skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The file size isn't too bad, but in Safari the rendering time is terrible. You can see it render each block, and it takes about 10 seconds to render the whole thing.

I assume this is because it's not a commonly used feature, so the code paths are only implemented for compliance rather than performance.
I think you answer your own question here:

"Bottom line is what do I get by buying an Electric car exactly even assuming it is the same price as the gas vehicle? How important is the gas savings when you weigh that over the lack of utility in other areas?"

...

"People buy cars on emotion not rationality. It's the same reason someone wants 4 wheel drive even though they might only need it a few days per year."
I'm just not sure I buy that. Maybe it's because I DO know non-nerds that like The IT Crowd; like all sitcom, the situation is merely a vehicle for the humour on top of it. in just the same way that you can find Father Ted funny without being a catholic priest. And there are plenty of non-nerds who would get the 'Internet as small black box' joke. And there ARE gags in BBT that non-nerds wouldn't get (not a huge number, but they are there)
> I don't want to use zsh specific features in my scripts

How is this a worry?

The topline in your bash script is '#!/bin/bash'

Which tells the system 'run this with bash'.
The fork provides way forward for the rest of us, while Gnome developers rapidly make themselves irrelevant.
Almost any starting special character would be good enough to make it explicit:

class Colour(Enum):
* red
* green
* blue
* none, transparent, empty
Sounds like a good enough heuristic to me.

Doesn't have to be perfect, just indicative.
I don't know what those are, but why not start them with a bash script, that you launch from zsh?
In bash: cd ${PWD/foo/bar}
Works in my Chrome 26.0.1410.63 (Ubuntu 13.04)
XKCD explains this effect quite nicely, I think: http://xkcd.com/978/
They created an Android app called "Tag It!" that allows users to take a picture of graffiti, vandalism or trash in their neighborhood, tag its location and create an event to get it cleaned up.

Estonia did this in 2008, but what I most remember about it is Mahmud's reply to my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079915

Memory is odd.
Fails miserably on Chrome / Android 4.2 / Nexus 7 ...
I can't help thinking that Tesla as successful as it is for a young company would be more successful in European countries where short driving distances and high fuel prices are common.

Canada and the US are lumped into one vehicle market but distances tend to be so much greater compared to Europe and fuel is a bit cheaper. That was mentioned in the article but there's more to it than that.

Weather is another problem Europe tends to have milder weather compared to the northern half of the continental US and all Canada. Half the year where I am it's below 0C , snow and snow tires (more aggressive grip) really affects milage my vehicle get practically half the milage I do in summer.

Tesla needs to build a vehicle with good ground clearance, a range of at least 400km, rapid charging and cost around $30,000. If not there's no way I would even think of buying one.
Utopia? It's nothing that dramatic. Even with traditional currencies its pretty obvious that we are headed for a period of negative interest rates. It only makes sense that the shortest term government debt, or cash, has a negative interest rate as well.
Here, here. Been trying to come up with a reason to use these over named tuples but they are few.
I really liked LYAH, but it only starts out good. Once you hit Chapter 9. I/O. Prepare to fall off the rails. It only gets worse and worse and worse from that point onwards.

I don't think that's really the books fault as much as it is Haskells. I also think it's why you hear ALOT of people swearing Haskell is actually very easy, because everything up to chapter 9 is not very complicated at all.

I'm sure there are some very tallented people where this isn't true, but I get the impression that the people who are saying it's easy haven't gotten to the point where you can actually do things with Haskell, or developed a program with Haskell, or inter-operate with other libraries using Haskell, or tested their metal against the Parsing Combinators in Haskell (let alone making your own set), or ect. ect. ect.

Chapters 1-8 aren't complicated in the slightest.

Chapter 9 is when it starts.

Haskell isn't easy.
> Problem is zsh is not omnipresent like bash is

I don't think it's that much of a problem. My local machine is zsh, my linux servers run bash, my solaris hosts csh. Where ever I am, I just adjust to the local environment.
That's just the animation -- the gif is constructed to animate displaying each block.
Fuck, I just lost 20 fucking minutes of typing. What's with that stupid "link expired" bullshit?

