skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However it is important for them to make a point why they are not allowed to do that.

Tesla buyers are not average Joes, they are people with money. People with money have connections, often political. Annoy just a few rich people and it is like magic, the legal and lobbying wheels start spinning.
Do they develop there?
>But, it's fun to point at "elastic" and tell people they're "doing it wrong" because they don't take a name chosen 7 years ago literally.

It's not an arbitrary name, elasticity is a defining concept of "cloud".

>As if somehow the service (called EC2 virtually everywhere -- not Elastic Cloud Compute) could never evolve beyond that initial use case.

EC2 is one tool. There are other tools in the Amazon box for other use cases [0] and other boxes from other providers entirely.

>Incidentally, the "elastic" in EBS must have a different meaning because one of its primary selling points is that it's persistent storage.

It's elastic because you can allocate and deallocate rapidly and pay only for what's allocated at a given time.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5819017
I found a health tech company I wanted to work for an asked for an internship. They not only paid me, it is now my full time job. Offer to work for free and if you generate significant value they will pay you.
IOS/Android.
You'll have no trouble.
It's mentioned in the article that joining the dealership network is relatively more difficult for a startup like Tesla than the other big manufacturers.

Also I don't see why being able to sell directly to consumers should be count as a "special rule". On the contrary, being forced to find a dealer in the "network" to work between you and your consumer is.
The law was put in place to protect dealers who invested their own money in their infrastructure from predatory manufacturer practices.

Tesla has no existing dealer network, and therefore has no need to have said non-existed dealer network protected from them.
What a great minimum viable product!

Ignoring the fact that there's obviously going to need to be more breakthroughs in 3D printing before this can scale I think that this setup could shed some light on the demand for consumer 3D printing. A large spike in demand followed by a bunch of complaints about the user experience/wait time/build quality/etc could tell you which part of the printer process needs to be optimized first before this can gain widespread acceptance. Excited to follow this in the months to come.
Yes. It's not the currency, but rather shipping and language barrier that I'd be worried about. (GBP are obviously slightly less of a concern)
as usual, a lot of talking, proposing good stuff but 1% gets done.
Right, the key distinction being that in your scenario, the title change is entirely voluntary, and even beneficial from the perspective of the technical co-founder, because he wants to continue working on the codebase rather than having his time taken up by all the politician duties that C*O roles entail.

I think in the OP, it seemed like more of a "you shouldn't let your first developer be the CTO because you want to be able to hire someone more experienced above him when your startup gets big enough to attract real rockstar talent" type of angle. Which, as you pointed out, is repulsive.
What sucks about your company's dev environment/philosophies?
Our company, Kareer.me, helps companies showcase their culture, workspace, team, opportunities, and more. We're looking to add something new just for developers.

Many of us have been duped into working at companies that are painful to write code for.

What things would you like to know about a company's development environment/philosophies before even considering a job?
I would agree, and add that simply referencing the article, or quoting relevant portions, along with introducing some original narrative would've been much more productive (conducive to conversation).
This is a weird concept and I'm trying to figure out how they intend to market it. It seems to me that people buying cpus look for the best performance at the right price, build the machine, and then 3 or 4 years later start the process over again. They won't unlock the cpu right then and there unless it fits within the price range, and they wont do it years later when they're looking to upgrade their rig because they'll haven't forgotten or there will be something much much better.
This cannot be stressed enough. It's not an option for a company to pay you for your work. It's a legal requirement. Do not work for free.

An internship is not employment. It's something a company does that's supposed to benefit you educationally. It's not a way for a company to get free labor.

It took a lot of fight to get labor laws in place in the United States and they exist for a very good reason.
The hidden sexism in CS departments
I think this is a fantastic idea. Historical sites, and history in general, are the collective property of everyone, held in trust by the historical community, be it historians in universities or tour guides at museums. We preserve history to keep it alive for subsequent generations, so everyone experience where we came from and who we are. What's the point of preserving history if it is going to be locked up in a stuffy old archive? Public engagement in history is such an important part of keeping history alive, since if no one cares about it, why should it be preserved?
Something to consider, the author advocates json responses across the board, which is pretty good advice, however, it's incompatible with `204 No Content` responses (also recommended). If you're building a client that connects to an API that could potentially return a `204 No Content` response, you can't assume that there will be json in the body and automatically parse the response.
I'm responding directly to his "large corporate interests" talking point, when those large corporate interests are barred from selling directly.
I believe they were drawing a parallel to parasitic middle-men in other industries, like Ticketmaster in live entertainment.
Well, by popular opinion and downvotes, apparently it's totally up for debate whether Saddam had WMDs in Iraq.
Partly due to big line breaks, partly due to short lines of text, and partly due to short overall text length.
Funny memory, at a startup weekend in a team as the only technical resource. Had my headset on but wasn't listening to music... was somewhat amusing as everyone passed out C letter titles for an idea that wasn't even implemented. Took my headset off when someone claimed CTO "CTO huh? What am I doing right now?... Oh you don't actually know? You want to be the CTO but you don't know what your only engineer is doing?" Walked off after that.
This is simply ridiculous. I won't even dare to imagine what our country will be like if our president is from that idiotic state. oh wait, it has happened, and it got us into shitty wars and trillions of dollars in debt.
Looks more like a 50% premium to me.
I think he's pointing out that Louis CK also sells his product directly to his customers instead of going through a middleman like Ticketmaster/Dealership.
Our company (FoundationDB) is based in the DC Metro area and we have tons of success hiring and retaining top tier engineering talent. The stories we hear about how hard it is to hire while we're out in SV sound really bad.

