skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you did not mean it, but cancer drugs are not funky. A better drug can mean anything from a permanent remission or cure to a few more months of life. And the poor get treatment in government-run hospitals(some of which are the best hospitals in the country).
Also caching. In terms of parallelisation, this method is only beneficial if there is currently request queuing, same principle as using sprites - https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rtt#...
The number seems to be misreported as someone else mentioned here, but still, you'd be surprised how lazy people can be when it comes to (large) OS updates. There's an enormous amount of friction if what you use already works. This probably doesn't apply to gamers since you have to upgrade anyway if you want the lastest and greatest, but everybody else seems pretty happy to continue using XP; I see it everyday in ATMs, in medical equipment, in cash registers, in libraries, etc etc.

I honestly have no idea what's going to take for XP usage to drop substantially. I can only wonder whether this will lead to an IE6-like problem in the future.
Some people do travel that far though. I travel at least 120 miles daily. I'm probably not the target market for these vehicles yet.
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https://bitfinex.com allows short sales on bitcoin.
Be careful not to mix sales with reservations and deliveries.

Tesla has a backlog of about 15000 vehicles, and it will take them all of 2013 to produce those cars.

You can reserve one, but the actual sale will not happen until the car has been manufactured. The backlog dates back to before the NYT article, so you cannot determine the effect of the NYT article based on the sales numbers of this press release.

You may be able to see the effect of the NYT article in the number of new reservations Tesla has received this quarter (when it is disclosed), but there are also positive effects that play in; The "Car of 2012" award last year, and the "Green car of 2013" award last week. Those could affect sales positively.

There are also plenty of positive reviews, so a single bad review would probably not have that significant an effect on the sales.
If you really want to - Borrow $x bit coins - sell $x bit coins - wait for price to drop - buy back $x bit coins - return $x bit coins to lender.

Now the speculators are in........
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This is an example of Poe's law in action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
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This is not rational thinking. Simply because something has gone up in the past does not mean it will continue to. The returns for the past 5 months have been insane, but that doesnt mean it was a good investment 5 months ago because thats based entirely on results oriented thinking. In a casino, if a roulette wheel hit black 10 times in a row, somebody letting it ride on black the whole way would have made a fortune, but that doesnt mean it would have been a good bet, it means the people making those bets got lucky. It also doesnt affect the chance of the wheel hitting red or black on the next spin, so it doesnt tell us anything about the future.
Oh god, it's awful. Please tell me this is an April Fools joke like the cat usability test.
People keep saying it's not intuitive, but stretching something by the exact distance you pull your two fingers apart seems pretty intuitive to me. It is a new gesture so it wouldn't have occurred to me to do it the first time, but that doesn't mean it's not intuitive. Something that's not intuitive would be a gesture that doesn't seem obvious even after you demonstrate it.
Those who may have investigated the possibility of owning a Tesla may already know that a firmware upgrade is usually an overnight job--it takes hours to upgrade the firmware, and considering that your very life is at stake w.r.t. the integrity of that software, upgrades are not simple 5 min download-over-3G jobs.
Racket allows for (), [] or {} in code and it seems that in practice [] is used to distinguish some syntactic forms that have nested parens from normal function calls such as the let and cond forms. So instead of

(cond ((...) (...))
((...) (...))
(else ...))

you get

(cond [(...) (...)]
[(...) (...)]
[else ...])

which seems to me to be more readable. See here for an example http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/if.html?q=cond#%28form...
What do people know about the current status of Cornell Tech?
Has anyone met the students or know anything about the curriculum/faculty?
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There is also a link in the upper-right corner of the page that avoids this problem.
> Is this guy serious? The average car is driven 13.5k miles/year. So 50k is 3.7 years.

Did you read the rest of the article?

Quote: "To make matters worse, the batteries in electric cars fade with time, just as they do in a cellphone. Nissan estimates that after five years, the less effective batteries in a typical Leaf bring the range down to 55 miles. As the MIT Technology Review cautioned last year: "Don't Drive Your Nissan Leaf Too Much."

Electric cars have a shorter effective range than "the average car" and due to charging time are less suitable for long trips (or for purchase in places where long trips are the norm) so they're likely to get driven less. And the range gets shorter as time goes on so even if they're comparable in the first year they won't be in later years.

Anyway, the article gave TWO data points. He said "IF a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles over its lifetime..." gave some conclusions, and then went on to talk about a better-case scenario of the car being driven 90,000 miles. Can you at least accept these as a bracket? The conclusion he reached from considering these two hypothetical data points was that electric cars might be worse than non-electrics in terms of CO2 impact or they might be better, but were unlikely to be a vast improvement and in any case the term "zero emissions" is a misnomer.

