skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Make no mistake, this is as much a PR ploy by Tesla to pump up their offering."

I don't get your negativity here. The fact that a major green tech company working with government support is able to shift financing over to the private market is, indeed, a remarkable feat and is absolutely something they have a right to crow about. The government, too — it's an example of a progressive system working as designed.

As for PR's impact to stock price...TSLA is 70% institutional owned. Anybody with a material stake in the company is savvy enough to know that they're not suddenly self-sustainably cash-flow positive.
It's often such a PITA to find free research papers if you don't have access to the paid journals. If it's just one paper, it's not such a big issue. The trouble is one of scale. A researcher usually puts a lot of time into looking for all the references and papers to read. If this researcher doesn't have direct free access to these papers and has to look them up on google every time, this increases the overhead significantly. We're talking about dozens of papers just to get started well on a topic.

Here's an example. When I did math research last summer at my university, I looked at 16 papers. It took a while to gather these even with my university account with which I obtained the articles for free. If I had to google every single article, it would have taken me much more time - at least double if not triple the time.
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This is the missing google gifs search.

I like the idea of not loading all the gifs at once, so you don't have to watch still frames slowly updating, which is what usually happens on every other site( tumblr...).
It seems reasonable on paper, but good luck getting entrenched powers to agree to eliminate fiduciary duty for officers of the corporation. It's one of the fundamentals of modern business. The argument against will be simple: investors are free to use the profits from the corporation for whatever charitable purposes they see fit, and it's not the officers' place to determine what the 'positive social impact' should be.
Is it just me who smells BS? Why hasn't this happened to SourceForge?
Doctors print up a splint for baby's blocked throat
Some deluded executives think that since developers aren't paid by the hour, their time is "free" (just tell the developers to work more hours per week to make up for the cleaning time). They'd never ask a consultant who billed by the hour to clean the bathrooms, since that would cost "real money".
Did you answer in Hangouts?

I find it rings my computer a bit before it rings my phone. I'm not sure if my phone ring had the same latency it would have if I were not logged in on my computer.
Maybe SourceForge makes enough off the bajillion ads they host on download pages to make it worth it?
One thing you might not be accounting for is whether or not bit.ly is tracking Facebook's crawlers as clicks, since Facebook will follow the bit.ly link, and while bit.ly tries to exclude bots, who knows how successful it is.

You could test by posting a status with a bit.ly link where you're the only one who has permission to view the status, and see if you get any clicks on that link.
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Mitt Romney must hate Tesla - it is a textbook example of why governments should sometimes mess with free markets.

If the government had not provided this loan Tesla would have gone bankrupt and the US would have lost a significant high-tech asset. 99% of the time the market is more efficient than government, but that other 1% counts for a lot.
> Though I've figured out that just because someone left their safe open, doesn't mean you get to steal the gold.

True. Though on the other hand, if somebody figures out they they get free sodas when they hold down both the coke and sprite buttons, as far as I am concerned they get to have their free soda.
Ah, interesting. I was not aware that debt and income were related favorably in that way.

So how do you attract high earners with a lot of debt (but still low debt-to-income)? That sounds extremely difficult.
My big take away from this: Have a multi-billion dollar national company with 120 million locked-in users and you can negotiate however you damn well feel like it.
Any time you serve raw user-supplied files from * .[your site].com you take on some risk.

Older browsers in particular just love to treat everything under the same second level domain as coming from the "same origin". Browsers even have a hardcoded list of country codes and exceptions to prevent "example.co.uk" from setting cookies for all of "*.co.uk".

It's a total security mess and ICANN is not helping the situation by selling new gTLDs.
People don't like that those credits are temporary, subject to the whim of the government, and the entire source of Tesla's current profitability. It's a pretty big asterisk - you can't blame people for pointing it out.
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> I'm guessing that for anyone who sets foot in an interview for a law firm, the interviewer expects he or she to have passed.

Most large firms draw their entry-level associates from their pool of summer interns, which they hire two years before they graduate law school and take the bar exam. They also usually give people a mulligan on failing the bar exam the first time, so people might work somewhere for 6+ months before passing the bar.
That's possibly true. However, having had the experience of someone show up to a disciplinary meeting to argue that he couldn't be sacked for spending hours a week looking at porn on his work computer, because there wasn't a specific line item in the workplace manuals or codes of conduct saying so, you'd be surprised at what people will argue to avoid getting fired when they're doing something anyone without some serious mental or moral impairment would recognise as not OK.

