skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, electric is really amazing for high power stuff, I'm realizing. It's hard to do, but the simplicity in the end of battery + motor with just electronics doing the rest means we can get some pretty amazing form factors out of electric things.

Since I was young I have dreamed of a "boosted" snowboard, with a snowmobile-like tread that came down the middle and would accelerate me in slow areas. The weight and noise of an internal combustion engine would have been prohibitive, but clearly we're getting to the point where electric isn't so bad.

If I'm doing snowboard runs all day though, I want to show up with a handful of battery packs and run through a few in a day.

The same would be fun with Boosted. Not being able to replace it means I can't buy a handful of batteries and take them somewhere for a day of uninterrupted riding up and down my favorite hills.

Charge dead packs in the car while you ride and with a few packs you can manage a continuous day of fun. That's not possible with non-removable batteries, and customers willing to pay for all that are good customers to have and indulge.

If I have a fully charged board and 5 friends, I feel like "OMG look at how cool my $1300 board is" is going to turn into "oh it died, sorry guys, more fun tomorrow".

I think that even if people don't buy the spare battery, knowing it's an option will help them feel more comfortable with the $1300 purchase. If the current range falls just short of what you need, an inability to simply buy a second battery to keep in your pack is going to be pretty upsetting. And always being able to keep one topped off at home means that after your commute you can still go out and enjoy your board.
I have double-pane glass with an Argon spacer, and live close to a minor road that gets daily traffic (school/commute times). Plenty of sound gets through; the most effective sound insulating filler (Sulfur hexaflouride) is no longer available due to being a highly potent greenhouse gas.
For reference, the FlashCache project and source code is publicly available on github: https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/
A fair number of years ago, the company I was with swapped in new senior management in conjunction with / for the purpose of executing a severe downsizing.

Suddenly, I'm walking past armed guards in the lobby.

This was not a "security" related company. Just an old-line business suffering under the changes brought by technology and too long under reactionary management.

But this new management was paranoid that someone was going to come in and shoot them up.

I'll differ with jmccree in that I don't see this as the result of rising prosperity. Rather, I see it as the result of rising inequality.

The rich are all the more able to pay for this and to force it through, when the masses -- including those from whom they hire their security -- are worse off. They can more easily afford the wages, and they more easily -- through their influence -- control the political implications.

As for the trend in the U.S., which also is occurring in e.g. fire fighting support and other areas. Many would argue it's another sign that, beneath the GDP totals, the U.S. is no longer a first world country. Piece by piece, link by link in an increasingly severed social contract.
Are you really trying to suggest that tptacek is looking for political discussion or trying to push a political agenda here? Because it seems pretty clear that the tech angle is the one he and most readers are interested in.
Actually we don't send any messages over Facebook and LinkedIn. If we did, it would be with explicit permission per message.

Here is how it works

1. Describe a role
2. Invite people to make recommendations
(using the invite link or the direct email flow)
3. Connect to get contacts, and we make it easy to recommend good people

That's basically it! Try it out and let me know what you think: ivan@yesgraph.com
Have you read Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art"?
I primarily use java in my day job, and although there's a lot not to like about it, some standard complaints are somewhat overblown. For example, nothing really forces you to use long variable/method names, but even if you do, a modern IDE -- I use IntelliJ -- with auto-completion makes these fairly painless. It's not like you have to type every letter of "SomeClass.veryLongMethodName()" -- rather, you type "SomeClass.v" and then hit tab.

Similarly, I never type "for (int i = 0; i < blah; i++)." I type "cmd-J, fori, return." Etc....

So, I'm not particularly persuaded to the "you have to type a lot" complaints.

Similarly, Spring has simplified a lot of stuff that J2EE had previously made overly complicated.

That's not to say that Java doesn't have problems or isn't suboptimal for a certain set of problems. (In fact, it's unclear to me where java might be optimal.)
Aww - no test data? And when trying to add test data, I get errors due to the self-referencing foreign key. Perhaps the schema could do with a

> DEFAULT (IDENT_CURRENT('dbo.Employees'))

on the BossID column. Been awhile (years) since I've worked with SQL Server.
Well... I am one of those guys who hates Java, but I see Java far away from dying.

I know it is not very reliable but Tiobe index is still a decent metric.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

When Visual Basic dies I would start believing that Java could die.
There's no such thing. That's just W3C (MPAA shills) crazy talk.

