skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't think it'd become more common. Personally, I'd say no to the possibility of my qualms going down about it because:

-That is still considered a screwed up thing to do someone,

-It's illegal: you'd be charged(and probably convicted) with attempted murder, or at the very least, assault and battery, which carries significant fines and jail time,

-the person could still die as a result of it
I haven't seen The Island, but another really good book that I remember from my teens which featured this concept was "The House of the Scropion". Instead of using laboratory organs as replacements though, they use real people.
But that is a wrong way to think about it.

Most often lots of the thinking is done before joining the company. In fact many times people are hired because their thinking in the field. In fact the company hiring me themselves benefit from the knowledge I might have acquired at another company. So that whole "we own your brain and ideas" is simply wrong in every sense of the way.

As an employer you have a product that product consist of some code.

If you can show that employer X took code y and implemented it into their project then you have a case, if not you don't really have a case IMHO (although I am sure it doesn't stop wealthy employers from doing so anyway)

P.S. I used to be an employer of 70 people myself.
It is not advised to use C library functions. The driver should use RtlZeroMemory() and in that case RtlSecureZeroMemory(), but otherwise this optimization makes a lot of sense in many cases when you have for example an useless constructor call before an initialization.
Sweet.

I made fortune (6) file with these quotes, if anyone is interested: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/10669320

Just stick it at /usr/share/games/fortunes/bobross and be sure to do `strfile bobross` on it, then you can do `fortune bobross` any time, without having to make an HTTP request :)
Not really... you'd still have to do the earlier burns to slow the stage down enough that it doesn't break up in the atmosphere, and the burn to boost it back to the launch site. The parachutes would just save the final 'hover slam' burn, but the terminal velocity of a practically empty first stage is already pretty low, and the complexity of a parachute system wouldn't be offset by the minimal savings in speed reduction.
I'm skeptical of his estimated electricity cost; as a Bay Area resident, $0.12/kwh seemed low, so at first I thought he might be in an area of the country with lower energy costs, but he states he's actually in Silicon Valley.

I'm not sure how his particular usage and rates compare, but the rates for my most recent PG&E bill are as follows:

$0.13627 for the first 487.20 kWh
$0.15491 for the next 146.6 kWh
$0.31949 for the next 340.9 kWh
and then up.

In my area, according to my bill, average household usage (for the past month) is 400kWh, and 250kWh for "efficient homes." I'd imagine average use is higher in the summer months due to air conditioning, etc, and higher in the winter months due to heating and lighting.

So, right off the bat, $0.12/kWh is low, but perhaps rates were a bit lower when he did this analysis, or he lives in an area with cheaper rates? But let's assume that he's an efficient user of electricity, and uses 250 kWh/month for things aside from the car. He estimated 15k miles per year, at 3 miles/kWh, that's 416 kWh per month, which works out to roughlly $65.50/month, or $785/year, not $600.

If we instead assume he's an average user in a home that's not "efficient", it goes way up to roughly $92/month, or about $1100/year.

Obviously I don't know this person's exact rates for electricity, or his usage, and it may be the case that there are credits associated with having an electric car that can bring his average rates down or prevent him from going into the higher tiers (as he said, he could often charge for free at work), but regardless an estimate of $0.12/kWh seems strikingly low. I'm sure there are areas of the country where that's reasonable, or even high, but I don't think the Bay Area is one of them.

Of all the cost analyses of Tesla ownership that I've seen (admittedly few), I have yet to see one that attempts to take into account the higher marginal electricity cost associated with using significantly more electricity.
Modern japanese made internal-combustion engines are pretty much zero maintenance at this point; in my case, over 8 years and a combined 200K miles on a Nissan and a Toyota, the engines have gotten oil and timing belt changes and that's it. Zero mechanical engine problems at all. The Subaru and Acura I had for 5 years before that were the same. However, I've had to deal with brakes, suspension, tires, climate control, airbag, electronics, etc problems much more frequently, and those issues would happen just as often on a Tesla. Possibly more often because all of those systems are much more complex on a Tesla than the systems I have. Can I get the tesla air suspension serviced at my local mechanic? How about the computerized heater controls?
I haven't used Windows for close to a year, but last time I used Chrome on Windows 7 the font rendering was horrible more often than not. Especially blogs, they often want to have their own look with some web font (which then tells google exactly who is visiting the site -- but whatever). They always rendered horrible and I complained about it to a few sites, which then changed it, but complaining to individuals doesn't scale of course.
Automated Trading Strategies really works?
+1 to SoftEther. I've been using it as a replacement for Hamachi (which recently went pay-only), allowing my godsons to log into my Minecraft server. I have it set up with a server running on a DigitalOcean VPS and the bridge to my internal network running on a Raspberry Pi.
I was being a bit flippant when I posted, but I'm really impressed with the list. I need to look into seeing where I can help on the compiler or runtime.

