skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say I like how the thing does what it does, and I even like the overall simplicity of each of the functions which seem easily testable. I just don't like the JavaScript very much.

> var node = arguments;

> node.i = results.push(undefined) - 1;

...

Adding properties to an arguments object, assigning the arguments object (which is not an Array, only array-like) to a variable, pushing undefined onto an array and subtracting by 1 to get the latest index.

This isn't clever, it's silly.

Simple is better than complicated. They're passing a special array-like object all over the place, note:

> slice.call(node, 1),

They do this because slice isn't on arguments. They are using an arguments outside of the function's scope.

The var statement in a while loop gives me the impression this person doesn't know how scope works in JavaScript.
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Because, for the majority of 2012, Tesla didn't produce the Tesla S. They only started producing 400 cars/week late in the last quarter.

So you really cannot use last year's numbers for anything, and therefore last years revenue/income is completely irrelevant.

The 1.5 billion comes from estimating what this year's revenue will be based on the number of cars they currently produce/deliver (which is in the 4-500 range). It is based on about 7500$ profit/car and 20000 cars/yr, but in fairness, that is just an educated guess.

Given that they are now profitable, the key questions are: How large is the profit-margin really. If demand will keep up and allow production to increase. Is there some yet to be revealed gigantic technical issue that will require Tesla to call back all cars.
I am not familiar with Textadept. How does this compare with (g)vim or Sublime? It looks rather nice.
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So this specifications sheet doesn't apply?

http://i.imgur.com/49k47Pb.png
I've studied at a number of universities, starting from a relatively unknown local university, and eventually graduating from a very renowned institution. Judging from my own experience, I'd say that if you're only used to high-quality tertiary education, you'd be surprised how disorganized and poorly taught courses at universities further down the ranks can be. Compared to that, MOOCs are already far superior. Should the working world move towards portfolio-based hiring, which seems to get more and more common, then a great many universities will find it hard to justify their existence. Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity, said that in 50 years only 10 universities will be left, which sounds hyperbolic to me. [0] Nonetheless, I would be very surprised if there wasn't a wide-scale disappearance of institutions from the 2nd tier and below.

I'm not aware of a site that gathers MOOC reviews, but occasionally reviews get posted on Hackernews, which was the reason I submitted mine, too.

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/international/21568738-online-...
it looks like they used the foundation css framework.
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Yii Framework switches: Ruby replacing PHP
I think it's great. With social media, mobile tech, and the like, we've been going crazy with data. In many ways, I've been inundated. So to have something that is more relevant to me, I can appreciate that.

Though, I did have to turn it off on my S3 because it was killing my battery from 16 hours to 3 hours.
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It's not very good, the text hierarchy is pretty bad, so much text and not enough white space
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That says it's closing due to low electricity prices not low gas prices.
Next generation: Android and Steam in the living room
Tesla is publically traded, nothing is stopping you from shorting them. This is currently their only product. You won't be able to bet against a single product easier than this, ever.
I'm sorry but you have a few details wrong in this post.

If you're concerned about referencing keywords, you could do it in body copy as opposed to the post title.

Also, rankings are largely influenced by the number of sites linking to a post, alongside on-page keyword references, well-built sites and user experience. Social signals are just a catalyst - not a direct factor.
No to "No UI"
When I worked at my first SaaS business in 1998 (we were called Application Service Providers at the time) one of the hurdles we had to overcome was potential customers not understanding how the internet worked. One IT manager had difficulty with the idea that if he could get to AOL, he could get to us.

How times have changed.
Imgur upload via Snail Mail: http://imgur.com/blog/2013/04/01/upload-via-snail-mail/
There is a "visit us @ SendHub" in the header of the page, just bellow "SendHub Blog" and their logo. I can see it Chromium in Linux though, haven't tried it in a mobile browser.
Unless you smelt your own silicon for the transistors and ICs, it's cheating!
(...) evoked strong responses from web designers.

Once there was a Wordpress theme available in official theme repository with a footnote "Jakobian theme created by Ozan Onay, based on the prophetic work of Jakob Nielsen." Based on tables - like the real thing.

Some things should never change.
As an aside, the evergreening process has taken on frightening new faces in recent years. Drugs have been repatented with the same formula for 'new' purposes. Case in point is BiDil, an active ingredient repatented for race-specific use in African-Americans without alteration to a previously patented drug formula (the case of repatenting is in and of itself an interesting study, many in the field contest the trials that validated the repatenting as well as the concept of a race-specific drug, as there is no drug-relavent biological basis for race.)