When doing a cost-benefit analysis at the end, Lomborgh used his optimistic estimate - 90,000 miles - to conclude that the government would be spending $7,500 in subsidies to save $44 (in the US) or $48 (in Europe) worth of carbon.
Yeah, good gracious, how many better Clojures do we need?
Hey Davy - we're not considering hiring remotely at this time I'm afraid.
Very true. I've just updated it now to handle misses. Its a bit of a ugly hack, but it stops the errors for now. You can check it out here - https://github.com/trevorah/backseat-writer/commit/b749d3154...
I was speaking pragmatically of course. Maryland is on the precipice of banning "assault weapons" and "high capacity magazines", and as a result, I'm looking in to moving to another state that respects my rights more.

I wasn't implying that hated 'the place', but you clearly seem to have issues with the second amendment. You're of course welcome to try to change things, and I would argue in fact that it is your patriotic responsibility to work for the government you want. That said, a big distinction between America and most other first world countries is wrapped up in the second amendment, so if I were in your shoes, I would likely consider moving. As I said, I'm not telling you to get out, and I'm not calling you unpatriotic, I'm just suggesting that voting with your feet is an option available to you. As there aren't any first world countries that respect the right to bear arms for me to go to, that regrettably isn't an option for me. I'm jealous of your position, if anything.

I don't know how either of us "made this country", and surely neither of us are old enough to have bowed to any King, so I'm not really sure what your point is with your last sentence.
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Is gold's intrinsic value anywhere near what it's currently trading at?

edit: I think I mean it's "use value". The value of gold if it were not used a store of value.
As-shipped, Bada ran on, as far as I know, a feature-phone OS kernel, probably Nucleus from Mentor Graphics, but I don't know for sure. The Bada runtime and APIs are no great shakes. Much less well-developed than Qt, and no basis for a modern smartphone runtime.

Before iPhone, mobile OEMs were not expected to know what to do with software. The exception, at the time, was Nokia, which by itself constituted the entire first tier of the mobile handset business.

As for Intel, I'm sure many people on this forum have their own stories of Intel and an un-serious dabbler in OSs. The example I know of is their brief ownership of a DSP OS. Microsoft convinced them they really shouldn't be trying to define multimedia APIs and software for PCs, and that was soon over.

The bottom line is, there is a firm basis in history for thinking neither Samsung nor Intel, much less the two "working together," such as that cooperation is, can produce a serious mobile OS product.
Well, it's a tap and hold, as opposed to just a tap, so there's that. If the user simply quickly taps, it's obvious it's not the tap-hold-slide zoom.

On the other hand, it's not obvious it's not the double tap zoom, so there's a delay for that anyways.
It might be worth mentioning that India has a large generic pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Many generics sold in the US and around the world are manufactured in India.
even knowing it's April fools, I wanted to believe this.
even with some of the crazy reasonings

so... maybe it will be a project that has legs, after the holiday has passed!
And even worse only show you which implementation works in the context its being showed.

I.e. a lot of people UX people test was tested in pseudo environments.

http://000fff.org/getting-to-the-customer-why-everything-you...

Many UX experts laughed when this was written in 2010. But it is now the default IMO.

Testing has to be done in its actual environment to provide really useful feedback or be something completely (like a new way of interacting with your computer) new in order to be tested outside its final environment.

Testing no-ui is even harder since you have to build a "persona" before you can test the results.
I know it's a joke, but why are languages so damn stuck on syntax. Why can't it be a one line change for person A to have () and person B to have [] (and person C have <>, or {}), and then have tools which automatically translate between them.

The same goes for every other syntax problem out there. Python and choosing between tabs, spaces, and smart tabs. The C family and choosing between where the damn braces go. Different keyword symbols (to support different languages!). Different symbol naming styles. All at the whim of personal preference.

We have the technology and (computer) science (more the mathematics really) to build such systems, why don't we!?

/rant

P.S. This is actually what I am working on... When I'm not busy... which is never.
Oh, I was going to write about Freicoin. It seems like an incredibly fascinating concept and I'd really like to see an online economy emerge around it. Do you use it?
Apple's iRadio music service is finally coming - maybe
OK you got me with this :)
I'm not really sure I understand this sentiment. I understand that the Rails community has had a reputation in the past of being arrogant but why take joy in the growing pains of a development community? Why foster an "us vs them" sentiment in the general development community? My understanding is that we are all doing the same things, we just have chosen different ways to get there.
I don't, and I'm not sure of where I could generate/buy some. I'd definitely like to play with it a bit.
You're saying that because most people make more money later in their career that the US doesn't have an issue with upward social mobility. That comes from a fundamentally flawed notion you have of what everyone else means when they say social mobility.

