skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It always seemed to me that the Model S's two settings might be better described as "pushing it" and "really pushing it".

Chevy's maximum state of charge is 80%. The Model S's 90% is pretty surprisingly high, but of course the Model S battery chemistry (Lithium Nickel) is different from the lower-charge one in the Volt (Lithium ion Phosphate).
Whereas, if they were just hacked, that's a great sign for handling your money?
One thing he doesn't mention is "-fPIC", I've been bitten by this bug many times: "please re-compile with PIC enabled and try again"!
In fairness, the OP treated the claim with some scepticism and quoted a contradictory view from another "sleep expert" that criticised the idea that levels of optimal sleep were the same for everyone.

What perplexes me is this notion that a person's optimum amount of sleep stays constant whatever they're doing (confounding factors like alcohol, illness and recent sleep-deprivation aside). Surely I'm not the only person in the world whose sleep requirement varies considerably according to the level of physical and mental exertion of the day before, climate, diet, ambient stress level etc.?

And whilst I believe naps probably are a good idea, I'm a bit perplexed to how one times a nap so it ends up being at least 20 mins and no more than 30 mins. Often it takes me that long simply to fall asleep, especially if it's a sunny mid-afternoon and I have plans for the rest of the day to be thinking about...
I'll consider that in the future, but I'm not in a rush to solicit donations right now. If I decide to quit my job and work on this full time, I will definitely start begging =)
yeah, it definitely seems like some of these early posts speak from very limited experience.
Wow! Think about all the fun you can now have getting a PUPPY delivered instead of a PIZZA! Authoritarian teachers, power-tripping principals, and mean, get-offa-my-lawn neighbors beware!
Is this the smallest allowable size you can make the videos legally?
A currency can't make value out of nothing for long.

Why, my dear fellow, that is exactly how every government-backed currency works today!

And, thanks to its inflationary nature, it becomes virtually worthless over time:

Although inflation has remained low in recent years, it ravages the value of paper money over time. A dollar in 1900 is only worth about $0.04 in today's currency.

Quoted from: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/bitcoin-prices-b...
definitely confused me too...seems a bit disorganized
Can you explain what "elliptical gravity" is in this context, and why it means no circular orbits?
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Either way it's a bad sign. At least with disaster response they show they're taking things seriously.
Depends on whether she has an innate interest or whether you're trying to spark interest, but I think this is the best/most fun way to start any kid with the basics: http://drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/

My six year old just started with Blockly, which is similar to Scratch:

http://blockly-demo.appspot.com/static/apps/turtle/en.html

But we're going to try http://kidsruby.com/ as soon as he's got enough written language under his belt. Probably will work great for a 5th grader though.
but there's just so much bloat out there that just wastes their time when they actually could be actually learning how to better present themselves.
What do you mean "higher quality"? Almost everything everyone buys is something they don't need. I would guess that almost everyone using Hacker News produces things people don't need. No one needs Google or Amazon or whatever your favorite tech company is.... The economy is built on things people don't need.

The problem is that if I won't buy it for $100 today because I can buy it for $50 tomorrow, I won't buy it for $50 tomorrow because I can buy it for $25 the next day, so you NEVER buy an iPhone
Oh please, Morozov's appeal lies almost exclusively in his ability to teardown strawmen of his own creation ("oh look, some stupid startup thinks it can save the whales, isn't Silicon Valley so stupid?") or inciting fear over technological advances by citing obscure studies and anecdotes. He's like an Ann Coulter sans brevity.
That pizza laszlo bought [1] nearly 3 years ago would now be worth over a million dollars.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History
It's just as easy to find a two bedroom or one BR+den apartment for 2-2.5k/mo and split it with another intern (or two) and come out well ahead. I know tens of people who did this successfully last summer virtually without issue. The big companies provide generous housing stipends, if not corporate housing, and allocating 20% of your essentially untaxed salary towards housing is well worth it to be a few blocks from work and in the heart of the tech community.
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Google plans to introduce a music subscription service soon, and it might be tied to Youtube. If they are doing anything similar to this, they will probably find a way to shut it down. I hope they don't though.
>If you're a person who reads the description of ADD and says that it sounds like you, maybe a lot.

I feel this unfairly divides ADD between "people who think they have" and "people who have" but in my experience this is a horrible line to draw.

Many doctors will listen for a stock phrase and hand out a one page questionnaire and diagnose you with adult on-set ADD on the spot.

Bam, then you "have" it, doctor verified and everything.

And yet, that person who "has" it may be no different than the one who read what is basically the same questionnaire online.
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[author of said advice]

Sounds like you've got some experience with this - are there any particular places you'd recommend? When I was an intern in SF (2011), I lived in Glen Park, which was a half/hour bike ride/couple of BART stops away from work, and I ended up paying slightly over $1,100. I had friends that went and found more distant housing, but we didn't see them all that much/they didn't get nearly as much out of the summer as we did, beyond their company.

A lot (most?) internship salaries include a $1,000 housing stipend, so it ends up being not all that crazy; neither of my internships had more than 25% of income go to housing.

