skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because you bought the Nexus 7 without a carrier, they can still limit what you can do as long as you're using their network, right?
Motivation. Humor gives them a reason to focus. Classic non-comp sci example was an o-chem instructor's homework making us translate a collection of "funny" chem structures and IUPAC nomenclature into each other. All I really remember was some ridiculous multi-line textual IUPAC definition that translated into a giant centipede with ketone groups for legs, or something like that.
Cyberattacks Against U.S. Corporations Are on the Rise
Tesla actually seems really cheap compared to what novel technology it has.
I also feel this photo (not the event) do not seem natural. I don't see why this opinion should be shameful in any way. It has nothing to do with the event itself or the poor people in the scene, it has everything to do with a photographer, his tools and his deontology (work ethic).
Sounds so plausible ...
While this can be a useful construct when you are doing meta-programming, this particular example is horrible. It's not much more readable (would be less readable in an 80x24 terminal window), and now you have an extra object sitting in memory for the lifetime of your application. If you only have a handful of options, just use switch.
This looks phenomenal. Anyone that's interested in online maps and hasn't taken a look at TileMill owes it to themselves to take a look.
Vector performance is still abysmal in browsers (apparently there's no vector benchmark used by the press to pressure vendors) so it's no wonder maps are served as prerendered images.

Even Google Maps WebGL implementation that only uses vectors for the streets is laggy as hell.
Direct geld nodig? Goedkoop lenen bij Cofidis met Direct Cash
This is a sales strategy. Pick a point where your competition is vulnerable, and beat them there. Its no coincidence, the company was bet on this marketing idea.
Written in a small, gray, pixel font for those who missed it:

"Note: Tesla estimated as Tesla does not provide monthly sales data."
> keeping the hardware and software integrated might have allowed the company to keep its true vision intact

They did, but not under the NeXT brand. It's under the Apple brand now.
Google to launch ‘Google Play Games’ platform services for game developers
If you know a disgusting secret on a Harvard MBA alumnus (which is not that hard, because as unethical people become increasingly arrogant, they get worse at hiding it) you can use it to get a powerful recommendation, get in to Harvard Business School, and make influential friends.

[citation needed]

No doubt this is true in an abstract sense, but is there any recorded data on this (reports of scandals, etc) or is this just speculation.
..and when the 'early adopters' market is saturated, they sure as heck better have another idea/car up their sleeve.
A Mercedes S600 is quite a bit more expensive than a Tesla.

http://autos.yahoo.com/mercedes-benz/s-class/2013/s600/
Writing Proposals is Coding
"you are 43.78% as high as snoop dogg is right now, david"
$845,000,000 salary...

Doesn't this strike anyone else as rather a lot?
Great meta graphing library. Love that Google Charts AND Highcharts are supported.
If that's the case, I am not sure it is unless you have a link or reference, why is a computer bought specifically outside of a contract obeying these directives?

Imagine the reaction if Apple or Microsoft sold a computer which "obeyed ISP flags" to limit bandwidth or made all networking options for linking to a second computer disappear from their menus depending on the whim of an ISP.

The implications are just as bad, or even worse, for Google and the Nexus brand if what you say is true.
Quickly estimating I think it's maybe 5pt font. Definitely bit on the small side, especially with that kind of background.

edit: on a closer look, it think it's the blue background that is the bigger issue than the small font per se. The bits on yellow background are significantly more readable.

edit2: turning all the machines around here, I think the font size has stayed same over time (xp-vista-7 represented here). It doesn't really look like the font on 8 is significantly reduced in size either
Honestly this sort of thing is a much better fit for statically typed languages. In modern typed language like Haskell or Scala (and presumably also F#) it's very easy natural to build parsers that can move back and forth between string and text representations, and the APIs one uses are largely generic whether one is building XML, Javascript, SQL or something else. It's also natural to use "tagged" datatypes to statically enforce that user input is handled differently from internal strings (I understand perl has a "taint" module that does the same thing, but presumably it has to happen at runtime, and I'm not aware of similar functionality in Python or Ruby at all).

