skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in the numbers:

Tesla is delivering 550 cars per week[1], which is about 2357 per month. In August Nissan sold 2420 Leafs[2]. So seems like sales are just about equivalent. Except that Tesla is supply constrained and sells direct to consumers, so that 2357 underestimates actual sales. And many of those Leafs are sitting in dealerships, while none of the Teslas are.

Now Telsa only sold 5k cars in 2012, so it's doubtful they have on the road more than half of the 75,000 Leafs that have been sold[3]. But the Leaf started shipping in December 2010[4] whereas the Model S started shipping in June 2012[5] so it's not exactly a fair comparison.

The Chevy Volt actually did better than either in August, with 3351 sales[2]. Although their year-to-date sales were the same as the Leaf (14k) which suggests they had some late resurgence.

[1] http://insideevs.com/elon-musk-talks-all-things-europe-and-u...

[2] http://green.autoblog.com/2013/09/04/chevy-volt-nissan-leaf-...

[3] http://green.autoblog.com/2013/08/21/nissan-leaf-production-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S
They're still not covering my part of Silicon Valley (south bay), I'm still awaiting an invite :) Max? Please?
I'm seriously considering switching to using an AmigaOS mail client + UAE (Amiga emulator) instead of Thunderbird because of how slow and bloated it is - there are at least two AmigaOS mail clients still in development, and given that they are written to still be able to run on the old m68k Amiga's (in addition to on newer PPC systems) I have an inkling they'd come out of it quite well.
People stick to windows for gaming. Its already the case. The point is to make linux users stick to linux even when they want to have fun.
The negative connotations of 'flip flopper' are mostly based on the implicit assumption that the politician in question changed their[1] opinion for reasons of political expediency, i.e. for reasons more to do with polling data than new data actually pertinent to the issue at hand.

It is true that this makes it harder for conscientious politicians to legitimately change their mind, though.

[1]: they as singular gender-neutral pronoun FTW
My only suggestion is to support LESS.
I read "associate" as the more important part of that sentence than "cold-emailing." So, just to clarify, you're talking about a cold email from an associate vs. a partner?
I think people are glad, sure. It's just that their highly skeptical of anything the government does anymore. With good reason.
A Mercedes-Benz S-500 just drove 62 miles all by itself
Limbo did that and its performance was awful. No thank you.
May I ask which netbook you have?
This is what happens when your UX is so bad it's a distraction. It's like complaining that nobody is listening to your lecture on particle physics just because you are delivering it in full bondage gear. I personally was too dumb to figure out that the OP isn't just a link to a gif, and came to the comments here to see what the deal was.

Given all the distraction and lack of attention to whatever the subject actually is, I'd hope the author might reconsider the delivery method.
> We'll be generous and say that 4TB can do 150MB/s. A single run through the data at maximum efficiency will cost you ~8 hours. Since we've restricted ourselves to a single box, we're also not going to be able to keep the data in memory for subsequent calculations/simulations/whatever.

I agree with your overall point, but of course the actual limits for a fairly cost effective single box are fairly high these days. E.g. from my preferred (UK) vendor, 4x PCIe based 960GB SSD's (each card is really 4 SSD's + controllers) adds up to an additional $7500. We often get 800MB/sec with a single card.

Your point still holds - the actual thresholds are just likely to be quite a bit higher than what the performance of a single 4TB hd might imply.

Tack on 40+ cores, and 1TB RAM, and the cost to purchase a server like that is somewhere around the $60k mark in the UK (without shopping around or building it yourself), but that adds up to "only" about $2k/month in leasing costs. That makes a single server solution viable for quite a lot larger jobs than people often think.
Is Apple using Intel to fabricate their 64-bit A7 processors?
That's Verizon and Sprint. The phones are mutually compatible but are unusable on the other network because they refuse to activate phones they didn't sell.
Yes, if you link to a GPL'd library your program must also be GPL'd. That is why the LGPL was created.

Only example that immediately jumps to mind.

Edit: rephrased for clarity
You lose a lot of raw performance with wine. Left 4dead ran on wine at probably half the framerate of the windows version. No thank you.
Business Lessons From Breaking Bad's Walter White
I'm bit biased. I'm running a marketplace for APIs since 2010 but defining itself like the largest API Hub is a bit false. It's doesn't matter how many APIs you have, since the majority of those are "fake, draft, etc" not real working APIs, they are mocks. What makes you substantial is: 1) # of API transactions passing via you "apps in production running on you", 2) # of total active developers in your community "hub = consumers + providers not just one side" 3) money "enterprise customers, revenue, subscriptions, etc"

Real activity, not mocks.
> What is a label and what is tappable!?

