skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe https://github.com/vslavik/winsparkle instead?
Kevin & Kell has done that a few times:

http://www.kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0730.html

http://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1005.html

http://www.kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0515.html
Better Place failed because swappable batteries don't make sense. The technology is too complex and it would have required a massive leap of faith amongst automakers to adopt the standard from an startup, even one as well-funded as Better Place.

I worked in the electric vehicle industry for 4 years, and it was clear early on that the market was moving towards permanent battery storage (not unlike smartphones) with intermittent charging taking place at public locations. Today, the vast majority of EV charging takes place at home.

Better Place management did not to listen to the market and the company suffered greatly as a result. If they would have pivoted to building recharge stations or charging networks they just may have had a chance to succeed.
While it is true that the SR-71 & A-12 were spy planes, and that the GP makes a slightly asinine statement, the pedant (and aviation geek) in me feels obliged to point to the YF-12[1].

The YF-12 was a twin-seater derivative of the A-12 that was developed as a fighter aircraft, complete with a look-down/shoot-down radar and missile bays.

The F-12 never made it to production, but a small number high-speed of weapons tests were conducted with the 3 YF-12 airframes that were built.

With that said, the MiG-25 should certainly not be belittled as a marvel of aviation. It was a blisteringly fast interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft, with an impressive radar system for its time. It filled a special role in the Russian Air Force until last year[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12
[2] https://medium.com/war-is-boring/21d12739b5db
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These articles are missing the "Better Place Super Yacht"

http://www.superyachts.com/sail-yacht-8657/better-place.htm

Maybe not the most efficient marketing dollars...
Every Sunday.
I understand what you're saying, but it simply is not an excuse.

The whole point of this tool is to make installing and updating packages easier, but at the same time they have one of the most complicated installation instructions for a standalone software package ever. That is something that makes me wonder how much they really care about simplifying the workflow of installing and updating packages.
Panasonic comes back as one of the top Japanese tech companies
or setup a git server and a webbook that calls the bash file on push. The bash script would copy the files, npm install, and cycle pm2 or forever. This is how I set up my servers. Seems less complicated.
If you aren't taking a 30 minute break every 3-4 hours then I really don't want to be on the same road as you.
I found the tv production based on his book on youtube. Looks pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akmZsPUudfI
Making the company look must worse? I don't care how about the company image. As a customer, I'm more concerned about the security of my money!
How Scarlett Johansson helped me challenge disfigurement stigma
FIFY: marketing people and so forth to result in the dangerous response.
You know every time we create some innovation that unloads the burden from programmers we invent some other crap to waste their resources on.

Circa 2010 enterprise java managed to take all benefits from freeing memory management and waste them on absurd abstractions and xml permutations (you throw some settings in xml and see what happens)

The universe is conspiring against us shipping real code.
If the Python core developers care so much about practical usage they should never have released python3 with features that break backwards compatibility.

Your argument is right, but they should have thought about that before fracturing the python community.
Hm. There's a Stack Overflow link elsewhere in the thread... In it, someone reported they were able to set up Omaha and have it continue to work for over a year without needing to touch it once. That's pretty solid. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3711435/what-is-the-exper...

Are you sure a day or two of work in exchange for over a year of solid deployment isn't a good exchange? If it isn't, then which alternative would you recommend in order to get similar efficiency?
"Better Place failed because swappable batteries don't make sense." Did we read the same article? It seemed pretty clear there were incredible management missteps like burning $500k/day with only a few hundred cars being sold or the CEO going excommunicado for months that destroyed the company. Even with the right tech it sounds like they were setup for failure.
On the contrary, "How much does the company need to be worth for my options to be worth $X?" can be answered with a surprising amount of accuracy. Because isn't that basic mathematics with the variables "Exercise Price" and "Stock price"? I am talking about value of options for EXERCISE here, not selling them off. The selling part is what gets a little complicated, but we have ways to price them as well so a calculator for that could be built as well.
Watches that run on body heat? If you're referring to mechanical watches, I think they use motion to wind a torsion spring to store energy.
> The pejorative "scripting language" was a term that Sun pushed really hard a while ago to separate them from "real" languages (i.e. Java) that you would trust your company to.

Fascinating. I do believe this without hesitation, but for the sake of sharing this in other social circles, is it the sort of claim that's possible to find a citation for?
There are some apps out there that are collecting parking data for cities:

http://parkopedia.com
http://www.parkme.com
http://www.bestparking.com

Would be nice for Google Maps to acquire/build their own parking data and integrate it as an overlay.

As for the others discussing dynamic spot availability, I say worry about nailing the static info first: street parking rules, parking lot locations, rates, etc..
Loyalty? Really? You think that matters?

