skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually going to reply to the parent and say that Windows 8 often times tells me to "click or tap". Can you give an example of somewhere in Windows 8 where it says to only tap?
Moths That Drive Cars
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.i...
They are also immutable in Python.
I'm super excited for glass. it's going to be a game changer in every sense of the way, especially for hands free computing.
Iron Man 3… open sourced
Where is the GC switch he mentioned tho ?
You ought to watch "Revenge of the Electric Car" (it was available on Netflix streaming last I checked). Even for a documentary that's as ra-ra about EVs as it is, it shows how much blood, sweat and tears Musk has gone through just to get this far. It's been no cakewalk.
I don't have a linkedin account.
Should I? Does it provide value I can't find elsewhere?
It is that easy, and also that difficult.

Two bicycle mechanics in a small town game us the airplane, but there were a lot of smart people that tried to do just that before them and failed.

It's easy because we only talk about the ones that had everything go right for them.
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>> The grandparent mentions sentences of 100 word (I take that he means tokens).

Correct. Though I have seen valid (readily human-readable) sentences even longer at 140 tokens, so the number of words too can reach or exceed 100 more frequently than commonly assumed.

>> I'd guess that such sentences usually contain one or more dependent clauses, that can be parsed separately if necessary.

Absolutely. Often more than one independent clause and several dependent clauses. But I am not aware how to identify these and parse them separately. Can you please shed some light? Are there for example some simpler grammars available that do not need to do the full parse to identify these clauses?
Lets also not forget that proprietary software implementations are by design a secret, which almost always are kept forever from the public.

So a genuinely inventive idea can be independent created over and over again. A email sorting algorithm could had firstly been made in then 1950, again in the 1970, 3 times in the 1990, and then claimed in a patent in the 2000. Even if source code was public, a patent examiner would have to compare and understand billions of line of codes to even try to grasp what is genuinely inventive, and was has already been done before.

Examining software patents is an unsolvable problem. Society can either have them an accept that any review is a token effort at best, and a rubber stamp in the common case, or they can avoid the whole mess by not allowing those kinds of patents.
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It's because Tesla makes an extra $7.5K from each car via the federal tax credit and an extra $70M each quarter selling ZEV credits. Without these they would not be profitable. So they have more money to apply to the fit and finish of the car than luxury manufacturers which don't make an electric.
It's because Tesla makes an extra $7.5K from each car via the federal tax credit and an extra $70M each quarter selling ZEV credits. Without these they would not be profitable. So they have more money to apply to the fit and finish of the car than luxury manufacturers which don't make an electric. They also benefit from an enormous, low interest DOE loan.

To date Tesla has lost more than billion dollars which has not been recouped; that's roughly -$50K per car sold in 2013 ($1B / 20K). In contrast, BMW only makes a profit of +$5K on each of their 1.5M cars sold yearly.
>Why can't the existing industry do this?

It's like any other business that's been extremely successful for so long. It's very difficult to change course unless you are built that way.

We may be talking about electric cars but one of the best things that Tesla has done compared to everyone else is making the interior joyful.

I don't think we've even seen everything of what Tesla can do yet. If they are really interested in giving away refueling for free then that can that speed up the transition away from oil.
The tradition in science publishing has been to leave out the nitty-gritty details. Most specialists will know (or quickly deduce) most available methods (unless the results are a radical improvement). As for the details, that's what conferences and telephones and joining the department and gossip are for.
This list is without context. Is it based solely on how business friendly the state is in terms of taxes and licensing requirements? Is workforce education taken into account?

Edit: Apparently they give you the ranking information if you click on the individual states.
'Pinterest stress' afflicts nearly half of moms, survey says - TODAY.com
To me LinkedIn is basically a bunch of people circle jerking each other. Professionally.

