skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point of the article is that it's not as bad, or their word, "Dickensian," as people think. The article is missing some hard numbers: how many are choosing the lifestyle? How many of those that do are engaging in criminal / disruptive activity?

It's pretty cool you got to check out a commune in Lake county.
They're entirely compatible. Non-Supercharger stations like the one he stopped at are really, really slow at charging compared to Supercharger ones - we're talking "leave your car overnight" slow here!
And this is why I don't deal with business majors or anyone else at school who has the greatest idea for the so-called "next big thing", but has no idea how the technology would work.
regen is not 100% efficient at recapturing the car's kinetic energy.

True, but if you don't use regen you are 0% efficient at capturing it. Any positive number is better than zero. I'll have to read through the link you gave to see what the guy's reasoning was, but regen should always increase your range.

Edit: On reading through some of the links available on Google, I suspect that he didn't specifically try to avoid regen, but just drove too slowly and with too gentle acceleration and deceleration for the regen system to kick in. Regen does require a certain minimum speed and rate of deceleration to achieve a net gain in energy; if you try it when the car is going too slowly or decelerating too gently all the energy goes into losses in the electrical system and none goes to the battery. The car's control system should be calibrated to only allow regen to kick in when there will be a net gain.

So in that sense you could say that the less than 100% efficiency means there are times when there's no point in using it. But it never causes a loss of energy; you're never worse off than you would be not using regen. It's just that the car's controls won't bother trying if there's no point.
I want to be the Chinese emperor. Tomorrow.
I'm expecting a deadline more comical than their request. For $1000, they may get one day from someone.
I used to work for a company that used a series of excel sheets to calculate the price of investment funds. Sure, it was a primitive technique and sometimes a real pain in the ass, but it gave us the flexibility to make adjustments as needed.

While I was there they were beginning to transition to a Microsoft Dynamics based system, which turned out to be a nightmare. Maybe it was a case of bad developers, but the guys working on this system seemed oblivious to the actual mechanics of what they needed to build.

When you’re working with time sensitive data, making a few adjustments in excel rather than logging requests to have some code fixed or updated can make a lot more sense.
I'll throw out another idea--maybe this is a honeypot for bots making automated responses to every proposal.
Is this what you do? Because if someone sends me a csv file, under your workflow I'd have to open it in a text editor (or a different spreadsheet program) to figure out the data type of each column and run it through a perl script (or awk?). For a few columns, sure. For 200 columns, not ideal. Just to get around using excel's impmort directly. Plus, "taking into account Excel's quirks" is easier said than done.

That said, if you have a script you use that does this, you'd make a lot of friends if you posted a link.
dear sir we have team ready to start working on your project we have many experience building website like amazon we deliver on time in your budget
For the record: I genuinely do not know the answer to the question I just asked, although obviously I'm skeptical about this underlying claim.
I really, really like this. I will definitely use it at work and for my own personal projects.

I will admit, though, that I'm not a fan of the rspec-like broken English. I hate to bikeshed here, because I really do love this idea, but these are just the opinions of myself, nobody particularly important. Feel free to disregard them :)

Some find the following to be more readable by the fact that it has more English words:

expect(HTTPretty.last_request).to.have.property("querystring").being.equal({
...

It is in fact easy to read, but I find it very hard to write. The fact that the commands are so close to English throws me off more, because there are so many ways to construct a "sentence" that "sounds right" but is not equal to the desired command.

expect(HTTPretty.last_request).to.have.property("querystring").being.equal({
expect(HTTPretty.last_request).to.have("querystring").being.equal({
expect(HTTPretty.last_request).to.have.property("querystring").equal({
expect(HTTPretty.last_request).to.have("querystring").equal({

I would personally prefer something like the following. Even though it isn't as friendly to non programmers and doesn't read like English at all, it's hard to get wrong.

expect(HTTPretty.last_request).querystring.equals({

I obviously do not know enough about the project yet to know if there are so many potential properties (such as 'querystring') that the .property method became a structural necessity as opposed to syntactical sugar. If there aren't so many properties, I'd just hardcode them into methods/properties.

Once again, I really look forward to using this project, and it's perfectly okay to reject my opinions. The beauty of open source is that I can simply create a wrapper around what I dislike! :)
Probably because he produces the value that makes the land a desirable place to mooch, while the street kids don't produce any of the value that makes it desirable place for him to sell his services to others.

And unlike in your Wobbly story, they wouldn't be able to produce that same value "if only" the greedy OP quit hogging that land he lives and works on.

