skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. I would highly recommend everyone go to one of his performances at least once in your life, even if you think you'll need to put some earplugs in. I was way in the back and at 5'2 I can hardly see through a crowd, but standing on my tip-toes for an extra hour was beyond worth it.
Aaron Swartz was charged with fraud and unathorized. Not breaking TOS. The idea that breaking TOS could constitute a crime has been shot down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
http://thefire.org/article/14389.html
Any word on the status of the gem on the Bamboo stack? We have deployed a couple time today, but our NewRelic gem version is still 3.5.3 and being on Bamboo, have no control over which version is used.
I just signed away 10% of a company I founded. It was hampered by loans from the origination of the business 5 years ago. Had that orignal money not been equity AND loans we'd have been profitable 18 months ago. I was laid off in September and now have a good job after a few tenuous months.

I won't feel bad if they do end up making something of it and sell it for a profit because I am glad to be out. I don't need a freelance job that doesn't pay anything around my neck all week, every week.

The investors protected themselves and brought down the business with it.
The problem is that platform choices impact other developers. If for example the developers are predominantly using a Windows software stack and tools and Linux user comes along then there is a burden to make things portable (eg a deployment or analysis script). So who does the effort for that portability? Are all the Windows developers also supposed to add it (ie adapt to another platform - Linux) or is the Linux developer supposed to do so (ie adapt to another platform - Windows)?

Our situation is the other way around where deployment is to Linux (AWS/AppEngine) and there are several internal tools that work seamlessly on Linux and Mac. Having to add conditionals all over the place for Windows (not to mention the additional testing) is not free. The new developers can adapt to Linux or they aren't very good developers. (Note we make it abundantly clear that we use Linux and Mac for development in our job ads.)
If bandwidth is the only issue, then it's not really a security risk, persay. China, for example, isn't going to own your network because you have a P2P client running somewhere.

I do get what you're saying about P2P filling up your network monitoring logs, though I would argue that the monitoring software might not be properly configured if such is the case. I don't know all that much about network monitoring tools though, so I don't know the specifics. I do know that it's possible to run a secure network and have P2P clients on that network, however.
For simple setups, that can work. JRebel can help. For more complex servlet apps, especially those with Spring lifecycle management, this rarely works, which means a full redeploy after almost every Java change.
Good design = looks like Apple product.
On the plus side, seems like high PPI screens are getting more popular, thank gosh. Next stop desktop monitors, or at least so I hope.
You really think so? Which class you are studying in?
It's incorrect that you can't sue the NHS. But also, the quality of health becomes political, so democratic mechanisms rise to prominence as means to hold the system accountable. The press is ever-happy to pounce on medical malpractice.

The NHS does approve experimental and innovative treatments, and it does treat rare conditions. It also chooses whether to offer, or not offer, expensive new drugs. This, again, is democratically accountable - if it refuses a drug that is widely seen as life saving, the tabloids will pressure the politicians into turning up the heat and forcing it to change course. Also there absolutely is an incentive to specialize; the NHS pays a doctor's salary, so (provided it's willing to hire them) they do not have to pick a specialty that's profitable.

Moreover, the NHS, being free at the point of delivery, is willing to take on expensive treatment of poor people. In Britain, the idea that someone might go untreated perhaps for years for a quickly treatable illness, because going to hospital would bankrupt them, is seen as abhorrent and barbaric.

Ill health strikes randomly without regard to wealth; health of everybody benefits everybody. Therefore, everybody should pay according to what they can afford, everybody should be covered according to what they need.
We did. The difference is negligable, it takes a fraction of a second to hit f5. In fact, it costs time fairly often as you save the file, notice right away that you have a typo, fix it and save again, but now it is still busy compiling from the first time so you have to wait out two compiles.
Yes, it does. It's selfish, and socially unacceptable, but it's rational.
Also in Chrome / W8
Well if you prefer Conan O'Brien as the host, it may seem that way
Bullshit, the idea that this website is just a plane to place and pacify the public is simply silly. First the issues handled on this site are not the type that will spill out into the streets if ignored people simply will not riot over being unable to legally unlock their phones (this is the definition of a first world problem b.t.w.).

The fact of the matter is their aren't any looming issues facing the US that are likely to result in widespread riots today. But let's assume we are back in the 1950s during the Civil Rights Movement, I can't imagine a non-reply to a "We the People" petition doing anything to quell the Civil Rights Movement. Frankly, I suspect it would just further fan the flames.