Whatever, I had a nice demonstration where the same simple task used 39 keypresses with only k + h, 9 keypresses with k + b and only 5-6 keypresses with a backward search. After that, the last paragraph went something like this:

"hjkl have their place in our arsenal, obviously, but focusing on them like if they were the apex of productivity and the single key to mastering Vim is both misleading and absurd."

---

Also, the only reason why Vim uses hjkl for movement is because the terminal on which Bill Joy created Vi didn't have physical arrows. The whole homerow/efficiency business is just post facto rationalizing.
So is crossing the street. But you don't call this gambling.

Many investments are purchasing the rights to future fairly predictable cash flows. Labeling these as gambles dilutes the meaning of the word.
Its probably older than printing, blackening your opponents name goes back thousands of years. For example back during the Peloponnesian War did Acibedies realy go on a drunken bender with his drinking buddies and paint statues penises blue?

Or was it a black propaganda exercise by his political enemies Swift Boating Athenian style if you will.
That is why the frown :(
By that logic, everyone who uses linux is a power user who will never be confused, there is no need to remove any features in the first place. (btw, i think that's true but gnome people don't get it)
It's not just freshmen and lotto players. Sometimes it derails useful work:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-30-2009/large-ha...
Same thing in Firefox.
Finishing isn't always everything. I've learned A LOT more from projects I started and never finished. Those things I've learned helped me in the projects I actually did finish.

These days working in higher ed I complete a lot of projects at my day job, but I start a lot that I never finish on my own time. To me, personally, it is more rewarding when I learn something new, come up with something that I think is cool, whether the project gets finished or not.
The Long Shadow of Bad Credit in a Job Search
It's because this is an animated gif. Presumably picasa only shows the first frame.
I find it very weird that the author of the page did not display this information on the page.
In my opinion, the OP misunderstood the article to which it was responding.

From the original, original article:

> What we nonexperts do possess is the ability to know enough about how these information systems work that we can be useful discussing them with others.

He's not arguing that we should all become programmers to increase the number of programmers. Instead, he's saying that you cannot be effective in any role in the agency if you're not computer literate. I'm inclined to agree.
It may be possible to work around that: the trick they use to get full color is that each animation frame is allowed to have its own 256 color palette. So for each block of 256 colors, you have a single animation frame "played" which colors in only that block (the rest is transparent). Hypothetically, the only reason it renders so slowly is that there's a pause between playing each frame.
Well, any new enum syntax would be "a new way to do them slightly differently". This one just has the advantage of being in the standard library, and thus is presumably what new usage will gravitate towards.
So what do you say to the fact that for the first three "Freicoin years" 80% of the mined coins are transferred to the "Freicoin foundation"? From what I've heard about Freicoin so far it's about at the same scam level as all of those pre-mined coins.

References:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/List_of_alternative_cryptocurrenc...
http://www.freicoin.org/application-developer-best-practices...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134629.0
It's terrible but the phrase "life is cheap in Russia" comes to mind, which I think I heard when these videos of Russian kids showing off on tall structures started emerging. Of course kids in most all countries enjoy such thrills.
Musk seems to be this generation's Howard Hughes, and out of the complete pantheon of internet-famous technical folk, he's the one guy I could consider a hero.

Having said all of that, I sincerely hope we keep some sort of sense of detachment about all of this. Having Tesla play the role of Apple while fanboys and an fawing press cover each move does not help the rest of the startup community.

We have a million other problems to solve, not just electric cars and cheaper access to space. It's important to see past the fluff pieces to the underlying business decisions in order to harvest tactics than can be used by all.

tl;dr: big Musk fan, but let's be careful with the hype. It can obscure important lessons.
I tutor at Eastside! (Wish I could take credit for the idea, but I can't.)
Where to buy an online business?
I've been trying to find small online businesses to purchase, but can't find many websites devoted to this purpose. Does HN have any ideas? The only one I could find was flippingenterprises.com.
Pig say "what? I aint no chicken!"
"a toolkit it has no intention of using on mobile or the desktop"

Right, I find it likely that XNA was killed to work on a better toolkit for all three.
Yep. There's one that bit me recently, where Esc key was previously able to stop GIF animations, and was very handy.