If only there were an easy way to find out.

I honestly think people are making too big a deal about this. The kind of people who download apps are not going to have an issue exploring the UI of new apps to figure out how they work. And it's not that hard to figure out just by looking either. Verbs, arrows, and nouns that don't label something adjacent to them should all be clickable. And if they ain't, oh man, you just wasted two seconds finding that out. Not the end of the world.
It's certainly a strategy, just not one that appeals to me, or (I imagine) to most of the readership of this site. Essentially Bezos is saying "your desire to make money is a weakness, and we're going to beat you by being cheaper than you." If you can wring out all profits, then no other players in the industry can afford to invest, which validates the strategy. Even employees become not an asset, but an obstacle to greater cheapness. Per Steve Yegge, Bezos reportedly said on multiple occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon. There's your endgame!

Here's another brutal, but far more appealing strategy: "Your lack of vision, imagination, and agility is my opportunity." Execute it properly, and you revolutionize the industry instead of commoditizing it.
Jack, you need to finish Bioshock, one of the best story-lines in a game I've ever played.

My top 3 games:

Red Dead Redemption

Deus Ex (the very first one)

Bioshock

I also think this is why I find myself enjoying good TV so much more now that I'm full-timing my startup. I can just sit, relax, and totally focus on something else for an hour a night.
Delight Customers By Not Giving Them What They Want
Locked bloatware it's code for them and they need it to increase their profit margin, that's the ugly part of this story :(
Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not
Is the Japanese Python community really that big? What do they use it for?
This article seems to be the same info as previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6396174

Tumi info is interesting, though. Hope the RICO thing sticks and some legal precedent is created that will make trolling impractical.
Secret court declassifies opinion providing rationale for metadata sharing
I'm just saying there are many different ideas at play here. Those are a couple of examples of possible meanings I took from that sentence, just off the top of my head. My implication (which maybe I should have stated) was that if I can derive meaning from the sentence, then it might not be meaningless. And if the meaning I derive corresponds to what the author intended, then it doesn't seem like such terrible writing, just writing for a particular audience.

I agree with you, though, that it should be more accessible, though articles on the Stanford Encyclopedia can often be fairly technical. But it really takes a brilliant writer (which the author of the SEP article clearly is not) to make accessible something complicated and arcane. I just don't want you to draw the conclusion that because this guy couldn't do it in this particular sentence, a whole field of thought is crap. Or unfairly ascribe bad intentions to the author.
Any studies that contrast progress bars with telling the user what % is complete or how much time is remaining?
Want to sit in Picard's chair while spying on THE WORLD? We can make it so
I thought it was a frank and useful post-mortem. I learned something.
> Yes, this is an irrational argument

When this topic comes up I'm always surprised by the flood of comments stating "well golly gee, I'm sure he's real sorry he raped and stabbed those girls, we just need to put him through some advanced reading courses then send him back on his way!" Followed by, "now if you think he should be punished for his actions well you're just barbaric and primitive and irrational".

Punishment is not irrational. It's a fundamental ethical standpoint. Mitigating factors should be weighed (mental health, IQ), but at the end of the day people need to face the consequences of their actions.
IPhone 5s Review: Apple’s Latest Smartphone Goes For (And Gets) The Gold
this is one of the most brilliant tools imaginable.

once we understand how to use the flexibility that
is only _hinted_ at, with this tool, we will start
to be on our way to a web that is _much_smarter_ at
displaying our content in the best manner possible.

i've been looking for someone to make this conceptual
breakthrough for _years_, so i'm very glad to see it.

kudos, kumail, for your ability to "think different".

-bowerbird
Direct link is here:
http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/courts/fisc/br13-09-primary...
Someone who rapes your wife and stabs her is no longer a person but a primitive animal. A man who has reverted to a baboon and devolved.

Grouping everyone together sounds nice and mushy and makes you look like a good hearted person but is unrealistic.
This problem is often seen in politics.
> The best, surest way to get a complex system that works is to begin with a simple system that works and make a series of many incremental changes.

Shades of Gall's Law from Systemantics:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. – John Gall (1975, p.71)
Yeah I also use stayfocused. 10 minutes is just enough to skim my facebook feed and check if there's anything interesting here on hn.
Because they already made all of their money from it in the first place. Now they are pretending they give a shit in order to try to get more money from people.

They showed their true colors when they destroyed my favorite franchise of all time. I will never give them another cent.
Oh man, have I been down that rabbit hole.
Here's a much better link.. someone collected various emails from Linus on loadable modules:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/proprietary-kernel-modules....
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/secret-court-decl...
I have a lot of respect for those working on this project, but realistically, if you use Linux, using an out-of-tree filesystem is just asking for pain-- lots of it. I would never use this on a production system. You know how painful out-of-tree video drivers are? Yeah. Imagine that, only now with the potential for data loss and divergent on-disk formats. And if it's your root fs, you can forget about booting if there's a problem.

