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You could recycle yourself into some good garden fertiliser. That estimate that would make you about $20.. Or you could invent a machine that painlessly turns old and/or useless people into garden fertiliser (that way you could continue to operate the machine). ;-)
Personally it feels like spaghetti code. Tornado for instance is a web server written in Python and there are classes that have many parents and kwargs is used everywhere to pass named arguments up to each parent class in the constructor. The problem is it's hard to get a grasp by looking at the constructor as to what arguments should actually be passed to a class to initialize it. There's no contract or spec enforced in python so it's easy to see how errors can crop up by missing a random argument a certain parent class is expecting. It also makes it difficult to understand what a class does when the arguments a function expects are not declared.
I wouldn't think too much of it. It could be a bit of wishful thinking, or an attempt to manipulate the price of Bitcoins by spreading rumors. Both are fairly popular among Bitcoin speculators.
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"In the first quarter of this, year Model S sales outpaced Audi A8, BMW 7-series and Mercedes S Class sales."

If this is true, that's pretty impressive. I always saw Tesla as an enthusiasts brand, but this looks like the real deal.
This issue was actually raised a couple weeks ago here on HN and Jeremy responded thusly:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6079709
Oh... I've got it! You could shoot yourself on a live webcast. I'd pay money to see that.
> There is no way to win at roulette. There is no way to win at roulette. Repeat after me, there is no way to win at roulette

That's not quite correct. If you gather enough data about a given wheel, you can exploit biases to get an advantage. Roulette wheels are not perfect random number generators. This has been successfully exploited in the field [1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEgOQs93W1Q
I mostly enjoyed the slides, and I'm interested in CoffeeScript, especially since I'm going to be working a little in Node in the near future. This post is a critique on the blog post, rather than on the slide content, which was more or less fine.

Too much focus placed on how those who dislike it haven't given it a proper shot. This could be true, but six paragraphs is overkill. You make a few points: A) they aren't being open-minded enough, B) they are the typical blub programmer, and C) they shouldn't feel bad because it's perfectly understandable to do something so mundane. Had I been someone who had spent a few hours toying with CS and left unconvinced, you'd have lost me pretty quickly.

You mention that you hated it too, at first, but not early enough. I'd submit that you're far more likely to lose readership than to open eyes with this method.

Also, as someone who isn't particularly set against CS, I didn't enjoy reading so much about how I shouldn't feel bad for hating CS at first sight. I didn't.
Your assumptions don't account for whether the content being taught is correct or not. Goals and rational actors notwithstanding one of the most relevant metrics here is the correctness of the content being taught and that is something the student is not capable of assessing. As a result student demand is no indicator of quality of the content. It may be an indicator of the quality of the learning experience but that should not be conflated with the quality of the content.
Apple made products that were actually practical and useful to ordinary people. Tesla is a rich person's toy only made affordable by heavy tax credits.

Edit: I would think they are more like NeXT right now. They are making something really cool, but very expensive and not practical for most people.
I pointed out something similar in another comment but it's worth focusing on. One of the biggest problems of both reddit and slashdot is that they embrace humor at their core. This may not seem so bad but it's poison for mature conversation. Humor is cheap. And it doesn't require engagement.

What you see on both reddit and slashdot is an increasing tendency toward irony as the basic approach to any subject (4chan is the same way too). This overwhelms and actively drives away discussions that are serious and not ironic. This is why the highest quality subreddits (like askscience and askhistorians) enforce very strict rules and actively discourage humor for humor's sake. This is a big reason why stackexchange is so successful as well. And it doesn't mean humor is unwelcome at all these places, just that it needs to be part of something productive or humnorous enough to overcome the strong bias against it.
Kind of annoyed that I also can't scroll

My screen is 1366*768
Fun fact: the Twiddler was a mainstay of Thad Starner's wearable. (Thad was the tech lead behind Google Glass.) Thad had pretty impressive WPM on a Twiddler... 80-90 WPM IIRC.
The problem is that many HN users think that because they are qualified to talk about tech, they are also qualified to talk about everything else. In reality, they're often not qualified to talk about anything.
The police car one has been that way forever, because police cars have been equipped with dash cams for a while now. That said, dash cams on police vehicles have generally been positive.
Is this car only regionally popular? I have yet to see a single Tesla on DC area roads.
The biggest gap is documentation.