Apparently, this behaviour was considered a bug, if a very long-lived one. So a recent update 'fixed' that behaviour, although the justification is stronger there, and the workaround (SuperStop addon[2]) is actually useful, although still on a different keybind (Shift-Esc)

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825486

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/superstop/
Congrats on a nice gain. You could buy a Model S with your profits.

I bought a Chevy Volt last year. Have really enjoyed driving it so far. Electric cars have really taken off in the past year in Silicon Valley. I see multiple Tesla's, Leafs and Volts every time I take a drive now.
The title "Sorry, Digital Ad Exec, I Probably Don’t Want To Work For You" resonates with me more than the post.

I expected an article ridiculing the expectations of agency execs with nonsense comms projects, i.e.: that addresses the spuriousness of the commissions, not the incompetence of their management.
Ask for an out. Explain that it's how you keep your skills up to date, and that it lets you be a more productive and effective employee. In the past I've had this clause in my contracts and had them take it out. They did.
Revolver is a 1 in 6, but I say much higher he knows what a Desert Eagle or AWP is =). #CSDoesntStandForComputerScience
"Want to see the full spec? It’s massive."

Architectural – 26 pages
Civil – 20 pages
Electrical – 22 pages
Landscaping – 1 page
Mechanical / Plumbing – 31 pages
Soils Report – 45 pages
Structural – 9 pages

That's pretty small for a commercial building meeting a sustainability code - adding sheets to a set of plans helps with organization. It's roughly analogous to making one's code modular. However, with modern CAD systems it is entirely analogous to generating a new report from a database.
Flippa https://flippa.com/
> "It's nice to see that internal developers feel the same way about XNA that external developers (who used to build XNA games, or still build XNA games) do. From the outside I always assumed the constant flood of new, half-baked features instead of fixes and improvements to old ones was caused by interns and junior devs looking for glory ..."

Am I understanding you correct; are you implying that you think XNA was created by juniors? Would you say that because of this, it's a good thing XNA is being killed?

Cause personally I think it's been a terrible decision by Microsoft to kill XNA. A lot of indie game developers have relied on XNA and I really feel Microsoft can use the indie support. Sure, big name games might be a priority, but personally I feel most _interesting_ work is being done by indies. Indies tend to be less concerned with proven formulas and seem to see it more of a creative outlet for themselves[1]. I think it's a good thing frameworks like Monogame[2] exist, so developers can still put their existing XNA knowledge to good use - and not just limited to the Windows platform, but e.g. iOS and Android as well.

The Monogame website might not show very impressing examples, but a game like Bastion[3] was ported to other platforms using Monogame, showing very high-quality work can be created with XNA.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhaT78i1x2M

[2]: http://monogame.codeplex.com

[3]: http://supergiantgames.com/index.php/2012/08/bastions-open-s...
From a product standpoint...
local green="$(tput setaf 2)"
local reset="$(tput sgr0)"
export PS1="\[$green\]>>\[$reset\] "

Could be this in zsh:

export PS1="%{%F{green}%}>>%{%f%} "

- %{%} replace \[\]
- %F{color} sets the foreground colour
- %f resets the foreground colour

I would go with something like:

export PS1="%{%(?.%F{green}.%F{red})%}>>%{%f%} "

It will be green if the last command exiting successfully, otherwise it will be red.

There's also better history support (from my zsh config):

# History
# ~~~~~~~

HISTSIZE=1000
SAVEHIST=1000
HISTFILE=$HOME/.zsh_history

setopt SHARE_HISTORY # Share history across sessions
setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE # commands starting w/ a space don't go into history

# SHARE_HISTORY seems to imply both of these, at least that's how the manpage
# reads, so let's comment them out for now.
#
# setopt INC_APPEND_HISTORY # Incrementally append history to file
# setopt EXTENDED_HISTORY # Save the timestamp and duration of commands to history file
Some authors and a rec or two for each.