Can you speak to your experience in particular? I haven't met a lot of people who followed your strategy, but I'd love to incorporate the perspective of somebody who did.
Learc83 is talking to Figbug, who is not the article author.
That's the news part - I'm not talking about deleting the ubiquity container. Ever since iOS5, and even in iOS6, my experience - and the experience of every developer I've ever run into using CDIS - is that deleting a container via Settings -> iCloud -> Manage -> {appname} -> Delete All results in a permanent breakage.

I'm not calling you a liar - I'm quite confident it works fine for you, but I'm wondering how our experiences can be so different. This isn't just me, this is literally confirmed by entire room fulls of people who've been wrestling CDIS for months.

I'm baffled.
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I first found the tone of the article harsh and unjustified, and stopped reading after the second section.

I don't think I've read Morozov before, so after reading your comments, I dove back in for a second take.

I agree that it is an impressively concise and clear history of free vs open source - that alone made the article worthwhile, I think.

Regarding HN readers dumping on him:

> Lumping everything under the label of “Internet freedom” did have some advantages for those genuinely interested in promoting rights such as freedom of expression—the religious fervor that many users feel about the Internet has helped catalyze a lot of activist campaigns—but, by and large, the concept also blunted our analytical ability to balance rights against each other.

This is spot-on, and is especially poignant when applied to sites such as Reddit, where users championing "Internet Freedom" occasionally eschew morality in order to create an ethical martyr for their cause - see the case of the 'jailbait' subreddit. I have no doubt that those users and similarly minded users who browse HN would find the above insulting.

He makes other insights throughout the article that would apply to similarly ardent groups of users that are around the HN-sphere.
I might be mistaken, but afaik H1-B is not a lottery, it's just simply capped which means you have to apply for it during the one week of the year when they are available (note: that's this week) [1]. And then it's not guaranteed but more or less certain as long as you meet the eligibility requirements.

As for OPT: Aren't you allowed to work self-employed during that time [2,3]? So as long as you give yourself a job, you are fine?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Congressional_yearly...
[2] http://blog.messersmithlaw.com/?p=720
[3] http://e3visa.info/tag/opt-self-employed/
Branch and Tag Labels For Commit Pages
Check out http://CodePupil.com.

It teaches HTML/CSS thru visual exercises and games.
Cool. I made something similar awhile back and been meaning to update it. It allows you to search by artists and then see all of their albums and you can easily add an entire album to a playlist.

Click "Album/Artist" search. Or youtube search to search like you normally would on Youtube.

http://tunesicles.com
Something else I'm unsure about: line 67, `results[i] = r`, refers from a closure back to i initialized at line 52 in a loop. If this loop pops more than one deferral, then won't each deferral's callback use the same i? Since Javascript assigns to function-level i in the loop, it doesn't bind a new one.

OTOH if the loop only ever pops at most one deferral, then an if instead of a while would make this clear.
"Online wallet services" are an invitation to theft and fraud. Do not use them. I've been saying that since July 2011 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=26260.0), before MyBitcoin ran off with everyone's money, and it's just as true today as it was then.

If you lost money today I feel for you, but seriously, it's your own damn fault. A Bitcoin is only yours if it was last sent to an address that is yours, and an address is only yours if no one else knows what it is - in other words, you have to have generated it anew on a secure, malware-free computer, and avoided ever putting the wallet file on any computer that has malware or that is not yours.

Seriously, stop it, you fools.
200px by 200px is the smallest allowed.
It cannot be. It's on the Internet.
Yep, there's an update server. If you have an internet connection, you should be prompted to download the most recent data. Are you not getting prompted? There should be a little blue bar at the bottom of the app that says "Latest results are available". Click on the cloud icon to sync. If you have a decent connection and aren't getting the prompt, then something's wrong and I'll get on it asap.
Aren't you worried that there is too much "protocol" information in your returned object? I'm struggling with this now. I've come to think the API should return exactly what was requested. So instead of a very specific structured object...

"collectionName": {
"total": 861,
"limit": 10,
"offset": 100,
"pages": 87,
"links": [
{"rel": "first", "href": "/api/things?limit=10"},
{"rel": "prev", "href": "/api/things?limit=10&offset=90"},
{"rel": "self", "href": "/api/things?limit=10&offset=100"},
{"rel": "next", "href": "/api/things?limit=10&offset=110"},
{"rel": "last", "href": "/api/things?limit=10&offset=860"},
],
"items": [
...
]
}

It generically returns what was asked for. The items array...

[{},{}]

I have seen the "total records" value return in the header with "206 Partial Content" response, but that still leaves the very important "links" information. Right now I am putting a "link-href" value for each object returned, but I don't know where to put the collections link information.

Any thoughts are welcome and greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Adding to this comment because pfraze's comment below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5471523).

It seems as though the Link Header item could be the appropriate place for this:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkHeader

Where does the meta information about the resource belong? In the object/resource returned OR as meta information in the header (with other HTTP information). Is this a needless hindress for
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Putting the meta tags out of head?
There are dozens of similar sites that have been around for quite a while.
Instawallet has always only been meant to keep spare change for quick transactions. For the longest time you could type into google site:instawallet.org/w and get a list of URLs with money in them, it's not secure.

