skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, mentions of genius is not unwarranted when you think about the 3 names mentioned: Godel, Escher, Bach. The book ties things back to how these three people thought about the world, and how their art and thinking can be tied into math.

I think if your mind isn't changed after reading about these figures, then you haven't really gotten it.

Hofstadter isn't necessarily the main attraction here. He created a framework (ie the structure of the book) where these subjects can be reasoned about.
A more detailed article by MIT Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527301/chinese-search-g...
Best thing someone can do for this guy is to help him fill his taxes declaration retroactively and create a fund for him to write an Emacs book for e.g. Seems quite competent writing about Emacs, so it should be right on his alley.

Maybe someone from Apress, Pragmatic or Packt Publishing can contact him about an Emacs book.
It's an operating manual - if you stick to it, it will be fine.
I wasn't saying I would want the entirety of Washington on my phone. Quite the contrary. I was pointing out the sheer area that fits in that amount of storage. It's 71,362 square miles.

If you're traveling regularly between two states, you'd want your origin city, destination city, and your route with maybe a couple miles on either side. Say a 250-mile route, and 200 square miles at either end. I bet it fits in <2GB.
It applies equally to non-U.S. nationals. The U.S. just ignores the requirement because those people don't have standing to sue in U.S. courts, and the U.S. has the de facto ability to ignore rulings by other courts.

The Constitution tends not to refer to "nationals" or "citizens" but to "people", as the general intent was to limit the things the government was allowed to do, not to whom they could do those things. The likely argument then, as it would be now, is that if the U.S. can blanket-surveil a foreigner, they could easily convert those same capabilities to a U.S. national.
It's not even being misused, it's not being used at all.

MVC may be the epitome of poorly defined design patterns. It's a unicorn. No one can even tell you with certainty what a controller is, or how the hell MVC maps from a Smalltalk UI pattern to being used on a server stack. This always devolves in inane pedantic discussions. And it's too late to try to put some order in this wreck of a pattern definition, because everyone has already appropriated it for themselves and decided what it means for them.

MVC is not a pattern anymore, it's a marketing term with zero regards for correctness. It's used by framework designers to tell developers that their libraries will be familiar and easy to work with and they should totally try them out. And it's being used by that Facebook dude to agitate Rails coders and stir controversy and draw attention to their trendy new lib, and it's working flawlessly to that end. Pure marketing brilliance.

But only madness lies in the direction of trying to salvage MVC as an engineering term with any degree of correctness, and whether whatever it supposedly means is really scalable or not. It's not even worth the effort. The only lamentable consequence of the bastardization of the MVC name is that by slapping it over everything, the bulk of web devs nowadays are left with a very poor vocabulary and a very poor understanding to try to describe server architectures with.
You should take a look on Pikock.
http://www.pikock.com
We have a different approach on reliability and simplicity to build your website without coding
Agreed, battery manufacture is bulk chemistry. A plant typically consists of a number of recyclable elements and a bunch that are specific to the technology employed. If there would be a game-changing advance in battery technology and the economics would work out in favour of deprecating those parts of the plant that are specific to the current process then I'm sure Elon Musk is capable of doing the math.

And given that's he's not exactly stupid to begin with my guess would be that he's ahead of some random comment on the internet by some significant number of brain cycles, 5 billion $ cap-ex projects are usually not planned and executed without a great deal of fore-thought.
Really glad to see reactive catching on. It really is a significant improvement over raw events, even in trivial cases.
> If Elon can't convert his Gigafactory to that new tech, he'll be hard pressed to recoup his $5 billion.

I just cannot fathom Elon being in this scenario. Perhaps I'm too optimistic?
Why not Detroit? The labor force is there, the costs (real estate, labor, taxes) must be considerably in favor of something of this scale, and it's in line with the automotive industry. In that Michigan is hurting from the down slide of traditional auto manufacturers, I would think it would endear Tesla to the industry, or at least the workers.
Sure, but that's been true of PCs for ages. We're all used to the idea that PCs need to be updated. To me one of the advantages to consoles was that they could pick up and play at any moment.
Probably either insider information or selection bias.
If the parent is guilty of over simplification, you are guilty of obfuscation.

While technically the RSS may have a Muslim wing tucked away somewhere with some token members, it was, is and will remain the umbrella organization for advancing the Hindu (religious) viewpoint. It has been violent many times in its history, and even today stands accused of engineering everything from riots to bomb blasts. And always with an anti-Muslim agenda.

Mind you I'm not saying Modi will follow the RSS agenda (I don't think he will, he's far too shrewd and smart for that. He will not compromise his ability to stay PM for 10-15 years for short-term Hindutva agendas).

