skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing one of the main concerns is avoiding the scenario where a bunch of people pass around a single car, and each claims a huge tax credit while not helping the environment (as much).

The current rule is that only the first sale or lease of a car generates a tax credit; in the case of a lease, the leasing company takes the credit (see http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/taxevb.shtml , under "Requirements").

Somewhere between tax fraud and the current rule are some legitimate scenarios we probably do want to encourage (like buying a few-year-old electric vehicle instead of a new one, or the same electric vehicle getting leased out multiple times), but these scenarios are:

1) Harder to monitor
2) Too long-term to be compatible with the short-term nature of these tax cuts, and government budgeting in general.
Thumbs up. Maps are important.

Red black trees are probably the standard. I'd want to sit down and think about how the wire format sharing the in-memory structure effects things. :) Do we need to be able to determine the amount of memory used by the map ahead of time?
a web dev who doesn't know databases is like [some creative analogy about a doctor hurting people]
Avoiding serialization is a big win for short-lived object graphs like those seen when processing an http request. About 6 years ago, I developed a similar technique used in a .net app server to minimize server load for relatively chatty AJAX apps. It's good to see the same idea polished up further coming around again.
My lock screen has a message on it that gives a number to call if the phone is found.

"If found, call or text xxx-xxx-xxxx"
Unpaid/underpaid interns!
I think most of his examples are pretty reasonable. I don't have a serious problem with hardware patents (though some economists argue they don't work either).

Software patents fail much more spectacularly. They seem to have little to no benefits even before you weigh the spectacular failures they create for start-ups and small businesses and their ability to mask collusion between large tech vendors.
Look, I save almost 1/4 of my income and I still feel poor in many ways. It's not about spending habits it's being able to survive bad shit financially. A friend of mine had a single seizure while looking for work and could not drive for 6 months plus significant medical bills. IMO, if you can't survive a minor medical issue financially then your not middle class and it's really hard to get there before 35 or if you have kids young.
I agree it's an excellent resource. I have several profiles there http://stackoverflow.com/users/722796/pj-brunet

Because it's an excellent resource, it could be monetized with a paywall. We can't predict the future but we can learn from the past.

They're already monetizing it with http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer

They don't really have much competition but I think http://snipt.net/ is a good alternative in certain situations.
All the more reason not to have hard caps on bandwidth.
A lease is indeed effectively a financing option; that's pretty basic Finance 101. That said, one of the things one also learns in Finance 101 is that there are tax differences between how leases are handled and how capital expenditures are handled and that any calculation has to be made on an after-tax basis. (Which is a long-winded way of saying that how something like this should be treated from a tax/accounting perspective isn't at all obvious (to this non-accountant). Although I'm sure Tesla has vetted this pretty carefully.
because tesla doesn't lend money, they make and sell the cars, they do not own them once they are sold

usually there is a separate entity that finances or leases the cars sold at the dealership, such as mbfs for mercedes benz financial services, gmac for general motors (defunct) etc

for tesla to offer the rebate directly they would have to setup a revenue split from the finance back end, or take a hit on the sales revenue, which is either difficult to get out of a bank, and not in the interest of tesla, respectively.
It isn't an insult. The insult was what he said to begin with.

Would it had been better if I said he needs to "have his mouth washed out with soap" like a 5 year old?

Seriously. To tell me he doesn't deserve a similar treatment to what he displayed to the female is naive. He needs to know that what he did is not excusable and wont be tolerated.
Probably written by a different person.
All I want to comment on is the terminating null even in the presence of a length prefix: it means C and similar languages can treat it as a (read-only) string without the need to make a copy.
"servicing costs are inline with Ferrari making it a service cash cow!"

Incidentally, Maserati used to be owned by Ferrari, although now I think it is owned by Fiat
So did Comcast IIRC
Comcast is an awful awful awful company. Yet I pay them over $100/month. I hate them with a passion. I've never experienced worse customer service. If I could pay double the price with a different company for internet/cable, I would do it in an instant but I unfortunately have no other options.
I can confirm :)
> The government's forbidding of encrypted traffic also helps ensure no-one will use it for anything more important than complaining about "kids these days and their computers".

Isn't that pretty much the use case of steganography?
From the RFC:

> R3.1.1. Must Only Be Used for Critical Service Notifications
Additional Background: The system must only provide
critical notifications, rather than trivial notifications.
An example of a critical, non-trivial notification, which
is also the primary motivation of this system, is to advise
the user that their computer is infected with malware, that
their security is at severe risk and/or has already been
compromised, and that it is recommended that they take
immediate, corrective action NOW.

So much for that.
Hahahaha. Those of us that live in the Real World send our regards.
Intellectual Ventures sues Symantec over patents
> And Comcast was actually cheaper.