Try a statically typed language sometime - they're not all like Java. You might be surprised.
On key software decision, top patent court grinds to a stalemate
Only everything?
This means nothing. There must be a limit to what one is allowed to edit on a photo, or you would accept the Soviet or Mao era propaganda edits?
Overwhelmed by JavaScript Dependencies
Exactly. I don't trust this guys analysis. He is unpersuasive.
Chinese World of Tanks clone so similar it allegedly copies
What about artificial lighting?

I think it's equally valid to be purist as it is to accept post-processing as a part of the modern photographers toolbox.

As long as post-processed photos are presented as such, I think that's fine.

Similarly, when an image is composited I think it should be presented as a composite, otherwise it really is like telling a lie.
Launched: You Should Launch with Less
How would they know, and how would they reach into the device and make the menu options disappear permanently? My answer to Veus has the rest of my thoughts on that.
Unfortunately the best data I can find are from 2010 [1], but Red Hat only contributes 16.3% of the commits to GNOME.

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/28/gnome-census/
I'm a bit confused by this article. Is it comparing computers or comparing algorithms? CPLEX is software to run linear and mixed-integer optimization algorithms. CPLEX is not a computer. Perhaps I misunderstood the article. Could you not run CPLEX on the D-Wave computer?
Show HN: Demos with javascript, jasmine, docco, coffee, meteor, an iPhone...
Another way to formulate the same issue would be:
Colleges more likely to give $5000 in aid than $10000 in aid. News at 11.

Sucks if you absolutely need $10000 in aid of course. Is it killing the poor ? No. I worked my way through college and paid full tuition, and only got semi-sponsored housing because some friend told me that some monks actually did that if you made your case to them (essentialy you had to get and keep getting good grades. 80%+ good grades that is, a lot tougher than it sounds (average of class was < 50%), especially if you need a job to pay for tuition as well). So I did present my grades to these monks, and they got me in that system. Later I was able to trade other things (like helping run a fraternity in trade for a room at the fraternity house).

"Many countries consciously set different policies, and I think ..."

Yes, I've seen that in Western Europe. Specifically you can get full tuition scholarship + free housing if your parents pay less than $x in income tax. That sounds great, until you realize ... that rich people are often paid through a company, and can simply set their own pay, and "invest" the rest in a new mercedes or a new house (which I agree is a defensible investment in some cases, but not in most cases). The pay they set, you ask ? $the_limit - 1 for example. (the same limit is used for free childcare, >50% reduction on health insurance, the list goes on ...). About 50% of the people in the free housing had rich parents (you can't tell how much tuition they pay, but you can tell where they live, and whether it's sponsored). That's how at least one "other country" does it.

They try to keep these rich cheaters people away from housing aid, and even that is just mostly people behind the counter acting illegally on behalf of the poor.
More to the point, what, exactly, is being "revealed" here? This is standard tech "journalism"; a marketing handjob thinly disguised as a story.
A few thousands of years turned wolves into teacup poodles. A lot can happen in that timespan with directed evolution.
Microsoft: Google Docs Is Not Worth The Gamble, Makes You Less Productive
So I guess the difference lies in the more "affordable" models by Mercedes/BMW/Audi, like the Benz C class, BMW 1 and 3 series, and Audi A4. These are probably the best selling models for these companies, which makes this article even more senseless.
The biggest issue in software schedules
Elon Musk’s Sweet Revenge
I thought about creating something very similar for years but never began actually working on it.

Chances are, many people were thinking about building such a platform during the last couple of years. It is weird reading about my "own" idea for the first time, though.

I can't wait to see how Skibb will turn out!
You also don't need ELA to see that. Just by looking at the sharp edges of the hair on the guy at the front and to the right, you can clearly see that this has been composited together.
Tesla's advantage is that they are operating in the premium car market which about twelve percent of sales and nearly half of the profit per year for automakers. So they are in an area reserved for people with a significant amount of disposable income.