The only way I could see this working as a "safety value" is if people confuse signing an online petition with actually voting. Something I find unlikely. Now if the government uses the site inform their opinions of the populace and shape their actions this could influence policy but only if it has been shown that if you oppose a petition than you will get voted out next election. The elderly are great at doing this which is why no one touches Social Security and Medicare. A lot of people think the Internet is a representative sample of the general population, and if something is massively popular online than the fact the the government isn't doing is means that they are usurping the will of the people.
Given all the production that's being sourced from China, we should also view it as our problem and not merely China's, in terms of its cause.

How convenient, to dodge the cost of e.g. scrubber technology, by moving production to where it isn't required.

Meaning, by the way, for contaminants such as mercury and other heavy metals. IMO, CO2 sequestration is pure folly.
So, the entire medical system--care providers and whatnot--could be improved (I believe) by nationalization: one of the best implementations of care in the US is actually the VA (Veterans Administration) hospital system, leading the way in medical records and treatment.

There is nothing other than greed, fear, and entrenched interests that forces such a poor quality of health care availability on our population.

EDIT: A pretty good read (from one of Houston's own) on this is the O'Reilly Hacking Healthcare book ( http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Healthcare-Standards-Workflows... ). It's got some insight on how absolutely fucking crufty and retarded the billing and coding system for hospitals is.
Citation needed.

My understanding of US political parties says that they do not have a rigid structure nor a single head. Indeed if you look through the section on the structure of the Democratic Party on Wikipedia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States... - really, go look) you won't find Barack Obama's name anywhere in that section.

The President has a huge bully pulpit. He is in charge of one of the 3 branches of government. The public hears and sees the President.

But the President does not run the party.
Of course, the difficulty is in picking the low point.
Having open-source implementation do not mean you're not going to "embrass and extend". It's a common misconception.

If you're the only big player, that your stuff is open just means others can also implement your protocol. But since you're the only big player, they can't have their protocol.

So you can make your protocol work for you, do things that will bring you more money, and have it open-source, AND force it upon others.

Forking it doesn't mean shit if you're forced to use it to access _ANYTHING_ anyways.
for virtuosity and density there's Remarc Thunderclap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS3hPo81BKw

for pure beauty, Photek The Rain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYsY4wYMQe8

be sure to sit back and listen and wait for the bass to drop ;)

some beautiful mind juggling from Remarc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I09dIBsU80

listen to that and try to figure out where your attention is focused. that's not something that fingers do in real time, its like hitting the hyperspace button and writing beats on more than one dimension at the same time. that's tracker music. the software looks like VIM.

Sabar drumming from Senegal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWd8n1kK0F0

try to figure out how those beats and changes are structured. Its very precise. They count interesting number series and there are polyrhythms that are very hard to notate in western music.
Interesting. I could not give up my IDE.
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> "I don't think that it's a great idea to build a business model that relies on Facebook"

Correction: it's a bad idea to build a business model that relies on screwing Facebook, on Facebook's platform.

One of Facebook's priorities is keeping its users engaged and happy - invite-heavy, spammy apps run directly contrary to that goal (in a very egregious, very serious way). It is no surprise that Facebook slammed that door shut.

This is generalizable to: if you are reliant on a third party platform and your interests are aligned against the interests of the platform, you will fail.
Thanks for the link to nvd3.

I'm in the not-enough-time-to-understand-d3 camp, but maybe that will change. In the meantime, I've found it easy to get something going fast with the highcharts tools.
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> 3:2 display at 239 ppi

YES

FUCK YES

I WANT TEN (provided I can install a different linux distro on them)

Too bad google won't sell one to me yet.
That's funny, because pretty much every other OECD country pays less for healthcare and, by every objective metric, gets better results.

But most other OECD countries haven't confused "paying for insurance" with "paying for healthcare", either.
I think he just screwed up the math.
Java is a first class citizen for Play & Akka.

(I work for Typesafe.)
Yeah, I did some research and discovered I didn't know anything about it.
> First, not all applications need it, in many cases you want to do just a series of operations in a single starting number, and you don't need anything else, like if you are for example calculating a factorial, if you need only one factorial, it is useless to make it more parallel.

Sorry for nitpicking, but calculating factorial can certainly be parallelized. Easiest way to do this is multiply every n-th number on each core and then multiply n results together.
We had Java services that produced JSON, some that used JSPs, and a variety of others. TDD works in some cases, but if you ever wanted to do manual testing - for example, actually see the UI you were working on with real data - that meant redeploying the server after every change.

Play makes this dramatically faster/easier. TDD is better with Play as well: the plugin support, strong test tools, and sbt's ~test command are amazingly productive.
There's a difference between being surprised and being displeased.
They're still right, it is a security risk.
Now, it doesn't mean we shouldn't have it. But it is one. Heck, the well known chrome vulns of the past alone should show that.
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What did you talk about over lunch, would have loved to hear that conversation.
"Lightbar. Just because it looks cool."

