skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (it was competing against Sun, DEC and SGI workstations which were also very expensive, so the price was not really out of line in that context -- only if you compare it to PCs, which you shouldn't.)

Except that it is the only comparison that ended up mattering. PC obliterated the workstation market.
>but now you've made it so that HN users are unwittingly clicking into an article that talks about porn, in such a way that could be detected by a workplace firewall.

If you get heat about things like that in your workplace, then run, don't walk.
I see this as a good motivator for moving away from webmail and using some offline e software, perhaps Thunderbird or mutt that will be more likely to keep its UI experience consistent.
> Maybe corporations will start to recognize Quebec as free when the UN, ICANN, ISO, and a handful of other apolitical organizations do too

UN, ICANN, and ISO aren't apolitical organizations.
I'm impressed that Tesla has admitted that they were a bit misleading with the first announcement/offering.

EDIT: From the article '“We appreciate the feedback from a number of journalists and customers that the first version of our financing product wasn’t quite right,” said Tesla Co-founder & CEO Elon Musk.' Sure sounds like they're admitting it in a "we didn't really do anything wrong" kind of way.

Even though it's not an outright admission, it's still admirable.
I would but as of right now I am unable to edit my own comments. shrug
I don't think that's an outrageous exaggeration.

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional...

But going beyond that, even when differences are not subtle as in that blog post you still have a large swath of people who won't be able to distinguish ads from non-ads. Just go in the heart of a large city and observe the web-surfing habits of some regular Joe Shmoe and you'll be pretty astounded with his ad-detection heuristics. Large internet companies know and understand this very well, and indeed design their products as such. Heck, when I'm designing webapps I do this too, I guess I'm just cognizant about what actually I'm doing.
Yes, and Bigus Dickus is also a common Roman name.

It being common just makes it even more funny.
That would just see the NIMBYs shift to blocking the rail stations entirely.
Could this have anything to do with the fact that abundant displays of wealth (I.e. a mansion) are frowned upon by some in the Valley? I honestly have no idea, but you hear stories about tech millionaires living modest lives in SV all the time.

Nothing wrong with that at all, but if they aren't spending the money they have then its not helping the economy (at least in this respect).
http://www.teslamotors.com/true-cost-of-ownership
Is that clearly a bad thing? Maybe the market is correctly accounting for the cost vs value? I mean, is there some externality I'm missing?
They have a Model S sans bodywork (just the lower frame, drivetrain, and suspension) at the Tesla Store here at the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica. If you get a chance to stop in a Tesla Store, it's definitely worth it to see the intricacies of the suspension.
Sorry in advance for being negative, it's not these particular buttons that are problematic, they're technically very nice, its animated icons/buttons/logos in general that I think we should consider visually upsetting. Here is my reasoning:

The genius of gradients and shadows in design is that they allow for objects to appear 3D, that is, they can visually "pop" off the flat page and therefore draw the users' attention to them. This is good unless every element on the page has shadows and gradients, then it becomes very pretty but very distracting.

When I'm on a website, I'm not appreciating a colorful Monet, I'm trying to always do essentially one of two things: Find the right thing to click so that I no longer need to be on that website, or else read text. (or look at photos, etc.) Being a pretty site is a huge plus, but not if it distracts from one of those two goals.

The genius of Flat UI that has recently (re-)exploded in popularity is not to draw attention to specific elements, but to ease the experience by doing the opposite: it un-distracts by removing all this popping stuff.

And I love Flat UI for this. I can see clearly now, the bevel and embossed rain is gone.

Alas these icons are about as distracting as you can get. Many of them resemble a flat UI style, but they've missed the point of Flat UI entirely. It's not that I dislike gradients, its that I don't want to be distracted in my journey to find the one button I need to click and then get off the page.

I understand that they're examples of what you could do, but I do hope hey're something no site author would want to do. No user ever has had the thought, "Before I click a button, I really wish it would wabble back and forth."

