skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Full-electric might have an audience, but I make regular road trips to Chattanooga and Birmingham. The charger station infrastructure is simply not there yet for 100+ mile commutes on the interstates. By the time the BlueStar comes out, I could be totally wrong. I'm completely expecting to be.
The Onion was a great perk of going to school in Madison (where it originated.)
What's fragile about 6mm armour plate?

Urgh. Nice context switch. To be fair, the system as a whole seems to be a bit fragile, which is what I was actually saying. But in this specific strawman context: Lots of things are "fragile" when a piece of steel has a significant fraction of the momentum of a car behind it.

To me, still very dependable and robust for something with sportscar performance.
I don't think placement could solve the points you mention.

Sure, debris can damage the underside and cause the car to catch fire, but putting the packs in the front or rear of the car can cause it to explode on impact as well. Having it on the underside will probably cause fewer fires than having it in the front for example.

That said, consider gasoline cars: The fuel needs to travel from the tank to the engine. Effectively, an impact anywhere on the fuel line can cause a fire.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Even if it was barely breakeven, I'd think that the value of having a consumer product with recurring revenue and [generally] positive customer experience is of greater value than its cash flows.
Analytics: What everyone is doing now to get first class data on which new apps are exploding to acquire at a knock down price before anyone else catches on. Facebook with Parse (http://swaggadocio.com/post/60416244109/why-facebook-really-...), and now Amazon.
Fair enough. I'll agree with all that.

That being said, I still don't believe cars have universally detached people from each other. While it's easier to ignore your neighbors, people out in the country have access to more things (including cultural institutions like museums) and certain types of travel (road trips) have broadened horizons in other ways.

I'm also not sure how much of the changes in our social structure are due strictly to technology as opposed to shifting attitudes about family, home towns, social clubs, mass media, and other social institutions.
How do you handle IP issues with candidates that already have full-time jobs? If it were me, for example, I don't mind hacking on something for a weekend (it's frequently what I do anyway), but Google owns any code I write. If you try to incorporate that into a real project you are in for a hell of a legal mess.
Twitter is Under-Valued (for Investors and Marketers)
Cup-Recipe For Detailed Python Deployment
Yeah the memory thing is a problem for sure. I've noticed that and it worries me.

A few years ago I built this php/mysql just to store things that I learned or figured out (correct syntax for rsync might be an example) so I wouldn't have to re google them. [1] But now what I'm seeing is that most things can be found by google quicker than in the format I am using the db for. (But it's still helpful because I can cut paste and edit). I also use a wiki to keep track of what I have found that is helpful. Putting something in the wiki seems to help a little.

My point is in the past there would have been much more memorization reinforcement (see [1] below) than today. My brain is totally getting lazy because it knows the answer is right at my fingertips one way or another. When I used to do the 3x5 cards [1] I typed it up, printed it, reduced it, pasted it and the act of creating and using those "flash" cards made me memorize the answers.

The other problem is the flood of information. To many cool and interesting things to test out and get the hang of. I remember back when I tried C for the first time (don't even think there was c++). Could work with that for a long time since there wasn't really anything else to play with. [2]

[1] Old way of doing this used to be 3x5 cards or those 8.5 x 11 plastic (can't think of the actual word for it) cheat sheets like "Unix Quick Reference". See: http://www.bookdepository.com/Unix-Inc-Barcharts/97815722239...

[2] I'm not a programmer but I do some programming to help with what I do. And have been doing it for a long time. So perhaps if I was doing this full time and my needs were different (instead of intermittent) this would be less of an issue for me.
It depends on the amount of money you owe the bank.

Owe the bank 10 dollars, it's your problem.

Owe the bank 10 million dollars, it's their problem.
Pretty cool but the LinkedIn Card gives me the following PHP exception: Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /home/stephenou/socialbusinesscard.me/card_linkedin.php on line 49
I'm reading Under the Dome right now. After this I'm thinking of starting The Gunslinger.
The interesting thing is that google started out as such a company. Search was a very different business in the '90s. Google came in with their revolutionary way of doing IT/datacenters, their hard-CS centered coding, and their excellent search algorithms and they wiped the floor with everyone. They pioneered a new business model with usable search that was fast and low cost, making it more easily directly monetizable (instead of having to draw in more page views through "portals" and whatnot).

But then they succeeded so quickly that they haven't had that same level of hunger to actually do something risky that needed to succeed. Today google is just as likely to shut down an old project than to launch something new.
You have to be careful with the word "generalist." It specifies a (lack of) specialization, not an absolute level of competence.

