skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impressive. Still, reading the review and the comments, I'm still a bit concerned about a) the fact that it uses more of a series-hybrid approach to battery charging while b) having only a 1.3kwh battery.

Ride and cabin noise are very important, but even the Accord doesn't have air suspension like the Tesla Model S or many Mercedes models.
I was going to bring this concern as well. I expect that in theory we could build a space elevator but I doubt we could keep it in space. Between space junk, meteorites, and regular gear flying around like GPS nodes, items in a non-orbit (which they would be in this configuration) will be hit with more than enough energy to destroy even the strongest materials we have out there.
No, they weren't. To quote the Wikipedia[1] article on the riots: "The uprising was a predominantly middle-class uprising against the government of President Fernando de la Rúa, who had failed to contain the economic crisis that was going through its third year of recession".

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2001_riots_%28Argentin...
Revenue Multiple would make a more useful chart to me. Broadcast.com had $60M in revenue when they sold. Knowing they sold at ~98x revenue seems more useful to me when pricing a stock.
The address space may be flat, but the latency will vary a lot depending on what part of the memory you're dealing with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMAlink
The absolute worst thing is when the voluntourists don't speak the native language and stick out visually like a black man in Sweden.
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Perhaps if you pay?
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Evidence: Just look at the portfolio yield of many of kiva's lenders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(organization)#Current_int...

If you're making more than a percent or two interest in what you believe is warm-fuzzy charitable lending, you're simply deluded. Almost all of these enjoy double digit interest rate yields... that's after losses for defaults. Most are around 30% some over 80%. It is very obviously a morally bankrupt practice which has managed to clothe itself as a charity.
Gotcha, we're saying the same thing.

So, by definition if we agree the "good guys" would call this terrorism, then isn't this terrorism ?

(After all, the "good guys" are writing the history books, and they're making the definitions, because whatever the "good guys" say is obviously correct)
It seems to really break down when dealing with parenthesis and other kinds of punctuation that uses matching. Just from my personal testing on the linked page it got really confusing when they got to the founders section about "Frank Waldman (CEO and Co-founder), Maik Maurer (CTO and Co-founder)"

The parenthesis here, rather than showing a complete group, end up getting broken apart and stuck to whatever word they're adjacent words. "...Co Founder)"
I would generally agree with the overall thrust of the post, that successful products come from looking at the customer's problems first rather than what technologies you happen to have on hand to sell them. But the bit about how basic, non-product-oriented research is a distraction and a waste of effort leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Look at one of the cited examples:

> AT&T had Bell Labs, created Unix, and never made a successful product out of that work.

Which, sure, OK. But on the other hand, ask yourself where Apple (since we're talking about them here) would be today if Bell Labs had never existed. Bell Labs invented UNIX; no UNIX means no BSD, which means no NeXTSTEP, which means no OS X. Bell Labs invented C; no C means no Objective-C. Bell Labs invented the freaking transistor, without which the idea of a "personal computer" would have been utterly ridiculous. These are all fundamental inventions that made entire generations of tech businesses possible.

So one way to look at it is Gruber's way, that skipping out on R&D means that Apple is "focused." Another way to look at it would be that Apple is a freeloader. That they cheerfully take useful things that are only available to them due to the generosity of others to build products on, without seeing a need to ever be the generous ones themselves -- to replenish the commons that made their own fortune possible.

That's probably good business, at least in the near term. If there's a pile of gold sitting out in the town square, you'd be a fool not to grab as much of it as you could for yourself. But unless someone's throwing new gold onto that pile, eventually it's going to run out. And if you've used the gold to set yourself up as a goldsmith, that's going to be a pretty bleak day for you. You know?
Compared to Go: D is not focused on writing servers, but a more general language with much more features. Templates, Meta Programming, etc makes it more complex and harder to learn. However, it also gives you a comprehensive toolbox for any programming task you encounter.

Compared to Rust, D is rock solid stable, relatively. Ok, seriously. Rust seems to specialize on low-level or high-performance code. D also allows for high-level easy programming (aka Java) due to its simpler type system, garbage collector. However, D does not sacrifice performance. I think Rust will find its niche more as a C replacement than a C++ replacement.
"The rotation keeps the cable taut, to counter the gravitational pull as robotic, electric “climbers” ride the line up into space carrying the payload. Boom."

Let's just hope he didn't mean that literally. But early attempts may include some disasters, as often is the case.
Even after so many years its hard not to admit that he was one of the few people who actually "got it".
How does this compare to http://ionicframework.com/?
was a joke
On the other hand, a satellite a couple meters across has plenty of cross section with which to find the cable. Even if we take all those down (not in our lifetime), there is a lot of little stuff in orbit, and it would only take one.
looks like it is built on node-webkit so probably yes.
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60 quid sounds very reasonable for that service. Getting someone over there to wait until they turn up and getting cleaners in and out quickly would be impressive for that price.
Are you implying developers should know the inner details of every library used?