No exceptions is my only objection, but I know they're dubious for a systems language.
Or just "git commit --date='2014-04-14T20:00'"
Warning -- this article (while it has some valid points) should trigger your "bullshit radar." Why?

It's very heavy on the "this guy is old so he couldn't possibly know what we need." And the problem is, that's a message that strongly appeals to the biases we on this site are likely to have.

Readers of this site tend to be young, smart, and highly motivated. Anything that smells like "I don't need lessons from the previous generation; I already have the right instincts because of my youth" will automatically appeal to us because it would be very exciting if it were true.

That alone doesn't make it false. But it means your internal "I better check myself for objectivity" flag should get triggered. Beyond that, though, look at how much of the article's content is devoted to this theme.

Probably half or more of the sentences are spent on this idea. When you're writing for public consumption, you have to learn to be terse and efficient. All those words spent on "geez, just look how old this guy is" are expensive. But the author deemed that the most effective use of words, because he is intentionally trying to play on your biases.

When someone is intentionally playing on your biases, look out. You might be having smoke blown up your ass (which the Surgeon General does not recommend).
I have, from time to time, played the "I can't get behind that" game.

It goes like this:
1) Observe that a lot of older people in my life---and throughout history---are / have been intolerant of something that you find benign (myriad things have taken this role in history: bare ankles, women voting, rock music).
2) Infer by the law of averages that I am probably not very different from most people.
3) Assume I will therefore have a 'thing'that a younger generation will be fine with that I am utterly intolerant of.
4) Try to guess that 'thing.'

It's a hard game. My best guess at this time is "In a world where medical science and services have evolved to the point where life-saving procedures are routine, automated, and five-nines successful, a younger generation will find ever more violent and dangerous versions of (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choking_game) to be fun to play, and I can't get behind that!"
As a potential Model X buyer, I hate the idea of those doors.

I currently drive a Subaru Outback and would be replacing it with a Model X so I could cart myself and some friends for weekend skiing or surfing trips.

Unless I'm missing something, the gullwing doors preclude a roof rack, which is a deal breaker for me.
Awesome stuff! Good job everybody!
or at least make it black, gray black, gray
Vertical axis portable wind charger with battery and USB output
I'm skeptical of his estimated electricity cost; as a Bay Area resident, $0.12/kwh seemed low, so at first I thought he might be in an area of the country with lower energy costs, but he states he's actually in Silicon Valley.

Maybe he lives in Alameda?
Yes, but not uncommon for that generation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Odyssey_(North_America)#T...

I probably won't purchase a Honda again.
"you have to go there, wait to drop off car, listen to dealership clerk going on and on about expensive 'preventive' repair I should get (any my family friend mechanic tells me none needed), wait a few hours (because of other customers at same dealership), and get a ride back dealership to pick up the car. That's like 2-5hrs."

What kind of car do you drive now?

At the cost of a Tesla you can buy a BMW (for less actually) and get a loaner and none of the up sell.

Because there isn't any up sell when they are covering all the maintenance including even windshield wipers. And definitely oil changes. And brakes.

So don't compare the experience of buying a luxury car to one where you have to sit and wait and deal with what you are referring to. And get shuttled back and forth.

Afaik last I checked mini dealers (owned by BMW) also offer loaners and cover all service programs.
It can't hurt.

While a space is considered another character, I've come across more than a few instances in which blank characters are scrubbed from user input fields.

So even if you add one, it's entirely possible that it's ignored.
Great work. It does exactly what it says it does and helped me validate the choice I made a few weeks ago. I picked Uber and according to your app, it's the cheapest option for that route. Going forward, I'll probably use this. As for feedback.

First, I'd kill the alert message. You show the pricing by company anyways. Maybe highlight the cheapest option but I wouldn't use an alert window for it.

Second, I'd make changes to the background image. There's nothing wrong with the image at all, it's just that a tiled background like that seems a little dated to me.

Anything more than this feedback and I'd feel like I'm completely changing your design, not helping to improve it.
He is also not taking into account the transmission fee for each kWh. For me that is 7 cents per kWh which takes my electricity from 12 cents to 19 cents.
What Is An Indie Developer?
I was wishing for something like this just this weekend. I do my own search through each of the apps every time I look for a ride. You should think about turning this into an app.
If doing that is really practical, I would tend to wonder if the employer has a practical business plan. Shouldn't your employer be adding enough value to your code and work processes that you couldn't make the same product without them?

At the job I currently work, our product is for a very specialized domain. I can remember the problems that I've solved, but there's no way I could build or sell a product in the same market without the domain expertise that my employer brings to the table.

