skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think there are any rules to "AAVE" either

Well, then you're wrong on a simple, factual level. It's like you not thinking the atomic number of oxygen is eight: It is, and it will be, regardless of what the ignorant think.
Mercedes has taken decades to build a reputation as a brand that holds value relatively well in the used car market, and in one day, Tesla has latched on to that and told everybody "we hold our value just as much". Brilliant move for a small startup, in my opinion.
When 9-8 beats pocket rockets
>My reasoning is, entities with one narrow and well understood goal (money) are easier to reason and deal with than entities dealing on ideology.

How do you reach such a conclusion? Because you said so?
Right but if they just had company A owned by dude X purchase the rights and hired company B owned by dude Y as legal counsel what would the problem be? How is that different than any other copyright suit? I'm not understanding why they needy the shadowy shell corporation structure.

Edit: prenda has problems with a fake CEO and other issues of who is responsible for what. That's really what confused me. Why not just put one guy in charge and the other as legal counsel?
Are they trying to get some bigger company to buy them? Facebook and Twitter are a bit scary already having so much data about everybody. Even though I'm pretty open how and who I date, it still feels more comfortable to keep it in my circle of friends and family.

Although I see the potential for this.
This is a still intrusion in others communications.

I wonder isn't there any law in US that forbids carriers from fiddling with messages?
To be clear, I think a character count isn't what you want. That's easy enough to do post-parse. A byte count is most useful so that can make a single call to pull the value into memory. A buddy and I wrote python bindings for Hessian and the fact they were encoding character counts and not byte count caused us pain.

Makes sense regarding pointers within messages, and interfaces.
There are many. Think of safety-pin? When it comes to software it is much harder. The thing I can accept are cryptographic algorithms, since as an outcome we get a product - encoded text. All these one-clicks, etc. are pure bullshit.
Funny that you mention Iowa, because I was just going to comment about that. I really think the OP and many commenters (including the parent) bring up a critical point: there are smart people and geniuses everywhere, and perhaps some of them are having doors closed to them, when it would be in everybody's interest to keep them open.

A while ago, HN had a long-form article-fest, and one that people linked to was an Esquire piece from 1983[1] about Robert Noyce. He came from Iowa and was a key in founding Intel--and from the way the article makes it sound, in putting men on the moon, as well (it's all connected anyway). What struck me is that several famous physicists were connected to Grinnell College in Iowa.

I suppose I'm a bit guilty of prejudice against the "fly-over states" at times, so that article and this thread were a good reminder (sort of a 1-2 punch) to knock me out of that thinking.

Perhaps part of that is also to see that such potential geniuses do not need to go away to the big city to reach their full potential, either. It would also be great if they could mature locally and contribute to the fields that are important to the communities they come from (agriculture, forestry, etc.).

[1] http://www.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/content/noyce.html
Guys, if you can get somebody to write a decent (say, Flask level) server side Dart framework, Dart could gain a lot of ground there.

Server side is were people are looking for nicer solutions that what's available, even moving away from RoR towards more one-page-app friendly stacks.

It's also an area were IE compatibility doesn't matter (because we're server side), whereas raw speed, good tooling, type checks and such matter a lot, so it plays to Dart's strengths, especially if it could provide both a freaking fast raw server performance (the way V8 is already 10x faster to PHP and Python) AND a good async story with futures, that for Node.js are bolted-on.
Are you in Paris?

Maybe the market is getting bigger for Rails devs there? I left France 5 years ago and the picture was grim then, Java/PHP had a literal death grip on the market. Well, since I'm coming back I guess that's good news :)
For what it's worth, I found a job in SF as a rails developer while living in a small town in Georgia via the site mentioned in the article, Developer Auction, and it was a great experience.
Before you're making money it's just a startup. When you're making money it's a business.
An Engineer's take on Chrome OS
Hi Folks,

We built Primsly after realizing a couple of problems with the way hiring works in the tech industry:

- It's difficult to find a job when you already work 9-5 (you don't have time to interview)

- The best talent doesn't get paid proportionally to how much work they output

- There are sly tactics that companies use to force you to make an uninformed decision => resulting in an unhappy workforce.

Primsly's a solution to these problems and more. Anyhow, check it out and feel free to comment on this thread or email me directly at nima at primsly dot com. Thanks!

Best,

Nima R.

Co-founder at Primsly
Well, is LinkedIn even the best way?

I get a fair amount of (local, I live near DC) recruiter spam through it, but it's often nothing to do with rails, and it is mostly third party recruiters.

I'm looking for a startup or small-company environment that actually uses rails. Big ERP jobs are easy to find, but the startup jobs are, despite the supposed feeding frenzy, a little bit more scarce on the ground. (Or else I'm not looking in the right place!)

