skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should be. What is the point of supporting and paying a premium for green, if you are going to carry dead weight around in the car? Given that we are told that carrying a spare wheel around is significant, unused battery capacity must also be a problem.

I also assume tesla went to some trouble to reduce the weight of the car too. With makes unused battery capacity even more nuts.

If you are going green, you do not want un-utilised or dead weight. End of. There is literally no argument there.

So "Actual customers", who presumably know something of the subject, should be interested and question this set up.

Or is this the knee jerk we love Musk thread there no one is allowed to point out potential flaws or silliness, and if any one does say anything critical, then any old excuse will do? Must we really exaggerate with words like "disturbed"?
Rumor has it there were a few people who were good enough with a soldering iron to re-enable them.
Selling sand in the desert isn't _that_ of an obviously bad idea. I bet some people are making good money selling sand for golf bunkers or white beaches in the likes of Abu Dhabi. Even the sand for artificial islands sometimes gets imported from elsewhere because the locally available one is too scarce or lacks some essential qualities.
Ah ok, I see now. I think that interaction could be a bit more clear. I would be nice to be able to drag and drop the feeds in and out of the site groups, as well as expand/collapse the groups on the "News" page.

Also, when I added a feed, it wasn't immediately clear that I was making a folder because it grabs the name of the feed, I thought I had just added a standalone feed to my general list.
April Fools’ Day 2013: A round-up of the best jokes and hoaxes
Yes, I find them enjoyable as well, but it is about time. I'd spend much less time with reading materials.
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I think Tesla is great apart from Musk's childish overreactions (which many people don't like).

But I was just wondering where this nonsense 1.5 billion revenue came from ?
ApiAxle provides the first method with a hmac sha1 encoding of the current epoch, secret key and api key.

http://apiaxle.com/docs/signing-requests/
> It is a relatively useless metal

Historically anyway, it's a very useful metal in the modern world (though its intrinsic value and its market price are completely unrelated)
I understand. I like the drag and drop idea. Its clean and simple. Ill see what I can do about making the folder more clear by changing the icon of the new 'group' to look like a folder!
Ask HN: April Fools Day
Since we cannot expect much real news today, I would love to see what posts you have found that really piqued your interest. I would particularly be interested in seeing longer form articles that I could spend some time reading.

Here are a couple of my favorite reads to get this started:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
He's using the incorrect datatype for ap_list. This is apprently the collection of AP's already seen, and used with this pattern:

ap_list = []
if AP not in ap_list:
ap_list.append(AP)
print AP

It works, but does a linear scan every time. It's better to use a set() in such a case:

ap_seen = set()
if AP not in ap_seen:
ap_seen.add(AP)
print AP

For looking up things, a set (essentially a dict without values) is much quicker than a list. Is this premature optimisation? Perhaps, but using a list for this purpose is also a code smell.
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I tested this behavior a little bit, it does not apply to the profile picture but when you submit an other picture it appears to be rotated 90° left.
So I manually rotated my pic 90° right to counter this, unfortunately the picture appears exactly the same way as before so I suspect it to not be just a rotation 90°left

EDIT: here's a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/efngFHN.png (on the picture I uploaded the sky should appear at the top)
Maybe they want people to use their tools to create it
flops = floating operations per second, why all this tech articles keep using terms like "petaflop"? It is not plural, it doesn't make sense.
Maybe they want people to use their tools to create it. also april fools
Why is gold on the frontpage of HN? Not because of the strenght of gold itself, but because of the weakness of the other actors in this global tragedy; the currencies and the political class governing them. Aks the people of Ireland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Hungary, Vietnam, Iran, Argentina, etc about their faith in their currency and their leaders...
This is why I fucking hate April Fool's. It's entirely possible this is an April Fool's prank (especially given the hour). But, it's also entirely possible this is a stupid USDOJ action.

I mean, in Iraq, you don't say "suicidal whacko religious fundamentalist blows himself and others up -- oh, April Fool's!" because that happens frequently. You don't in DC say "politician accepts money from lobbyist to influence regulations -- April Fool's!". On the Internet, there's no humor in "USDOJ takes stupid and unconstitutional legal action against something it doesn't understand".

(It's still on the same servers as before, so unless they somehow got the server operator to cooperate, it's a prank. USDOJ usually uses their own DNS servers and redirects at DNS level when they seize a site. http://viewdns.info/research/inside-the-dojs-domain-name-gra...)
This Guy Wrote A Computer Program To Do His Job For Him
Kill switch
I use naturstrom.de
They only supply energy from renewable energy sources and their current rate is 25,75 cent (euro) per kw/h
See
https://www.naturstrom.de/unser-strom/privatkunden/unser-ang...
I'd love to see a compact list view. This really is what I look for in any RSS client.
Surprise Visitors
According to the actual interview, even DHH never came up with a quote as outrageous as the headline...
Linkbaity article title - not remotely a quote.
To unlock or not to unlock freely Samsung Galaxy S3? 
Does the unlock app XDA member spocky12 offered operate as it should, unlocking Samsung Galaxy S3 forever? Read what the developer claimed to do and not to do.
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Apple had a backlash when they reduced the price of the iPhone by $100 [1]. I'd think the backlash here would be even stronger.