Maybe your employer is providing capital to fund the salaries of a team of developers to build a product that has no guarantee of any market success, saving you the trouble of risking that kind of money, or convincing somebody else to risk it for you.

Maybe you don't like sales, and your employer is going out to potential customers and convincing them to use your product, so you can keep working on the stuff you're really good at.

Point is, if you legitimately can't think of some value that your employer adds to your work, maybe you really should take off and do the same thing for yourself.
I'm kind of bummed. I bought Sketch 2 February 2014. I doubt that they are going to give me a free upgrade or a reduced cost upgrade.
Embedded scripting languages seem to work best on what I'd call a 90/10 model. Either your game is written in the scripting language inside a thin compiled shell (to provide access to system routines and the occasional optimization), or your game is written almost entirely in the host language and just configured using scripts. So: 90% Lua, 10% C++ or vice versa, but not 50/50 or the like.

In general, it seems to be a red flag if a single thread of logic runs back and forth between host and scripting contexts.
Somewhat off topic: I'm glad to see more startups using gag cartoons in their blogs. I built a platform[0] where you can find and license more cartoons like this for your posts to make them more enjoyable and engaging, while also helping the artists earn money from licensing.

[0] https://www.gagcartoons.com
I think it is. As somebody who JUST bought the last version, it'd still be nice to get cut a break on an upgrade.
It's not always invisible when your computer or phone gets pwn'd and your email account starts sending spam, or your identity gets stolen. I think as the world becomes more technically literate, and insecure systems proliferate, security will become more and more visible. I would at least expect it to be the next competitive battlefield once usability starts settling down (as everyone figures out what does and doesn't work).
Sure, but then it's obvious that you're doing something beyond an equality comparison.
>> "religion adds absolutely no value to advances in medicine"

I know what you mean, but the number of hospitals hosting groundbreaking medical research that happen to have "Saint" in their name contradict the way you're trying to say it.

I recommend shying away from superlatives when stating a case.
Easy: check the access logs for all those people who logged in in a given timeframe and assume these are pwnd.
ETesting platform that uses touchscreen?
Hi HN, there are plenty of eLearning platforms available but no so much for eTesting. Is there a solution available or not that you know of that focus on eTesting, uses touchscreen and would be suitable to evaluate candidate for credentials like CPA or CFA. Just tell me if I don't make sense since english isn't my forte. I already know about the ones currently in use in the industry but for some reason, none of the one I know of support touchscreen inputs.

Thanks a lot for your collective knowledege.
Why didn't you include tires or insurance? Tires for a Tesla (especially with the larger-wheel packages) will be enormously more expensive than those for an Odyssey, and the car will wear them out much more quickly.

On a low maintenance gasoline engine (i.e. not VW/Audi), consumables like tires, brake pads+rotors, dampers, wheel bearings, ball joints, and so on outweigh the ICE specific costs like oil filter and change, spark plugs, serpentine belts, timing belts, and water pumps by a decent margin, doubly so if the engine has a well engineered timing chain system and thus doesn't require an involved timing-belt service.

Plus, an electric car still has plenty of moving powertrain parts like water pumps and valves that could fail, and we don't know if that will happen yet.

Tesla are at a huge advantage in this department, though, because they've accustomed their clients to being tracked at all times and their cars are all serviced at Tesla-owned service centers. That means that if any failure patterns become evident, Tesla can summon their owners to have the issue fixed proactively before it becomes a problem. I love this model and do think it adds a lot of value to the Tesla, but whether or not they can sustain such a program at scale remains to be seen.
Where does he say that socialized medicine can not be efficient, well funded, and cost effective???

He says only that the effect is to place the doctors into a sort of "prison" scenario. Prisons can be efficient and well run. The problem is that they're prisons.

Imagine your own sector being socialized.
Ask HN: Why isn't Apple, Google, and Facebook's 30% tax illegal price fixing?
I've wondered for a few years why we don't see the standard 30% developer tax change like you might expect in a competitive market, and I'm hearing this question echoed by more and more developers. I am not accusing any of these companies of colluding to fix the fee, but I am interested to hear from someone with more insight whether this can be considered a form of price fixing.

Obviously, they know there's really nowhere else for third party developers to go (good luck building a competing platform), so as long as they keep their prices equal they could push that tax as high as they want. Weren't antitrust laws designed to address oligopoly situations such as this?

In a similar story, Visa and Mastercard recently settled for $7.25 billion in a class-action lawsuit related to illegally fixing their processing fees:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/13/us-creditcards-settlement-interchange-idUSBRE86C16H20120713
There are other diseases that can be managed in a way that minimizes the impact on quality of life. It's still preferable to prevent them.
Oh, god, yes. I've worked with multiple enterprise-oriented software companies whose founders hustled to make early sales at any cost, and then ended up creating massive long-term costs that far outweighed the value of the initial sales. "Poison chalice" customers are common in the enterprise space -- they look great up front, manage to ameliorate your burn rate, and then you end up mortgaging the future of your company to support a small number of contracts. It's incredibly hard to turn down those contracts, though, especially as they often come in as relationship sales, and because the companies in question rarely staff up sales at the beginning.

