skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a scandal in NJ where Chris Christie's underlings were caught closing a bridge when they didn't get political support from a mayor.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/chris-christie-b...
In response to blahah: suppose that you could somehow make the enablers previous recipients of expertise? If you could assess an incoming project's needs and bin it with previous projects, people associated with those previous projects could pay back to the overall effort by trying to help the incoming project decide what the pain points are and how they might be solved.
What I'm saying is that a programming model that's confusing to you is perfectly natural to someone else who comes from an environment where that model is all you have. People have used interrupt/event handlers and callbacks literally since the dawn of computing. It's nothing new. It just has to be learned, the way programming itself has to be learned.
Forced password changes are the biggest downside I've run into... I had to resort to a modified algorithm when LinkedIn was hacked, for instance. But for 90%+ of the websites I use it on, especially social networks and forums and the like, it's hardly ever an issue.
I think you missed the part where they instituted new rules effective starting in April, which is when the existing Tesla stores will be reduced to galleries.

In your vigor, you seem to have misled only yourself.
> The evidence is clear: when has an American startup auto company ever succeeded by selling through auto dealers? The last successful American car company was Chrysler, which was founded almost a century ago, and even they went bankrupt a few years ago, along with General Motors. Since the founding of Chrysler, there have been dozens of failures, Tucker and DeLorean being simply the most well-known. In recent years, electric car startups, such as Fisker, Coda, and many others, attempted to use auto dealers and all failed.

This part works better as an argument for "don't start a car company" than anything else.

I mean, yes, Tucker and DeLorean and Fisker et al used dealers, and they all failed, but that doesn't mean that they failed because they used dealers. The people who worked for them all consumed oxygen, too; it doesn't follow that we'd all be driving DeLoreans today if only we lived in an artificial vacuum.

I appreciate where he's coming from, and I think he should be allowed to sell his cars directly to anyone who wants to buy one that way, but shoddy "correlation equals causation" arguments don't help his case.
Can digital currencies ever be secure?
Haha this is perfect, the first 5 panels describe my current work
Gov. Christie is currently being investigated for closing lanes down on a highway bridge during rush hour as a form of retribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee_lane_closure_scandal
You can provide power to both an anode and cathode so that turning off the power to the cathode completes the circuit by grounding it. Useful for common anode displays (seven segment and otherwise).
I'm not a game dev, but that makes me extra glad that I bought a copy. There's a lot to like: slogging through a set of thorny problems, documenting them clearly to help others find their way, and taking donations through a system that many of us are already hooked into (despite its issues and extra hurdles, as demonstrated here). Thanks.
Pwn2Own results for Thursday (Day Two)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee_lane_closure_scandal
Things like the Consumer Reports ratings and the Motor Trend "Car of the year" award are pretty objective. You're right that it's subjective, but there's empirical evidence that a lot of people feel it's superior.
As long as we're engaging in wild speculation, let me put this out there.

If the flight was hijacked, who would do that to a plane full of Chinese passengers? Maybe the same group behind the Kunming attack?

Following that thread, where would they take the plane? Perhaps to Xinjiang / East Turkestan?

If so, the pilot could avoid detection by (1) flying at night, (2) north through the Bay of Bengal, (3) through Bangladesh, and (3) over the Tibetan plateau and Himalayas.

This is almost the same distance as flying to Beijing, the flight's original destination. It would also explain possible military radar pings west of the Malay Peninsula.

Commercial flights avoid the Himalayas because they can't reduce altitude in case of engine failure or cabin decompression, low priorities for a hijacker.
They're currently selling Teslas in NJ (without a middleman) and not having any legal problems because of it, so your example's premise seems to be flawed.
16 addresses total. I suspect they've got loads of addresses available if you ask.
it creates ambient lighting, and feels like being on a photo shoot.

it's just some foam posterboard tapes together, but it does a good job of reflecting light from many angles, so if you are reading/writing on the desk, you don't get shadows from your head/arms

i highly recommend those $5 ikea lamps too, they give off nice warm light
If I may, I'd like to comment on my initial impression:

Bland. Sorry. I know minimalist is all the rage these days, but I (speaking only for myself) would prefer more of a grid-image-based view of the projects.1)It'd add some flare; otherwise it just reminded me of stackoverflow. 2) While I think of developers as largely rational, if your sales pitch is going to be "make a difference", you'll probably need to appeal to people's emotions, personalizing the projects, making people feel something. Loving the idea, though.
I used to work in NJ.

