skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK. Then this article is horribly written. This text is clear as mud. It reads to me like they are calling the loan a subsidy: Shortly after paying off his $465 million loan, Musk proclaimed that government should no longer provide such assistance. A "carbon tax would be a better way," he tweeted, adding: "Yes, am arguing against subsidies and in favor of a tax on the end bad created. Market will then achieve best solution." It isn't until the 3rd page (really? 3 pages?) that they start making their actual point about the subsidized batteries ans what not.
240k a year Rio Tinto train drivers to be replaced by robots
It is the top post.
Twitter IPO Filing Charts & Pictures Collected
Email Delivery - What Penetration Testers Should Know
Sure you can buy time off in the U.S, you just need to work that out with your employer rather than the Government determining the right amount of time off for everyone.
You can try my app here http://hn.premii.com/

Or app store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435?l...
In past years in my career I worked in game development. I can say without hesitation that anything client side can be reverse engineered and hacked. Any limitation built into a browser can be circumvented, and it will happen in a matter of days from release.
We had the same problem but realized the bottle was the sleep prop and started giving water instead and eventually replaced the bottle with a teddy bear.
Yeah, I agree with this. A key point of my post is "if you're willing to live with roommates you can find good deals". Of course you still have to find them. I spent over a week glued to Craigslist looking for a combination of the right price, right location, and right people. Yes I got lucky, but not "win the lottery" lucky. I ran across several that were good potentials.

The roommates part seems essential. There are a number of reasons but if I had to guess:

- With roommates you can often take advantage of someone who has been living there since before some recent price spikes (especially in certain neighborhoods). If you find a place by yourself, the landlord is free to charge whatever they want unless you can find a rent controlled apartment, but those have multi-year waiting lists.

- Vacant units are often renovated so the rent can be raised.

- Economies of scale. If you live by yourself chances are you want a place with your own kitchen, bathroom, etc. These are shared spaces in a roommate situation.

- There seems to be more competition for single-residency housing. I have no data to back this up, but just from talking to people it seems that there are more people who hate living with roommates than who hate living alone.
We did it! Maybe there is hope...
How is this different from simply running ad campaigns with lead gen companies?
The Cloudera Model
Yes. The response rates have been much higher than anything I've seen before.
Show HN: Stop Checking OpenTable Every Minute
> POSTED BY BRAD ARKIN, CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER

Time to dust off the ol 'résumé, Brad.
As a fan of a rival basketball team (the San Antonio Spurs), I've followed Cuban for a long time. I don't really hold the fact that he's a competitor (and likes to talk smack) against him, and I'd say he's an excellent owner overall.

His complaints about the officiating are sometimes biased -- I'm not sure if it's because it helps team morale to complain about calls and make your players feel like you have their back, or just because he gets emotional about his team, which is certainly understandable enough.

Overall, I'd say he's probably the best marketing innovator in the league, though. Fans in the Metroplex have a number of different sports options and were spoiled by decades of Cowboys success, so they can be frontrunners at times and only care about their teams if they win enough to be seen as "interesting". In addition to helping make the team competitive and winning a title, Cuban has done a good job of building a strong fan base, one that isn't going to all head for the exits when they rebuild. That can be really tough to do, but he's made a lot of moves -- large and small -- over the years to make Mavs fans really invested in the teams and to make the in-arena atmosphere as fun as possible. And unlike some sports owners who are heavily involved in their teams, he knows how to hire experts at the game of basketball to handle the personnel and coaching decisions, and let them do their jobs with his support rather than feeling the need to interfere to satisfy his ego.

At first I wondered if he had any idea what he was doing given the seemingly freak success of broadcast.com (which he sold at its peak and which then fell to pieces not too long after Yahoo bought it), but over the years, he's definitely seemed like someone who knows how to make smart business decisions and bring on the right people.

I definitely wouldn't have any hesitation to do business with him, given the opportunity.
The symptoms are all we care about, why would anyone give a shit about CO2 levels if it didn't cause global warming?

It's not like it's toxic. If it's cheaper to geoengineer the CO2 away, why not?
Reminds me of Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg's talk at Eyeo Festival. They visualized use of body part words across different genres.

http://hint.fm/projects/listen/

And here's their talk: http://vimeo.com/69497902
where you here when the last post was dropped?
http://startupli.st/
Small glass jet turbine, benchstand run [video]
Congratulations on getting the 180 websites done.
Schrödinger's Cat
> This looks remarkably like an attempt by Science to smear their open-access competitors, ....

That may be. I wish this had been done differently, and I wish "open access" were not the term used. It may be true that the author is trying to paint with an overly broad brush, throwing some FUD at the movement to make scientific papers easier to get at; I'm not sure.

But it is clear to me that this article is describing a real problem. The problem is the recent proliferation of new journals with very low standards.

