skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this entire article was a real groaner.

The author asks the question, "How does the i3 compare to the Tesla S?" That's the least relevant question I can think of in this context. The i3 is the furthest thing from a Model S that you can find. One is a compact "city car", while the other is a premium sports saloon.

A much more interesting question is, why did BMW choose to avoid the Model S altogether? BMW's opening salvo from their "i" program is a compact city car (i3) and an ultra-coupe (i8). Where's the i equivalent of the 5-series. Why attach the 3 moniker to their city car instead of saving it for a yuppie-accessible sedan?

The entire alignment of the i program has created a lot of questions for me as a BMW enthusiast. I appreciate what the i3 is, and there is some incredible technology therein (CFRP anyone?), but I cannot figure out why BMW chose to release a Leaf/Volt competitor (in form factor, not in price), rather than something that slides in just beneath the Model S.

Imagine the i design aesthetic applied to a car that is more along the lines of a 3-series in proportion and size; a smaller i8 with 4-doors and a little less rakish profile. Combine that with the jaw dropping interior design found in the i3, and you'd have the car that most of us who grew up drooling over early-90's concept cars would line up to buy. Instead, BMW has built a car that appears to target a very limited number of metropolitan markets. I just don't get it.
Anthony Ferrara did a similar presentation a while back: http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/05/dont-be-stupid-grasp-solid...
True if you pay a not insignificant amount of money to get both xamarin.ios and xamarin.android.
See your point on the title, could have worded it differently indeed. But it was more than front-end code and icons, they had copied the workflow and user experience we had been working on for more than a year, so it was not just a catchy headline.
Counterexample: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet
There's no such thing as a stolen idea.

Especially not for a startup.
A refreshing comment on a message board where it's so fashionable to write government off as inherently corrupt and inferior. It's corrupt because we allow it to be, and its inferiority/superiority vs. the private sector is situational.
Possibly. You clearly haven't been drinking enough startup Koolaid.
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This comment misses the point and doesn't compare apples with apples. This is a 2 seat aircraft designed to operate in the Light Sport category which is very different from an Ultralight. Light Sport aircraft cost $70k and up.
I've used iptables as a lightweight IDS for years without incident, so I've found the benefits to outweigh any known risks.

The most dramatic example I have is that I manage a very heavy database-driven web application from an outside vendor that must be public to the entire world. Even a simple request of the home page results in dozens of queries, and users that are logged in put an additional load on resources. I've addressed performance with other optimizations, but since we have no need to generate additional traffic, I have iptables rules to detect unwanted crawlers or pen-testers and block them (based on probes to unused ports/IP addresses, user-agent strings, etc.). When we originally deployed the application, crashes were routine during peak cycles. Now, the server barely breaks a sweat. The ability to implement simple logic in a robust, time-tested software firewall plays an important role.

Other examples include mitigating SSH brute force attacks, port knocking, forensic logging and honeypots. My honeypots protect me from many undisclosed vulnerabilities, simply because attackers are poking around in places they shouldn't be and are automatically blocked. It's much nicer to review a simple report of blocked attacks than it is to troubleshoot a compromised server.
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If you feel comfortable installing an Intel hypervisor on your Mac. I do not.
It seems that the post argues that enforced privacy is too theoretical, in practice, advice is better than enforcement.

I'd argue that the post is too theoretical, in practice, enforced privacy works much better. People will do stuff against your advice. That's OK, you say - they'll get in trouble eventually, but it was their decision. However, it affects you, the library (app, etc.) developer, as your clients might turn out to be more powerful than you.

Think of Linus' rant on not breaking userspace. He's right I believe. In general, you are not allowed to break client code, even the client did something he was discouraged to do.

Interfaces are contracts. The ultimate documentation is the code, not the comment. You are saying that in the following case,

// do not access;

public int getSize();

comment has precedence over the visibility modifier. Well, no.
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This is quite naive.

When I learned to drive, my tester required that I demonstrate competence with the controls, using them at the appropriate times, in the appropriate ways.

If my car exposed all of its private internal operations, I would have needed to know how to use them, and demonstrated that I know that. I haven't a clue about fuel flow and gear ratios, or air/fuel mixture or how the thermostat affects how the engine operates. I'm quite happy that I didn't have to demonstrate all of that too.

What the article ignores is that a good API provides everything the consumer needs, while keeping the API small and easily comprehensible. A driver who has to keep track of 5 details is more likely to learn to use his car more quickly, and less likely to crash than one who has to keep track of 200 details and make decisions about each one.
Hmm.. I think it's ambiguous, because if the article was about a new method on cleverly deducing 3D information from a single 2D image (with clever assumptions -- object recognition, lighting analysis, etc.), you would still be able to say "Extracts 3D information from 2D images".