If you have a strong grasp of the project, you already understand pull requests. The best thing newbies can do is expand and clarify the docs.
Calling an automobile impractical and not useful is... misguided. FWIW, personal computers were "rich persons toys" to start with too.
Indeed. Many people seem to misunderstand the purpose of the tor network. It is designed to conceal the sourcing node of a packet. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. The only guarantee you get --and the only one you really need to remain anonymous-- is that your IP isn't stamped on the packets coming out of the exit node. You're not supposed to trust the exit node --or anything else you connect to through it-- for anything else. That's why you don't send login credentials in the clear over the exit node. It's why you don't send plaintext email over tor, or sign into services that are ever touched by a non-tor connection, or engage in plaintext conversation on IRC and have any expectation of privacy. Tor guarantees a different IP on the network packet, and that is it. And so far, it seems that the Tor project has made good on this guarantee. I've yet to hear about a deanonymization incident that can't be traced back to mistakes such as the ones above.
It's amazingly popular in the SF Bay Area; I see several each day on my 2-mile commute to work (right next to Google, but still). However, I also saw one when I was in New Orleans a couple weeks ago, so it's not just SF.
> Tesla is a rich person's toy only made affordable by heavy tax credits.

Apple is also a rich person's toy only made affordable by heavy carrier subsidy. Carrier subsidy is the primary reason why iphone sales are so high. Nobody would otherwise pay 600-700 USD. As opposed to android devices which are like 400 USD for no subsidy (nexus 4).
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JBIG2 is hardly obscure. It is billed just as prominently on the official JPEG site as JPEG and JPEG2000.

It is useless to someone that wants to compress arbitrary images, since it is bi-level only, I'd ignore it too if I wanted to compress a photograph. Not having an open specification hurts. The "last draft" is available, but the final was sacrificed to someone's business model.
Of course they would have been better off with T.6, as Group 4 at least did not modify the image content. However especially with TIFF there are/were countless implementations of viewers, components, libraries and every single one of them had their own habits. Some would not regard endianess, some would assume payload endianess is the same as the TIFF, some did respect the Tag for byte order specific to the image. When I coded my first TIFF Library, I was around 14 and the most troublesome part of doing it was keeping myself from bashing my head against the next available wall due to stupidity of other people who thought interpreting a standard according to their wishes was ok, because there'd never be someone trying to display the images with a viewer different from theirs.

I don't know how deep you have dived into TIFF, but maybe you remember the TIFF6 Standard way of embedding JPEG. It was the biggest pain in the ass imaginable, having to parse JPEG files, splitting them and packaging it into different TIFF Tags. Before TTN2 and easy embedding of JPEG Images, everyone invented their own way of avoiding the standard. Some defined their own compression type, some used the standard compression type, but used it in a nonstandard way, ah, I'm starting to lose my hair again ;-)
That's true. However, unless I'm mistaken (my field is more chemistry-simulation than physics-simulation), the internal nature of the proton is not necessary for achieving chemical accuracy level results from something like FCIQMC, namely because the chemical properties of interest are the result of only the charge interactions of the protons/electrons as potential terms in the Schrodinger equation. I believe applying QMC to solve that equation for all charge-charge interactions (including electron correlation) is enough to reach essentially exact energy levels (in the limit of simulation time -> infinity) ... am I incorrect? I mean, there's probably some difference in the eleventh decimal place due to the lack of relativistic and radiative corrections.

Hmm. I need to research this some more.
I know pg's added things like a progressive delay to the reply box further into threads. The curve of quality going into a thread is an interesting problem, I can see how the subjects of discussion would go from general to specific (and thus likely less interesting to general readers) the further down branches you go, but also sort of by definition those branches become more and more relevant to the people involved. Maybe a flat or hybrid flat/tree layout would help keep discussions more linear?

I don't know if giving that much more power to older posters is necessarily the answer, although it might help reinforce the perception of the community maintaining a certain tone in discussion, if the same posters are more likely to be heard and heard more often. On the other hand, with that scenario, karma would actually mean something (though that just brings up the possibility of karma-farming posts.)
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A pure electric vehicle to get myself to and from work is perfectly practical, and would save me lots of gas money. A bonus is that it's sexy looking, America made, hacker-friendly and a blast to drive. As soon as I can afford it, I'll buy one.
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I don't think you can generalize it to Bay area.
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That's defining the U.S. luxury car market very narrowly. BMW alone sold 172,000 cars in the U.S. in the first half of this year[1]. 8% of that is more than 13,000 cars, and the report is claiming Tesla sales of roughly 10,000.

Sure, not everything BMW sells is a luxury car, but the U.S. luxury car market is usually defined as much larger than 125,000 cars in a half year.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/08/bmw-record-c...
> But it's a failure of people when they don't recognize the possibility that some types of data (video, large numbers of images, scientific research data, whole databases) simply can't be sent quickly, yet they fail to plan ahead to gain access. (I've also entirely skirted the issue of "some data should have its access restricted physically"...)