You ever wonder why the street kids don't exercise their freedom to roam in less wealthy areas? Food for thought.
I believe this tracking has to be turned on by the user.
If he had done this on gasoline, he could have got a full top-up in under 10 minutes rather than the 10+ hours it would have taken to do a full charge at Norwich.
Design has always existed in this sort of gray area, especially with the introduction of Photoshop and desktop computers. Many people think graphic design is as simple as selecting a font and picking some colors to go with it.

I doubt software/web development will ever get past the same hurdle in the minds of the general public.
Indeed, your ignorance is every bit as good as my knowledge.
I grew up there, but I guess that doesn't count.
Here is a screenshot of my desktop running steam http://www.flickr.com/photos/zokatomicic/8474868290/in/photo...
What's truly scary about this is the fact that it's attracting serious bidders.
I always get excited about 3d printing. Then I remember how much 2d printing sucks.
May be someday in the future, when AI robots can program and programming (as we know it today) becomes a commodity, $1000 might be feasible
The legislators are corrupt, and being able to override the popular vote gives them more power.

The system that puts legislators into place is a local majority vote, which is just as flawed as a national majority vote. It leads to a 2-party system which concentrates power and typically results in corruption.
The High Cost of a Cheap College
I come from a family of farmers. They are very practical and have no problems embracing technology, as long as the technology works.

On a side note there is a great discussion on Econ Talk with an organic farmer, Lisa Turner,

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/lisa_turner_on.html
Any support or plans for making debits via ACH?
"the interesting lack of fundamental understanding by the general public about software and how complex and expensive it is."

The reason why many people have a good understanding of other complex stuff, like a car, is because they are able to tinker and service it. You can't tinker with the internals of Amazon.com. Without a frame of reference, there's no way to know how complex a system is.
Both of those assertions are semi-true, at least - It looks like he averaged around 54mph between 400 and 460 miles. He also turned down the heat as claimed, but not when he stated - roughly between 250 and 300 miles. I'm willing to chalk that up to poor note-taking.
Big Plans for CrunchBase
Basically changing the system will favor one party.

Temporarily.

Demographically, the USA is transitioning to a Democratic super majority every where but in the US House (because of gerrymandering).

Long term, the parties will realign along the new normal, as the country moves back to the left.

The reason is Duverger's Law. With winner takes all form of elections, the political spectrum will always split into two parties, as each tries to attain the smallest winning coalition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvergers_law

In other words, no matter how big the pie, it's always split in two.

(The parties might even switch "polarities", for lack of a better word. As they've done approx every 70 years for the first 229 years. Seeing how conservative Democrats have become, there's a huge void in the political left. It's be easy for a reborn Republican party to reinvent itself to fill that void.)
In the past 10 years the only thing I bought that any current 3D printer could have made was plates and silverware. IMO, that says a lot more about the the real state of 3D printing than anything I have read online.
They don't have a company registered in the UK under Python. Register a company called Python Language Limited and shorten it to Python in correspondence.

You can trade under that name, even if it's a trademark.

The same as you can call yourself Fairy Limited and not sell washing up liquid.
Because to get 50% + 1 of the votes from a national popular vote, you don't need to campaign in all 50 states, as there are some states which are more populous than other states.

National advertisers are more expensive, and don't help local races as much or at all. Spend less money, hit more people in states with more people in them.
Better yet, it will more accurately reflect how many people from each state will bother to take the time to respond...
Robert Scoble Talking To A Hot App From Disrupt
You could spend a month researching these 3 markets to see which needs the overhaul...
I've done my share of software developer hiring. And, I've had my share of sticker shock. What always makes it a little more palatable is seeing the number of (man)hours a project will take. People understand wages, and can also easily mentally compare them. When I see what you're making per hour, and it isn't gut-wrenching, it's easier to swallow.

Of course, you'll still have to deal with idiots who can't understand why it won't be done in an afternoon.
Visual organization for creative minds
Us Wisconsin folk are probably keeping quiet, so Chicago will keep forgetting we're up here.
"Desired Skills
MySQL, ActionScript, CSS, PHP"

Niiiice
Sorry, I assumed the logged data was public information. My bad.
He also has been adding information on Wikipedia that Star Wars Episode VII will be based around Jar Jar Binks becoming a Jedi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/24.23.218...

Something is _definitely_ not right here.
This is incorrect. For example, "Our Model S never had a chance with John Broder" is an assertion. "Vehicle logs tell true story that he didn't actually charge to max & took a long detour" is an assertion ("long detour") and one that Musk backed away from.

There are also assertions in the original post that Musk's data didn't address. For example, Broder said that a Tesla customer support agent gave him inaccurate information about appropriate driving patterns for maximum range. Broder may or may not be accurate there but it's certainly an important part of the argument.
> regen should always increase your range.

