skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Camp and Basecamp for iPhone: A Tale of Two Apps
The Model S won't move while plugged in, no need to worry about idiots.
From the IAmA:

Q: "How was your relationship with Steve jobs? I always hoped that y'all were really good friends and competitors."

A: "He and I respected each other. Our biggest joint project was the Mac where Microsoft had more people on the project than Apple did as we wrote a lot of applications."

So Bill might be giving away some money nowadays, his character doesn't seem to have changed much, still taking credit where it isn't due.
Thanks for the feedback, anateus (and everyone else). I made a few quick tweaks to the page that hopefully makes it feel less like their homepage. Let me know what you think.

We want to be careful about making our branding too strong, because this post is about Wevorce, not Wefunder. In the future we'll put more design cycles into separating the Startup of the Week brand from our own, while keeping the featured startup front-and-center.
It didn't happen to my family, therefore it doesn't happen right? Thanks for glossing over the therapy and counselling bit.

FYI the age, gender, temperament, environment, household size, family income, income disparity between parents, support or lack of support of other adults in the immediate family, support or lack of support of other children, association with children comparable age/gender/temperament, association with children of different age/gender/temperament etc... etc... one of the few things people miss out when they cite "I'm well adjusted therefore..." as opposed to the legion of people actually studying the effects of divorce on children.

Suffice it to say, your experience with divorce wasn't mine or many others' for that matter. I don't wanna turn this into a flame war, so I'll end it here.
Government killing online surveillance bill
Finally there are downloadable binaries for Windows and OSX! http://code.google.com/p/julialang/downloads/list

Also, previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3784349
I'd like to thank you for putting out what you've done. I got a lot out of it and I'm sure I'd get more out of it if I understood Haskell better. I look forward to reading the whole thing if you get a chance to finish it!
Move.js - CSS3 animation framework for JavaScript
Editorially
An opportunity presents itself to plug a product I helped write version 0.1 of: http://www.glbsoft.com

If your users spend all their time in Excel, why not connect it to the enterprise back end?
Considering Facebook has been around for quite a few years now, I don't think it's that rare for people to look at what they posted five years ago and decide they'd rather keep that in the past. Especially since they had no idea at the time that timeline was going to happen.
He only used it in the title... probably better as "Google's Go" or somesuch. I can see why he did it though. Go ironically has to be the least Googleable new language name since C++ (ok, until they changed the search syntax). It's the name of a popular board game, a less popular programming language (Go!), and an incredibly common verb.
I'm not parent, but the claim wasn't that popular implies vulnerable. Just that some projects ignore security while the stakes are low, which comes back to bite them in the backside once adopters pick up (e.g. what we're witnessing with Rails now).
Hey HN: (while we're discussing family law) someone please make a startup that improves adoptions and/or surrogacy.

The fees are intense. $20k, 50k, 100k gets dropped left and right in this space. (Never underestimate the human drive to reproduce!) Most of that goes to agencies (who do good work, but incredibly inefficiently) and to foreign governments (if international). All to adopt kids that need a good home.

Navigating these waters is intense and difficult. There are so many hucksters, scams, multiple government bureaucracies, lawyers, clinics, and way too many options to make sense of things. It's a nightmare.

This is my pain point right now; I'll be your first customer!

Regardless, congrats to Wevorce for taking on family law.
I've worked with Tom, Fenn and the team for the past 4 months. While it's been an exciting period with lots of growth and interest, I like reading about the early struggles and the mud they crawled through to get this opportunity. A recent investor emailed the team explaining his decision to get on board. I was struck by one particular sentence, 'You guys just wont give up'.

I enjoy the honest writing style and acute observation on relationships. It's a breath of fresh air in contrast to the abundant startup stories about young gun-slinging silicon valley 'game changers' that built their MVP on a napkin. I understand the miracle flash stories sell, but it's good to hear about the unbeaten track.
There's an interesting thread from the Tesla Motors club, with lots of input from actual Tesla owners:

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/13633-NYT-arti...