Or, to put it another way, every bizarre rule or sign usually has a story behind it.
Most of these bugs will disappear if you create an account / register. The "guest" user doesnt remember settings for individual users.
Only the third guy seems learning a new hability. If we were more rigorous, the path is a study comparing diverse online projects. I expect someone already done this.
You are, of course, entitled to your cynicism, but they've announced the existence of the console, the next version of Kinect, and what it looks like, and generated thirty stories on Hacker News alone, and taken over every console gaming site for the last day. Neither they nor Sony announce everything at once.
In this case, though, the two pronunciations are roughly half-and-half anyway, so a little nudge from authority might actually make a difference...

[Of course in reality, the format will probably become irrelevant, and the word forgotten, before there's any consensus on the pronunication... ^^; ]
Strange, I've never heard anything of the sort here.
I don't care where you have to host the files. It should be easy for a user to download your code, plain and simple.
Or work credits. I've seen many correlations between small, petty behaviors and plainly stealing work credits from co-workers.
The right question to ask yourself is would have your experience been any different if you worked on a Master's in pure math instead?
I'll write up an article on the backend in a few days. I put a lot of thought and time into making it as fast as possible.

We're working on a mobile site and app. Both should be out in a few weeks.
Conflict of interests. The server side is dying.
But, this grief is still less than the grief if they'd go through if they didn't have Two Factor Authentication enabled, no? Yes, DOSing and SMS spam sucks, but not nearly as much as having your account successfully hijacked.
Urgh, I add 2FA then it asks to let people find me by phone number and I have to untick a load of "text me when..." stuff.

Not cool Twitter.
Sure, big fonts for headlines look nice --- but this is ridiculous.
register a new account and you'll be able to customize your feeds from an options dropdown on the header.
The concern is that as they sell more cars outside of the US and California where there are no credits, it will decrease their margin.
Or people could just say "Oh, I was wrong" and adjust...
The requirement to constantly be publishing is ridiculous, no wonder there are cases like the one reported in nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7396/full/485041e...) where in 56 paper only 6 had results that were successfully reproduced :( And this is cancer research...
Why did you submit this again? I don't even want to reply to this. The answer? Politics. Money. Infrastructure is built by the lowest bidder.

The cellphone industry is an oligopoly. There is zero innovation. You couldn't if you wanted to.
Hey guys, I'm an Engineer at Grooveshark and I handle developer relations.

Unfortunately, groovr appears to circumvent internal copyright protections for content hosted at Grooveshark. The groovr library offered a way to get, and subsequently allow you to easily download, song mp3s via a call (groovr.getSongFile). It was able to provide these services by using our internal authentication methods and internal API.

Grooveshark offers a public API (http://developers.grooveshark.com/) which allows you to search for content, authenticate users, view popular music, and more, all for free. Developers are encouraged to register for a key and use our content for their applications.
>some company which might buy all the assets at bankruptcy prices and then hire workers on much more favorable terms.

You do realise that care companies are one of the most asset-heavy companies in the world right? Nobody would have been able to pick up the pieces in a credit-crunch recession. Independently of that, there would still have been a long period between the shutdown of the company and it being picked up, and in the meantime tier-N companies would all suffer greatly as well.
You may not be wrong, but the contrast you draw is still unnecessary and annoying.
Glad to hear it! We're definitely open to suggestions if you have any.
Ok, I don't understand you point.

The original article was about taking some thing away from employees and saving a small amount of money and doing that having negative impacts morale way beyond the savings.

In this case the city is GIVING the employees something and saving a small amount of money.

Oates said: "This decision represents an important step forward for the City. We want to equip all city employees with easy-to-use tools that allow them be more productive and innovative in their jobs, as well as a system that can scale to keep up with the city's demands."[1]

[1]http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2267773/city-of-boston-dumps-...
For now the API only supports US$.

But I have added support (on the DB side of things) to make it agnostic in the future.

Say for separate IOU's index listing for different currencies and items.
From books and games to World of Warcraft gold.

Heh, actually a funny story...
At first I allowed realtime currency conversion, but a friend pointed out how stupid it was. I didn't really think it was stupid until he laughed out loud and explained.

I do get now... but back then it seemed only natural that the user picks a single currency to list all the money that the user owes or is owed.

Thanks for showing interest. It's just a side project, not a profitable startup in any means - scratching me and my friends list for splitting and keeping track of tabs.
It does separate item splits, even splits and single one off payments/loans (essentially the same thing).
It's all client side so you get feedback directly on how much you got paid for or paid for.
I've been waiting for the SMS for 45 minutes to no avail :( I wonder if it's just load problems on their side.

I really hate SMS-from auth, anyway. Now my cellphone-provider account is security critical, rather than my installation-of-a-secure-client-I-control. This is some protection against mass attacks on Twitter, but I use a long, unique, random string as my passphrase, so I'm not too worried about that.

