miles. The car made it 51 miles. If Broder can't contest that, there isn't much use quibbling over Musk's other accusations." [1]

[1]: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/02/elon-musks...
Ask HN: Who does Tesla Motors' website?
I'm not seriously invested in the flame war, but I did visit Tesla Motors website and was extremely impressed with the design and presentation.

http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric#range

Does anyone know who is responsible for this? Are there any other sites with similar UX?
For instance...?
I attended a talk last month from [major security company] and he said that bcrypt was designed to be resistant against GPUs by using lots of space, and scrypt was for resistance to FPGAs.

I politely challenged him if that was right and he stuck to his guns, and honestly I haven't tried brute-forcing them myself so I couldn't really do any more than that. I thought scrypt was what was resistant to GPUs by using lots of space (hence the "s").
Major population centers are always going to get the most votes. I suspect in most cases people already live where they want to or at least are content/familiar with where they are. That generates a vote for home..
First 22 years in Ohio, last six months in Chicago, Illinois.
The IBM rep was on first name basis with my Dad and his boss, those folks at Apple didn't have a rep.
I think the point of the parent comment was not about software being free but by being able, quote, "to program[...] your way out of it". Which I think is an important argument for or against Excel (or many other programs) depending on whether we talk about programming users or non-programming users.
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Largest fake prime number holds 300 billion digits
The funny thing is that when BLAKE2 was announced, there were a lot of comments here, on reddit, and elsewhere, saying "but why is it fast? hashes must be slow to prevent password bruteforcing!". Authors had to add FAQ explaining the difference. So, at least some people have learned that "password hashes" must be slow.
I don't see any population based formula ever working to re-draw the state borders, because it lacks representation by those being "re-stated". You'll inevitably get rural areas being added as population filler around the smaller cities in "urban" states, and some urban areas overflowing their urban state and forced to be in a "rural" state.

All of that ignores that states are not simply "administrative divisions". Though IMHO we have far too much federal law these days, your average person interacts mostly with state and local laws. Those can be vastly different between states. The state lines may now be arbitrary and historical, but the hundred/s of years of laws, legal rulings, and forms of government are not.

As long as we intend to be a union of states, the state lines are very important. For some states like GA, FL, TX the urban/rural divide arguably seems to be equal enough neither side has a huge advantage in state politics. For others like NY and CA, it's a far bigger issue. I sometimes wonder if perhaps New York City and Long Island wouldn't be better off joining the state of New Jersey. Leaving the remaining state of New York better balanced between rural/urban.
Sure! Email's in the profile as I don't do the twitter. ;)
> Opera was actually strict pro-standard.. sometimes for their own bad.

Not quite. They always made every effort to be as compatible as possible with real world sites.
"Frameworks like every framework" seems like an unintended but accurate generalization that was worth pointing out.
I agree. A great example of a "CAD tool" that lets you design complex, believable organic creatures easily is Spore Creature Creator [1]. It's easy to imagine similar kinds of tools for many other object types.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRr3lgckIAM
This is an unfortunate side effect of what this developer has set in motion. I don't know enough about either side to make a determination of who is right or wrong, but neither do the people harassing this business on Facebook.

From his Behance page:
"Half a year's worth of work, weeks of waiting on end because they couldn't find the fingers at the end of their arms and in the end they try to screw me over by ignoring the invoices. "

That a pretty aggressive play in words. I suspect if he is really looking for "justice" he'd gain a lot more support in exposing the entire situation, not just some pretty screen shots and shouting about unpaid invoices.

I for one am genuinely interested in learning more about this, both sides preferably.
This project is mentioned in the Wikipedia page ("Project 1794")--it actually predates the Avrocar. The attitude/flight control design was slightly different: where the Avrocar had an asymmetrical rotating ring around the edge to provide attitude control, the earlier design used thrust vector nozzles like those used in the Harrier and F-35.

It seemed the project failed due to engineering problems unrelated to the design: it had oil leaks, and at one point an engine broke free from the aircraft and launched off on its own, endangering the test engineers.

Had these unrelated problems not occurred, it's possible that they could have succeeded where the later Avrocar failed, since the control principles in the earlier project were sound and eventually successfully used in modern VTOL aircraft.
I've already seen that site, only it was at a different URL.

http://www.CaliforniaAndNewYorkShouldRuleTheWorld.org/
I didn't want to take sides either way, because it's obvious that Broder's and Musk's interests are diametrically opposed and so both viewpoints need to be taken with a huge grain of salt.

