skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think the solution is for electric cars to have enough range that you don't need to plug them when away from home on routine trips, and for charging to be fast enough and available enough from dedicated stations that you can still do road trips.

Even if every parking space out there has a charger, I don't want to plug in every time I park my car. I want my car to go hundreds of miles in between charges so I don't have to care. That's not yet practical unless you spend serious money, but anything else seems like a workaround.
What do dependencies have to do with anything? If I make a huge massive bloated mess of shit, it isn't suddenly "lean" because I included everything in it rather than linking to it as a dependency.
Thanks! I skimmed the docs, but I'm not sure I see the strong differentiating qualities. Cabot seems to be a polling (not push) solution? Meaning that each service has to be manually set from within Cabot. I also see several settings are hand-set in the foreman environment.

With Riemann/Godot, I can simply POST JSON (with any metrics) to the Riemann webhook from any number and type of services and servers. Riemann/Godot also make it easy to push data back out, to further analyze or aggregate.

In a way, I'm looking for something less complicated -- a 1GB VPS should be overkill for a small instance. But I'd also like it to accept JSON POST from anything with a matching API key. And store it in a database not run on localhost. With this configuration it should be able to scale as the services scale.

Cabot does make some good points about distributed infrastructure and external testing. Best wishes with the project!
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Ok, so sum the individual contributions and divide by number of individuals.

> Society as a whole does not create wealth, it's individual members do.

I disagree, but perhaps you have a different definition of wealth.
Yeah, if you can program a car to not catch fire, it should also be possible to program a car to catch fire.
BlackBerry Surges on Continued Pentagon Dominance
The taxpayer had no say in whether he wanted his money stolen so that some other guys can decide who can waste much of it. I was making it clear that this is nothing like a VC model, which is voluntary. If we were to make the comparison, it would be that people could chose themselves what research, if any, to fund.

The issue with panels allocating taxpayer money, is that their interest is still in government. That is, they will fund research in which government has an interest or is neutral, and consequently, any research which is potentially harmful to government is scrapped (even if it would be beneficial to the taxpayer.)

One might not think there's a distinction between what benefits the government and what benefits the taxpayer if one believes in the fairy tale that governments exist to benefit the people.
This violates core idea of the app, I think.
This is interesting, because the social concept of charging is being formed. Will charging be like a gas station, where you are only allowed to be at the charger while using it, or will it be like parking, where you usually have an implied right to use a space until you move your car away.

I think that at least for employer provided free charging it should be the latter. Whenever people start fighting over charging spots, or start leaving work to shuffle cars around, the employer loses. An employer should just set up simple free charging to as many spaces as necessary, so people can just park, plug in and not worry about their car.

You can just run an electric cable in a conduit by a row of parking spaces, and put in simple weather protected 110V plugs along it. Over 8 hours this should provide more than enough energy for a simple commute. For people that must have high speed charging, you can put in a couple of paid chargers.
Well, that's deeply sucky.

I'm spending three weeks on the road in the next month, so I've got three hand-picked guest bloggers taking over the mike on my site, for the duration. Emphasis on hand-picked, i.e. invited because they're interesting and I'm hoping my readers will enjoy what they've got to say. I get to take some time off, they get access to a new audience, and the audience get some new and thought-provoking material -- because from my PoV it's not about SEO, it's all about the quality of the content. (Hint: I'm a novelist, one of the guests is a film-maker, the other two are other novelists. We all pretty much live or die by the quality of our writing.)

The question I'm asking is, how do google's algorithmic processes figure out whether a post is a guest post? Are they doing style analysis on prose now? Or counting outbound links, or looking for anomalous keywords? Or is it just a matter of looking for spam-flavoured advertorial?
Ask HN: What features would you like in a recipe saving application?
That aren't currently served by the existing products. Or are, but need to be implemented better?
>It's pretty terrible that some academic can take public money to fund his research, then take out a patent on the result and prevent his financiers from using an 'invention'.

Wouldn't that mean that researchers would be less motivated ?
Exactly.

I think that asking "what repos have you cloned just so that you could look at something, not intending on actually building or using that particular code" is probably roughly analogous to asking "what Wikipedia pages have you read recently" I frequently do both of those for the same reasons.

I might pull up the wikipedia page for the Apollo Lunar Module because I suddenly realize that I don't know how the RCS thrusters on it work, or I might clone git's repo because I suddenly realize that I don't know how git-notes is implemented.