People who are equally mediocre at everything are worthless. People who are savvy and hustle at everything are worth their weight in gold. But it's hard to sell that.
This was an interesting read. His arguments for why he likes working on a cruise ship are very much my arguments for why I prefer to vacation on a cruise ship:

(1) Internet access is "limited". I'll stick with "limited" because it's a mixed bag. It's been 5 years since I cruised, though not Mediterranean and was able to find flat rate per-day, however, the one day I broke down and purchased access I found it to be very unreliable (single shared satellite connection for the entire ship). This is the same for phone service. The last ship I was on had a ship-board cell "tower" that showed up as international and I can imagine even T-Mobile doesn't cover that in their zero roaming considering ship to shore calls were $9.00/minute from the suite. This also encourages my coworkers to think long and hard about whether or not to call me in an emergency.

(2) Everything is taken care of, including entertainment. I find it difficult to relax, even on vacation -- it's an exercise of planning what to eat, when to eat, what to see, what to do and when to do it. When "at sea", the cruise director provides a menu of what you can do and when. You pick. Very little energy is expelled in enjoying myself.

(3) When in port, same rules apply. You don't have enough time to plan some grand excursion, so you pick one or two things to do and head back. I always opt for a room with a window and have found that if the ship is oriented with me facing the shore, I can pick up free Wi-Fi from restaurants at shore for a fix (even when the ship is too big and has to be anchored at sea). This provides for a quick fix of internet and stretching.

Because there are many times of the day where there is literally nothing else to do, I find it's the only thing that slows my mind down. By day 7 or so I'm ready to be home again, and the weeks that follow my vacation are usually amazing. The time spent being forced to be alone with my thoughts results in me returning with new ideas, new ways to solve old problems and just a generally more positive outlook. It's the only vacation I take where I truly get the idea of taking time out to decompress.
So say I have $100 of deposits, reserve ratio 0.1, lend out $90. My reserves are $10. Now say the government increases my reserves by $5. Can't I now lend out an additional $5 that I wasn't able to before?
Your website really hurts to attempt to focus on and read. I think it's some combination of the dark black on white comic sans and large font. My eyes just sort of gloss over.

The idea is otherwise really awesome. Super great job.
Have you tried out Kobo Writing Life? It's for self-published authors that offers much more in the way of analytics than Amazon KDP does.

http://www.kobo.com/writinglife
Of course! My name is Romain Lacombe and I'm the head of innovation for the French Prime Minister's taskforce Etalab (data.gouv.fr) for Open Government Data, which was created in 2011 by the former government and was reinstated by the current one.

Whether or not there is room for disruptive innovation for France, only the future will tell -- and those who build it. :)

All I can say is that we're hard at work to make the most of the transformative power of open data and direct collaboration with hackers and startups, and this plan is a significant commitment from our government which I wanted to share with the HN community for constructive feedback.

(PS for what it's worth: I'm an entrepreneur myself, launched a venture-backed startup in the Valley in 2008-2010 myself which was later acquired.)
I like Ubuntu and want them to keep surviving, so they get to pick a business model. If you don't like it, don't use their product.
> I'm surprised the author never even mentions the book by Robert Heinlein. Granted the movie tells a different story than the book but they share the similarity in that on the surface they both preach of the virtues and nobility of war but upon closer inspection, we see that they're telling a different story entirely.

Except that the "we" that see that in the case of the book excludes many of its critics (and, notably, the creators of the movie), and that, in the case of the movie, it doesn't actually take "closer inspection" to see that, since it pretty much hits you over the head with it.
Yes. I basically just use it for router/firewall with pf.
"It's bad, therefore the CIA probably didn't make it" is fine logic; therefore the reverse also works fine - probabilisticly. If P(CIA|good) > P(CIA), then P(CIA|~good) < P(CIA).
2D Printing Black Magic
Bitcoin up 166% over the past month
What are some theories as to the cause of this unbelievable surge?

https://coinbase.com/charts
Hot tech start-up Box picks banks for '14 IPO - sources
In my experience, those who have made it to Series A have had enough humbling experiences to have learned how to hide obvious arrogance. I would agree with your assessment of brand-new CEOs, though.
To both you and cakeface, yes. I still don't really find that relevant, though.
packs in the front or rear of the car can cause it to explode on impact as well

Uh, yeah. Are you sure Li-ion batteries really explode, or do they just burn really fast? (In much the same way it's very, very difficult to get a gas tank to explode, but not so hard to get it to burn very fast.) I'm pretty sure it's hard to get them to explode.
Apparently you missed it. That was done by the British and shared with the NSA. Maybe that narrative doesn't work for you but that is what happened.
Isn't image hosting a horribly crowded space, completely filled with big hitters? It seems like they just weren't close to competing in scale with the likes of flickr, imgur, or instagram. It just seems like there isn't room for another small image host unless they're showing serious potential to be one of the big ones. Instead of being an image host, they could have stayed leaner by being a hub for other image services, but that also would probably be less interesting to investors because they'd just be latching off other image spaces.
With international trade the payment doesn't necessarily end with the money showing up in your account. There are countries and circumstances that could result in money being pulled out of your account even a year later.

