skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't assume you are a gun obsessed nut because you think differently from me. In fact, your ability to argue in a civil manner would cause me to bet that you were not a gun obsessed nut.

But I'd urge you to look deeper than the Constitution for the answers to questions about what's best for the country. It's just a piece of paper, written by men in a very different time than ours. Rather than abide by the dictum of that piece of paper, ask yourself how you'd shape a nation if you were starting one from scratch. Forget this idea that we're locked into these old, vague words and their interpretations by old, flawed men and women.

Who knows, maybe you'd include the Second Amendment word-for-word in your Constitution if you were creating one from scratch. But, when your colleagues asked you why you thought the "right to bear arms" was so important, I hope you could give a better answer than "Well, some old men thought it was important hundreds of years ago."

On that note, I'm going to bed! Thanks for the discussion.
Building a SaaS business - 2007 vs 2013.
It is ?

For 2012 they had revenue of $413 million at a loss of $396 million.
You can sometimes get it installed in a condo with underground parking, but even that is hard, and if you're just renting, it's a lot of hassle to go through. I've seen stories about people being charged >$500/mo for the hookup (with unlimited electricity, true) and absurd buildout costs.
How many years till everyone's cell phone has this much computing power?
I'm not a programmer, but I quit a job because I hated the environment.

Of course, that sort of force me into entrepreneurship & I figured out how to survive.

Don't get me wrong - it was a great job for a lot of people - but unfortunately, I'm not a lot of people :).
I like the Craigslist design. It is simple and easy to use.
Cool. Ain't it? From a Usability View, it's OK not to have made this through an instruction or tutorial. We were living without it but I moment I accidentally stumbled on it the other day, I liked it. I always believed I was the last one to find it.

It's my opinion that these are few of those gestures which are OK to be left as something to be 'discovered'. Just yesterday, my daughter struggled with my Macbook trying to zoom-in on the photos she saw, pinching them, dragging them on the screen. Such gestures and its variations are ones that we have to consider 'should/might work'.
Work for yourself. Go into consulting. Flexible hours. More control on work schedule and scope.
It's definitely real. I've seen it long before today.
Why I'm Not Using Alfred
Pan + Zoom added. It's slightly wonky, I think I need to adjust the math a little.
Not seeing it. Got a link to the specific comment?
Make local server accessible over Internet - localtunnel in Golang
The author claims that C has "an order of magnitude more expressiveness" than assembly with no basis for the statement, but ok. He then throws all the "compile-to-JS" languages together even specifically mentioning Sibilant which has macros.
If there is another 10x expressivity gain to be had by adding any language feature then surely macros are it.
Regarding [1] - while you are 100% correct concerning the manufacture of sarin gas, you are almost certainly wrong in relation to the deployment and/or activation of sarin gas in a controlled space.

"Throwing a grenade" is generally considered 'low skill'. In the case of the Tokyo sarin gas incident, the gas was deployed in a plastic bag (I'm thinking zip loc) and was stabbed with a sharpened umbrella to deploy.
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taking it high higher to the list.
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I don't think that's an obvious conclusion at all. Many rechargeable battery chemistries experience terrible failures if they are not fully charged or fully discharged on a regular basis.

Even still, as a consumer I find it offensive when the same resources are consumed to produce something and then crippled just to sell at a lower price. It's a sign of market inefficiency.

For pure software, it's different because the per-unit cost of production approaches zero.

But batteries are literally massive objects, and their capacity-per-mass is the major factor of their value. So if your car still has to accelerate and decelerate all the mass of a 60KWh battery yet its capacity is artificially limited to 40KWh, your vehicle is not only range-limited, it's heavier and less efficient.
But the women on the homepage is really selling it!
My understanding is that the 40kWh models haven't been shipped yet.
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A sharpshooter is not a sniper. Sharpshooting is one skill that a sniper must possess, however, police typically require the former whereas the military requires the later. Sniper training involves a great deal of field craft in covert operations beyond mere marksmanship.
Very agreed. There's certainly much these online courses can do in the lecture quality department alone. (Maybe they just need more quality control instead of a rush to fill their sites with content). I think you can do a lot to make the learning process much smoother and more streamlined. My opposition to the suggestions in the article is on the grounds that the author is searching for a shortcut to the learning process (or maybe just wants a really addicting, very shallow introduction to the topics), which is exactly opposite of what these sites are aiming to achieve.