In either case, I don't read the whole thing (and certainly not straight through in a linear manner, like I read Moby Dick), but rather I'm going to grep/ctrl-f to the part that I'm interested in, then probably jump around a dozen or more times until I am satisfied. That's still reading though.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that netbsd and openbsd users demand the lastest in temporary, throw away, bloated, buggy shitware that linux distos are jumping on at any given moment. The fact that they don't use that crap is their main selling point. And no, netbsd is not "virtual insignifance", openbsd is not out of funds (they got over $100k just when they asked for $20k recently, and idiots take that to mean they are dead?). FreeBSD is not the most up to date, it is the most linux-like. Why do you think it is so impossible for them to also start using this pile of shit if that is what their userbase wants?
I stated that optimization is hard (each architecture has timings that impact when something is beneficial/when it isn't): Intel baked this into the ICC, but only for Intel targets (for obvious commercial reasons). You say that no, in some anecdote of apparently some anecdotal piece of code on some anecdotal set of data on some anecdotal AMD processor, this was disproven. But that doesn't disprove it in the general whatsoever. If Intel simply generated and ran Intel-targeted code always, we would have the same debate because why didn't they align their instructions and do it in such an order because that would be better on AMD.

It is entirely probable that simply running the "Intel" code chain will yield code slower than without on some sets of code with some sets of data, on some AMD architectures. Again, in most cases with vectorization you are not suddenly seeing a magnitude improvement, but rather something that can be marginal in some cases with some cases of data. It is a very hard problem, which is exactly why for all of the bluster the Intel Compiler is still considered the best compiler, 8 years into this controversy. AMD has been contributing to the Open64 compiler for years, but you don't hear much about it. And I'll bet their contributions don't put too much care into Intel processors.
Treat it like any business: if you are passionate and willing to spend the next year+ of your life building it then jump in, but except a long hard journey to get customers.

If you just want to capitalize on being featured, that will be likely end before you can take advantage.
Maybe charge for team / project use?
Interesting question!

As somebody in a similar age bracket, the things I do:

Stay healthy. My energy levels are generally great if I am getting plenty of exercise and good sleep. And avoid eating junk, throwing off my sleep schedule, or having big worries.

Do things that matter to me. A few years back I was doing consulting that I got burnt out on. So despite a very lucrative bill rate, I said, "fuck it" and joined a friend in a startup. He had a problem that I really wanted to see solved.

Work with people I like. If I'm going to spend most of my daylight around people, I want to enjoy it. I generally like people, so this one isn't too hard for me.

Serve people I like. If I'm making something for people I care about, this is a big motivator for me. It definitely helps for me to actually meet users, watch user tests, and see stats that demonstrate that what we ship is making a difference.

Minimize my commute. I know that some people don't mind long drives in traffic, but I'm not one of them. I live in SF and have occasionally done gigs down the peninsula; it quickly drains not just my enthusiasm, but my will to live. I want to spend my energy on things that are actually productive, and rush-hour traffic is not one of them.

I look forward to seeing what others say.
"One of the big things I see happening now is entire website hijackings"

It's true that website hacking remains a big issue in the spammiest areas of the web even though it's completely illegal. Unfortunately, there's a lot of unmaintained, unpatched web servers out there that blackhats exploit. It's fundamentally a hard problem, but we've been working on the next generation of our hacking detection algorithms.

I've always wondered why we don't see more startups offering hacker protection, detection, clean-up, etc. Companies like McAfee made a lot of money protecting personal computers, and there's a similar opportunity on the web server side.
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It's a complex situation, as other posters have noted.

Here's another complication. Often, faculty need multiple sources of funding over the years to support their research, including federal grants, university support (direct through money or indirect through facilities and staff), and industrial support through gifts and grants. As well, the intellectual heavy-lifting is done by the faculty and their students.

If you believe in intellectual property rights, then who of all of these stakeholders deserves ownership of those rights?

Personally, I lean against faculty patenting their inventions. I'd rather the IP is open to the public. Even if a faculty member wants to commercialize their research, I think they are better off competing in the marketplace rather than through IP arsenals.

But, I understand the other point of view. Patent licensing is a lucrative source of revenue for universities (e.g., UFL and its Gatorade revenue) and inventors. As well, it's at least uncomfortable and perhaps unfair if opportunistic companies were able to commercialize on a faculty member's invention without renumeration or attribution.

Complicated topic.
The Human Knot
Code is not literature because literature only contains the highlights worth knowing where code has to provide the comprehensive instructions for everything to operate.

