skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are various formalizations of the Alchian–Allen effect that are theorems in the mathematical sense of the word in that they have been formally proved. See, e.g., http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/pls/portal/docs/1/1219670.....
I don't need them to do technical things on the product, although the ability to update website copy would be nice.

The #1 thing is the willingness to learn to pull your own analytics and reports. This can be really time consuming when the business side doesn't adequately define their information needs and a report needs to be iterated several times.

Another irritant is version control. NewDeck-v16-StevesEdit.ppt is a nightmare and really slows things down.

I don't want them to be good at my job, I want them to be good at theirs.
I've never dealt with Comet. I need the long detailed answer for complete noobs.
Here's a friendly suggestion: if you notice downvotes on a comment during its edit window (the first two hours the comment is posted), just edit the comment, with a FRIENDLY question asking why people disagree with you. (It can be assumed that downvotes are prompted by disagreement, and as someone else has already reminded you, that has always been permitted by the culture here.) It's okay to fix a comment with an addition (I usually mark additions to my comments with the phrase "AFTER EDIT") to respond to how people react to your comment at first. We all have opinions here, and I can learn from anybody here, whether they agree with me or not.
Well the NYT's response is basically admitting fault begrudgingly. Their usual response is, "we stand 100% behind the published piece." Getting them to give this response is amazing. Musk can certainly claim victory.
Ice skating.
I agree with this 100%. It's embodied in the "we're all consenting adults" philosophy of python: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_syntax_and_semantics#Obj...

Marking variables as private using naming conventions like foo._dont_mess_with_me is also often helpful. Tools like linters can warn you that you're doing the wrong thing (messing with object internals) but the language doesn't get in your way or force you to use things like reflection to do what you want.
Yeah, me too man. There's also some frustration over here about what do these analytics actually mean. Like I have so much data coming at me from everywhere now, what exactly is it telling me. One neat presentation that helps provide some focus is Dave McClure's metrics 4 pirates. http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-4-pirat...

I've seen this a bunch of times, but I like that focus on Activation and Retention for new startups.

Ash Maurya's Lean Startup book is interesting in that it tries to quantify when you can be ready to launch a new product: when you have 40% user retention. But personally that seems high to me if your early users are full of random joes who've signed up to some email capture form that promises rainbows but they don't really know what they signed up for.
amazing finally! you could do tricks though in the original one maybe an addition to patch on the following release ?
General AI may become closer as Google plays with neural networks for Android.
> Based on my firsthand experience with journalists, I would not be at all surprised to learn that what you quoted was something reported second hand, was said ironically, taken out of context, etc.

Journalists shouldn't get a free pass simply by virtue of their profession, but neither should they be vilified for it.

I am not particularly familiar with this issue, but a google search turned up the following op-ed, written by Musk's ex-wife [1] :

Still, there were warning signs. As we danced at our
wedding reception, Elon told me, "I am the alpha in this
relationship." I shrugged it off, just as I would later
shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement, but as time
went on, I learned that he was serious. He had grown up
in the male-dominated culture of South Africa, and the
will to compete and dominate that made him so successful
in business did not magically shut off when he came
home. This, and the vast economic imbalance between us,
meant that in the months following our wedding, a
certain dynamic began to take hold. Elon's judgment
overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the
ways he found me lacking.

"I am your wife," I told him repeatedly, "not your employee."

"If you were my employee," he said just as often, "I would fire you."

[1] http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/relationship-issues/mill...
I've always used the Oxford comma when confusion/misunderstandings of a list could occur. That may or may not be Oxford comma, but it is how AP guides it, IIRC
Maybe they are trying to teach kids things like debt to income , budget management, loan basics, and concepts like "there is no redo in real life" rather than basing everything on a kill/death ratio.

You can easily develop a way to rank how productive, profitable, clean, and happy cities in a game like SimCity are. If you weigh these factors and provide a number then you have a ranking. Maybe global leaderboard was a bad example but there are numerous other features that might require this kind of online only gameplay that we haven't experienced yet.

I say don't knock it until you try it. Not the beta, not the videos of others playing, the real game.

