skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's really bizarre to me how much certain groups are just itching for Tesla to fail.

Patrick Michaels is a climate change denialist. He himself has estimated that about 40% of his funding comes from the oil companies. He has been criticised for manipulating the data of other scientists - not trivial mistakes or oversights, but deliberate serious manipulations. (Here's just one example where a colleague almost accuses him of fraud (http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2005/Crichton_20050927.pdf)

> One of the skeptics, Pat Michaels, has taken the graph from our 1988 paper with simulated global temperatures for scenarios A, B and C, erased the results for scenarios B and C, and shown only the curve for scenario A in public presentations, pretending that it was my prediction for climate change. Is this treading close to scientific fraud?

He's part of the Cato Institute, who have publically said they disagree with the scientific consensus on climate change.

Disappointing to see this worthless tripe on HN, and to see it getting any votes.
Does anyone have any benchmarks?

I've only made a couple of sites using Laravel but I actually really like it and haven't hit any performance bottlenecks yet.
Thanks for reading! It is, especially for those like myself who don't really fit in (Literary comparisons to: Winston (1984), Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451), and Hamlet (Hamlet..)) Luckily I do have a wise father to help give me some direction (even though most of the time I feel like he's asking me provoking questions - which may be rooted in my stubborn nature...) But again, thanks.

I know, I'm looking forward to starting school in the fall! It's going to be a great experience.

Right now I'm in the process of writing about Disneyland; I'll be sure to send you the link. I agree that it's appeal does fluctuate, but I'm not sure if it will lose its appeal entirely. - I guess I'll have to wait and see. Either way, I'm glad that it was touching to you and that you enjoyed reading it!
I see. However I'm not sure that theft in the workplace is worse than violence in the workplace. Maybe you can help me understand.
I think it is dependent on which accent you have. In my experience as an american (who has met a lot of foreigners), I have found that germans and the dutch seem to have the least problem with the american accent. (Australians too, for a non-european example). There can be a number of reasons for this to be the case, but this is what I have noticed.
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It's really not that bizarre at all when you consider how much money is in the traditional auto industry. People see "their" industry and lifestyle being threatened and just freak out and suspend all logic.
> The business concept of the "real conceptual primary key" can change, perhaps dramatically, over time, as the business model changes. A real prikey never changes.

This confuses two different concepts:

If the conceptual model changes, then, yes, the candidate keys (including primary keys) of entities may change between the old model and the new model. This can be a pragmatic difficulty in migrating between different conceptual models, but that's a problem inherent in different conceptual models.

The value of a well-chosen primary key of an entity within any given model should not change, as the primary key should always be a value which identifies the entity such that a different primary key means a different identity.
I'm not saying the program should end, but your argument is how we get death by 1000 paper cuts.
Quote from reddit:

"As the author, I can confirm that it's not real. Just a moment of original, satirical fun written after reading of the Kansas representative who suggested poor people not buy so much food."

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1f4suf/the_onion_c...
If you happen to have a game controller, either an Xbox Controller for PC or a PS3 controller hooked up using DS3 Tool/MotioninJoy, I'd highly recommend Hotline Miami as a fast and fun action game.
Average Miles Driven Per Year:
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
13,476 miles

Let's assume on the high side of 30mpg for a typical ICE vehice, so 449.20 gallons of gasoline per year.

Typical car lasts 10.8 years (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/autos/story/2012-01-17/...).

That's 4851.36 gallons over the lifetime of the vehicle. A gallon of gas converts to 19lbs of CO2 when burned. That's 92175.84 lbs of CO2 over the lifetime of the vehicle, or ~46 tons of CO2.

If you're basing the economic benefit solely off of the amount of CO2 not being pumped into the atmosphere on a per car basis, it probably doesn't make sense. Don't forget the technologic (energy storage R&D) and energy security benefits though.

Disclaimer: TSLA stock owner.
Comparing apples to apples, I would figure out what % of the US military budget is spent defending oil supplies for gas powered cars which is another unseen subsidy.
Author says on reddit that it's not real: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1f4suf/the_onion_c...
Google Street View goes to the Galápagos
Their API doesn't provide this right now, but what I'd really like to see is anonymous data regarding bike movement. (assuming the bikes have GPS, they are tracked no?)

I'm curious about statistics like the most frequent bike routes people take, the longest rides, the density of bikes per location, etc.
The long-term costs of carbon emissions will be a public cost. It follows a pattern that has become quite common recently in America, where the profits are kept by the company and shareholders, while the costs are borne by the public.

So don't be surprised that the Cato institute discounts that fact, since their funding comes from industries that can only survive by perpetuating this system.
Elon Musk says the ZEV credits are likely to go to 0 by Q4. The car is also projected to 25% gross margins in Q4. Battery energy density and cost improve about 7-8% each year and there will be a $30k car in 2016 or 2017.