Realistically most devs read documentation or Google to get something done. They only dive into the library if the documentation is unclear or something is broken. Reading well written libraries is a good learning experience, but not a requisite to use one.

In Haskell a function's type signature is expressive enough to exist as rudimentary API documentation.
"You'll definitely have a positive effect on people by teaching them about western business practices."

This is the most ethnocentric thing I've read in quite a long time. Much of the world would be better off, in my opinion, having never learned first hand about western business practices. Western business practices have caused a vast amount of destruction in the developing world.
Couldn't you launch multiple satellites at a time?
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Also, how did you get this credit?
In addition to the 360 million credentials, the criminals are selling some 1.25 billion email addresses, which would be of interest to spammers

I used Google Apps for my personal email, and I'm pretty happy with the spam protection. (Although I don't check my spam folder for false positives, so who knows?)

Anyway, can anyone who has switched from Gapps/Gmail to their own installation of SpamAssassin comment on how that worked out for them, and how much time they spend maintaining their setup?
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MtGox has a FinCEN MSB license (http://bitcoinmagazine.com/5560/mtgox-gets-fincen-msb-licens...).
Right, and before the rise of social media, the Chinese kid couldn't have drawn attention from a popular blog, and also wouldn't have been able to do anything else. The rise of social media obviously doesn't come close to solving anything, but it's strictly an improvement.
A web form purporting to do that would be a great way to harvest email addresses.

You could even add the ability to verify that a given email/password combo does not appear in the list :)
How about making the elevator start in the North pole (or South pole) and go vertically from there. That way, we can be sure that it will never meet the trajectory of a satellite?

Of course, it would prove harder to build it in those cold regions.
That's just for a welcome dialog.
Have you ever met anyone who was actually in the Peace Corps? The few folks I've talked to were remarkably competent folks.
Threw together a quick page for rotating it, to save some necks:

http://c0la.s3.amazonaws.com/xkcd1335.html
Mt. Gox is in Japan because Mark Karpeles moved to Japan well before Mt. Gox started up. Here is his blog - http://blog.magicaltux.net
As ArnoldC doesn't use braces there needs to be a key phrase to end the switch. I recommend NO MORE COMPLAINING

And the default case could be nominated by GET IN AND START PADDLING
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If weapons don't do any damage then strikes certainly won't. So it will just become really clumsy wrestling and jiu-jitsu. It will be fun to watch the first event when they realize this though.
> You really have very little chance of success unless you're doing this full time

Heh. I also wanted to play with algorithmic trading, but before doing so, I got a book "Trading and exchanges" by Harris, which was recommended by somebody on reddit.

I have read it only halfways and realized two things:

1. I'd have to do trading (and related activities) as a full-time job in order to be successful (i.e., earn money in the long run).

2. I'd need to spend at least a year's equivalent of a full-time job on learning the necessary background math and algorithms.

I.e., I'd need to quit my job (which I quite like), only to replace it with another set of daily duties.
I'm excited for next Monday; I suspect he is going to do something for xkcd #1337. :)
Ahh. 2500 yen, huh.
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Assume for a moment that I don't know what you mean by 'reductionist'; why is it wrong?
Ask HN: How to respond to someone who puts down a programmers passion
Today at work, theres a new guy joined in the MI team. So being an MI analyst, I thought he might share a tiny bit of passion for programming.

We were making small talk, I asked what his main hobby was. He responded: 'Golf'. which is awesome. Most like a round of golf every now and then.

When he asked me mine, I responded: 'My main hobby is programming.'. Fair enough right?

But no, he laughed in my face and said: 'How can programming be a hobby?'.

I was stunned. I had never been confronted with such an honest and demoralising response before.
I felt humiliated, and for some reason ashamed. I dont know why but I did.

How do I come back to someone if they say that to me again without sounding like a complete geek? Or do i just ignore it and rise above it?

has anyone else been in a situation like this before?
Treating low skill commodity workers as human beings on the same social level as yourself is such a destructive western practice. So is hiring a stranger with a great github rather than your brother in law, hiring a woman if she is the most qualified, etc. Or there is that destructive western practice of managing by output - the boss is working until 8pm but you can go home as soon as you hit your quota.

Blaming westernized companies (by which I mean both western companies and local companies like Reliance/Infosys that try to run things in the modern manner) for the problems of the third world is silly.

All they've done is caused you to learn a little bit about other countries and made you feel guilty that things are a lot worse elsewhere. China would be poor even if your iPhone was proudly made in CA by illegal immigrants (yay for Nationalist Apparel), it would just be easier for you to ignore.
But I heard you get really good food there, though :)
Looks 1000x times better than a project I just started based on Ace.js. Should save me a lot of trouble!

