skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point my head drops in t my hands and I sigh.

Basically, with out having to say anything it can look like the NYT did concede. Just superficially, but enough. However, now we have yet another response form Tesla, people, like the people here, will go over it work by word to see if it all squares up now. And of course it doesn't. So what's next, another response from NYT?

If it were me, I'd have stopped this right after the NYT article. Both sides could declare some sort of victory and lessons learned, and move on. Now, of course, Tesla open up again fro more scrutiny, and as people here have pointed out in detail, Tesla don't stand up.

All this will do is entrench opinion and further increase the notion that Musk is a man who makes false claims and freaks out when called out. That is how the motor world sees him. Which to my mind is mad because Musk will need the support of these guys to sell units.

Perhaps Musk feels he can ignore the motor industry culture entirely and create a whole new one for electric. If that's the idea, then OK, fine. But if so, he has a right battle on his hands, and I suggest he doesn't need it when IMHO what he needs to do is continue to develop and perfect his product. But then, why keep trying to court the motor industry?

Maybe that is the way to go. Completely ignore the current motor culture, and create a whole new culture for electric vehicles. I mean, the railway industry doesn't court the motor industry. Or vice versa. Car manufacturers dont try to impress train manufacturers. They are totally separate. So, separate out the electric car culture. Just a wild thought!!!
There's probably a boxen script for getting a lamp stack up and running on a lot of linux boxes:

https://github.com/boxen/our-boxen

It'll save you a lot of the configuration problems initially, until you're ready to configure.
Google TV, Really?
If the point is to learn, then why do we take tests?
Imagine, for a moment, that Broder had a more detailed record of his drive and had used it to make the article 100% truthful and accurate. Would it have been any more flattering to Tesla or to the Model S?
Forget The Harem Pants: 8 Email Marketing Faux Pas
Considering where .Net and C# came from (as in heavily, heavily, heavily influenced by) and we have to forget those pictures of Bill Gates chumming around with then President Clinton riding around in golf carts; it seems clear why Microsoft would take the stance they did..."Android is the best-selling smartphone operating system around the world.".
anyway, i can't help thinking this forms such a powerful combo with another post very close in time... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247237
Would be nice to know why my comment is being down voted. It wasn't spammy, insulting and I thought it was on cue. This is my opinion, it's these kind of unwarranted actions that are detrimental to HN. The community of this place has taken a massive downward spiral in the last year or so
Amazon handed over his account details with very little prodding. No mention of a warrant. Making connections from AWS is probably more incriminating than making them from your home internet connection (your home connection has certain protection)
..and a much larger chance that the scientists had made a mistake somewhere in the calculations.
hey whage, sooner or later:)
http://xkcd.com/667/
@hooande: Sounds like you work for the Chinese Hackers. Anonymous > (beats) Chinese Hackers hands down any day.

Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/anonymous-hackers-c...
My js1k submission: Flurry
If it takes longer than a week to change a spark plug on a 1996 Porsche 911 Turbo, I'd be shocked. If it takes longer than a month, I doubt anyone would ever bother. A year? Unimaginable.

For software, on the other hand, I have seen all three.
Here's the details from the previously mentioned study on co-sleeping that shows it can be safe or safer than non-co-sleeping:
"The proportion of SIDS infants found cosleeping in a bed with parents who had drunk two units or less of alcohol and taken no drugs was no different from that of the random control infants (18% v 16%). If parents who regularly smoked were further excluded, then five of the SIDS infants (6%) were found in this less risky cosleeping environment compared with nine of the random control infants (10%)."

http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b3666

TLDR: In this study, SIDS was more likely if the co-sleeper had ingested drugs/alcohol, if the sleeping occurred on a couch, or both. Sober co-sleeping on a bed was as safe or safer than not co-sleeping.
Well, true, but we all must prioritize. Working time is limited. "Be proficient in both" is not necessarily practical for everyone. It may not be for the OP.