A heterogenous and open web is fundamentally incompatible with requiring that web to be run only by proprietary browsers using proprietary DRM plugins.
Namecheap. Because they're cheap. Never had any issues so far.
Yes, it is arbitrary. Believing that there is no creator to the universe is also arbitrary. That is because, science, as it currently stands, has nothing to say about the matter. Picking/not picking any religion is a matter of philosophy, not science.
Fired... out of a canon... into the sun.
There are two separate stages with GNU make. The first is very lisp like with the functions like $(filter) and you use it to create all the rules for the second, more prolog like, stage. A simple Makefile would do nothing for the first stage because it'd all be static text instead of function calls.
I am really sick of these articles. "Java is alive and well", "Brand new exciting things that tell you Java is still a leader" blah blah blah. To me Java is a great tool, the JVM an even better tool. No one said your favourite language is dying and if they did, they are naive. These articles only give me a small hint that you think java is dying and are trying to do your part to keep it alive.

I guess what boils down to is that I hate articles that give me the impression of desperation. Maybe this is my own problem in the long run so I don't know why I wrote this comment.
Like Erlang's GC what all with the 5 9's of uptime it was designed to handle. I mean, come on, the GC algorithm it uses may be battle tested and far simpler than the GC beast that is the JVM but simple is bad, right?
Dr. Dobb's puts out a monthly PDF issue. It's smaller in terms of content than the paper issues of the 90s, but it's in that mold. Also, the website posts new feature articles every Tuesday, covering a fairly wide range of programming topics. Most articles have code.
There is a constant complaint that HN is turning into Reddit. But, after looking at snapshots of the frontpage from five years ago, I realized, only the names have changed. So, the change must be experiential. (The same can be said of music and radio stations.) If you think HN is turning into Reddit, perhaps you are growing out of the target demographic.
That was the power rating for a single cell - the pack has lots of cells in it.

If you take hobby remote control cars as an example, I just bought an average lithium powered one that can do 45A at 11.7v, or roughly 500w to drive a <5lb toy car (very quickly). A 12lb skateboard and a 180lb rider will need several thousand watts peak I would imagine, at least.
What about java makes it better for high performance / complexity code?

I never said there isn't a lot of java code, or that it doesn't work, my assertion is that java is not the hands down choice for high complexity / performance work.

If you've got a bunch of mediocre programmers who can't be trusted to make + add things together then sure java is a great choice.
Depends on which version of "make" you're using. GNU make does not, but automatic dependency detection is just one of many enhancements in Electric Make, a drop-in replacement for GNU make.
"World History" is a term of art within history. Braudel, Wallerstein and Toynbee are good names to start with.

For podcasts see Conversations with History. 1hr interviews with notable historians and academics. http://conversations.berkeley.edu/

What topics/themes interest you?
"Wasn't the point of Java to release developers from having to worry about memory?"

I think you're thinking of releasing them from worrying about pointers, which it basically did. When it first came out, its stated goal was to release developers from having to worry about portability, which it did.
How so? Evolution is just change in populations over time with common descent, and that's pretty well demonstrated through the things I mentioned, about the same as gravity is demonstrated by things falling. What's different?
Amazon claimed it had no physical presence in California so that they would fall under the existing laws. That's not true, though. Lots of Amazon employees work in California. They got very creative with the definition of "Amazon" and "employee" to make the claim.
Too bad it is GPL v2. https://github.com/facebook/flashcache/blob/master/LICENSE
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
Correct, in the complaint I only saw a mention of the second "hit" which looks a lot like negotiating the price down. After all, it did work; he didn't pay $500K. But perhaps I'm just wrong.

I'd be pretty sure his failure mode didn't take into account severity of his crimes. If you're gonna go operate on the scale he did, might as well go all out. Considering they can prosecute and probably give him life if they want, what's a few additional life sentences?

Ridiculous and slightly offensive comparison: It's not like Thomas Jefferson left an out clause for himself when starting the US revolution.
Tim is as wrong in every way as he can possibly be wrong.

Open source browsers where what introduced heterogenity to an IE6 monopoly on the web and it made the modern web as we know it possible in the first place. A heterogenous browser landscape is a vital component for a healthy web.

Open Source browsers will not be able to use EME, because the CDM (the proprietary blob part) of it, cannot give random programs (like browsers, which need the raw bytes for layouting/compositing of the content) access. Because then the program could just dump the content in plain to disk.

Hence, Open Source browsers would need to be excluded from accessing the CDM. As a result, Open Source browsers will begin their march towards oblivion as the proliferation of DRM on the web will render them incapable of serving up the content and they will become known as "those browsers that don't work".
Ask HN: Best place to sell unused domains?
Hi,

I have a couple of what I would consider to be high(er) value domains, and then a few lower value domains I would like to sell, but I'm especially interested in unloading the higher value ones because of their income potential.

I have them all listed at Namebox.io, but get no offers, & I see via Google that a site called Sedo claims to be the biggest domain reseller, but I've never heard of them.

