skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Page level caching is one of the most underused features of rails. Most applications show anonymous users identical content, and can tolerate that content being cached briefly. Setting this up gives you slashdot protection as well as access to a last chance degraded mode if there's a chain of catastrophic failures further into the app stack.
Another quote is

"The mechanism is based on a relatively dated concept, superseded by compile-time code validation techniques such as Google's own Native Client"

so I don't think that's what the article meant.
And he was so convinced that Joel had jumped the shark that he went into business with him.
you can have your Internet access disabled, hampering your ability to find and communicate with a lawyer.

None of the six steps involve disabling your internet. Some ISPs have said they will disconnect you after you've been through the six steps, but others claim they won't.
Didn't the data pulled from the car indicate that the reviewer was almost certainly trying to fabricate a bad review?

If I were the editor in chief of this publication, I'd definitely be investigating this to find out what happened.
If what's been alleged turns out to be true, the reviewer is a POS and should be fired, blacklisted from the business of reviewing automobiles or any other products for that matter, and publicly called out for being a liar.

A journalist's sole contribution to society is his word. If that word becomes worthless, he needs to shift into a different line of work.
Without knowing more details my takeaway is that "build it and they will come" is not an effective user acquisition strategy.

1) What was the feedback from your friends who were using it?

2) Did you try to talk to customers to see why they left? What did they say?

3) Sticking around for a month is pretty significant. Do you know what kept people were sticking around for that long?
Sometimes Wall Street responds favourably to shedding employees. I guess it just depends on the general outlook of the company. If the outlook is good, then they are just 'cutting costs' and 'shedding cruft.' If the outlook on a company is shaky or bad, then it's just seen as a desperate move to keep the company afloat.
There's nothing wrong with planning, just that likely the petition had nothing to do with their internal discourse over open access reform. Obama's advisers probably already had deliberations going on. "Hey, there's a petition for this! Let's wait until we're done and respond to the petition."

I sure hope that this petition wasn't the only reason why they decided to issue these orders.
If I pull down on Chrome on Nexus 4 and let it refresh, it causes a continual loop of refreshing the page until I scroll down again. Was able to reproduce it a few times.
OK, yeah I see how that would be annoying.
Fair enough. General PayPal safety tips:

- When PayPal raises a dispute, they really want to see a shipping confirmation for a product, or something really closely equivalent. Make sure you have very clear records prepared to show them, and hope that keeps them happy.

- Don't leave any money in an account PayPal controls. Get your money out of PayPal into your bank, and get your money out of any bank account linked to PayPal into an account PayPal has no access to, as quickly as possible after you receive it. When the inevitable dispute happens, you'll feel much happier if they can't sit on a pile of your money.

- Have a kill-switch plan to shut down new orders going into PayPal. PayPal will often happily lock your account while continuing to take money from customers, who will then want to receive their product even though PayPal won't give you their money. Worst case, that produces more disputes; best case, PayPal has increasing amounts of your money to sit on. Whether this means another payment provider or just a "we're sorry, we can't take orders right now, can we put you on a waiting list?" page, make sure you can stop getting money via PayPal the moment PayPal screws you.
Unfortunately this plugin makes Home/Page up buttons unusable.
Before the NYT story, Tesla slightly increased prices and made those with reservations either commit now or bite the increased prices afterwards. That certainly drove a lot of the cancellations.
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"is", not "are"
He just needs to invest in this and outfit the next Tesla with Super Supercapacitors.

http://vimeo.com/51873011#﻿

Charge your car faster than you can fill it with gas? Yes please ;-)
There's several different models and prices of the S:

http://www.teslamotors.com/models/options

There's also tons of up sell items and tesla is discounting all the listed prices by the $7500 tax credit you are entitled to for buying an EV.
As an investigator myself I see huge promise for this type of program. However, I have a major and immediate concern for this funding mechanism. There is tremendous potential for unethical research to be performed here. Some of the projects currently receiving funding and presented on the web-site are already in potential violation of public safety and patient/animal rights violations. Asking people on the internet to participate in these research efforts is not only unwise, but unethical and at worst, potentially illegal.

For example, the project titled, "Viral Causes of Lung Cancer" featured on the homepage proposes to analyze, "...blood from a nine-year study of over 9,000 men.". As indicated in the background material, "People living with AIDS and transplant patients are at higher risk for lung cancer." Therefore, I am to assume that some of these blood samples may contain infectious HIV. At this point, this is only an assumption, but how am I to know that the research is being processed under required biosafety conditions? Equally as important, how am I to know that the patient data has been protected and adequately de-identified? I can make these assumptions, but when dealing with disease control and patient rights assumptions are not a place where I want to dedicate my money.