If the next iteration looses the touchscreen and is fully Ubuntu supported, I might get it.
Yes you are missing something. Processor performance is not simply a function of number of cores and clock speed. There are vast differences between arm's architecture and x86.
I had to hit Escape a bunch of times before I caught it at the right time and it stopped.
Any more information on this car? Is it in production? Just a prototype?
> I have to take your word for that example being concise, because that looks like jumble code to me

Well, it was off-the-cuff and written in a browser window to match the other guy's code, so it's probably not the prettiest thing I've ever written, but I don't think it's that bad. But I'm going to guess that you don't do a lot of Cocoa programming. If that's the case, I suppose we can headline this story "Person has minor difficulty reading code in language he doesn't know well."

I know I had trouble reading Objective-C before I learned it. It looks a lot different from other things.

> weird indentation

It doesn't look that weird to me, but of course "weird" is a matter of what you're used to. There are some stylistic things that are more or less "enforced" about Objective-C, but indentation isn't one of them. If you prefer something different, you can indent it differently in your code. It doesn't make a bit of difference.

> long method names that plague the library

I understand how you feel, but I'm pretty well convinced that descriptive method names are not necessarily a bad thing. One of the benefits of Objective-C is that once you know the language and your standard framework, it's usually exceptionally easy open up somebody else's codebase (or my own 10 months later…) and follow what's happening. In another language you'll need to jump around to definitions to see what arguments do, while in Objective-C it's always right there. And if you do know the codebase, skimming over the long method names isn't really a problem in practice.

What's next, we're going to complain that somebody's repo is "plagued with unit tests"?
I'm keeping track of people who are actually doing politics in Silicon Valley, as well as running a group of my own (http://www.meetup.com/Politihacks-of-Silicon-Valley/). Outside of politihacks, these guys seem interesting: http://engine.is/
Not Invented Here.

Google wants control, IMO.

I'd be interested in their reasons for not using DTLS, or improving DTLS. They actually use it for WebRTC.
It's cool that we have Google capable of on-the-fly warning users when malware is detected on a popular website.

You can complain a lot about Google's business model, but that's a damn valuable service. Probably saved a lot of computers today.
Sound required to "get" it
I gotta say, I agree with this post.
Grandstanding != musical
In fact it is regressive. It is actually theater disguised as music.
Ideally, being able to call up the company and have the expectation that they will ship you a bugfix as soon as they can roll one together.

But that's pretty rare, IME/O.
The text console fallback would suffer though - it is using 16px font by default and might put the display in highest-res mode on bootup. Then again, you can just change the text console resolution.
Sony should not have claimed copyright and should not have used it without attribution.

I'm however not sure of the legal status of components of LGPL software that are downloaded components of a hosted service. If they are not "distributed" the license brings no requirements does it?
DC is interested in changing this and will have the opportunity to do so in a year, when the Lexis contract expires and they can write a new one - or try to bring it in-house.
Based on the comments above (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5259876), it seems like Bitcoin is just allowing merchants to kick the chargeback risk down the road to the Bitcoin exchanges.
Oh I don't mean try to find the bottom! I mean try to find when something seems to be happening purely out of emotion, as in a stock going down for no discernible reason short of a weird investment environment I.E. FB and all its bad press post IPO and CITI pre-bailout
The study was done by Dorothy Gambrell, who I know better as the author of the Cat and Girl webcomic, and published in Psychology Today, a popular magazine. I doubt there was any funding other than whatever Psychology Today paid her for the piece.
I wonder if Brackets has any aspirations for a Chrome OS port. It's already a packaged JS app, but I don't know how portable their device API layer is.
For long term non-emergency treatment like described in the article, isn't it possible to travel to country with a cheaper healthcare system?

I would be curious to know if the same cancer treatment is available and costs the same in a place like Singapore, or Australia, or even Mexico.
Google charts is noticeably laggy at around 200+ data points. You can take a look here.

https://www.google.com/finance

HighCharts/Stock is magnitudes faster.
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Exactly. Tesla being successful in the future doesn't necessarily tie in to making money on the stock, except over the scale of decades.
It is, in some ways, a sign of where we are now most likely to see people we don’t know in various parts of the country.

One could say the places listed are sad. "What ever happened to <insert social setting>?". You could take it as evidence that we are becoming less social, and withdrawing into our own shells.

It’s also a sign of male loneliness or romance: men seeking to find a possible love-mate outnumber women 86 – 14.