If the new strategy really kills the game then I'm sure someone will create a fake server patch or method of playing offline.
Building an app that shows a public timeline is the Hello, World app of 2013. Back in my day, we had a lame Java Pet Store. I'm jealous.
looking forward to my weekly startupDigest-reading list like a little christmas present. So simple but reliable :-) hope they don't shut down due to the acqusition! signed up, fancy name btw!
I think the down votes mean (some) people really hate Quora. E.g. Recently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5217052
Ah, yes. That is useful
Free iTunes Gift Card Generator No Download
There are lots of music lovers within this globe and these people will probably be continuously transferring about and can be looking for the rarest collections.
Awesome! Just got transported back to my parents living room on Windows 95. And yes, I still suck at this game.
Google is not a software company. Google is an advertising company that uses (massively intelligent) software.
WooThemes is DOWN OMG
Just made my CtrlP use ag[1], it's awesome now :-)

let g:ctrlp_user_command = 'ag --nogroup --nobreak --noheading --nocolor -g "" %s '

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
As in [show hn]?
On a related note, I think that f and t become ever more awesome if you use fanfingtastic: https://github.com/dahu/vim-fanfingtastic
This sounds a bit like the plot of Fringe.
Except that if you really meant the second case, you'd use a colon, not a comma.
That's not exactly the way the word "theory" is used in a scientific context. I'd say the scientific use of the word is more like that in "music theory". It's not intended to imply a lack of confidence.
I would be VERY curious to see what these guys' numbers are like. Is there really a viable market for yoga-via-skype? Not trying to be super negative, but for me this really served as a prime example of the type of start up mentioned in the "as-seen-on-tv" article that came up earlier this week talking about inventing elaborate ways to solve problems that don't need solving.
Thanks, that's a better citation for this quote; I've changed my comment to use it.
I won't quote the belly aching, but it's relevant. Would reddit's AMAs work without "vigorous" downvoting?
Musk's response has no answers to the following key questions

1) Was Broder advised to brake frequently to use regenerative braking? (This kills the battery).

2) How much displayed/real charge does the car lose overnight in cold weather?

3) Was Broder advised that heating the cabin will increased the displayed range?

4) When Musk said the battery never ran out of charge what did he mean? That was meant to cast doubt on Broder implying he called the towing company needlessly, but a Tesla rep spent a long time with the towing truck driver on the phone and couldn't get it to release the parking brake. Why the technical BS nitpicking stating the battery still had charge if it was totally useless?

Broder gave us the times and names of support reps and all we get is this extreme piece of worthless spin?

The fact that he's not answering the above questions leads me to believe that Broder was given some really bad advice by incompetent reps and Musk is trying to shift the blame completely onto Broder.

Broder should've recorded the support phone calls without telling Tesla, just like they turned on logging on the car he was driving.
The controls are wrong, too. Left and right should rotate the character, but right now they make him turn hard left and hard right. In the original there were also two degrees of left and right turning, so you could navigate with more precision. You could also turn fully horizontal and then use the up arrow to climb the hill sideways.

Please fix this! :-)
There is no "better", young padawan.
3Doodler Intro Video
History has shown us that Nokia was always good at hardware and very bad at software.

I suspect they've learnt from that and now leave the software side to Microsoft, while leaving them free to focus once again on creating good hardware.
Sci0001 - From Idea to Business
Mr. Musk is very good at marketing Tesla's poor performance in cold weather. He single-handedly streisanded the company's cold-weather battery problems. Before, only EV afficionados knew about the problem. Now, everyone does.

All he's managed to prove is that he should leave the marketing to the professionals and go back to whatever it is he does at Tesla.
I dont think its a good idea discuss what frameworks to use.

I usually choose the better framework FOR MY PROBLEM. If i need something lightweight, or reliability, performance, etc.

ZF and Symfony are too big for small projects, maybe Slim is to little to a medium/big project, etc.

I think you adopt a PHP framework for your problem, not for coding in general.
This author needs to learn another rule of writing: concision.
http://www.xkcd.com/934/

tooltip :: 'It's fun to watch browsers fumblingly recapitulate the history of window management. Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension.'
It takes about 2s to pull up their profile... If they want the recognition/credibility. Some comments I'll look, most I don't.
Ah, sorry, I wasn't clear in my response. I didn't mean to imply that adding a comma to the original sentence in question was the correct way to write that sentence. I was simply trying to state that without the Oxford comma, according to grammar rules, the intent is clear, as the article implies.
Except Samsung is drowning in profits, while Nokia is just drowning.
I like to refer to my iPad as the "Codex of Infinite Pages". I interact with it more like a large book, rather than treating it like a computer.

That said, I think people trying to use tablets like baby laptops are a little nuts, but to each their own. :)
Google's bread and butter (Adwords, Search algorithms and related data) are not installed on 90% of the world's PCs, they're guarded as trade secrets. Android, Chrome and the rest only feed data and users to what is a secret. They're free and "open" to encourage adoption and by extension get more ads served, increase ad relevancy and as a bonus try to ruin Apple's and MSFT's business.
FTA: "Throughout this article I reference HTML5, but I’m actually talking about most of the suite of relevant standards..."

I think a lot of people conversationally use the term HTML to mean the same thing.
Fair. Sorry for the emotional tangent :)
Yes, but not in excess.
When are we going to get the kind of options for window managers that we have on the desktop on our mobile devices?

