skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in that screenshot! How weird is this?

Looks like you're using Xmonad. I use it as well; it's the reason I switched to linux. It's unbelievable how nice it is to stop fussing around with overlapping windows! Combine that with all of the extensibility and you've got an incredibly productive environment (assuming you don't get caught up yak-shaving your xmonad.hs).
I have an explanation as well: Big parts of my work consists of exploratory "research" (what is written, what is available?)

Reading up on one alternative often leads to multiple links which I can either read one an one, return from, figure out what is the next link, follow that, maybe recurse another level then step back etc. To me this is cumbersome.

Instead of keeping this tree in my head I can just ctrl-click any interesting link, ctrl-tab to the next tab when I'm finished with the current one and continue ctrl-clicking.

Finishing up I can even use the save tab set feature of pinboard to stash it all away under a nice label.
This is what I'm thinking too.
For the record, my shrug was meant to acknowledge that Twitter follwers was an absurd way to judge the credibility of an astronomer.

But he also has a blog on Slate.
This biases the chosen seeds towards the middle.. You could do something like add them both together modulo the size of whatever the random seed is on the platform, that should be unbiased.
Even as a power user, should I pay for a license to software just to be be subjected to the decreased performance and annoyances of basic file sharing of a VM? No thanks.
Such things never cease to amaze me. How do you start with a blank paper create an expression which produces that?
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Enjoy your crippled - functionally - piece of software.

There, I said it. LibreOffice may be alright, but it's certainly not good. It looks like it came out of the 90s, and it, nor anyone else's, spreadsheet making will never even come close to Excel's.
This post completely reflect my thoughts on the whole saga - but there's one more thing which sticks out for me, something briefly touched upon in this article: filling up a petrol car to do 500+ miles takes <5 minutes. Charging a Model S to do 500 miles takes over 2 hours. I think that's one of the main issues people have, that to do a journey which would typically be insignificant, it requires a large amount of preparation.

If I woke up in the morning and went to my car to drive to work and I found I didn't have enough mileage - despite it having twice as much as I needed the night before - I'd be pretty annoyed. Yes, everyone says that you should leave the car plugged in over-night, but it's such a different way of working with cars and something which feels like it shouldn't be required, which I think makes people a little unsure about buying electric cars.
Well, yes, it's a bitch of a stretch because of our context, still the phrase is ambiguous, so it's better with 'has'

The phrase certainly can be fixed if it refers to some event like 'Bill Gates had donated 36 billion before he left Microsoft'
What? A hariy trigger? No, not quite. I did read it, but simply didn't understand his joke. Doens't happen to me a lot but than again English is not my main language, Dutch is and it's easy to misread a short joke in another language.

Like I stated: I read it as if he was upset because OP excelled at this kind of research.

Like the dictionary:
ex·cel , ex·celled, ex·cel·ling.
verb (used without object) to surpass others or be superior in some respect or area; do extremely well: to excel in math.

Do you really think I would have reached over a 1000 karma if I had a hairy trigger? Oh, well, I do find it funny you're criticising me for making assumptions.
No, email should be plain text.
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Most of the stuff is here. Sorry for the messy emacs configuration, I'm just studying it after ~10 years of vim.

https://github.com/pimeys/dotfiles

Also, two branches: work and macbook. The screenshot is from the work branch.
Good one! People relying on Cron could benefit from this.
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I work in the financial services industry, so no I don't have a choice. I love Free software and dual boot Linux on all my personal machines, but I give credit to MS where credit is due - Office is a very good suite of software.
Because pirated copy will annoy you with how it's not genuine, while real copy you use on more computers then you are allowed to (or that you reinstalled or something) will shut up and work?

I guess. I don't use Microsoft software when I can get away with it.
"paperless office "

Well there's a buzzword I haven't heard in a long time. What is this, 2004?
How People Use Their Vehicles
You might want to try Xmonad. It's a tiling window manager that's extremely extensible and very fast/clean to use.

Here's an old demo of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyNkBLhIpQk
If Obama cares about education, he can start by dismantling the 'No Child Left Behind' apparatus.

It is the most concrete impediment to responsive education I've seen in my lifetime.
Thanks your valuable feedback! really appreciate it!

Yes, understand your point and totally agree with you. One of the reasons why we put such a big arrow in the body was that we wanna see whether people would even hit the pricing button even they only saw a few lines of the product so it serves a little validation purpose for us to understand whether people would be interested in paying for such service but ya we definitely gonna try navigation bar and add more tabs as A/B testing!

In terms of the alignment problem in Safari, we are fixing it right now and should be good to go but thanks so much for pointing out!

Really appreciate you guys even took time to read and make comment. you guys rock!
Voxlap is how I got my sister interested in programming. She really liked the cave blasting demo.

http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm

http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap/cave.zip
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Personally, I'm deeply satisfied Elon Musk stood up for first principles reasoning and rejected all the niceties of socially created reality.