Also, it's conceivable that if you split your time amongst different frameworks, you could be at a competitive disadvantage against someone who's more specialized. (Of course, the complete opposite is also conceivable, so don't take this as me advising people to study just one framework.)
My guess is that it's a "theorem" in the sense that you could come up with some mathematical model of economics in which some translation of Alchain-Allen into a mathematical statement would be a provable mathematical theorem.

Alchain-Allen being true in most or every model of economics (as the Church-Turing thesis [1] is true in most models of computation), or being always true in reality, is a much more debatable question.

Real demand curves can be mighty pathological, for example, you can have D'(P) > 0 [2] if the good in question is something people buy to show off their wealth, and so actually like it to be more expensive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Turing_Thesis

[2] Economists like to put demand on the horizontal axis and price on the vertical axis. That convention is insane, so I ignore it when I can.
Yes. I'm one of the authors, and it is definitely possible to use only remote requests.
Don't worry. Soon there will be a version for Google Glass that will superimpose trees, rocks, other skiers and so on. And then...
I bought a fitbit zip for my wife and she's been wearing it daily.

We like it better than the runkeeper on the phone bc there are many times during the day when the phone is not "on your person". For example, getting up to go to the printer, you leave your phone at the desk. However, you're still taking steps and burning calories.

I think the fitbit web site / app could be better with the types of badges / encouragement but thats just my 0.02.
Non-technical co-founders should take care of the business side of the start-up equation - marketing/sales/PR/community building/fundraising/etc.
You could have a few sparse roads to get rid of that alert, and all things are good. Also, bulldozing congested roads was a net positive.
Are you referring to the fact that the furthest galaxies are actually receding from us at faster than the speed of light (due to the expansion of space itself) ?
That is no excuse. Using that logic why don't you modify android to behave like ubuntu phone does and be done with it? After all android is open source too.
Anonymous tracks Chinese Hackers
Ah, "God forbid"--gotcha.
Guessing only: MS is a software company so they'd want to make it harder for others to copy (like whatever Google supposedly copied from java.)

This, of course, is business for all involved, nothing personal.
This reminded me of Schild's Ladder: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schilds_Ladder)

> ...the experiments unexpectedly create a bubble of something more stable than ordinary vacuum, dubbed novo-vacuum, that expands outward at half the speed of light as ordinary vacuum collapses to this new state at the border... The local population is forced to flee to ever more distant star systems to escape the steadily approaching border...
Profiling Long Paint Times with DevTools' Continuous Painting Mode
The Alternate Reality Kit (1987)
No, I read both Reddit and Hacker News, and would prefer AMAs to stay on Reddit where they have a much bigger audience.

Don't try and compete with Reddit, that ship has sailed.
"The internet is brimming with exceptional writing, and yet, the good content makes up a tiny fraction of the whole, and there is a compelling sense that it's a diminishing fraction."

It's hard to take the rest of the article seriously after reading a sentence like this. We're talking about an issue that almost certainly predates the written word, never mind the internet. Don't confuse your growing awareness of a problem with the growth of a problem.
> canonical definition of a model's database schema...I'm still not sure where to look for this in Rails.

db/schema.rb has that.

> Using Less's `less.watch()` functionality, which enables live updating in the browser based on changes in your .less file, is much more difficult to use in the Rails asset pipeline, in my experience.

I have found that to be difficult too. It think it's because Less has fallen out of favor, and SCSS is the new standard. It's actually super easy if you're willing to use SCSS.

You mentioned Django plugins providing an asset pipeline. Do you feel that it's easier to start supporting a new asset type in Django's pipeline than in Rails'?
YOSVape: The world's first internet-enabled, IRC-connected vaporizer.
Are they benchmarking hash join on hadoop and redshift?
With Skype around, I'd imagine that microphones are actually pretty standard on tablets nowadays? And it's not terribly uncommon to see tablets with HPSA+ connections (or even LTE), right? Tablets and phones are rapidly becoming one in the same, just with different screen sizes.
They note on slide 9 that this is only biggish data -- but sometimes, that's what you need to work with.
Time to make it an MMO with websockets.
The Super Supercapacitor: Graphene batteries charge in seconds
Things to take note if you ever decide to do business with Musk's companies as a customer: He will twist every word and fact possible if something doesn't go right publicly.
‘Healthcare’s Trillion-Dollar Disruption:’ A layperson’s summary
Here's an example, but it's hardly scholarly: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong.