I just hope it's not tightly coupled to the backend so I can replace it with a custom one.
One single library.
I imagine one has to thank Google for the funding as well.
this is a github project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7302941
Speaking of which, Burning Man tickets go on sale today at (quoting their email) "12PM (noon) PST", while converting timezones it turned out they actually mean midnight and not "noon" as in 12AM how I'm used to, is this common usage?
We have actually 4 Product Owner related to the same product and me as "chief product owner" having the final responsability but mpre or less in the role of a product manager doing the external work, working on strategic decisions, presales ... We need to have several teams in parallel and each team requires a product owner so we have to split the roles to get a common face and voice to externals. What is your opinion in such a situation?
Google already had a shared identity / profile mechanism that all of their products used (or migrated to after acquisition) (with the exception of YouTube, though you could tie your YouTube account to your Google account and log in via Google still anyway).
Haha. https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/278710645644484609
Yeah. This whole thing (an endless supply of stream-of-consciousness style blog posts about one new editor after the other - first that one where the dev sold unlimited upgrades and then didn't bother to release a new version (can't remember the name), this Sublime Text thing, lighting table or whatever it's called, and for example the bruha around this 'neovim' fad) is like watching a bunch of ricers argue over whether a red spoiler will make your Acura go faster than a blue spoiler, and doing that from your 2013 7-series BMW and wondering 'what are these people talking about'.
Seems like it has collaborative edit feature as well. Specially the last screenshot.
For those that had no idea what the hell symbolics are/is (As I did) I think it is referring to the company: http://smbx.org/ has info
But the most basic premise of a fair market is that it's not "stacked" at all -- that everyone has an equal chance to react to market moves and price changes.

For example, a business cannot possibly get one cent more than the purchasers of their stock offer in the marketplace, and because of transaction fees, somewhat less. And an investor has the same experience -- he can't possibly get more than the market value of his shares on the day of sale.

Brokerage houses are in competition to offer the lowest transaction costs and the most reliable environment for trading. That competition reduces transaction prices for everyone.

Conclusion? Not stacked in general. Insider trading is a crime, betting against your own customers is a crime, and these things happen, but they're prosecuted.
And as we saw with the banks, fools who hand over money to unregulated banks don't get their money back. Why would any bank not steal all the money, or get robbed, when it costs nothing to do so?
One of Bill Gates' recommended books (1) was a great read:

"Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines" (2)

The very large and very slow rotating diesel engines used to power ships are incredibly efficient. Oil tankers run very slowly, gas a little faster, then bulk carriers, container ships (time value of those containers is higher than commodity oil and bulk, so they move) and fastest and least efficient of all are cruise ships. The size of some of those engines is fantastic.

It's really nerdy and awesome.

(1) http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books/Personal/Prime-Movers-of-...
(2) http://www.amazon.com/Prime-Movers-Globalization-History-Tur...
They were cheerfully going after targets, until it turned out that the public are easy to convince that effective prosecuters should lose their jobs if they visit sex workers.

The fact the current top comment in this thread is someone slagging off a prosecuter for going after insder traders demonstrates that HN's as dumb an audience as the average tabloid reader when it comes to convincing people that enforcing the law against corrupt Wall Street criminals is a bad thing.
> Nope, you cannot. This goes for pg too.

I dont know about PG but Warren Buffett says the same thing when it comes to buying new business that he make a decision within 5 minutes.
Ah, you should look for the bank's sticker on the FDIC website, not vice versa, if your goal is to not get scammed.
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very interesting!!! but I'd like to try writing my own algorithm offline, in my own prefered language. (javascript)

does anyone know where I can get price history for the last few years for something like an index fund, like DIA?
Well done you, for bringing your values to your culturally inferior employees, and teaching them the ways of "western style management".
> Only in theme.

Meanwhile not even the theme matches ST's?

> The layout looks very similar to ST

The layout also looks very similar to LT.

> particularly the menu.

The pretty standard tree view? Yes, it looks like the very similar tree views used for the exact same purpose in LT as well. How surprising.
Philanthropy he couldn't extend to market competitors, but which he can extend to the poorest of the world? Why, that's hypocritical!
It wasn't on purpose. I didn't even realize it until a few weeks ago when I was explicitly told this. At the time, the only distinction I was making was between valley and wall st culture.

(Im from ny, and my partner was a banker, so from my perspective that was the important distinction.)
Very much not the case. Especially those of us with specific skill sets related to films.
Have you used LightTable? It's quite fast as the editor. I'm sure Atom is similarly fast. It doesn't run in the browser; it just uses WebKit as the engine.
I for one use my own web-based version control system and project management. If there was a good web-based texteditor that is 100% vim compatible, I could stop switching between a browser and a shell.
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What sort of stuff do you work on? Do you use a web based editor to modify stuff locally or is it for web based stuff hosted the other side of the world?