From actual Tesla owners, the performance seen by the NYT reporter appears to be par for the course. To date most all-electric vehicles have struggled in the cold. The Nissan Leaf has a terrible time of it, with the range decreased significantly. I was honestly excited to see how Tesla S card would fare in cold weather, and how the Tesla engineers got around this problem. Disappointingly it looks like they didn't, and (anecdotally) the problem may be even worse on the Tesla S than on the roadster or even the Leaf. Bummer.

To everyone comparing the cold weather performance of the Tesla to an ICE: yes, ICEs do get harder to start and less efficient in the cold. But for an ICE, that kind of cold is significantly under 0 farenheit - most of the U.S. is at a low enough latitude that temperatures like this are rarely seen and modern ICE cars will start happily without the need for block heaters and other measures. The reporter had significant trouble at temperatures around 30F which even an air-cooled car from decades ago will shrug off. We're talking about maybe 10% of the population having to take special measures during especially cold times of the year (block heaters for temps < 0F) vs >50% of the population (plugging in overnight, every day, for temperatures <= 30F). HUGE difference

Another blog post which sounds a bit more horrific than the NYT experience, although the Tesla owner really takes it with a good attitude:

http://andwediditourway.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-not-so-ev...

Other interesting information gleaned from the thread - 120V is useless for electric cars, you really have to have a dedicated circuit for them. And did I mention they hate the cold?

I'm rooting for Tesla and for electric cars. But I do wish they were rated to perform at lower temperatures, and that everyone (Tesla and reporters alike) was more transparent about this. I'd rather see a few people turned off on electric cars and the rest informed and trained with the care and feeding of the cars during winter, than to see people stranded out in the cold because they weren't aware of their cars' performance envelopes.
As they say, the reason divorce is so expensive is because it's worth it.
Additional standard statistics like mode, median, quartiles etc are really useful.

And you can always throw things into gnuplot to get a quick, exploratory look at things. It will at least give you sense of whether you're looking at a normal distribution, something skewed, multi-modal distributions etc etc.
This Is What Happens When A Founder Says I Can Ask Him Anything…And Means It
curiouscats- Just curious, what course are you taking on Coursera thats experiencing similar issues?
"—and if you’ve read this far, you probably are—"

Mmmyes, clearly only we upper echelon of society is capable of reading articles on the internet magazine Slate.
//I can't imagine never involving my child in a school-like setting and then dropping them off for the first day of kindergarten having not experienced a similar setting.//

For those of us over 40ish, that is exactly what happened. 2 income families didn't become the norm until the 80s. Prior to that most of us stayed home with mom until she dropped us off for the first day of kindergarten.

We don't seem to have suffered due to it.
Hey Protomyth. Great thought. We are building a Java cross-compiler right now. We will be launching in a few weeks. Check it out fivetran.com
And tan. If there ever was a geek colorscheme, blue and tan would dominate.
Agreed whole heartedly. Dad remarried when I was 13, then spent the next 12 years fighting her in court. Now, that was one marriage that absolutely was not savable.

In my case, there was some long simmering resentment due to a certain someone (not i) being a cheating ho and lying about it. Resolving this would have required said certain party to come clean, and rebuild the relationship. Instead, my insecurities were used against me (I was controlling asshole according to her), and she actively worked to decimate my self esteem. I literally spent years not understanding that I was pissed at her, and why I was so. Then she withdrew from the relationship, supposedly because I was pissed at her, but I suspect really due to abuse suffered as a child. I became the representation of that, she withdrew completely from me, and then I got lonely, hurt, confused, and angrier.

I tried talking to her about being lonely, and was blown off. Eventually, I realized that I was f'in pissed at her, and when I tried to discuss all that came out was bile and hatred. Thats when I knew things were unfixable. Counseling was suggested by her at this point, but I had zero desire to be told all things I did wrong by two people instead of just one. I was done.