(And if I'm there to read text, I sure don't want anything animating while I'm reading!)

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I don't mean to be totally harsh on animations. They can be useful when you need to create affordances. Buttons that highlight as you mouse-over them afford clicking, just like the visual of knobs (say on a car dash board) in real life afford turning. An icon that flies away as I hover over it, or significantly changes shape as I hover over it is probably not a good choice for nearly any button.
How is this a zoning issue?
Denominating Multi-Region Sites
If you've had more than one job your ability to select multiple options goes up :-). There is another post here which mentions they can have negative value (which is to say you exercised them but they were never worth anything) and that is important to.

If you follow the strategy that you only exercise and sell when they are worth money and you can sell, then options are always 'additive' to your salary. If you take options in lieu of salary then you're taking a bigger risk than someone who has both. The philosophy a number of people I know use with startups is enough salary to get by and save a bit, and options as an upside kicker.
Ugh, please no. The real problem is that startups can't decide to open up shop somewhere else, like Pleasanton or Napa. Somewhere that's just as accessible to all the VCs and conferences but not so short on housing.

I don't want mega city. I'm sure a lot of people who have made the Silicon Valley their home for many years agree. It's just the young crowd who has to live in apartments anyway that think more mega Apartment buildings would be great. I completely refuse to live in SF because of the density and turn down any job based in SF automatically.
Lazy people around helps few smart people
And killed a lot of really good things along the way, like Lisp machines and their unique operating systems.
I know someone who occasionally uses that site, but only searches it for things like a free shipping code after deciding to purchase a particular item from a particular online vendor.

How effect, really, are any of these affiliate programs? Are online retailers actually able to measure how much new business the affiliates are really bringing in?
Those cities we're built by bureaucracy, not the market. In fact, what you mention is a great example of failed social planning which is taking zoning to the next level.
I have one box like this under my desk, nobody knew what it is.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-iliZcxPMKgY/UYQcH1pKKvI/A...
Model S

Auto loan amount: $62400 (Cheapest option not including tax)

Auto loan term: 5 yrs

Interest rate: 8%

Monthly auto loan payments: $1265.25

Now this is a basic auto loan calculator. I am not factoring in tax incentivized discounts or overall savings per month on gas payments and no down payment. For now it's a number to start with.

Tool I used: http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/auto/auto-loan-calculato...
Yeah, I was confused when I got to the phone and language questions as well, and was expecting the result to be a joke or something that completely ignored the first set of questions and called me a psychopath for using Android and writing Clojure.
The test has less nuance than D&D alignments, that's for sure. Feels like the 'right' answers are all Lawful Good.
ahh, dry ice, water and closed containers. It's a classic. I blew up stuff using this method less than a year ago.
But the Feds define a rifle as a firearm so does it matter what the NY law defines? Unless they are defining it as something that is much more strict, which, as draconian as the gun laws are in NY, that wouldn't surprise me.
The bouncing twitter bird is against twitter's TOS, right?

https://twitter.com/logo
need to write me some pygments-vcl for vcl syntax highlighting in octopress and elsewhere.
What Are Product Mechanics?
'Top Affiliate Marketers' is linkbait. He committed fraud. Cookie stuffing is illegal from any angle.
For a lot of sites, either using ESIs or including dynamic content via AJAX is a fairly simple solution that still leaves you with the benefits of caching.
Ask HN: Which startups will let me sell for them on a commission basis?
Recent college graduate, currently a marketing intern, but I want to try out sales before I decide which job to apply for by mid-summer. I don't have much sales experience but I want to learn by doing. Which startup (preferably in the Bay Area that has reached some level of traction) will let me sell their product on a commission basis, remotely in my apartment, working part-time? My end goal is to improve my sales skills and get a job in Silicon Valley by July. Thank you!
Rare. The market typically sorts this stuff out. You'd be surprised by the amount of due diligence is required for a bank to lend on a property or an insurer to insure it.
If they're like any other city I've been in, they're already trying to block them because it ostensibly leads to lowered property values since the cheaper transportation lets more people come in to the area.
> media hunt chrome add on

Are you talking about Media Hint (http://mediahint.com)?