I'm all for making these platforms more fun, engaging and rewarding. The more the better. But my main point is that the focus, the most important aspect of education is the process of learning and that often requires prolonged focus (to follow along and venture all the way down the rabbit hole of a subject), deep engagement (so your brain can make all of the connections, tie all of the strings together), and interest. The authors suggestions don't really reinforce the process of learning (as I know), they may even weaken it by creating distractions, giving rewards for too little work (obviously subjective, but being subjective you're going to help some people sometimes, and hurt some people sometimes) and getting students to focus on the rewards rather than their understanding, and rather than building implicit positive feelings about their accomplishments.
It is literally the first google result when you search for "kiln", even above the original definition of the term.
And this mistake of trying to be ultra-secure, without understanding change addresses, is a classic way to destroy BTC. It also bit someone for 7208 BTC way back in June 2011:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=11104.0;all

That 7208 BTC would be worth about $680,000 today.

There will be a lot fewer than 21 million BTC in actual usable existence after all these errors are tallied!
Ask HN: (possibly silly) question about 'H1B eligible'
Greetings, fellow HNers!

There are few comments (on whoishiring threads usually) that mention 'H1B eligible'. Does it mean that only those who are already in the US on H1B are eligible? Or that an H1B sponsorship would be considered for folks who are currently located elsewhere, so that they could relocate to the US?

Am aware that it's a pretty silly question but am sure few others here too might have had this doubt, hence asking it nonetheless.

Please help me understand.

Thanks!
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Just a quick note on your last paragraph, because that reminded me of the other data I looked at. I don't have the exact data handy (I'm doing some before bed hacker news browsing on my tablet), but I think it was assembled by, I want to say, a site called Mother Jones..? It was a google spread sheet of some kind. Anyway, it was a table with every mass shooting in the history of the US, the number of fatalities, and the weapon types used.

After I finished playing with the FBI's data, I started to wonder if the ban was not to stop the kind of day-to-day gun crime, but to prevent the mass shooting, High profile, high fatality events like the recent school shooting, or the Aurora movie theater shooting, or any similar event.

So, I pulled the data from that collection, and could find absolutely no correlation between rifle involvement in a mass shooting and the number of fatalities. Our worst shooting, with (going from memory here) 33 fatalities was the Virginia tech masacre. It involved absolutely no rifles, or shotguns, just the lowly handgun. I'll have to double check all the numbers tomorrow, but if I believe that in the 10 most dealy mass shootings in our history, of the 22 or so weapons used, only 4 or 5 of the were rifles. To my number crunching, rifle usage was pretty inconsequential in the number of fatalities -- which I'll admit was pretty damn unintuitive. But that's what the data shows, so given all that information, it's tough for me to figure out a reason for the administration pushing for the ban.
Did you read until page 3? He actually brings up the Washington sniper incident, although it's phrased as the opinion of another authors article.
The reoccurring theme in your comments amounts to: "Tesla sucks!"

What's your beef? Seriously curious.
Online education has no similar incentive as formal education has. And one of the most important aspect of online education for me is to learn what I find interesting.
great work！
Irrespective of whether or not the dealer trick is right, your argument is unconvincing.

A non-exhaustive list of things which the law allows for and which many people have the ability to do:

* Call you names
* Give you projects that are doomed to fail
* Place you on a team which will drag you down
* Use you as a scapegoat for the failure of a project
* Use KLOC as a metric of performance
* Show you the finger at a traffic light

And yet we don't approve of these things. Something being lawful is the bare minimum, not the gold standard.
My basis was just their current policy: you're allowed 1 quart of non-medical liquids separated into 3 ounce containers. (/eyeroll)

I'd be fine if they want to change the limit. My point is simply that they should test the liquid for whether it's an explosive or not, rather than limiting non-explosives you can carry or who can carry them.
By default, the Tesla Model S will never fully charge the battery, no matter what the capacity. You can tell it do this by doing a "range charge", but Tesla warns that doing this regularly will negatively impact the longevity of the pack. Full charge also has other problem, e.g. regen doesn't work anymore since the battery is too full.

If I'm to believe reports from 60kWh and 85kWh owners, the cars weigh essentially the same. It's not clear what they do with the smaller battery packs, but it doesn't seem to have much effect on weight.

If you read the news release, the 60kWh pack actually has better acceleration than the (theorethical) 40kWh pack.

I'm not sure I agree on market inefficiency, it's maybe inefficient, but it is a completely rational decision. Presumably, the cost to develop a 40kWh pack was higher than to just equip all 40kWh preorders with 60kWh packs.
Germany’s solar power suppliers are destabilizing big power companies.
You don't see nearly as many in the south bay (San Jose, Milpitas, Santa Clara). You'll see them in Santana Row, but only because a showroom is there and they offer reserved parking for Teslas (5 spots).
Agree that .338LM is similar in all aspects to .50BMG as far as lethality. You're talking about a round that has TWICE as much energy @ 1,500 yards as the widely used (by police) 124gr 9x19mm handgun load would have at the muzzle. Almost the same velocity and more than twice the mass.
I don't think it would be too hard to have a "training mode" for something like this, where you bring it some new ammunition on a measured range, fire, and calibrate. In the police/military world, they generally only fire a couple types of ammunition anyway.