> ... and in fact we know they do, including Science! ....

I don't agree. Problems with the peer review system have been demonstrated. It is inconsistent, sometimes lazily done, and subject to corruption in some fields.

But if someone were to claim that you could take 300 journals of the caliber of Science, send them all a worthless paper, and get acceptances from half, then I would call that ridiculous. The occasional acceptance of a poor paper means that the review system needs work. The acceptance of poor papers as a matter of course indicates a lack of standards. There is a difference.
It'd be far more efficient to replace coal power with nuclear power plants.
Much smaller, I don't think. It will still have to grab the screen and render directly onto it. It's basically the same thing a regular plugin would do except a little bit of identity validation, from what I understand.

Technically speaking it's almost the same as the status quo, but a little bit of DRM principles have now been enshrined in the foundations of our web. Depending on what your view of DRM is, of course, this is good news or bad news; but from a technical point of view, it changes very, very little.
At a $15B valuation, Dorsey's measily 4.9% is still worth over $700mm..

A 0.5% stake would be worth $75mm.. There are worse problems to have.
BTC Geek Monthly stats showing popular countries and cities with Bitcoin
This will have precisely zero effect on the open web (whatever that is).
Amazing number of commenters fail to realise that:
a) nothing that makes web open is removed. Sorry to disappoint you, but HTML will keep working as it did.
b) technology not being w3c standard does not stop it from being implemented in browsers as history shows.

In the end what browser vendors do matters the most, not what w3c thinks. Just look at the history of WHATWG.
If things get too bad for too many, I suspect the result in an increase in war and conflict.
I'm still impressed that companies reward the reporting of security issues, whether it's sending a small "thank you" gift, posting one's name on a "hall of fame" page, or cutting them a check. In the mid-90's, I notified a company of a major security vulnerability and all I got was a visit from the FBI and my computer taken away for 16 months. We've sure came a long way!
Seems straightforward:

- certain combinations of words within phrases score all over the place

- hand those to mechanical turk for human classification

- understand where the results differ from the model

- patch the model where necessary when it breaks down.

The example they gave with the "but..." at the apex of the sentence is difficult primarily because it's ambiguous to what proceeds it. It could be positive or could be negative, especially from a programmatic standpoint.

Really fascinating stuff. Can't wait to see the code.
Greenwald's BBC interview claim of Snowden's 4096-bit encryption use
Ask PG: Will this year's Startup School talks be recorded and posted online?
The Government Shutdown on the Web
If by rap you mean commercial rap, then I don't blame you. But keep in mind rap is a very diverse genre with many hard-working artists, and a large, passionate subculture. You will not hear that on the radio because it doesn't sell, in the same way you don't hear metal, classical, or experimental music on the radio. I hate to say it, but your school bus driver exposed you to very little "rap".

Source: I was in the breakdance community for several years, where you'll meet all sorts of wonderful hip-hop heads. And yes, such a thing still exists and it is not the tacky stuff you see in commercials and in movies.
In general, valuation reflects anticipation of future potential, not present performance. This is what's called "investment."
I find it incredibly sad it has made the top post.

The article does not link to any peer review studies to prove it's point, which to me means it's probably bunk, taking a know issue and enlarging it to sensationalise.

And it's sad people fall for this.
Your post has a poetic calm to it that I like. Just saying.
I've gotten into Saison SF, Carbon NYC, Le Bernardin on short notice with this app. Hopefully, will be of use to you locals or tourists going to some awesome food cities!
I explained it elsewhere, but the short version is "watch Craigslist like a hawk until you find what you want". Let's say you find a place that's $900 - $1100 / month. Sounds reasonable, but remember:

- Everyone else is looking for that, too, so you need to act fast.

- It's not a dealbreaker to live in, say, the Tenderloin in SF, but do some research and make sure you're comfortable.

- People in SF will get 10 - 60 replies per day on an apartment listing, especially if the price is reasonable for the area. Stand out and be awesome.

- The same goes for the interview.

- Have stuff like bank statements and recent credit reports handing, and have the cash to make the move. So many people make it past the screening phase but then put their roommates on hold waiting for the "check in the mail". Money talks.
I'd love to see the same chart for, say, classic rock.
I agree. The "make an iPad app" camps have a very narrow focus and appeal. Are we really changing the world with an iPad app? I just had a cursory glance at the website and saw one kid claim that he wanted to build an autonomous go-kart. Goals like that are exciting and interesting. Even if he fails at that he will learn a lot of useful skills. An iPad app, no matter how widely adopted it is not going to change the world.
Actually RMS makes less and less sense each day (and has nothing to do with this issue at all), and comments of this kind are getting annoying.
Transcript - SpaceX Press Conference September 29 2013
Wow, they fall below what I thought the required threshold for going public now was ($500mm/yr revenue). I guess the assumption is they could scale their revenue fairly comfortably.
Not a fat chance in hell I'll use Visual Studio over Sublime Text. However it is good that MS is at least attempting to accommodate the open source community.
> Don't focus too much on Snowden. The rightness or wrongness of his behavior is not germane to this discussion.