Chris Christie's administration closed 3 lanes of the George Washington Bridge for a bogus "traffic study", making tons of Traffic. It was political payback against the city of Fort Lee who has a mayor who wouldn't endorse Christie when he was running for governor. Christie says he didn't know about it but some in his administration have left or been asked to leave over it.
Well, if local businesses choose the services that save them a lot of money it'll probably make them more profitable and allow them to grow and hire more people.
Gov. Christie's office ordered the most heavily trafficked bridge in the country (if not the world) closed for political revenge. He is desperately trying to throw his staff under the bus to avoid accountability for this. It's a very delicate subject for him right now, and Musk bringing it up is cruel and yet at the same time (imho) totally fair play.
Glad you are reading this. One more thing: if you could add a text transcript of the main points of the video that'd be awesome. If I was on my phone I definitely wouldn't have watched the video.
It appears that most of these attacks relied on exploiting the unfortunate design of C, which makes manual memory management the default and safe, managed memory the special case. It should be the reverse. Speed will always matter, but you don't have to use risky, manual memory mgt everywhere to get speed; you just need it in the few spots where it makes a difference.

In the majority of places in your code, manual memory management gives you no benefit but does expose you to a possible vulnerability if you make a mistake. If the default, lazy option were to let the well-tested runtime do the job for you, yet you could do a little extra work and get manual override wherever you wanted, and manual override everywhere brought you essentially back to C, I think we would have much safer code without a noticeable loss of performance.

Edit: I just realized in the shower that I was saying "memory management" when I meant direct "memory manipulation" more generally. I'm including arrays accessed by memory address rather than by bounds-checked index, pointer arithmetic, etc., not just malloc and free.
try this:

https://github.com/hjhart/the_rotten_pirate
Except in the case of Win8 secure boot on tablets, which can't be rooted and dual-booted.

You got an sign error on my meaning.
So it seems you can still buy it online. Does that mean you can go into a dealership and just buy it on your phone?
Your comment reminded me of the Whole Foods guy -- a counterexample.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/business/12foods.html?_r=0
I guess full name credits to prove their participation in case of job interviews while not making it too easy for the lawyers to address them. A timestamped, maybe later revealed proof of knowledge or secret communication doesn't make a lot of sense here.
Time to fork and continue development.
I usually point to Yakunin's articles; Matvienko, Peskov are not unusual guests in Echo of Moscow. On the other hand, it's pretty rare to hear opinion of Kasparov, Navalny or Kasyanov on primary TV channels.

I've tried to compare Echo of Moscow to RT, for example. Echo had much more details - when RT said "policemen stopped the people who blocked the way", Echo actually provided photos and videos, together with short interviews with both policemen and people those policemen detained.

There are many people in Russia who don't like Echo. But if you try to find out why, you'll find it's because Echo is simply different - not the majority, as should be expected, frankly, if you'd consider the possibility of the media being filtered by some means. You should go for facts - which is often hard - and Echo is probably most professional in giving you facts, from all sides and opinions.
Square Begins Offering Controversial Merchant Cash Advances
"Scroll-Jacking" in Full Screen
GM's latest recall (faulty ignition switch) killed 303 people and covers 1.6 millions vehicles; I think they'd love to have an OTA update method right now, even with the possibility of "bricking" the vehicle.

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-303-dea...
The sine and cosine functions for the circle, as every student should see them
No, it doesn't. You can put any valid Google Apps domain there.

See: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1MBxYZ9C51t9...

If you're logged into a Google Apps domain it will change the google.com to match your domain. If you're logged into a regular Google account it will remain as google.com.
First, I disagree that we don't have today a "significantly better experience" with e-mail than we did 10 years ago. Gmail was not even available 10 years ago [0]. Do you remember what Outlook, Yahoo and Hotmail were like back then? There's a reason GMail was able to scoop up a massive market share. There hasn't been a complete paradigm shift, if that's what you mean, but I don't feel it has been necessary.

Second, I don't "hate using" e-mail and I don't feel that I am alone in that.

Your basic argument boils down to saying that e-mail is broken, but I don't agree with that premise.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
Why would lawyers be toasting champagne? They could have made money from a lawsuit.
Thanks! I used Videoscribe by Sparkol. In the end, I used their paid version, which provided high resolution and soundtrack integration, but their free trial is pretty comprehensive as well.
Then perhaps we need to teach more children about the consequences of war?