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isosorbide_dinitrate/hydralazin... (BiDil)

[2] - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa042934
I wish they ported it to Python instead. I'm seriously missing a lot of the goodies in the latter, and they'd make a great match. Nonetheless, great to hear it is moving off of PHP!
I once was a non-tech entrepreneur (experience running a comic book store)
Eastern Europe was about state control of the market, though. Getting a government stipend for living expenses doesn't mean you take control of everything.

What it does mean is that jobs like waiting and cleaning that are currently easily replaced by automation, but are not due to the artificial need to maintain the wasting of hours to get food. I don't think the traditional restaurant industry would survive such a transition, for example, because it is much more economical to have a local food generator that knows all the recipes and can ship freshly prepared meals via automated vehicle to consumers than to have them go to a restaurant, get served, get waited on, get cooked for by kitchen chefs (who are usually doing something between heating up frozen food to following an instruction sheet from corporate) when we can eliminate all that work for most of us, and anyone who cares enough to get the waited experience can pay a real wage for it, because labor demand is more reasonable in such a circumstance - people would only work for you if you gave reasonable value for their time, not just because they need to eat and our progressively greater per-worker output and ability to eliminate human capital in many endeavors all together makes most labor unnecessary.
IRCTC = I Refuse Connectivity To Customer
you are not invited to the big data party
this news will be true tomorrow as the second day of April :)
Detailed review: http://yfl.bahmanm.com/Members/ttmrichter/software-reviews/t...
The end of the monolanguage web
Thanks for explaining this.
Another take on Consultative Selling. Effective sales = good for startups
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I was tired of emailing myself job listings I wanted to apply to, or leaving my browser open with 18 tabs, so I created a job application management/tracker. Please let me know what you think!
i used to do quite a bit of sonification of stock trades. i imagine bitcoin is the thing to use these days though, since realtime stock data was a pain to get and deal with.
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You are right. Django must serve "dynamic", and static must be served by the web server. That's by design.
Try joining a bitcoin mining pool. You'll gain bitcoins in shorter amounts of time though very small amounts.
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I totally forgot, but of course there is CourseTalk (http://coursetalk.org/), where people can review and rate MOOC courses. There are quite a few reviews there.
It's a great idea. It's called "Google Wave".
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I'm interested in managing marketing process so I checked out the current product site. It looks very interesting, I can see marketers finding this useful.

Question: Is the photo of your "team" on the front page of your website a stock photo? It seems like a beautiful office, with a cool looking team. But, when I look at your "about" page - it's a different team!

No biggie - but I was just curious about the thought-process behind it...
Oh, I see - thank you!
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At least a sizable chunk of which is going into the pockets of wealthy Google engineers, if what's to be read in this thread is true. Well, I guess they're paying the taxes in the first place...
How To Make Remote Work
Ask HN: Will work for 2k dollars
I am an expert developer and designer, can make anything you can imagine also have a team. I need $2k urgently, will make anything for it.
Clickable: http://quivee.com
Don't forget to sign up for the Underwater Basketweaving class from Coursera ;-) https://www.coursera.org/course/basketweave
"your tuition/room/board/books will be absolutely free."

You do not know that. You simply do not. The kids/family are operating from a fear reaction. Some years ago there was a study about why more poor people have (pre-video on demand) cable TV than phone. The paper's conclusion was you could predict and budget the cable bill to the penny, other than traditional low yearly increases, but you can never predict next months phone bill, all you need is some 900 number calls or lots of long distance (back when that was expensive) and that means you literally cannot afford to pay the bill this month, hit to credit report, collectors calling, maybe disconnected (so why bother connecting to begin with...). Whoops. Plenty of poor families can survive a stable $25 cable bill every month for basic cable but not a phone bill that might semi-randomly be $10 this month and $125 next month. Therefore out of fear sign up for the devil you know rather than the devil you don't know.

"No crippling student loans" You sure about that? Guarantee that no aid package to any poor kid in the country would contain loans as part of the package? That is definitely not how it used to be. In the old days you'd absolutely have loans as part of the package. If you get a $125K/yr software dev job, $20K of loans is small, but if you are one of the majority who drop out, or get a financially nonviable degree in a field with high new grad unemployment, that kind of loan could destroy you and your family. Much safer to go to state-U.

