skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of Joey Hess' moreutils - https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

Examples:

- sponge: read in all of stdin, then write to the given file. Great for pipelines: sed "s/root/toor/" /etc/passwd | grep -v joey | sponge /etc/passwd

- vipe: easily drop a $EDITOR instance in the middle of a pipe chain

- ts: timestamp all standard input; great for long-running output
They could use an interactive zero knowledge proof, or some such crypto.
I saw the tagline "Safe, Easy, Fast" and what sprang to mind was "Pick Two". Maybe it's all the Bitcoin failures that make my cynical but I've never really seen these executed well. I guess time will tell.
Incorrect title for the post. Many of the tools mentioned are very commonly used. Also, except nice screenshots, this article is just a listing of tools with very little useful info to go with them.
No, because the laws that protect exclusive dealerships against competition from the manufacturer are the only reason that dealerships exist (nobody would have invested money to build a business that could be shut down overnight).

What's interesting is that it's the car manufacturers themselves that lobbied for these laws to be enacted -- they wanted dealerships to be built, and knew that by tying their own hands they would reassure prospective dealers.

Of course, these laws shouldn't apply to companies that have no dealerships whatsoever -- it's not relevant to the purpose of the law.
It's legal, but that certainly doesn't mean it's ethical or that it inspires trust.
he is not exactly joking but being ironic.
my two speculations are really opposite (and most believable one to defend the coders innocence, if that was the case). i presented both and pointed out the one i have a gut feeling towards.
BSD-like licenses seem to be the standard for userland graphics libraries. There's a lot of useful stuff in there (for example the shader compiler) that may be of general use elsewhere, and we wanted to make sure people could use it.

The 3-clause BSD is a compromise - we're happy for the stuff to be used but it's nice to get some credit :)
I made a back of the envelop design of a arch that used the same technique in college. Way cool to see it in practice.

This project of yours look really cool, https://github.com/peterderivaz/pymeta3

What do you think about http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php ?
Isn't this also instant and incorruptable net neutrality?
The statement at the end of the article that "[e]ven if the company fails to sell 500,000 vehicles a year, some of the gigafactory’s batteries could be used in the stationary storage market (which helps explain why he wants to build in the southwest, where solar and wind power farms can be incorporated.)" doesn't make sense to me as a reason even worth consideration, especially given in the same article is the statement that "it would exceed production of every other battery factory in the world – combined". The importance of location in the southwest US for the fledgling alternative energy market seems completely irrelevant if one is striving to become the worldwide majority supplier of a multi-billion dollar market. The access to the port of Galveston would certainly be valuable in shipping that product to the likely majority market offshore, but many other states with ports would likely be interested in a multi-thousand job plant.
Currently, to talk to everyone I speak to regularly requires: Skype, Hangouts (multiple), IRC, AIM, WhatsApp, HipChat, Viber, Yahoo!, Facebook Chat...

Because I need 4x hangouts (1 per company I work with, contracting, my own business, personal, etc) and many of the other apps either won't work with other clients, or have crippled features or usefulness, I end up running 10 "chat" clients.

grumpy old man voice Back in my day, we used to be able to setup all our text based messaging in one pidgin client, or a bitlbee instance! Damned kids.
I believe it's Japanese for "attention!" or "warning!"
and powershell.exe and cmd.exe are both both terminals and shells
They could, but most people only test that something works, not that it doesn't work ("goto fail"), and so probably didn't do that.

"UNLOCK"
"OK"
Please name a place in Texas that would be five hundred miles from the nearest car dealer in the worst conceivable scenario you can imagine.

In fact, I challenge you to find a place in Texas that would be two hundred miles from the nearest car dealer in that scenario, that is not already two hundred miles from the nearest car dealer (Terlingua?)
Reasons why new Nokia will make waves in emerging markets
Are you doing Bithack (Coinbase)? (Also are you near Menlo Park?)
What are you building?