Kind of sucks that Twitter has such light security compared to FB/Google/AWS. I guess they're substantially smaller, but this wouldn't be that hard for 1-2 good engineers to get right. If it weren't for the stupidity where Google/Apple/Twitter/Facebook/Amazon/etc. think they're at war with each other, this seems like something they'd be better off partnering/outsourcing.

If I had an app with the mobile client reach of Twitter, I'd use it as an opportunity to become a security/auth provider (using a public key scheme), though.
Google Code (and GitHub) aren't for average users. They're developer tools.

Download links belong on the project web page.
I just tried it and it only rang my computer.

When I quit hangouts from my computer it did not ring my phone and directed me to the voice mail after a couple of dial tones.

A normal hangout call from someone else using hangouts rings both at just about the same time (sometimes a lag on the phone).
... or use bittorent...
Unless 802.11ac has lower latency, I doubt any serious gamer is going to use Wi-Fi. I've always found performance is far better on Ethernet. Since the Xbox One has USB 3, maybe Microsoft could eventually make an adapter?
I'm sure he meant "50 cents per cup".
> the SEO industry is full of so much bullshit I have come to expect a lot of hate by association alone

So you don't think HN's view on SEO is unduly negative then, after all?
SourceForge still supports downloads and provides pretty good stats around them too. You can put your OSS file releases on SourceForge and keep other project stuff (code, tickets, etc) elsewhere if you want. Under Admin, Tools, you can pick and choose which SourceForge tools to use or not, and even add external links to project resources on other sites

Disclosure: I work for SourceForge
It's raising money. For most car companies that is not a special achievement. For Tesla, who has not yet proven that they can make money, it's something of a milestone - at least a smallish signal of market confidence. All the chest beating is just Musk being Musk.
Certainly, but you can have 2FA and not have a DOS vector if you provide TOTP.
Hack: You can still make outgoing calls using Google Voice/Hangouts

1. In Gmail type in your name into the "start a hangout" box
2. In Hangout window click on "add telephone".
3. type in phone number you want to call.
4. Call.
I worked in Dart for a few months and loved it, but recently had to look for something else for older browser support. I started writing code in TypeScript a few days ago and, face palm, why didn't anyone think of this sooner? Visual Studio with TypeScript and jQuery type definitions gives me most of what I need from Dart (80/20 rule). It's really fun to code with. JavaScript with types feels like a sunny day. I've been complaining a little about Dart js-interop (size and speed) and now feel my instincts were right; if Google doesn't fix js-interop, then I'm struggling right now trying to understand why I should use Dart, unless Google is more clear about a different use case for Dart on the client (Android.) If all the JavaScript 'Ninjas' discover TypeScript and have the same reaction I just did, then Dart is going to struggle on the client because it doesn't operate well in the current JavaScript eco-system like TypeScript does. Someone high up in the company and outside the Dart team needs to make a strong statement about where the Dart VM is going before the window closes.
I agree with you but for discussions sake...

What if this wasn't classified as a corner case? As you said - most MSOs are running either an old Moto or old SA as their standard box. Because headends are either Moto or SA there are actually very few unique STBs in the field. And of those, they are all versions of the same OS that either Moto or SA have been using for a long time.

If MS just threw a bunch of resources at common SA and Moto boxes to enumerate and add special code to handle these cases... could it work? Would it be a better experience? Is it worth it?
sorry, let me respond to your points item by item.

layout will save if you create an account.

I guess we overlooked the + icon. Create an account, goto "RSS" and you can select groups and then select feeds to go into each group just by selecting feeds.

Point 3 is great. The small layout doesnt need that feed link on every item.

to move a feed into a folder, goto RSS, select or create the folder, then select the feed.
Or, assuming you've created an account, click on the feed on the left bar, then hover over options in the header, groups, and select the group or create a new one.

We're away that its mobile unfriendly; creating a mobile site is our next initiative.
This article seems suspect in its sensationalism, not for the facts presented, but for the ones not addressed. Greek yogurt is widely eaten in lots of countries (called labneh most of the middle east).

If we were to address this seriously we would have to ask: What do they do with the strained byproduct? The article doesn't seem to give any thought to the countries that already consume a lot of labneh.

My (Lebanese) grandmother used to make it by hanging a cloth above the sink, so her solution was merely down the drain.

edit: Woah! Sorry, I don't mean to imply that it isn't a problem. I mean to imply that many other countries may consume as much per capita as the US, but if lots of it is home-made, the waste problem might not be as visible, even if it is just as real.