At least for the first 6/12 months. Then you get to haggle and threaten disconnection for a day, then you are good for another 6/12 months.
I'm still perplexed by the Pixel, but I'm in love with my ARM Chromebook as an 'away' computer for it's simplicity. It's not a full PC, but 90% of the time browser + SSH is all I need away from the desk anyway, and it does both very well (not to mention the keyboard and trackpad are far better than most laptops in the $300 range I've used)

Pedantic note: you can tweak the font size for the SSH app from it's options ('right'-click the app, it's not exposed in the UI)
I was just thinking that may be a great course of action. Probably make him think twice to take away something he values.

See you thought better than I did. I decided to insult him first, think logical second :-)
This is where the patent process really falls down - subjectivity.

You consider the idea of treating compression loss as an error to be patched as non-obvious, whereas to most on HN (being generally technical, even if not in this field), that's probably, a "yeah, duh, and?" suggestion.

The implementation of that idea, and the techniques and technologies involved may ultimately be novel, non obvious and patentable, but your argument boils down to suggesting that "if it's broke, fix it" (in any particular subject domain) is sufficient to warrant a patent, so doesn't meet the criteria requested.

I think to be objective in answering the GP post you should probably suggest a patent that isn't your own.
So what? The Leaf is still about 1/3 the price of the Tesla car, so it's inarguably more affordable. Pointing out that the average buyer is reasonably well off is beside the point.

From an environmental standpoint it's going to lead to a greater reduction in fossil fuel use in the aggregate, assuming it sees the same pattern of takeup as the Prius did.
"Facebook are being abandoned..."

Not that I'm a FB fan, but you have data to back up that claim?
I think it's fair to count the tax credits too, at least the state one. Although many people considering it are probably hitting the AMT . . .
> Would the lawyer define "too hot", or would the jury?

The jury.

> the legal system would treat the jury's definition almost as definitively as a temperature reading input into an algorithm, right?

For this case, yes. For all time, no. The fuzzy set of "too hot" would become the legal precedent (the stare decisis). The actual temperature would remain a question of fact and not law.

If you read up on how fuzzy logic is applied in control systems, you'll see that there's always steps to take non-fuzzy inputs and "fuzzify" them before performing the fuzzy logic itself. Afterwards you de-fuzzify to get a crisp output.

Courts work very much like that: the law retains fuzziness because no crisply algorithmic system can encompass the total complexity of the human world. That's how equity arose ... which is a law history lesson for another day.
We didn't build a functioning sample but I'm not sure what the point would be. The implementation you would build for a real deployment would depend massively on the constraints of the system you were working in (what enhancement, existing encoding, receiver hardware capability - decoders, storage, mixing, bandwidth and latency of supplementary channel).
>They're all over the place. People just starting out. It could've been an intern fresh out of college. It could've been someone who just never graduated beyond copy-and-paste-from-StackOverflow. It could've been written by a person who never did web development before and was just told to make it work.

I'm an intern, just moving past S.O. copy-pasta jobs and generally get scared at what the hacker news crowd might say about my code... seeing this caliber of shit get pushed live by a major ISP is almost comical, if an admitted novice such as myself can see that it should be a sign as to the ineptitude of our current crop of ISPs.
Speaking based on experience with what happened to Jesse Noller and the PSF just two weeks ago, you do not want to escalate this to any level where someone might lose a job or be asked to leave the conference. The same people that cannot handle social situations with women without discussing their tits resort to death threats and nonstop harassment when one of "their own" is chastised publicly for such a thing. If I were Jesse, I'd be having second thoughts about my volunteer work after that shitshow. It's just not worth it to be kind to these people. Ever.

Someone else I know wrote a blog post about the Adria Richards thing. He then moderated one comment which was extremely offensive. In retaliation, the person that wrote the comment launched a denial of service against his blog. This industry is full of emotional children that cannot handle being adults, and most of them can never admit that they might be wrong. Had OP confronted this jackass, it probably would have gone nowhere, and running to the cops/conference people is just shoving your problems on someone else. There is just no easy solution here without stepping up and being confrontational.

I'm assuming the game development people (different industry) and GDC might have missed that brouhaha, even though it was all over the news, so I'm sparing the benefit of the doubt that game development should have learned a valuable lesson from the PSF's (and Python community's) misfortune.
But do you have the right version of Boost installed? And does it work with both g++ and clang? Which standard library? Etc.

C or very light use of C++ makes most sense for sad reasons.
I just love it when someone writes my post for me.
On the plus side, they have a calculator which lets you run the numbers yourself: http://www.teslamotors.com/true-cost-of-ownership
Using that, I got $1K/month for me for the lowest end Model S.