How is this not sad?
But he is encouraged and cheered - the valuation of his company vs Ford is precisely the indication of it. Nothing says "I believe in this guy" like actually putting money down & buying the company stock.
Finding the bottom doesn't matter, that's impossible so don't even think about that. Just say "the market doesn't seem to be operating rationally today, I'll bet against it"
Where would you rather store the waste products from power generation? In casks at nuclear plants, or in your lungs?
Bars per capita -- http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7wbbZeG9jwI/S1uUPYQCImI/AAAAAAAAAF...
I run the little snitch firewall application on OS X and noticed this literally the first time Spotify ran (tip, EVERYONE running on mac should use this app, it's incredibly interesting to have a window into exactly what every application on your system is connecting to).

It's almost laughable the amount of connections it attempts to make to outside clients.

Anyways, the solution for me is simply to block all outgoing traffic to spotify that isn't directly to its streaming servers. Problem solved, no more outside peers eating up my upstream bandwidth.
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> he should encouraged and cheered.

Is that not happening already? From the article: "Tesla's current market value is 250 times higher than it would be if it were being valued as a car manufacturer rather than an idea whose time is about to come." Of course, we're also talking about a company that received a $465 million loan from US taxpayers so it's not like we're hanging him out to dry.
ChromeOS, Ubuntu, movies, music, books, web caching.
Don't see it as a direct competitor with the Macbook Pro or Retina. If anything it is trying to be higher end Air.
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Well... If the profit margin guidance for the next quarters is correct, and they are not hit by anything unexpected, the company should be trading at around 15 P/E by the end of 2013 at the current share price. Which would be great... But that means that there isn't likely to be any significant share price growth until then.

One problem with that analysis is that they have overpromised and underdelivered a bit in the past.

Another issue is that they only got 6000 new reservations in the last quarter. For them to have significant growth they need a lot more. And this is in a quarter where they were awarded car of the year and got fantastic reviews (except that NYT one).

I bet these reasons, combined with a standard sell-off of a stock that has increased by a lot the last quarter, and that you now really have to be patient for another or two quarters before anything significant happens, is why the stock is down today.

Personally, I am disappointed by the number of new reservations. I think it is far too low for a car with such stellar reviews.

I had hoped they would have more than 20000 reservations currently. 15-16000 is not even enough to use their full capacity for the year, so they need to start selling more.

I had also hoped the production rate would have been higher. 400 cars per week is also not enough in the long run. Elon talked about reaching 500 by the summer, and that really isn't that great. He also said that theoretically they didn't need to get more reservations in 2013, as they would have enough to use up their capacity. That also worried me.

I have seen analyst say they will produce 30000 cars in 2014. If that is the case, the share price is really not going to move a lot from current levels. Because the growth is just too small.

So I think a lot of shareholders feel like me, that the growth isn't significant enough.

I guess we need to wait another couple of quarters before we can say anything.
Well if that is the plan you might as well just raise taxes on oil and gas. It would be more direct.
I've embraced Play! on a few projects, and my experiences have been great. There's no need to expand on existing sentiments, but I will say: this tutorial is excellent. Wish I'd had this when I first got started!
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The lesson I draw from Tesla is that it's possible (even straightforward) to produce an amazing car if you're willing to lose a ton of money on each one and your competitors (mainstream auto makers) aren't. I say this because Tesla has, to date, been poor at controlling costs, enough so that the feds (Tesla's creditors) are concerned about their balance sheet, and Wall Street has hammered the stock.

For example, Tesla used to lose $30M a month. Last quarter it brought in hundreds of millions more in revenue, but still lost ~$30M a month. At some point, they hope to stop losing money, but then they're about to create two new products which will also incur large R&D costs. To date, Tesla has lost about a billion dollars, or $50K per car sold, assuming they sell 20K cars next year.

So to a consumer, Tesla's cars look amazing compared to what else is on the market (after all, they're losing money on each one, which their competitors are unwilling to do); to an accountant, the company looks worrysome, and to an investor, the company looks like either a tremendous deal or a fantastic lemon, depending on the investors views about the size of the market, competition, and ability to control costs. At current rates, they will have more liabilities than assets three months.

Once Tesla can reign in their costs they can rewrite this story, and there's a good chance they can. Whether they can make electric cars more cheaply than mainstream automakers in the long term is, in my mind, an open question.
Any better examples? Neither of those appear to have the same strengths I was referring to. (Not to say they are crap. Just not the same.)

Though, similar to TylerE, I'm curious to hear what you think are the other weaknesses? Similarly, how do you feel it compares with its peers? (A peer being a JVM targeted framework.)
Thanks a lot, codeschool seems quite useful!