Endorsed: Product Knowledge.
Thank you oh wise one for enlightening me.
Version numbers for applications with a public API should have meaning:

http://semver.org/
And if I can throw in another shameless plug (only because I think it will genuinely be of interest, of course), I'll point out this post[3] on Prolog resources, since Prolog often find application in the NLP world

You missed the nicest and most satisfying book ;):

http://www.mtome.com/Publications/PNLA/pnla-digital.html

It is simultaneously an introduction to Prolog and natural language parsing using Prolog.
I'm a backend developer at MobileDevHQ, and just checked our db. We're currently tracking 520,684 searches.
Redirected to your install.php file at this URL:

http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-netwo...
Are you logging in from the same locality, perhaps the same building, perhaps from the same computer and perhaps still using the same IP as you had when you closed your account in 2011? It doesn't take a lot of work to come up with some new-user-matching-old-user algorithm with a decent success rate using geographic/IP data.
I've been using Moves [1] for the past few weeks and really like it. Nice daily summary, and it simplifies my daily movement. Though, it's not without flaws, that at times I can bicycle fast enough and trick it into thinking I'm in a car. I don't run so I can't speak for that functionality.

[1] http://www.moves-app.com/
I personally believe that the importance lies in awareness more than anything else. I generally don't run the radio in my car (even though its a piddly 1.8t GTI) because listening to the engine is important. There are all sorts of audible clues to the state of your car that get completely drowned out with the radio blaring.

I have a feeling that this is part of the source of some of the ridiculous "I've been driving my car and the brakes are magically broken" stories involving people who have run their pads and rotors down to bare metal and wonder why they didn't realize this was happening. Same goes for oil leaks, knocking, worn belts, etc.

We have a huge number of drivers in the US, and the 99% have absolutely no clue what the hell is going on with an item they use on a daily basis, hurtling down the freeway with 3000 pounds of steel at 70 mph.
This is awesome! It'd be great to build a service around this so anyone can have their own "beacon".
Because being excellent doesn't come easy? Elon Musk is not just 'some guy' - At Tesla he's "Head of Product Design", not just some businessman who hired a few engineers.
Instead of the word "sound" I should have made clear that I was referring to professional audio, not PC-speaker quality sound. Unless you could afford a full-time technician, the hard- and software hurdles were formidable.
The Model S is a full-size high performance luxury sedan, and very price-competitive at ~$100k decked out. It's competitors aren't the Honda accords of the world, but these: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/1301_2013_bmw_m5_.... The BMW M5 is comparably priced at just over $100k "as tested" and the Porsche Panamera GTS is around $150k. None of these are "perfect" cars.

The Model S goes toe-to-toe with those cars that get 14-20 miles per gallon. It's quarter mile time is right between the M5 and the Panamera.

Maybe it's stupid, but measures of how quickly you can haul 4,500+ pounds of luxury car from 0-60 are the coin of the realm in this segment, and the Model S is enormously impressive in this regard. It's a brilliant play by Tesla, actually, competing with high-margin cars that can justify high-budget R&D before working down the line.
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I was torn as to whether to link to the site or the blog post introducing it. Here's the blog post with more info: http://neosmart.net/blog/2013/worried-google-will-kill-your-...

The site is still in the early stages, more features are coming in very soon. Some geeky info: powered by ASP.NET MVC, S3, RDS, EC2, CloudFront and soon, Redis for real-time analytics (currently a custom in-memory data structure). Backend was implemented in around a week of non-stop work.

We've been using FeedBurner since 2004, and were huge fans of one of the coolest startups to come from our hometown, Chicago. We also know what it means to have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, our own feed has over 600,000 subscribers constantly making requests for content (don't ask). As the blogpost explains, we would love to take this further and delve into the intricate world of feed indexing but want to take the time to gauge demand and get a feel for the bigger picture. Feedback is most welcome.