Eventually, she did come clean, and somehow expected things to be fixed. All in all I'm soooooo glad we decided to end the relationship, I had zero idea how stressed I was constantly by the relationship.
It doesn't help one bit. Journalists don't usually let you verify quotes, and once the newspaper is printed, there's little you can do. Even if you manage to get a rectification, no one reads it.
White House Owes Response To Petition To Fire Prosecutor Of Aaron Swartz
Wait until Wevorce gets sued by an unhappy husband or wife.
Easy, Light Weight, and Magical Parallel Processing in Ruby
Why do people think that computing Fibonacci numbers recursively is a good benchmark of anything?

Doesn't it require O(n^2) function calls for something that can be computed in O(1)?
I don't know why people are writing off stinks/toxic/noisy. As someone who has at various times lived near large roadways, this is a huge concern. Car pollution is a really big problem
Meh. I don't use attr_protected anyway, and neither should anyone else. Security 101 - whitelist, don't blacklist.

That said the JSON issue looks worrying, so an update and redeploy is necessary.
Discovery the strongest evidence of life on Mars
Serious but obvious. Media companies make money primarily from large advertisers.
Discovery of the largest spiral galaxy
I though the original link was to the homepage of wevorce but it wasn't (https://wefunder.com/wevorce).
Twitter and American Express team up to let you purchase with hashtags
Google Maps doesn't do depth or man-made obstructions to walking. The bus he's trying to catch is directly on top of the underground station, leading a simplistic walk estimator to give a near-instantaneous result. In actuality there are multiple stairs as well as a bottleneck-prone exit gate.
I didn't get the sense that this was meant with disrespect. Overall, I think he did stay classy throughout the AMA.
I don't know enough about Puppet to compare them, but the impression I got from reading several comparisons a year or two ago was that Puppet had a more mature community and hence better cookbooks, while Chef was better suited to "dynamic" responses, like adding nodes in response to high load. So perhaps Chef has better removal abilities.
Depends on where you're going and what you're carrying.

Family of four with a baby or two, and a trunk / roof rack full of luggage? Transferring between cars would be a bit of a PITA. I'd opt for the swappable battery in that case (or a liquid-fueled vehicle).
I can't help feel that a lot of the problems mentioned could be substantially mitigated if one had a decent prenuptial agreement.

Other than that, I think this idea will work.
I'm from Sydney but have spent most of my career overseas. All I can say is, if that's it (and this accords roughly with my perceptions already), then I'm pretty glad not to be looking for interesting work back home.
(1) could very well be explained by the battery management system expending energy to keep the batteries warm.
Actually being fast is not the point; naive fib is used because it's a very well known algorithm, easy to implement consistently across multiple languages, that heavily exercises both function calls and numeric addition.

In other words, as much as a 10-line program can be, it's a reasonable proxy for a language's performance on algorithmic code.
Although, with everyone else dead, it would be an ideal opportunity to ring the little handlebar bell all the time without worrying about a punch coming from the sidewalk :)
It tests how well the compiler deals with function calls, and that's it. Useless for measuring a language's overall speed (as are all micro-benchmarks).
Feathers – Enjoy the era of blogless writing
Yep. One thing worse: divorce coupled with abuse (physically + sexual), and the authorities refusing to do anything about it.
It's the shell scripts that update software (outside the package manager) that make my blood run cold; their mv and rm and sometimes rsync commands can give you a pretty bad day when they go wrong.

Oddly, where things like config scripts are concerned, I've been more annoyed by software that tries to verify the contents of the script (except where visudo is concerned of course). It can get in the way, forcing me to deal with sorting out some particular bit of syntax immediately or else abandon all changes when really I just need to put that file aside for a moment and deal with the other service that just burst into flames. I wish I could recall the specifics, but I just dealt with this exact situation recently, and I would've liked to have had a "tazer" button on my keyboard for the developer responsible for that feature.