The ambiguity comes from A) Does each run of the algorithm require one image? -- "images". B) Does each run of the algorithm require multiple images? -- "images".

At least, that's what confused me. As to why this being heavily researched adds to my confusion, it's not to try to be disrespectful, or diminish the value of the results or accomplishment. It's just that it's exactly what it is, an incremental research. "Why does it appear on hacker news all of a sudden? There must be something quite exceptional about his (i.e. some more exceptional than 'incremental research')".
Digital Ocean (and Linode) provide Web Console support, so if you lock yourself out via i.p. - there is the console as a last resort.
I like where you're coming from, but I'm not sure our foundation system is as altruistic or effective as we're led to believe. Peter Buffett wrote a great op-ed the other day on this topic: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-ind...
Yes, I linked his presentation in the introduction :)
Of course more people die in boating accidents than in GA aircraft, there is way more boating.
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Find some opensource bioinformatics projects and contribute.

Add some new features or fix some bugs in IGV or other common projects and you'll be helping thousands of cancer researchers be slightly more productive.
The cost of implementing SENS, a detailed research plan to demonstrate rejuvenation in old mice, is between $1 to $2 billion over 20 years.

Of the NIH budget, much less than 1% goes towards ways to intervene in aging I'm sorry to say. The NIA yearly budget is ~$1 billion, and of that very little has anything to do with actually altering the course of aging.
It is true that you can save up the profit for next year (a rainy day as you say), but that doesn't create growth or benefit society. In a sense if you have a higher corporate tax there is a larger incentive to spend that money in the same year on new hires, equipment, or assets. So you could argue that a larger corporate tax create more growth... However, that's just speculation on my part.

That lower corporate taxes doesn't benefit society wasn't actually my viewpoint, but it has been addressed quite a lot in the media. I should have pointed to some references. My bad:

Here is one from 2010.
http://www.b.dk/danmark/eksperter-lavere-selskabsskat-har-li...

Two professors (one from Copenhagen Business School) and one from University of Århus states that it will have little impact.

Or a survey from business (67% of business don't think it will have an effect):

http://www.advodan.dk/nyheder/2013/4/7-ud-af-10-virksomheder...

It has also been discussed in America:

http://business.time.com/2012/02/23/will-a-lower-corporate-t...

I actually asked earlier if he could show me an example of a country with a better model to better explain in what sense the Danish model is "broken". Isn't the Swedish "model" almost identical to the Danish "model"?
I am not looking at the overall tax burden, I am looking at the margin. If 1000 of salary increase brings you 350, the incentive of being "ambitious" is drastically reduced.

I agree with you on universities, but they do not foster, in my opinion, healthy ambition and innovation. Danish students know they will have a job and a good income no matter what and that's not helping growth. On top of that, you also have fake ones like Via which I still wonder what they are doing exactly.

Local language requirements are a fast way to see how a country/region is open to foreigners. Denmark is not. Will it be? I do not know. Of course, you get asked German in Germany too, but here they do not have 94% of the population speaking very good English.

With that said, my experience in Denmark was great! I am just tired of this glorification of Nordic countries just to justify broken spending oriented public policies (look where did they bring us...).
This.

I was at a conference on the weekend and after a few people found out what I was doing they were interested in talking to me about the idea.

Im more than happy to talk about it. I will out execute them like crazy and I have been in this space for years. If anything I can learn more from them.

I hate when people are like, I have a idea that I cant/dont want to talk about. Its ridiculous, as its been said 100's of times before. Ideas are worth nothing
To be fair, that also describes a lot of people in tech.

Are you sure who was who? :)
PipeDrive... sounds like a great name for an adult film.
The other link worked for me, but thank you for your phrasing -- 'link to the' is the first thing that I did after scanning the blog post and this comment reply was helpful.
Who cares? Google make a good job maintaining API compatibility. The tools are also (mostly) the same from the very beginning (while with iOS you actually have to learn and adapt much more with each version change) ...but otherwise the graphs looks fine :)
Hasn't been heard from in 11 years, either. Maybe it crashed for all we know.

Voyager probes are still up and running but the power system has only perhaps one decade of useful life remaining as it declines.
Trying telling that to the the Winklevoss twins and see if they agree.
The Economist did an article on Swedish state provided childcare a while back. Cheap nurseries provide by the state are a boon, but also teach what it is to be a Swedish citizen. Immigrants especially are highly incentivised to send their children to state nurseries through welfare payments being dependant upon it.

So there's a very communitarian mindset that is inculcated from an early age in Scandinavian children. The recent story on here around attitudes and how the USA is much more individually minded compared to Europe in general is magnified.