I've always hated Ayn Rand's writing but he's probably the closest thing to a Galt-like hero.
"5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. This failed hard."

Tiobe has "Lisp" ranked 13, not clear what they included as "Lisp". (Specific Lisps like Scheme, Common Lisp, and Clojure rank much lower, so must be some kind of aggregate.)

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

Interestingly, the "Very Long Term History" table has Lisp going from rank 20 in 2008 to 13 in 2012. So Yegge clearly missed his top 10 prediction, but may have been on to something in regard to Lisp increasing in popularity (depending on how much credence you give Tiobe rankings, of course).
Preach, brother. SF didn't spring magically into existence either -- it was built once, then destroyed in a quake, and then built again.

I think that things don't have to stop at the orchard. Years ago, there used to be a big flophouse on Columbus Ave, full of trash and indigents. Transients. Beat "poets", the sort of people glorified by City Lights books.

And then they tore it down and built the TransAmerica pyramid! Now that's progress.
Musk probably looks on the product as his baby, and if you insult my baby, I won't be totally rational in my response.

Really, he shouldn't have mentioned that 0.6 miles at all. If 0.6 miles makes the difference in how a car performs, just drop it.

But since Musk thinks this guy was insulting his baby, the 0.6 miles (in _circles_!) looks sinister to him.
If governments use, in your words, tax money on semi-corrupt self interests then how would have taxing Bill Gates at a higher solved any of the problems you think should be handled by government? If governments are going to be inefficient and corrupt with a little money they are going to be inefficient and corrupt with a lot of money.
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Do we really need these third party people chipping in? Tesla has provided their side, Broder has given his responses, and even CNN has done a story taking another Model S through the same overall route.

Everybody can take in the info if they're interested and decide for themselves.
"Perhaps most worrying is the single-mindedness of the Internet hive mind that has, over the past few days, eaten up every word of Elon Musk."

Very untrue. From the beginning, a lot of people found fault in Musk's twitter and CNBC performances, and its clear in ensuing discussion here and elsewhere that people who initially sided with Musk are adjusting their views based on the blog post and the NYT defense.

This isn't to say that there aren't Elon evangelists, but the response wasn't as uniform as the visceral reaction to SOPA
> without losing face.

Honestly, isn't the crux of the problem? Even if you are a superstar, you'll still get typecasted as smart-but-lazy and find yourself on the outside. Generally speaking, this is an organizational problem.
That link does not point to the Hemel Hempstead Magic Roundabout.

This does:

https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=51.746299,-0.473...
Fascinating story after the standard AOL-inspired blog spam.

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who identified that :)
tl;dr: They take too long to charge so clearly nobody should wait 58 minutes instead of 46 or whatever.

Hell, why even bother charging for 46 minutes? Charge it for however long you estimate it takes you to fill up the gas in your other car, and complain when the car runs out then, too.

Not a good piece at all; can't say whether that reflects on the author too or this is just him/her being mindkilled over, of all things, charging time.
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Thanks for the valuable inputs and this is true!

we are trying to cater those SME who haven't got their internal system in place so this service could serve as their company internal HR platform to effectively facilitate internal communication between HR and employee. Does it make sense tho?
>> 6. Oh come on, facebook, youporn, whatever. As I said, too vague.

Yeah, so he didn't call out a specific "type" of socializing, or draw up the wireframe for facebook here. But he just recognized there is a huge trend of people wanting to share their lives and communicate in near real time. I think he nailed it. Facebook and twiiter are just that. Even look at his move example. These days, you watch you movie or TV show, then laugh and comment on it with your friends not in the theater, but on facebook or twitter. I'd say he NAILED that prediction.
That’s certainly a problem. But this solution is better than being totally off. Worst case the person gets the mail in the previous timezone he registered which should be before the DST.
We got used to it with laptops (think back to when they were mostly desktops - "I have to charge my computer?") and we'll probably get used to it with cars, assuming the same value to be gained is there (probably is).
"Sitting on the sidewalk" is a crime in San Francisco -- but it's a petty crime, like smoking weed in public. Cops either don't care, or only care when it's "convenient". When they need to get that quota up!

Great illustration on this article..

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Sit-lie-law-primarily-enf...
I am learning a lot about how not to respond to criticism (not to say i didnt know it beforehand, but its far easier to appreciate after seeing it happen to someone else) And the more responses we see, the more we can break down individual aspects and talk about what's right and what's wrong.
Learning is not really the point of conferences though - meeting others is. I have met some great folks at conferences, many people I know got jobs through them.
Yeah, but that's different. Just because it's based on additive manufacturing techniques doesn't mean that it's even close to being the same kind of machine as a Reprap or Makerbot. While they rarely outright lie, what mainstream tech news love to imply is that desktop hobby 3D printers will soon do that stuff.