Nobody could convince someone educated in the consequences of war to rise up and fight their war for them.

Censoring free speach is never the right answer imho.
A counterpoint: http://basho.com/erlang-at-basho-five-years-later/

Basho uses Erlang, despite not really being able to hire erlang devs (just need to hire and train, for the most part, its a small community), because they feel it gives them a competitive advantage, and even attracts more talented developers.

I'm not arguing that you can't or shouldn't get shit done w/ node.js/Go/PHP/Java/C#/whatever works, just that its ignorant to say "Haskell/Lisp/Erlang/OCaml/Whatever has lots of weird shit I don't need".

It's funny that you call these languages the "language de jour" when Haskell, Lisp, and Erlang are all like 20+ years old.
"Every beginner web designer and developer has done this one (myself included). They feel compelled to fill the page with interesting information and stuff for people to look at and click on."

Great point.

When you design a site, you should already have a solid idea of where you're trying to get a user to go and then use strategies to lead them there. Overdoing the front page with buttons and modals and shiny things that move doesn't help in that regard.

Probably the first and most valuable lesson in design.
I wonder where the future of 'social' is going. If history is any guide, Facebook will soon be out of the 'cool' factor and younger, nimbler startups with take over. It's not clear to me though what kind of experience these will provide, i.e., what features will attract the next generation and form that critical mass. I do like the social app ecosystem to be fragmented though, it makes for good options and interesting new ideas to be tested.
Don't think so. I just get a "please wait" spinner.
A poorly performed service at a dealers will brick your car too.

We trust the manufacturer to correctly service our cars, manually or OTA.
The HN community should band together and buy an island and create our own government there.
I don't want to admit how long it took me to make the physics-defying leap required to get back up to the initial platform (from the pistol back to the ammo).

Combined with how long it takes to get back when you miss and plummet, I felt like I was being punished for it.
That's a fairly one-sided view on the situation. Just some random points:

* Saturn tried the "no-haggle" new car buying experience. People generally liked this, though Saturn doesn't exist anymore.

* "closing a dealer is hard". Dealers have to pay for the land they own. The cars on their lot tend to be bought with money from the bank (a bank really owns the cars). The dealers just have to pay insurance/interest on the cars. The longer a car is on the lot, the more insurance and interest the dealer has to pay. If a dealer isn't selling cars to pay the bills, they will shutdown.

* Dealership "look". My knowledge is only from Texas.... Some brands, like Lexus and Cadillac set some very strict looks for the dealership. Specific signage, layout, etc... A manufacturer can set standards the dealer must live up to. Also, if a dealership ranks below a certain score on their customer surveys, the manufacturer can close them down.

* Pricing... yes, a middle man increases the cost of something. But that middle man can help explain features, is there to help deal with problems, and as they tend to be more locally rooted than an auto-maker, will try (hopefully) try harder to please their customers. Why do we have to pay real-estate agents so much? Good agents really help a buyer, same could (hopefully) be said for a car sales person.

* (edit addition) Why are sales people jerks? This will heavily depend on the dealership you are dealing with. Management of a dealership does a lot to shape the experience for their customers. A few things: sales people are paid a % of the money they hold over the cost of the car, so they are financially incentivized to keep the car price high. A car that has been on a lot for a long time has incentives added to it for a sales person. Sales people get bonuses based on number of cars sold. Sales people sometimes get bonuses based on their customer surveys (or are required to keep a certain average or be fired). Dealers are allocated new shipments of cars based on past sales, so a lot of dealers want to sell as many cars as possible (if they are trying to grow); dealers that don't care about growing will be less flexible about pricing.

Though, I agree that the car buying experience should adapt as information about cars is more easily accessible, it would require all of the states redoing the state auto franchise laws.
Do you contact your congressman, local government, or other representative body about how you want them to vote on any particular law? They're a phone call away.
This really is one of the nicest pieces of PR -- corporate, political or nonprofit -- I've seen in a while; I appreciate how he starts off with a soft pitch ("the auto dealer franchise laws were originally put in place for a just cause") and only shoves the knife in once he's got the reader in agreement. Beautiful writing.
I wish there were a newsreader that looked good without the fancy algorithms, like a newsblur without the terrible UI. Like the old Google Reader
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401371
Not working for me any more. :(
Forget school; be an Electrical Engineer on your own terms
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Mozilla's Rust & Servo go exactly in this direction, thankfully.
Tesla's site is a bit frustrating. I get most of those same benefits driving a Nissan Leaf. So I'm not really interested in a "true cost" comparison to a gas vehicle I wouldn't be buying anyways.

