skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty cool! Very fast paced when I first look at it, but the idea of having the most popular videos zoom by and clicking on one whenever it piqued your interest is good.

It seems that you have backwards and forwards mixed up (at least with what I think they would do -- I imagine scrolling left to right as going forward rather than the reverse)

Also, you maybe want to put some explanation modals in the app (I'm guessing you're bootstrapped) -- Some color wouldn't kill you, and also you could get some icons.

Maybe you want to do some sort of interactive tracking of trending videos? I'm not sure if/how you're doing that now, but however you're measuring virality would probably be it.

Otherwise, not much else to say, it's got a pretty good (read: simple) UX, and does exactly what it sets out to do.
One way would be to alter the algorithm calculating potential distance achieved based on temperature and energy storage capabilities of the batteries. Batteries don't power as well in cold temperatures, it's something many of us have experienced and there must be a formula for it. Figure out what the formula is and build it into the dashboard. That's a small fix that probably would have alleviated a lot of Broder's emotionally bad experience with the car.
So IBM wants to take the code and use it for commercial offerings. If you don't believe that, look at IBM's Lotus Symphony, which is a (crappily) re-branded OpenOffice with a few user interface tweaks and bugs fixed. Being a massive backer of Apache OO, IBM does not want to lose the ability to leech back improvements into Symphony (which I should add is a commerical product they support).

As a result, IBM is willing to keep Apache OO alive. LibreOffice has already massively pulled ahead in features and bugs fixed / shit code re-factored. It is just the name that keeps OO alive in my not so humble opinion. Either way, Michael Meeks and the (former go-oo) team that now work on LibreOffice will continue kicking it. In OSS, forking isn't always necessarily a bad thing. Choices keep both sides honest!
The reporter would have his reputation on the line so it's not he has nothing to lose here. And if a bad review could leave you attacked by Musk and the huge hoardes of influential internet nerds I can't see what gain they would have from a repeat review.

Telsa is starting to get a reputation as being toxic to the media.
Why study history? Because it's fun. How fun? Begin your journey right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E5...
Dude. Creative Writer changed my life. I had forgotten about it until I read this article. I was experimenting with long-form fiction writing and screenplays at like 7 or 8 years old thanks largely to that program.
Would you like to buy (a picture of) my car?
I'll be more interested in hearing the opinions of women who didn't have access to a TI99/4A at age five on the need for "women in CS" programs. The questions are: Are there women who, under different circumstances when growing up, would have pursued a career in CS and would like to do so now that they're adults? How do you make it possible for these women to achieve their goals and in the process improve gender balance in the software industry?

Tech blog posts/comments and Hacker News being what they are, the opinions I've read have been from the tech-privileged - men and women. I would really like to hear from the tech-unprivileged, particularly those women that discovered computer programming too late in life to make a career of it without access to some sort of special program.

We should not pretend that all individuals are born with equal access to technology - or really equal access to anything. I also have a problem with this idea that writing computer programs is some highly technical process that only a small fraction of the world's population is capable of. Yes, it comes more naturally to some of us. But many computer programmers are programmers today because they had access to a computer programming course in high school, or they had parents or mentors or peers who encouraged them to start programming. It all starts with access - interest, focus, ambition, motivation, intellect etc are determining factors on career trajectories but these all come later, after access has been granted.

If Formula 1 teams started signing female drivers en masse, the likelihood of one of them being a Saudi would be effectively zero. I apologize, that's hardly a fair analogy, but it underscores my point that it all boils down to access. If one of those hypothetical female drivers happened to be a Saudi princess, raised in Belgium with access to Spa in the off-season and Michael Schumacher's 1994 championship-winning Benetton, and she couldn't see why other women needed special training programs, why I wouldn't know what to make of that. Again, I agree, not a fair analogy.
"alter the algorithm calculating potential distance achieved based on temperature and energy storage capabilities of the batteries."

This gets back to the marketing issue. If they made those issues clear, then Broder would have expected the effect.

I still question the claim made on http://www.teslamotors.com/models/facts

"The Model S battery will not lose a significant amount of charge when parked for long periods of time. For example, Model S owners can park at the airport without plugging in."

"Model S is engineered to perform in both hot and cold climates."

I'm sure if those types of claims were dialed down then the expectations would be more reasonable
Maybe Site5 should ask better security questions then.

Looks like they have allowed users to create their own for quite a while:

We have allowed customers to write their own security questions for over two and a half years now.

http://www.site5.com/blog/s5/security-and-social-engineering...
Bit of a "dog bites man" story if you've ever seen cases involving parties from different states.

It'd almost be malpractice not to wring your hands and claim the jurisdictional issues are the most burdensome in the history of common law (even though hiring local counsel to address jurisdiction is routine).