The challenge going forward are many, two of which are, how to overcome brand snobbery if at all, and second, once the easy sales are gone, what then?

When they move down market the margins will be much tighter, which will put pressure on quality. At their current price point they can trade quite a bit of profit to get it right. However moving down market will increase the number of buyers, the question is do they get there before the mainstream players do. Most of the big makers have quite a line up coming in the 40k and down range.

A reference for sales numbers can be found at http://www.autoblog.com/category/by-the-numbers/
I'm not sure I understand your last point. Do you desire for compilers to deduce the underlying type from the name of the variable or a type system that would let you create subtypes to give them additional contextual informations that the compiler would then use to enforce integrity?
I see you didn't read past the title.
That looks really slick. Will give it a spin.
>With Glass everything I do I'll do with compromise

This is a choice you make. You're making it for the sake of your argument, then presenting the argument as if everyone will make the same choice.

You shouldn't; I won't.
It is not hard to edit the metadata. I think the current reference point for picking out forgeries is a RAW file - not that they are impossible to manipulate either but it is harder, plus the kind of statistical analyses done in the article would be more meaningful on an image that is supposedly completely unedited.
I don't like all the suspiciously positive comments by new users appearing on this thread. @Mehul981, are you affiliated with askabt by any chance?
Interesting. Ive seen something similar to this quite often used in Python because it doesn't have Switch statements.
Ah all I have read is the comments and the post. Based on that he did not come off that way to me. Though there is always more to stories.
It reveals the culture behind the infamous "No.", so it's topical.

(And presumably the ban is still in effect.)
Same here, but it's a photo.. a crop from a DVD sleeve; and at least on my screen even that crop is bigger than a full DVD sleeve.

Does anyone know the coin in the picture, that is, the exact diameter of it?

Looking around me, I see plenty of super fine print on products, like lists of ingredients etc... there seems to be a real problem here. I never really notice it myself because I am shortsighted, so small writing at short distance is no problem; but I heard there are people who are farsighted or have even crazier problems, and while I would be fine if nobody on the planet could install Windows 8, I don't think it's okay that many people could not find out what is in the food they are eating without help, even if they wanted to.
30,000 people per year in the US die of alcohol related accidents

That's kind of irrelevant since alcohol is much more widely available and used. The question is, what would happen if [insert drug] was legal and widespread? What effects would it have on individuals and society at large?

[edited to make it less harsh]
This is exactly right. I'm a member of INFORMS (the operations research professional society), and I can report that a staggering amount of ink has been spilled over the last few years about how to capitalize on the recent "Analytics" and "Big Data" trends.

On the one hand, people are starting to realize that quantitative analysis can help their businesses (mind blowing, right?) -- on the other hand, so much of what you see about "analytics" and "big data" is nonsensical jargon. You have two camps within the OR world: people who want to ride this bandwagon all the way to the bank, and people who want to refocus on getting the message out about what OR really is.

The bandwagon-riders have succeeded to some extent. INFORMS created a monthly "Analytics" magazine[1], created an Analytics Certification[2] (their first professional certification), and so on.

The other camp has a legitimate concern that OR already has an "identity crisis" (operations research vs. management science vs. systems engineering vs. industrial engineering vs. applied math vs. applied statistics etc etc). INFORMS has spent millions trying to get business people to just be aware that it exists. The fear is that hitching our wagon to these trends will just be another blow to our profile when these fad words are replaced by the next big thing.

[1] http://analytics-magazine.org/ (you can get a good feel for the type of content in this publication just by reading the article titles...)