It's about as ridiculous as implying that because cars are built by robots, soon your Roomba will be building a car.
Yes sir and should be on soon!
Honestly, the only fact that should matter is that Broder tried to drive 60+ miles when the car told him it could only do 32. The rest is just silliness because we don't really know the actual facts, its just heresy from both sides, until both raw data logs and call logs are released, which I doubt they will. Sure, that Broder is the NYT oil guy certainly doesnt help him though, and his lack of common sense and lack of basic understanding of physics may be the nail in the coffin of this issue, imo.
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I was looking mostly at 1) Reddit, 2) Hacker News and 3) Twitter. I saw very, very few signs of critical thought that questioned Musk.

But yes, I am certain I am not the only person to see that Elon was exaggerating when he called the article "fake."
I agree, but some things you just cannot get away with NOT using. Too many people are used to using MS Office. As good (or bad) as the open source alternatives are, too many of my friends/relatives are used to the interface. It's a huge re-training exercise to get them to use something else unfortunately.

I still use Office 2007, because there is nothing in 2010 and doubt 2013 that I will use outside of a business environment.
Both you statement and the authors are based on there field of scope. Without knowing each it cant really be said ether way which is true. Here on HN it has been pretty 50/50 as far as i can tell.
Yes, totally agree.
It's true that JSON document databases very closely follow the model set out by earlier XML document databases, and have succeeded for the reason Yegge spelled out.

The big lack is the equivalent of XQuery and XPath, in my opinion. Javascript plays this role in some systems, but I don't think there is anything for Javascript matching the power and flexibility of XQuery/XPath for querying and transforming data.

I would be happy to learn about query languages for JSON document databases that prove me wrong.
OUYA and Steam Box are going to make a dent, but it's going to be because of the economics of it more than anything else. Both Steam and OUYA are software that rely on companies like Apple, Samsung, nVidia, AMD, and Intel to spend billions of dollars on hardware R&D and they can just run their software stores on top of them. That makes the economics of putting out a box that hooks up to a TV and plays games a lot better.

For instance, with OUYA they can spend say $20-50 in parts to build the latest ARM box and turn around and sell it for $100. The total cost of R&D to design and build the OUYA is probably less than $10 million. There is already an existing pool of Android software with an average selling price of less than $5 a unit. It will probably launch with hundreds or thousands of games on day one. Compare that to the PS4 which will launch with probably 5-10 games and have maybe 100 games year one, and each game will cost $60 (or more).

OUYA - $100 + < $5 per game.
PS4 - probably $400 + $60 per game.

OUYA - say $10 million to develop/produce
PS4 - say > $1 billion to develop (PS3 CPU alone cost $2 billion to develop)

In short, the economics for both development of hardware and selling of software have shifted down so dramatically that it is going to hurt the PS4, XBox 3, and Wii U substantially. It already had a huge impact on the mobile space.

SteamBox is going to be basically the same story only at a $200-300 price point and with $5-20 games.

Why on earth would people (especially parents) pay $400 for a console and $60 for a game when they could pay $100 for a console and $5 for a game. You can buy a lot of OUYA games for the price of a next gen (or even current gen) console.

The market for $60 games won't go away, but it will shrink fast.

Linux is a big contributor obviously, but it's as much about the hardware economics as it is the software.
Ask HN: Which hosting company to use for a small SaaS product?
I am planning my own SaaS product, which should be ready in about 2-3 months of development.

I make some research on the targeted market, there is potential and the competition is quite low. As far as I know there are only 2 or 3 competitors which sell almost the same product, but none of them are using the SaaS model. There is also place for innovation, which I'll implement.

The idea is to provide wordpress hosting, support and security, theme development, for a specific market which is under saturated.

I don't want to get a $100 dedicated server, because in the first month, I might have...zero income. Something under $50 would be great.

Basic equirements:
- dynamically allocate more resources
- on demand dedicated IPs
- custom DNS

Thank you.
Mate of mine that works at Canonical on Ubuntu says they're aware of it (and are likely preparing evidence)
A few things.

The condescending attitude is not necessary. I never claimed that it is somehow impossible or prohibitively difficult to determine how things in Rails work - it is very possible and I do it myself all the time. What I claimed is that Rails has chosen abstraction over obviousness, and gave an example of a place where I believe that is demonstrated.

People usually inherit from AC::Base, not AC::Metal, which includes a number of modules, any of which may change the behavior of `params`.

You didn't take your expose far enough. As I mentioned in my post, `params` is an already-parsed representation of user data. You traced the call chain a couple of steps, but did not get to the point where parameters are actually parsed.