The web site barely has any information what the addon is for. The mozilla.org page for this addon is not much better. The description says: This extension allows you to enjoy The Fun Stuff from any country! No additional set-up required. Install extension and you are ready to go. That is not very helpful.

Could you elaborate what is this addon useful for?
Good Reads
I find the topic really interesting. However it is the first time I see that Balanced is involved in this vision. From their homepage, I don't see any link about their openness. What did I miss ?
I'm not sure you understand the difference between "sandbox" and "theme park", even though you just stated it.
Which can yield erroneous results if not used properly:

http://www.stanford.edu/~savage/flaw/Article_files/image002....
"Familiarity with web servers and HTML would be
helpful but is not necessary."
Great pioneering times !
Luckily there's a continuum of choices, rather than the false dichotomy of San Francisco vs Kowloon Walled City.
That article is much less researched consisting of one guy's short experience with the device. It also includes a list of negatives which mirrors some of the issues listed in the OP article.
I think that the terms psychopath and sociopath are overhyped by media. It's not even recognized by DSM-IV. I've read Hare's book about sociopaths and my impression was that we simply don't have a very clear idea of what constitutes a sociopath. IMHO, normal people can start behaving like sociopaths in certain environments (Stanford prison experiment, members of SS in Nazi germany, etc.).
We eventually abandoned Varnish because the purging was too far from our application logic. nginx serves static content just as fast as Varnish does, and so getting our application to write static HTML files that were redirected to via nginx was just as quick as Varnish but easier to purge when needed.
JPA/JPQL: Intermediate Queries with NamedQuery
While working as an Engineer for over 2 years within walking distance to Huaqiangbei, I discovered there's a dark side to the SEG market that a tour guide is not going to point out. This is also where much of the grey market and fake ICs end up.

Our company wasted weeks and thousands of dollars trying to save time by using some SEG parts to speed up the production of an EVT board last year.

SEG also caters heavily to the shanzhai phone manufactures.
I apologize if it sounded that way, but I wasn't insinuating that I'm going to get into trouble.

I'm just saying that it could get someone into trouble.

As far as the "logging" goes, it had more to do with the word porn in the title of the page, because many content-filters just parse the title for blacklisted words.
SOINN, an AI brain able to self-learn from the internet
I have been searching for, and failing to find a quote by Steve Jobs - I remember reading it in the late 80s. It was to the effect "UNIX is going to be the operating system for the 90's". I'd love to track down the original source for this...
I love stories about EVE. Though I couldn't give any minute to play it, I'm pretty sure this is the closest to a "hacker" game.

Sure, there are big factions, and ship-blowing and warfare and stuff, but all the stories we read about it, are about human interaction, and how it can be gamed: how VileRat made his way to the opposing faction as a mole, how he started a diplomacy corps, how this user found a loophole in the economy, how other users are playing the market everyday,... And EVE is rewarding: you "win" by thinking outside-the-box, you get points for being creative, the whole system WANTS you to think of something new.

Just like real life.
Right. Prohibiting 3D printers from making shapes with through-holes (i.e., a barrel) would be somewhat...limiting.
My junior high science teacher would regularly fill a two liter bottle (with the base removed) with hydrogen generated by magnesium tablets in hydrochloric acid, then ignite the mixture by placing a match above a hole in the lid. During school. My high school physics teacher did something similar with gas from the countertop outlets and a coffee can.
How much does hosted helpdesk software really cost? More than I thought...
How is it NSFW? It is an article that is about video streaming on scale. Yes it does mention it was for a porn site, but it really does not have much to do with the article. If you work somewhere where this would be viewed as inappropriate I am not sure what can be viewed at that employer.
On the demo site(http://codecanyon.net/item/livicons-303-truly-animated-vecto...), some of the icons don't have any animation as far as I can tell from my browser (Chrome on MacOSX). Is it just me?
Why take all the risk of designing, building, and marketing a product if all it gets you is a mediocre dead-end job in a big company? Entrepreneurship used to be where the brightest could make fortunes, now that ship as all but sailed. It might not bother you, but it should. All that talent is now going to seek opportunity elsewhere, rather than building useful products and services. Is this a good outcome for society?
I'm astonished by some of the responses here, that could be summarised thusly:

>"I work on workplace, in a modern western society, not some theocratic backwater, that monitors my web activity and would frown if I visited an article with the word porn in it. This on 2013. I find this OK, and won't quit my job or raise hell protesting this degrading treatment, but would rather complain for HN titles".

In an age where people fight for LGBT rights, this is what the American workplace has come to?
They can always say no.
Unleash Your Subconscious Mind Power
If there is the option for online interaction, why not?

Your market would be terribly small though ;)
For light page customizability like Hello Username. I will include the username in a browser cookie and use some JavaScript to insert it into the page. This way I can still use Varnish to serve most pages.
Does anyone really think Photoshop is a good UX for mass consumption

Obviously not. I just wish Gmail would work more like The GIMP.
Audio collaboration startup
> They really, really don't want you to change the subject because consistent subject lines are essential to gmail's conversation threading functionality, so they've made it as difficult as possible.

So, as someone who doesn't use Gmail, I'm finding this (not just your mention of this, but others as well) confusing: what happened to In-Reply-To and References? I thought that using the Subject for threading was something you only did in a worst-case fallback scenario if you see something that looks like a reply but is somehow missing the required headers to establish the threading.
What is the difference between reporting a problem and seeing if it was a local SNAFU?
You must be able to relate to the idea that she knew what she was doing, knew the likely immediate result, but didn't think it through to a time 10-30 years away when she would be tarred with a serious convictions and it was preventing her from finding work. It is possible here for a lot of arguments to be correct - she both knew the likely result, but failed to appreciate all the results. A failure to see the broader picture (the criminal conviction). Given that idea of a conviction is surprising people here, it is unlikely that she considered this angle.
I don't know if I buy the sunglasses analogy. Sunglasses are inappropriate to wear when it's very obvious that they are unneeded due to there being no sunlight. If you are in sunlight, they are suddenly appropriate. Also, in the right context, sunglasses make you look really good.

In what contexts will Glass be appropriate? Will they be contexts that are generally accepted and clear? How often will you be taking them on and putting them off? Will you be keeping them off more than on? Will Glass always make you look doofier than without it, so the pressure is to only put it on when it's "worth it"?

At some point if you are not wearing Glass very often due to various other reasons two things are going to happen. First, Glass's overall utility is going to be limited to "on-demand" applications. This is clearly not what Google is going for since the dream of Glass is that you will be able to capture much more spontaneous moments since it's an always-available camera. Second, you are going to have to weigh the utility of (this now limited) device against your other devices and the annoyance of carrying it around on your head all the time. Eventually if the thing is not useful or you feel like a dork wearing it you are going to start leaving it at home.
Why are you against banning assault weapons in principle?

(I've been hoping for some time that someone would explain this.)
"I was half hoping to head off the usual flood of posts that something was wrong" by being the first post in the flood.
Overbuild cities in China or Eastern Europe are artifacts of planning gone wrong, not the opposite.
Good point. But one thing to note about Kowloon was that there were questionable/weak property rights. That was the issue with that more so than no zoning.
1) Your 220 made mostly steam and little browns gas.

2) We had partially buried the bottle before setting it off.
Bad judgement and science are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they have quite a colorful shared history.