A good code reader should be like a tour guide, and a good tour guide doesn't visit every single building and street in a neighborhood but rather describes the historical context of the neighborhood and then visits a few interesting places.
Precisely. Software it's all about shortening the length of the feedback cycle. Chorus: "How is email / web / google different than pigeons / library / index of an encyclopedia book?".
halcyondaze, we see a lot of business owners with small blogs getting tricked by spammers. If you're doing really high-quality guest blogging to get exposure or branding, that's great, but the majority of guest blogging offers these days are sliding into scuzzier and spammier areas.
And the fact that BuiltWith is free.
No, it means motivation would come from elsewhere, we're -as a society- just sinking further and further into a mindset where money is the one and only way for anything to get done. Sickening.

The hammer was invented in spite of the fact it was impossible to control the proliferation of its design.
How can this not be on the front page! It's an amazing feat of engineering. Sometimes I don't understand HN.
This is easy with iptables too:

iptables-restore < yourfilterfile
Security implications of technology is never a valid argument against furthering technology. Otherwise we wouldn't have the internet ;)

I'd love to have a fridge that could tell me its contents and give me a shopping list based on what I've recently cooked and what I have on hand and what's about ready to expire.
Companies also get tax breaks for having showers.
I'm not sure how much these stations cost but I could also see the potential for a company to employ a low level person to work as sort of a charger valet. You drop your EV off with them and give them the keys. They manage the rotating of cars as they get full.
The talk is only available as a screencast from the Pragmatic Programmers, but the slides are freely available on my github account (https://github.com/jimweirich/presentation_source_control).

I use this talk as an introduction to any Git Immersion workshops that I run (see also http://gitimmersion.com/)
The compromise that intellectual property strives for is to encourage innovation by rewarding inventors with time-limited exclusive rights in exchange for disclosure. The world gains the knowledge through the disclosure, the inventor gains the opportunity to commercialize and earn rewards through the advantage that time-limited exclusion gives them, and once the IP reverts to the public domain, everybody gets the chance to use the invention.

But, factors like patent sharking, the ridiculous extension of copyright terms, the inability of patent offices to properly assess issues like novelty and obviousness, and so on, make it possible for all parties to abuse this compromise.

I think the spirit of the compromise is valid. I think its implementation today has become flawed, but not irreparably so.
New documents: NSA provided 2-3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years
He's going to come back using an improbability drive though. I expect him to pop up when the Vogons leave.

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1. Old versions of icc ran well on AMD.

2. New icc version adds check for "GenuineIntel".

3. New icc version now runs slowly on AMD.
Every time a CEO gets fired by the board of directors that's the shareholders telling the company to change tack.
No, Microsoft make their own compilers.
Valet parking service that takes care if it? Depending on the price of the charging station vs a regular parking space, it'd make sense.
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If that's not hint from someone 'in the know' about a startup someone should start, I've never seen one.
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Don't switch existing apps to it unless you have a good reason, but knowing PHP and Node makes your resume look better than just PHP.

Also it is always great to try new paradigms as they open minds more. So double yes for that reason I guess.
Nitpick: NetBSD did not fork from FreeBSD. Both FreeBSD and NetBSD are forks of 386BSD.
Tesla has been doing staged rollouts already. They've already had a situation in which they pulled an update after it was delivered to only small subset of users and issued a newer version when bugs were resolved.
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Watermark and capping the number of screencasts is going to make free users angry. (and not buy the full version)
Do any of the electric cars have a feature that the car will text you when it is charged? I imagine that might be nice to have, so that when your car is full you can go out to the parking lot and move it into a regular space.
One of the great things about open-source, is when you discover a weakness in some tool you like, you can modify that tool and submit a patch. Or you can learn from the source of one tool and add another tool to the marketplace. When the marketplace is saturated, patching or modifying the popular tools is preferable to me.

Also, I would prefer developers spend more time making general applications and less time making tools for other developers. I'm not saying people shouldn't make great dev tools, I'm saying more people should make great applications, and less people should make great dev tools.
Will the business owners with small blogs get hit by Google or will those doing the guest blogging (those getting the link) get hit?
"Your Tesla needs to update. Please close all doors and windows, then turn the car off and on again."
Here's a question:

Did they agree to take the guest blogging stint to promote their careers / work generally (or just for fun)? Or did they do it for the purpose of increasing the page rank of whatever websites they happen to have an interest in?

If it was one of the former reasons, I don't think whatever changes are coming down the pike should be a big deal. Although I can't speak for google, I imagine that whatever algorithm they use will look for pervasive patterns. So assuming that this guest blogging stint is a rare or unique thing for these guys whatever changes are made will probably have no effect at all (i.e. the dofollow links will still "work"). The next most likely thing to happen is that the algorithm somehow figures out that they are guest posting and disregard the any backlinks. Finally, there's a possibility that there will be a slightly negative effect. If it does turn out to be the case there is a penalty, then in the future you can configure the CMS software to put nofollow on guest post links and then it will certainly be neutral.