This article mentions at least a few engineers passing on leads to companies that I might actually want to work for; that's what I'm trying to find.
I was on the conference call. He basically said that it was guaranteed by all his assets even if Tesla was somehow to disappear.
> Yes, the double-negative construct exists in other languages. It doesn't exist in English.

Are you insisting Shakespeare didn't speak English?

> I never was nor never will be.

-- Richard III

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/02/grammar-myths-3/
You've hit the nail squarely on the head...
>loan with a put option

But this article is really light on details:

1) Is put option available without the loan?

2) Is it available for longer than 36-month period?

If I decide to buy Tesla, it's unlikely I'm going to be replacing it in 3 years, more like 6-8 years. And I think that there is a good change that in 6 years resale value will be 0 - with more advanced battery tech available and with cheaper models around, and with old battery Model S may turn out to have no value in 6 years. So this kinda stops me from considering it.
You make it sound like 'normal' people discuss things in a calm manner and are never affected by things like tunnel vision, irrationality, or ignoring the other person while waiting for your turn to speak.
Hire telecommuters outside of SF.

For example, I personally could get a drastic increase in income by moving to USA/SF, but I won't consider physically moving since it would be a great disruption to my wife and babies and I can afford not to move, as developers are wanted everywhere (though not so piranha-style). And there are many more developers like me. Long-range telecommuting is an option, and it's easier to be competitive financially since practically everywhere has lower cost of living than SF, I believe. (How much would a home for a full family within cycling distance of the office cost?)
I really like the distinction between two languages and a single language. A lot of the kids I've worked with were able to switch from the way they talk with friends, AAVE, to how they talked with teachers and staff similarly how a student might switch from using spanish and english. Pronunciation changes, words change, etc.
This has not been my experience, but I haven't posted to meetup.com either.
Looks like it's 43%, according to their document here: http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/tesla-re...
It's extremely bad. The fact that ISP monopolies are not regulated in favor of consumers is slowly going to destroy the openness that has made the web so successful. Instead of giving us raw pipes these monopolies are injecting themselves as proxies where they can monitor, cap bandwidths, shape traffic, censor content, insert messages and even add ads, which Comcast already does when a DNS request is not resolved in a HTTP session.

If you look at what Comcast does on the TV side, things like adding ads to the guide so it's barely usable, you can see where this is going. But the federal regulators of the monopolies are asleep at the switch, we can't even get network neutrality passed. The monopolies know how to play the lobbying game as well as how to slowly turn up the heat so the users aren't all outraged at once. But we can expect more abuses, more ads, more monitoring, more restrictions, more unwanted 'value adds' as time goes on.
A simple text or email after every charge seems pretty reasonable (like Sidecar and similar apps).
"Why do you think OkCupid messages exist? It's not actually for 'connecting', because who's on there looking for a penpal? "

My friend, to start with you should learn a little bit about women psychology...

Online dating != Picking up items in an online store
Oh yes, security is a high priority. It's definitely wrong if malicious data can crash the receiver. The security notes on that page are not a complete story, just mentioning a couple of the less-obvious concerns. It's my intent that the Cap'n Proto runtime should protect the application from all security issues related to decoding, so that apps don't have to worry about it.

The pointers are not actually native pointers, and when you dereference a pointer, the implementation does bounds checking to make sure it points within the message.

I am a security wonk myself and have been thinking carefully about these things, but I also hope to get a formal security review from a third party before any production release.
I'm not sure when it happened but my getting ribbed by friends and family about my having bought TSLA the day it went public has finally ebbed.
This. A 1000x this. Musk has a laudable goal, but this is consumer marketing 101 - they're not guaranteeing the value equivalent to that, but the same price degradation curve as a luxury good. That's not a favor, that's a negative.
This is the best summary of the overall case that I could find.
http://abovethelaw.com/2013/02/judge-threatens-alleged-copyr...
I'm fairly sure your sexual services would not be required by "every dev" who posts their unfinished open source projects on HN. Courtesy, on the other hand, or barring that, silence, could be useful.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If I must speak directly to the point of "for the money" -- it's probably good sense to go for the money, first, and then changing the world (instead of the other way around). Whether one can acquire enough money to change the world through spending it is another question, but obviously people believe that they have a better chance at it, or that the rewards will be better, or both.
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There's the other issue of the notice itself. If they decided in March to make the change, how much time did they give customers to decide? Given the timeline, it seems like it was "effective immediately" rather than giving proper ahead of time notice.

Nonetheless, even if they did discuss refunding, the entire process seems shifty. Every service I use (I checked!) warns me five business days in advance by email that they are charging my card or sends a physical mail two weeks in advance. Instacart should be sending an email on each event with the delivery fee spelled out clearly.
Maybe because you have ebooks and webtexts finally in one place?
And Evernote actually has no social reading features.
It´s an early version and not a 50 million users product.
Both Tesla and SpaceX receive heavy government subsidy. Tesla is not operating at a profit once government subsidies and tax breaks are removed.