You're right that it doesn't get discussed much, I think largely because the explanatory material is dense and rather turgid, so would-be critics don't get far enough to make meaningful criticisms; that's certainly the case for me.
Most customers actually have to purchase the vehicle rather than just getting a test model to review.
Adventures with the Skia Debugger
SnapLogic Blog: Single Page Web Applications: Lessons from My Five-Year-Old
It's just wrong for reasons that are covered in comments near the top. The public editor isn't part of Broder's management, and Musk is vastly exaggerating what she wrote about Broder anyhow.
iTerm2, at least, can show underlines where you'd expect squiggly lines in GUI vim. It's not as nice as the squigglies but it's pretty functional in practice.
No, but it would have made him look like an idiot and made the article confusing and useless. If he had been doing his job properly, there would have been a do-over.
IOS Support Matrix
The old quantum suicide argument?

It's not an especially cheerful idea, to be honest. Even if that argument works -- and to be fair, this is about the best possible scenario for it -- it's too easy to generalize.

There's no particular reason you should limit your self-identification to just the other branches you exist in in this universe. The full argument is a bit oversized for this site, but.. consider that there are branches where you've got the exact same past as here (as far as you can tell), except that you're actually living in a simulation being run by some alien.

If you accept the notion of quantum suicide, and also provisionally this expanded version, then consider that even if the proportion of timelines in which you live in simulations (and thus, the credence you should give to such claims) is low now, a sufficient number of vacuum collapse events could actually change that over time.
One of the first things I do with a new car is get rid of the branded license plate frames. I seem to be a minority though, as most people either don't seem to care, or can't wield a screwdriver.
Some people are quick to stamp their feet and proclaim Anonymous is some rogue group of deliquent teenagers who wreak havock on innocent people and attack Government websites. While some of that is true to an extent, Anonymous do a lot of good things in the interest of the general public and have been invaluable when it comes to protecting the freedom of the Internet. As shown in this situation, if it weren't for Anonymous nobody would be any step closer to understanding who is behind these Chinese oriented attacks, where and why.
You would need people that have been caffeine free for a long time as to not have withdrawals effect the results. I would assume there would be a lot of variables in people caffeine responses which would be hard to control.
Ask HN: "What's the Word" and IP protection on the App Store
Apparently, there's a recently popular game called "What's the Word" on the IOS App Store. However, if you search for it, you'll see a bunch of games WITH THE EXACT SAME NAME AND SAME LOOK, to the point where you can't tell which is the actual real game. There's even one purporting to the the "Official" version, when it's not.

How can the App Store allow this brazen theft of IP?

And does this disincentivize developers from releasing anything if they can be so completely copied to the point where they use the same name?
Google shares top $800 for the 1st time
Or just use hex.

> `head -c 20 /dev/random`.unpack("H*").first
=> "0cc57e2664051b3fd803754fd538b83317c9057f"

It's reliably double the length of the input byte array, it isn't subject to transcription errors or special character conflicts, and hex conversions exist in every stdlib ever.
Well I've always assumed FBI has "Anonymous" groups for a while now, so yeah...
The advisory and release notes are now fixed to not describe the XML vulnerabilities as DoS.
I don't know, but it would have removed my objections to Broder's work.

I do want journalists to produce 100% truthful and accurate work. Especially in a case where it is so very easy to actually be factual.
This is great. At dotCloud we've reluctantly ported our distributed routing layer (http://github.com/dotcloud/hipache) from Nginx to Node + node-http-proxy, because we needed 1) high-volume dynamic configuration and 2) websocket support.