Another poster said exactly the right thing. Contracts, agreements, documentation, MOU, etc are the things that matter.
Case in point: I am leaving company after being acquired. It's a mutual decision so both sides are happy, but we are negotiating an agreement right now to release me so I am free to pursue concepts (repeat: concepts not IP) that I pitched the CEO 2 years ago. They are only ideas but it still needs to be in writing since I don't want them coming back some years down the line. It's all about contracts.
Maybe there's a spectrum, and marketing/sales folks tend to be a bit towards this pole?
Exactly. I barely look for [remote] jobs at US companies, because most likely it is US-only remote. This trend became popular in UK as well. On the other hand, remote jobs at companies from other countries are usually world-wide remote.

Employers - please take this in count in HN Who is Hiring threads as well.
Does not sound at all like the opposite of autism.
It tells me that money is meaningless and no-one knows how to measure value.
But if they still get bugfixes there will be even less incentive to switch for them.

And if I look at the whole thing now, "no new features" is not certain. If people are still unwilling to switch he may consider backpedaling and backport some other features to 2.X.
And that matters because?
This is a product flaw. It's one amongst the comedy of errors that Better Place did when it came to running a business. Product flaws can be remedied through good leadership. Bad leadership is not something that can be remedied as easily.
Peyton Manning?
Amazing JavaScript Image Effects
Why should people in states bordering Russia care what Russia thinks of their independence and alliances?
OS X Dashboard – Re-imagined
With Apple moving into the flat design trend, how I’m imagining the dashboard widgets to be
> The static-array method, where you have something like a CCD...is basically only useful around the visible-light part of the EM spectrum

Why is this the case? Is it just that technology is further along for visible light because there's more economic incentive for a digital camera that replicates the human eye?

Is it a materials problem, where we haven't discovered arrangements of matter with the right properties (e.g. CCD's respond to visible wavelengths and are adaptable to semiconductor manufacturing techniques)?

Or is it something to do with fundamental physics like the wavelengths are a lot longer which requires detectors that are too large to be practical? Or maybe diffraction is a problem?
Lots of additional ideas (3.5 years old):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1779246

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1790564
That's exactly the point of monads - see http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/ba.... Such a system is still pure, btw.
Hm, it looks like that must have been an older number. More recent estimates are in the $100k-$200k range: http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/inside-teslas-supercharger-...
It's engaging and refreshing to watch. I wouldn't be sorry
Earth to Mozilla: Come back home
it group the hacker news by date. you can select the day by clicking here: http://cdn.codersgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Coders-...

and thanks!
> For someone new to programming, and new to developing web apps

Such a person is going to have a hard time regardless. I think it's much better to become proficient in a single (Turing-complete) language first.

The Web is a total mess -- a typical web application requires you to know, at a minimum, HTML, CSS, JS, your server-side language of choice, regular expressions, and SQL.
Programming for non-programming works best when they don't know they're programming. It's easy if you don't know you're doing it.
The brain is remarkably good at working with incomplete data.
> Even if their intent was just to start a discussion, they are not being helpful by "submitting" such bogus code.

All code is bogus code until reviewed. That is absolutely central to understand. Linus's Law only works _if_ people are looking at the code. Implicitly thumbs-upping it doesn't solve problems.

Akamai submitted the code, people reviewed it and found flaws. They're taking action to fix their own code, and the community is coming up with various fixes of their own. That's how Open Source Software Development should work.

While I agree with you that it'd probably be better to rewrite the code with a similar approach, it's also important to note that nobody in the OpenSSL community even considered this approach publicly until Akamai published their code.

Any claims they're being disrespectful of people's time is specious - they said from the beginning that this code needed review and shouldn't be merged. This is just one of those issues that comes out in the wash of code review.

TL;DR: Akamai should be lauded on their intentions but like noted by everyone, the code wasn't good enough. Now, with proper review and rewrites, they will be able to protect their customers into the future, and maybe OpenSSL will become a slightly better product for it too.
Have you tried looking for motors that aren't designed for 60 Hz operation? I think you might be in for a surprise...
JavaScript would be terrible, because it's easy to hide unwanted behaviour in counter-intuitive corners of the language.

Besides the language peculiarities, a garbage collected or interpreted language is very vulnerable to side channel attacks because of the large amount of complicated behaviour that is being glossed over by the language runtime. (One example would be garbage collection rounds and timing attacks, but I'm sure smarter people would find tons of features that leak secret information. Another example is on-demand JIT'ing when code becomes hot in certain runtimes. The timing of such a JIT stall could publish information you thought secure.)
I'd love to have a way to navigate with the J/K keys. This is neat.
Why I've decided to stop going to Hackathons
> Marx is saying...bosses are evil, capitalism is evil

Actually Marx said capitalism was a positive historic development.

> So X - Y, is what? Pure profit in bosses pocket? Not really...It's the cost of everything needed for the company and for the worker to do their job

When I said...