A former colleague of mine just wrote a magisterial account of the RSS' history and future in India for Caravan magazine. I'd recommend those who want to understand more about RSS, BJP and yes, Narendra Modi too, give it a read at leisure. It is a long piece.

http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/rss-30
Well, I just bought his Emacs tutorial to help him.
Why do you consider him pretentious? Expressing in interest in mathematics, classical music, cognitive science, etc., isn't pretentious if you have a legitimate interest in those things and it's relevant to what you're discussing.
Why should he have to remove the "scare quotes" because he happens to be a friend of yours.
On a side note I hope the folks at a16 will stop using Tesla as a poster child for their belief that full stack startups are strategically better. Tesla and Musk are constantly working with other players in their ecosystem to accelerate growth.
Note that Netflix have a Java version here
https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava

They certainly have some interesting technology.
Yes, it probably wasn't completely wise, but these three weren't really as naive as it may appear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_detention_of_Am...

>At the time of their detention by Iranian troops, the three Americans were on vacation from their jobs in the region in a relatively stable, autonomous region of Iraq known as Iraqi Kurdistan. On the recommendations of locals, they hiked to see a popular local Iraqi tourist destination near the Iraq-Iran border, the Ahmed Awa waterfall.

>The three American detainees have stated they were simply hikers who did not realize that they were in Iran and that they actually have lengthy backgrounds as social justice activists

>They had been living and active in the Middle East, and were on holiday in Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region of Iraq free from the sectarian struggle that dominates much of Iraq.[16][17][18] They had been advised of the suitability of the region for a holiday by friends who had been there and through Internet research; and were recommended the Ahmed Awa waterfall, a popular Kurdish tourist destination, by a number of local people whilst they were in Sulaymaniyah.

>after straying onto the border with Iran.

There is some contention that they might not have actually crossed the border.
A few notes.

1. There is a little bit of unwarranted "lying to the children" in the paper as it stands—particularly in some descriptions of the mechanics of the condition system—which should be corrected.

2. The notion of a "dynamic data pipeline" could also be implemented with the use of special variables, though one might lose a bit of control flexibility.

BitBucket link from paper: https://bitbucket.org/tarballs_are_good/dynamic-collect
Do they need to endear themselves though? They seem to be striking partnerships with car manufacturers.
Wall Street has a few features that make it very attractive to ambitious young people:

1) The money. The potential to make $500k-1m/year before 30. The odds of getting to that stage aren't high, because of the culling at each step, but are probably better than making comparable money through a start-up exit.

2) Substantive responsibility. It depends on what precisely you do, but my brother is a year in and has a ton of autonomy and responsibility in his particular area. You can get this in Silicon Valley, but most of corporate America will not let a 24 year old do anything important.

3) Exit options and signaling. If you want to be a venture capitalist, the highest-probability route is through an NYC bulge-bracket bank. A stint at Goldman/Morgan Stanley/etc almost guarantees admission to a top business school, and from there a wide range of careers in corporate finance/development.

The only salient aspect of the article is the bit about risk: it is true that the folks on Wall Street generally aren't risk takers. They often make big bets, but with other peoples' money, and in any case if they are not successful there's a soft landing for them at Harvard or Wharton.
Should be marked (2013) but otherwise, yes, it's a good article about a part of Go that isn't much hyped.
Too far from the plant in freeemont
> SAAS is inferior in:

> * games

Isn't steam like this? The bits get downloaded to your machine, but if Steam goes offline your SOL.

What steam could use is better download management. If they moved over to an on-demand streaming architecture it'd be really huge. The days you'd need to preload software could be over. This sort of thing has been solved many times before, so it's technically possible. In fact, as I type this I wonder why they haven't done it already.
As a related aside, I'd be mildly interested in Redis having an ability to produce and produce and set UUIDs. That sort of thing might also have some utility for locking structures/synchronization primitives, though it's not the original reason I'd thought having something like that might be nice.
> But beyond that, regardless of what the "MVC" is, we've still got some sort of separation going on. But the separation is often pointless.

Django divides things into models, views and templates, which correspond to most other web frameworks' models, controllers and views.

One reason this division makes perfect sense is that the views and templates are worked on by different people. The templates are mostly HTML with some markup language and will be the responsibility of the designers. The views and models provide functionality and will be worked on by more backend-oriented programmers.

Another reason is that the views are actually reusable. You have generic views for browsing a model by date, or for a simple edit form. You can bind them to a model and skin them with a template to quickly get basic functionality that would otherwise require boilerplate.
Blake is a real guy

Can confirm: I met him once, briefly, in San Francisco.
Not very. I knew someone who did that for awhile. He basically spent most of his time screwing around with his iPhone.
This is a bit circular, saying essentially that the winner is the innovator for winning.
Do you mind me asking how it changed it your life?
While I was reading this, especially in the beginning and again towards the end, I kept getting this feeling of this is a "long-winded sale of nothing at all".