(I wanted to do a company making custom suppressors tuned for your own specific rifle, load, etc., but it turns out almost all of the people buying suppressors and shooting a lot of rounds suppressed are using an issued rifle and ammunition, not developing custom loads.)
I have a hard time swallowing the Mother Jones data whole, because I know on issues that I am very informed on, their data has shown to be misleading in the past.

Here's a fun statistic though, since you're in the process of number crunching -- every mass shooting in the US since 1950 (except for perhaps that Gabby Gifford shooting in Arizona) has occurred in a 'gun free zone', where the shooters had the highest probability of completing their shooting sprees with the least fear of being stopped.

Of those, most telling (to me at least) is the Aurora, CO shooting, because while Colorado is generally a fairly well armed state, the shooter bypassed six other theaters that were closer to his home, including the largest theater, where he could have done the most damage, in lieu of taking his gun into the one nearby theater that specifically disallowed guns from being carried inside.
Do you lose sleep over cable/satellite channels that could be available if only you paid for them?

Do you yell at your network hub because it's capable of 150M down but you've only paid for 30?

Do you freak out when you see people in VIP areas at events that you've paid general admission to enter?

Tesla is being smart by constraining the number of products that they have to produce. Removing complexity directly translates to cost savings which go straight to the company's bottom line. It also helps eliminate decisions that a potential customer has to make.

I'm willing to bet that a much higher percentage of 40KWh customers will convert to 60KWh now that they have the capability built in. It's smart no matter how you look at it.
It's the only way to go about this sort of thing. ;)

It only took about 5 minutes of googling the gun debate before I gave up and started googling for actual statistics. Some of the blogs that google returned were just biased in either direction to an amount that was almost parody.

Give me the numbers. I'll sort it out myself, ya biased lot!
Ha ha - April Fool's Day thing from Richard Branson!
Based on comments below, no 40kWh models have shipped which eliminates the first point.

Second point still stands but I reckon it would still be worth it.
And that's probably why we don't allow for dictatorships in this country.

I think that the fact that the right to bear arms IS on the same document means that it was intended to be. You don't have to appreciate all the rights of Americans, but I really wish you wouldn't try to curtail them, especially as there are plenty of other places you could move that have, aside from the second amendment, similarish rights to those of America. (Not suggesting you GTFO or anything, but y'know, if you hate it that much, there are places you could go).
I've never fully bought into this constraint, I guess. I can understand how it might be useful for machine-to-machine consumption of an API (which seems to be a sort of holy grail) or for an API that is meant to last for say a decade and be self-documenting between generations of programmers.

But I guess it seems like neither of those are domains where anyone I know is really working; admittedly entirely anecdotal. API seem to change or get replaced by "the next best thing" on the order of months or years. And doing HATEOAS seems like making a c++ program const-correct.

Always starts out well but pretty soon isn't viewed as worthwhile by powers that be. Do you have an example of a really good HATEOAS public API that is widely consumed?
How much gold is there in the world?
http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=lj7zda4sk3b7xjtj...
What definition of viable are you working with?

EVs make a certain type of person squirm, and I am really interested to try and understand why that is.
Typical miles driven by a car...

Two car household here --

46mo/old Prius - about 52k miles
37mo/old Jetta TDI - about 54k miles

Since we are both solo-commuters, this is fairly typical for the bay area. Probably in the realm measured, but ... a 50k lifetime is a bit of a joke.
"The average car on the road is about 11 years old, and the average car is driven about 15,000 miles per year. Multiply those figures together and you’ve got a fairly average car with something like 165,000 miles on it"

http://business.time.com/2012/03/20/what-you-only-have-100k-...

And that's AVERAGE of cars still being driven
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> Do you lose sleep over cable/satellite channels that could be available if only you paid for them?

No. I decided cable TV wasn't a good value and canceled it years ago.

> Do you yell at your network hub because it's capable of 150M down but you've only paid for 30?

No. My switch is 1 Gb.

> Do you freak out when you see people in VIP areas at events that you've paid general admission to enter?

No.

Would you buy a car that had 250 kg of lead weights bolted into the frame such that you had to pay the car dealers extra to remove it?
Everybody is making a big deal about the battery changes, but you're right: the really important part of this announcement is profitability. This is HUGE for Tesla, as it proves their model is successful.
It's funny - the two things that made friends of mine wary about the original iPhone, are also relevant about the Model S. Cost, and battery life.
My car has almost 70k miles on it, and which means I only have 30k left on the powertrain warranty.
>> Gmail just isn't very "zen."