True, but not compared to the alternative of avoiding stop-and-go urban driving, which I believe was the OP's point.
Its not the same at all, do a search for "farming robots" on Google. Factor in the age of a lot of US farmers, and price of farmland, and things really start looking like they are about to undergo a significant change.

A nearly complete takeover by automated machines is already underway with farming. Robots coupled with software are really how software will eat the world..

The reason capitalism works so efficiently is it forces change. The "old boys" may have monopolies today but they won't have those same monopolies tomorrow. Its happening everywhere. So many opportunities.
Towing Company: The NYT Tesla Model S Was Dead When It Was On The Flatbed
Sorry about that. I didn't mean boundary layer as a technical term. I just meant the problem was in the transition from the ground-effect-dominated regime to the regime of traditional flight.
This is a true statement. Invoice and billing system makes sense here.
I know a family of farmers from South Dakota. They spent half the year farming there, the other half living in Southern California.

Depending on what they grow and where they are, farmers can have a lot of time on their hands in the winter.
Washington State actually seems the most disproportionately represented (relative to population)
Yeah, we've discussed this a lot on our github repo: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2

What size transactions are you planning?
I was sure this was a joke, but I didn't catch a punchline.

Why would you want to jam all of that functionality together anyway?
> I personally would never feel comfortable using a clients domain as my own platform to state my side of the story, it's just not appropriate in my opinion.

I would agree about this-I just throw up a site that looks OK with the company's contact information on it, or just take it down entirely.
Doh! You're right about the FTC vs FCC. TLA fail on my part!

Though I think that sometimes the FCC gets involved in these sorts of things too? Though maybe not? I am now officially out of the realm of where I know what I'm talking about.
Speed geek’s guide to Facebook buttons
I don't see why you need a broad intellectual foundation here. Property is granted by governments. Why? Because it's a useful abstraction. Where did the government get the property? It claimed it and enforced its claim by force.

So I guess my answer to the story would be: fine, you can fight the owner for it, but the real owner isn't me, it's the United States government. If you are so inclined to fight the government, fine, but don't be surprised when people who find the abstraction useful and productive, or even simply find the other mechanisms of the government productive, decide to fight back.
> If you take your car to the shop and can't pay for the work to be done, they put a mechanic's lien on it, and impound the car until the work is paid for. This is no different from that method, which is totally legal.

The former is legal because it is specifically authorized by law. For example, here in Washington mechanic's liens are specifically authorized and regulated in the Revised Code of Washington chapter 60.04.

Unless website impounding is explicitly authorized and regulated in law, then you can't accurately say it is no different than a mechanic's lien.
Relevant quotes from clients who've commissioned web developers/designers (previously posted on Clients From Hell):

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“I want to create a rival to Twitter. So I want it exactly the same except where it says What’s Happening? I want it to say How are you feeling?”

"There’s one thing that our social media site will have that Facebook hasn’t even thought of… People can rate each other! Out of a possible five stars, depending on looks and talent… We’re gonna put that Mark Zapperburger out of business, I know it!"
> It's pretty cool you got to check out a commune in Lake county.

It was a little creepy, to be honest. They have pictorial banners up in the woods, without any words. I was only allowed into the bookshop, and every single book and CD was by the commune leader. Every single one.

Edit: I'll add some detail here since people seem to be interested. Lake County is a very, very remote area a few hours north of San Francisco. The commune has been functional since the 60s, sucking up its members' wealth in exchange for living under the direction of a charismatic leader. While a generation lived under this leader's direction, their children suffered the brunt of the eccentricity and thoughtlessness that the era inculcated. The one incident that I recall hearing about is when several children (including the person I was dating) in the 8-12 age range were randomly ordered to live with different parents on a whim, and the families complied. A significant fraction of the kids of that generation are somewhat screwed up, with causes ranging from heroin addiction to the effects of sexual abuse as children. It put a very dark tint on the rainbow of the 60s for me.
At the tiny webshop/webhost I used to work at, we would just switch to a plain white page with a header saying "please contact accounts@host". Embarrassing enough to push for payment, but visitors needn't necessarily assume foul play.

Enabling people to save face is important - I doubt these fitness guys are going to be particularly cooperative after being shamed.
Education can also be dangerous in the hands of a potential client. I've had to explain to clients why they were paying what they were paying for a website when one of the owners of the company pipped up saying "But it's just a bunch of HTML, I could do that, so why are you charging us so much?" In this situation, you really want to say "then go do it yourself if it's so easy", but that's not the best way to put it.

They know what HTML is, but then when you explain that while the output might be composed of HTML, it's dynamically rendered from the Server using a programming language along with data stored in the database and also on the frontend with JavaScript and CSS. At that point, you kind of lose them and they're not any better off than a client that didn't know HTML (other than they now think you're trying to BS them for more money).