On the minus side, the initial values in the calculator are heavily shaded towards Tesla. Who spends 15 minutes at a gas stop? Using the average cost for electricity instead of the marginal cost?
Why is this even a topic anymore? I don't understand how this can even enter into someone's mind as an acceptable remark to make. This is the 21st century - if you don't treat women with respect and as equals then please, don't show your face in public anymore until you learn normal human etiquette.
My April fools joke should have been that I've modified the CoffeeScript transpiler to emit Dart code - CoffeeDart!
I saw it today (the 2nd) and still thought it was a joke.
> Was the cockney English slang of 1800's England a language?

I thought the posh Queen's English was a relatively recent invention (1818)? Your argument is kind of rediculous.

Anyways, is a Shanghainese uneducated because they speek Shanghainese at home rather than the standard Beijing-ish dialect?
And the usual stack of classic comments building on there already as well. "Man the fuck up bitch".

Some guy talking about how he's totally on side but somehow is unable to keep himself from commenting on her breasts; presumably he subscribes to the idea that if you can pretend to be ironic, you can still say it. Classic stuff.
i think of it more as systemd than apt. calling it a package manager isn't all that accurate.

Scroll down to the "Module Loaders" section at http://todomvc.com/ I don't see any of the products listed you mentioned.

Notice that require.js works with Backbone.js, Ember.js, Knockout, AngularJS, Ember.js, Knockout, AngularJS, CanJS.
TroopJS uses require.js. The only major competition it has is Thorax + Lumbar or Twitter's Flight.

http://requirejs.org/docs/whyamd.html#amdtoday

jQuery 1.7, Dojo 1.7, EmbedJS, Ender-associated modules like bonzo, qwery, bean and domready, Firebug 1.8+, and the BBC all use it or work with it.
I would like to point out that linguistically there is no language called Hindi. The modern Hindi is a Sankritized, modernized register of the Hindustani language - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language

I am not sure if somebody amalgamated all those languages to form Hindi in 1947. The original article 343 of the Indian constitution specified Hindi in Devnagri as the national language, mostly out of the insistence of people like Gopal Krishna Goghale who while agreeing that English is a better language for law-making (http://www.constitution.org/cons/india/p17348.html) argued that we should not declare it the national language because of the colonial past.

The Official Languages Act of 1963 and subsequent amendments to article 343 cleaned up this mess.

Edit: Clarified the correct article of the constitution. I originally said Article XVII, but it should have been Part XVII.
An hypothetical question is : Would Brian Drucker apply at https://www.microryza.com ?

As I understand, all hue and cry from Novartis is - they have invested big in R&D and yet not reaped reasonable returns. Also, they claim that this dents their effort to come with better drugs in future as profitability is at stack and such judgements are demotivating for any actual R&D to take place. Just wondering with crowdfunding gaining acceptance would this be a relevant argument ? What are real chances of getting a life saving drug as good as Imatinib seeing light of the day. What are practical challenges ?
From UK mailing lists run off a system I manage, for us Hotmail makes up about 50%, with Gmail and Yahoo fighting for the second spot, based on a (self-selected) sample of 1.5 million+ subscribers across the lists.

And yes, these are mostly active users - we see no statistically significant difference in engagement levels between the major webmail services.

Gmail only thoroughly dominates amongst techies. Regular users largely either don't care, or very often active prefer the "Outlook style" interface of Hotmail or Yahoo.
What happens to the other car manufacturers if we remove their bailouts?
The idea would be that websites would take action, not end users. (Otherwise, how would it be a copyright vio?) I think we can assume that if it was infringement, Google would have an interest and the pockets to go to battle.

IANAL, but I can't really see how it would be infringement, though.
We all understand that what he did was wrong. That doesn't mean you need to drag out more sexist tripe like what makes someone a "real man." It's just negative and passion-inducing without actually adding or helping anything.
every 5000ms
HTTPS Everywhere[1]. Using SSL certificates helps prevent man-in-the-middle attacks[2], such as this. Comcast wouldn't be able to read any of your traffic and insert js without spoofing SSL certificates.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/g...

[2] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8145/does-https-...
Nine months ago we launched Tweaky.com as the marketplace to anyone improve their website.

This reads suspiciously like it was composed after the drinking started. Congratulations, but you should probably proof it again tomorrow :-)
Reactionary and probably won't help. Involving some sort of arbitrary authority only serves to dilute the cause and adds external interests to influence an outcome. It also means this type of behavior will continue when the 'sexism police' aren't looking.

I think social pressure is what needs to make this stop. We need to be mindful of what's not ok and have the courage to say something. That means that the authority is open-sourced to you and me.
I really like that Joe is actively reaching out to programmers and preaching the good word, but the take-away for blue collar programmers like me isn't "use Erlang", it's "use Go or Clojure".
Did not know that. This will hugely increase sales.
You think testicle removal is a "similar treatment"? That's probably the root of the disagreement.
Agreed - the Model S looks like the first Macbook/Pro unibody from 2008. What would later become an iconic style, and that model is still supported through OS upgrades 4 years later. Still resells for ~40% of original price after all this time.