>> What happens with that $1000 in sales? $800 of it goes to buying wood, nails, hammers etc.

...that is what I was covering.

> cartels, oligopolies, monopolies are so damaging

Marx goes into cartels, oligopolies, and monopolies a little bit, but they didn't really hit their stride until after he died. Lenin is who covers this in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. They both go into great detail of why it is economically and politically impossible to stop cartels, oligopolies, and monopolies from forming. Lenin mentions Standard Oil in his paper, which the government tried to break up in 1911. As Lenin knew then, it is impossible to stop monopolies, which is why the old broken up parts of Standard Oil reformed in the 1999 ExxonMobil merger to become the most profitable company in the world, as well as the company with the third largest revenue in the world. And I can go on and on about how government can't break up monopolies (the Bell breakup only lasted a few years, now AT&T and Verizon control most of the US wired last mile and wireless).
The Borgata Says Phil Ivey Cheated It Out of $10 Million
I've been meaning to get back to hacking on Huginn, but all my time's been focused on another project. I've noticed an increase in activity on the project lately, though, so maybe I should slate some more time for that...

How does this compare/contrast with http://bip.io?
Using Free Wi-Fi to Connect Africa's Unconnected
I've tweeted what I know:

https://twitter.com/bengrubb/status/455603832806842368

https://twitter.com/bengrubb/status/455604173908606976

https://twitter.com/bengrubb/status/455604344885227520

https://twitter.com/bengrubb/status/455604746275930112

https://twitter.com/bengrubb/status/455605049595420673
Yeah, but the bank cares about its image.
since the site itself is on the homepage I couldn't not try the recursive call to the site. apparently it doesnt load more than one nested level (ipad safari).
5-numbers. And yes, this e-beg cr*p shouldn't be on HN.
Entrepreneurship 101: Why Young People Should Aspire To Be An Entrepreneur
https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3

I don't know what you mean by "I didn't find it simple ....". I googled "python 2 und 3 differences", and that was the first result.
how about Startpage.com
As soon as I wrote it I have tried to find a source I can link to but my google-fu is failing me.

I will keep looking. It may have been Oracle rather than Sun.
Funny, I was just looking at Google Apps Script with the idea of making an add-on for Documents. The tool looks brilliant. It supports many Google services (from fusion tables to Gmail to...), provices simple sharing with anyone and proper authentication. But it does not provide any tool for building better models or architecture. It's VBA on the web.
Thank you for your feedback.

Apart from J/K, any other suggestions? up/down, cmd+T, cmd+F, cmd+c ?
TL;DR; There's nothing wrong with a vesting schedule.

It's an interesting point, how should founder sweat equity versus founder capital contribution vest? And then of course there's investor equity...

Can cash from a VC be treated differently from cash from an employee/founder? Of course it can, you have different shares, with different terms, and a different value per share.

In the end, whatever terms you negotiate for your shares should be used to value those shares. 3 year vesting, for example, sounds like a valuable feature for the company, so you would expect those shares to sell for [much] less than fully vested shares.

So the point is, you should definitely ask for accelerated vesting, and I think it's customary to do this at least for a portion of share to at least cover the cash and the months worked.

The realist part of me says, either you can fix the working relationship and contribute good value, and have a good enough time doing it, or you can't. If you can't, the best thing you can do for your company may possibly be to step aside. By all means fight to change their minds, and find the RIGHT solution for all of you.

In any case, you should be happy to continue to hold some portion of shares. If they want them to be non-voting, that's just another way to decrease their value, so you should ask for a commensurate increase in share count.
A lot of the unicode characters don't show up for me (ex. share buttons, whatever is next to the date @ top left)...

use font-awesome?
This article has a video: http://nos.nl/video/634091-eerste-autoweg-met-glowing-lines....
yes, another problem would be the SAMEORIGIN.
i'm not sure i'd feel comfortable with the webcam streaming as people visit :P
Ask HN: Should Google Play have a mandatory description field on permissions?
More precisely, should Google force developers to state why they need the permissions they ask for in their apps?

Something along the lines: "X app requires the internet permission to serve ads ...".
I disagree with that charge and am actively against it. I am grateful for waps's insight. It is absolutely dead-on based on my experiences and not only that, it was good writing. It helped me express in words some unconscious ideas and emotions that I've been having.
I was under the impression that PayPal had banned use of their service for anything Bitcoin related.
Static analysis of Unreal Engine 4
V Suvorov is a pseudohistorian, like Solzenicin. Both were used as antisoviet propagana means and proved liars. If you want antirussian (anticommunist) myths, you read Victor Suvorov.
I think Up/Down would be better.
Biggest thing for me is that it is self-hosted..
> If I wanted to do attack it, I'd use very different verses, illustrating how and when "allah's revelations" were sent down, like pointing out that allah "sent down" the verses allowing the prophet more wives 5 seconds after muhammad commented on the beauty of a woman, after one of his companions pointed out he already had 4 wives

Please do; I'd be interested. Any good tips?
Canada is a "Big Country" nation, and Norway isn't. Short or shortening range will have less of an effect on purchaser decisions.
I made fun of going to this site recursively
Ultimately the question is, of how much share of the company should you continue to hold?