[2] https://www.informs.org/Build-Your-Career/Analytics-Certific...
I use something similar when rendering form fields dynamically.

draw_checkbox = function() {}
draw_radio = function() {}
draw_select = function() {}

draw_field = function(type) {
this['draw_' + type]();
}

draw_list = function(list) {
for(i = 0; i < list.length; i++)
draw_field(list[i].type);
}

For sake of simplicity, I did not include the code to verify that type is proper and parameters sent to each function.
Yes. They smell like puppets.
NH-based entrepreneurs to launch Bitcoin ATM this week
Off topic, but it seems like even the snarky Mr. Greenspun misses the joke on his throw-away aside to close the article: Singapore is reportedly one of the top money laundering centers in the world. Seems a little unfair to fault the US for being unable to keep pace. Classic email from Andy Xie (lost his job over this):

http://www.littlespeck.com/content/economy/CTrendsEconomy-06...
As Glass seem to use the same SoC as PandaBoard I suspect it should be somehow possible to build a Linux kernel with fbdev, ALSA and V4L2, then run some tiny userspace with X11 and PulseAudio servers.
Error Loading Chart: Please install Google Charts or Highcharts
When can MongoDB be the right tool for the job?
I'm not arguing that other editors aren't powerful. I have less experience with others in any case. But vim does work well. A simple example I show off to coworkers:

FirstName
MiddleName
LastName

converted to:

a.FirstName = b.FirstName,
a.MiddleName = b.MiddleName,
a.LastName = b.LastName,

To do 20 iterations of that, you can hit qw, do the first with the same commands you use all day, stop recording and hit 19@w for the rest. The whole thing flows into your normal editing so easily you barely think about it. You build macros as you go for tiny little repetitive actions that aren't worth the bother to write a script for, or that you may never use again. I don't bother saving my macros, and I've barely touched vimscript.

I wouldn't say it takes anywhere near three years to learn that either, more like six months. After a week or two you stop going insane, and have basic Notepad-level competence. Then you just gradually add keystrokes, and each one makes you a little more productive.
haha that was quite ironic that he placed the coin so no one would read and steal the product key.

To be honest, I can read it just fine without leaning towards the monitor. However, I understand it can be an issue for people with poor vision.
I see it is closed now. I opened the ticked on June 25 2012 and it was resolved on April 1 2013 (although he didn't actually resolve the problem). Anyway, the client used google analytics instead.

Also your support system is annoying: why do we need to register for support if we're already registered on your site? And having to have a password with uppercase and symbol is overkill for a support system (and is pointless anyway, as you'll probably have to write the password down).
That is also my analysis.

The only character that looks odd to me is the one at the bottom left, and even then, it could be genuine.
I think the article's numbers are wrong. BMW reports Q1 2013 global sales of 7 series as 12,390, not 2,338.

http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/investor_rela...

Sales of the BMW1 Series totalled 53,906 units, almost
equalling the previous year’s level (–0.5%). During the
quarter ended 31 March 2013 we sold 109,309 units
ofthe BMW 3 Series, a jump of 19.9% compared to the
previous year. 85,731 BMW 5 Series vehicles were delivered to customers worldwide (+4.3%). Sales of the
BMW 6 Series rose sharply to 6,174 units (+32.7%). The
BMW 7 Series was handed over to 12,390 customers
(–30.3%). The number of BMW Z4 sold fell to 2,982 units
(–28.0%).
Warren Spector wants game designers to work on non-combat A.I.
The ruby wrapper lib around the JS is dead simple. Could be ported to any language with ease. Very nice work!

https://github.com/ankane/chartkick/blob/master/lib/chartkic...
This went out on FB and Twitter. I guess people who came from there weren't HN users. Hopefully they are now.

I agree about the comment quality though, I was hoping for a discussion about the idea itself.
New research finds 92 percent of news consumption is still on legacy platforms
This is cool. Looks like HP's odd Touchpad charger comes out on top, even though it barely gets mentioned in the article text.
You can further improve dispatch tables in js by using bind.

so something like:

north: function() { movePlayer("north"); },

becomes:

north: movePlayer.bind(this, "north"),

or using underscore.js(for greater browser compatibility):

north: _.bind(movePlayer, this, "north"),
The comparison is misleading. I'd wager few new MB S sell for $70-80k. A better comparison in performance, price, equipment and size would be the mid-size equivalents, e.g. E-class, 5-series (GT?), A7. It's possible the Model S has sold more than the 5-series GT and A7, but mostly because the market has a hard time understanding hatchbacks.
Tropo looked good. I signed up. And then I changed my password...