Sums it up the best. Going through the points mentioned in their review list (on https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2645922?p=newcompose&...), I feel by 'clean', it's just an attempt to Appleify* the gmail experience.

*designing stuff specifically preventing individual users from using it as they desire
It would be a lot more discoverable if this "mode" were indicated on use - ie, some zoom overlay (even just a highlight) that showed that they'd activated it, and when it disappeared. It's almost a quasimode [1] - since it disappears when you let go - still mode indicators would be very useful here.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(computer_interface)#Quasi...
is that it specifically allows for an armed civilian population to keep its government honest.

This is a canard - where have all the second amendment activists been for this century so far? They don't seem to be doing a very good job of it, and don't seem particularly interested in protecting any amendment other than the second.

Times have changed, and it's time to move on from the fantasy that 'guns in the hands of civilians keeps the US government honest'.

I'm also not saying that it is objectively worse, as it is a very hard issue to quantify on the whole

It's not a hard issue to quantify at all. The UK doesn't have a gun-carrying culture. A gun ban there doesn't really affect much in either direction; rises in crime are due to other things. It's not like criminals are out there mugging people because 'now we know they can't carry guns'. They never did.

We went through the same thing here in Australia when we brought in greater restrictions in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre. Despite ridicule and predictions of impending Wild West-ness by the US pro-gun lobby, life went on as usual - because we never really strongly identified with guns, and don't carry them around much. Crime went down, but again, not because of the gun ban - because we entered an economic boom, and when the public is in boom times, crime drops because people are more contented.

Finally, you have to be very careful when you compare non-murder violent crime between nations because of vastly different reporting defintions. The FBI doesn't even bother reporting regular assaults, it's aggravated assaults only. Whereas in Australia (and I believe the UK as well), you get a few charges for a fistfight, which inflates the stats. The prosecutor will bring in a scaled series of charges, they all get counted in the stats, but the defendent is sentenced on the severest one only. In short, unless you're being careful to note the reporting differences, it's apples and oranges. Murders are easier because there's not much in the way of subjective wiggle-room.
Who would ever desire a legal system or regulatory scheme that made it difficult for individuals to figure out if they were complying with it or not? That seems almost kafkaesque.
What it says to me as a consumer is that the vendor doesn't value the product, and so I shouldn't either.

For example, a pet shop: "Sorry, someone else already adopted that three-legged dog we advertised on discount to a good home. But we can give you one of our regular puppies at the same price. Of course, we'll have to 'adjust' it first ..."

Yes, it's a perfectly rational decision of the kind which gives MBAs a bad name.
Does this execute domready as a headless browser or is this just parsing the markup directly into a DOM tree?

I'm sure there will be a few sites that this won't be reflected accurately just because a lot of the content might not be there until loading asynchronously with Javascript unfortunately.
Thanks! Looks really good!
Jeremy Clarkson, is this you?
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It's often a mystery why people get hellbanned.
I'm in Japan and I've been unemployed for about 5 months. It's not that I'm holding for the "perfect" job. I just wanted a "decent" programming job.

I don't mind working overtime, I just don't want to work 70+ hours every week. I'm OK with working "under stress", but I don't want to work for xenophobic bullies like my last boss.

I don't even expect to do truly exciting work (for instance working at a company like Google or startup like RethinkDB, just to illustrate) anymore, I'd settle for any job that let me actually build software, as opposed to pure app support or pure DBA.

And getting a decent salary. And by decent salary I don't mean the exorbitant salaries that experienced programmers earn in the US (like over U$120k). I'd be happy with $70k or even less if the company was interesting. After many rejections at large foreign companies, I applied for a "senior programmer" position at a small company and after multiple tests and interviews I got an offer. The offer was about U$35k/year. FML.
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Yes.

CPU cores are basically software, whereas battery weight is generally proportional to its capacity and would seem to have a big effect on the efficiency of an electric vehicle.
I didn't go to a school that really sent people to the Ivies, so in my mind it was just this exclusive rich people's country club that cost over $200k to attend. I assumed you could basically buy your way in and that low income students were at a disadvantage. My parents could afford to pay $0 for my college education, and I wasn't interested in what I thought would be a $200k loan for that kind of place. Of course, these preconceptions completely changed when I started my college search, but that's the impression I had growing up.

Still, though, I absolutely would not have taken out a $200k loan :) that was like 5x my parents' combined income. No way I could stomach that, and I don't understand how others can. I lucked out in studying CS and graduating during a boom so I'm earning quite a lot more than I ever thought was possible, but it was never my goal to be rich, and my state's flagship school was free for me due to merit scholarships.
HTTP Strict Transport Security solves this.
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It is different because in this case, the upgraded "parts" are already present in the car!