I do want my phone to look like my computer but my computer looks very much different than Canonical's Unity.
I don't really have a dog in this race
This isn't very honest considering that you are the one giving Nathan the advice in the article. And he is creating ConvertKit while part of your 30x500 launch class, Correct?

From the article: "As you’ll see, I had a huge amount of help from Amy Hoy. Throughout the process she gave great advice on copywriting that I’d like to share here."
The Tech Block is actually a place where you can submit tech-related posts too. http://thetechblock.com
Maybe there is some regional variation in how unambiguous this construct is. I can easily interpret your final sentence, "Eats, shoots and leaves," as saying that "eats" (n) are shoots (as in bamboo shoots) and edible leaves.
As http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/02/mississippi-13th-amend... explains, slavery was already banned officially -- the amendment was ratified in 1865 even though Mississippi didn't vote for it. There's no legal significance to finally getting around to informing the national archivist.
I am traveling at the moment, but I could type them up when I get back. Shoot me an email reminder.
We already have a site for that, it's called Reddit. I get the impression that most HNers are also Redditors, so doing AMAs on Reddit makes more sense than trying to make HN into Reddit.
And I'm led to ask what the rat model is really a precursor for...

Seriously, though, this is something I continue to resent about much of the contemporary dialog around bullying: It fails to acknowledge and address the point that bullying works -- or it has in many traditional social and societal contexts. That's why/how it continues to exist.

If researchers can use it to reliably induce depression -- albeit in rats -- that's really something to think about.
Believe it or not "you"/your person/soul is completely part of the world, and thus getting duplicated without any knowledge of any of the others. No part of you exists independently of the laws of quantum mechanics.

So a more correct interpretation would be : there's infinitely many copies of you, each experiencing slightly different event, and while most survive (an infinite number), every moment in time there's a few (still an infinite number though) die horribly every moment in time.

Sooner or later it will be one of you reading this. :)
It's the current modern equivalent of those yellow "... for Dummies" books.

It gives a nicely presented introductory content, but these days the stuff you learn off CodeAcademy is the equivalent of an office worker mastering Microsoft Office VB scripting.

Which is to say, it's an absolute necessity to stay competitive considering the majority of modern office work, and in turn people, are replaceable by an Excel spreadsheet script.

This is the case especially when you go to somewhere like Google where outside the engineering roles it's just a bunch of highly accredited people being overpaid and overstimulated creating and babysitting automated processes. That culture will slowly creep over to every other industry at the inverse rate of a that industry's keeping around a fax machine.

The gameification is only good for entertainment purposes, considering every credible higher education institution don't recognize online classes as credible crediting.

So how can CodeAcademy get beyond being a fad?

Distribution and then vertical integration. They probably already know that. Reach as many kids as soon and as early as possible then start going deeper with the content, the more highly specific the knowledge the more you can charge for it.

They're really in the disruption of tech publishers, like O'Reilly or Safari or Apress. When they have a full library charging for a monthly subscription will keep them going for quite awhile.
Farmer’s Supreme Court fight to limit Monsanto seed patents looks bleak
Don't talk about Fight Club
Just realized you have to run the yeti into trees to keep them from eating you... Feels like a good moment for a facepalm.
[Twitter] Security Bug?
As I write this, the Yes vote is clearly leading (~1350 v ~500) but the first page of comments are almost exclusively No.

If that's indicative of who we are - those engaging in discussion say No and those happier to just answer a poll question say Yes - then I definitely hope the end result is No.

Edit: FWIW, I've seen links to a few Reddit AMAs on the front page here, and clicked through to some as a result. There's no either/or discussion here - we already have both. I see no incentive to change this.
I don't think that should be the standard. Broder talks about a "normal" driver not wanting to wait for hours in a diner while the car recharges. But what really characterizes most "normal" drivers I would say is that they will not pull out of a refueling station when the meter is clearly showing they will not make it to the next.

If Broder had behaved more responsibly/reasonably his article would have been about how he had to sit in a diner, waiting for the car to recharge, because he forgot to plug it in over night. I don't think Elon would have gone ballistic over that article.
Can you elaborate on what you thought was "spin" or how the public editor was unfair?
re: tricks; thank goodness! The first thing I did in the air off a jump was try to do a bunch of backflips. Looking forward to that being added.
Anyone else find it weird they included his social security number (page 5)? With the amount of detail they included it seems as though it would be fairly easy for someone to use any FBI file on a deceased person for fraudulent purposes, ID theft, or accessing accounts at companies who may not realize he is deceased yet.
Get some .ssh/id_rsa
It's not apocryphal. You can actually download the analysis they did and see the calculations for yourself. (I did; it was wasted on me.)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/rg/la602_vs_rhic_review/ (The link in Yudkowsky's essay seems to currently be down, but if you google the filename you find mirrors like www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00329010.pdf )
+1 !! Honestly, this could be really cool!
A lot of bitcoin's value comes from being decentralized by design and therefore out of the government's reach.
Reminds me of a friend who took the hole saw to the inner guards on his STi to make getting to the plugs easier.
The old version of that wikipedia article had a bit more background explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comet_%28programmi...
I hope it will let people see tangible progress early, motivating them to really learn to code. I fear it will end up like fad diets, where early easy success gives a false impression that real work isn't required.