I do not consider significant reliance on the state for funding the mark of a great entrepreneur. Musk has a bold vision, and the tenacity to execute on it, and that is commendable. But not without significant aid.
Protobufs are awesomely useful, and this seems like a great enhancement. However, I'm disappointed that there's no map representation. That's a been major issue for us with protobufs compared with thrift or json. While you can represent maps as lists of pairs, it's awkward and lacks the key uniqueness constraint.
The bare minimum they can do is nothing, offering a refund on all of the delivery charges is an important step above, but offering a refund on the entire service so far?! That's quite an extra mile.
Wal-Mart is, according to Wikipedia, the third largest privately-held corporation in the world, after Shell Oil and Exxon.

And no, they're not a good model to emulate, that wasn't my point. :-) This was an eight minute speech, and the text you're reading was my notes for it, not the final version, so some of the subtlety gets lost.
PR opportunity.
> I think that it isn't well regarded as a language because at root it is simply an adaption of another language (English).

As Italian is simply an adaption of Latin. So, was Dante writing bad Latin or good Florentine?

> I certainly wouldn't advocate that becoming a nationally recognized language.

Why not?
This might be a purely semantic argument, but I'd say in the example you provided, you have a skill shortage, not a talent shortage. If you provided training, I'm sure you could find enough brain-surgeons willing to train to be rocket scientists. Of course, that would require you to pay for their training and allow for months of lower productivity while they come up to speed, but that's still a better situation than 3.7 million openings and 0 unemployed.
As someone pointed out up thread, they aren't guaranteeing the value - they're guaranteeing the % of value / original sales price, which is unlikely to suffer. In other words, if there are huge technology improvements in the S Class, you'd pay for it up front AND in the used car price (sure, the curve might be slightly different, but if anything, may be steeper).
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I could pretty readily read (Latin-transliterated) Yiddish with just a couple years of German language classes.

> "Eine Sprache ist ein Dialekt mit einer Armee und einer Flotte"
That screenshot looks like it's full of professional photos. Either I need to get some better headshots or that's a mock-up made by Blendr.
Doesn't this mean you are just pushing the decoding overhead into the runtime instead of upon receiving?
The DartVM has supported for typed arrays too, so it probably wouldn't be much work to hack emscripten to generate Dart source code.

It would be very interesting to see a benchmark of emscripten/SomethingMonkey/asm.js vs emscripten/DartVM.

(Could also add emscripten/dart2js/V8 for giggles)
Can somebody comment about this vs MessagePack please?
Thanks for that. Nice find.
Technological skills. My target audience (literal audience; this was a speech) were, by and large, people in the tech sector.
Yeah but I didn't say Linguists wouldn't be able concoct a grammar for AAVE, I said one AAVE speaker would not be able to point out the grammatical errors of another.

A linguist doesn't "concoct" a grammar (not an ethical one, at least). A grammar is described based on actual usage of the language. As evidenced by the section "AAVE grammatical Aspects" in the above Wikipedia article, there are clearly rules of grammar in AAVE. What evidence do you have that one speaker of AAVE wouldn't be able to point out grammatical errors?
Generally top-end luxury cars like the S-Class have horrible residual values, so I can't imagine anyone actually letting Tesla take the car back -- private buyers would probably always pay more. I don't think the Model S is going to depreciate much, unless there is some huge change in technology or some huge flaw discovered in the Model S.

I think the Tesla's value is more likely to follow a 911 Turbo or another sports car like that vs. a luxury car.

Being able to refinance at 36months with a 5 year used car loan at ~5% would be pretty nice, though.
I didn't see that anyone has suggested they could be convicted simply for taking the Fifth.

Disbarment is another matter, though. I don't know exactly how that works, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if taking the Fifth in a situation like this is sufficient to get one disbarred.
There are first world problems, and then there are "white whines".

Solving the problems of wealthy people might be rewarding and enriching (for the solver), but the actual impact on the world is generally much less than if you solved more pressing problems.

It's a law of diminishing returns. After a while, people should be able to solve their own problems. What they do instead is to redefine "problem" from "life-threatening risk" to "banal annoyance".

If you save a child from dying from cholera, they might grow up and change the world themselves. If you make it more convenient for spoiled white people to buy more shit to fill up their meaningless lives, not so much.
Ohhhhhh, yeah, I misread what you were saying. Yes, the count on the wire is a byte count. :)
Their jQuery code would probably look like http://enterprise-js.com/23, with aggressive caching methods used on all jQuery selectors: http://enterprise-js.com/27
But math isn't patentable. You shouldn't be able to sprinkle "math implemented as a computer program" on top of your patent application and be able to skirt this.
What fascinates me about the online dating market is that the optimal user experience is indirectly proportional to a customer's lifetime revenue in any site that is ad based or subscription based.