What you meant to write is something like a $40K/yr family can send a kid to a $60K/yr school and get a completely unknown and utterly unpredictable but probably rather large amount of help which might even approach the total cost of attendance but you'll never know until you sign up and it might vary from year to year and certainly will vary from school to school. Its not unusual for a low income family to have roughly 100% of their income already budgeted and no substantial access to loans, so teasing the family with $57K of "help" at a $60K school is useless if the family can't scrape up $3K extra per year. If they could scrape up $3K/yr they would probably already spend it on health insurance, or maybe car insurance, or food, or dentistry, or ... So assuming there's an infinite pool of available cash is unrealistic. On the other hand if state-U wants $4K but guarantees loan availability, the kid seems infinitely better off going to state-U because the tuition bill can actually be paid (with a loan ... but paid nonetheless)
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There are multiple benefits:

1) Be able to pay the best scientists in the world to find ways to extend our lives.
2) To be able to afford to produce the drug so that people can actually benefit from the work of the above mentioned scientists
3) To make enough money to fund research in other areas of medicine

Or put another way, currently no one has found a way for private companies to do cutting edge research, and manufacturing of drugs without having a guaranteed profit stream.
U of R student (and former resident of rural upstate NY) here, we would have been glad to have you!
I usually use vim but I spent an evening with it. It's very pleasant, and very snappy.

It might be nice to give someone as a first editor - there's very little to distract.
And thus, when it comes to software modification, the only reasonable course of action is make the equivalent of opening the hood illegal?
You are being incredibly mean to Tesla here. It says right in the article that producing the 40kWh pack didn't turn out to be economically viable due to investment costs.

Your view gives two possibilities:

1) Lose money on the 40kWh model by investing millions in production equipment for a product that almost no one wants

2) Lose money on the 60kWh model by selling it for less than it costs to produce

None of these are viable. As far as I can tell, Tesla has chosen the best option here (given that they want to keep the 40kWh model on the market, which for marketing purposes I am pretty sure that they will).
From the comments:

> Keep an eye on ycombinator's infogami. The creator has strong ties to the reddit crew and is probably pretty well placed to realise your redditblogiki idea.

RIP Aaron.
yep, we appreciate the joke :)
because people are disgusting... companies are obsessed with money and they really give a shit if there are hundred of thousands dying because they aren't rich enough for buying their products.

The right to use certain information (aka patents) is more important than human life in our society.
That's a nice way to strawman what I said, but I was talking about hiring, not buying stuff, income, or money. Here's the thing: Steve Jobs did not have to get hired, in the employee sense, because he founded his own company.
Site struggling. Cached version:

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How about IBM's "Golden Screwdriver"?

http://www.sdsusa.com/dictionary/index.htm?g#golden
SC5 founds a crisis-proof Bitcoin bank
Have you measured the change from standalone to embedded images in the CSS? Is it really worth the increase in size (due to base64) and the lack of parallelization?
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"A grown man that throws tantrums, belittles subordinates, and never admits when his company has made a mistake is not what I would call a born leader."

So, one could easily compare him with Stalin, Hitler, and other people like these who happened to have similar habits? Well, the life story of well-adjusted sociopaths...
Reddit co-founder calls on geeks to be nice
Mozilla foundation pays its devs well.
http://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla%20Foundation%20and%20Subsidiaries%202010%20Audited%20Financial%20Statement.pdf

Expenses on software development 62M

Number of employees: 17

3% of salary goes to retirement. That 3% is $2m

So avg salary is $2m?
Have Tesla deliveries to Norway started? Have you seen a Model S in Oslo yet?
I think, the important aspects could be highlighted. Although I'm not sure Markdown allows, say, bold text chunks, in code blocks.
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We’ve got games, inspiration, installations, apps, tutorials, new fonts and some cool typography quotes. Pretty much everything you need for another well-deserved long weekend, right? Let the stroll through some of last week’s goodies begin!
True. I considered this in my original comment. I think the reality is that anyone who is on HN or who is likely to stumble across that site almost certainly knows this though.
From what I understand, this case wasn't just about evergreening. When Prilosec was evergreened, the old formulation became available as Prilosec OTC. I don't know all the details beyond this article, but apparently in this case, Novartis wasn't just seeking a new patent on Glivec - they were also taking steps to make it harder for the generic version to be produced. The evergreening of Prilosec in the US was more of a marketing ploy, whereas the Novartis case seems much more insidious.
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To be realistic, this is not about compensation vs free, it's more like 40 million vs 40 billion.
None of those provide value. I think you're confusing a hack that only takes advantage of the government in a context where the government takes advantage of us and that's meant to provide value ultimately to someone else.
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Misaimed. The money doesn't go to the ivy league student. It passes directly to administrators, professors, etc, via tuition and endless fees. The more expensive the school, the lower percentage the kids get to skim off for living expenses. So at vo-tech level most of the money loaned as a percentage is going for booze, apartments, cars, gas, food rather than tuition.

Now if the kids got huge loans, stuck the dough in stock market funds, defer interest until graduation at which time they cashed in the funds, paid taxes and paid off the interest free loans, and kept a tidy small profit, as my econ professor and his friends did in the 70s/80s, then money could be said to go to the kids. This practice has been pretty much eliminated.
April fool prank: YAS - 1000x faster SQL on Hadoop engine
I kind of agree with @adlpz on this. It's like saying, "Serve a website with 1 line of code!" and then running `sudo service apache start`.