I can only speak for DC, but there is a huge labor force here of highly skilled engineers that have been working on (mostly top secret) defense / intel projects at huge government contractors. They know their jobs are there for them again if they leave and decide to come back, and often they are happy to jump ship and work in a startup if the team and product are compelling.

I imagine DC isn't alone in having a niche industry of highly skilled engineers that would be open to startups. Often they're not involved in the startup culture though so it takes some effort to find them.
As someone who has been both, I don't think the distinction is that important. Either route carries enormous pressures and the associated stress that comes along for the ride. Plenty of lifestyle businesses have taken the same toll on their founders' marriages, families, net worth and more. In fact, probably more entrepreneurs have offed themselves due to business failures than startup founders.

The actual question for would be business owners is: does the intensity of your passion drive you towards accepting this risk? If you are unsure, then either title is probably the wrong one for you.
Cool and well-designed but I count three clicks.
>> The only reason it appears our education system is poor is because certain subgroups of the student body drags [sic] our averages down.

Yeah, lots of people forget how great we really are once you compare our best to everybody else's average! It's pure bias. Individually (booyah!) almost every one of us is well above average. It's just that there are too many of the others who don't deserve to count.
PS: We can of course disagree on this, and that doesn't make your or my opinion any less, but just thought I'd restate in case I was unclear.

Sure, I don't even think we disagree about much. I'm really just quibbling about terminology, and - as you mentioned - people are constantly arguing about the exact definition of terms like "entrepreneur" and "startup" etc.

I will just add that I haven't met a lot of the kind of people you talk about here:

I think there definitely are "startup founders" who are not entrepreneurs. They are looking for a job that happens to be CEO of their own startup, rather than to create a business that meets a need and makes some money.

which may come down to geography, or maybe I do meet those people but they don't register because I mentally filter them out very quickly, or whatever. But now that you word it that way, I can see how you could reasonably talk about a "startup founder" who isn't really an entrepreneur.

As a person, I myself was certainly a "startup founder" on my first two startups, as I considered myself a startup founder and entrepreneurial but I actually had zero clue about how to create a business.

I know the feeling. Before I read The Art of the Start and The Four Steps to the Epiphany I had only the very, very vaguest of notions of exactly how to go from "I have an idea" to "I have a business". Luckily, between those books, and a lot of great articles linked here at HN (and very pointedly, a lot of yours, swombat!) I think I now have a reasonable idea of what it takes to turn the idea into a business. Now, we might still fail for any number of reasons, but at least we're not just stumbling around in the dark.

And, for what it's worth, we are currently going with the bootstrapped, "try to be profitable as as early as possible" model. These days, I try to frame most of my decision making in terms of "What is the most important thing I can do right now, in terms of getting to revenue"? (And no, posting here isn't contributing much to that goal, but everybody needs an outlet of some sort now and then, besides work!)
If you mean no to the first bit, that's reassuring. play.golang.org is something of a special case as it tries to run code in a sandbox. I'd be more interested in exploits which attack web server processes or db drivers with malicious input as those are more likely to actually be used in the wild.
Performance analysis of Hive, Redshift, Impala, and Shark
"Other car manufacturers can't sell directly. Why should Tesla get special rules?"

Tesla shouldn't get special rules. Tesla probably advocates a non-special-rule model.
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread."

-Anatole France
Sunrise raises 2.2 to replace your calendar
Show HN: Converse.js, a Javascript XMPP chat client written with Backbone.js
Texas has a little over 3x the population of Virginia with 4.5 times the number of executions. Keeping in mind that crime isn't necessarily consistent from place to place I don't think that is a drastically larger number proportionally.
IQ tests are not the ultimate method of evalutating human potential
> It's not going to work.

Whether or not it really is an attempt to go up against AWS, it won't work. IBM has not been successful in slim-margin markets like low-end hardware (or in this case hosting).

