skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is this raw creativity and freedom that distinguishes a designer from a developer" - true! I have a friend of mine who is an absolutely left-brained guy and can develop a website from scratch in a code editor. Frankly, his websites aren't too creative and are a little bit 'mechanical', IMHO.
10 things you might not know about India
10 things you might not know about India
This is so cool!! I wonder how far off it is to commercial deployment and what licensing plans they may have.
An interesting fact is that Concorde had a similar inversion in its drag curve where as it slowed down the amount of drag increased meaning you had to throttle up to maintain the same speed.

In Concorde's case this was caused by the massive delta wing which created huge vortices at high angles of attack which allowed it to fly at reasonably low speeds (high compared to normal airliners but manageable) while having suitably low drag to fly at 2.5 times the speed of sound.
I think the aim was to make electric cars a practical reality, and somehow I don't see academia do that.
I was taught all the useful properties of a determinant, but not what a determinant actually was. Now everything makes much better sense!
You've never been to a coal power plant have you?

Go to one and watch the endless trains of coal arriving constantly to power the thing, then come back and rethink what you just posted.
Following a movement or an ideology is fine but when you start breaking international law and doing crimes against humanity, you can explain to me why you did it all you want. I don't care. Somewhere along the line you stopped thinking (or never thought at all) and that's where you lost me.
Apparently I am not acquainted with the plight of unused campgrounds, because this makes me want to go find some redwood trees and throw up on them. Could someone explain to me in what alternate reality these temporary changes were worth $2.5 million in fines? I like California, or should say I liked California until reading this. But it now appears that the inmates are running the asylum.
Right. But not including it will inexorably lead to new Issue or PR to add it. Not sure it is validatorjs's role to educate users in their validation, just providing best as possible tools to do it right, no ?
There literally is a law in every state that prevents direct sales.
Check out this planet money podcast about this very topic http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...
The problem is that people will start falling off those windmills. Edit: Can someone provide me with the windmill related death statistics in the US?
When the solution to a problem that nearly every user will have is, "Use an add-on", then that's clearly a time when the design/dev team should go back and re-think their implementation. I can see the phone calls now, "Yes, mom - you need to go install an add-on. What's an add-on? Well, maybe they call it an extension - depends which screen you're on. What's an extension?" Ugh - awful idea.
The part that really irks me about BitBucket issues is that you can't reassign the issue to someone else without editing the header record. This applies to some of the other issue fields as well, and just seems bizarre. We wanted to move from GitHub to BitBucket, but after a day of trying their issue tracker, we gave up.
What is the status of Turbulenz for mobile?
If you make a typo in a command and try to backspace it marks it as wrong, gives you the next, and potentially marks several as wrong until you notice that you can't backspace.

Is that intentional?

Otherwise, had a very quick play and it's nicely produced, but I can't assess its efficacy just now. Have bookmarked - looks interesting.
Yeah. This planet money podcast covers the same issues in a bit more detail http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...
Not legal in most US states, especially for established firms with outstanding dealer agreements. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_dealerships_in_North_Americ...)

A not insignificant portion of GM/Chrysler's restructuring costs were buyout payments for dealers, many of whom were not profitable.
It's disingenuous to call "solar and wind" an alternative on the same level as nuclear and coal.

For one thing, it's an incomplete alternative; it needs to be paired with some form of country scale battery for when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing.

This is covered in the excellent book Without Hot Air[1] which breaks down power usage and generation potential (using UK figures), primarily to discuss weaning the country off of fossil fuels.

Reading through estimates of what will be required ignoring cost, the sheer scale of what it would really take to power a country off of renewable energy quickly becomes apparent.

And it's written by a physicist who strongly argues for the need to move off of fossil fuels as quickly as possible. He just doesn't have his head in the sand about how difficult that will be.

I tend to agree with that viewpoint but I'm skeptical we'll get there without pairing it with a significant boost in energy efficiency, ala Reinventing Fire[2].

1: http://withouthotair.com/
2: http://www.rmi.org/rmi/ReinventingFire
I didn't realise Jody was a unisex name
A small bulldozer is still a bulldozer. ( I searched for "small bulldozer" and this was among the first: http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20060713/SmallBulldoz... )

Also, what do you mean by "this sort of stuff"? "This page left blank for your own rationalizations and fantasies", hmm?
Definitely not for mobile applications. I don't know why they don't sell them now, probably they got overtaken by developments in UPS technology. Since they started working on that we've seen 2 battery technology revolutions and a whole new family of semiconductors. On the plus side there are now usable passive magnetic bearings based on the Halbach principle and high tensile carbon compounds to help maintain structural integrity at high velocity.

Flywheels have always intrigued me, the planetary rotation is testimony to how much energy can be stored in one :) A couple of billion years and it's still spinning.