Technically correct, but highly misleading. Either way, I hope you realize I'm not being snarky here - just wanted to share my point of view on this. OP's article was great, that's a ridiculously powerful library.
Original title "Exxon pipeline breaks spilling 84,000 gallons of Canadian crude oil near Arkansas lake"
To be fair, even your original observation is complete speculation that may or may not apply, as admitted by yourself. You could easily reformulate your statement as:

> I noticed an uptick in hellbanned after the baked-goods incident. It seems several otherwise rational individuals turned into violently cupcake and confectionery haters during that whole debacle.

I'm not saying that's the case here (I haven't looked), [...]

And it would carry about the same meaning. "Here is an event that happened, which I admit I have no idea if it applies to this other event, but here is some speculation linking the two events together.

Note: I didn't downvote you, but I can see why people are. Plus if you only have one word to say about a subject, a downvote is a better choice.
It's not that impressive. Then again, Nielsen has rarely given importance to aesthetics in UIs.
From what I understand, higher oxygen levels were only linked to large invertebrates, not dinosaurs:

Some paleontologists speculated that oxygen might be behind the evolution of huge dinosaurs, too, but the hypothesis has been totally undermined by evidence from the geological record and dinosaur anatomy. Geochemical evidence has shown that Jurassic and Cretaceous air contained about as much oxygen as today, if not a little less. More than that, the dinosaurs did not need increased oxygen to adequately nourish their bodies.

As part of their respiratory system, sauropods had a complex network of air sacs that gave them two advantages.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/25/dinosaur-...
I believe that these languages do have a specified execution model (how would you execute them without one?), they just don't have any hard prescription as to how to map it onto hardware the same way that, for example, C does.
And as big as this is, it's apparently not as important as whatever Elon is announcing tomorrow:

To be clear, Tesla is in California, so it is not April Fool's yet!
Also, some may differ, but imo the Tues news is arguably more important.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/318588682070269952
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I'm sorry, you clearly don't know what you're talking about. Stay current with what is going on, SEOMOZ and SearchEngineLand are good sources.

And btw, the core message in his post is very good one. Lots of people are convinced they need to optimize their titles to death for greater SEO success. Tools like Yoast's SEO plugin for WordPress and WP Scribe encourage that kind of boxed idea of SEO. Especially newcomers just get confused by this. If you create content people want to read and share, they will increase the ranking factors of your page. It starts with a good title. I'd say the social factor is a direct a factor can get when it comes to raising search engine visibility.
I may misunderstand, but it seems that rap genius has a specific type of annotation (ie best explanation rather than comment-thread). I think the OP's suggestion is more similar to how soundcloud does comments.
WTF?

Google maps, for me and I think for vast numbers of users, has always been a zero-bullshit application to use when you need to quickly find specific location or directions, where _pertinent_ information is displayed and "frills" stay tucked behind menu selections.

Even a small amount of cruft degrades the user experience. I don't need stupid ass April Fool's day pranks from Google. It is not cute and I am not amused. Corporations suck at humor anyway.

Even more disturbing is that somebody at Google dreamed this up, and got together a team of engineers to crank this out. And at what cost in labour? 100's of thousands? Don't they have better things to do?
I think the whole evergreening and "patent a trivial change to our drug because the previous patent expiring" thing is wrong, but a company should profit after inventing a life-saving drug.

Look at it this way, if tomorrow a company came out with a complete cure for cancer, and we took away their right to profit from it, yes it'd put cancer victims in a good spot. But it'd screw everyone with a not-yet-cured disease over, when the company can't afford to pay employees, and the medical research industry goes down the drain.

People work for a profit, and that includes medical researches, who go through years of school. You take away that profit motive, they'll have to go do something else to put a roof over their head, and you'll save more lives in the short-term at a very high very long-term expense.
From a usability standpoint, I have trouble scanning blue text - especially the light blue used on nngroup.com. I've read elsewhere that this is a common problem, but i can't find a source.
Huh - I wonder how that happened. Thanks for the correction.
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Not only this, drug companies also inflate the pricing on the older medication so that people will switch to the newer variety.

Why don't they just stop producing the old?
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He means Gox moving balances between internal Gox accounts, like hot/cold wallets. Not trades. The trades you and I make on Gox don't show on the blockchain until they're withdrawn.
EPA's Push For More Ethanol Could Be Too Little, Too Late
They probably even managed to get rid of a few customers that would have ended up disappointed with the performance characteristics of the vehicle.