I currently have a dedicated server with Softlayer (at one point I had three). I actually started with Rackshack which was consumed by EV1, then merged with The Planet, then eaten by SL. I've been looking to move elsewhere, but this seals the deal. I believe IBM can't help but screw it up.
Having a look at the source, you get this for free in python. If you don't use any threads the overhead is just the checking of one (non-atomic) variable in the main eval loop, so that is at least as cheap as GOMAXPROCS=1 in Go. There is a small overhead of dropping/taking the gil around I/O functions, but it isn't worth optimizing the few nanoseconds that takes for the much slower i/o functions.

But if even this overhead is too much you can compile python without treading support.
Texas, the state being discussed here, is generally touted as a free-market success story, without having an actual free market.

EDIT: Typo, correct 'marker' to 'market'.
I assume this is being posted because something similar has been found on Haswell, or whatever.

Complaining about this is just not knowing what is going on. Developing a processor is a very complicated matter, and it's financially impossible to develop several models for all the possible different performances. So they just design and build the best possible device (with exceptions of course).

Now, I want a not-so-powerful device. Why should I pay the price of all the R&D it took to squeeze the top performance? Maybe I just won't buy it because, hey, it's too expensive.

On the other side, I want the top of the line. And Intel spent lots of money developing it, in practice raising the price for everyone else. Shouldn't I be made to pay more to compensate for that?

At the end of the day is a matter of creating artificial tiers so different needs pay more or less of a share of the R&D and production cost. Something similar happens when paying $100 for an upgrade from a 16GB to 32GB iPod. The NAND Flash chip costs about $5, but I'm paying the premium of the extra investment the company did, the additional supply chains, etc.

Of course this just is invisible to the customers most of the time, and this 'upgrade' cards make it obvious now. Anyone familiar with testing equipment (oscilloscopes, etc...) will know that is a very common marketing technique.
The large corporate interests have the infrastructure in place and don't particularly want to sell directly. This regulation serves as a moat to keep out competition.
You can listen to this podcast if you're interested in hearing more about how corrupt the car dealership racket is. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buyi...
You may or may not like him, but Jaron Lanier is right in that interview: It is dangerous that corporations control the data of devices you are supposed to wear.

Scoble doesn't seem to care about that.
Insurance company will not pay >60K. It will be <10K. Typical insurance pays around 80%, patient 20% of the 'negotiated rates'.
I actually have some ideas for a service to develop on that domain, but it's nothing to do with real mainframes. More like "Big Data Processing As A Service" where the "mainframe" bit is just an analogy. I don't have time to work on it right now though, so the idea is just kinda sitting on the backburner ATM.
Mind the fundraising gap
I think I've settled on NewsBlur. It's not perfect, but I've paid for it for a year and I don't feel like trying an endless stream of new products when in the end none will be perfect but most will be adequate.

*Edit

I just signed up for The Old Reader to use at work. I like that it gives you the option to sign in with a service, or manually upload your subscription list.
When he does stuff, it's not enough (Obamacare) and it's too much (Obamacare); when he gets blocked, it's his fault it wasn't closed (Guantanamo) and he's threatening our freedom by trying to close it (Guantanamo); when he withdraws from wars he's cutting and running from our enemies (Iraq and Afghanistan) and he's a warmonger who isn't withdrawing fast enough (Iraq and Afghanistan).
> Other car manufacturers can't sell directly.

Why is this (I'm not familiar with the way it works in the US)?
mm, Unless social interaction leads to a net negative outcome for the rest of the world: I'm thinking of Nationalism in Europe and Japan for example during the early 1910 and 1930s. I'd argue that the consensual agreement in the sub-humanization of Jews would qualify as worthless human interaction.

As for the instagramming, here's a counterpoint:

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/01/the_a...

Sharing what makes you happy doesn't necessarily makes others happy.

And as convenient as social media was in speeding up the spread of news for the OBL raid and coordination for Arab Spring, it's also lead to witch hunts (Boston Bombings), and general spread of false information (politics anyone?).

You're right, some people suck and using social media, and others are very efficient at it. But I think for what purpose someone uses a tool is important.
I have to assume this was sarcasm, but they're called states, and many Americans would like to see them regain power relative to the Federal government.

A baby box is the kind of thing California would do, if we weren't broke like everyone else. Though, California alone exceeds the population of all Nordic countries combined.
Here's a counterdote: I've been using them since they were The Planet and have been very happy. I've wedged my machine a few times and their support is great, too.
> The law doesn't work based on opinion, it works on proof first, and evidence when proof is lacking.

Yeah, and I have enough of a background that my opinion is evidence.

That was simple, wasn't it?

If we found an acknowledged expert in the domain, their opinion would be very strong evidence indeed.

