skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mathattack is wrong though. Both Google and Facebook improved the amount of money the company got instead of lining the underwriter's pockets with that money.
If you use tabs, then you cannot have a column limit because the line length changes depending on what the tabstops are.

In Linux they say tabs are 8 characters, which no they are not, so they can have an 80-column line limit. Anybody programming with a less than 8 character tab can't get the column limit right (the number of characters on a line changes with the indentation level).

Tabs are invisible characters that don't have a standard width so are always causing problems like this. They are used because many programmers use editors where they would have to actually press space multiple times to indent/unindent (ie bad editors) and because source control doesn't know when an indent change actually means something vs just being cosmetic.
This thread made me think. Perhaps Slackware is due for a slight comeback due to the ZFS style snapshot / containerization type trends going on right now, since Slackware's quirk of "not having" package management becomes irrelevant.
Did Instagram Sell Too Early
Just to point out, the analysis I did above is the same anlaysis the Elon Musk did. It is using the same data. I just read his data source slightly more carefully. Then, the next step was just to reflect the news in this article. Nothing in what i just described contradicts your "opinion why some articles are quickly flagged of the site." The issue at hand is your premise is false. The article is a simple news story with a singular data point: what was (1) is now (3). We don't need to do any hand-wavy analysis. We just stick in these numbers and we have a pretty glaring inconsistency. Its not "a bias and falshood" because it uses the same framework (so no bias is added) with a single observed data point that nobody is debating (so no falshood).
Because the Senate gets to set its own rules for how it operates.

It's not like the effect of TPA would be a surprise to the Senate. Senators understand very well what it would mean for their ability to amend trade agreements. If they want the chance to review and amend the TPP, they won't pass TPA.
It's been dead for a while now: IE10 can't be installed on Vista, Visual Studio 2012 can't be installed on Vista, etc.
Perception is the hardest part [1] for autonomous aircrafts, and from my experience, perception research for aircrafts is still in its infancy, albeit a hot research topic. In some ways, it is easier than self driving cars due to the added DOFs, but in other ways can be quite complicated due to weather conditions.

[1] http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_...
Good find, thanks.

However, one very old editor using tabs doesn't mean Lisp programmers actually prefer them. It may even be the cause of tabs hate.
They are having more accidents than other electric cars (3 vs 0), and it certainly seems that having four times as much battery power, and lining the base with them, is the problem.

There's nice spin you could put on this, which is likely true: people who have Teslas drive them more, because they are fun, cool, excellent - and have 4 times the range and power.
Secondly, with more power, you will drive faster, hence greater likelihood of accident, and of greater severity.

But Tesla's gotta fix this. For PR reasons, and to be making a great car. There's always going to be unforeseen problems with new tech, the only issue is how you handle it.

It's a bit of a shame though: low slung batteries give low center of gravity and great handling and stability. Thicker armour adds unnecessary weight. Perhaps armour that deflects rather than stops? Perhaps a different failure mode for the batteries; built-in extinguishers? (i.e. the issue is fire, not car damage. Ideally, solve both).
They're not spying on their own people. They're spying on terrorists.

Making the world a safer place for every single one of us.
Yes that is correct. SHA256 is not known to be vulnerable to quantum computers[^], ECDSA (Bitcoin's public/private key algorithm) is.

[^] There is a known quantum attack against SHA256 that reduces the brute force search space from 2^256 to 2^128, but that wouldn't really break the Bitcoin protocol. The ECDSA quantum vulnerability, however, would make ECDSA essentially useless.
i would totally check on the linkedin status if i thought the employe is going to leave - if anything's private then i won't be able to see it anyway, but certainly not act on it.
I have a side project related to this, would you be interested in talking about your workflow? You can email me at hello on umamicollective.com
Reminds me of Appfolio and how antiquated rental property mgmt software was before they came out with their product.
I wouldn't stay there more than a day. And I'd also expose the company name.
Title should say "University of Wyoming", not "UW".

"UW" means "University of Washington".
Fukushima is still a mess
We don't have those trillions. The government is borrowing near 50% of what it spends, with no idea/plan/expectation of paying it back. If any money is saved by such cuts, give the money back to the citizens who earned it and let them decide where their money should go.
Am I missing something fundamental here?

Is depression diagnoses really so objective that we can not only compare diagnosis rates across the country, but across the world? Sort of like comparing how good the pizza is in countries across the world, is it not?

It doesn't seem like this analysis holds much value, if any.
How do you characterize changing the language reporters are allowed to use in the paper to appease the Bush admin?
It's easy to assess the potential of the trade deal, by the simple expedient of counting up the various deadweight losses attributable to tariffs. It's not like we don't know what existing tariffs are or what costs they impose on trade flows, that information is public. For a very rough estimate of the potential gains, you can look at the size of the market for a given trade area and multiply that by the measured increase in economic growth from previous free trade agreements, such as NAFTA, the EU and others.