Regardless, they will still all get the exposure that comes from getting their names out in front of your blog's regular audience.
Daemons implementing their own logging in addition to syslog is a feature, not a bug. With journald, even more so.
By talking about Viagra you are really picking the low hanging fruit. And yes, I still see plenty of spammy articles on twitter or facebook, and reddit and even here. People have just gotten better at hiding them, so much that they even produce an articles moderately useful to a lot of people.
For two years I ran a company called Building Hero (www.buildinghero.com) that marketed and financed LED lighting retrofits to commercial locations in New York City and San Francisco.

Here are a few things to consider when wading into energy efficiency finance:

1. Returns to energy efficiency upgrades accrue out of negative cashflow (money not spent), which means its hard/impossible to put a legal "box" around the financial returns to the project, contra solar investments, where there is a meter and it's usually possible to slice and dice who gets what.

2. Energy efficiency upgrades also pose a problem with respect to collateral. In our case, although we had the right to take back our LED lamps, the value of what we got back, even in the best case, would have been negligible. Most EE upgrades are even less inviting as collateral, like insulation or HVAC upgrades.

3. There are simpler, but more balkanized (i.e., different not only from state to state, but even utility to utility, or city to city) financial incentives for energy efficiency upgrades. This poses a challenge for finance as a differentiator for energy efficiency. Simpler incentives mean the value of a third-party financier who abstracts away these problems is less valuable; and more balkanized incentives mean that is harder in any case for a third-party to offer solutions that scale geographically. Again, contra solar, where the federal tax incentives mean that it’s almost necessary for a third-party with tax equity appetite to finance a portion of the investment, and since it’s at the federal level it scales across the US.

My advice would be to do some careful thinking about how and why your financial offerings are better than what you could do financing them on a credit card or through a normal bank loan.

In addition, I would put some serious thought into whether or not finance is the true barrier for energy efficiency projects. Again unlike solar, these things are inside the home/office/whatever, not outside, so bring up aesthetic concerns as well as comfort concerns. Other things, like HVAC systems, are usually replaced when they break.

Anyway, I hope this is useful and that you get a lot of projects done!
When companies do this, they should be fully audited and fined 300% profit, split evenly between the harmed company and the government. If that puts them out of business, so be it.
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I don't want software patents at all. Every single patent claim that wins is a tragedy. Infringing on a software patent should not be possible.
Ends with "a request" for...
I was thinking more like

Your Tesla is updating. Please do not press the gas pedal or brake pedal. 17%

Right in the middle of I-280, of course.
That actually sounds a lot more like Microsoft - Windows and other products are sounding massive amount of telemetry data back to Redmond
I know this is HN, but we're in some really pedantic territory here. Matt Cutts is simply saying that you should re-think your strategy if you want page rank and think guest blogging is a way to do accomplish that goal.

Matt knows his audience and doesn't have to spell out everything to the nth degree--when he talks link building it's 100% of the time page rank related.
I have no experience in mac apps nor do I know if this already exists nor can I attest to the viability... but this is something I've wanted on one occasion before:

Some sort of API so that developers can send requests to a user for a screencast. An example would be if I'm a customer service representative and I need a user to send a screencast of a problem they have, I could click "request screencast" in my helpdesk software (which interfaces with your API) and they would get a notification in the app that allows them to click record then send and I get the video back, just two clicks from the user: "record" then "send". Help desk software is one situation I can think of it being really valuable, another is user feedback on websites where a user clicks give feedback -> selects "include screencast" -> app notifies them to record, on send it's sent back via the API and then the feedback widget can say "great, your screencast has been received!". Maybe the app could even track the users environment so that it would be extra helpful for situations where the user is demonstrating something.

For that idea you could keep the app free as it is now, but add that functionality and charge businesses for API access. Although now that I think about it, asking a user to install an app/program (the first time they ever encounter someone using the service) might be a bit off putting to users.
1500 a day on the mac app store might be considered quite good though? The Mac App Store always seemed less popular than the iOS one.

As far as freemium, they'll definitely have to be very careful with that, because if you're too nice you lose money, and on the flip-side you piss people off lol. Sometimes at the end of the day it works to be a paid app (especially if you're getting free marketing from Apple features).

But beware, once you're not featured, your sales can go close to 0 a day.