However, after reading this article it's clear to me that the data shows Broder flat-out lied about several things (like turning down the heat or setting cruise control to 54 MPH). He also clearly did not just use one of myriad charging stations on the way, even when it was apparent that the car would run out of juice soon. He chose not to recharge. He also chose not to charge the car fully at any of his other stops. While it's fine to play fast-and-loose with your "gas tank" like that (heck, I've done it with normal cars), it's another thing if you do it deliberately to write an "out of gas" headline.

It doesn't matter if the author finds several of these points convincing or not. If the log data is to be believed, it shows that Broder did several things that actively contributed to his running out of energy, and then he lied about doing them.
Python - too big to fail...
It's only a model
Sometimes I feel like these polls just produce a population heatmap, like in https://xkcd.com/1138/
Interesting. I really do like it. It's naff but in the best possible way. (I'm working on something related for my wife at the moment but it's even cheesier than Twosome - not sharing it here :])

Do you do some sort of seed exchange/negotiation? Something like swap current system times, and use the higher as the seed?
Most of the time when you come across a post on YC, that blogger will have an @name at the bottom. Follow them if you liked what they had written.
That's Bean. Ender and his siblings were simply the children of two very smart people.
> However NYT never agrees to whats being covered in a PR sense.

Maybe not formally but if the subject of the article has anything the NYT wants like advertising revenue, insider information, scoops or exclusive access then you can be sure the NYT has an incentive to be cooperative that is directly proportional to how much it values receiving these benefits in the future.

In the case of Tesla this incentive is essentially zero.
I'm aware of that. But a lot of the ones i've seen, such as bastion, have steamplay support. This means that you only have to buy/reclaim them once, and they will be available on all different platforms.

It can't hurt to push up the number of titles that linux users have in their libraries.
What if I'm in the car and it says 32 miles and I ask the BMW sales guy if we'll make it 60mi. He says, yeah, it is a 100k car and has a new engine you've never used before, it's just the cold weather which as it warms up will cause the reading to show more range.

Still my fault?
I'm not doubting at all what you say as far as views, likes etc. I think, however, you are quite naive as far as Youtube deleting videos. Sure getting view counts in the millions in a day will get your video deleted but not 6k in a day. It would be nice if you could post the portfolio company's video so we could see if it had a viral nature to it.

Also, a video getting that many legitimate views in a day should have scored consecutive views in the following days - of course this is the nature of a video going viral.
NYT: While we get to the bottom of this little conflict of interest debacle...
I wonder how representative my rather underwhelming experience with graphics drivers in Linux is.

The last time I was able to use ATI/AMD's proprietary driver without any problems was strangely enough with an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro in an old version of SuSE Linux. Since then AMD's proprietary driver has caused me semi-regular GPU lockups on R520 (X1650), Evergreen (HD 5670) and Southern Islands (HD 7770) series cards. Nvidia's proprietary drivers seem to have fared better with three generations of their cards (7300 GT, the notorious 8600M GS, GT 240, GTS 250...), with an occasional X server crash when running a video game in Wine but few lockups. On the other hand, in the FOSS world I have experienced the opposite (AMD being better than Nvidia). The worst individual case was setting up GeForce GT 240 to work in Linux Mint 13 last year. The OS wouldn't boot with kernel mode setting on and starting X once it has booted without kernel mode setting gave me a screenful of RGB noise; my solution was to install the proprietary driver in text mode and then write a custom xorg.conf. The drivers for Intel's graphics seem the best so far if you use relatively modern chips (I have tried GMA X3100, GMA 3150, Intel HD Graphics 2000), however, I had no luck trying to get the legacy Intel Extreme Graphics 2 to work. It doesn't really work with Linux 2.6+, resulting in an image that flashes and rolls up and down the screen like a the picture on an analogue TV that's lost the vertical synchronization signal.

If my case is in any way typical then I'd say the drivers are in dire need of fixing.

Edit: clarity.
Came out to San Francisco for an interview, and my wife and I both loved it. A year later, I got another interview out here, landed the job, and we decided to move. We tell people it was 50/50: half for the job, half for the adventure.

We miss our friends in Atlanta, but San Francisco and the surrounding area are stunningly beautiful.
I recently saw a truck with (nice, magnetic?) signs on the doors warning other drivers not to do business with a local mortgage company and calling them out for bait-and-switch tactics. It seemed pretty effective.
This should probably always skew towards CA because of SV, but don't forget that the population of CA is the highest in the US by ~30% to begin with. I imagine there are a ton of people living here who were also born and raised here (myself included)
And the fact that, unless you identify as "bot", you get disconnected for inactivity and reconnecting spams your logs with repeats of conversations.