Sample "prettified" feeds for those so inclined, ranging from original feeds that provide full content, brief summary, to titles only: http://feeds.feedsnap.com/neosmart http://feeds.feedsnap.com/bbcnews http://feeds.feedsnap.com/hackernews
Not really. That is nothing more than a civil contract issue between two parties. And to have a valid contract there must be an offer, acceptance, and consideration. Not just the promise of future consideration either, so saying that Google could make money off of you later (by e.g. directed advertising) wouldn't make an enforceable contract.

But as it stands things are even more lopsided towards Google. Go check their terms of service, I'd bet they have a half dozen different ways of indemnifying themselves from liability in the event they don't deliver that email.
Interesting. It's a bit like Market Samurai with app store search results thrown in. I would love to see it pull in sales and grossing rank figures but they're a little harder to capture.
Saturn was an attempt to do something similar--though less ambitious. It worked for awhile, but ended up subsumed by GM.
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Climate change can mean snow in May as well as heat in December.
Execution is hard. Remember Fisker?
Talk about airing ones dirty laundry.
How can a bug in the implementation be a security risk? Aren't the artefacts of bitcoin (I don't know the correct terminology) cryptographically unambiguous, completely independent of the implementation used to create them?

The "problem" with HTML incompatibilities is that there is room for plenty of ambiguity in both standard and implementation, without compromising the fundamental mission of the users of the protocol (rendering web content).
Looks to me like they've gone out of their way to make it look similar-but-slightly-different to other cars. I'm sure they did their market research. People expect cars to look a certain way.
I don't care how good the music is at the time, I still turn it off and roll down the windows every time I drive my M5 through a tunnel.
Great thought. I'll write a followup with some good examples.
Show HN: Rocket Fueled Process, my new lean product dev e-book
Fixed it: If your desire is to have a job making Wordpress websites and you don't know how to make Wordpress websites, then you should be making Wordpress websites.
> it does come with other risks, the authors note: “It is critical that you handle all Microsoft file types on the internet with extreme care. Never open a Microsoft file type on the internet. Instead, use one of the techniques described here,” they write in a footnote. The word “here” is hyperlinked, but since the document is a PDF the link is inaccessible.

Anyone have any insight on this? I imagine it's opening the files in a VM or something along those lines, but I'd be interested to know if there are any other techniques for looking at potentially malicious files.
By increasing vehicle prices, these ZEV credits do, in fact, cost taxpayers. But that's a price everyone has to pay for their own carbon emissions.
I do believe this approach to commenting a basic theme could drastically help Wordpress theming beginners. I would go one step further, however, and also try to add links back to the documentation for the function calls, hooks, filters, etc.

For those interested, this would add a significant amount of reading material so they could have a better understanding.
NodeFly Node.js News Round-Up for May 8, 2013
It's pretty dumb that upstarts have such large advantages against incumbents merely because incumbents choose not to disrupt their legacies.

You see the same thing in airlines. You'd think there'd be little harder than starting an airline and yet southwest, JetBlue and virgin come in and have great success.
1) Don't send your readers to our address, use a 302 redirect from your old feed unless the useragent is FeedSnap (plugins for popular platforms to do this automagically coming this way soon)

2) Yes, it's in the works.
Definitely the same concept. I had no doubt that this idea wasn't already done, but it was just one of those random itches I wanted to scratch :)
Except it isn't the same as the only time your API is valuable is if you have data, which you wouldn't have if it was a shell company.
Yeah. I guess it says something about society, human nature, etc., but I think you're right. Heck, I can't even remember ever meeting a female recruiter who wasn't at least moderately attractive. And most of the women I've met, who were recruiters, are what I'd describe as flat-out "gorgeous" or "beautiful".

So... are attractive women particularly drawn to recruiting for some reason, or is physical appearance a hiring criteria for recruiting companies? Both? Neither?
Congrats on shipping!