What experience do HN'ers have with domain resellers? Which will get my 2 good domains sold for me? Is Sedo worth their 20% commission?

Please advise.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Regards,

-c
"Java is dying" is wishful thinking. It's not the case, but we can only hope it will be. Currently, it does a good job of marketing to developers too good for Ruby and Python and not good enough for C.
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>> Move closer to work – a short commute is worth more than a big house

Ah yes, a simple thing I can accomplish today!
Like most mortals, I depend on Bruce Schneier: "Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR, TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going to write about. There's an undocumented encryption feature in my Password Safe program from the command line); I've been using that as well." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-rema...
I'm not talking about how many features the language has, I'm talking about the endless amount of line noise that you need to accomplish simple tasks.

Most of what the code does is hidden behind ceremony.

Imagine Newtown writing out instructions on how to calculate gravity instead of just writing:
F = G((m1 m2)/(r^2))

I really don't understand how a language that can't succinctly express calculus from 300 years ago would be regarded as suitable for complex code.
What you are arguing is called mind dualism. It is subject to very many difficulties, and does nothing to resolve pesky issues like neurologically damaged and split brain individuals (what happens in their afterlife?) or explain why there is this magical correspondence between the spiritual realm and physical reality, without any causal connection (see my point about Occam priors).
Shocked, Shocked!? It couldn't matter less to the average Azerbaijani. They already know all about it. The government just makes up some ridiculously implausible "explanation" and life goes on. "Last election's results, but this election's candidate names?". If it seems like they're not even trying, its because they're not. The official explanation doesn't even have to be good because the people don't care one way or another.
Yes and what if you have more than twenty users?
Maybe now people will understand that the "open web" is just another power grab by another group in the "dirt war" of computing. The scam is to give the peasants lots of shiny-looking stuff while foisting a crap programming model, Byzantine standards and now DRM. And because the peasants don't have a clue what computers are capable of they gush at every little pseudoinnovation while the W3C plays catch up with the past. The rest of computing suffers from this problem but the web is the absolute worst of the lot. Elegance and rigor is last on their list of priorities, after convenience to the implementor. And yet, elegance is of the utmost importance to users in the long-run. So the reality is that they place implementors _before_ users, because their aim is to win the dirt war and be written into history in a favorable light.

Another way to sniff out dirt warmongers is to look for reactive behavior. And the W3C is the most reactive organization, constantly pushing one thing only to do a U-turn later (e.g. asm.js) when those choices threaten their own self interests. The whole idea of the browser as any more than one application on the web - for viewing static documents - is nothing more than a quick power grab by people eager to get as many installs as possible. "Look, we can shoe horn an application into this thing and increase market share". And so the idea of a networked, general purpose computing platform (on which document browsers are but one application) has its air sucked out by the browser with some programming stuff bolted onto the side. The more elegant arrangement is a HIGHER idea, one that is general and powerful, but currently benefits nobody in the dirt war.
Why so we can launch missile strikes to help free them from the oppressive regime run by a mentally deranged leader?

Note the similarity with the backstory behind all of our recent military aggression.

The standard American exceptionalist narrative is that much of the rest of the world consists of people who are victims of illegitimate regimes. We should pity them (emphasis on humanitarian sentiment) but then we should feel morally superior and allow our indignation to lead to military strikes intended to help them.

Bottom line: Military strikes, the projection of power into remote corners of the world, are simply acts of aggression no matter how they are spun. They are designed to threaten and intimidate the rest of the world in a way that aids American interests, not to help people.
Sorry that it throws you away, but currently we are looking for users who are ready to fill five inputs and click that green button.

We decided against screenshots because shortly will be adding a quick link to demo. It is a minor promotion to get as much criticism as we can get before going beyond open beta.
Isn't that really chump change for a movie?
We have our hoaxes in the US as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf84Hwo_Umk
Java runs about 2x slower than C++ for general CPU-bound stuff - (although it does use much more RAM). That sounds slow, but it's faster than most other languages out there. However, C++ does give you the ability to more easily use processor extensions (SSE, AVX, etc), which you can't use from Java AFAIK - which makes a big difference in performance for certain applications.
OK, easier scenario: A guy is insane, and is going to murder 20 people. Your only option is to ask his friend to kill him. Is is still "invariably" wrong?

Anyways, my original question to you (and on other threads, like where you appear to defend seizure actions) is where exactly are you getting your priors? In all your replies you just rephase things as if we're supposed to draw the right conclusion.

And I'm only asking because it's you, someone proven in security and rather insightful on many threads.