If you are near menlo park you should come and join us tomorrow march 1st to hack on your project at a bitcoin hackathon.

(More details about the small hackathon at the below URL)

http://www.coinclarity.com/posts/bithack-march-1
fyi, all yesterday i was getting npm registry timeouts all day, from machines in DC's around the globe. seems due to an unrelated issue also reported on their blog: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78048834276/elevated-error-rates-...

So yeah.. I was thinking this myself. this type of errors are unacceptable.
In other industries, this is often achieved with geographical non-compete clauses, rather than by the state banning direct sales.
Perhaps npm, Inc should hire him instead of deleting his posts.
You mean, "if you don't install software updates".
I remember when this project was in hyper-drive on freenode. They were working 18 hour days the first week and made a lot of grand promises. I had doubts as to whether it could last considering how they rebuffed any and everyone who criticized the project's choice of programming language. Time will tell how legit this is
Your post content keeps moving up and down when the ticker changes size. Makes the post unreadable.
The whole story of conservatives supporting de-regulation and free markets is really just a cover story for crony capitalism.

Liberals don't hide the fact they want to re-distribute wealth to low-income people. Conservatives should just come out and say they want to keep their rich donors rich.
Except when you have to download security updates before you drive off, and it leaves you bricked with dependency conflicts.
Right, so you use it on your computer alongside your web apps. Better to use real apps as opposed to web apps that will be taken away with 3 days notice.
Driving 500 means there is 1,000 miles between car dealerships. Texas is only 773 miles wide so 1 dealership could probably cover just about the entire state if that's your benchmark assuming you can't buy a car outside of Texas. More realistically, a few people might end up 250+ miles from a car dealership, but as you only need to buy a car every few years that's hardly a big deal.
Nobody is really talking about this massive betrayal of trust by the npm maintainers.

Make a mistake and deploy a backwards-incompatible change? Thats negligent. However, mistakes happen and I understand that. (An apology would be nice.)

But deleting the most important and insightful comment is damn-near unforgivable. Especially when such a note was so reasonable, even-tempered and had such empathy for the npm maintainers.

As of today, I don't really trust npm, and trust is considerably important for package managers. If they expect to earn any of my respect back, it would take a sincere apology.
the API in some ways comes from that of Hibernate, which does actually mutate in place (see http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/3.3/reference/en-US/html...). I felt that keeping the existing object un-mutated is a lot more intuitive. I think the names that you choose for the methods do make a difference, e.g. Hibernate is saying "add()" which for whatever reason seems to imply "mutation" to me, not sure why.
What/where is the assembler thar is used compile this code?
How about "no special treatment" for auto dealers, i.e., repealing the crooked state franchise laws that give auto dealers a legal monopoly on auto sales?
Get your paycheck anytime you want.
Thank you for the clarification. It seems overly generous =)

Often code is GPL'd with pricey licenses for commercial applications - which always makes me think twice about investing my time into familiarizing with it.

I'm very impressed they aren't trying to make a quick buck here. It sounds like they have a very innovative long term strategy that will pay off many times over.

I think your competition is also fantastic, as it will encourage people to open source their improvements.

Thank you for all your hard work Dr.Upton
Apparently they are Canadian owned, but I do not know where their bank is located.

Honorable mention for North America.
Color me shocked, absolutely shocked that a text editor (browser) with a JS backend has critical performance issues. But hey, more people can make plugins for it :)
I hadn't thought of that before. If charities like Planned Parenthood (apropos the Berkshire Hathaway situation) or the WinShape Foundation (remember the Chick-fil-A incident?) are on the table, there could be controversy.
Is there something like this for Ruby?
There is no hard-and-fast rule as to what makes a country (aka "Nation State").

However, there are a few clues:

- Issues its own currency

- Recognised as a sovereign state by other countries

- Taxes its people

- Issues passports and polices its borders

The UK does all of these. As far as I'm aware Scotland does at most 1 of them.

