skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market isn't very free. Aside from regulatory burdens (some of which are onerous, some not) there is a significant tax burden to any business. The US actually has one of the highest corporate income taxes in the developed world. In a saner system a lot of these burdens would be significantly lighter and the pace of business creation would be a bit (perhaps a lot) faster. Instead the negatives caused by these burdens are often attempted to be counteracted through various incentives and in the extreme with corporate welfare.

Usually the benefit of having a particular business sited in your state / metro area more than makes up for the cost of incentives. The $51k per job incentive is a one time cost, whereas the jobs (and the new jobs from growth of the facility) will keep bringing in revenue (and taxes) year after year. SpaceX currently operates at over $200k revenue per employee. Additionally, the cost of constructing the new factory and launch site will vastly exceed the cost of the incentives.
Does anybody have an account of how unleaded/diesel fuel cars came to have a standard nozzle for filling up? It might give us an insight into how this particular standards battle will go down.
Of course not. It is a wireless keyboard :)
Atomically Precise Self-Assembling Nanoscale Fibers Mimic Living Cells
I saw a nice attribution at the end of the post. (But possibly it was added belatedly, e.g. after seeing your comment.)
typo: rendezvous
The lack of contact details or any details (terms of service, privacy, etc.) makes me a bit wary about trying the service. While I can appreciate that you want to keep the app clean and easy to use, some basic information (maybe a tutorial video) will bring you a long way. I don't see any information on pricing either. If you are giving it away for free, that's great, but there should be information that this indeed is the case, or that it's easy to export my bills in the case that you run out of money funding an app that doesn't generate cash.

P.S. your demo account took me all of 2 tries to guess the password, so you might want to change that. I'd email you if there were any contact details on your page.
Israel Palestine Conflict : Some Minutes After Israel Attack Gaza – RAW VIDEO
Not very well, at least for the initial approach with a high-speed camera. With 240 fps you're limited to 240 samples per second. If I'm not terribly mistaken that would limit you to frequencies up to 120 Hz in the reconstruction.

But the GoPro has a rolling shutter as well, so their second approach would be applicable. However, that effectively relies on rows per second and while you have a higher frame rate you have a lower resolution. In the end they could cancel each other out.
Usable Crypto: Introducing miniLock [pdf]
I used it as a proxy. It is easier to notice than to describe both when someone don't want to talk to you in that particular moment or when someone don't really care about you as a person. I am not the kind of guy that looks in the eyes when talking either, but I think there is a kind of not looking that demonstrate you are concentrated on the conversation and a kind of not looking that demonstrate that you are a fly annoying the person.
What if Google was an intelligence agency?
I think this is the wrong way to approach this. So every car manufacturer is going to have its own charging network? Do they even realize how expensive that's going to be? Not to mention something their customers will hate. They all need to get together and create a standardized network that is both solar powered and can charge the cars very fast.
3 wrong approaches towards UX/Security
1. Extracting username from email
2. Extracting password from email and setting it same as username
3. sending password in plain text email.
Log like a boss
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm
looks so much better! the other font was ultra-big and bold.
Even when everyone's compatible, will you be able to charge on another company's charger? Or will it be like the ATM issues of the past? "You can only withdraw money from your own bank's ATMs"...
This is Europe's current "moonshot" class mission. It may not look crazy interesting yet, but it will be. They'll send a lander down to rest on the surface of the comet. Then the orbiter and the lander will survey and study the comet while it gets closer and closer to the sun, transitioning from more or less a dead rock to a fully active comet with gas jets and a cometary tail. With any luck they'll find out several new things nobody has even speculated about comets and collect a couple astoundingly awesome photos in the process.
A similar German Startup in the same field just failed: https://www.reposito.com/
> The magnets are sneakier.

> It's about time Zen Magnets is getting shut down.

> We'll always be able to buy direct from China.

What about Chinese kids?

Do you believe they are smarter and more careful, or do you just not care about their safety as much?
Maybe they'll add premiums for non-partnered manufacturers, or secretly charge them much more slowly, sort of like the Comcast and Verizon of the roads.
Visual Studio is included in BizSpark so a lot of indie/small companies are using it (our startup included, 5 people all in all).

Would be nice if Xamarin offered something for BizSpark, as I know they have some offerings for people/companies with MSDN subscriptions.
Hi zimbatm,

Please read the tuning article on the blog for sure. It's definitely not slow and we have folks updating 5000 servers in 5 minutes. (Yes, really!) ControlPersist and the like are key, and we'd be happy to help discuss options for you.