Oh, and the fake roster pushes, gibberish names for guest users, and the fact that you can only join a room with your full name.
But who says one region matters proportionally more just because it's bigger? Isn't society all about the people, so isn't it the people that matter? Are you really saying that it's not about being a person, it's about how much land you have?

Besides, what this imbalance really does is allow national groups to game the system. By focusing lobbying/campaigning efforts in smaller states, you can gain influence in government more efficiently than by trying to influence the high population regions. Which distorts the importance of those small states even more...
Have you got a plain english source for the "defamation even if true" claim? I know that truth is certainly a defence against defamation in the UK, which has a well deserved reputation as an easy place to sue for defamation.
I was born here. So were my parents. I've been all over the world, I don't think I'd rather live anywhere else. Life is just great here
Adobe Air???
That wouldn't indicate that corruption could be removed or would ever remove itself. When you give corruption more power (and that's what overriding popular vote is), it is almost always abused, which means the only outcome I see of such a power is to prevent people from voting for president at all, or at the very least to prevent people from electing a president that isn't corrupt or sympathetic to congress and their interests. So I would say any proposal that institutes such a power should be vehemently rejected by the public.
Smart labels is an option in 'Labs', disabled by default.
In the spirit of programming languages, they should rename Python to P.
Python is from 1980 first public release 1998
So to a judge ask them the meaning of prior art.
One cannt copyright what allready exists in the public domain, even if it was not copyrighted. You only need to proof you where earlier.

Reminds me of apple-samsung and phone shapes, and then someone found an old startrek movie allready showing such devices.
I moved here because I'm in love with San Francisco (and really hated Florida, where I lived before), plus I work in the tech industry. I'd still want to live here even if I wasn't involved in tech.
I know this is the case if both parties are in the US.

However, these are two parties from two different countries, each with different laws and jurisdictions. Do you know enough about contract laws in the US and Germany to assert this as the truth?
Path just had to pay an 800k fine (though I think that was for coppa violations?).

Twitter & Google have also had very prominent investigations & settlements in the past couple of years.
Washington creeping up on that third place spot. Not surprising considering all the northwestern tech companies. Wouldn't be surprised if wa ranked second or third for tech people/total population.
I haven't had exposure to the hacker houses on the West Coast, so I can't really speak to that.

The motives of hackers I've known usually have to do with impacting the world and making it better for more people. I've been in punk houses with hackers, but we mostly had parties with art people, and collaborated with anarchists. I'm not talking about the Silicon Valley startup scene, which I know nothing about. I'm moving to MV in a month (to intern with an educational nonprofit), so I guess I'll find out.

I think I was probably wrong when I said 'startup folks', and I meant some other demographic - but it's a demographic of hackers that I've actually met in various places - Baltimore, Seattle, rural Washington state and Austin. And I (perhaps naively) thought that my various and scattered friends with a common ideological thread were representative of the makers of interesting things.
Steam runs great on Arch. Unfortunately TF2 does not, at least for me. Freezes my entire system while loading any map, to the point I have to ssh in and kill "hl2".

I'd report it, but I'm not certain I should due to Arch being an unsupported platform.
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This is stupid. It will simply reflect the average number of people who have the internet per state.
It's likely to be similar, but then one obvious point of interest would be significant deviations (or the lack thereof) from a population heatmap.
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Interesting, me and another programmer I work with just voted for North Dakota, yet it was only raised to 1 point.

I wonder if HN limits votes by IP Address.
>> If a bunch of other journalists replicate the trip

Is it really a replicable test? They'd need the same weather patterns, traffic conditions and the same car (untweaked or modified since Broder's drive), not a different, "equivalently equipped" model.

In the documentary Revenge of the Electric car, there's a scene where Musk walks into a warehouse full of cars, all having different issues preventing shipment. For all we know, there was a problem isolated to the particular car Broder drove AND, at the same time, Broder was embellishing his story. In other words, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Of course, we'll never know because we'll never get access to the raw logs.
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http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Creation date: 08 Sep 2008 14:46:00
Expiration date: 08 Sep 2013 14:46:00

Might want to update that registration...
Questions for those few living in New Mexico: How is the job market for a SW engineer? Do you all pretty much live in ABQ, or is anyone is Santa Fe?
Very interesting. I wonder what open source solutions there are that could supplant the use of excel by non-programmers (and programmers) in such a variety of fields. Something slightly less opinionated and slightly more malleable.. and just as simple to use. If there isn't something, there probably should be. I think GUI is a must if its going to overtake excel.
Musk doesn't show any smoking gun, and blows a lot of smoke. Methinks he doth protest too much.

Musk comes across more as a Preston Tucker or a John DeLorean than a Henry Ford.