The app looks neat, but UI/UX needs work to take this from a concept to something awesome. Maybe try connecting with some designers on http://www.builditwith.me/ ?
I've loved programming for decades. I've always wanted a computer that was rugged and cheap and long-running enough that I could write code under a beach umbrella the way others read cheap, blockbuster beach novels. My fantasy is to hike miles out into the wild, unfold my comfy chair, and write code on my waterproof, solar-powered laptop in front of breathtaking scenery.

But it really annoys me how much of professional programming skill is what I call Temporary Technical Trivia instead of Cumulative Competence. It drives me crazy that the fact that I've learned ten times as much about programming as a young hotshot just out of school doesn't give me a huge, obvious advantage. I've walked fifty miles over harsh terrain to get to this point on the trail, this kid was just dropped off by his mother, and now here we are walking side by side.

The 100x programmer is a myth. You don't have time to get that good before the game restarts. The 10x programmer, if real, may have to choose between continuing to work on things fewer and fewer people care about or restarting again and again as a 1x programmer on new projects. The feeling that all of your hard work isn't adding up to much gets to most people after a while. And yet, I love it too much to stop....
You are taking the system of computer and user as a single system, and are no longer talking about just the computer. This will lead to more than electronic reduction in silicon because there is more than electrons and silicon.

There are no attempts to manage the limits of pure logic at the silicon level. The entire analogy of the CPU is to implement pure boolean logic through strict controls and limits of voltage levels in analog circuits.

The logic available to humans is the same available to CPU. Godel used pure logic to create an unprovable statement that was both true and false. What he did to create such a statement is what computers do not (yet) have, but it most certainly is not logic, and I think that would be what you say is 'between the electrons'.

But whether we can program and execute this 'insight' on a finite logic system is another question that is yet to be answered. What we can program we can execute and thus can be reduced to basic forms of symbolic logic, whether powered by electrons, pen and paper or the brain.
First, he has a degree in physics. He didn't just read a few books, he's a very smart guy.

Second, Tesla suffered quarterly losses for their first 10 years of its existence. It wasn't "that easy". It was a long struggle.
But electric cars aren't a disruptive technology. The only thing that might qualify as disruptive about Tesla is their direct to customer sales model, and I have a hard time seeing how they'll get around the entrenched interests there.

The Model S is by all accounts an excellent car, and I want one, but I am bearish on Tesla the company.
That was really informative. Thanks for the breakdown.
I think it's the best / most ubiquitous way to always have your up-to-date resume available, and to keep in touch with industry contacts.
Web design tips for developers
It's my first complete book. Would love to know what people think. The content is not super dense, but wanted to share some things I've learned over the years.
Very cool. That post was originally written quite some time ago, and it was never meant to be an exhaustive list. That said, I'll add this to the list as well. Thanks for the pointer!
Yes, they do reviews well. But a lot of their consumer advocacy would profit from better (or any?) cost/benefit analysis.
I've been lurking for a while but that doesn't mean I'm astroturfing, everything I wrote was genuine.
Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier [presentation/video]
It doesn't have to be democratic because it's not using the public's money.
> FACT: the overwhelming majority of Syrians support the current government & voted for them in independently observed free elections.

Had you even lived in Syria, you'd realize how it's virtually impossible to get an accurate and true poll. There's absolutely no freedom of expression. Citizens don't trust each other. There's around 275 intelligence officers for each Syrian citizen. The country is littered with the picture of the ruling Assad mafia that's shoved down the throat of all citizens. The vast majority of Syrians are scared to death of government. I know this, since not only have I lived there, I have many relatives and friends who have been either imprisoned, tortured, or exiled for simply speaking out.

Obviously, the government does have some support, but it's vast majority of supporters are beneficiaries of the government or are dependent on the government for their source of income. Add to that the brainwashing and fear the government has instilled in its own citizens for over 40 years, and it's not surprising to see such reports.

> Where are videos - have you verified them?

Yes, many of those videos have been verified.

> So you fully support killing civilians to aid a propaganda effort?