If you want to learn more about it I suggest this CRS primer: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40502.pdf
Nope, I only learned about it because my cousin went to the same school and was doing his electrical engineering graduate degree at the time. He had a book on signal processing lying around and that's where I was introduced to it.
<list of dead items>

"I need to delete every item"

for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
remove item[i];
}

"Shit, that didn't work. Why isn't it deleting everything?

for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
printf("%d", item[i]);
remove item[i];
}

"Huh, it's removing every other item."

for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
printf("%d, %d", item[i], i);
remove item[i];
}

"Weird, it's removing an item, skipping an item, then removing the next one."

for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
printf("%d, %d", item[i], i);
remove item[i];
i--;
}

"Well shit, that seemed to work."

for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
remove item[i];
i--;
}

"Ship it."
Billionaire Closes Off Access to One of California's Best Public Beaches
University of Wyoming is known as "UW" as well.
HTML e-mail is required for marketing? Hardly. Also "look better" is massively subjective.
This article is really good and it gives a lot of information about how Todd Jackson is a good PM. A lot of what is written can be used in one's own daily experience as a PM and startup owner.

Looking forward to using some of the points mentioned to work. :)
Why do emails need to be designed in the first place? Honest question.
This is obviously an attempt to silence a critic. I'm really starting to wonder about Canonical's judgement.
Or University of Waterloo
The desire for pretty isn't an excuse to be insecure.
Data Scientists Descend on New York to Attend PyData 2013
The fast track negotiating authority (also called trade promotion authority or TPA, since 2002) for trade agreements is the authority of the President of the United States to negotiate international agreements that the Congress can approve or disapprove but cannot amend or filibuster.

Are you taking issue with the premise of fast-track (ie, that it will go regular track)? Because based on the structure, it comes up for a vote in Y/N only. So debate is essentially pointless (unless the whole thing is rejected) as its take-it-or-leave-it. So all of the non-pointless debate needs to occur beforehand. Which is certainly inconsistent with complete secrecy. Or is everybody missing something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_track_%28trade%29
Wow, impressive double standard you have going on there.

journalistic editorial

Filed under 'unclear on the concept.'
$72 million is not cheap in my universe. And given the context, the relevant question is the cost of the hardware versus the other costs involved.
Nope apparently all that matters is shiny. The short nearsightedness of some of these comments is amazing.

Kudos to be reasonable.
Great insight! I wouldn't have thought about it this way, although I can think of quite a few instances where this approach would have been more than helpful!
Why is this called a configuration management tool? It looks interesting, but I don't understand what it has to do with managing configuration.
It's very interesting to see rumors circulating that public utilities are worried about solar energy adoption cutting into their business.

Is this actually true? Is the total cost of ownership becoming sufficiently low as to drive adoption?
Twitter SEC filing reveals same IP issues faced by all tech companies
Yeah, sorry about that. You have to pick your battles in gov IT.
Yes. And the net neutrality article on wikipedia is pretty comprehensive, maybe someone from sub-saharan Africa will come up with a better implementation ;)
"Cultural fit" isn't bullshit, it's just a euphemism for how reasonable someone's personality is. It's easier to say "I don't think they'll fit our culture" instead of saying "their personality sucks"
Upvoting also saves the story to your profile, so some may do so to also bookmark it....
The theoretical advantage of biopolymers isn't just that they biodegrade, it's that they biodegrade into materials (like methane) which can form the feedstock for bacteria which in turn produce the biopolymers. This is better than paper underwear because the paper->CO2->tree->paper cycle is much slower.
Ah, I suppose what I mean by capitalism is a more pathological optimisation of employees with authority. If you think of a company as something that is optimising for profitability through not only producing something, but by doing everything in their power to stifle competition, by preventing competitors from succeeding by any legal means, then you can look at an employee and their behaviour in a similar matter.

People often have houses to pay off, kids to feed, cars to buy, and they're interested in maintaining their foothold. They might say they buy in to a companies culture but the reality is, if they had to sacrifice themselves for said culture they'd always put their interests first.

So employees with limited power and authority over their little domain, are going to act in their own interests by as you say hiring people like themselves, by creating a culture that matches their values and keeps outsiders at bay, and by ousting anything that threatens the status quo.

It would be really interesting to see how things would work if people were able to separate costs of living and productive activity, but because they're tied up they're going to influence each other.

Why would someone over-quote on a job? Because they want more money so they can buy that thing they want or pay down their house quicker. Why would someone fire someone for not being a 'cultural fit', maybe it's because their behaviour threatens their position in some way. No questions are good questions. If Blackberry could have flipped a switch and prevented the iPhone from ever being made, by god they would have done it. It's the same behaviour and it's prevalent as hell.