Sure ZFS has a great reputation, but a lot of that came from how well-integrated it was into Solaris and how much QA was done on it. Neither of those things were ever true (or are going to be true in the future) for the various ZFS-on-Linux projects (yes, there are multiple.)

The comments about btrfs are about 5 years out of date. SuSE has already shipped btrfs in their "stable" 11.1 distribution, and Red Hat is going to do so in RHEL7. Give it a chance.
They are material when you say that the author is being lazy for not writing English better or finding someone to contribute. It implies you don't know the difficulty of what you're asking, so why are you calling him lazy?

But of course you want to make it clear that you feel no obligation to contribute despite your criticism. So it's lazy for him, but not for you?
Is the Structure Sensor actually doing all of the SLAM computation on-board, or is it just shipping the RGBD images off to the iPad?
We've continued to add more and more screenshots as they are coming in. Some of the highlights: Venmo, Ted, Foursquare, Seatgeek...
Don't they claim that the linking rule works via derivation? As far as I understand it, the FSF would tell you that anything linked is always derivative. But that doesn't mean it's true. If you could prove that a particular instance of linking to a library was not derivative, would they still claim your program had to be GPL?

As I understand it, the LGPL exists to 1. provide legal certainty and 2. allow some amount of external derivation if necessary.

And it's easy to create an artificial dynamic-linking case where there is provably no derivation, using multiple libraries with the same API.
According to various younger folks I know around here (in the 12 +- 2 years range) most kids just use instagram and whatnot nowadays rather than facebook.
I went for Jill Stein. After hearing nothing of substance in the Romney/Obama debates, the third party debates were a breath of fresh air. How I wish they had electoral clout, or that we had a system which encouraged voting one's preference.
Are you really going to just jump on the "loot 2.0" bandwagon assuming they will right all previous wrongs. I can almost guarantee this expansion will be just another money grab.
It increases demand for the shares which raise the price. It is a way of paying out the people that are most eager to leave.

For example, say you and I both owned a company together, each of us with one share. If the company had 100 bucks in the bank and an app that earned 1 dollar a month, the company could offer 60 dollars for a share. This gives us a point of discrimination where I might take the deal since I feel like I could put it to better use elsewhere.

Furthermore in some places capital gains are more attractive than dividends (I know, it is stupid. It has to do with the original purchase price and changing tax rates over the years). So what some companies do is both a dividend and a share buy back for different classes of shares both of which are convertible to a "true" share. That way you can determine which method you want to get you money out of the stock.
Why shouldn't we judge it buy the game we bought. This game took 10 years to make. It's not like they didn't have enough time to get it right.
Thanks for posting that. I've tried it since I read it, and it made it easier much to make the right decisions all day, with less drain on willpower. We'll see if that keeps up.
Of course, why should he stay more if he has been rehabilitated?
People occasionally wonder why I'm so into indie games these days, even the ugly ones and the pretentiously arty ones and the three-minute-long ones.

It seems to me that that indies are passionate about making games. They don't always have the skill or resources to reach their potential, but you can feel that passion even in something banged together for a 24-hour jam. It's refreshing.

The big studios, or at least the people who call the shots at the big studios, are passionate about making money, and they're not a bit shy about throwing out great gameplay for more money. Every "monetization" decision beyond "here's our game, it costs $umpty" is an exercise in making your game worse on purpose and then charging to bring it back up to baseline. Occasionally, these decisions are made with enough care and subtlety that the overall experience remains almost as good as it could've been...but not usually.
Dark sky reserves: see the Milky Way as you're supposed to
and i only know about this because NZ just got one of the only two Gold rated ones recently. UNESCO world heritage status is apparantly grinding through committee (one purpose is to define a non-surface world heritage site rule)
Does that make the game "good"? That they created an impossible gear wall in Inferno Act 2 that only certain classes could get past? The game creators admitted to never even playing the game on inferno difficulty pre launch. It's just more of the same.

Well, this game is super dumb and easy... let just crank the last 3 acts by 2000% to make up for it.
Amusingly, I've talked to many companies that are making more money on iPhone, started on iPhone, but they do all their prototyping and new development on Android simply because you can release or back out a release immediately there. Heck, it even has staged roll outs now. So there may be some design priority for Android as well if that is a common decision, since it is the better place to implement new functionality. The iPhone functionality is then often just a port.
There was a lot of good take aways from this. I have to say the one thing that I didn't really see was how they actually planned to make money. I know there's the hope of being the next Facebook or Twitter, but couldn't much of that been pushed through if you were turning a profit or generating any revenue?
This is an interesting analogy to me.