Judge will probably provide a short extension along with a warning that is equal parts stern and noncommittal.
No, I think Broder was describing with words and memory an experience he had with the car and it was probably as accurate as any mortal could write. Our brains aren't designed to log data like a car. When I read the article and looked at the chart, I could completely believe Broder's recollection of the events. Humans are fallible. Broder may have made some mistakes with the precision of his account, but it doesn't make him a liar. It makes him human and when we consider changing the world, we have to understand that our personal experience with the change is relevant.

The important point from the article is that, even with professional help, it's still difficult to fit an electric car in a gas car world. That's a reality.

That doesn't mean we don't keep moving forward.
Licenses are not goods! For example, many licenses are nontransferable. DRM for one!
"The Todds said they would feel comfortable handing over the hard drive only if the FBI takes over as the lead agency investigating the death."

This makes no sense at all. Someone should tell the Todds it is possible to image an harddrive perfectly (preserving file timestamps, etc) and distribute copies.
Try to be sensitive to the fact that in cases like these, especially with such high stakes involved (a billion dollar company for Elon Musk, a career for the reporter), both sides are bound to throw everything they can into their argument. While such displays of human nature can legitimately be disappointing, at least try to see the whole picture and the motivations of each side.

If you think Elon Musk is 100% correct that the reporter was a liar, or that the reporter was 100% in the right for publishing a big picture of a Tesla Model S being towed, you're going to be disappointed.

Both sides are upset, extremely opinionated, and have their own slant on the matter. Both sides made mistakes, and probably could have held back on a few things they claimed.

Elon Musk should have focused just on the obvious faults of the reporter -- like how the reporter probably should have more clearly highlighted that he literally began a trip for X miles with Y miles range displayed on the dash, where X > Y by a considerable amount (rather than burying this fact in noise). Not little details like air conditioning and driving in circles to find the supercharger.

And similarly, although there's disagreement over what certain Tesla reps may have recommended over the phone, it seems at last slightly disingenuous to post a big photo of a Tesla Model S being towed given the fact that he started and forced a trip of length X when the car showed range Y on the screen, where X > Y by a considerable amount.

Saying that you lost respect for Elon Musk is your right. However I personally haven't lost much if any. He was defending a cause he felt strongly about. What was the reporter's motivations?

The article was clearly slanted. So was Elon's rebuttal, but with every force, expect an equal and opposite reaction.

I'm not condoning the rebuttal, but I would put it this way: I understand and sympathize with Elon's overreaction far more than I do with the reporter's initial motivations to slant the story. And he very clearly did slant it.

> Just fix the car.

That's not really the issue, even if he could fix it. Which is easier said than done; we're dealing with advanced material science here. You can bet his team is hard at work on it, but this is the kind of thing that takes many years of deep research. Let's deal with the issue at hand (slanted articles vs slanted rebuttals), for now.
For a mere 60 dollars? Sold.
You're right. I wish I could delete my comments.
Sure you can charge celebrities, you couldn't have done it early on, why not now though? Facebook is making a ton of pages now through the pay to see seen stuff.

I would keep the API free and open, sure charge for the larger feeds and enforce 3rd parties to show sponsored tweets where appropriate.
As a person who runs a successful company in the affiliate/consumer space, as well as launched unsuccessful expansion attempts in same, I would be interested in hearing another's take. Yours, in particular, partly because I can almost feel your relief through your writing.

I can say from my own experience that there is something soul-sucking about affiliate marketing and there is a common "feel" to many (not all) of its inhabitants throughout the ecosystem. At times, it seems that a certain sliminess is almost presumed--especially of affiliates. It feels like a race to the bottom, and as a somewhat creative and aspirational person myself, I find it demoralizing and stifling at times.

And as an entrepreneur there is nothing like creating your own product vs. an offering that is primarily designed to promote those of others. With affiliate-based models you may start with the intention and belief that you have a product, but at some point you realize that it is simply another thin promotional veneer, peddling the wares of others and largely at their direction.

I applaud your shift to something that is truly you and look forward to my own shift in the near future. I also congratulate you on failing quickly in the old model, as a moderate degree of success can hold you in limbo for longer than you'd care to consider when you look back on it.
"Low-grade ethics violation" is an apt description of what occurred, in my opinion.

Musk hasn't painted Broder as evil. Publicity-seeking and/or incompetence aren't evil. It's just amplified by the backdrop of electric cars.

If Musk hadn't called bullshit when he saw it, it would have been open season on Tesla by every copycat hack trying to get a piece of the action.

You can be sure that journalists covering Tesla for publications of record will be quite careful and accurate with their facts, good and bad, from now on.