So the famous liberalism of Scandinavia is built on a single, illiberal act by the state which then sets up its citizens to have freedom. Whereas other countries allow parents to raise children in much more varied ways, you end up with more diversity but that can produce some nasty results.
I'm more inclined to think they were drawing a comparison between buying a ticket to ride a plane vs placing a bounty on a ticket/bug to be fixed.
He created 100,000 shares. 3,711 of those shares are in other peoples' hands. Sounds like he still controls about 96% of himself. So why does he care about their votes?

Anyway: This whole thing seems wildly narcissistic. Who gives a shit if he moves in with his girlfriend or gets a vasectomy? These are issues to be decided between KMikeyM and his friends/family, not someone who gave him a few bucks for some fake "shares." Especially if he doesn't know that someone personally.
> That's being facetious since you're now using morally questionable examples

No, I'm 100% serious. It's morally questionable for the same reason, it just has lots more of that reason: To softly encourage someone to go against their own interest, or to force them, is a difference of degree, not in morality. As Kathy puts it:

But if it's "content" designed solely to suck people in ("7 ways to be OMG
awesome!!") for the chance to "convert", we're hurting people. If we're
pumping out "content" because frequency, we're hurting people.

> There isn't a requirement to buy the energy drinks to continue to use the app, but would be interesting to see if people are more inclined to buy the energy foods.

Why not pay breastfeeding mothers to put stickers of Ronald McDonald on their breasts? Wouldn't it be interesting to see if more kids grow up eat at McDonald's a lot?

For more info, search on youtube for "mitchell webb kill the poor"... i.e. just because it's possible, just because it's profitable for YOU, doesn't mean you should do it. Just because you win a little, for a while, doesn't mean zero sum games aren't a waste of time and life in the long run.

Because I know you love my analogies: This is like someone reading Nineteen-Eightyfour as a manual; a tragic waste of a great point made.

> Alternatively a bakery/cake website, whether they can increase conversions.

To find ways to make people eat unhealthy, because who cares what suffering (and for those who only understand that: gigantic costs, too) that produces down the road?
Found it on HN on January and... Why it's free?!

I would be glad to pay for each screenshot generated because saves plenty of time and simply makes presentations look way better.

There is a channel (you already have it), there is a real problem to be solved and it's something people would pay... Sounds brilliant :)
>so even if you had 1 user, it would be profitable.

That isn't really the case, though. There is a minimum amount of infrastructure you need. One paying customer is not going to cover that. And a project that pays for itself with a little profit is still not always worth it if you are killing yourself to maintain it, have another job, etc.
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You give a great analogy, but IMO extract the wrong conclusions. The car exactly follows the philosophy outlined in this article; the driver/user doesn't need to know the internals, but you can always open up the hood and adjust/fix/modify the inner working.
> 11,868 Distinct Android devices seen this year

> 47.5% - Samsung's share of those devices.

It seems implausible that Samsung has made 5,934 distinct Android devices.
Curiously, the Scala logo is reminiscent of the stairs in the photo at the bottom of the linked page.

The ubiquitous "segmented drum" database icon has had me wondering before. Presumably it's a depiction of some big old vintage hardware.
Looks very nice - and of great interest to me, since I was already playing with epipolar images for structure - from - motion albeit for a very different application.
Tipping is fairly rare here in Italy, and the food is "pretty good" - some might say excellent - even if there is a tragic lack of good Mexican food in this country.
Builds are one of the easiest tasks to parallelize since they're supposed to be completely isolated by design. If you have that many active developers, you also have enough budget for extra hardware – even if you went with e.g. EC2 on-demand, you can buy a lot of capacity for what you spend on a single engineer-hour.
Sometimes all you need is the geometry.
I'm sure if we spent billions to build another Great Pyramid we'd discover a bunch of things that are peripherally helpful to society in other ways. But it will still be an enormous waste of resources. If we want more medical cures we should be funding work towards medical cures.
Enforced privacy is advisement. It's a signal that if you want access to a library's internal behaviours or state you should either communicate your use cases to the library's maintainer or fork it and manually integrate upstream changes. This leaves the maintainer free to make changes to internal behaviours and state without breaking an implicit API contract they didn't realize they had made.
English pub food is paid for at the bar with your drinks, that you yourself walk away carrying. They often give you a number on a wooden spoon and if you hate the food, you just don't go there again.
The logo actually resembles the stairs @ EPFL :) https://secure.flickr.com/photos/gilles_dubochet/7327041044/
How do you "benchmark" Denmark with Norway about the present/future?
I used this for a mock that I posted on Dribbble[1]. I remember when it was first released and there were only a few templates so it's great to see that it's still growing. If the OP is here, how hard would it be to have a scene with multiple images?

[1] - http://dribbble.com/shots/1023533-Moneys-Mobile-Digital-Wall...
Indeed it does seem implausible, because that's not what the data implies. Samsung only makes 5,934 distinct Android devices if you assume all devices have equal market share.
Why do you insist on setting up a strawman for me to answer?