I've never sought investment, but I always really disliked it when companies broke communication off after an interview or application without a firm rejection.

On the otherhand, I think I prefer diminishing communication when it comes to dating. I don't treat dating like an application process. Most of the time when I talk to a woman, I'm not trying to ascertain her suitability as a mate, rather, I'm just trying to make my day/evening a little more enjoyable by having a conversation. Sometimes those conversations turn into something else, sometimes they don't. If I text someone after getting there number, I think I'd much rather prefer no response (I get what that means) to some sort of direct rejection.
I've thought the same thing... assumed we'd need alien help. Someone very powerful, like species 8472 but friendlier.
The idea behind keeping capital in the company is that the company is able to generate better returns than the shareholders could.

There's no reason why this has to be market changing, etc. Building a new factory that produces the same goods with more capital and less labour could be a use that would generate greater returns.

There are many reasons to hold capital and many reasons to dividend it.
I think it's due to lack of imagination that statists prefer the threat of violence to organize society. We focus on punishing bad behavior rather than creating a reward structure for good behavior. Violence is the state's hammer, and every issue its nail. I think it's possible for people to organize without the threat of violence being the primary factor and that's the only claim I make. I see website's like stackoverflow and become more convinced people are better incentivized by carrots than sticks. But then again, caging humans for disobedience is a pretty big stick.
Ask PG: Can you share pitch decks of closed YC companaies
PG,
I think it would be a great educational tool for some of us who just now started steps towards market research. Would it be possible to share pitch decks, market research details of some YC companies which have been closed down or have been acqui-hired.

For others here, request you to post some links to show how market research should be done for web-startups. The mint slide deck floating on slideshare is a very good resource.

Thanks in advance.
Where do you get VPS hosting in Egypt? I am in the region and very interested to hear someone with experience in this, meaning VPS and providers not in Europe. My experience with friends and colleagues is a lot of the latter.
There are SIM interposer devices ("a thin microprocessor that sits between your network SIM card and the base-band hardware") that can unlock an iPhone 4S on iOS 6: http://www.applenberry.com/gevey-ultra-s-gsm/ - that's the latest that I know of. I have no idea whether the DMCA applies to them though.
this is perhaps the most honest and accurate description of what you will likely find in raising money - couple with fantastic advice. in fact, it accurately reflects my first experience and rookie mistakes raising money in a secondary market: wasting time by being led on by investors who don't lead; eventually closing a first investor, which started a rush; etc. if you're raising money for the first time, please read this multiple times...for your sanity's sake.
Selective enforcement of laws is trouble in the long term. It transfers power from the legislature to the executive, and tends to yield situations in which everyone is guilty of something.
Star Citizen - Ships and Leveling - RampUp [CC]
What does this even mean? Is this a Markov criticism, or do you really think US public schools don't teach kids about "social contexts"? From what I can tell, as the parent of a high schooler and a middle schooler, social contexts and algebra problems are the core of the curricula.
Palo Alto, CA  Product Quality Engineer
Thanks for putting it way better then I could have. Substituting Torchlight for PoE
It's like http://zeega.com but without the music.
In related news nobody upvoted, rich-client focused web APIs may be becoming an endangered species: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6392022
How do the working conditions differ for developers across the world?
I was wondering what it's like working in other countries as a web developer or programmer.

In the US, it seems like you're either stuck in a corporate job that pays a ton but never innovates and has no perks (besides cash). Or you work at a startup that pays less but has a more casual, open culture.

The language use seems to span across all the major ones (PHP, Ruby, C#, Python etc.) without much discrimination other than what place you'll find them (C# and ASP being more corporate while PHP/Ruby startup-y).

The job market also seems to be very inviting where the demand way outpaces the supply, meaning that developers can be picky and get paid a lot of cash.

As far as background, degrees are not required to work and make money.

So yeah, what is it like in other countries?
I suppose you would know.
I believe that making that mental transition (to believing in your company) impacts the way you approach other areas of your business as well (not just fundraising).

For instance, when courting a large potential client or partner, your confidence goes up and you are not selling, so much as explaining. People pick up on this, and your results will show it. Plus, it just plain feels better when you really believe in your company's potential vs. merely hoping.
OSv, a new open-source operating system for virtual machines
Web development in C: Crazy?
That's because this is "linkbait". The poster is a founder of Tapestry, the site actually hosting this content.

To be honest, I'm fine with this kind of submission, I think it's a better way to see a product in context than a "Show HN", however, some people may see it as being underhanded as it defies the convention around here.