What a ridiculous question. You very well know my position about advocating for the rights and freedom of civilians. But, that question demonstrates many of the classic logical fallacies in your entire argument.

The Syrian government has been terrorizing its own citizens before your claimed propaganda efforts were in the picture. Sure, there are players that are now taking advantage of the situation, but that doesn't invalidate the claim that the main responsible party in the destruction of the country is the Syrian regime, which has allowed other parties to take advantage.
There were a few others that I think were around in 2008, like Starkers, but my memory's a bit fuzzy so don't take that with any great authority.

I definitely agree that a best-practise step-by-step theme construction guide in the Codex would be very useful. I still see many themes using things like query_posts() instead of creating a new WP_Query or a hooking into the pre_get_posts filter. As I mentioned below, Wordpress would ideally have its built-in functions trimmed dramatically, though this would really murder backwards compatibility.

I don't really think it's Wordpress's fault that the Loop uses the alternative PHP control structure, but I agree that the Loop's Codex page is abominable. You may or may not be aware that the Codex is a wiki, and thus poor quality information can and will be added.

I would like to see a loop using the Iterator class. However, there are quite a few complexities to that, as mentioned in this feature request [1]. They also point out that you can foreach and count on $wp_query->posts, so you can get to your information in a more obvious PHP-friendly way for now.

[1]:http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20297
Yahoo acquires GoPollGo
Our current FeedBurner feed has over 600,000 subscribers (don't ask) most days of the week. We know the difficulties of hosting constantly-updating info that's requested once a minute by hundreds of thousands of users: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/neosmart
Ask HN: How do you finish what you start?
After reading HN for months, I have a huge backlog of books, courses and articles to read.
Everyday I discover a new interesting book/course on the web/HN and I am tempted to take it but that means I gave less attention to the courses/books I am already taking.

I think in the last few months, I have taken lot of courses (Udacity, edX, coursera etc) but seldom I have gone past the 2nd or 3rd week lectures/assignments. Its same with books as well, I can't follow the book till the end.

I am sure I can't be the only person facing these issues, can you folks advice me on what to do? How do I tackle these issues?

Also, have you ever faced such problems? If so I would like to hear about your issues and how you overcame them.

Thanks
Yeah, didn't know that. Actually, what I especially found interesting was the dead-easy way of paying via your phone bill. I don't see that much here in the States.
Deskilling and The Cul-de-Sac of Near Perfect Automation
You sound like you have a chip on your shoulder. Either that, or you are affiliated with Arcimoto.
Well, since we are talking about a demo/proof of concept it could be interesting to try.
I can't parse anything Ms. Allen writes. There needs to be some sort of textspeak/Twitter babble/missing characters translation after the original statement. Arrington's lawyer does a good job trying to pick up the pieces of her ramblings, but still.
How the New England Patriots rolled out Wi-Fi and mobile apps
Alloy my point was not about maintenance but the fact that MacRuby relies on the ObjC GC which is now deprecated.
In this email thread Laurent acknowledge the need to switch to static compilation and that he has a working branch he will soon merge.

This is exactly what RubyMotion just released and I'm saddened that it was not contributed back as promised.

It's as simple as that.
This is a talk by Ilya Grigorik of Google’s Make The Web Fast team, presenting a lot of hard data about the negative effects of slow loading web pages, the mechanics of downloading and rendering pages, which parts of those mechanics can cause significant delays (particularly on mobile networks), and practical techniques to mitigate these.

It’s somewhat focussed on US carriers and 3G/4G networks in places, but probably relevant to anyone working on a web app and particularly on a web app with a significant mobile-user market.
> FeedSnap's goal is simple: to provide a reliable, capable, and actively maintained FeedBurner replacement for your beloved RSS feed.

In keeping with that goal, is there any chance that you will open source the work you've done under a GPLv3 license? Perhaps the largest problem is that every service claims to be "reliable, capable, and actively maintained" until it isn't.