I disagree vehemently with that attitude, and I have to deal with it everyday. In my field, >50% of the data we receive is transferred by overnight courier of hard drives due to quantity of data. It's a crappy attitude to blame people for having to learn that, and in an ideal world we'd share it via access granted by email. People should not be blamed for not understanding that, our infrastructure should be blamed for not supporting 10Gb everywhere, and cheap access to 40Gb+ on long-distance connections.

Nothing is helped by blaming people, and relationships can be harmed by doing that. But we can change the technology.

As a side note, DVDs? Really? They're incredibly slow at data transfer once you have them in hand, the tiny size of a DVD requires tricky archive spanning methods, and optical discs are flaky technology all around. Hard drives or LTO-5/6 all the way.
Carrier subsidy and tax credit are two completely different animals.
The important thing is that they are making money doing it, so that ordinary people can benefit down the road. Apple were seen as overpriced for the longest time and it's only recently they went from niche brand to mainstream.
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Or Consulvation. Try saying it aloud.

I'm having entirely too much fun with this.
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No one "wants" to contribute. They just contribute. :)
I'm curious where the model cutoff would be for "luxury" BMWs. They're all luxury cars, from what I can tell.
With respect, pg, three things:

1. Why is it not a cause to worry if Hacker News declines at all? It doesn't matter if it happens by default when it does happen. It might not be reversible.

2. Corollary to that, I believe it has happened. During the NSA scandal, I tried to do what I could to dispel what could best be described as hysteria. I don't believe the majority of people on Hacker News can be described by hysteria, but a hugely vocal minority can be, and they direct the movements of the front page.

3. I am not pessimistic about Hacker News, I don't like to believe the forum is succumbing to the inexorable march of time, or some such. And I'm not going to soapbox comparisons to reddit. However, I don't think optimism is enough. You don't seem to be particularly concerned about this, but I see sentiments of concern at least daily in some form or another.

I understand I'm not a powerhouse of karma and influence here on Hacker News, but I've tried twice to raise proposals for some sort of change to the political atmosphere of the forum. It hasn't worked. What else do you have but optimism, to put it bluntly?

EDIT: When I joined Hacker News in 2011, I wasn't as savvy to the mechanics of the forum as I am now. I thought that the front page being dominated by political fads every few months or so was just regular. But in being here to the present, I've seen that it has only gotten worse from 2011 to 2013, and in reading archives/the comments of senior members, I can see how this pattern developed. That's why I've tried before to submit a proposal to the changes thread.

I submit that it doesn't matter if politics can be intellectually gratifying or even relevant, as per the guidelines. It's categorically unrelated to startups or technology, save for being indirectly so in occasional cases when those two topics scale. Whatever benefit comes with political discourse is eliminated by the sheer level of scathing derision that comes from combatting sides debating the topic.
A list is not a "generalization" of a pair. - a lot of good people think otherwise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV0A_hFPCnw
I hear you, and it might be worth noting this analysis is looking for big changes in a positive direction (it's geared toward investors looking for early upside), and Imgur increased downloads by 200% last week. Time will tell where they're headed. They have a huge web presence.

The #1 startup for mobile, in the overall sense, is Rdio. But we're trying to catch stuff in the way up, so we weigh more heavily toward change in momentum. There is probably another good list I can release later this week that has more of the "usual suspects" you'd expect to see.
Not until I get my start bar back. Instead of a start button I get a list of unorganized applications.
yo we got egoistists confusing their selves with their employers an it's just up the alley of all weak willed creatures who crave illusion over substance...
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I see them all the time on 101 as well.
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Ah right, now I feel stupid.
Thanks for the compliment! The viewer doesn't quite look and feel right on the iPhone, but glad you didn't think so. =)

I don't know what your stack is, but FYI on Node we use Connect/Express middleware that automatically compiles CoffeeScript files to JS -- and in production, caches the results -- before serving them. No manual building/compiling/packaging needed at any point. You might find something similar for your stack if you haven't already looked:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/Web-framewor...
My comment is a non-partisan analysis of why most of the NSA story is astroturf. Astroturf can only be debunked by describing the conspiracy. This does not make me a partisan either for or against the astroturfers. If HN stories were showing up simultaneously and with the same headlines as press releases from the John Birch Society, I would direct my flamethrower in their direction.