So, that's what I mean.

EDIT: It ultimately does come down to money and protecting income streams (i.e. employment) while expending the least amount of energy as required. It's hard work for a manager to look after the needs of a team that has a cultural outlier even if they are ultimately improving business outcomes. It's easier to have people to nod their heads in agreement and show up 9 to 5, produce maybe 10 hours of true productive work a week. It's such an easy think to fake and it happens everywhere.
Thanks, I love the site btw. I was just in a rush to type it out and head to work.

USPS has discounted online rates that apply to everyone using Stamps.com, Paypal, Ebay, Amazon, Etsy, Endicia, Pitney Bowes, and any other postage printing service.
I ran Slackware many moons ago. It was very bare bones and it took a lot of work, but I was young and it was an immersive experience. As another commenter wrote, people on IRC played up how 1337 they were for running Slack. I disagree slightly with that statement. I spent a lot of time building my Slack system on a PII 266, and I was 12, so it took me a long time with a lot of false starts. I don't think anyone was trying to be "1337", they were just proud of what they'd accomplished. I know I was.

In any event, it's cool to see Slack is still around. I installed ArchLinux on my MBP a couple weeks back. After installing Mavericks, the modified EFI partition I created no longer lets me boot Arch, so I think I'll give Slack a try. It's the challenge that makes it worth it.

Also, I have to strongly suggest to anyone who is not all that into Linux but is interested in learning: Skip the window environment. Force yourself to just sit there on the command line. It's surprising the kind of focus you have when you can't be distracted by all manner of visual eye candy. I know that sounds ridiculous, but it was a real pleasure to use only the CLI. It's sort of like the difference between writing with sidewalk chalk and a fine fountain pen. You find yourself writing /differently/. It's a subtle change with lots of unintended consequences that cause you to think about your work from a different perspective. As Alan Kay put it: Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
The article doesn't actually answer the headline question. So, valuations are running sky-high. Ok. Why is it bad for startups?
> Edit: The parent comment, which was nearly half an hour old when I saw it, has been edited to remove the reference that I was against men's rights.

My post had no replies when I edited.

I removed that reference because I felt it sounded like I was accusing you of being against men's rights. That wasn't my intention.

> Neither is there much of a recognition that while men have problems, it's not a competition and it doesn't mean that women don't also have problems.

Definitely. However, when the solutions that third-wave feminists put forth further disadvantage men in areas like unemployment and education—or, to be more diplomatic, when someone passionate about men's rights feels that way—it's completely reasonable for them to respond with their objections.

>The thing is that MRA, here on HN and most other places, are free to submit anything they want any time they want.

Many people who passionately oppose third-wave feminist activism also oppose discussion of politics on HN, period. So they don't consider this to be a platform for their political views unless they're responding to activism already on the front page.
I once created a throwaway account here to post about a company's bad practices. I named the company, as well.

It was immediately removed from this site.

I'm actually from Vancouver, so I would love to know the name of the company.

The OP's old employer:

1. Has one (big) claim to fame
2. Located in Vancouver
3. Has a product "dealing with large amounts of money from customers’ bank accounts"

But (3) might not be part of a product already released.

There are a lot of game developers in Van--with, of course, a thriving beer/overtime culture, but who really knows, to be honest.
One trivial guess is a huge spike in your number of visits.
Strongest Landfalling Tropical Cyclone on Record just hit The Philippines
> Wealth was destroyed and sent to some far off land, specifically to space and to Mars.

Really? What about the expertise gained? The knowledge gained?

Space exploration is vital for long-term survival of a country like India.
I had the exact same thoughts while reading the article. Cerny created MVPs of games, got feedback and would pivot/change based on user feedback. And he did this in the mid 90's!!
This means (a) all expectations of me are in one place (my inbox) and (b) I don't have to filter work from my free time.

Isn't this a tools problem (ie, at your end)?

I certainly separate my work phone number from my personal one (but that's pretty easy to do these days).

I've never found the SMS vs Email location thing to bother me, but if it does think there are plenty of phone apps that combine them. From memory HTC has one that isn't terrible, and Dias.im[1] looks nice.

What do you do about other message sources though? IM, etc?

I've always considered keeping my work organised something I'm responsible for, and I'd never try to make other work one way or another to fit my tools.

(Disclaimer: I work remotely)

[1] http://www.cultofandroid.com/42101/disa-im-unified-messaging...
The Cell design was interesting, but it was obvious that chip multiprocessors would win. The argument is similar to why x86 continues to prevail vs RISC and VLIW: supporting x86 is only a modest constant factor in transistor count but preserves access to the existing software ecosystem. The latter trumps the pennies per part the x86 decoders add.