I just did the Evernote API lesson now, and I made a note, and that's cool and all. But it taught me essentially zero about ruby or APIs or Evernote's API, and if I were to try to estimate a programming task as "Well, I used the api to make a note in about 10 minutes so obviously this other thing that sounds similar must be simple too" I would end up doing more harm than good.

I really feel like opportunities to take a page-long tangent explaining concepts at every step should have been in the lesson. Even just links to wikipedia articles on programming concepts, something to provide the vocabulary - I think it would be hard for me to really learn more fundamentals based on this lesson because I wouldn't even know what terms to google.
Show HN: This is what a QR code looks like when running Game Of Life rules
Would you maybe consider making a distinction between security releases and regular run-of-the-mill update releases?

I see a real value in a service to let me know that there's a new version of one of the dozens of things I depend on. But like I said, it seems janky to rely on a for-pay service to find out about security vulnerabilities. So what about making the security notification free to all users, with the non-security update notifications a for-pay addon? Seems like a good way to strike a balance between developing a self-sustaining business and helping out a community.
It seems to me that they blundered when it comes to marketing. If they had just called it SimCity Online and promoted it as an MMO, no one would get upset about the persistent connection requirement and no save/load functionality.
HN's karma system already makes reputation often more important than the actual message. I think an HN AMA would strengthen this, so I'd suggest to stick to good contents and not focussing to much on the author's identity (since the best contributions come from anonymous accounts).
I love these kinds of things since you can find out really interesting stuff.

For the same reasons I like watchig interviews where people talk about the technologies they are using at their companies (like webpulp.tv )

The more information out there; the merrier.
Looks like the Chinese censorship institution is hiring more
exactly what i did. can't wait for the flips. nice work!!
5 ways not to contact a newspaper, magazine or blog editor
Sure.

---------------

First the NYT says Broder was honest:

Mr. Broder and The Times have maintained that the article was done in good faith, and that it is an honest account of what happened.

Then the NYT says Broder was misleading (dishonest):

Mr. Broder left himself open to valid criticism by taking what seem to be casual and imprecise notes along the journey

---------------

Next, the NYT says Broder should have taken more detailed logs:

A little red notebook in the front seat is no match for digitally recorded driving logs...

But next the NYT says more detailed logs are pointless:

I could recite chapter and verse of the test drive...I don’t think that’s useful here.

---------------

And the NYT says Border did the test drive in good faith:

I am convinced that he [Broder] took on the test drive in good faith

But then the NYT criticizes his good faith:

...there is still plenty to argue about and few conclusions that are unassailable

---------------

That's just a quick snapshot of the whiplash-inducing spin in the NYT editorial.
I've done both and while it's a bit of an exaggeration, changing those spark plugs were a giant pain in the ass. I still have the scars.

My new benchmark for self-inflicted pain is trying to get IPSec up and running from an iPad to the house going through dd-wrt terminating in a Linux VM. Still pounding my head on that one.
msluyter correctly points to the Inuits as a good case against what you've said. Their diet consists pretty much entirely fat and meat yet they have lower heart disease and rates of cancer.

http://www.theiflife.com/the-inuit-paradox-high-fat-lower-he...

Pretty strange how their not keeling over from heart disease! Perhaps the traditional view of fat is wrong.

Highly recommend you watch this amazing lecture by Garry Taubes at Google:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4

He also brings a lot of other eye opening case studies to light such as obesity in Pima Indians during a famine.
The modal signup wrapper? If I want to read the article, I'll pull it out with console.
Standard double-speak ... if you can't get away with something, you hope to get out of it without problems. I won't defend those who are implementing the DDOS, but I do hope it's a warning to others who have the opportunity to "play nice". I believe that OSS and corporations can coexist (sorry RMS).
I see nothing wrong in Musk defending his position vigorously because he had complete faith in the car but more so because the logs clearly indicate Broder forgot to top-off. The NYT review is damaging not only to Tesla's sales but also questions the viability of electric cars. I am ok with how Musk handled the situation and I don't think Tesla is going to lose any more goodwill in the long run any more than Apple lost during Steve Jobs' response during 'Antennagate'...the difference is that there is no damning evidence against the Tesla.

More importantly I feel that this incident has heralded a new era in media communications where the press can no longer wield this one-sided power over companies, now the companies are in a position to retort back.