A few years ago AFS had a car prototype with a cluster of bottle sized high speed flywheels in the trunk and under the hood, it was quite a neat package but very expensive and limited range.

The most practical use of flywheels for transportation was probably the gyro bus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus another concept that just won't die until someone brings enough garlic, silver and wooden stakes.
I think you'd still have to hack the routers to provide the external clock, as the whole scheme depends on accurate sensor fusion between multiple antennas.
Frequently when taught, people are shown how to compute a determinant, and shown some uses of a determinant, but never really figure out what it "is".

This says - "Here are some useful properties that we want something to have, let's derive what that thing is. Ah, this is what we call a determinant."

It's not that it's circular, or back-to-front, it's just trying to give additional context and motivation.
The article was rather clear that he does it intentionally in the style of SJ.
I don't think he was saying what you think he was saying.

My interpretation was that he was bemoaning the political backlash that lead to shutting down nuclear power in various countries, with the related financial cost and environmental cost due to the increase in coal and gas power generation that was required to make up the gap. All because of an incident that hasn't killed anybody.
And your point is? His post was pro-nuclear and suddenly you're arguing against coal?
A dang long one at that! I'm sure the author just copied and pasted it someone. It looks like it's not that great: http://tinyurl.com/emailregextest

Maybe we can find a better simple solution they can use? If they don't have that feature many people will be frustrated.

Just as a reminder, if you are sending email verifications out anyway, there is no point in validating email addresses manually.
What technology that people don't know about would blow their mind?
I was going to say something like that, but less eloquently.

I handle a small network, and deploy Windows and Office mainly because most people know it, easing the training burden on me.

This isn't a software company here. If it were, obviously, using LibreOffice would be the way to go.
German renewables keep on threatening to collapse European power grid, which is much more advanced than any other power grid on the world.

If other countries would be as aggressive with renewables as German are we would see a lot of Europe wide blackouts.
Realize that your first presentations will be shit. You will probably not close a sale. Dont get discouraged. Its part of the process. Do develop your pitch in a structured manner so you can later on a/b test it. Think as the pitch as a script to a short movie.
I understand that language design is hard, but this does seem to be a crippled version of Clojure's multimethods. http://clojure.org/multimethods

And arguably, they're not powerful enough either.
Damage to waterways can easily justify fines that large or larger.
Nothing too see here. This is totally acceptable behaviour globally - if you have money, do whatever you want, then pay. The most popular TV show on the globe is Top Gear where 3 middle aged assholes with pockets full of greasy money do exactly that all the time - buy, demolish, destroy, whatever, then pay. And as this is the most popular TV show - we all like such assholic behaviour.
I guess it depends on one's perspective. You are probably right that someone will send a pull request to add it if it's not there, but I think authors of tools should always do their best to encourage users to do things correctly, especially issues like this which can easily be found without even knowing it's an issue (Google-ing "Email Regular Expression" brings up results for me on the first page recommending it's not a good idea)

Certainly when it comes to security, authors should do their best to ensure users of the tool are educated, when there's a security issue with any large software product, particularly open source, that's mostly down to poor configuration or ill-informed users, the authors are instantly criticized, but I think it should be the same for any general features in a tool that targets a specific functionality. This particular "best practice" is quite easy to find, and the tool is very specifically targeted towards validation, yet has something that's against best practice and could potentially cause frustration for people who use this tool, and people who use the stuff created using this tool.
Even if you uncheck the promotional emails checkbox?
In many countries they have demerit points, which are the way the lesson gets taught. Too many demerit points and you lose you license etc.

Fines should be punitive in nature but not excessively. Rich, poor, male, female, straight, gay, all should be treated the same.
please don't mess with focus that way, it ruins accessibility.
Fixing sort by Date Modified in Finder
Using reSIProcate to connect Asterisk with WebRTC
Headlines with "Emotional" and "So Eloquent" are the new "L@@K! Must See!"
Jesus Had 120 Students or Disciples
Show HN: Banana-controlled Super Hexagon
Show HN: Blog using Github Gists
And you are claiming that you, or anyone else for that matter, can prove that installing a few temporary platforms and fake ruins caused actual damage to a waterway?
The Proximity API
For all the bashing I do on MongoDB, MMS is actually fairly useful.

The biggest advantage is when you submit JIRA tickets for Mongo issues and they have data to work with already.
I'm on Windows 8 right now and I have a taskbar. Perhaps you were referring to the start button?
>Look at germany.

In Germany, where they are shutting down their nuclear power plants, more than 80% of the shut down nuclear power has been replaced with coal power plants,[26] which release 100 times as much radiation as a nuclear power plant of the same wattage

In 2012, member firms of the Verband der Industriellen Energie- und Kraftwirtschaft (VIK) reported power failures of several seconds duration, combined with a rise in frequency fluctuations. These were reportedly caused by network overloads due to the shutdown of nuclear power plants, and an increase in wind power generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#Role_...
I think its a joke based on the story a while back about them dropping 90% of error messages randomly ( by design )
> Americans earn 30% more than Finlanders adjusting for PPP.