And you ignored the other half of my comment, about how the NSA story is not news. It is merely new to excitable young people who mistake unfamiliarity for exposé. If I can convice them to take the red pill, they will learn that parts of signals intelligence are profoundly more important than even the astroturf claims, and at the same time more mundane.
I've never seen one on the road. I think they are mostly a California thing right now.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FootSwitches
http://www.cb1.com/~john/computing/emacs/handsfree/pedals.ht...
http://hackaday.com/2012/06/21/building-a-clutch-for-vim/

...do a search for "emacs foot pedals" and you'll find many results. Years ago when I got my first Mac I had visions of buying all these cool MIDI devices and trying to control it with those. As an 11-year-old without internet access I hit a dead end pretty quick, but there are certainly others with the idea.[1]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5928061/using-a-piano-key...
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It would be good to see some data. For instance, how is the trend of average upvotes per user per month looks like? It is however clear that HN is attracting lot of marketers and activists. While I don't know all the efforts going in to fend this off, the ones I know such as banning specific URLs, dead stories etc look unorganic/bruteforce as opposed to clean algorithmic solutions. One clean solution would be to simply enable downvote button and increase the expressiveness of the community. I however has no idea why HN does not have downvote button.
Ha! Yes, I would need time to adjust to Windows 8. It seems like it could be great, but I'm so used to OS X. It's a little daunting. I appreciate your thoughts, thanks for sharing!

I think for now I'm going to wait and see - The Verge seems to think SP's latest price cuts mean new models this fall. If Microsoft addresses the pain points of SP, I'll take another look. Otherwise it's MBA for me!
(I didn't downvote you.)

It's great that you tried CoffeeScript and prefer JS. Your opinion is well-formed.

With my statement, I was referring to the many developers I've encountered who haven't tried it, yet actively dislike it and argue against it. Hence the (subjective) "most" in my first sentence that you quote.

Cheers.
I think I understand what this is trying to say, but I believe the problem lies more in each person's narrow scope of control, not some blind drive towards efficiency or ignorance of total throughput.
Then it seems like your original question was poorly framed.
I see one just about every other day cruising downtown Denver.
> As for motives, I would invite you to read deeper on the blog to get a sense of what motivates my work. See especially the "Talking Math with Your Kids" series, where you will find the following sentiment expressed in multiple ways:

Do you have any videos of your own we can watch, so as to get a better handle on the way you think these things should be made?
Cambridge, MA unsurprisingly loves them.
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Everything above a Mini.
I saw one in St. Louis a couple weeks ago; it even had MO plates, so it wasn't someone traveling cross-country.
The Amish do adopt technology--they are just careful about it. They want to understand the social aspects first, so they can figure out how to adopt the good aspects of new technology while avoiding the bad aspects.

See Kevin Kelly's article "Amish Hackers" [1] for an interesting look at the Amish and their approach to technology.

[1] http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/amish_hackers...
It's debatable whether you'd call a Mini a "luxury car". They're certainly priced like they are!
BMW makes vehicles other than cars(SUV, Motorcycle..)
How recent do you think this shift is? I don't remember when I learned how juicy a target international telephony is, but it had to have bern the late 90s. Certainly defense contractor salesmen have been treating the hotel telephone with great suspicion for a long time.
All signs indicate that pg wants his own personal r/politics.
Thanks for the great feedback. I think you're totally right.

I didn't intend to come across as so preachy in my post. I was just writing freely without (too) much worry.

Live and learn. =)
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It would have been great if he had mentioned IcedCoffeeScript at some point too. Coffeescript by itself is 'ok' but IcedCoffeScript - at least on the serverside - is fantastic.
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Their stock has risen 263% in the last six months. Sustainable?
Spoken like someone who has never had to operationally support hundreds of slightly different applications for a decade...
For the purpose of this headline, "luxury" appears to have been defined as "expensive".
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That is a consequence of so-called popularity - HN begins as a marginalized place for geeks and nerds - they even looked at Arc language seriously.)) Now it is a popular site for general public and visiting it gives one an air of sophistication, like talking Monads or Clojure among PHP coders.))
I saw one in Toronto!
I disagree with 'tptacek on the number of actual users plaguing Hacker News like this, but I think it's fairly undeniable the phenomenon is there and it's strong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_i_see_it

You don't need data. I know, that's an unpopular phrase to say on a forum like Hacker News - but seriously, if you were alive at the keyboard on HN during the NSA debacle, you shouldn't need to ask for data. Whether there were 100 or 10 people poisoning the discussion with political strife, they were certainly the most vocal and noticeable. Their comments were easily upvoted because they were full of pathos and emphatic calls to action. As I wrote in my reply to pg here, I don't think it's enough to do what's being done now with stories - there should be a user filtering system. Restricting posts somehow could be good, but I also understand that we don't want to turn the forum into some sort of elaborate rule system.

I also believe the problem is intimately related to karma farming, and also intimately related to overpopulation. Hacker News is a fond ideal, but I don't believe it scales. Not without changes at least. I know that might be an unpopular opinion, but I think it's true.