Snowden is the context. Ignoring the context in rarely a good idea. And while I agree that the rightness or wrongness of his behavior is not germane to the discussion, his actual behavior is most certainly germane. If the Feds requested, and received, a court order because Snowden wrote a critical blog entry of the government that would be one thing. Requesting and having it granted because of his actual actions is another thing entirely.

> Snowden was the pretext the FBI used, but it's clear in this case that they also wanted the ability to surveil other customers of Levison's besides Snowden.

Is that absolutely clear to you? Because it isn't to me. The Feds gave Levison a chance to provide lawfully requested information on Snowden that did not require decryption and Levison refused. Okay, if they couldn't compel Levison to alter his code to provide the requested metadata, they could compel him to give up the keys to that information directly. What do you expect them to do? Give up and go home? Pout?

Levison stood up for his convictions and I applaud him for that. I'd like to think that I would have done the same thing in his shoes. That doesn't mean I vilify the Feds for doing what they did. I don't feel anyone acted unreasonably, much less evil, at least not with the information we have available to us right now.
The URL as User Interface Design Pattern
This looks really interesting. If anyone is interested we could start a chapter in Dallas, TX.
$100k goes a long way when most developers are expecting to do the work for free.
I suggest that you research the idiom, "he may be X, but Y."

If I say "He may be tall, but he's ugly"[1] his height is not in question. Semantically, it means that one of his features may make him effective at something, but another feature (or aspect of the situation) offsets that effectiveness.

[1] ...read in the voice of Redd Foxx.
Interview should go live on iPlayer imminently. Proxy required outside of UK. Claims 4096-bit (unspecified algorithm) encryption being beyond the reach of NSA/Moscow etc.
Yes, I agree. As someone who is clinically depressed, I get pissed right off when people talked about it like it's a bit of melancholy. Fuck no. Or when they talk about depression like it's something you can will yourself out of. The little fucker burns the will in you to live, what is your arsenal? Hallow words from people who are part of one of the biggest misconceived and stigmatised disease on the planet.
No, wait. So as someone who isn't remotely well-educated on machine learning, what teaching model would this be called? "Reinforcement learning" is an AI term, but it's more what this sounds like: sometimes the model is wrong, so we hand the data off to a human being who comes up with a definitive Right Answer which is then used to fix the model.
There was an article comparing the lack of innovation between Twitter and Facebook. One of its most salient insights was that Facebook's product was the vision of the founder, whereas Twitter was almost an accident, and thus there is a "don't screw it up" mentality at Twitter that limits product innovation.
Your right in the sense that there is nothing catastrophic from a the perspective of geological time. There have been mass extinctions before. The problem is that we would like to continue living in an environment similar to what we evolved in, and we would like to continue to have large amounts of bio-diversity and biological services available on a timeline that is useful to us. There is nothing particularly magical about the environment we want to live in, other than it happens to be about what it would be now if not for recent human actions. Unfortunately, those actions didn't just change the system, they re-introduced raw materials that have previously been removed from the system. There is no reason to believe that the new equilibrium is the same as the old one.

An interesting corollary to this is the idea that the natural environment is itself unsustainable. For billions of years it has been using up the planets supply of carbon and trapping it in what is now called fossil fuels. If this continues unchecked, we will run out of available carbon and life on this planet will die off. Thankfully, we humans have averted this catastrophe by finding a way to recycle the formerly lost carbon and return it to the environment.
If only we had a large number of planets at varying stages of having life (including being long dead).
> Could you implement Smalltalk environment in browser in two weeks?

You're being unfair: you compare a Javascript interpreter against a Smalltalk environment. Obviously, If I were in a rush, I would start with a simple interpreter first.

Realistically, if you don't really care about performance (I doubt Brendan Eich did at the time), implementing a JavaScript interpreter is neither easier nor harder than implementing a Lisp or Smalltalk or Self interpreter. I maintain that ease of implementation simply was not an influential factor either way.

Therefore, Javascript was invented for other reasons. My best guess is, Brendan Eich wanted his language to be non-intimidating to C, C++, and Java users. Apparently, it worked.

Oh. That is a typical "Worse is Better".

Okay, I retract. "Worse is Better" is an excellent explanation for Javascript. There are just other kinds of short term benefits persisting through time than the mere ease of implementation.
Didn't he make $80 million from selling drugs online?

Weirdest defense fund ever.
San Fransisco perhaps isn't going to work well for somebody who wants to live on their own and save money, but they are the outlier there. It is trivial in Seattle, and not hard in NYC if you don't insist on Manhattan. I know people who do it in Boston and Chicago (until recently anyway, and technically he was making "ethanol engineer" money, not "tech" money... I digress though.)