Neither is Strongcoin who had all their wallet labels leaked recently, some of which users had decided to type in the hints for their key passwords.

If I remember correctly Instawallet is a ruby/rails app run by the same people who do Bitcoin-Central.net. If you look at their other app Instawire you see lot's of ruby gems used, in a financial application, not good.

EDIT.. bitcoin-central.net is also down
> _Applied_ is a broad survey of cryptographic techniques that was good for its time

> _Practical_ is a book about actually building system with cryptography.

Yep. That's pretty much what I said. Applied is about the tools, Practical is about using the tools properly. It's a higher level in the thinking chain, although my original choice of "bigger" isn't necessarily the best word to use there.

> probably done more harm than good for the industry†

Yes, yes. It gave too many weapons to too poorly educated software developers. We know that.
>You don't feel good about what you have you're worried about what you could have just over the fence...

What are you actually talking about? This isn't about wanting something "over the fence", it is about wanting the ability to use something that you have in your possession to its fullest. If someone builds you a house for x dollars but but installs some kind of access control to a room so that you can't use it unless you pay an extra 20% of the original price (and you didn't know about this extra room when you ordered the house), would you be happy? The room has been built and the cost of building the room has already been incurred by the builders but they would rather have it empty, wasting space than have you use it unless you pay extra. Would that not frustrate you? If they can afford to build it, without you paying extra, then they are either ripping you or someone else off.

>...but don't want to do the work to get it.

Where do you get that from? This isn't about not wanting to pay for extra features, it is about not wanting to own something that you cannot use.

>I always find this mindset amusing.

Thanks for that extra piece of information, it really added an arrogance to your post that would have been lost without it.
Good developers can only write good code if they can think and plan. Neither of these is ever a sprint objective. The objective of a sprint -- in practice -- is always to bang out the absolutely minimal quality hack required to complete the sprint's objectives.
The housing advice in the article is correct - those are the ideal areas. However, it fails to mention the extreme costs and competitive nature of finding a place in those areas.

Living in Berkeley is not a good choice if your internship is in the South Bay. Even if your job is accessible by BART, Berkeley near a BART station is not inexpensive. The nice areas of Oakland are similarly expensive and the not-nice areas of Oakland are a few orders of magnitude more dangerous than the rest of the Bay Area. I used to live in an "affordable" part of Berkeley and had to spend about an hour each way getting to work with walking on both sides + BART. Berkeley and parts of Oakland like Rockridge have their charms, but I do not recommend them if you have the option of living closer to work.
So? Not really impressed. WhatsApp are getting over 2M concurrent HTTP connections with Erlang in a production system. And this was 1 year ago. http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2...
USD is a worse investment, and it seems like Real Estate is not much better than Gold :-p

Stocks as investment:

http://www.macrotrends.org/1378/dow-to-gold-ratio-100-year-h...

And of course, ycombinator. You know... the angel fund / venture capitalist firm that runs this website? We're all here because of investors investing into technology. They do so because they believe they can ultimately make money with technology investments. At least, more so than Gold, Real Estate, or even Stocks.
Just thought I'd add a data point in the opposite direction. I've signed up to two Coursera courses and two Udacity ones, and it's the Udacity ones I'm sticking with. I've finished Cryptography already and am 1/3 through learning python in CS1.

There is something dispiriting to me about a synchronous model. Once I can't keep up I tend to drop it as a failure, knowing there's no point in working through something that might be removed at any point. I also think it's the way I respond to the "don't break the chain" apps. Once life gets in the way and I do break the chain, I feel like a failure.

I'm quite happy to motivate myself however, so Udacity's model of giving the student however long they need, works perfectly.
a couple months ago i participated in a deadline push where i was deprived of sleep for up to a week at a time.

it felt like my metabolism had completely stopped, and my body was storing anything i ate as fat nearly immediately after i ate it. i was also bloated and gassy all the time. my diet was reasonably healthy (i wasn't eating pizza or anything like that, just normal foods like salads, chicken, occasional steak, some carbs, etc.)

it was obviously not good. btw i'm 30 years old, never felt this way before (haven't done a push like this since college age basically)
Worthwhile (and complicating) read: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/mpa.asp

Another take, maybe more slanted:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/28/conservatives-laugh-...
It's All Perspective
If evolution is all about natural selection, and those that have a job and use an alarm clock are the ones that don't starve, then it could that mean we actually would evolve for alarm clocks. It could also mean that I know nothing about evolution and biology.
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Just a correction here: http://internproject.io/finding-an-internship/how-to-land-an...

MS actually has the Explore Microsoft internship for underclassmen. [1]

I'd also suggest adding Yegge's Blogpost on "Get That Job at Google" to required interview reading [2]. It's an excellent resource for applying to any company that highly weights core CS topics in their interviews, regardless of whether you're applying for an internship or full-time employ.

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[1]: http://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/us/internships-explo...

[2]: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...