[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/06/technology/iphone_price/
Simple: the business should be able to deal with willing buyers and sellers. The SEC shouldn't exist. Pure caveat emptor, buyer beware. If you trust the SEC to "protect you" on your behalf you will (someday soon) find yourself Cyprused with no recourse. Cyprus has its equivalent of the SEC, and did absolutely nothing to prevent the complete collapse of the economy.

The US became a world power before the alphabet soup of agencies that arose once the frontier closed. Regulation and bureaucracy can best be conceptualized as middle management that arises after a startup's early stages, parasites that a relatively strong organism/organization like the US can tolerate - but not indefinitely. The SEC's primary interest is increasing the SEC's budget and power, it has absolutely nothing to do with safeguarding your interests.
April fool :)
Google and Microsoft trade insults for April Fools
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> the UX is great.

The UX is indeed very nice. Just a small issue: FF19 on OSX 10.8.3 displays a horizontal scrollbar. Looks like a margin or padding problem with the central feed element.
To be honest, I've always suspected that the 40 kWh was more about marketing than about actually releasing a commercially viable option - they wanted to hit the price point Elon Musk had announced on his roadmap several years earlier, but they couldn't produce a product the market actually wanted at such a low price. It might even be a slight loss leader.
I know many people on here are kinda libertarian...but have you looked at the government? It would still be possible to make >60k/year and work 40 hrs a week, although it might end up being boring work.
My point is that the title is not really useful. Something along the lines of 'Using the Scapy library for wireless packet inspection' would be more reasonable. All this 'whatever with N lines' articles when you are using a 200MB tool stack really makes no sense. This is not a 1k demo where character count matters at all.
Google internals leaked. Exclusive
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There is a point where it is reasonable, there is a point where it is not. Look, a complete X graphical environment with one bash line!

$ startx
U.S. Supreme Court, Society Should Not Accept Arguments
Now it’s time for the nation’s highest court to weigh the pros and cons of same-sex marriage. But they and every American should heed the words of Thomas Jefferson: “laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.”
mobile version would be great
Another April fool prank of google :-)
Reddit on June23-05
Best April Fool's Day joke ever.
To have this said first: I really like your reader, it looks beautiful and so far it's the one that I'd most like to use.

In the wake of the Announcement of Google Reader shutting down, a lot of people are gonna be wary of jumping into another service that could go down any time.

What are your mid-/long-term plans for keeping this online? Will there be monetization through ads? Through a subscription?
Or are you planning to open source it for self-hosting?

A last important question, can I export my data?

cheers
hellerbarde

edit: updated question
April Fools' Day: Extended Trollage via Sub-Turing Evocations: Threat or Menace?
I'm the minority, i guess, who does not wan't to work from home. I like to have some routine, like waking up, taking shower, putting on clean clothes and going outside, see the sun, see the people, have a lunch in a nice restaurant - to feel being alive. I'm currently telecommuting, but ... i have rented a desk from co-working space, where i go every day. I don't have to, but i do. Home is toxic for me.
10 Geeky and Foolish Ways to Celebrate April Fools' Day
I find most of the comments on this post fascinating. Probably partly due to the audience, and partly due to the slant the author took on the topic.

His bait is retention .. and that's something HN readers understand from a business POV. But retention isn't his issue. Retention is a problem for Coursera et al.

His problem (and mine) is that we (personally) found it hard to stay the course. And Coursera don't help us.

I've a full time job, two side projects, a small business and a family. I'm about to start the Gamification course and I probably wont finish it because I don't have time. Not because I don't want to, but because the course expects all students to spend 4-6 hours per week studying. Those weeks would be rare for me.