Turns out the Model S at $1,466 as optioned is more expensive than a Leaf. :) Not that I wouldn't kill for a 300 mile range...
Is it possible for Tesla to just create a shell "autodealer dealer" company in each state. I am guessing they thought of that and legal language prevents its from working.
Don't even have to call it a "salespitch". A good product will sell itself. And it's quite clear a Tesla is a good product.
Excellent link!

Some quick stats on the size of this particular "small" auto dealer company:

Trailing 12-month revenue: $8.9B
Trailing 12-month gross profit: $1.29B
CEO Pay: $2.5mm (for comparison, this is higher than the cash comp of the CEOs of GM and Microsoft)

I'm not sure this business needs regulatory protection from the likes of Tesla.
Should be possible to build a P2P index with something like BTSync, which lets you hand out read-only keys. If only it were open source, or at least open protocol.
Yeah, the service works. I know that I forked a copy just in case.
On a mac Activity Monitor will show you that, also there are also things like top, ps aux and pgrep. These would work:

pgrep -lf -U root | grep processname

or:

ps aux | grep root | grep processname
The article has a good example: Airbnb used this to figure out that hosts where abandoning their sign-up flow because they didn't know what to charge. So, they gave hosts a suggested price to increase completions.
Until that bug causes a car to drive unexpectedly into a wall in the interim time until you've sent out a patch. The importance of being bug-free is much more driven by the potential damage caused by a bug than how quickly you can update the software.
What everyone else said re: Bridgegate (thanks!) + the original line, which is a reference to the conman George C. Parker, who would sell things like the Brooklyn Bridge to unsuspecting tourists, which, according to Wikipedia, gave rise to the line "If you believe that, I've got a bridge I can sell you."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker
There’s also the Chrome extension autocomplete=on from a Chromium author: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autocomplete-on/ec...
While people downloaded millions of illegal movies..
"Moreover, it is much harder to sell a new technology car from a new company when people are so used to the old. Inevitably, they revert to selling what’s easy and it is game over for the new company."

That's total BS. Any dealer who invests money in a new show room to sell a new brand of car (think of Mini which was picked up by many legacy BMW dealers and is sold in many mini only showrooms) is going to put in the effort to sell the product. We aren't talking about putting Teslas on the same floor as Mercedes. It would be trivial for Tesla to insist that the product be sold out of a dedicated facility which would cost a dealer money to construct. The idea that that dealer would simply push another product (or the salesman) in another showroom that he operates is ridiculous. And contrary to the behavior of existing multi line large dealerships.
Google's method to keep OEMs in line is not without costs. For example, you can get Amazon, Kindle, Amazon App Store, and Audible for Google-logo Androids, but you can't (officially) get Google's suite of apps for Kindle Fire devices. Kindle Fire devices are a large percentage of tablets that run Android OS and are compatible with 3rd party Android apps.

At some point, Google might re-think this equation. Perhaps as a way of "participating" inside China without officially being there. Perhaps if Microsoft really does ship an "AndroidAsha" and it catches on.

So far, Google has played clean. Google has done nothing to interfere with Amazon's business selling devices running Google's Apache-licensed code. Contrast that with Sun's FUDding the crap out of anyone using an open source Java implementation.
Thanks very much for the feedback - I agree. Neither of us founders are designers. However, we've now got a great designer working with us, and we'll have a new look in a few weeks. Others have mentioned wanting images for projects, and that's definitely something we're considering. However, we have to balance it with not wanting to make it hard for people to post projects.

A lot of charities, for example, are already tentative about asking programmers for help, and we're a bit concerned that asking them to produce a pretty picture could put them off posting. Ideas for how to have the look without putting off posters are very welcome.
I fully and totally agree, upvoted you and wish I could upvote you even more (hopefully, others will!), especially considering the parent post you replied to.

Ideas (and videos, and guns) don't kill people. People kill people.

It has always been, and will likely persist for a very long time.

Utilitarianism be damned - not a single millimetre of freedom should be sacrificed in a vain attempt to limit that human tendency.
Strange. Just worked fine for me.