Likewise with chip multiprocessors vs systolic arrays: making a core fully general and with proper cache coherant memory access isn't that expensive in transistors, and allows you to leverage existing multi-threaded code.

Systolic arrays still have a future in true embeded devices: radar processing is a good example.

Oh, and before you point to the AMD architecture as being Cell-like, it's not at all. Unified virtual memory instead of Cell's complex 2 level store. Cell requires the CPU to manage DMA's to the APU's, on Fusion you can just pass a pointer. CPU and APU instruction sets are entirely decoupled on Fusion. APU supports thread pre-emption.

In any case, the lesson here is obvious: design hardware in opposition to the existing software ecosystem in your industry, and you'll make something that is academically interesting but struggles to deliver value to end products.
I started as a hacker-wannabe and felt in love with the simplicity, minimalistic approach, stability and control it gave to me.

Never went back.
Makes you think though. Setup a site take the lot, blame it on a robbery == Millionaire.
> How far [will] the charge migrate across the interfaces between oxide superconductors and ferromagnetic materials? They revealed that the charge transfer is restricted within one nanometer from the interfaces.

The UW copywriter is overly generous with the headline.

"Breakthrough" joins other now-meaningless words such as "paradigm", "terrorist", and "awesome".
A quick back of the envelope calculation shows that, at this rate, the Tesla Model S is roughly 25x more likely to suffer a fire after a collision than a non-Tesla.

While gas powered cars must, out of necessity, carry a tank of flammable liquid around, which is fairly unsafe, the gas tank is not in the front of the car. No other electric car manufacturer puts their batteries so far forward under the hood, either. The Tesla also has very low road clearance.
The answer to the question is supposed to be "because it's driving startup valuations sky high", which I assumed is understood as a bad thing, but I see your point. I have written about that before - it has all sorts of problems like trouble with fundraising for later rounds, inability to get acquired, etc.
not making money is bad for startups.
Tidy Swiss scientists to build "janitor satellites" to clean up space
Strange. I would honestly have thought that the losses involved in storing energy in a battery (I would expect at least 20% loss) would have out-shadowed the savings by avoiding extra charges for high demand. It's surprising to me that batteries were chosen as the energy storage method and also that the energy provider themselves is not doing this on a large scale if it's a big issue to them. A very interesting read.
"Hehe, given that you have been constantly attacking me so far, I think it's the other way around: I think you feel you are somehow superior to me. :)"

"Wait guys, let me get this straight: You guys are not okay with the US government accessing your data that Google has, but you are somehow okay with sharing your data with Google?

I just see big "evil" vs small "evil." I'm not seeing much of a difference.

Also, would you be okay if another government had access to your data in Google's cloud?

You guys are probably not seeing the futility of it all."

If you can type those two things so close together, you literally have zero self awareness. This started with you actually having the gall to imply that strangers on the internet stupid because of an insane projection you made up.
Now your brain has managed to twist you insulting random strangers into someone else trying to feel superior.

"Also, it has not been shown that the government has stolen anything. People are upset that the government has an indirect mechanism to access their data. And I am saying that giving third-party your data implies that other entities will get to it if they want it."

It takes a record breaking amount of obtuseness to claim that the government doesnt steal data and then saying "the government has an indirect mechanism to access this data". I genuinely am unable to accept that a human brain can cloud logical thought that much.

Anyway, you clearly are going to prop yourself up as superior in your own mind no matter how many times I quote you contradicting yourself and making no logical sense, so I'll leave you to whatever you hope to gain from being a disingenuous jerk to strangers on the internet over a point you quite literally made up...? Cheers.
Starship Troopers: one of the most misunderstood movies ever
Looks awesome! Anyone know if there are bandwidth / throughput / transfer charges?

Also, forgive my ignorance, but what would it take to be able to "add containers" in the same way that you can add dynos on Heroku?
"Once my sympathies for Twitter subsided ... " Right, so when is the candlelight vigil again?
From another article:

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration “absolutely has to investigate” the Nov. 6 Tennessee incident, Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, based in Washington, said in a phone interview.
Whether you're consciously thinking about design decisions or not everything is designed.

The better question would be, why does design matter?

This list could be huge but here are a few common reasons:

- To simplify information.

- To make it more digestible.

- To be engaging. To invoke emotion.

If you blast an average email receiver with a poorly designed wall of text, at best, they might read part of it and drop out half way through. Most of them will archive or delete it without even opening it and another portion will probably report it as spam.

I won't sit here and discuss the complexities of why design matters but here are a few links:

- http://www.fastcodesign.com/3019604/design-50/design-in-30-s...

- http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/30/business/la-fi-mo-wo...

- http://www.hackdesign.org/lessons/1