What happens if the investigator accidentally inoculates himself with patient blood via a contaminated needle? The entire proposal is predicated with the idea that the samples are laden with virus, so unless the investigator is wrong, there are at least some infectious samples. Similarly, what controls are in place to prevent the association of patient data with viral load and cancer status amongst other things?

How is Microryza going to prevent the investor from law suits in the case of a biosafety incident or patient/animal rights violation?

Regulatory committees are a blessing and a curse to all researchers. They are a curse in that it means a lot of paperwork, boring courses and regulatory meetings. But they are there for a reason, specifically to protect the individuals working on the research, the patients from which samples are obtained (when applicable) and the funding agencies supporting the work. Many regulatory requirement are put into place only following an accident or tragedy. I hope that Microryza is able to respond to this proactively instead of retroactively after someone has been harmed.

Perhaps this has all been thought out by the founders, but I was unable to find any information on the web-site about any of these issues. My general assumption is that when funding is provided to an investigator at a University that it will all be handled under the universities regulations. However, all funding agencies have a set of rules that must be complied to in order to protect themselves from these exact scenarios. And I can't even begin to imagine a mechanism to properly monitor 'citizen science' projects. These will largely not involve patient data, but may involve topics such as environmental monitoring of plants and animals. These also have their own issues of regulatory concern for the welfare of the environment and animals under study.
The article treats subvocalization as an absolute value to present a lazy argument.

Is reducing subvocalization beneficial? Is every single phrase and word important to subvocalize? Relevant questions completely ignored here.
Why can't all software work like this?
So you concede there's lots of stuff that many of us won't use? That's pretty much the definition of bloat. Hiding it doesn't make it go away.

I'm sort of just playing devil's advocate here though, since Chrome's "bloat" isn't an issue for me _yet_, though I am weary of it becoming the next Firefox (whose snowballing of features led to an amount of bloat which incidentally caused me to start using Chrome in the first place).

One, two, three... sure, you won't notice a new feature here and there. But, hundreds of features later and the app takes just a little longer to startup, a little longer to update, is slightly less stable than it used to be, has a few more attack vectors for malware, etc. It's more-or-less the principal of the matter, using the right tool for the right job and whatnot; when a web browser starts resembling some mismash conglomeration of functionality which just so happens to touch on web browsing, and all you really need and want is web browsing, then yeah, it's bloated.
Maybe I'm just boring, but I don't see the TAM being that big for something like zupstream. The people who use it must have friends in the same locale, who are free tonight, who want to do something tonight, and have the money to do something tonight.

I think the challenge with social is that you need people who have the spending power of 25-30-somethings, combined with the social lives of tweens.
The Next Generation of Gesture Control
You could add Hammer.js and achieve this.
These sorts of quirks are fascinating; I tried it and I can count while reading, but can't talk and count at the same time. I can listen to music with words while reading, or while writing, but not while doing math or non-trivial programming, which seem to place greater demands on my parsing center.
Hmmm, I was lead to believe by the account I read, by someone who used one in Vietnam at least a little, and had tried out many other guns of other designs, was that the M60 was uniquely lacking in not having a handle off the barrel. He was focusing on the "get the barrel off" without a mitten problem ... ah, and depending on where he and his friends were in Vietnam setting a fire was less of a danger. But I do see your point.

OK, I've looked up the source (http://www.amazon.com/Testing-The-War-Weapons-Machine/dp/087...); this was a problem with early ones. "A friend of mine burned his hands to the bone pulling out the barrel of an M60 with his bare hands when the North Vietnamese infantry attempted to overrun his position in South Vietnam. He did not feel it at the time, but after the battle was over, he discovered the condition of his hands." They did add a handle later, and it sounds like by the time you tried one (and probably when I would have, if eyesight hadn't kept me out of the military).

Other points: Early ones had fixed front sights on the barrel.... Then he gets into reliability, and notes machine guns fire a lot more rounds than pistols and rifles. Some crazy guy put 10,000 rounds through a MG3 in 7.5 minutes, and 500,000 (!) through a FN MAG in one sitting. Obviously the soft sear is an issue there. He also says "a number of parts" can be put in backwards. Then he gets into ergonomics, the weight of the tripod (more than the less complicated one for the MG3, which also isn't made out of lightweight metal), the original bipod being barrel mounted (!!!) ... yep, your summation of it being a dog sounds spot on.
Who's downplaying? Cold weather takes preparation whether it's fossil fuel or electric. EV's take a different type of preparation and a different type of care, although Tesla has done a lot to make that transition smoother.