The only reason to say that this was not both seems to be a (frankly, rather suspicious) attitude about the likelihood that this girl had curiosity about science.
2 kids in the same district. One is playing around while illegally handling firearms. One is playing around while legally working on a science project at school where they're supposed to be supervised.

One child kills another. The other produces a small puff of smoke. Same prosecutor, same area. One case, she deliberates for a month. The other case, she gives a phone recommendation over 3 days.

I'm sorry, but given the history of the US this seems like relevant and damning data.

Again, I ask: how many children's lives need to be ruined before you have a statistically significant number? Please set the goalpost.
What do you think somebody could do with a zip gun on a plane?
It's quite possible to enforce anti-growth NIMBYism without municipal zoning. Houston has no zoning, and yet is completely sprawling and full of contractually agreed development restrictions, which are not zoning and do not involve a government but produce the same effect.

Say you're buying a nice suburban house in Houston. It has no zoning, so you're worried your neighbors might sometime in the future replace their house with a loud bar, or a factory, or subdivide it into rental housing. An enterprising subdivision developer realizes they can get more money if they can assure you that none of these things will happen. So when they're building the subdivision, they don't just sell you the property unrestricted. Instead, they draw up a set of rules governing future use of the property, and they require anyone who buys a house in the subdivision to sign a contract agreement to be bound by them. Now they can promise you that your neighbor won't build a factory on their land, because the subdivision rules don't permit it, and your neighbor has signed a contract agreeing to the rules.

The rules you agree to typically along the lines of what you'd normally get from suburban, Palo-Alto-style zoning regulations: you agree not to subdivide the property, not to redevelop it into anything other than a 1- or 2-story single-family house, not to build a structure on the property that doesn't meet certain design and land-occupation percentage requirements, not to operate an industrial or commercial facility on the property, in some cases not to rent it to tenants, etc., etc.

In short, the market demands and produces zoning.
No. There are plenty of mansions too. But the prices here are all about the fact that demand keeps increasing while supply is not allowed to.
I'm confused. My understanding is there are lots of fully active suspensions out there:

http://www.edmunds.com/car-technology/suspension-iii-active-...
I'm not sure chaotic good is incompatible with psychopathy.
i've owned an NA2 NSX and a 997 911 GT3 and the NSX was much easier to lose control in. it felt unstable in general.

911 grips harder as you turn harder, very strange to get used to but once you 'get it' it feels great. obviously there is a limit but you are not going to hit it on the street in a car like a 911.

i haven't driven any modern mid-engine cars like the R8 or boxster though, i'm sure it's vastly improved from the NSX, which was basically designed in the 80s, so no fault to it. it was a great car. can't wait to see the new one.

right now i drive a performance sedan but my next car will be a "regular" 911, probably a 991 S.

as for the tesla... eh. doesn't give me that "gotta have it" feeling. i still want gasoline and a clutch. call me old fashioned.

i would be interested to know the % of current tesla owners that have ever owned "real" sports cars, not just "sporty" cars. it doesn't strike me as the same crowd.
Thank you! I was thinking along the same lines but I figured I should quit posting since everyone seemed to be attacking me.

Thank you for making me feel like my attempt at a positive message was worthwhile. +1 Upvote from me.
Which is exactly what they've just done?
its about efficiency. There simply isnt a demand for tech workers in san jose to fill the residential high rises.

(Also the hardware industry has gone down significantly in the past 20 years. san jose will never have the 70's and 80's again)
I was addressing parent's "There should be no zoning at all". Maybe I'm confusing zoning and urban planning.
If 100% of law abiding citizens' guns were to evaporate tomorrow, that doesn't make us any safer, as it still leaves possession of guns in the wrong hands.

That seems overly simplistic. How many people that shoot people were — before the shooting — law-abiding citizens? Probably lots.
That's a complete myth. Housing values are actually helped by having nearby public transit:

http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/green-living/public-tr...

http://www.realtor.org/news-releases/2013/03/home-values-per...
Well, zoning clearly didn't avoid that situation, either.