I remember a situation with a payment from Greece where my bank basically said "you would be nuts to do it this way". I would not have known had I not taken the time to meet with the bank manager who reviewed the issues and guided me through the process of structuring a safe transaction.

If I remember correctly it involved telling my customer to go to the bank and do a wire transfer with cash as opposed to writing a check. Details are fuzzy. I think I remember him saying that their banking system allowed them to recall the check up to a year later. All of the banks involved in that transaction would have to honor this and you would end-up on the hook for the money. Cash or a cashiers check used for the EFT would break that link and result in a solid transaction.
How long after a payment can I do a chargeback on my CC?

It seems the problem here I can use my CC for whatever, then months and months later do a charge back, even though I got what I originally paid for.

It sounds like the only defense would be to not ship the actual product (reward in this case) until the charge back grace period has elapsed.
We've pretty much seen that no other currency is going to undermine the US dollar. It is the de facto reserve currency for the World. This has only been further cemented by globalization since everyone is now so far in bed with the US via trade that everyone has no choice but to let the US keep racking up a national debt. Questioning that debt and forcing default would be tantamount to economic mutually assured destruction. For China, it knows the Yuan is never going to be a real competitor to the US dollar, since there is even less trust in China, since it has been so willing to manipulate exchange rates with its own currency.

AFAICT bitcoin presents the only real existential risk to the US dollar. It's a long long road to get there and it might fail spectacularly or simply become just another currency, but even if there is only 0.1% chance of it upsetting the US dollar, that is 0.1% chance more than any other currency out there.

Personally, if this does play out, I see the US to be one of the last countries to get on the Bitcoin wagon and lose out. Our currency is the most fit and we have the least amount to gain in the short term from adopting it. But this does not change the fact that many countries with far less stable currencies and governments that have proven themselves untrustworthy with their monetary policies, where the citizens would flock to a currency like bitcoin once security and usability issues are addressed. I'd say that every country where inflation is over 4% per annum is a candidate for wanting to acquire bitcoins.
I know a lot more people who write software well than can guard Lebron James well.
A lot of the current price is because of the Chinese market. If you follow the price surges, usually the exchange BTCChina is the one that starts rising first, followed by the US exchanges. The Genesis Block did a good analysis on the Chinese markets a few weeks ago [1]. I really like the bottom chart in that article, which graphs the price differential between Chinese and US exchanges.

[1] http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-climbs-highest-price-sinc...
This guy, this guy right here gets it.
The recent ford recall had nothing to do with gasoline. I think people keep missing that point. If tesla's cruise control switches were the parts catching fire, this wouldn't be a big deal.
Why is Square discontinuing monthly pricing?

We launched a monthly flat rate to offer flexibility in
pricing for larger businesses. Over the past year we heard
from many of our customers that caps and limits in the
program were inhibiting growth—at a certain point, rates
went back up the more you sold. So, effective February 1,
2014, we're replacing the Square monthly pricing program
with one low per-swipe rate for your business.

We want our pricing to be simple: no more limits or
complicated monthly caps at all. Just one low, flat per-
swipe rate for your business.

Really? As a service to your customers you've decided to replace a low but potentially confusing rate with a higher one? I like Square, and was impressed when they announced their flat rate plan, but it's really hard to respect them when they feel they can treat their customers like morons and get away with it.
I know I'm a little late to read this, but I've been enjoying How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. It's interesting how it objectifies social interaction with others in such short passages.
No one would ever suggest lining the bottom of a car with a gasoline tank

You would be amazed the places people have put gasoline tanks on cars. Just behind the rear axle has been one of the stupidest, so it goes boom when someone drives into the back of you. http://www.autosafetyexpert.com/defect_fueltank.php
Have you considered having contributors use the Xonotic assets? Would that even be possible?
You're absolutely the victim of selection bias. Most of this does not reflect what I've seen in successful startups.
crummy setup... oh come on, on your mac spotlight is a bloody binary program and you have no way to check the sources. And you critizice the default configuration of an open source program?
Good engineers can ship with a bad manager, but it basically requires one of the engineers "managing up" and taking on the role of manager without pissing off his actual manager. That's a delicate balance to strike, but there are some folks (usually experienced engineers who have been around the block a few times, or folks who have previously held manager/executive positions but "downshifted" because they really like to code) that can pull it off.
You had me at "Left Buzzfeed".
I don't quite understand how you think that the current ISP situation is an example of healthy capitalism or a free market. It is anything but. There is a ton of government regulation related to ISPs. So I don't see how fighting regulation with regulation is a good idea.
I actually think that all of them should be, but in a nuanced way -- that is, they all represent points of view that Heinlein wanted the reader to think about, but not necessarily points of view that Heinlein held, or wanted the reader to adopt.
Wreckage of UTA Flight 772
It depends of your market sector. In my main market (Application Virtualization) my tech team is critical. I have few developers who are the famous 10X (or 50X?) ones. Without them it would be impossible to ship the kind of products we are doing. It's not about being faster.