I explained the above more eloquently than the short summary above and the other owners were less distrusting. However, what people are educated on can also easily backfire to be worse than if they stayed ignorant.

I've also had clients that were actual developers and way too busy to do all the work they had. Those sort of clients go pretty well and they know what they're paying for. Not saying that education won't help, but we should be cautious to how the average person is educated on the behind the scenes details of software development.
The amount of stuff you need to sit down at your computer and try to build a "site like Amazon" is pretty trivial. In fact, all you need is a computer and a net connection.

You'll discover quite quickly that you can't build Amazon by yourself, but there's little barrier to entry (there's a huge barrier to completion).
As I was reading your comment, I glanced out the window to look at an Amish buggy cruising by.
Thanks for pointing that out: to quote the site again, "The Founding Fathers did not create or anticipate—much less favor—our current system of electing the President."

Even more interesting, they note that the Constitutional Convention did consider electing the President by a direct national popular vote, which proposal failed by... wait for it... one vote.
All it takes is one person to drive the same journey, but with proper charging, and to release the logs to disprove Broder's points.

Key point that you need to add. They need to do it in the same weather.
Maybe AWS too
1) No it's not open-source but I do plan on opening up the Stripe lib I've built.
2) Negative. That would be a great option but some Pay Pad users want the full featured access, including accepting payments from the device.

I think about this a lot... For example, from Pay Pay, what would be the ramifications if someone stole your phone and had access to your Stripe account?

Well there are three things that are pretty scary. They could 1) add new charges to your existing customers 2) refund existing customers, and 3) get names and email addresses of your customers.

Could you prevent this? Yes. Password protect your phone. If it does get stolen, go to Stripe and revoke access to the third party apps.

But I want to do better. One user left a review the other day and asked for the ability to "lock" the app. I haven't decided yet how I'll implement it but I do want to add an "optional" locking feature that adds yet another layer of protection to your Stripe account from the Pay Pad app.

Ping me if you have any thoughts on alternatives.
There are services that sell copycat websites like Twitter, ebay, and social networks and I have even seen a youtube clone for about that price.

I have never seen them in productions besides the demos, but i guess this is what they are looking for.
There is a button on their facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/PythonCloud)
called "Suggest a change" (freely translated that from what I actually see in dutch, so it might be different), It's next to the little info link below their "avatar".

What if we all suggest a unique name and they can pick a new one from something awesome one of us has suggested?
Rethinking WordPress as a CMS
> but at least everyone gets a vote for their Senator that counts

Unless you live in DC. We get disenfranchised there, too.
Valve hires one of the engineers behind the XBox controller.
"FTC Accepts Final Settlement with Twitter for Failure to Safeguard Personal Information" - http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/03/twitter.shtm

I don't know the exact nature of the failures.
What point in Virginia is closer to DC than it is to Virginia?
one no standard could have prevented

Then I'm sure you'll have no trouble* finding similar vulnerabilities introduced by implementation flaws of any NIST (or even IETF) defined algorithms.

*Note: sarcasm.
I'd agree that would be a legitimate concern of the time, but I think that still agrees with my argument, given how easy it is to educate yourself on issues today.
Maybe performance was not their goal. Just a website like Amazon built on ActionScript. Ah the plot thickens
These are not serious bidders. They are robo-applications or blindly copy/pasted applications by cut-rate shops that are mind-numbingly bad at development.
absolutely. i used to dream about doing something like this to asshat clients i had when i was starting out.

it's kind of like the designer equivalent of quitting your desk job by kicking your monitor onto the floor and walking out giving everyone the finger. XD
According to Forbes, WordPress powers one of every 6 websites on the Internet, nearly 60 million in all, with 100,000 more popping up each day. But have you ever taken time to think about how WordPress manages content. Not only from an editing perspective but also from a design perspective.

This article has come about from years of experience with WordPress, talking and working with multiple Clients, and even being inspired from other innovative products – like Square. One of the things that really strikes me about Square is that they are so focused on their users. They are focused on completely rethinking how payments are done in order to make them beautiful and easy to use.

Let’s think about the WordPress Admin – is it focused on its users; is it easy to use; is it breathtaking? I think we’ll all agree that it could use some work in these areas.
Others I can think of, Construct2, ImpactJS, Crafy, Collie. Some of them are made for different things. For example Construct2 provides a visual interface, easier to build at the cost of having more limitations. ImpactJS has a level editor, based on blocks, physics are not hard to implement, and they document building for mobile app stores. Crafy is very light, an abstraction for the canvas, similar to Collie.
Game closure looks like it's good for making network games, uses node.js.