I just don't get it.
There are a few problems with TCO in Common Lisp:

* some platforms don't provide useful support (in the History it were some stack-oriented Lisp Machines, nowadays it is the JVM - see ABCL)

* there is no consensus how it should be invoked, how its effect should be reported by a compiler, how the user should be noted about limitations (example: LispWorks limits the number of variables), ...

* it is not a good fit with Common Lisp, since the language supports all kinds of dynamic constructs: dynamic binding, unwind-protect, ... It is not clear how this should interoperate with TCO in CL.

* it makes debugging more diffcult (backtraces, trace, ...)
I think in QA terms it is certainly harder to build apps for Android, that said I'm not sure whether moving from 4000 distinct devices to 12000 distinct devices makes much difference, either way you're just going to pick some representative ones for testing.
What is interesting is just how diverse the smartphone market has become, that is arguably a strength not a weakness of Android.
They don't even have to be smarter, they just happen to notice errors you make. Often that comes from you being too close to the code, akin to the "obvious" errors others find when you ask them to double check some prose you just wrote.

I handle this by accepting that I'm a fallible human being and that the artifacts that we're constructing are way too complicated to always get right the first time. So errors in my work, as long as they're reasonably small in number, are just a reflection of that fallibility and complexity (if the number is too big that's a signal something is seriously wrong).
While interesting I really don't like articles that are setup with entirely hypothetical scenarios which are constrained in such a way to make the entire premise seem more valid.

>if one job gets a $2/hour raise, that most likely means that another job will have its wage reduced by $2/hour.

This statement right here sets up half of this posts argument here and isn't realistic at all.
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There is a strong difference between exposing everything as part of the API, and making it permanently inaccessible. Taking your car example, imagine if the engine were in a locked black box. Any modifications or changes necessary would require replacing or duplicating the ENTIRE ENGINE. Instead, those with the proper know-how, can get under the hood when necessary. Making the engine accessible doesn't force drivers to know everything about it. It's hidden, but accessible when needed.
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I bet its free because now I know what breezi is, and I didn't before Jan. I agree this is an awesome service. I would shell out a few for it too.
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For sure, and a common strategy when you have large amounts of RAM is to pre-emptively prime the cache by doing unnecessary selects of all of the principal data and index sets.

However the issue I'm talking about is primarily churn -- the writing to disk that is often the weak link in larger data systems.

Many completely banal queries generate potentially enormous loads on the tempdb, without the user ever knowing otherwise. And if you're using temporary working tables for large-scale processes (this is common in financial data where based upon the requested data you need to build up from the base data, climbing the mountain until you yield the final rendered resultset. In between there may be hundreds of GBs of churn to tempdb).

And then there's just generally ephemeral data that never, ever needs to live through a server restart, and that you never want fighting for the probably very limited IO.
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The graph below shows that Samsung's share of the devices is made up largely by the S3.
The percentage is of all Android devices based on those 11,868 models, not a percentage of the distinct models themselves.
I don't doubt it. I just hated seeing "Doctors" tarred with that overly broad brush when the ones I worked with were universally pleasant colleagues.
They shouldn't, of course (not over a period of time as small as 10 minutes).

Remember, though, that the time a trade occurred (at the sub-millisecond level) might well mean thousands of dollars (or more).
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I created an opensource alternative a few months back, called snappshot. (https://github.com/justinjudd/snappshot)

Right now I have just posted my own images, but my goal is to get other photographers/individuals to add photos of different devices.

I am updating my webserver right now, but for now you can run it locally or deploy it yourself.
Cancer has been around for tens of thousands of years, yet human kind did just fine.
There are reasons why LSAs cost $70k. They're not looking to fly anything until 2015, and that's lots of time for reality to seep in. I wouldn't be surprised if they discovered that $15k was optimistic by a factor of about 5....
>1. They hire the cheapest people who will do the work then whinge when they have to hire two people to cover that time because the first person is inefficient, incompetent or disinterested in it.

To add to this. I'd point out that the tendency to distill low-level jobs down to tedium and rote drudgery is IMO an unfortunate mistake. Some think it is clever because it means they can stick any warm body off the street into a job and have them up and running in a short time. The managers in these places can never resist the temptation to hold this fact over their employees' heads. Only the desperate, the stupid, and the woefully uneducated can tolerate such work for any length of time.
Or the plane ticket / bug ticket distinction.
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There have been and will be problems, but it is probably safe to say Android "survived" fragmentation. This is success.
I believe that Jobs was the exception that proves the rule.
Where does the person being duped get the number from? I thought the whole point of the trick was that they would give you a name and you'd come up with a number for it.