A couple of other notes:

- Privately-held banks don't print money on behalf central government. Those 'Bank of Scotland' notes bear a promise (obligation) made by the Bank of Scotland, and not by any government.

- That England, NI, Wales don't have their own embassy in other countries is irrelevant. I'm not arguing that they are countries.

it's more of its own country than now, I'd say.

Do you live in Scotland?
Why would there be? Corporations asking for laws to be changed is like a citizen petitioning. Money is speech, Corporations are people.
Definitely experiencing issues on our end too. Twice this week!
Oh gee, that's really a lot of fallacies.

Yes, people used the bank called MtGox in order to bet on the future of bitcoin, just as they use other banks in order to buy stocks of companies in order to bet on their future, often without having a clearly formed view on what the company will be doing in the future, and more often than not with the hope that some particular company will disrupt how a certain business is being done, sometimes even some financial business. That's what we generally call financial capitalism. Just because you are betting on some not fully determined future does not make it a tulip bulb bubble.

Also, "independence from regulation" is not about "not paying taxes" or "not helping other people" or whatever your preconceptions might be, it is about achieving the same things that regulation is supposed to achieve, just without regulation. One major purpose of regulation is to make sure that a bank that you put your money in does not do overly risky things with your money so that you can be sure your money is still there when you need it. The value proposition of bitcoin is that the nature of the technology prevents the abuses in the first place, so there is no bank that could possibly do risky things with your money, so there is no need for regulation in order to keep it safe. Bitcoin proponents are not necessarily "against regulation", but rather "for a better alternative to regulation where there is one". Hence, it's not inconsistent at all, let alone hypocritical, that they expect to make use of the advantages of regulation where it is needed - such as the MtGox bank, which is not bitcoin, and thus does not provide the technical protection promoted by bitcoin proponents, and has to rely on regulation instead.

By the way, are you possibly confusing regulatory protection from bank failure with some kind of protection against a failed investment? If at all, this is about recovering the balances people held with the MtGox bank, not about reimbursing them for money they lost because they invested in bitcoin - it's just like when any other bank fails, really: If you buy IBM shares through your bank, you might expect that the financial industry as a whole would make sure that those shares really are there and you can transfer your shares to a different bank when your bank fails, even if those happen to be shares of a competing bank - but if IBM went bust, you obviously would not expect to be able to recover the money you paid for the shares from anyone, that's your investment risk.

And no, just because you promote some way of doing something does not make it hypocritical when you don't actually do it. Just look up the definition, it just isn't. Hypocrisy is when you claim to be doing something which you actually are not. Plus, there isn't even any inconsistency - when you bet on a technology that would make regulation unnecessary in the future, why should that mean that you should not make use of regulation where it actually is necessary?
What we need is a separation of state and economics. Who would try to bribe a legislator without any power over the levers of the economy?
Square IPO Postponed Indefinitely
IMO is pretty much making itself irrelevant with this move. I barely used it, mainly to get Google IM's on my iphone, with this move...it's now uninstalled.
'“private-market valuation could not be substantiated by their revenues as a public company,” said one person with knowledge of the company’s activities.'
> NVIDIA (and maybe Intel)

Intel has a huge workforce dedicated to open source. They fund huge chunks of kernel, Wayland, X and Mesa development, and I'm sure they have engineers on projects throughout the foss stack. Yeah, their hardware is pretty systemically evil patent drivel black box nonsense, and their chipsets are some of the most obscure bullshit ever, but everything past the firmware they do a good job on.

Nvidia on the other hand consistently blows whole stack. Their foss Tegra drivers are always, at most, 2d accelerated, and all their recent contributions to Nouveau (all two of them) are just to make SoCs bootable on novueau so you can install their blob driver.