You're taking PPP to mean much more than it actually does. Just consider the fact that there's no accepted "PPP" measurement methodology.

But even assuming one existed (pick your favorite), it only effectively encodes one specific consumption profile - one that e.g. takes into account the health care costs of a 30-year-olds with healthy 4-year-old kids, but not that of your average 50-year-old which are considerably different.

> taking into account higher cost of health care, lower cost of most other things, we still have 30% more on average.

Averages are totally the wrong tool to measure anything like that - especially when disparity in the US is so much higher.

Compare the proverbial USElbonia to Eulbonia:

In USElbonia, 1% make $16100/month, 99% make $100/month' avg=$260/month

In EUlbonia, 1% makes $400/month, 99% make $200/month, avg=$202/month

USElbonians, make, on the overage 30% more - but every single EUlbonian is at least 100% better off than 99% of the USElbonians.

Real stats are not quite as bad, of course - but disparity in the US is ridiculously high. But there are many respects in which all EU people are better off than US people which do not make it into any PPP comparison -- e.g., http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bill... "Unless you are Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, you are one medical emergency away from bankruptcy" - I can't find a real European comparable, but http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2009/11/17/no_one_goes_ban/ suggests that there's more the quality than 30% parity-adjusted purchasing power can buy.

> The only reason it appears our educational system is poor is because certain subgroups of the student body drag our averages down.

Cherry picking statistics will get you anywhere you want, regardless of any "truth" however that may be defined.

Consistently in STEM, about 50% of PhD and postdoctoral students in the US are not USA citizens, and this has been going on for at least 20 years. I would take that as empirical evidence that the US STEM education is, indeed, poor.
> (and for that matter, it appears, from Amazon)
Amazon has put an upper limit of 50K on Cash on Delivery.
Since this has access to all the capabilities of a browser, it is a short step from this sort of generic file-based swarming to something with previewing of those files using the browser as a media player for those videos and music (and PDFs using pdf.js, and P2P distribution of normal HTML-based sites). Perhaps even following of magnet URIs to allow browsing of the serverless (P2P) web, or bridging of torrents and HTTP content distribution networks.

Instant YouTube.
Building a car is an engineering project. Building a new kind of car will be a science intensive engineering project, but an engineering project nevertheless. Designing a new car is an attempt at optimizing a high dimensional design space that spans many disciplines that are interdependent. This requires fundamentally different methods and organization than those used conventional research.
I never like when the people who make my products are also the ones telling me if everything is ok. While the integration with 10gen is nice. I would rather a third party kept an eye on my infrastructure and told me when things were awry
The technology (at least in my experience) isn't as important as the ability to code. If you can code perfect Ruby, chances are you can (with a bit of practice) do the same in Python.

However, in reality a lot of companies hire purely on a per language basis which sucks.
Dammit, he's better at that game than I am.

On a fucking banana.
Why we all love making lists
How do hidden volumes, as for example TrueCrypt provides them, play into this? If the defendant doesn't give them up voluntarily the prosecution will have a hard time proving they exist, no?

Also, if they do find evidence for their existence - does the defendant then have to give them up?
> If the last sentence read to you like some Haskellish solution to a self-inflicted problem,

Language design is a formal discipline. Why the urge to dumb it down?
> So he brought multiple bulldozers in hey?
[...]
>At best from pictures it looks like they used small earth moving vehicles as you'd expect.

That seems like an odd thing to quibble about.

Are you saying he didn't illegally destroy environmentally sensitive wildlife by moving a bunch of earth and installing a fake fucking castle, but that it's all okay because he used "small earth moving vehicles"?
Evidence of Turkish state violence in pictures
I think you'll find that Germany isn't replacing nuclear power, just buying it from outside their borders instead of generating it themselves [1].

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/greenwashing-af...
"current"—out of curiosity, was it so small before Tesla received the loan?
Welcome to Python in the 21st century, bolting on crippled versions of functionality that other languages support natively. But I guess that's the price you pay to evolve a popular language. See also C++ and Java.
The key word being 'current', not 'back when the loans were given'.
Typography Scale & Rhythm
I found this site: http://www.pdfonline.com/pdf-to-word-converter/, which got it the pdf into rtf format. Then I used Word to open the rtf and saved it to a docx (without any conversion/formatting issues alert)...

Then, for yall, I uploaded the docx in my public dropbox folder: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20673425/sharing_dont_de...
From this article, 12 minors in the Fukushima prefecture have been confirmed to have thyroid cancer. Which usually strikes 1 to 2 for every million.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/05/national/fukushi...
Let's face it, that doesn't say much.
ANTHYMN by String Theory Entertainment — teach music through MMORPG
There are far more software project starts than good names out there.