DFW - Infinite Jest

Pynchon - Really anything, but in particular Against the Day, V, and Gravity's Rainbow.

Rushdie - Shame and Satanic Verses, a lot of good other ones.

Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon

Gaddis - JR, hence my name.

Heller - Catch-22
Mobile Chrome on Android 4.0.3 has The same behavior. At first I thought it was an animated gif.

Edit: looks like it is an animation of the rendering process.
| As for "Oh My Zsh," I've never seen any reason
| to use it, as zsh works fine without any add-ons.

I'll second this. I've never found a need to use "Oh My Zsh," and I've been using zsh for a few years.
Yes, but it seems that delay may not be avoidable. http://nullsleep.tumblr.com/post/16524517190/animated-gif-mi... says Safari does 16 frames per second max. Drawing 32k colors at 256 colors per frame takes 128 frames. At 16 fps, those would take 8 seconds to draw.
The images could be compressed; the relevant patents expired a few years ago. (Is this an old page?)
The Official Yale version of Perlis's epigrams:

http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html

Archive.org's backup of the [behind a paywall] ACM article:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080513191245/http://www-pu.info...
what is finishing something but a mere delusion.
It also causes occasional IP-address conflicts. Had this happening before and traced it to an iPhone using an IP-address it did not have a DHCP lease for.
Maybe I'm just not enough of a 'power user,' but I've been using Zsh since 2008 ~ 2009, and I rarely encounter the command-correction. The couple of times I've had it invoked were times where it correctly fixed a typo.
Another great article on bezier curves that I've used is: http://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
On science crowdfunding
That's assuming that everyone who dies from playing it only played it once. It could be that only 4 people played it at all, and they all played it ~600 times.
I don't know that I'd call running with the snorkel up anything but non-submerged. Although I will give you that running at p-depth is almost the same thing. I'm sure you'll agree that anything other than underway on main propulsion is a far less preferable situation than normal ops.

BTW, I spent some time as a bubble-head, so I do understand what you're talking about here. Just keep in mind that not everything you've heard about subs is true and not everything I knew about subs is still true. A lot has changed since I was in.
Man Who Stripped At Airport Still Owes TSA $1K
I've written elsewhere on this thread that pandemics are not predictable. They are rare, non-linear events.

We simply can't conclude anything from the statement 'no pandemics on 1918 scale since 1918'.

3,000 years from now, looking back, people might say that 1918 was the start of the end of pandemics, or that 1918-2013 was an unusually quiet period that preceded a major pandemic.

With such a limited timescale, how can we possibly tell?
'PM' usually denotes 'Prime Minister'. I suspect this is not your actual occupation. Furthermore, great entrepreneurs should be separated.
> So a GIF file with more than 256 colors gets very large very quickly.

Sure, due to a library that doesn't do compression! Has anyone an example of one with compression?

Also, looking at this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149205

It seems that the block by block thing is not an animation on purpose, it's really how browsers render it (and other programs load only the first frame etc...), because each sub-image is a frame. So not that ideal.
Bloomberg employees accessed usage information of Bernanke and Geithner.
> WINE is a translator that allows Windows programs (those that have an .exe extension) to talk to other Operating Systems.