As for sequentially, set --forks to control parallelism. Steps are executed in order, but that's true of all CMS systems.
Ask HN: Good startups to work for in Amsterdam?
Hello HNers,

I am looking to change jobs and would prefer to make a move into a startup in the Netherlands(after > 9 years in "traditional" companies, I can't handle the slow pace anymore).

I would love some recommendations for startups in the Amsterdam/Rotterdam area to start hunting.

Thank you.
Carrying your own offspring is not the same as being employed to carry weight all day (and not necessarily because you really like that profession.) The regulation is in place to protect the worker, be it from the employer or those who don't know any better from themselves.
This doesn't have to be the case.

All resources in Ansible are declarative models of state, that get informed, and have idempotent properties.

So it's just like any CMS.

However if you want to write a deployment script, it also lets you, rather than fighting it kicking and screaming :)

Also, when you want to just push and run a script versus using one of the 234 other modules, it's there - http://docs.ansible.com/script_module.html
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Hey, You, Get Off of My Clipboard [pdf]
Show HN: I reversed and coded a disassembler for a somewhat little known VM
You can download packages from
http://software.opensuse.org/search
Click on the button far right to go to the detailed search, which allows to select a distribution.
I don't think we're interested in creating a revolution, but making IT practices easier and simpler and better. Which has a LOT of merit.

With regard to Docker, see http://www.ansible.com/blog/2014/02/12/installing-and-buildi...

The overlap of Ansible and Docker is pretty stratospheric in adoption levels. As more fleet management services exist, to us, it looks like another VM type, and all those cloud modules will also help orchestrate it.

But now, people are using it for both image builds and placement in great number.
No one hurry up in Amsterdam :)
Of course these charge points should be created by the same people that run car parks. Its an additional profit opportunity and a customer draw.

If I owned a EV I would be parking in a car park that was 50% more per hour if I could also charge up. Or they just factor the cost of parking into the electricity cost.
For whistleblowers, a bold move can be followed by one to department basement
Not understanding the rules of something, doesn't make the rules a 'gray area'. That makes the understanding a gray area. The rules are very explicit.
Yep, it does to a great degree now - read http://www.ansible.com/blog/2014/02/12/installing-and-buildi... and can also be used to deploy containers.

As various "clouds" for Docker spawn up the various cloud modules will also be able to talk to these things.
I'm guessing you aren't a native English speaker? There are some nasty copy mistakes in there such as your heading "More Carefully Design"... try and get someone to proofread your copy.
> Once upon a time not all browsers had the feature of auto-wrapping text in a TEXTAREA element

Ha. That explains it. I wasn't on the internet when this was going on.
You would think this type of device would be a FireWire 800 connection not USB.
Planet Generation – Part 2
The category title "More Carefully Design" doesn't make sense grammatically.
A confusion may arise if you want to wish someone locally.
This is not a problem of entitlement where people expect that you fix their bug for them. This is an anti pattern because many people consider this type of answer rude and it doesn't create a welcoming community.

Saying "This is a legitimate bug, but I don't care enough to fix this for you." is already an order of magnitude more polite than "Pull request welcome" or the older "Patch welcome" , explaining in details why and if necessary how open source work even more so. You have to remember than not every one know the Open Source community speak. If you can guide the reporter on how to create said pull request, even better.

Yes its take more works and it's less fun than hacking at code, but building a great community is a lot of works. It's also, for me at least, what separate good projects from great ones
I guess it looks like a did-not-test error... but I'd like to think this was a deliberate decision to exploit already-embedded artwork.
it's definitely true that most of our users are deploying configs and applications so there's not a lot of user management, but the user management is definitely robust.

We're using GNU user tools in many cases for correctness and efficiency of not reinventing the wheel so you might wait a little more for them.

We're open to tuning but it's really not been a problem.

It's still statistical noise in the end, and, yeah, like we said, we've got more important things to work on first. It would be nice if we had time for everything, but this just doesn't rate in the grand scheme of things right now, still.

Someday, perhaps! Meanwhile, try things out, I don't think this will matter in practice for most folks :)
Armstrong’s Date with Destiny
Sublime Text documentation fundraiser
"Snap: Take a photo, Tag: Name it, Save: Email it 'into your shoebox'"

Why not "Snap: Take a photo... Later, copy them to a folder on your PC"?
Wouldn't charging more slowly risk creating a line behind the charger, causing issues for drivers of the manufacturer's cars waiting in line?
Could you add a help section and remove the registration popup that comes every time or ask me for my password because its a little confusing with all the info on display at the start
http://shouldirollmyowncrypto.com/ ? :)

Note, had no part in registering this, but it's another example of why you don't want to hand-roll things.
I use OBS to provide Linux packages of the latest version of my project for multiple Linux distros. Because of the release cycle Linux distros usually come with older versions of the program, so when the user reports a problem it's handy to have an easy way for her to update and try the latest version. (Compilation from sources is not an easy way)

I spent many hours to write a spec file portable enough to build on OpenSuse/Fedora/RHEL/Mandriva (there was Mandriva Linux at that time), and to prepare debian/ directory, but after this initial work updating spec/debian and triggering builds for a new release takes only a few minutes.