How hard would it be to offer a 2 hour-per-week version? Or whatever commitment I'm able to make? Then, when the inevitable happens, let me hit the 'pause' button.
That I can add with other personalisation features!
His comment is accurate: http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla/financials It is also, for some mysterious reason, massively downvoted. Where exactly did this $1.5 billion+ figure come from, and why did taligent's reply to you asking where it came from get so heavily downvoted it's now [dead]?
His points make me think of Google Wave.
I find myself missing the wave all the time, and the competing products xxx don´t come close.
Nice catch! This may be required as we are comparing against every beacon frame and one could have a large number of them over the air at any time.
The Dangers of Surveillance (Neil Richards)
I can concrete the problem. If i take a picture with my smartphone camera, this pic rotate. If i take a screenshot with my smartphone this pic don't rotate. I use a samsung galaxy s3 mini with android 4.1.2. I hope it helps (Sorry for my bad english) I'am native Kraut speaker ;)
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This is the original form of a bank run: everybody wants to cash the goldsmiths oversold certificates at the same time.
This is a great comment. It really chews into some of the things I have been thinking about for the future. Right now I have decided to keep it a free services with no ads. Though as most sites, of course I would like to make money from it, which goes hand in hand with improving it continually. I have never thought of the idea of exporting data, however with the OO way I have created the database, I can definitely add this in. GReader imports are something I have to work on next. My focus for this start has been to keep it clean, simple and fast. Because of that I worked on the optimising code for weeks. (the server is based in Australia, thus, better hosting online will definitely speed it up).
"When I go into Firefox, I want to be able to override every single configuration option on a per-page basis, or even better, with url pattern-matching rules. Doesn't that seem just patently obvious?"

Opera has per-site configuration options.
Sounds like now is the time to move your wealth to Litecoin and Bitcoin.
It's exactly the same for me. Times can get very lonely (even depressing) when all you do is work from home.
When in doubt: On Error Resume Next
Is it something people want?
Truly a sign of how sad the state of affairs is when such a story seems credible, even on April Fool's day.
It seems entirely irrational for those customers to change their opinion based on what some other customers are or aren't getting.
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Litecoin (P2P cryptocurrency) goes past $1 USD parity today
I remember reading about Bitcoin for the first time on HN briefly before it reached $1. Now Litecoin has passed the same milestone.

It seems like now that ASICs are mining Bitcoin, GPU miners are moving to Litecoin which is secured with the deliberately ASIC resistant Scrypt algorithm. I read this recently and think I mostly agree with it: http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/1bbfdc/will_mining_litecoins_make_me_more_money_than/
>At $1,750 per ounce – gold’s price as I write this – its value would be $9.6 trillion

Where did you get this price from? It's 1598USD/ounce.

I agree with your point. Given its rarity, gold has always been treated by a lot of cultures to be a safe commodity. People will always give you money in return for it - where-ever you go. It doesn't produce or generate anything, but it has been and will always be used as a storage of wealth.
I watched a depressing documentary[1] about gold recovery in India.

People in a jewellery district would sweep the floor to recover the gold dust. Sometimes gold gets into the drains, so one guy takes a bucket and crawls into the drains to gather sludge, which he then tries to sell to other reclaimers. It's filthy, dangerous, work for little money.

Chemicals used are harsh and there's not much protection.

And then there are the people recovering electronic components from discarded computers. Cables are gathered in bundles and burned to get rid of the insulation. Burning plastics (on open fires, in the open air, with no worker protections) are nasty. Lack of education and equipment and skills mean the worthwhile bits are not recovered (from PCBs - no copper, gold, lead, etc) and any safety equipment is sold for cash. One of the episodes in [2] is particularly sad. A small boy smashes electrolytic capacitors off a PCB with a rock to try to sell to someone else. It's preferable that young children don't work (UN rights of the child, etc) but if they must work at least give them something that's not utterly pointless.

Corruption is rife.[3]

And children[4] feel the need to work because they are poor. They're poor because they get paid a tiny amount of money for the work they do. (Don't fucking start with the 'cost of living' bollocks that always crops up on HN. $1.5 per day is a tiny amount of money no matter where you are.)

[1] (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n8278)

[2] (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1984404/)

[3 (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/print/2012/03/the-w...)

[4] (http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94822/KENYA-Gold-mining-beats...)
One of the advantages of having your work space separated from your private space, is that in the evening you can close the office door behind you and stop thinking about work until you come in next day morning.
In English, you can verb any noun.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/15473/is-it-possi... even has an example of verbing an adjective in Calvin and Hobbes: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25 (found via http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/)
Novartis loses cancer drug patent case in India,Generic drug costs 92% less
No, that's not true. Communication is all. For example, you can have the repository send off commit messages to every team member, so they can see what everyone is working on.
We could come up with a bunch of excuses about why online education will always have worse retention, or we could figure out ways to fix it.

Or we could ask whether it is a problem. I'm not sure that it is.

I don't think the numbers are surprising or unnatural at all. The thing to compare them against is not traditional education but rather the patterns of all people who take the autodidactic route.. every person who has ever picked up a book and not finished it. Even then, the comparison isn't perfect.

In fact, we could argue that low retention numbers are actually a good thing for non-credit courses. It means that the content is challenging and focused, and that people are able to discover early whether it is or isn't for them or cherry-pick the content that they need and move on.

If there are usability problems, fix them. But if participant retention got dramatically higher, I'd worry.
To be added after Google Reader Imports.
A cautionary tale: Change reverse DNS before switching web hosts
My startup's last two IP addresses (at previous hosts) still reverse resolve to lanthaps.com, and someone even did a blog post about malware activity from one of those IP addresses - and mentioned the domain name.