That's fine, I'm not at all interested in the specifics of how parameter parsing works, and I'm certain that you or I could go track it down when necessary. My point is only that it involves a number of layers of abstraction to get there - cataloging those layers is not a very compelling counterpoint.
This was painfully obvious in the fire at The Station nightclub. The band kept playing for 30 seconds after the fire started right behind them and many people didn't start to try and get out before it was too late.

Part of it is what's called "commitment." People payed good money for a show and they're going to see one. It takes a long time to accept that the show is over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire
Given that the author posted it here, I assumed HN was part of this scope. And if you think it's 50/50, then at least one part of the hive mind wasn't zealously defending Tesla.
I use Webfaction and I LOVE IT.

I see a lot apps using MediaTemple, they seem to have a solid track record.
Better Reference (W3 Schools sucks: http://w3fools.com/):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...
Libre Office.

Drop MS Office. Free. Your. Docs.
Electric is all very good, but I can buy a BMW 5 series with a diesel engine in Europe today & get 81 MPG. A Prius only gets 51.
Also, the human (non)driver here seems _very_ aware during the whole experiment, whereas they've always seemed totally confient in google's car videos.
I would imagine you would be unplugging your car in the morning before your commute to work, just as i unplug my phone from its charger when i wake up.

Also living on the east coast (near DC suburbs) and having made a similar road trip to NYC many times, i cant remember the last time i did not spend 1 hour + at a rest stop to eat. refuel, relax, pee, etc.

What car do you drive that does 500+ miles per fill up? My civic will do maybe 450 miles of only highway driving on a 13 gallon tank, and my E350 will do barely 400 on an 18 gallon fill up.
The thing that makes me nervous is Heroku obviously knew about this issue, yet they chose to do nothing about it until they were called out on it by a high-visibility customer.
Here's a detailed article on why dash cams are common in Russia: http://jalopnik.com/why-russians-are-obsessed-with-dash-cams...
Oh, too bad you didn't get to stop in.

Engine Yard is always ready and happy for visitors. We have good work spaces, lots of fun people, and plenty of caffeine! :-)
I, on the other hand, want them to succeed with the Office subscription model.

Nothing will doom them so fast than constant predictable revenue.

In fact, I think this will also help Office alternatives, as they could try a cheaper subscription. Nowadays any Office alternative has to be free, and this means almost no funds for development.
You can still use it on Opera 12 if you reenable it. They're killing their own DNS servers for it, but it will work if you set your own DNS with ddns http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/custom-domains-opera-unit...
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The point is that the author /did/ charge the car sufficiently. The car told him he could make each leg of the trip, and why would he waste an hour to charge the car completely? It would be silly to not spend 30 seconds to finish filling up a gas tank, but -- in my opinion -- it is perfectly reasonable to fill up an electric car to 50% above the necessary range and spare yourself significant waits.

Maybe a 58 minute charge at the last leg would've spared him the tow. But how could he have known? He had 125 miles to drive. He took the car to 185 miles of battery power.
You call that trash "music"? But seriously.

Joking aside, here in the real world, we call squatting "trespassing". These kids just live off the fat of the land. You know what I'm talking about. Fat tourists! I swear to god, the first time I saw one of these kids, my heart opened up to them, along with my stupid wallet. "Need money (f)or weed." Well, fool me once.
It's hard to read these sources to determine the nature of the hive mind because the sorting algorithms gives higher weight to a few people with a lot of karma or popularity, so if you just looked at the top post you would see those people and erroneously conclude that the Internet agreed with them.

On twitter, for instance, you are most likely seeing tweets from popular people (which is not really representative). On reddit and HN the position on the page isn't representative of the pool's view.

I brought up the same problem in the thread regarding HN hiding stories: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5226147
It's been strange to watch this saga unfold and see how quickly the idea that this data unequivocally discredits Broder has propagated. All the data shows me is that humans aren't as precise with data as computers can be. The one solid point of dispute is that Broder says he was cleared by Tesla representatives to leave Norwich with a very low charge, and Musk says he was not. Unfortunately, unless there are recordings of the conversations released, we may never know the truth of that.

I don't find the original article damning for the Model S- it just shows that the range is definitely affected by the cold, and that there are some additional factors that need to be considered that are different from gas engines. Any person who is considering an electric car should take those factors into account- for some they will be dealbreakers, and others they won't.
Given some famous wisdom that approx 50% of the population is not able to code, this doesn't make much sense IMHO.

Tools become better, many people will never need to code to become productive. One tool that allows people to do fancy stuff without coding is Excel. In fact the whole MS Office suite has means to create automatizations that would take a coder a long time to realize from scratch.

On the other hand I would be in favour of mandatory HTML classes. It's a purely descriptive language, used in many fields. (But who knows, that skill might as well become obsolete when MS releases Frontpage 2020 RT.)