> The password you have entered is invalid. Passwords may contain numbers, letters, dashes, periods, and underscores.

I guess I'm not using it.
The interaction escalated, but you were as much to blame for that as well. The problem is the ban hammer. An independent judge would either ban you both or neither. This is supposed to be a profesionally run project, not scriptkiddies in dome irc chatroom acting tough.

And i second the other remark. You wouldnt dare behave like this in public. Trying to get somebody removed from a conference for an opinion you do not agree with, nor are willing to discuss.

And lets be honest. The gnome bugzilla ban list, is likely bigger than the launchpad ban list, eventhough you guys have much less contributors. You guys are running a clubhouse with the self esteem of 13 year old boys. The highest standards for others, the lowest for yourself.

All the gnome hate can be summed up in one simple question: when are you guys going to behave profesionally. Be the better party in conflicts. Show some patience. Show some understanding for the relationship people have with your product, and just in general "play nice".

Because between the conflicts with canonical, kde, users, contributors .. The one constant is "gnome devs dont play nice". And its 99% of communication. Tone of voice, and socially handicapped individuals with little empathy and ban hammers.
You have to install either library as well:

--

For Google Charts, use:

<%= javascript_include_tag "//www.google.com/jsapi", "chartkick" %>
If you prefer Highcharts, use:

<%= javascript_include_tag "path/to/highcharts.js", "chartkick" %>

--
That's the reason I flagged the submission
I think a blog post by Peter Bex, "Structurally fixing injection bugs", is a better description the problems associated with strings:
http://www.more-magic.net/posts/structurally-fixing-injectio...

Quoting it: "In other words, you're performing string surgery on the serialized representation of a tree structure. Just stop and think how insane that really sounds!"
Learn to fail
You could say the same about any computer generated (hashed) URL.
Surely Mercedes and BMW once had much higher "brand snobbery" than they do today. I remember the proliferation of lower end Mercedes vehicles over the course of the 90's, and thus I'd imagine Tesla's marketing and product expansion efforts can take a page from Mercedes in making products aimed at the aspirational middle class consumer.
Be sure you include the <script> tag for Google Charts or Highcharts before you include chartkick.js.
That's certainly the upgrade that screwed up my Nexus 7: have it random pauses and terrible battery life.
> Does anyone know the coin in the picture, that is, the exact diameter of it?

17.91 mm (0.705 in)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_%28United_States_coin%29

I'd guesstimate that the the picture is about 10px/mm.
Q1 2013 - cars sold
BMW + Mini + Rolls Royce: 448,200
Audi: 369,500
Mercedes: 341,511
Tesla: 4,750

http://beta.fool.com/sarfarazis/2013/05/08/audi-vs-mercedes-...

http://www.bmwblog.com/2013/05/02/bmw-group-reports-first-qu...
Indeed. The recent glut of fawning articles about tesla does seem mightily suspicious to my increasingly tinfoil-coated mind...

Simply tesla's PR people earning their keep? Anyone care to speculate?
Bill Gates: I Wish I Had Steve Jobs' Sense of Design
In all cases? no. I thought we were talking about Tesla's and EVs here. The business case doesn't make sense for these when you consider the numbers. It's more expensive and it's less convenient. Tesla is succeeding right now, because a few early adopters who can afford to plop down 60k on a car simply due to it's wizbang features want it to do well. The concern is what will happen when Tesla trys to market this anywhere outside the valley and new york. I'm bearish on this working in places like OK, GA, or TX. Most of us drive a lot more than our counterparts in CA.

That said, I hear Tesla is planning a truck geared towards contract work. Now, that could be a game changer.
The the site is blocked in Russia? Can anyone else confirm? It may just be poor connectivity. Hackerfactor would be an interesting addition to the known Russian blacklisted sites[1] though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Internet_blacklist#Know...
That's worldwide sales while the article seems to compare against USA sales (but forgets to mention this).
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