Which can also be thought of as, how much share has been earned before you leave, and how much additional may be earned even after you leave?

So another option to consider is to step aside functionality, but remain as an employee so that options continue to vest, and get proportional employee benefits. This moderates some of the financial impacts (like being force to pay for your shares right then, and losing possible employee benefits) for some period of time.

I didn't get a really clear view of how many employees the company has, to understand where on the growth curve you guys are running? But another way to think of this is you are a highly motivated employee, who was smart enough to get this thing started and truly committed to the cause. So who in their right mind would turn away an employee like that?! From what you've told us, I think the CEO and CTO are idiots if they can't figure out a productive way to work with you.
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Re: 3 & 4

Or, battery packs will degrade and people would not value them at all.

And, more importantly it's very unlikely that Model S will hold any residual at all, especially in 8 years - it's essentially version 1 of technology (with Roadster being beta version). In 8 years Tesla itself will have version 3, or may be even 4, and version 1 will be just obsolete. Notice how people buy new Camrys instead of 8 year-old 740s.
> If he could perform a better job, he wouldn't have been a grocery store bagger.

Or maybe he's enough at peace with himself that he doesn't mind being a grocery store bagger.

It's kind of telling that we look at jobs that are basically fundamental to the smooth operation of society (maybe not baggers specifically, but certainly clerks and stockers in the same store) and assume that the people doing them must be miserable and pitiable. What does that say about us, that we see the foundation-stones of our system as pathetic losers?
:D me too
yes, what browser do you use?
Building an embeddable JavaScript widget (third-party JavaScript)
Nope. I've been running OSX for the last 4 years, and before that I was using Windows for the last 16 years, the last 6-7 of those I never ran antivirus.
It looks like it might have been a fascinating talk.

Feedback on the slides: Whether you intend it or not, your audience rightly ends up being way more diverse than just the people who already know what all the acronyms mean. Therefore you should provide definitions or at least expansions of acronyms as they are introduced.
Read Hacker News much much faster : http://hn.premii.com/
Your next employer will probably ask you something like "Are you under any non-compete or similar agreement?" You will either have to lie to them or convince them that reporting what you're workin on is not a violation of their security policies etc.
There are modeling innovations in research, few I know of(probably many more availble) :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7458922

Another huge innovation in modeling is machine learning, and it can build very complex models(in many cases far accurate than rule based models) using a relatively simple interface.
The trajectory of Better Place and the character of the founder Shai Agassi is almost analogous with another recent super failure of a promising Brazilian oil venture OGX Petróleo e Gás and its founder Eike Batista [1].

It is like a case of bubble cycle representation in a singe investment venture.

The pattern here is that the impressive early success of a charismatic founder is accepted as a promising billion dollar venture by some prominent investors. At this point the visionary founder gets lost in positive feedback loop and looses touch with reality. Eventually the the bubble bursts and the business goes under.

[1] Batista Loses $15 Billion as Brazil Awakes From Dream.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-12/batista-loses-15-bi...
Faster Wi-Fi on flights leads to battle in the sky
Yes; I suppose they will be more careful in the future.

The Java model of using separate lifecycles for the runtime/JVM and the language itself is probably a good role model for the future; it allows introducing new language features without any danger of creating library inconsistencies and allows specifying source and VM versions individually.
It's an excerpt from a radio show.
There is no doubt in my mind that the 'clean tech' investment bubble is as popped as the dotcom bubble, albeit for different reasons, but with the same refrain. Pets.com and better place will end up as poster children for speculative bubbles in which large amounts of money are thrown at business plans with little research and absolutely no product.

People seem to like comparing themslevs to Steve jobs, being on the worlds stage, releasing products to a stunned audience. But they just want to skip to that part and not go through the whole starting a company in the garage thing.

The comparisons between tesla and bp could not be more stark. One took investment carefully, consistently only enlarging scope when success was already seen with the team and the product. The other attempted to reinvent the world, seemingly with no real product and a vey vague, shifting plan.

Imagine how long that billion dollars could have lasted had it been invested sensibly. They might be a success in Israel now and accepting favorable offers from other car manufacturers and governments. Now it's just another cautionary tale in the long list of people who lost their shirts trying to sell electric cars.
The battery is a major flaw.
iTunes with mainly Dubstep & electronic, but everything else too. And the standard iPhone 5 earbuds. Works wonders for me.