Meanwhile, technologies like CUDA, GSYNC, PHYSX, etc are all proprietary platform locked messes that hurt open tech in general. So I'd definitely rank them way below Intel on a comparison of openness.
What business model do you have for posting this comment?
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The system is currently configured with a limit of 7 TPS. But the limit can be lifted, according to https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
Ask HN: Anyone experienced with donations instead of adsense?
I hate ads. I truly do. I believe they cheapen great content and cheapen a brand. They are a "necessary evil" if you want to make money and pay the overhead of a site though.

For the last year I have been running my site out of my own pocket, because I love what I do. On any good day I'll bring in 10-20 dollars with Google Adsense. Not bad, it pays the bills and I'm OK with that. My best 48 hours I hit the front page of Reddit, 300,000 uniques, and made a whopping $554 in adsense money. WOO! Too bad my hosting bill including overages was $550. I pocketed $4.

I've noticed a few sites, namely wikipedia, run solely on donations. Mind you, I know the amount of traffic that they have and my site pales in comparison to them.

Do you think it's worth a shot to take out all the ads and try to rely solely on donations? Does anyone have any experience with this? If so, what happened?
"Is it because of the sheer difficulty of such ventures?"

Keeping R&D alive is difficult, especially in a competitive market. You need to keep momentum going. One way to help success rate is through economies of scale. If you know or have a hunch you can sell huge volumes, then you can more safely put money towards the infrastructure that will bring down cost per unit - whether that's for a full vehicle, or individual parts like batteries for a vehicle.
Same could be said of their (albeit paltry) wifi open driver support since 2011. They at least have one now, for very few chipsets. Doesn't work with any of the half dozen Broadcom NICs I have in my "junk parts" bin, though.
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I love the idea, liking the design so far, and wanted to back it. However, $200 for this seems way too steep. I feel the same way about the Lockitron ($179). Granted, I live in a 900 sq. ft. apartment and not a multi-level house with backyard, etc., but spending almost $200 so I don't have to get up from my couch to see who is at the door is asking too much.

Like I said, I love this idea and I want to back it, but I can't commit that much cash to it (I realize you are only charged when it ships). At that price, the market is too niche (people with physical disabilities, large houses, or just large wallets) and I can't see this succeeding for long.
My anti-theft device is a gearshift. Nobody knows how to drive them anymore.
Lookup ripple, lot of overlap with what you are talking about.
Interns are being paid in every fields but medicine and education. Some technical schools (including mine) will refuse internships paid anywhere near minimum salary (they care way to much about the statistics and marketing, which is, in turn, a good deal for students too). I am not claiming it is Klondike for every interns (it's not), but having a ~20$/h-30$/h mostly tax free salary is really helpful to avoid loans with interest. Education is not very expensive in Quebec, fees will be around 6k$ / year (9 15 weeks courses + 1x internship fees, books/material not included) but after adding the cost, of life, the rent, food and everything, it get to around 20k$/y. Given the state provided healthcare and services the first quarter* of the citizen have to pay for, it is even financial beneficial to some people.

*(The other three would be elders, children and the ones below poverty threshold)
> I found it readable and straightforward. There's a bit to it, but eh, good enough to work through if I inspect elements etc.

I meant more from a performance perspective. It might not be hard to sift through to make a theme, but it seems like a lot of overhead for the core to continually process all that data.

> Package hell is true for anything is it not?

I guess so. Curation is always an option. But even just from a settings perspective, they are just all listed alphabetically in the prefs panel. I'm not sure what the solution is, but a stock install already has too many packages to manage.
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For those interested, as far as I understand it this release doesn't include VPU or QPU assembler tools.

We released a QPU assembler at https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv-qpu/blob/mast... a couple of weeks ago. And a reference javascript VPU assembler is due very soon (mirroring the path taken with the QPU assembler).

Because our own work was independent and pre-dates this information by a couple of years (in the case of the VPU), we have some alignment work to do in terms of mnemonics.