I'm sure the aforementioned freshmen would like a no-bullshit explanation for why "emulator" hurts the WINE people's feelings but "translator" does not. It's always been a mystery to me.
Everyone knows in tech, the first to market is the defined impression, and if Tesla keeps innovating they remain the titan of the industry. Example: carriers laughed at Steve Jobs when he wanted to introduce a pocket pc highly subsidized by the carrier, understandably the iphone was compared it to Palm Pilots and Blackberry held the market. The iphone was dubbed a "smartphone," by comparison it reflected it's user and the others whom did not own one to having... a "dumbphone." Even though I question Apple's future in a space they initially dominated, it is because lack of innovation. But I have invested my UI experience to iOS and money in apps and videos that will only play on iOS (always remove the drm -.-)....because, like Steve Jobs said "it just works." I don't believe Tesla will be like Google, unorganized and open sourced, but definitely like Apple and their App Store in comparison to tech.
Side Note: I started with a Google G1 for Tmobile, tried the Evo4G, then because of coding had to get an iPhone 4 (ohh no closed-source)...judging by my excerpt, I guess I'm a fanboy now (just not big-headed or superior like the other ones :p). -quacker
I wish someone had a good answer for apartments. The last time I had somewhere to charge my car overnight was in my parents' garage around 1990.
That's the cultural difference. In the US, we like to do things ourselves, no matter the cost.
really? what kind of situations?
No. You snap the cylinder shut while it is spinning.
It's actually more of a hack to deal with malformed GIFs and goes directly against spec. To address GIFs where each frame has a 0 frame delay, most GIF decoders implement a minimum frame delay value.

See: http://nullsleep.tumblr.com/post/16524517190/animated-gif-mi...

Edit: This is what it looks like with all frame delays set to 2 centiseconds: http://i.imgur.com/24xpZEd.gif

On Chrome and Firefox, you should see it animate more quickly.
Freenode attacked by DDoS yet again
Meanwhile, Apple added improved terminal transparency support in Terminal.app in the last OS update which allows the user to control not only the transparency but also the blur. (I've found transparency goes from distracting to slick if you include blur.)

I guess the question is why is it that GNOME developers are cutting features in the name of simplification when a company known for obsession with simplicity is adding those very same features?
The foundation is a registered California non-profit chartered with handling the initial distribution of these coins. We have an open solicitation for ideas for how they could be spent, and there are a variety of ideas being discussed on our forums (freicoin.org). You're welcome to join.
I've been watching flippa for months and I just haven't seen anything really compelling.

I'd actually love to buy a SaaS business (since I have zero ideas of my own)
Kind of. There were theories before bitcoin but for the most part each had some major obstical that they were unable to overcome. Bitcoin represents the first cryptocurrency that was truly successful.
What I really want is some kind of truck which can provide on board power to tools, as well as motive power. This could be something with a big battery bank, or a diesel-electric hybrid (where the diesel can be left running for days at a time and refueled under load...), etc.

It might be hard to convince someone who is a "traditional truck buyer" to accept a slight range penalty or whatever (although fleet managers and business owners would), but if he could plug in his tools and have great work lighting/etc. at the job site, he would probably take it on that basis.
(Long-form == article)?
Thanks for the mention. It looks elegant. It also 'forced' me to use Heroku for the first time too, which helped take the mystery away.
And he's totally correct.
Even if pickup trucks aren't, vans and service trucks are (box trucks, etc.), which are essentially built on the same engine as a pickup truck. (big pickup trucks are sold with the ability to put a custom box on on them, too)
Being a registered non-profit really says nothing at all about the intent of the foundation.
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Loving the cocktail dresses girls!
Thanks for the feedback! Calendar integration is definitely on the roadmap, as are swipes between detail screens. Categorizing items is probably a bit lower on the list of things to do but I will definitely keep it in mind.

Send me a message if you'd like a promo code. rob@robmaceachern.com
Abandoning semi-colons but having worse performance? Sounds like Python.
It does fix typos for me too, but most of the time asks weird things like, I typed 'aptitude' did I mean '.aptitude'? It loves misinterpreting some of my commands as dotfiles. Huh?

Then again I have a knack for unintentionally breaking computers, so maybe I've done something in env or rc that's messed it up...
If you think Gollum is good, then take a look at Jingo ("Jingo is not Gollum"). http://github.com/claudioc/jingo (Node.js based, with its own Git wrapper) (disclaimer: I'm the author)
I feel like once I write something down in a list it will dissappear into the 'backlog' forever.
Someone on stackoverflow posted a nice hacky way:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1695250

Even with reverse mapping.
Making Immutable Object Graphs Easier in C#
Zipcar rents Tacomas and E-150s. I wish they'd add something like a long-bed F-250, but I guess many zipcar drivers would find it difficult to drive one (even driving the E-150 in cities is a pain)