I really appreciate that SUSE is providing resources to build packages for other distros. This is in contrast with Canonical refusing to build packages for Debian in PPA[1]:

"PPA builds consume a great deal of resources and it's difficult justify spending that amount of money as a gift, especially if the net effect would be to encourage people to build packages which don't necessarily work with Ubuntu."

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/188564
Did you read the article? BMW is going to permit others to access its network.
Make sure you watch "where is Rosetta" animation. Amazing.

http://sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/

Tip: Use your mouse to change the view.
I have the feeling that the only people using the word 'cyber' at all are governments. Weird.
I've used it in the past to build software for openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Arch and more.

For example, the owncloud package is built for a whole load (list on the right of [1]) and can provide a download page like [2].

[1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/isv:ownCloud:communi...

[2] http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=isv%3Aown...
The big one is going to be schools. They won't die out, but they will be substantially altered and not as dominant as they are today, and that process will take much longer than the uber vs. taxi dynamic will take to play out. So much of modern education is just read, regurgitate, test, even much of a typical undergraduate education falls in that bucket. That sort of education is prime for disruption via interactive educational apps, but the genre hasn't hit it's inflection point moment yet. Nevertheless, sometime in the next 10 to 20 years or so there will be a breakthrough in educational software. Someone will put the pieces together and start making stuff that is universally considered to be excellent, and they will start making a crap ton of money which will fuel a gold rush into making apps using the same ideas. The rest will be history.
What does a Product Manager do? Part 3/5: Customer
same - took me 2 attempts to get access to the demo account - also your register page exposes a whole bunch of information if that username is already taken.
Welcome to the glorious new age of the internet of things!
Assuming that they license the tech from BMW to use it, and agree that BMW's system is the best system. It's not a consortium approach.
I can neither confirm nor deny that. ;-)

More pertinent question: Does it matter?
Plague refers to several types of bacterial infections. The Black Death is believed to involved bubonic plague because of the characteristic symptom described in all sorts of records:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubo

I guess a hemorrhagic fever can't be ruled out though.

Ebola, in the form that requires fluid transfer, won't spread all that quickly in the U.S., where people aren't all that skeptical of doctors and tend to react to disease threats by avoiding touching things (as I understand it, burial practices involving touching the bodies are a significant source of infection in the current outbreak).
If only I hadn't been wearing my tinfoil hat, they'd never have known my plans!
Fixed here, although it's incorrect on the actual page, so the mods may change it back to match the page title.
Just wanted to say I love ansible!!! After the nightmare that was Puppet/Chef, ansible has been just what the doc ordered. I keep all my playbooks under version control (git) and deploy via ansible-playbook. KISS philosophy; it has worked out better than anything we used in the past.
When I was a kid you used to serialize to JSON.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8136225
>This article ignores a lot of peer-reviewed literature from planning, public health / injury prevention, and civil engineering in favor of some folksy wisdom of a lieutenant cop.

More than that, it's pure econo-meta - regulation is bad, freedom is good, if you leave people alone they'll behave responsibly, and everyone wins.

It's a moral parable (for economic values of 'moral') not a peer-reviewed paper.

Here's a newspaper piece that summarises some of the relevant peer reviewed research and draws a different conclusion:

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/may/13/speed-l...
Show HN: Stacker – The Easiest way to Publish and Reply on Social Media
150+ isn't terribly much since each is basically an `if` statment. All 150 rules can be reduced to a single table lookup if necessary for performance. (Memory requirement for the table on the order of tens of kilobytes, though.)
most complete example is osc, which is command-line tool for working with OBS:

http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=openSUSE:...

or direct file access:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/
Very minor detail, but numbers should be right aligned "tabular" numbers in your flowcharts. Digits like to be vertically aligned. I'm on Linux, so I don't know if that's just an artifact of the example on your homepage or if it's baked into the plugin too --- but that goes for the default settings in the plugin too.
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Aren't there ways to use adapters for increased compatibility?