I suspect the oil and car industries and their PR departments will push hard to repeal the tax credit as they are in this article. Also expect Tesla will push hard to tax carbon emitting vehicles. Should make for plenty link bait like this.
JSON-patch might also serve:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6902

Here's a Python implementation:
https://github.com/stefankoegl/python-json-patch
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Okay, lets just pretend global warming is 100% certainly non-existant. That being the case, do we still not care about pollution? Have you seen China lately? People can't even go outside on certain days. If you don't believe those costs are substantial than there is simply no talking logic into you.
Have you seriously not seen plenty of obviously fake Facebook accounts on there?

Sorry, but even if I were willing to sign up via Facebook, I wouldn't do it just so that you can pretend that you're making sure that only real people are signing up.
How much research has gone into developing the Facebook ping sound?
Feds shut down payment network Liberty Reserve. Is Bitcoin next?
There's just one solution. Make the reviews public. All academia I encounter are against it. So, it's probably the right way to go. :-)
I think something like, "I am going to be working on my comic from 7-9 at this coffee shop, broadcast this "ad" to people like comics that have the following characteristics [male | female | doesn't matter], politics [ x,y,doesn't matter]"

You sometimes could have an open ended invite, and sometimes you would have to have both parties agree to meeting before hand, like in the case of restaurant reservations.
There's still a lot of progress to be made on the ASIC front. The current generations of Bitcoin mining ASIC are brutes, several places mention that the Avalon miners use a 120nm process (think Pentium 4), which means that there's a lot of headway in terms of speed and power consumption that can be made in the future.
Who do you think the Cato Institute is?

https://www.google.com/search?q=auto+bailout+site:cato.org
It doesn't seem all that strange or bad that the non-tesla car producers are passing along the costs to the consumer. If a company is putting their own profits into R&D for a new product they are developing, is that not same thing as passing on the costs to the consumer?

Except in this case, Honda is paying for Tesla's R&D instead of their own.
What kind of friction are you looking for? A coding test? An IQ test? A general knowledge test? (Each barrier to participation would select a different group of participants.) Or should cash money be the sign-up criterion? If so, should high-karma participants get a share of the proceeds?
Not all schools have a zero tolerance policy for drugs and alcohol. I've read it's only 87% that have it. Search for: The tough disciplinary policy in Fairfax County public schools is not one of “zero tolerance,” officials there say.
This isn't particularly odd. Creating a tax break for some people is the same as lowering the "default tax rate" and creating an extra tax for all the other people. For instance, a tax break for being married is the same as an extra tax on singleness.
I'm guessing we probably disagree on the sequester too, then, huh?
You might want to look at BEM, it's methodology that telling you how to structure your css/js/markup. http://bem.info/ (developed by Yandex)
Have you checked out Skeleton? http://www.getskeleton.com/
Its possible in one of the following cases:
1. The issue is insignificant enough (or else, opponent would hammer the electorate with ads highlighting this issue) so voters don't care about it.
2. The issue comes up after the election and stance of candidates regarding that is not known before one votes.
#2 is not applicable since green energy / electric cars are pretty old issues and voters (should) know what their candidates think about those. #1 might be more applicable, in which case the original point in article ("against most of our wills") is still moot - voters simply don't care about this as much as they care about some other stuff.
The Year of Dressing Formally (2008)
". Then there are generous state subsidies ($2500 in California, $4000 in Illinois—the bluer the state, the more the taxpayers get gouged)"

I live here, and I am no fan of Illinois, but the sales tax rate is 6.25 on autos right now, which mean the state makes back 98% of that subsidy every time a Tesla is sold.
This is an app I found really cheap when it came with a yearly subscription.
Appears to be false: http://www.snopes.com/language/eponyms/cupofjoe.asp

It sounded like one of those plausible-sounding, but false, stories Snopes uses to throw us off the scent (and prove a point about really doing your fact-checking.)
Interesting. So I re-installed HN2 to see if I can recreate your problem, I couldn't. It works fine. And it works fine under chrome too. I also tried the Android stock browser, works fine too.

I am using SG-S3 for what its worth.

Most likely the whole css wasn't loaded completely. Could you retry couple of times to see if it happens again?
Not to mention that constituency is only a subset of all citizens.
They do act actually. Plagiarized paper I found: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=16...
2012 was the hottest year on record

... for the continental US. Carbon is a global issue.

These debates are tiring. (Some) people on both sides will use whatever argument suits the current narrative, even if it disagrees with other arguments they make at later times. Compare what happens during a heat wave or a cold snap.
No one expects the Hacker News inquisition!