I doubt that. Define 'good name'. Also, for open source software it does not matter that much what it is named. Who would care if Python was named e.g. Snake or Juice or Foo? As long as it is somewhat unique and catchy it should be fine, shouldn't it?

You don't know which category your project will end up in when you start it.

Exactly, you do not know it. If your product is successful you want it to be unique. Just imagine the number of wrong tags on SE. And if you product is not successful it is even worse to add unnecessary confusion.

Because JS is popular

Surprisingly and unfortunately, yes. But other technologies have had their time as well, e.g. I can't remember any ambiguous naming in Java. Anyone?

There are also a lot of half-baked libraries out there that will waste your time. So many developers end up making their own.

Ok, why not just name it jQuery then? Hardly an excuse for poor naming choice.
Sysbench Benchmark for MongoDB – Performance Update
I suppose it says something I would never even expect it to work. My experience with voice recognition, in any language, is that is's horribly immature.
The thing is, most searches cannot be automated because the records are paper records, maintained by each local government.

There exist services (called "gestorías") where you hire someone to stand in line and do the paperwork for you where applicable.

Other records (like the record of ownership) have been computerized, but can ONLY be queried by someone with the notary ("Escribano") degree. I actually thought about tackling that one for data mining (it has the actual purchase prices for houses and cars and land), but there are personal data privacy issues too, and even if you get the degree, it can (and probably will) be revoked if you use it for stuff like that.

In Uruguay everyone had to stand in line to pay utilities, now we have services to pay them, and banks and credit cards offer internet payment tied to your bank account or credit card, there's even a startup that uses smartphones to scan the barcodes :) called Paganza http://www.paganza.com/ (that was started by some former coworkers of mine)
It's going to happen anyway.
Received an email from TokoDB about this new tech, available to play now.

Perf Blog:
http://www.tokutek.com/2013/03/sysbench-benchmark-for-mongod...

Download Source:
https://github.com/Tokutek/mongo

TokuTek say to contact them for using it.

TokuTek made TokuDB, a storage engine for MySQL that uses Fractal Indexes (as opposed to B-Tree), read more at http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokudb-for-mysql/
the big downside is that when you search in github all these adverts polute it. It seems there are many of them.
Trust upholds complaint about BBC homepage clock
I'm all for renewable energy. In fact, I own/operate a 200kWp solar plant. I put my money where my mouth is.

Having said that, in the mid-term I'm also pro-nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is one of the greenest, least polluting energy sources right now. It's the only technology that emits zero CO2 and can be used as baseload. All other technologies, be it CCGT/natural gas, fuel cells using natural or bio gas, coal powered plants, etc. produce CO2 and other GHG. As much as I wish the world run entirely on wind, water and sunlight, we are very far from this happening. Nonetheless I think it will be possible.

The main issue with renewable energy right now is its production volatility: the wind blowing, the sun shinning, dams to 100% capacity, etc. The need for a stable, non-CO2 emitting, energy production is nuclear. No doubt doubt about it.

When you negatively say
> billions spent decommissioning nuclear reactors around the planet

implying that the cost of decommissioning is a big downside, let me clarify a few things:

1. decommissioning (from cleaning to storage) costs are priced in the energy cost, still making it far cheaper than oil and gas sources even without CCS technologies.

2. the cost of decommissioning is provisioned by the company running the plant, meaning that decommissioning is no extraordinary cost to the operator/consumer/citizen.

3. today's nuclear technology is nowhere as archaic as it was in the 70's/80's, when many errors were made trying out different technologies. Many people make the mistake of brining up the case of Chernobyl, but people are unaware that this plant was an R&D plant, built for the production of nuclear weapons, and not built for energy production.

4. the environmental impact of running nuclear plants today is extremely small (if not insignificant) compared to running the same energy capacity and production on fossil fuels, where CO2 and other harmful gasses are causing increase in temperatures, melting of icecaps, decimating thousands of species, and the list goes on.

I do agree that with you on

>The reason the world continues to pollute more than necessary for the energy we desire has much more to do with the irrationality of people than the physics of energy production.

There is plenty of educating still to be done on energy, its consumption and user behaviour, and I hope the anti-nuclear sentiment focuses more on the bigger picture, rather than blaming nuclear for the sake of sounding environmentally friendly.
Why do you consider obtaining a loan an unfair advantage?
In this case it is not change made on a whim, it's system-wide, and UX not following your system-wide settings is worse for sure.
These buttons become unclickable once clicked upon. There is no additional loss of accessibility if you remove focus at this point, on the contrary.
Well, that Vr= soundly beats my :s/./=/g.
Related site: http://gist.io
How to hire a programmer
my take on tech recruitment
I'm curious about your opinions on that matter