If it's just an innate, fundamental belief you hold, fine. I was just wondering if you had some special source or logic that lets you decide these things so absolutely.
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I agree completely with your first two paragraphs. I'll even buy the first sentence of your last paragraph. However, I fail to see why religion inherently conflicts with science. It is in no way clear that the scientific method can be applied to everything. Religion, or one of many other arbitrary philosophies, can fill in the parts that science does not cover.

If you start with the hypothesis that the universe was constructed by a conscious creator, how do you address that scientifically? As far as I can tell, the answer is, you can't.
It's propaganda designed to create a mental state in the reader, namely that the US is great. We don't print the text of national hymns in our newspapers, we just print nearly every silly or bad thing that happens in any other country, even in the midst of much more significant/abhorrent conduct by our own government.

It's propaganda and nothing more. It's useful both for distraction and dehumanization.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this article making it to the top of the front page imply that most people would disagree with you?
> Similarly, I never type "for (int i = 0; i < blah; i++)." I type "cmd-J, fori, return." Etc....

As someone who didn't realize this existed in Intellij, I think you may have just changed my life :)
I started with this 10k memory competition, did really poorly, and decided to continue after the competition because it seemed to me helping me alot.
http://www.memrise.com/course/44056/the-10k-memory-competiti...
Not even that - it's the kind of question that becomes dramatically easier to answer if you know how to trick your brain into thinking it's easy. "Given that all cats are animals and some animals are mice, are all mice cats?"
OK, so I was wrong. Not sure what to call the person who did the backdoor then (nor why it is a big deal). But whatever, I used the wrong term, sorry.
Ahh -- makes sense. I haven't played much with RCs or batteries in general and typically think of power in terms of cycling. 1.3kW sustained for a skateboard is rather impressive. I'm comfortable doing 20 minutes at ~310W on the bike (more like 1.24kW once you account for cycling being roughly 25% energy efficient) and it's enough wattage to get you moving pretty fast.
http://namebox.io/
This pathologizing of religion is too self-serving and deserves some skepticism.

For one thing, it lacks a sufficient explanation for the scientific/mathematical contributions and intellect of people with religious/supernatural belief; people such as Donald Knuth, Isaac Newton, Adam Smith, Euler, Pascal, and so on.

For another, it conflates beliefs with mental habits. The point with empirical science, or math, or any other such discipline is the adherence to a set of intellectual practices rather than a particular set of conclusions that may (or may not) result from employing those practices.

Now beliefs are important, but at least for empirical science the usual criteria is that a belief be held only insofar as it is useful. Holding to the Physical Causal Closure (PCC) principle can be quite useful for investigating natural phenomenon, but plenty of intelligent people have been willing to break from it when they think it will help explain other aspects of life.

Of course, the PCC principle is not the result of research in empirical science, but rather its beginning. It is
itself a philosophical, pre-scientific thesis, and should be dealt with as such. Incidentally, it is because of observations like these that Positivism is no longer a widely accepted philosophy.

Lastly, it is frankly uncharitable. What's more likely, that most of the world is brain-damaged and/or mentally stunted, or that you are oversimplifying the issues?
Sure it is. Right now they have online play, it's just buggy and unusable.

That is totally different from not having something due to some psychological reason (which I don't know). Just like people hate it when a price goes from $0 to $1, but don't care as much when $10 goes to $15.
The lack of non-heap objects makes you bend backwards more than you should though.
Function humpday()
I agree, I've worked with the NSA (early 1990's when they still had some ethics) and this hack doesn't feel like what they would do.

I'm not an NSA expert though, I declined to get clearance, so salt my opinion a bit.
Remove every fry and all you are left with is an empty carton.
The value will probably drop when gtlds come out. Flippa and web hosting forums might work.
If you lift weights, will it only improve your ability to lift weights? ;)
I hadn't heard of this, but it is very interesting to me. I couldn't skate to save my life, but for my capstone course, in our brainstorming sessions I had the idea of doing an all terrain electric powered board on wheels.

My initial intent was actually for carrying stuff for me. The idea came one of the many days that I was carrying a huge laundry bag to the laundry store a couple of blocks away. If only I had something I could just place the bag on top of with wheels. Then I thought it could also carry my backpack to school everyday, groceries, etc. Maybe I could tie a surfboard-like leash to it, and it would have a sensor attached that upon pulling it would know which direction to follow me on. The possibilities for my laziness are endless! Anyways, we ended up going with another idea, probably for the best, since the kinda board I was thinking off was probably out of the scope and time we had for the course.

Looking forward to how this goes. Best of luck to all involved.
I started here: http://www.memrise.com/course/44056/the-10k-memory-competiti...

Memrise helped me get me off my feet, and then I created my own objects/actions for each card because I had no idea who half of those people are.
Startups: stop using generic form letters when you tell a candidate 'no'