But that team is not enough for being successful and you are overestimating it if you think it's enough. Marketing and Selling capabilities are the other side of the coin.
Not only that, these companies have absorbed state and local subsidies to build out their infrastructures based on the promise that they would provide service to the public good. That invalidates any faux-libertarian defense they might have-- their networks are now in part public property.
Kickstarter's limit is $10k, so it's likely to be your problem. On top of that, bankruptcy would be a problem for most people, even if the bank suffered too.
I am all too familiar with only being good at certain things. My zombie startup almost failed before we had a chance to breathe. I was a developer driving around Houston, beating on doors to sell my product. And of the 30 organizations I approached, it did not result in one single meeting. I suck, so severely suck, at sales and anything to do with communicating with non technical people.

But about going beyond my own limitations, rather than trying to be all things, we just brought on some new partners to handle the marketing/sales, and things are finally starting to look up.
True story: in the '90s, I used to buy print editions of the Onion for $1 at the Tower Records at Bay and Columbus in SF.

How times change.
MyBatis Oracle JDBC Exception Stream not closed
I get it, but this makes me sad. I've been picking it up in Austin for years.
I agree that Bitcoin banks would need insurance to be successful. As it is, it's pretty much just giving them to a anonymous stranger over the internet.
Has Quake Live ever made any money for id/Bethesda? It seemed like a loss leader every time I played. No real ads, just lots of begging for "gold."
And almost everywhere in Wisconsin.
The obvious difference being that if a random switch goes wrong and catches fire, it is not going to set the batteries alight. It was the fuel tanks of these cars that burnt them out, not the switch fires.
_City of Thieves_ by David Benioff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Thieves_(novel)
I had a good discussion somewhere here about names in relation to medical records. What it boiled down to was that one can never assume that someone has a name that stays the same, is of any set length, has any set format, and restriction on length, number of words, capitalisation etc. These facts cause havoc in unprepared systems (read as every system I have ever used). The fact that Google tries to pin this problem down is laughable - but I guess they have as good or better chance than anyone else at getting it right. <glares at GE, Philips, Kodak, Intellirad>
Pandora for clothes shopping releases promo video
I seriously thought an Onion reporter made a joke by feeding a fake story about their print version to the Chicago Business people. I suppose when you cry wolf...
Yes, I said 'restricted use logo' above; I wasn't talking about the open use one. My point is that Debian, like Canonical, may assert their intellectual property rights for whatever purposes they see fit. Some folks (not necessarily you) are confusing "can they" with "should they" w.r.t. Canonical.

You're right that copyright and trademark law are two different things. That said, the word "trademark" occurs on that page only in the footer, applied to the name Debian. Nowhere (on that page at least) are the images asserted as trademarks, whereas there's a prominent copyright notice near each logo. I suppose the copyright could be read to apply to the license text and not to the logo, although that would be odd, and inconsistent with the explicit copyright wording of the open use logo.
All of the Teslas sold so far are presumably well maintained, so doesn't it make sense to compare them to well maintained gas vehicles?
Wow, this looked like a spam post at first with three votes.

And wow, the cruises listed are cheap!
> > Its also been pointed out many times that many employment agreements would forbid this work with another company while employed meaning that you'd have to quit to do the trial period.

> Trial runs are fine if you get paid for that week regardless. I'd never give up a week for free.

But you would violate an employment agreement (and possibly state/local law, but the whole "doing something that violates an explicit agreement I've made with my current employer" part is what grabs me) ?
I thought I'd share an interesting segment from Tina Fey's book regarding her honeymoon cruise when a fire broke out on the boat.

"In the event of an emergency, it is the entertainers who are in charge of the lifeboats. Because the rest of the crew has actual nautical duties, the kids from Fiesta Caliente are trained to man the lifeboats. If you ever have to get on a lifeboat, the person in charge of your safety will likely be a nineteen-year-old dancer from Tampa who just had a fight with his boyfriend about the new Rihanna video. James also told me that each lifeboat has a gun on it and that once a lifeboat is in the water, the performer–lifeboat captain is trained to shoot anyone who is disruptive. This is apparently legal in accordance with maritime law."