Let me put it this way: the goal of establishing a patent system was to encourage public disclosure of methods. A time window was granted to the patent holder to make exclusive use of the material, but after that, to revert to the public domain.

This patent application ADDS NOTHING THAT IS NOT OBVIOUS to the public domain. That's my opinion, and I think I have enough of a background in the domain that my opinion is evidence.

Your argument is that, if I were MORE of an expert in the domain, I might suddenly realize that the claims are more subtle and inventive, than I can discern as a journeyman in the domain?

And yes, you keep cleverly asking for a link, but that's presuming that prior art is the only way to defeat a patent. An idea can be both NEW (or phrased to sound new) and OBVIOUS to a practitioner. In which case, your asking for a link is a strawman argument.
It does take a considerable larger investment though to get that started compared to a makerbot.
The pudding manifesto
It's car dealers who have special rules to restrict competition.
The "large corporate interests" being protected in this case are car dealerships, not manufacturers.
Difficulty hiring is one of the best reasons to start a company anywhere else. Sure, the labor supply in SV is high, but so is the competition for those workers - including competition from extremely rich and aggressive companies like Google and Facebook who will deliberately lure away your top people with offers you can't match. There are several other places where the labor supply is 80% and the competition is 10%. Lower cost of living doesn't hurt either, and if you can handle remote workers that's even better. Living in the shadow of tech giants seems like a distinctly bad idea unless your goal is to get aquihired by one of them.
Did the author change the article after this comment got so highly ranked here? If you were indeed directly quoting the article, then it has changed quite a bit.

Shame on the author of the article if he changed it. We can't have a meaningful discussion if you get scared of a little criticism and change the source material.
How Paypal snuck Node.js into their aging stack
It's tough to give examples of this in Perl without a lot of narrative (and sometimes a lot of code), but the technique I'm referring to is currying: programs that write programs, via functions that write functions. This, of course, is what you do all the time in LISP. It takes half the (Higher-Order Perl) book to illustrate the technique and its power. Which is kind of the point: shouldn't it be a commonplace thing that doesn't take so much work to get around to explaining and using?
RESTful design is still one of the tricky problems I meet on a daily basis. For example, I have blog application in which each blog entry can have multiple versions in its revision history. What should the restful api look like to provide the ability to revert to a certain version?
A Human API
Anyone else find it ironic that the article opens with Apple being the victim of a broken patent system, when they have a long history of using the same broken system to their own ends?
Ah, yeah, there isn't really a settings page yet. But you can invert the Y-axis by pressing F4! :)
I'm speaking more to the style of an "interview". Which is that the conclusion is predetermined and the engagement is a setup. The use of the video-call "straight-talker rational counterpoint" is absolutely cliche in these sorts of things. Scoble wasn't allowed to get barely a point in, but instead this was just a "FUD about Google Glass, and here's Scoble to sit in to try to pretend that this is a conversation".

It is literally garbage news. He has absolutely no interest in actually discussing anything.
A two year old socket.io bug
The metaphor is cute, but maybe overstated. Tesla isn't doing this because it's what a self healing network would do.

Tesla is doing this because it's a rapidly-growing startup whose production facilities are heavily oversubscribed already. They have no net downsides to giving up the "Texas" market for now, because they don't have enough cars to sell even without Texas (and the handful of other such states).

Eventually that won't be true. Once ramped up, they'll want that Texas market. And at that point someone will have to bend. Musk's bet is that at that point Texas will cave because they don't want to deny their voters the chance to purchase this great new car. Texas's "bet" (really the dealership lobbyists' bet) is that Tesla ultimately won't be successful and that by holding their ground here they will discourage other manufacturers from trying the same thing.

IMHO, things make much more sense when you argue in fact instead of metaphor.
Why not 50... and call them "states"?
I got my first computer job this way - I offered to work for free for the first two weeks, if it didn't work out, they got free labor for two weeks. They hired me by the third day. This was back in 2002 or so though, and I was still at home with my parents. Nowadays I could not make such an offer.
This is Interstate Commerce, pure and simple. What would be really nice is for Congress to pass a law saying these state laws are illegal and suddenly the floodgates would open.

Of course all of the car manufacturers will protest that, and their lobbyists are more powerful than Tesla's.

But the real plan is for Tesla to make cars and sell them where it can. In time as people see more and more of them being sold and winning awards, they will ask why they can't buy them. Tesla has to lay the groundwork for that now in as many states as it can, but at the moment production seems like more of a bottleneck for them than marketing and sales.
The announcement said they fired all of their photographic staff.

Which combined with your comment leads me to wonder about their sports section. Taking sports photography is very definitely about the capabilities of the camera and even more importantly the lens. An iPhone is not going to do very well for sports photography.
Is it Safe to Get an MRI?