The fact is, most people end up in the same socioeconomic class as their parents. There are exceptions to the rule, but upward social mobility happens so infrequently in the US, that it's perfectly reasonable to model that as almost never happening. It's not impossible, it just almost never happens. The bigger problem is that the few counterexamples are used as anecdotal evidence to say "if everyone else would have just tried as hard, they'd be better off too". That's simply not true.
Bitcoin value triples in a month to all-time high of more than $100
You are making a very common mistake, which is to equate the concept of drug development cost with the concept of basic R&D. They are not remotely the same thing; R&D is one of many expenses in the total development cost of a given drug.
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What you say is true, but I don't see mass adoption anytime soon because it seems there are no essential goods and services(and perhaps more importantly complex B2B services) being bought and sold with bitcoins alone. I think it's safe to say that the majority of these vendors accepting bitcoins are turning around and converting them to USD to pay for operational costs and only a small(if any) portion of their bitcoin revenue is traded as bitcoins. It will always be that way until the large corporations that we are all beholden to, especially as businesses, accept bitcoins.

So at this point it's really an investment vehicle and a convenient method of exchange, not a replacement for fiat currencies.
I think you are right, and it is a convention in the functional world. People are using (and worse, reusing in a close proximity!) meaningless names like that. And I think these people have zero regard to anyone who is reading their code.

Well... more power to python, and culture that embraces 'what your see is what your get' and super-readable code.
Ireland was also a traditional 2007 housing bubble ;-)

Sure, it was a housing bubble that popped around then. My point was that it wasn't fancy financial instruments or arcane hidden scams that broke it, it was an old fashioned "This thing (property) can only go up in value! Invest in it now, keep making more of those things (houses), invest now and you'll be able to flip your asset later for a higher price! It can't go down in value!" type bubble.

If everything was on bitcoin, you still could have had the irish property bubble happen, just like how there was bubbles like that when the currencies were gold based.
It would be nice if they were a bit longer.
thank you sherm8n for the great idea!
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I get it, it's April Fools' Day. I just received an email from RedBox about their "we now sell lunch meat" joke. Really... I appreciate the creativity and even chuckled a little, but I get enough crap in my inbox and don't want to unsubscribe from future emails just because the RedBox marketing department can't help themselves.

Sorry, had to vent. Rant is over now.
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I may just do that. Thank you!
I don't think the world is that much different today than it was yesterday. You perspective on it may be different and will continue to evolve over time, but for the most part the world we live in continues much the same as it always has. The problems you speak of is nothing new. Just look on the history of a different industry and you're likely to find much the same.

But, during the early years Jobs was not selling his own crazy ideas, he was selling Woz's. Plus I wouldn't say that Jobs was a non-technical guy as he clearly knew tech, he just accepted his place in that field.

The thing I don't get about your comment is that we see people risking things on non-technical people's ideas every day, so I don't understand your point.
As much as I appreciate the opinion, I just don't think it is valid. Outliers shouldn't reflect everyone...
Thanks, that's a screenshot of Pinterest when you search marijuana and Love with Weed is a real site (and really are Referly's customer too!)
Some people lack the knowledge and skills needed to be able to buy something from Amazon. Compare buying something from Amazon with buying anything using Bitcoins - Amazon is ridiculously easy.

Bitcoin will never reach that level of ease of use. But when it has something like a 5 step LiveCD[1] it might start to get wider use.

[1] Something like insert CD, prepare anonymising stuff; load encrypted file from USB stick; load key from hardware token and enter short password; and have the distro wallpaper give idiot proof flowchart diagram instructions.
Why would anyone opt in to demurrage?
Indeed, Gregory Chaitin uses a Lisp without parentheses. It just requires that every function must have a predetermined and fixed arity.
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Oops, I'll see what's up with that. Thanks for letting me know!

Edit: Should be fixed now. Thanks again.
You can zoom out with one hand using the spread technique...... it's just more awkward (you use your thumb tip and the bottom half of your index finger).
The process is described in the about section (http://haiku.nytimes.com/about). There is an algorithm that extracts the haikus but they only make it to the website when a journalist thinks it good:

"The algorithm discards some potential poems if they are awkwardly constructed and it does not scan articles covering sensitive topics. Furthermore, the machine has no aesthetic sense. It can't distinguish between an elegant verse and a plodding one. But, when it does stumble across something beautiful or funny or just a gem of a haiku, human journalists select it and post it on this blog."
Is this intended to produce 'sounds like' gibberish or structured sentences? Just curious at the end goal.
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