Aside: as a fellow troubleshooter, I have a huge amount of respect for rachel's content and skills. Her stuff is often a treat.
Well then you're changing the parameters of the question :)
CO2 emissions is coupled to fossil fuels, not necessarily gasoline, if you're talking about renewably-generated gasoline (say from biofuels, though I suspect biodiesel is more likely). And if you're getting hydrogen (an energy storage medium, not an energy source, and an awfully low-density one to boot on a volumetric basis, with significant storage and transport issues) from fossil-fuel generated electricity, you've mostly just transported the CO2 emissions problem (modulo carbon sequestering, which is presently and likely forever highly uneconomic).

I address issues of alternate fuels in a prior post, and suspect we'll see liquid hydrocarbons, of some stripe, for quite some time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204104

Edit: speling
NYT's Judith Miller lied about WMDs. So the paper isn't exactly known for accuracy.
I'd like to buy your next beer, please.
What turned me off on Crichton was his belief in spiritualism, mystics, spoon bending, etc:

http://www.crichton-official.com/features-spoonbending.html

Really? A medical doctor that believes in spoon bending and fortune telling? Sigh... Of course Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in Fairies
The title as it stands is poor: "An Australian language that doesn't have words for directions".

The thrust of the article is that the language of the Guugu Yimithirr people of north Queensland doesn't have egocentric directional references (left / right / relative to speaker) which is common to most of the (now largely extinct) languages of northern Australia, from the Pilbara through the Kimberleys, through Kakadu and on into Queensland (and may well be common to the bulk of Australian Aboriginal languages).

This isn't quite as noteworthy as the claims by Daniel Everett that the language of the Pirahã tribe in the Amazon Basin broke Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar by lacking recursion.
As an example of the externalities of gasoline, living near a highway has been shown to have high correlation with the incidence of childhood asthma hospitalizations.
Seems like it’s clearly money left on the table. Perhaps someone is rich enough that they don’t care, but that seems odd.

Residences have something of a P/E ratio: market rent vs cost of the property. Perhaps the foregone rents are a drop in the ocean, but I don’t think so.

If it’s a question of luxury – the desire to have one’s own place even if it lies fallow – well, someone would have to be very idle rich to allow that to happen. Certainly there are high-end brokers who could host parties, or special visitors, in such places.
great, but... no one is discussing the moving clouds in the crayon drawn header graphic.
Google's Grammys Ad Shows How Smartphones Are Getting Smarter
Is there a reason why you can't use a configuration management tool like Chef or Puppet?

edit: I ask because there may be a variety of business reasons why this can't work, but it's certainly something that's helped me when I configure servers...
You realize that it's actually an industry, right?

https://www.google.com/search?q=divorce+lawyer
If you'd reported that at the time as a regression, then whatever change had stopped them working would most likely have been reverted. They take binary backwards-compatibility pretty seriously.
Martin Fowler's quote seems to be a riff on Weinberg's various folksy observations in The Psychology of Computer Programming -- though maybe Weinberg picked it up from elsewhere.

The Alan Kay quote is a possibly apocryphal story; there are varying accounts[1] (and see [2]).

No list of programming quotes is complete without the Epigrams of Alan Perlis[3].

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeInventedTheTerm
[2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeDidntInventTheTerm
[3] http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
My boy is now having nightmares going on a year later. And the ex and I came to an agreement, handled things ourselves and had no lawyers involved. Not to say it was easy, and there weren't fights, but as far as divorces go it wasn't messy.

My son appears to be scared that hes going to be taken from me, or his mom. Not exactly sure, as talking to a 3.5yro just woken from a nightmare isn't exactly easy or informative and I'm having to read between the lines a bunch.