I consider this a good example of why founders need to onboard professional sales as soon as reasonably possible; it's a whole lot easier to turn down those poor-fit sales when you've got an active funnel, and it's very hard to build that funnel when your entire company is trying to keep those poor-fit contracts happy.
For all cars, I would imagine.

My original point wasn't so much that the Odyssey was cheaper than the Tesla for insurance, but a counterpoint to the idea that the Odyssey is one of the cheapest cars to insure around.

I pay more than most of the people I know for insurance, and I have had a clean driving record for almost two decades, with no claims for over a decade. I'm also supposed to be in a lower risk category by driving a minivan and being over 40.
"If these benchmarks were run on idiomatic Objective-C"

s/idiomatic/pure/

I haven't programmed it much, but to me, idiomatic objective-C is when you use it as a sort-of scripting layer on top of your C code. No sane programmer would write ten layers of Objective-C message passing code; two or three is fine, on the bottom of your call stack (and hence, rarely executed)
Which mobile platforms should a developer choose? Voice your opinion
>>> many screens like the home screen is not available in landscape.

While this would be a great feature since Windows uses the tiles, neither Apple or Android have this feature. So saying this should be a requirement is a bit of stretch since its not currently available on either of the other two dominant platforms.
Depends on the virtualization technology used - if it's usermode virt only, no way to set up a TUN or TAP adapter for OpenVPN.
I wonder if graphene devices could be fabricated using 3D printers. Now, that would be a game changer even if their performance was below silicon devices.
You think that recovering a rocket is bigger than landing on another planet? I've actually re-written this comment a couple times because I'm honestly not trying to say your opinion is stupid, but I cannot fathom how you have come to this conclusion.
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> It is in pretty much every tech company's employment contract in the US regardless of size.

If you couple that with an expectation in certain programming circles that you should do programming as a hobby as well as a job, you've got the nice effect of working 40 hours a week for your employer, + all the hours that you spend on programming in your free time for your employer, as in 'they'll cash in if it is succesful'. So like a little speculative, cost free investment for the company.

The only way that I can reconcile this with the modern off-work github coding is that the programmers don't keep this in the back of their minds, and that whatever big fall outs of this have been relatively isolated.

(obviously I am only talking about side projects that could potentially have some value, not the 'implement pac man in brainfuck' for the pain, I mean for educational purposes, type of projects)
the classic feigned surprise
Is this using a Markov chain?
We've posted answers to some of your questions on our blog: http://blog.import.io/post/you-ask-we-answer
Les Quizerables. Brilliant!
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As I noted, that's the pre-pay cost.

And Tesla itself would disagree as it has stated 70% after 7 years/100k miles.

I'd be careful to compare with the Roadster either way.
> Many times people will renege on verbal agreements to allow things, either because of inflated concerns about liability or competition, or simply out of ignorance or spite.

That's what I meant with 'people you don't want to work for', especially the ones that act out of spite. I found all employers that I worked for in my career quite supportive, some would even allow me to work on the side projects during office time.

> I don't wish to exposed to those legal possibilities. It's just not acceptable to me.

Certainly your choice. Given that a lot of US employment contracts have clauses to the same effect I'd be curious what options remain. European law is fairly well standardized and I'd not be surprised if other european countries have laws to the same effect. Germany tends to be pretty employee friendly.
"You may not realize it, but we are all cosmic."
I've only rented a storage unit a couple of times but for me there were two factors: one was knowing the history of everything that was in it. And the other was that I had chosen those items.

I liked knowing that nothing was damaged in ways that weren't easily visible, like something you bought used might be.

And I don't enjoy shopping so trying to get something just like what I had is/was difficult. And it's getting harder: manufacturers change models at an incredible rate. You have to read reviews all over again, etc.
Lol yeah that's how I usually check md5 hashes too. But that doesn't work: this is from /dev/urandom while filtering out only /[ -~]/. It seems people don't like that I'm proving the point by a super simple example though. And yes, my passwords are as strong as this, I don't use text passwords. Cracking 40 character passwords is absolute bullshit.
It seems like it's hard to say if Rust really would have eliminated those bugs, the reports are vague and the ones that aren't, e.g. fixed framerate issues, would be an issue either way.
My argument isn't solely get good developers and be done with it. It's a combination of things, and one of the most important things is getting good practices in place. I don't know if EA did this but having a good auto-test system in place probably would have caught those crash bugs and prevented the server issue, for example.
Copying Databases in Node