You know those websites, where this wonderfully crafted copy leads you on and on and on about selling you something special and magical without ever really revealing what it is. Typically, at the end of the nothing-sale will be a heavily-priced video or ebook that supposedly contains a very deep insight which is so precious that its actual properties can't even be hinted at before giving the author some money right now.

This article does the same thing, but on a meta level. What we get to experience here is not the nothing-sale itself, but the marketing of the capability to make that sale. It does contain just enough hints and bits to keep you reading, just enough truisms to have you nodding along every once in a while, but at the end very little is actually being reported.

I actually admire this, but know that I can't (or maybe don't want to) replicate it on my own. I do admit that features and specifics matter a great deal to me, both when I sell something and when I consume. It's not difficult to recognize that I do have these unrealistic expectations over the need for substance which result in me being a terrible sales person.

So, hat off to people who get to make tons of cash off of this ability, more power to them and all. But in a very real sense they do exist right at the edge between online scam and shopping channel. "Sell as close to nothing as you can get away with" is indeed an interesting optimization problem, and probably an act of performance art.
iFixit is all user-contributed / crowd-sourced. http://www.ifixit.com/Contribute
Good have you. We have a cached version posted higher up people are going off of now. Sucks a good amount of people are missing out on your knowledge!
Great book! See also "Ask HN: Is "Gödel, Escher, Bach" still worth reading?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7014299

where I answered:

It is a timeless classic which will draw you in if you give it
the chance it deserves. If you find parts to be a bit heavy,
you can speed up or slow down per your personal preference. I
chose to slow down and read all the more carefully. I feel I
was truly rewarded for the effort but believe that hurrying
through such parts would be a viable alternative -- certainly
better than abandoning the book as often seems to happen.

It's my favorite book. I recommend you do try it.
>It changed my life as well -

Lots of people are saying this here. May I ask how it changed your life?
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As I said, riots are far too frequent in India; even 1 riot is 1 too many.

I was in Delhi in 1984. I saw the result of Congress goons going after Sikhs. And yet there was no Supreme Court enquiry. The Prime Minister (Rajiv Gandhi) was never held accountable, since Delhi was a UT at that time.

How come no tears are shed for my Sikh brothers?
tl;dr This comment [1] cannot be proven to be a comment within HN's commenting system.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7756444
Generally, yes. But sometimes you can turn the handicap into something interesting.

Back in the day, some friends and i used to play a lot of Goldeneye on the N64. Like, a lot. We used to turn our health down to minimum to make it more exciting - a single hit with almost any weapon would kill you.

Sometimes, one of my friends' girlfriend was around, and we wanted her to join in. But she wasn't a gamer, much less a Goldeneye hotshot like us. So we gave her a handicap - she got maximum health, loads more than you'd get even in a normal game, and she played as Oddjob, who is half the size of any other character, and so harder to hit.

This still left game play a bit imbalanced; she could soak up huge amounts of damage, but wasn't aware or accurate enough to really take part in the highly mobile cut and thrust of deathmatch. So we played 3 vs 1, with our fragile ninjas darting around her indestructible, lumbering tank, desperately trying to get enough shots on target to take her down, while she spewed various flavours of death from her tiny bowler-hatted form. We called it Hunt the Freak, and we'd ham it up with an over-the-top commentary about the horrifying scenes of destruction wrought by the unstoppable Freak. All four of us found it highly entertaining, and often hysterically funny. It was so good, we ended up playing it even when she wasn't around.
Some interesting snippets of info about batteries from Musk.

Battery form factor: http://youtu.be/pQupELupKWM?t=2m15s

Apple Engineer asking about Tesla battery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN5HT9mj_4M
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GEB was one of the single biggest influences on me to leave the religion I was raised in. In short, GEB gave a sensible, intuitive, and non-magical explanation to things that I would have previously ascribed to a mystical soul that Jesus made.

This book set me down a line of really thinking and investigating and filling in the gaps that god was hiding in. Now I'm nonreligious.

This book might not change the median person's life, but it changed mine
Embarking On A Nomadic Life – And Killing Life As I Know It
I listened to the Tesla conference call and Elon Musk said that he was calling lithium and nickel mines in Canada, and they were surprised to hear from an end user. The guy knows how to "think from first principles."
Bitcoin mining difficulty through the years
I was associated with more than 10 years or so and I still do not know what this "Hindu religious viewpoint". I have always been pure atheist while I worked for RSS.

I was close to higher ups in RSS and I do not know the "agenda" you are talking about. Communist, Church and Muslim organizations and very constantly write unsubstantiated bs about RSS in amagazines like Caravan.