I don't think Musk can ask for more than that.
> You can't. Servies like these grow because of celebrities and their fans. Taxing the celebs will stop their own growth. Also, there are lots of would-be celebs who don't make a lot of money and are trying to use twitter to get the word out there.

The celebrities in this case, are using twitter as an ADVERTISING platform. you said it yourself- would-be celebrities are trying to use twitter to "get the word out". is this now not an opportunity worth paying for? Would the fans, noticing they are unable to follow Ashton, blame twitter, for charging a reasonable price for that huge megaphone, or Ashton, for being unwilling to pay for this enormously powerful broadcast medium? I don't think, in this case, limiting growth is a serious issue.

> for the same reason as above, you can't. A lot of people come on facebook and stay there because of apps, charging devs for API access will kill innovation. Also, if something is popular and growing, taxing it will be bad for both the users and the dev if the dev can't pay. Also keep in mind that most popular apps may not have a monetization strategy yet.

Apple charges $99 for an SDK. straight up flat fee, annual charge. Are you saying this has seriously harmed innovation for iOS?

What I'm proposing isn't even that. It's charging for say, having an app that has more than 10,000 simultaneous users. If you are charging money for this app (and many twitter clients do), is asking for a fee really as harmful as you claim? I don't think so.
If he doesn't remember with precision, that's fine. Of course. Report it that way. Simple standard.

What isn't fine is reporting precision that doesn't exist.

The point of such is to strengthen his reporting in ways it doesn't deserve. That's dishonest.

Giving a reporter a pass on that kind of thing is not the way we should go. He's not some casual person casually telling a story to a friend. He's reporting, in "the newspaper of record", and as facts, details that he doesn't have.

I honestly don't care one way or the other about Tesla. It's a long way from ready for mass use.

But I do care that reporters make up facts they don't have. That matters.
"If you think Elon Musk is 100% correct that the reporter was a liar, or that the reporter was 100% in the right for publishing a big picture of a Tesla Model S being towed, you're going to be disappointed."

I don't think the OP went into it thinking that Musk or Broder were right.

" just don't respect him anymore, not like I used to. I mean, I do, just not like I used to."

I interpreted that statement to refer to how Tesla reacted to the review. Musk could have taken the opportunity to clearly explain the extenuating circumstances and extended a new opportunity for Broder to take a test drive, but instead opted for this reality-TV-like drama to play out (which, btw, other media sources like CNBC and CNN really enjoyed).
Hurricane Electric seems to have built their network by installing a router at every major peering point in the world, connecting each router to the local public peering point switch, and then interconnecting those routers. If you want reasonably direct connections to all the world's tier 2 ISPs, Hurricane Electric seems to be an excellent way to get that, and as long as they're not charging too much, they may make actually showing up at the major peering switches yourself not worth the trouble when you can just be their customer and get connections to more peering points than you'd probably directly connect to yourself.

Cogent has a fairly substantial network directly into random office buildings (though if you have an office in a random office building, it's almost certainly not one of the ones they've lit), and it's not clear to me that they do as good a job at peering with other networks as Hurricane Electric does.
You're right. It's the Sierra Club Foundation which is the (c)3. The Sierra Club is a (c)4.
You forgot your footnote.
No. The media is simply not going to bother to review the car.

And Musk can't ask for more than that.
I genuinely think that twitter fails to think about quite a lot of things, and is actively hostile to those within its ranks who do. That is just my opinion though. My genuine opinion, based on their public behaviour.
Can any lawyers/legislative types comment on how this would be implemented assuming everyone in congress and the whitehouse supported the petition?
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No, he's being rhetorical. The point is about light economy.

Only a fool (i.e., somebody who doesn't understand how daylight works) would think wasting daylight is a good idea. Are you a fool?

No, obviously not, so you agree with Franklin that daylight savings makes sense.
I'd be interested to know a little more about the historical context surrounding this piece - was Franklin responding to some well known problem of the time like a rise in the price of candle wax or lamp oil? The essay seems like an attempt to encourage people to conserve resources using the vehicles of sarcasm and humor. I wonder how common it was at the time to wake up around noon though?

Edit: tantalor sums it up better. :-)
Offtopic semi-ignorant question: As a non-designer, can someone explain to me why I'd ever need more than a single serif font, a single sans-serif font, a single monospace font (and ok, a single "fun" font)? Why should I care about the differences between Times New Roman and Garamond, or between Arial and Verdana? Even when I look closely I struggle to see the differences within categories, so I find it hard to believe that my document or logo or whatever will be perceived differently by a reader because it uses the wrong font within the correct category.
I know it's about being focused and proactive. This post is an addendum to my existing focus and proactivity. But seriously, it's a chicken and egg to even know what I have to offer anyone. So little posts like this are my attempt to break the dilemma.
"Low-grade ethics violation" is appropriate only if you think the journalist's mandate was to brown-nose.