Problem 1 can already be addressed by combining a Redis backend and Nginx's awesome Lua scripting engine (https://github.com/samalba/hipache-nginx). Now that problem 2 is solved as well, we might be able to port Hipache back to Nginx in the future :)

Go Nginx!
Stack of the month club
I would take this article a lot more seriously if it didn't have "tweet" buttons embedded inside the article itself.
Zuckerberg probably wouldn't have applied. Judging from his Startup School responses last year, I don't think he considered facebook as being viable as a company until it was already quite successful.
I agree. Even with my short time I have spent on HN, I find the place to be much more civil and information with less clutter than Reddit. Keep HN's identity strong and don't try to "copy" Reddit. I would think that if you allow a few AMAs it will quickly devolve as everyone would want to do an AMA.
Haskell Type Classes in OCaml
The next several paragraphs discuss reasons why the internet is unique.

Also:

> Writing online is so nearly effortless that reading (not to mention reflection, deliberation and thought) has become a chore in comparison. It's easier to jot off a patronizing, indignant or self-aggrandizing missive than it is to take the trouble to read the whole article or give fair consideration to the author's perspective. Thus the vicious circle sets in…
Yeah, Musk has done some great things, but he seems the sort of person best admired from a distance with some vaseline on the lens... looking too closely reveals something rather less admirable.

[e.g. his "I'm the alpha in this relationship" quote,† at his wedding... I mean, that's downright creepy...]

† http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/relationship-issues/mill...

[note: I originally cited http://www.esquire.com/features/americans-2012/elon-musk-int... as a source for the quote, and some replies refer to it, not the Marie Claire op-ed (which is a more direct source).]
Having the greatest technologists of our time answer our questions would be a huge distraction from the arguments over which language is better.
I wonder how feasible it would be to build iOS and Android emulators for a linux tablet?
Assuming people have tried for purposes of building/testing, but this seems a little different to me.

Being able to run all iOS and android apps on a single device would be pretty revolutionary.
Much of what you say is opinion (so I can't disagree with it), but I think a couple of your facts are off vis-a-vis Django (or at least out of date):

> Better release circle, as long as I know in Django didn't appear many features since 1.0 (mostly bug fixes and Python 2.x deprecation warnings)

A lot has been added since 1.0, including multi-db support, admin actions, aggregates in the ORM (and other ORM improvements), class-based views, and many other features that I can't think of off the top of my head.

One benefit of Django that you are leaving off your list is general stability, in the sense that the Django team is obsessed with ensuring backwards compatibility between major releases. My understanding is that the Rails team is willing to break backwards compatibility with a frequency that can impact people negatively.

> Most Django libraries handling authentication stick on default User class, so it's difficult to subclass it if you require custom fields.

This is changing in 1.5, the release of which is expected soon.

> More libraries and more complex and configurable than django libraries.

Honest question: how many of these Rails libraries implement things that are implemented in the Python standard library? In other words, are there more Rails libraries because Ruby itself is less complete than Python?
Quick Google searches. Hope they help.

Signs
http://goo.gl/YSnz1

Posters
http://goo.gl/rhZYp
> idiolect

A mashup of idiocy, intellect, idiosyncrasy, and dialect?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Darwinism is another fun read.
It's different from nationalized health care mostly on paper, because it gives the government monopsony power over the market. The single-payer administration can rule out treatments, mandate questionable treatments, and make for itself important value judgements about end-of-life routine care vs. mid-life cost of emergency care. We have hints of the problems that come from this now with things like the Medicare "doc fix".

Beyond all that, single-payer fixes prices for an industry that represents a huge chunk of the total economy.