I always SSH'd into boxes and edited stuff there if necessary, or had a local copy to work on using "normal" editors and synced it. But now I'm writing C++ so I am blessed with good IDEs so perhaps that is why I am missing the excitement over a text editor?
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> it looks like this is a GitHub-aware/integrated text editor that targets both desktop (Mac, at least) and web

I can confirm, from looking at the code.

It uses CSS / LESS for highlighting, and CoffeeScript for client-side programming (eg, the fuzzy completion[0], or the autocompletion).

The surprising part is that the editor doesn't seem to be a fork of either Ace or CodeMirror, the two big guys in the field. The highlighters (ie, syntax files) are in CSON. Ace is probably the closest, but it uses a completely different structure[2].

A negative impact of that is the low number of syntax files. However, there seems to be a 1-to-1 equivalence to tmLanguage (TextMate) syntax files[3].

[0]: https://github.com/atom/fuzzaldrin/blob/master/src/filter.co...

[1]: https://github.com/atom/language-toml/blob/master/grammars/t...

[2]: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/master/lib/ace/mode/asci...

[3]: https://github.com/textmate/toml.tmbundle/blob/master/Syntax...
Q: How can programming be a hobby?

A: Same way playing with a ball and club all day can be a hobby.
You are apparently unaware that the EMH isn't compared to real markets, it's the other way around.

So in the best of all possible worlds, the EMH is true, but we don't live there.
Regarding your first point I recently used www.transferwise.com recently to transfer money from my UK bank account (GBP) to a US bank account (USD). It was pretty quick (took 3 days) and I got a very good rate (taking into account the fees involved). I'd definitely recommend them.
At 400wpm I began to skip most of words.. :-/
I think that's not related to the SSL/TLS bug, but instead to the curl problem that also came with the update to 10.9.2. This is the description from Apple's security mailing list:

"curl
Available for: OS X Mavericks 10.9 and 10.9.1
Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may intercept user credentials or other sensitive information
Description: When using curl to connect to an HTTPS URL containing an IP address, the IP address was not validated against the certificate. This issue does not affect systems prior to OS X Mavericks v10.9.
CVE-ID CVE-2014-1263 : Roland Moriz of Moriz GmbH"
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It's actually a case for free trade. CVDs are meant to balance out the advantages of foreign subsidies (protectionism) and provide a level playing field for domestic (US) industries. As far as I'm aware there aren't any such laws about free trade between states, so when Louisiana passes subsidies and takes work from California, I don't think there's anything you can do about it. But once it goes international, various treaties come into effect. Of course they were designed around things like cotton and steel but there's no reason they can't be applied to high tech industries.
it's likely that if the dump becomes available Troy Hunt will add it to his existing tool to test if you've been caught in one of the large hacks to date. Links below.

http://www.troyhunt.com/
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
I expected a treatise on Voluntaryism and I have to say that I got really far into the article before realizing I read the title wrong.
This is a good point. If you're getting rejected all the time - what's the chance that you're simply wrong?

What's the chance that everyone else is?

At some point you have to have some sort of breakthrough or you're just the guy that got rejected 1,000 times.
So I should write my own cross-platform interface to the system PRNG? Doesn't that strike you as more prone to error than relying on SecureRandom, which at least has the advantage of having many eyes on it.
I read it as "Why I stopped being a voyeurist" and thought it would be an article on finding morals.

It was radically different.
>There's only one exception: Greg Kidd, who is invested in a number of payment companies, including Coinbase, and now works for Ripple.
http://fedpaymentsimprovement.org/wp-content/uploads/Greg_Ki...

I like this guy. Greg's pdf is well worth reading (and pretty funny at points) if you're interested in this space.

And while I'm not sure I agree with Aaron's tactics, it's clear that there is a huge problem here: it's impossible for new businesses to innovate in the money transmission industry.

Overall, I agree with both Aaron and Greg's assessment of the problem: state money transmission laws are strangling financial innovation. However, I am very wary of placing more power in the hands of a federal government that failed to act in good faith in this space (see HSBC's fines versus the treatment Bitcoin is getting).

And realistically, some sort of unified state money license requirement like the NMLS is a far more likely outcome than letting the federal government to take over these responsibilities altogether.
And I suppose the creators think that exposing the passwords with the details of how they're hashed is secure?

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getsimpleform.com as others have mentioned can do all of this plus file uploads and spam prevention.
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3) There's a group of people who aren't lawyers, don't give a crap and just want to enjoy life without arguing over the technicalities and legalities of everything, especially things that can't provably affect the profits of Paramount. They likely didn't give the legality much consideration.
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