"Musk hasn't painted Broder as evil."

Musk wrote (source: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive):

In Mr. Broder’s case, he simply did not accurately capture what happened and worked very hard to force our car to stop running.

I'm sorry, but that's absolutely painting Broder as Evil. I'm going to repeat the claim, because for some reason you don't see this as nefarious: worked very hard to force our car to stop running.

"If Musk hadn't called bullshit when he saw it, it would have been open season on Tesla by every copycat hack trying to get a piece of the action."

Instead, it was open season to attack NYT.

"You can be sure that journalists covering Tesla for publications of record will be quite careful and accurate with their facts, good and bad, from now on.

I don't think Musk can ask for more than that."

What Musk is asking for is the media to be his lapdog. And that's fine. But don't delude yourself into thinking he's asking for objectivity. You are belying your own inability to think.
Don't know specifically, but I think lighting was much more expensive then than now.
Hey, I'm from a Sri Lankan family living abroad, was just wondering what the developer community is like over there?
This is what i was hoping to read in this article:

If pi is defined as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, then a gravitational field indeed changes pi, and by measuring this change, its possible to measure the strength of gravity.

A quick way to understand this is to realize that "straight lines" (geodesics) are defined as the path taken by a beam of light, and gravity causes the path of light to bend. Measuring the difference is the same as measuring the curvature of space time, which when multiplied by a constant IS the strength of the gravitational field according to general relativity.

Another way to see it: take a sphere and draw a circle on it, then measure pi. You can determine the curvature of the sphere once you measure the difference with pi on a flat piece of paper.
The Day That Only Had 23 Hours
Interesting product, really terrible website.

I know the rolling page layouts are popular these days, but in this case it just looks bad. Lots of transparency around text, which makes some of it hard to read or focus on.

The navigation at the top left should always display all the sections (I shouldn't have to mouse over the little cubes to reveal what they are).

When the nav text for "technology" passes over the blue background text quote area, it nearly disappears.

The grey block area with "what the press are saying" is some kind of twisted attempt at straining my eyes by putting tiny grey text on a grey block in a larger grey area. Why would anybody do that to text?

The we are ROLI block near the bottom is a transparent nightmare for the text meant to be read.

The form at the bottom at least pops out a bit, but still suffers from a heavy abuse of transparency with text on it.
Yup, there's a version of each of malloc() and free() there.

Maybe that's what was being used in the common versions of C. If so, then for whatever reason I missed out on that. I kept seeing in the book where they kept saying that malloc() allocated storage in the 'heap' without being clear on what they meant by a 'heap' although in this thread is an explanation that 'heap' was also used in Algol 68. Whatever, when they said 'heap' with no explanation, they blew me away.

Once I was one of a team of three researchers that did a new language. Eventually it shipped commercially. We needed a lot in dynamic storage allocation. Our approach was to start with an array of pointers, say, for i = 1, 2, ..., 32 or some such, s(i) was a pointer to the start of storage for chunks of size 2^(i-1) + 1 to 2^i. So, allocate 10 bytes of storage from 16 bytes where 16 = 2^i for i = 4. That is, i = 4 handles requests of size 9 through 16. Etc.

So, right away at the start of execution for relatively large j, have the operating system allocate a block of storage of size 2^j. Then for i < j, if need a block of storage for allocations handled by i, get that from storage handled by i + 1, etc. up to j where actually get some storage. That is, if i = 4 needs storage, get that from i = 5 that handles requests up to size 32 = 2^5.

For each i, the allocated blocks are chained together in a linked list and so are the free blocks. So, for an allocation, look first at the end of the linked list of free blocks.

In principle, after enough uses of, call it, free(), could
return some storage for i to the storage for i + 1 but we didn't bother doing that.

It always seemed to me that on a virtual memory system where the page size was a power of 2 (aren't they all?), this approach to dynamic memory allocation would be quite good.

Later I was using an old version of Fortran, got a big block of storage from the operating system as just an array (right, as a common block known to the linkage editor), and wrote code such as above to have versions of malloc() and free().

If what is there in K&R in 8.7 is what was actually being used in the versions of C I used, then I blew it by not writing some code at least to report on storage allocated, freed, 'fragmentation', when allocated, etc. Basically I was highly concerned that in a relatively complicated program with just malloc() and free() I would make some mistakes in storage allocation and get some bugs that gave symptoms only occasionally and that would be a total pain to diagnose. "Last Tuesday after running for four hours we got some strange data in the file and then it blew up." Great! It reminds me of one of those arrangements of a few thousand dominoes on edge where when one tips over they all go, a house of cards, an electric power system with no circuit breakers, a dense city built with no fire safety codes, etc.
Comic sans has a place as a font which may be easier for dyslexic students to read.