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> one expert calls a “dead sea,”

The proper term for oxygen-deprived waters is actually "dead zone", to reduce confusion with the (merely very saline) Dead Sea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)

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I found a paper that I think is much more interesting than the posted article:

Utilization of Labneh Whey Lactose Hydrolyzed
Syrup in Baking and Confectionery, from the Pakistan Journal of Nutrition

http://www.pjbs.org/pjnonline/fin2285.pdf
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"Nothing wrong with PHP" is a comment to start a huge debate.
They could estimate the frequency of abuse just by taking a random sample of files and manually evaluating them. That's not inconsistent with it being hard to find all of the abusive files.
But perhaps you should be counting the horrifically expensive operations (cache misses) in your asymptotic analysis, not the virtually-free operations (writes).
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Or dream host's Files Forever. You pay once to put them up, and then they can be downloaded for free by anyone.
Not only that, there's evidence that it might have been the more common pronunciation at the time!
Yes - It's difficult to describe the difference in one sentence ;)

I agree that there are many shades of the rainbow between a JIT and an interpreter.

"V8 compiles JavaScript source code directly into machine code when it is first executed. There are no intermediate byte codes, no interpreter."
https://developers.google.com/v8/design#mach_code

Have a read about V8 and the DartVM's architecture. V8, and the DartVM have a different architecture than IE's Chakra and Firefox's monkeys. They use a method JIT which initially generates very simple native machine code directly from the AST. The machine code includes instructions to identify hot code, which is re-compiled again from the AST. The optimizing compiler converts the source into an SSA form, and IR, but this is not byte/bitcode. This is what Bak et al are referring to when they call this architecture a "source code vm".

Lars Bak on channel 9:
Bytecodes are a silly thing in my mind.
They can be used for different things interpretation. But interpreters are really slow.
But they can also be used as a wire format, for instance in .net or java where that's what you ship over the wire.
In javascript the wire format is sourcecode, and for each function you have, inside the running javascript program, you have to cook up the source code again. So that is the primary representation.
So we just decided why not generate native code right away because the CPU is pretty fast.

http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/e6aa/354bf580-9c93-4383-bab3-cb6a3dd...
Bitbucket will have this problem.

Anyone giving away free file hosting eventually runs into this problem.

Google just happens to also have drive to fall back on.
Ask HN:What Learning Management System or Policy Acknowledgment SaaS do you use?
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That's not how language works. Things are pronounced how they are.
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Why don't they use it as a base for cooking biscuits?

Replace water with acidic whey and throw some baking soda in to produce CO2 to leaven dough. You'll get more tasty biscuit with proteins and minerals. You'll probably need to remove lactose, tho.
How DEC scientists imagined the Internet in 1968 -- a year before the Internet
I think the following might be a good summary

- write a marketing plan for you (yeah I know how that sounds). Choose a niche - python web is niche enough !
Choose a location (where you live)
- identify 50 digital agencies near you.
- start a web site, use a bootstrap theme
- put audio interviews transcribed with as many of those 50 agencies bosses as will talk to you - ask them to lunch, ask them three things - how did you get here, what is going to happen next, what should people in your industry do to survive? Most people will love those three

- repeat this for CTOs of large companies in the area

- don't cut your rates, charge 850 per day and charge no less than half a day

- deliver god solid documented code

- code that you can measure the amount of money it makes the client (ie choose your jobs well)

There is loads I have missed out but try
I think this is pretty cool.

As a front end developer I would like to see this mature into a project which "makes my life easier", and currently, one of the biggest pains, I think is setting up a nginx or apache project with the right WSGI directives.

What I would love to see this develop into is a way to get my code pretty much straight from my IDE to a server of my own (whether hardware or virtual). I know it is very limited in deployment features right now, but I can pretty much rely on Docker to do that. e.g. "sandbox build /folder"; docker push dhrp/folder; ... ssh to my server ... docker run dhrp/folder. Done!

Two things are still missing here:
* Some kind of proxy with virtualhosts to map port 80 to my container
* A default run command for container committed by sandbox
SourceForge doesn't host any of the downloads. They depend on donated mirrors.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mirrors
Get your CV ready ...
They still don't budget enough time and money towards PC ports even today. I played Metro Last Light recently (released last week) and the secondary weapon selection was basically holding tab and then the menu emulated the mouse like it was an analog stick to select knives, grenades, etc. They are making huge money on the PC platform but still can't be bothered to make a proper UI or binds for an entirely different platform.
Is there a way to export my feeds should this service ever go the way of google reader (or I decide I want to use a different one)?
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The first thing which came to my mind was the argument against nuclear energy; it produces too much waste. The waste from yogurt seems to be a far bigger problem though. While not so long-term, it is massive. Interesting to draw parallels.

Over here there's a syrupy-like product called Calpis. It's slightly acidic yet milky and sweet. As far as I remember, it is made at least partly from this byproduct. Of course it's a small step to the solution.

Another ten cents, if it is largely water based, what about letting the water evaporate? Or does the acid go with it?

I apologize for the unrelated thoughts.
There are programmer jobs in finance that don't entail abuse.
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