The point here is the claim that EVs don't work in a cold climate, which is disingenuous at best.
Chrome should get rid of that hideous download bar
The heater systems for the gasoline cars run on parasitic heating

I think you mean waste heat
We're working on this problem at Datafiniti (https://www.datafiniti.net). Since we index hundreds of sources for a similar service, we can leverage some basic string comparison techniques to normalize records from different sources and fill in attributes that are missing from any one source.
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> Does the informality effect in any way the rationality or defensibility of their choices?

Clarity in writing is not a stuffy affectation, but rather is the entire mechanism by which one both expresses an opinion, and provides an understandable, rational justification for that opinion. Without this, the reader is left with nothing but unsupported conjecture, opinion, and emotive appeals.
Definitely going to have to give this editor another look. I was impressed when I used it before, but it didn't offer anything that ST2 didn't have. This looks pretty awesome though.
You haven't spent much time in newsrooms, have you.
There is an ISO spec, but it's not really relevant to the future of the language.
They're all young teenagers. Is that a great revenue model?
Same here. Just because the Bush administration spent a few hours tracking down leads in Iraq in the aftermath of 9/11 doesn't mean there's more "Saddam did 9/11" belief than "Elvis is alive" belief. Yes, in retrospect it was a stupid war and put a nail in the coffin of my belief that military action was the one thing our government had a hold on, but stop spouting the straw-man lie that Iraq was payback for 9/11.
Don't just learn; use them together, Flash can export to .fxg format that can be read by Illustrator and then you can use ai2Canvas[0] to have the same graphics in canvas. Plus if you need more advanced control the code can be easily parsed because it includes comments with the names of the original layers.

[0]https://visitmix.com/labs/ai2canvas/
>Maybe this was too early for a NYT treatment.

If it's too early for a NYT review then it's too early for anyone.
The whole system is about the RIAA/MPAA trying to force ISPs to do their bidding and how much of the cost they can offload to ISPs. I'm sure ISPs doing the monitoring was on the table at some point and then the parties "compromised" on letting the AA pay for the monitoring.
I can see this being useful for writing tutorials or even a book. So many ideas for educational material swirling around in my head.
I don't know when you changed the behavior, but until a few months ago the cache was infinite. I close friend was unable to use Chrome because it took minutes - yes, minutes - to boot until we found is was a problem related with the huge cache it was maintaining.
+1 Some good info here. Thanks for posting! Things everyone puts off, but really make a difference.
Comparing such things needs to be done carefully. The fact that for US this percentage is lower may also mean US issues a real lot on non-employment-based immigrant visas and Switzerland does not. I.e. not that it is hard for skilled worker to come to America (I personally don't think it's actually much harder than for other developed countries) but it's probably easier for non-skilled one.
Wow, not only is the product amazing, but so is the naming.

The product uses EMG, as in electromyography.
And it's a personal armband, as in My 'O'.
if you read the reporter's response, it certainly doesn't seem like tesla's data supported the story elon musk wants us to believe:

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/that-tesla-data-w...
Congratulations. Excellent stuff.
Can you help me understand why someone would host static content on S3 versus any other host? Is it because S3 automatically scales up when traffic increases? I know almost nothing about S3.
Given that the technology in that film was designed by actual interface researchers, based on their research, it's no surprise that it continues to resonate so well. Also, sci-fi does have a tendency to inspire, or at least be inspired by, the leading edge of technology.

Said researchers now have a company, Oblong industries, that's basically making the Minority Report interface a reality: http://oblong.com/
> citizenship has never been a barrier to military action outside of the U.S. in war time

These assassination are occurring in countries that we're not at war with (and in some cases, never have been).

Furthermore, many the citizens being assassinated have never even been accused of a crime (like shooting a rocket), let alone convicted of one.
These studies do not show that white men are assumed to be competent until proven otherwise. It shows that people are less inclined to give interviews to racial minorities.

You seem to think I'm denying the existence of discrimination. I'm not. That was not the topic of my comment at all. I was responding to a specific comment that I felt vastly overstated its case, not to a broad issue.
Last month in Minnesota.

My point is that EVs take a different type of preparation than fossil fuel engines and it's neither fair nor productive to expect them to behave 100% identically. But it seems a lot of people are deliberately missing that point for some reason and focusing on the fact I brought up aircraft.
Realizing its a usability nightmare, these things really should be able to be tied to a service. ASP for email, bind to smtp and imap, nothing else. ASP for chat, only works with xmpp, etc.
They say 'estimated'. A way to do that is to look at the disassembly of IE code, assuming an on average constant number of assembly instructions per C statement. I don't think that is a bad assumption, but it does ignore potential differences between compilers.