There are many things wrong with RSS, I would rather listen to Dr. Koenraad Elst's critic of RSS rather than something written by a intern at Caravan magazine.
Kobe Bryant spotted on Apple’s campus, reportedly meeting with Jony Ive
Happened to my comment too and it's the first time here on HN I'm getting down voted like this and can't think of any other than solely political reasons. It's a bit disturbing to see this happening here of all places.

But don't worry getting down voted by people with negative (didn't know that's a thing) karma should turn your actual Karma into something positing positive if my math isn't completely off.
> That said, it looks like a nice site, a crowdsourced iFixIt.

We're already crowd-sourced! http://www.ifixit.com/Contribute Only about half our guides are staff-created.

> (I'd me more willing to contribute if the TOS wasn't so restrictive, but since I still own my content I don't mind so much"

Good news! Everything on iFixit is CC BY-NC-SA: http://www.ifixit.com/Info/Licensing (but you still own your content).
I work at a law firm specializing in IPO. I had the same thought in mind when I joined.

Hiring more people does help but there will still not be 40 hour work weeks. In many instances, some people in the team has built up the knowledge on a particular part of the deal that it is difficult to outsource since it would be much faster for the person to complete the work themselves.

Hiring more people also means that the information is diffused around. If one person working on a deal it means that he knows 100% about the deal. If 100 people is working on the same deal, efficiency would greatly decrease as knowledge management becomes important (lots of emails).
Good point. However, I don't own the jet, nor have any liability/responsibility if it's software fails. I do own the car, and I do have liability/responsibility for its operation.
Royal Jordanian – Unaccompanied Minors
The Pitcairn Islands are the one example I can think of right now. There was a large sex assault trail against numerous inhabitants, meaning the island now has the highest rate of sex offenders per capita in the world. They also used to have a strict moral code forbidding dancing, drinking or smoking.
At work we use a combination of git + Jenkins and a simple xcopy on build succeed. Does a great job, plus it can do Slack events, email notifications, etc.
But how often do you not turn your PC on for a month? That's much more common with consoles.

Steam is running all the time when my computer is on (and I use my computer every day), and games just keep themselves up to date. For a given game that I'm trying to play, there's maybe a 15 minute period every couple of months when I wouldn't be able to launch it immediately.

The Windows updates aren't required in order to play games, and they can just be delayed until the next time you're restarting. Not a huge deal there.
I know - its not just market street, its all of SF. As a cyclist, i regularly get near misses from cyclists going through the red light - specially because im in the cycling lane and thats where they aim. Fucking assholes if you ask me :)
So USA can gave you better character certificate then your mother and family :{
The fact that they apparently tried to recruit an executive from Upworthy is very disturbing.
Does he wield a geeky aura of the unbathed?
I'm going to disagree with the other posters. At least in investment banking, the hours are driven by the pace of corporate transactions. Mergers and divestitures are fragile things, and there is a tremendous incentive to get them done as quickly as possible. Investment bankers are at the service of their clients, and when the client wants someone to run the numbers on some idea on Thursday evening so he can have them for a meeting Friday morning, the bankers have to get it done. And that work has to be done by the people who have intimate knowledge of the deal, not some night-shift crew. Companies paying tens of millions of dollars in bankers' fees demand a certain level of service.
Perhaps, it's not the author who's pretentious.
While economic development are very important, I hope Mr. Modi will not bend over backward for business interests just to return the favor. Excessive corporate tax cuts and environmental damage all set back the lives of the "lay people".
> Submitted in part because a Hacker News participant recently berated Americans on Hacker News for not being more aware of the election in India. (The person who wrote that comment is an American of Indian heritage, I'm pretty sure.)

Thanks for submitting this.

Just so you know, my comment (that you refer to) was about the lack of awareness in the US of news outside the US (and a bit of Europe). The largest election in human history just happened to be the example that came to mind at the moment.

I include myself in that statement, for what it's worth. As it turns out, I myself am not as up-to-date on the news of this election as I should be, so I'm glad that you've posted all of this, both for my own benefit and so that others will see it.

There are many other significant world events that are even less visible in the US (but just as important), and I hope we all can become more aware of them, myself included.
'Its great just read it' is not a convincing at all. Why is it your favorite book?
But who was trying to manipulate the market? Soros? Well, yes, he was. The British government? They also were.

Why do you find one morally repugnant and not the other?
Yeah, I can't either. But he does seem to have an eye for (un)readable documentation - the things he's criticizing are completely useless for a new reader.

The invective needs to seriously get toned down, though.
A hint to Oculus and Facebook?
As an NBA and Laker's fan, I can't help but get curious with this news. Kobe is a Nike endorser. Tim Cook sits in the board at Nike. So, Apple is following the lead of Samsung, that got LeBron as an endorser, in its marketing effort?