There is a very good lesson to be learned here: always change your reverse DNS on your IPs to something benign before you close an account with hosting companies, because it is a lot harder to have it changed afterwards, and reverse DNS can pose a very real risk to the reputation of your trademarks.
people confuse pretentious for rich. The Apple phone debacle was because of the former, not the later. There are a lot of pretend to be rich people out there, a bouncer friend used to refer to them as the 40k millionaires. Guys who leased BMWs and such, made sure everyone saw their iPhone, etc.
Huh? The .338 Lapua is a heavily used military sniper caliber the last I checked. It's used by Navy SEALs, the Brits, the Dutch, and many other countries. It is the round that was used to achieve the current record of longest confirmed sniper kill in combat (by a British Army sniper in Afghanistan).
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') AND date > NOW() - INTERVAL 1 WEEK ORDER BY views DESC LIMIT 0 , 10' at line 1
Under the 'Eye-free Reading' header, the clipart image contains a speaker saying '...new reader by JetBrains...' I imagine this is a teaser for an eventual product.
A friendly bug that feasts on plastic
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When you exceed your sales target, the thing you did was set your target incorrectly. It's great that they're selling lots of cars, but "exceeded the target" is a wholly artificial accomplishment.
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This advice is coming from someone who probably isn't married and doesn't live next to an noisy elementary school and a community park. :)
How much skill is required to ram a car into a crowd of people? Why doesn't that happen all the time?
Ill have to check the manual!
Unicode string indexing has always been constant time. On UCS-2 builds, the index might have returned the wrong thing, compared to what a UCS-4 build would have returned.
HBO: Game of Thrones Piracy is a Compliment, Doesn’t Hurt Sales
You’ll see oodles of them in the parking lot in Cupertino.
"For instance, I want inline comments. Putting everyone's comments at the
end is pretty lame. Even worse, most blog packages these days don't even
seem to have Slashdot-style threaded commenting. Instead, the comments
are ordered chronologically, just like the entries."

Isn't this what Rap Genius does?
Question remains, if they had gotten a new patent. Wouldn't the old version still be open for the public?
As if watching "Time" wasn't enough, we've now got another comic updating every couple of minutes... Thanks Randall.
It is, but humans are not entirely rational.
Show HN: Geo Forums
Well, I'm a teacher, and we have to be there with the students. See the podcast below, around 28 minute mark, for a reason...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4131130/obsessed-with-now-...

Quote from OA

"You need a strong culture of managing work, not chairs to make it work."

You need that to make anything work (well).
On the other hand, we have invented a new energy source and no longer have much need for oil or farmland. Meanwhile, gold will most likely still enjoy its status as a luxury item which people will clamour for no matter what the price (our needs are limited, but our wants are unlimited...).
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Short answer: Yes, you can use cookies, but not all systems support that (eg mobile apps).

Here's what I do for that case: Create a /sessions endpoint and POST to that when you login. The session resource will include a token of some sort identifying the session securely. The client can then authenticate to the API by passing this token via an HTTP header.
Here's the thread on the xkcd forums about it: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101147

They have some cached images of the previous sizes of the dog, among other things.
Change from outgoing MtGox payments does show up in the blockchain, though, and it tends to be relatively large compared to the actual size of the payments. By design there's no reliable way to tell the difference between change and the actual payment either.
Accurate title...
No, it depends on what your goal is. Here, the goal is satisfying shareholders. You want to satisfy shareholders because it's in your best interests to do so, the value of your company depends on it. The easiest way to satisfy shareholders is to underestimate (but not too drastically, just enough to be a little dramatic) your numbers, so that when you surpass your estimates, you look amazing. Underpromise and overdeliver. It happens everywhere, including with software project clients.
No, but they probably think they do, so there's money to be made there.
Just great, the vandals are fucking up the wikipedia articles.
I dont see working from home as the solution to everything as described here.

I have worked from home for years and slowly the urge to do some work crept into every situation in my private life. I started to constantly felt guilty when not at my desk working and "home" wasnt a place to relax anymore.

I feel much better now with a desk in a Coworking space, where i am not all alone and can talk to other engineers if i want to and when i leave in the evening its much easier to relax at home.
I do occasionally work from home when i feel like it or on the weekends, but as its opt-in it feels totally different.

YMMV of course, but imo there are also serious downsides.
> You can fondle the cube, but it will not respond.

It may not, but I certainly will. Joking aside, there is value in having a store of value. Whether it be gold, diamonds, or green pieces of paper. Not everything has to produce something. Some things merely facilitate.
If you slightly modify the setting and say pile A is an eternal worldwide monopoly on gold, then it might be preferrable to B.