Always always always host the static bits in S3/Cloudfront or some other piece of machinery that can spit them out quick when you show your work off.
> Oh well.

Why "oh well?" Not to be pedantic, but if it's your biggest regret, what's stopping you?
What does this offer that Meetup.com doesn't?
Couple years late to the party I see.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5190622/best-music-to-pro...
Gas taxes are used to build and maintain the roads that electric cars drive on. Electric car owners reap those benefits without paying the gas tax.

That said, the CATO article was beyond biased for all the reasons already mentioned.
Yeah, until Facebook quietly changes how that works and gives all sorts of new permissions to apps you've already authorized with.

That's the real problem here: Facebook has a history of wanting to expose as much personal information as possible, including exposing information that was previously not exposed without warning. I don't necessarily distrust the OP's business today, nor do I necessarily disagree with the permission settings I can set today. What I don't trust is Facebook's future changes to those permission settings, nor what the OP's business is going to do when/if it has more access to my information than it used to have.
>>There is a reason the Chinese crawl over themselves to come to America, not the other way around.

Yes, it's called "wanting to be able to make a decent living." Not "wanting to be able to say whatever one wants."

It turns out the latter is not a prerequisite of the former.
The author blames a company which is able to take advantage of laws rather than blaming the lawmakers for creating such laws.

1. Tesla is able to sell carbon credits it earns from selling its cars. Due to California law, other car companies must buy these credits to offset the sale of their fossil fuel burning cars.
2. Its customers get a lower price on their vehicles due to tax-credits for electric vehicles.

These are the laws in place which help a company like Tesla grow.

I would imagine these laws are designed to do exactly what they are doing, which is helping an electric car manufacture grow and compete in a world dominated by vehicles using fossil fuels.

The hidden argument he is making is that fossil fuels and climate change surely cost us nothing and should not be included at all in the cost of items which generate a third of CO2 emissions.
In your spare moments for reading, I think you will really like this newly published book on child development:

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0857027581

Child development is very complicated to understand, but delightful to observe. (I am the father of four children, one now fully grown and living independently.)

This list of books on language development of children, one of your concerns,

http://learninfreedom.org/talking.html

is a bit old, but quite useful for parents.
I've used http://unsemantic.com (layout only) and http://www.getskeleton.com (layout and minimal design) with good results.
You should have enough information from the context, to distinguish closed as "no known specs", from closed as "not free to use". May be the term non free / free (as liberated) codec is more descriptive, but closed/open will do as well.
I think this is exactly what Skeleton tries to be.

http://www.getskeleton.com/

I will say though that Foundation is much easier to customize styles for than Bootstrap, which is one of the primary reasons we now use Bootstrap for internal apps or side projects which we don't intend to implement a custom design, but Foundation for all sites which we plan on designing.
"Basic information" on Facebook includes your friendlist.

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other
Yep--thanks! I've updated the post accordingly :)
"All Sony's great successes were in hardware. Mechanical hardware."

There's a similar conclusion from this BBC report titled "What happened to Japan's electronic giants?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21992700

Interesting to read from the above link that Hitachi, also once known for it's consumer electronics products, is now focusing on heavy engineering as the core of its business (gas turbines, steam turbines, nuclear power plants, and high-speed trains).
> They cite job creation as a benefit of public funding for the pipeline

That is not stated or implied anywhere in the linked article. The Keystone Pipeline is a private project.
It's funny how some people always find a way to take a stab at Apple, even when commenting on completely unrelated topics.
1) One of the advantages of Airfoil is that you can significantly change the design and structure of your page, rather than just superficial changes to copy, colors etc. In my opinion it's much easier to make drastic changes directly to the HTML rather then messing around with an in-browser WYSIWYG HTML editor. Of course you can also use our variant tags to change what javascript is loaded, drastically effecting the content of single page apps.

2) We rolled out two variants for the headline copy on airfoil.io, and even in our relatively small sample set (less than 2k uniques so far) we've seen a dramatic difference in conversion (25% vs 10%)

3) You can add additional test cases, and change probabilities, by editing the app's config.yml file. The relevant configuration might look like this:

variants:
a: 0.2
b: 0.2
c: 0.6
> Ordinarily, heat trapped by greenhouse gases would warm the ocean’s surface water, but since warm water floats on top of colder water, the heat would have a hard time percolating to the depths. “You need something to push it down,” Trenberth said. That something could easily be strong prevailing winds, which can literally stir things up — or in this case, down.

This article is claiming that "the Globe Hasn’t Warmed Much for the Past Decade" because the wind is blowing the heat energy down into the depths of the ocean?
>.. for the continental US.

Fair point. It does, however, ignore the second link which was for global averages.