Also, IE source likely is available through Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx). After all, Microsoft has vehemently argumented that IE is inseparable from the OS. I think it would require some lenient interpretation of that license to use it for this purpose, though.
shoot me a message (info in my profile) and I'll double check for you.
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Tangengially, people should stop using the trendy word "trope" to mean 'recurring thing'. It's only valid in a metaphorical sense.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2011/sep/...
What is the supercharger? Is it those white pylons that the car was next to when the video ended? If so, then not only does it seem that the driver had zero problems finding them, but they're conveniently located near the entrance to the lot, and the GPS directed him precisely to the correct location.
So I can find them later, cuz where were y'all when I was asking about this? Hello!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280860

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5282143
Scroll to the top to refresh
Seriously can you and your ilk just please stop.

It's so exhausting to hear how much smarter you are and if we just educated ourselves we would realise the error of our ways. People who choose the technologies aren't stupid or masochistic. They understand their use case and the fact is that there are plenty of situations where SQL is suboptimal.
I would barely call this a hack at all; it's only a hack under the view that it feels icky to evolve a programming convention into a language construct. Languages have been treating (parts of) variable names as part of the type system for ages: Fortran, BASIC, Perl, ...
What coreutils are you using? I get:

~$ man su

NAME
su - change user ID or become superuser

OS X uses the FreeBSD coreutils and not the GNU ones, so if you're on either OS X or FreeBSD, that would explain it.
> "Didn't the data pulled from the car indicate that the reviewer was almost certainly trying to fabricate a bad review?"

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. The data pulled from the car indicated to Musk that the reviewer was sabotaging the review. The counterpoint was that all of the supposed instances of "fabrication" were either user error, Tesla's customer support error, or normal use.

For example, Musk claims that the author was deliberately driving in circle in a parking lot to run down the battery. The author claims he circled the parking lot a couple of times to find the unlit charging station in the dark (a claim since corroborated by third parties visiting the location).

> "If I were the editor in chief of this publication, I'd definitely be investigating this to find out what happened."

The NYT investigated this incident, and they found that the original author was imprecise in his notes, but that the claims against the vehicle were fair and accurate.

> "If what's been alleged turns out to be true, the reviewer is a POS and should be fired, blacklisted from the business of reviewing automobiles or any other products for that matter, and publicly called out for being a liar."

Unfortunately, most of the internet (HN included) were calling for all of the above without investigating the allegations.
hah, i did the same thing this weekend :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5281794

care to merge these?
For telling the truth? You can paint the truth in a positive light; or say "yes, this is where we were weak, and this is how we're going to fix it. These are problems in the past, and this is how we fixed them, so you see we have a track record of improvement."

I'd buy that stock.
If I remember correctly the correct action is not to directly refute an incorrect claim but rather tell a story of your own with it's own details and twists.
Well you could instrument the source code and measure the number of calls, and compare that to the rough number of non-call ops per function. Not a perfect metric but it's something. His claims do seem far fetched though.
2 things have been keeping me from buying one:
1. Disk space. 128GB is not going to cut it for using as laptop/desktop replacement.
2. Heat. I'm paranoid about my devices' lifespan cause by overheating...

Overall, I like this tablet. For the features it offer, the price seems right... hate to say that.
> Except you're comparing apples to oranges.

So a Tesla can fly, eh?
The folly of David Cage: it’s not technology that limits games
Does DNSSEC interfere with this? Comcast claims to have deployed DNSSEC on their DNS servers. Can they deliver their redirect even if your resolver is configured to validate DNSSEC records?
Interesting, but more sensible for web apps than web pages; web pages have a "refresh" button already. And as other comments have said, this doesn't actually work as "pull to refresh", but as "scroll back to top to refresh".

Web apps do this because they don't want to look like a web browser, and having back/forward/refresh buttons looks like a web browser (and takes up space that could show content instead). Web pages, though, display in a browser.
Ah, missed that! Thanks.
> How does it not reflect well on NPR?

NPR advertises itself as "news & analysis", and in my experience, excels at both. A key component of "analysis" is the rational study, explanation, and discussion around (often complex and nuanced) topics.

There are few topics as complex as that of software engineering, and it also warrants due consideration and analysis.

To see engineers describing their emotive appeals as "how they roll" does not lead me to believe that NPR's hiring in their engineering department is on par with their hiring in the editorial department.

As such, it reflects badly on their engineering department, and there is a strong implication that this is not somewhere that a studious engineer would choose to work.

Contrast with the posts from Netflix on their architecture. Those posts are not unduly formal, but they provide logical, reasoned arguments, sufficient background as to judge their claims and conjecture, and demonstrate not only their own technical and engineering capacity, but their respect for the technical capacity of their reader.
> there's a load from and a store to a k:v collection

That is itself a separate specification question: does simple array access trigger full load/store semantics or is it simply returning a reference?