I am not very familiar with San Francisco, so I left myself some wiggle room ("(at least in most of those cities)") but having a roommate is not a requirement for anybody making a tech salary and wanting to save money in those other cities.
If the target of a murder plot or confession is fictional, I think there's no crime, whether or not told to a cop; it's protected under free speech. Let's see if the investigators can find real people to link to his words.
"According to the filing, Twitter has 250 million monthly active users, 100 million of those are daily active users."

I'm not a Twitter insider, but I've been crawling Twitter users for a service I'm building. Based on my experience I think the number is closer to 25 million, not 100 million, and even that is pretty generous if we're talking about DAILY active users.
About that audition project
> Government organizations have never traditionally been concerned with the cost of anything.

Actually, government organizations are obsessively concerned with costs. So much that, in the interest of controlling costs, they create extensive bureaucratic processes design to assure that every step of an IT system implementation -- and separate rules for every step of any project, IT or otherwise, that involves contracting out -- is necessary, that alternatives have been considered, and that the most cost-effective choice for that step has been taken. And elaborate reporting requirements to all the various control agencies designated to assure that these things are done properly.

Now, there's a couple of perverse results of this:
1) The oversight mechanisms are themselves expensive, and
2) The procedures are mostly old, the IT-specific ones often based on 1970s models of IT with additional layers of accountability but no reexamination of the basic underlying models in the intervening decades, and the general contracting-out ones not well adapted to the specifics of IT.

As a result, the constraints imposed due to cost concerns actually often serve both to create expensive bureaucratic overhead for government IT projects, but also to force the project to be big-up-front-design that gets locked in by contract, with all the well-known costs and risks that come with big-up-front-design of software systems.

Its not that government is not concerned with costs, its that the people in government making decisions about how to address cost concerns don't understand what drives costs in the area of IT (the same may apply in other domains, but that's neither here nor there.)
Regarding the Fed and the economy, that is very true. Paul Krugman recently did a column where he suggested that there was no good way for the USA economy to move forward:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/trade-and-secula...

He first suggests that we have possibly become dependent on unsustainable bubbles:

"Leaving aside the large surplus just after World War II, we went from persistent small surpluses before 1980 to persistent large deficits after 1980. This meant that we needed more domestic demand, other things equal, to achieve full employment — and arguably that we needed a series of bubbles and rising leverage, which are no longer forthcoming."

then he suggests a possible way out:

"And you might therefore argue that we can avoid secular stagnation by letting low interest rates lead to a debased dollar (hi, Congressman Ryan!), more competitive U.S. manufacturing, and balanced trade."

but then he casts doubt on the possibility of there being any way out:

"Or maybe not, because who exactly is supposed to be on the receiving end of our improved balance?"

As he has suggested in a series of recent blog posts, we might be facing a very long era of stagnation.
I think the point of the comment is that Science's study is purely self-serving, since they did not also send their sting paper to the more traditional journals to test their peer review rejection rate of this bogus paper.
Actually, it seems that amazon has 5 warehouses in France, which it ships from and which have to comply with French labor laws. The technology is probably still mostly developed in the U.S, but those workers aren't the ones we're talking about here.
Might want to click on the link and scroll down to the financial statements. Twitter lost $70 million during the first half of this year. In fact, they didn't make a dime in 2010, 2011, or 2012 either.

I don't think I need to post Google's profits for comparison.

One is a vibrant growing company. The other is struggling to stay alive. One has billions to invest in new ideas. The other needs to raise money before they burn through it all just doing what they already do.

Twitter doesn't have a dime to invest in new ideas, unless that idea solves the profitability problem they already have.

And btw, for all that google has invested in, they are still an advertising company - 98% of their revenue. They make a bit off gmail from ads (I assume), but they haven't made anything from glass or driverless cars. This is hardly the type of innovation that Twitter needs.. where is the money going to come from for what are essentially research projects.
That last sentence didn't turn out quite right...

EDIT: Hollow words from people part of one of the biggest misconceptions on this planet about a stigmatised disease.
Hi, I'm the one who wrote the 'saddest most uninformed blog post on hacker news' [1] that inspired this post.

Just want to chime in with a quick update: two months in, still 'funemployed'. Currently working harder than I ever did at my job, on so many different levels. Possibly working harder than I ever have in my life. To stay at the job I was at would have been a huge cop out. I'd basically be showing up and collecting a check without pushing myself forward, stunting my growth as a developer and as a person.

[1] http://madebyloren.com/i-quit-my-job
Work that needs to be done, and isn't, becomes better and better paid until it is sexy.
I have a friend who works at a company called Readyforce. You should check them out. They help students find work, and have almost 500 startups looking to hire.

http://www.readyforce.com/