I need to find the little guy some counseling or something so we can address his fears and help him work through them.
Dick Tracy's Watch: The Most Indestructible Meme in Tech Journalism
The Screwball Metric Of Cost Per Hour
They don't all forget. S.M. Stirling's Dies the Fire series is full of bikes.
Useful Meteor resources to get started
I said nothing about increased risk, I addressed the issue of the car being "safe" for the 30 minutes or longer that it takes to charge simply because "The charger cable locks into the charging port while the car is locked, so no one is going to mess with it while you're gone."

As for "novelty value and thrill" well, yes, it's stupid, pointless, and exactly the kind of dumb arse flash fad that has happened in the past and could well happen in the future - there's no logic to such things.
i am checking agains rails 4.

[29] pry(main)> x.update_attributes("client_\nsecret"=>1)
(0.1ms) begin transaction
(0.1ms) rollback transaction
ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError: unknown attribute: client_
secret

But
DEPRECATION WARNING: The method `sdf
client_secret=', matching the attribute `client_secret' has dispatched through method_missing. This shouldn't happen, because `client_secret' is a column of the table. If this error has happened through normal usage of Active Record (rather than through your own code or external libraries), please report it as a bug. (called from block in assign_attributes at /Users/homakov/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bundler/gems/protected_attributes-369818eedeaa/lib/active_record/mass_assignment_security/attribute_assignment.rb:67)

So it's hidden in method_missing!
Obviously anyone can read Slate if they want to. The question is, do they want to? Do you think it's likely that the lower-income people they're talking about are choosing to read Slate?
Yeah, it's a bad article, but the best I could find. The article is slanted because the it only contains quotes from SpaceX, so you hear only one side of the story, with nothing from the defense. The case was settled.
Note to self: If I ever implement a compiler, I'll include a special Fibonacci detection pass in the optimizer.
Right; and in this case, I believe that "man, people really care about cell phone unlocking, maybe we should as well!" is more likely to cause the legislation similar the Canadian act ("carriers must unlock if asked", "carriers must be very clear about unlocks", etc.) than anything related tithe DMCA ;P. That's the problem with such a narrow focus: there are more direct solutions to this particular problem that are more likely than DMCA changes that seem to pacify the petition.

(You may have just been demonstrating the efficacy of a petition in the abstract, though, and not about this one in particular. I will then just say "noted", and point out that if this had been "dismantle the DMCA" or something, I would have lent my support to it, despite it being a White House petition ;P.)
in some cases couldn't you design the app not to mention "your" vs "mine" and just say "user profile" or profile?

just a thought. very interesting commentary on the connotations of the usage of "your profile" "my profile' nonetheless.
What?? What about Christian Grey? This has totally thrown off the book's realism for me.
liber8: you are correct about Wevorce's raison d'etre. If you look more at their website (www.wevorce.com), you will see that the model does clearly integrate counseling/communication/financial aspects into the process. In fact, those features are the basis of the model. This is precisely the reason it has been successful in its beta phase. I should know, I went through the process.

The model provides a space for spouses to verbalize their issues in a neutral space, without attorneys getting in the way with sometimes overly zealous advocacy.

As an attorney myself for the past 10 years, I have grown weary of the restricted legal system and its outdated modes of advocacy that silently espouse that the only way to deal with conflict is by battling in the courts. Slowly, but surely, mediation, I believe, will gain more traction into the mainstream of the legal system; however, the main hurdles of that happening are the lawyers enjoying success in "battling" for their clients' dollars, rather than seeing the forest for the trees.

Here's to the possibility of the legal community embracing, or at least willing to accept, an alternative way to handle divorce without fearing the inevitable change to the legal culture it brings.

"If may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." C.S. Lewis
Except the internet would still have you to start flamewars about people you didn't like! :P

Make no mistake, there are a pile of ruby programmers who do care about security and take this shit seriously. You probably use their code.

We're paying for the way that Rails was developed in the days prior to the Rails/Merb merge. There's a reason why the community split in those days.

Please don't paint all of us Rubyists with the same brush.
Yeah, there's absolutely no solution to this, so the idea is a non-starter. (sarcasm)