This release adds a lot of knowledge to the table - extending our understanding beyond the core instruction sets (which were already well reverse engineered) into a deeper understanding of the various hardware registers.
except everyone who didn't learn to drive in the USA.
> Oh, and how about his anti-Bitcoin efforts?

What anti-Bitcoin efforts? I'm aware of two things he was involved in that were tangentially related to Bitcoin, and one that is more directly related to Bitcoin.

1. The Silk Road case. This is only tangentially related to Bitcoin. The Silk Road defendants are in trouble for their alleged dealing in illegal substances and alleged involvement in murder-for-hire schemes. They would be in the same amount of legal trouble if they had been using any foreign currency for their transactions instead of Bitcoin.

2. The Charlie Shrem case. Also only tangentially related to Bitcoin. He is in trouble for allegedly purposefully participating in money laundering. He would be in the same trouble if he had been money laundering by exchange US dollars for Euros, instead of for Bitcoins.

3. The subpoena of Mt. Gox. We don't know what action the prosecutors are considering, if any, since this is just a subpoena (basically, it means they want more information to figure out what, if anything, Mt. Gox might have done wrong). If Mt. Gox is eventually charged, it will almost certainly be for something like fraud or theft, although since the fraud or theft involved Bitcoins themselves, one could make a somewhat passable argument that at least this case is more than tangentially related to Bitcoin.

It's pretty hard to make a rational argument that any of these are anti-Bitcoin, unless you think that the point of Bitcoin is to be able to money launder, commit fraud, and steal Bitcoin from other Bitcoin users who trust you to hold their coins for them.
Tesla Announces Four Possible States for a Factory
same here... moved to IM+ Pro, paid. Supports OTR chats too as well as Skype.
Autos are a bit special, due to the needs for servicing and the physical size and un-shippability of same.
Ok guys explain this:
I've signed up for early access and was placed 6817, my friend sitting next to me signed up right after and was 6827, my gf signed up 30 secs later and is 6837. See a pattern? If they have to lie about their number of sign ups I wonder how trustworthy the rest of the service will be.
I know it's just a detail but why would you do something like this? Fake it until you make it?
But it's kind of a dick move to take something from somebody knowing full well that they expect something in return and then deliberately refuse to reciprocate.

Sure, if you're using Lynx, you really don't have an option. That's fair enough. But in many other cases, it seems disrespectful to me to use somebody's site and tell them, "No, you can't have anything in return for giving me this even though you clearly wanted to." You have the option of doing your part, but you decline to do so. That isn't how I like to treat people I appreciate.

I guess I basically just don't like mooching.
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I'm not sure if you get The New Yorker, but there is a fantastic long form read on ITER in the current issue[1].

Reading it you can't help but think their effort was doomed from the start.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_...
What's bothering you about Eclipse?
So there is no market for the cars then, or is there? I don't understand. Should we leave it to the free hand of the market and not regulate it, and let it sort itself out?
Royal Bank of Scotland has lost all the £46bn pumped in by the taxpayer
Bug: cannot lick elbow
Writing real time serial DAQ applications that will run for 20-30 years on end on custom 20 year old microprocessor isn't exactly for the faint of heart.

Source: this is part of my job, I work in fuel systems.
This $5 billion battery factory is intended to enable production of half a million EV cars per year by 2020.

It's more amazing to me to think of the scale required in the mid 2020's when EV cars could be 10's of millions per year.
> * the last one (`return None`) make me very dubious

simply `return` would be enough
I really hope those files are well structured, but it baffles me that no one would think about splitting them up...
I love how some people believe that this is a USA-only phenomenon.
Obligatory warning: Github pages can go down and sometimes can't handle a slashdotting.

Case in point: https://status.github.com/messages/2013-11-13 (due to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722197)
Pidgin isn't really an alternative. One of the best things about imo was remotely stored chat history, access to both the history and your IMs across devices (including ones you missed while you were out), etc.
Fancy meeting you here :)
Tim Cook Rejects Politics of the NCPPR