>In both cases, scientists said the 2012 global temperature records further consolidate a pattern of global warming. Each year of the 21st century has ranked among the 14 hottest since record keeping began in 1880.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/16/2012-10-wa...

The claim that temperatures have dropped for the past ten years seems to be patently false from the data I'm finding.
Indeed, but to my surprise, the poster has been here longer than I have (over 5 years).
GigaOm's Cloud Trailblazers for 2013 has Firebase and MemSQL
I do have that gap visually, but I can click on it to focus on that tab.
FYI, one of the examples we wrote for Webscript does simple mobile phone verification: https://www.webscript.io/examples/mobileverification

We thought about building something like this as a paid service, but we didn't think it could be very profitable.
This is a salient question. I'm not familiar with human rights abuses in Belarus, but some cursory research indicates that there's a high degree of intersection between their abuses and Singapore's abuses.

For one, they both take political prisoners. They both abuse the judiciary as a means of silencing opposition. Show trials and trumped up charges against political opponents? Yep, and yep.

Saliently, from the Wikipedia article on this subject[0]:

> "International documents reflect that the Belarusian courts that are subject to an authoritarian executive apparatus, routinely disregard the rule of law and exist to rubber-stamp decisions made outside the courtroom; this is tantamount to the de facto non-existence of courts as impartial judicial forums."

This is pretty similar to the claims that have been leveled at Singapore in the past. The use of trumped-up criminal charges to silence and even imprison political dissidents.

They're even similar in the Press Freedom rankings (147th vs. 151st).

The only major difference is that Belarus has been frequently accused to racist oppression of their ethnic minorities, whereas Singapore's abuses do not seem to be race-based.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Belarus
If your school district expels students on the first offense, I'd like to see the policy.
Why aren’t user-defined operators more common?
Touch Software Is Not Like Click Software
First draw your curve, then plot your data.

Cato isn't so much a "conservative think tank" as a mouthpiece for certain established financial interests, such as the oil industry. So Cato's job is not to produce facts and logic, but rather to produce propaganda that bears a surface resemblance to facts and logic, in order to put a thumb on the political scales.

Tesla is what we in our little corner here call "disruptive innovation" - in this case, disrupting the automotive sector's dependence on the oil industry. This is a technically difficult and very expensive proposition, in the face of some extremely powerful vested interests at both the national level (Cato Institute for oil) and the local level (mandatory dealer laws in Texas, etc). Tesla is tackling this in part by relying on tax subsidies to consumers, based on the public good.

Now, if tax subsidies benefit Cato's backers, then Cato is all for tax subsidies. But if tax subsidies threaten their backers, then Cato is suddenly all righteous about "free markets". Cato doesn't give a crap about free markets. And their backers are scared... Detroit and other non-US auto manufacturers are sorta-neutral third parties here. They're not in the oil business, they're in the car manufacturing business. If Tesla's disruption is successful, they'd much rather adopt Tesla's model and cut Big Oil loose, than go out of business manufacturing dinosaur-fart burners.

So this post is mostly interesting in that grumbling about consumer tax subsidies on high-end luxury goods is the BEST they have.
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So would I; I can't find it. Here's a fact sheet that reports the 87% but doesn't clarify on suspension vs. expulsion: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/factsheets/zt_fs.aspx
Actually, I'm wondering if a project can fit into a mind-map.
Duo's "Verify API" does just that:

https://www.duosecurity.com/docs/duoverify
I have no idea about Cato's overall position on this, but broad tax cuts are a different policy beast from targeted tax cuts for the connected.

C.f. the best way to repeal an unjust law is to make it get applied everywhere. If the governor's son has to spend 2 years in jail for pot possession, the pro-legalization should want him treated like every other person; if he gets a special exemption, then what they see as an unjust law can continue.
> However it doesn't appear to directly include semantics for aborting transactions which is a pretty important part of a distributed transaction protocol.

Yep, I left this out to avoid confusion at first. There are some details in the "What just happened?", but the basic idea is that any aborted write will be stuck in "pending." Same for failed writes; writers won't see these. The algorithm presented actually guarantees "Read Committed" ACID isolation.

> But having a reliable node failure monitor that can react fast enough to ensure availability is really the hard part.

Well, you'll remain available for reads and writes, but the size of "pending" might grow. You essentially need asynchronous distributed garbage collection, which will stall in the presence of partitions and may require the failure detectors I mentioned.

> The paper does talk about how non-overlapping transactions won't block each other (which is nice but not a solution)

I don't see how this isn't a solution for transactions that desire last-writer-wins semantics. If, as in the examples I listed, writes commute, then a blocked write shouldn't stall others. If you want to prevent Lost Update or Write Skew anomalies (i.e., concurrent update), then you'll have to give up availability and/or block.