A wise investment considering the alternative products. A 43% resale value buyback isn't too shabby, but my guess is the model S would be worth more than that in 5 years.
Law is like code. Documentation is nice. For law it's widely available. But all that counts is the law. Well-written documentation is not a substitute and a court will not give you leeway if you were mislead by mistaken documentation.

In common law countries, the entire process of law is actually a black box functional test. And again: that's the only test that counts. Everything else might be wrong.
The model S has captured people's mindshare and has increased publicly perceived legitimacy of electric vehicles in ways that the Leaf or Volt weren't able to. Its success and continued success is important in promoting and achieving the kind of infrastructure support and economies of scale needed to take EVs to the next stage and beyond.

To that end, even though the current state of Tesla and Model S may not be picture perfect, its success is certainly more desirable than its failure, particularly given that both its Nissan and GM counterparts have basically flopped in people's minds.
It's the same intent. Put it at the start, call it an "abstract" and everyone's fine with using it to see whether they want to read the whole thing or not.
Maybe the power company should blink account warnings in morse code through your lightbulbs. After all, it may not be the person paying the bill that is using all of the power....
The cached version is a little hard on the eyes so here is text:

Last night was the end of an amazing GDC trip. A handful of remaining friends and I made a journey out to JapanTown and we had an amazing meal. It was a great way to end the trip.

One of my friends, and a fellow game developer, was there for dinner. Her trip to GDC was planned last-minute, thanks to someone obtaining her a (very expensive!) all-access pass.

When recounting this chain of events, a male game developer at the table said that she only got the GDC pass “because of her tits.”

The table largely responded with aghast looks and silence. It was brought up that perhaps her ticket was thanks to being an award-winning game developer.

The same male responded with the ever-classy “sure, award winning tits.”

Defenses and arguments tried to be brought up, but conversation quickly moved on with the men talking over the woman until she just sat there quietly and resigned.

I’m posting about this because this shit has to stop.

I’m posting about this because I was silent when I should have spoken up. I shouldn’t have let the conversation sweep this transgression under the rug.

I’m posting this because I am tired of being made complicit (due to inaction) when these things happen. I’m tired of having to yell at people for this shit every night at GDC. I’m tired because I want this to end, and I’m tired of having this conversation over and over again.

I’m tired of feeling like shit because I don’t have enough energy to defend my friends every fucking DAY.

I’m terrified of losing friends over this.

I’m not a very confrontational person. Usually I deal with shit like this by making a mental note to avoid the person in the future. And now that my friends’ feelings are hurt and people are accusing me of inaction and being a bad person because of it, I feel like my last few years of championing anti-harassment policies (and ENFORCING them) doesn’t even matter.

It sucks that my entire personality can be judged on my last exchange.

So, hey: if you are a sexist ass around me, and think it’s just ironic meta-humour, know that it’s hurting me. It hurts me for days, weeks, months afterwards. It hurts my friends. It hurts my business. It makes me less creative, it makes me want to just hide in my basement all day. It makes me not want to go to GDC again.

If I don’t tell this to your face it’s probably because I’m tired of having this exchange this week. It makes me feel angry, upset, and sad. I hope someone links you to this.

And if you’re going to write me to apologize, you’d sure as shit better apologize to the actual people you pissed on first.

I’m so tired.
If that's the case, then obtaining the students' consent to release their Wikipedia username (which could be a random string of characters with no identifying information) needs to be a precondition of the students' participating in the assignment.

If a professor has 1700 students start editing Wikipedia and 85% of them are plagiarizing, that's a huge burden to place on the Wikipedia volunteer community to clean up. There are a limited number of volunteers who handle copyright and plagiarism issues and it is unfair for a professor to increase their workload without giving them information about which users are making changes that need to be scrutinized.

The problem here is that the professor has refused to engage the Wikipedia community and has, in his own words, gone underground.
Hey, can you email me? (Email in profile.) I want to run something by you.
My android and blackberry had it but I haven't seen that on an iphone. Unfortunately, company phones require locks/passwords so you cant just leave it unlocked.
> Do we need to be able to determine the amount of memory used by the map ahead of time?

That's a very good question and I debate it a lot. Since Cap'n Proto messages tend to be arena-allocated, dynamically growing space can be problematic. Currently, for lists, you must specify the list size before filling in the data. That could be improved in a few ways, but maps will likely be harder.

If you do know sizes in advance, I think hashtables make the most sense. If we want something that allows dynamic additions and maybe even removals (and can figure out how to reconcile that with arena allocation), B-trees might be a really nice approach. Maybe you could even use a huge mmap'd Cap'n Proto file as a database (warning: very speculative, lots of obstacles to resolve).
FYI - Police in Canada can then legally look into your phone. If it's pass protected, they have to get a warrant first.