No question at all that we badly need a new system of health insurance in the US (I'm hoping that Obamacare, carefully and aggressively executed, will be it), but single-payer health care is a radical change.
I think the reason I began trying to understand production logs and bug alerts was more of a calming mechanism than anything else. The developers get the same alerts and are already reviewing the logs, but by me understanding them I rarely need to ask if it's anything to worry about, etc. So it's not really me trying to help them with anything, it's more about knowing when to be worried vs. not, say if a client is launching their site on our platform tomorrow and I see some New Relic error come through at 2am the night before.
Ask HN: what is the most stupid line of code you saw?
Believe it or not, i just saw this:

`if (true === true)`

^^ Old PHP site.
They should compare redshift with hadoop + Imapala, OR hbase with Phoexnix from Salesforce. Comparing with hadoop + hive is not a correct comparison
As cited in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Vacuum_metastabil...
Intel Gains Graphics Market Share at the Expense of AMD, Nvidia
I'll relay this feedback to Tristan Kromer who runs the lean startup circle blog editorial. My guess is that they're experimenting with ways to increase engagement with both the article and blog.
agree, lesson learned: Don't judge/jump to conclusions too quickly.
I swear this game is better than most of the game I've played this and last year. Graphics aren't everything.
Here is what pg had said about downvoting over the years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2435588

In short, downvoting to express disagreement has always been done and is reasonable. Also, "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
Thats surprising, here in US, atleast at Kaiser hopital highly recommend breast feeding, and they offer lots of free support/classes. And surprisingly they don't recommend cosleeping.
I do that sometimes during debugging. It stands out and I know to change it later. If 1 == 0, etc...
Nice. I expect SkiFree to finally get a modder community after you complete this version. :-)

Unfortunately, the player's movement seems to come to a halt every 14-15 m or so in Firefox 18.0.2 on Linux x86_64. That is not the case in Chromium 24.0.1312.56 on the same platform.

Edit: there are also visible lines over and under the tall fir trees in Firefox: http://imgur.com/3wnXSqs.
Disclaimer: I'm a committer on the Apache Hive project.

A couple points in no particular order:

* EMR Hive is a closed source fork of the upstream Apache Hive code base. The EMR docs imply that the latest version of EMR Hive is based on Apache Hive 0.8.1 (which was released more than a year ago), which means EMR users aren't benefitting from the performance improvements that appeared in the 0.9 and 0.10 releases.

* It is implied (though not explicitly stated) that the Hive queries were run against gzip compressed TSV files stored in S3, while Redshift was allowed to spend 17 hours converting the same data to its own optimized internal format. Hive supports an optimized columnar format too (RCFile). Why wasn't that used in this performance comparison?
Hmm perhaps I'm just a cynic, but if health care providers are coming out with such garbage as discouraging breast feeding, it's got to make you wonder whether they want people to be sicker!
Great point, we should do something uniquely HN.
I mean, absolutely. I hope to be shipping every couple of days.
AMAs are absolutely worthless. The POTUS did one on reddit and it was a dose of Valium for all involved.
Chilling video of live APT attack
I don't know much about babies, but the way you phrased it made sound like "Beatings will continue until morale improves" approach.
thanks dsl..
Whenever there's an AMA on reddit from someone interesting, the scum floats to the top. Occasionally, you get something interesting but most of the time the AMAs are vapid. When a politician does an AMA, people upvote questions about weed or posts complaining that the US is a police state. When Paul Krugman did an AMA, libertarians raided the thread, downvoted all of the other questions, and upvoted stupid shit like questions about the legitimacy of Austrian economics.
http://p-car.com/diy/sparkplug/

I've done the change =)
It creates a perverse incentive to threaten businesses with less ability to defend themselves.
Considering that you needn't be drunk to be intoxicated enough to be dangerous behind the wheel, I'd say "drink driving" might be the better name.
There is a lot of jealousy between security companies, especially since Mandiant is getting a lot of the spotlight with the China hacks.

The way those posts are written with personal attacks against particular people I wouldn't be surprised if it was written by somebody at a competing firm.
An Oxford comma is used in a list. Two items wouldn't have a comma between them.
I know very little about economics. I will be happy to know if this 'theorem' is supported by experimental evidence (none were mentioned in the article). Otherwise it should really be called a hypothesis.