If a company was purely motivated by profit, I imagine that some clever use of ML would reveal an optimal ($ wise) timeframe for matching a user with their eventual mate (assuming their matching algorithm was perfect), and it wouldn't be 'as soon as possible'.

Too soon and you're missing valuable revenue, too late and the user gets frustrated and quits. Do companies do this? Probably not. As matching algorithms become more advanced and more people use online dating though...
Maserati is by far the worst. The common joke is that most bankers get a new one every bonus cycle.
Elon Musk is such a great entrepreneur, he could probably make a fortune selling cologne. They could call it, um, well, I'm sure they'll think of something.
I'm not much of a security person, just thinking out loud. Cap'n Proto looks great though.

I am also looking forward to saying "Cap'n Proto" in a work context.
Can we have a rss feed from search ? Something like https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=hacker&... .
If this feature exist, I can't find it.
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My ISP gives emails at 50%, 80% and of course 100%. They also do options 3 and 4 (no idea about 2) but the emails are so very easy, and knowing you've hit 50% gives you time to mitigate before you get capped.
So what you're saying is that Elon Musk isn't capable of revolutionizing two long-standing American industries (arguably the two long-standing American industries) at the same time, single-handedly and without help, and that this is evidence that he is not a great entrepreneur.

I think maybe your bar is set too high.
Thanks!

Yeah, getters and setters are old school, but still necessary in C++, especially in this case since the underlying data isn't necessarily in native format. In more modern languages I'd hope to use properties. :)

I do hope to write a JSON transcoder as well, so that for those cases where you really need to send/receive JSON, you can do that, while still using the same protocol spec.
You do need some better headshots most likely, but that's because any given person on OkCupid likely has terrible, terrible profile pictures.

Good resolution, good lighting, and bright colors. Fixing that can immediately significantly improve response rates (or give a response rate, as the case may be).
Most big problems cannot be solved, except theoretically, with information processing. In other words, software and computer networks and data mining and such will not actually solve the problem, although it might begin to provide some insight. Real problems are physical, and require physical things (like people and machines and other stuff) to solve them. It is also much harder to scale physical solutions, although software can also help. Whereas, you can often solve the whole problem if it is made of information, and you can throw enough CPUs and algorithms at it.
Why? He negotiated some funds from the state. They aren't insuring his entire business.
Why is the origin relevant? Middle English incorporated Norman vocabulary into Old English following the invasion and subjugation of England. Does that make French a more valid language than English?
Scanning the cited examples of plagiarism suggests that some of the alleged "unreasonably close paraphrasing" wasn't actually that close, the text insertions were generally short and referenced, and the 85% stat wasn't reflected in the assessments other editors (who picked up other issues) made of other students' work. Are they any worse than the average edits introduced by other novice editors which don't get such forensic scrutiny? Probably not.

If you'd prefer the world's most popular anonymously-editable website to be a carefully-curated collection of articles written largely by experienced editors (which a lot of the experienced editors evidently do) then you'd wouldn't want this class anywhere near it. But I think Wikipedia has bigger problems to fix.

It stretches credulity to suggest it's akin to vandalism.
I don't understand the situation of the other n-71 users. Instacart send an email to them, but apparently the users didn't have to confirm the upgrade.

What happened with the mails that got lost, went to the spam folder, where ignored because it looks like standard press release, went to the secondary mail account?
Are you sure the banks balked at taking Tesla's as collateral? It seems a lot more likely that Tesla simply wouldn't be eligible for the tax credit. I have not read anywhere that banks are not giving out car loans to finance a Tesla because they are worried about having it as collateral. Occams razor says to me it is simply a tax play.
main quality of an entrepreneur is resourcefulness. think about that for a second.
Heh, the part where they factor in the time you save on pumping gas is really pushing the envelope a little on "savings."
I think the argument is that:

> It was a list of order totals.

You can only say this knowing (basically):

> map is a function which, for each item in a list, in order, executes a function on that item and populates a new list with the returned value of that function.

(I'm sure that description is technically wrong or misstated on some level.)

And that goes back to the original post. map is jargon, meaning basically what I posted above. If you don't know the jargon, it looks a lot like obfuscating cleverness.
But could it be conceivable that they're really nothing special?

Affable but averagely talented guys with a few rich pals, most of them.
...and you present this with a site that doesn't let me zoom in on an iPad, or change the font size? A site that eats into my precious screen real estate with ads, borders, useless menus and useless two-column layout that I can't control? That forces silly pagination?

Call me back when you start thinking about my reading comfort, like Instapaper does.
I agree! I actually intend to add maps at some point, just haven't worked out the details yet. It's a little weird in Cap'n Proto since the in-memory structure is also the wire format, and the right in-memory representation of a map is not perfectly obvious (Hash table? B-tree? Red/black?).