I don't see why companies wouldn't want to partner with Tesla, especially now that they have a significant number of charging stations and I don't think they charge a licensing fee for companies using their plug design.
If you search for "fibonacci grid sphere," you'll find the grid used for research. It's less regular and a lot more work, with a few regions of five or seven sides, but it might look more natural, and it's used because it has fewer sharp corners than the icosohedron. Just another option.
Why Are Most Programs Still 32-bit on a 64-bit Version of Windows?
I thought the danger was if 2 or more were swallowed and they attach in the intestine. If kids have an unpleasant experience after downing one maybe they wouldn't try another? They might even puke them up before they cause more serious damage, plus mom/dad are alerted that something is wrong. A vile tasting coating could also help.
The best text I've read about backpropagation is in "Neural Networks: A Systematic Introduction" by Raul Rojas [1]

He uses a nice graphical approach that is easily understandable yet formal. It's been many years since I've read it to learn for an exam at university but I remember it was an enjoyable read and I wished I had more time to spend on the book.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Neural-Networks-A-Systematic-Introduct...
I had that happening as well, with the pain, so I switched between standing and sitting.

I'll give the chair a look, thanks for the suggestion!
I don't know about other people, but there's no way I'd be able to become an expert in a language without building things with it.
In most states as long as someone is legally recording then anyone may do so. If they told you that they are recording for quality purposes then you can record it too.
Mozilla confirms leak of 76,000 developer email addresses
Why would you put important things like these in the butt

Did you just get hoisted by Cloud-To-Butt[1]?

[1] https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
Blatantly false. There have been posts on here to the contrary.
It's only a matter of time before we all have to get our own stupid Belkin adapters for our electric cars. :)
I recently got a Steelcase Think and love it. My previous chair was a Herman miller Aeron and I find the Think to be better in just about every way. It was also half the price of an Aeron.
What do you do that uses so much data? I am on an unlimited data plan, and use about 300MB over cell, and another 1GB over WiFi.
Why did PayPal wait to enter Nigeria?
I just don't understand why people are ok with google storing their personal information, but are freaking out when nsa does the same
However if you want to write a deployment script, it also lets you, rather than fighting it kicking and screaming :)

A thousand times this! I, personally, find YAML easier to grok than whatever Puppet was using (see, post-puppet PTSD selective amnesia). And, anything that doesn't work, on a deadline, can be shell scripted now and modularized later.
One point to consider is that this algorithm appears to rely on a double-precision floating-point divide at its core, so the speediness measured on a Xeon E5 may not translate to speediness on architectures with weaker floating point units.
Yeah, but it's not the same thing.

This is a legit bug results in the bug staying open.

Pull requests welcome is "I feel this is a feature, but we'd be open to you working on it".

I think one of the great tragedies of the internet is people assuming people say things they don't mean.

And yes, building a great community is a lot of work, and it's something we spend a TON of time on. And it's why we have one of the most contributed to projects on Github.

Getting to 810 contributors is really hard, and you don't do it easily :)
Mechanical Turk Unwittingly Becomes the First Stellar Exchange
113 years old light bulb still works
Q2 Summary from Chrome Security
> Plans for Q3 include reinvigorating participation in the rewards program through a more generous reward structure and coming up with clever ways to keep researchers engaged.
We recently updated the docs to point to a new setup script you might not have seen yet - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scrip...

But yeah, stop by the -project or -devel list if you have questions or ideas for it, that would be great!
Tesla already sells a SAE J1772 adapter, but it's $750 http://shop.teslamotors.com/products/j1772-connector
I expect an EU smash as soon as EV charging networks become popular. That's the kind of stuff it's handled fairly well so far.

If you're in the US, you're probably screwed (because liberty)
You might want to look into Apache Mesos. I don't know it it works with Docker specifically, but it does manage Linux containers (which Docker is based upon).
This is kind of what we had here outside some nightclubs in the UK. There'd be a private hire company (bookable only), with a guy with a notepad and phone standing outside, he'd make the booking on the paper, ring the driver who was in the car next to him, bingo.
Eh, I thought this article would discuss reasons for migrating from Centos 6 to Centos 7 in an enterprise-y environment. I don't relish the thought of porting configurations to work with modern Linux.

It's been a struggle in our small business (100 employees, ~40 Redhat PCs?) to get my boss to cope with SystemD and all the changes to his beloved Linux kernel he started using in the late 90s. He's been so frustrated with Fedora 20 that he's considered moving his development box to Centos 6 (what our secretaries use) to regain familiarity with everything instead of learning how the new components work.

We have one Fedora 15 box running Gnome 3.0. The guy blessed with that machine hates its guts. He's fairly proficient with technology, but struggles with the Gnome group's vision for how humans should "properly" interact with their desktop computers. Hotspots are particularly frustrating for him. Unleashing Gnome 3, even with the refinements and concessions they've begrudgingly made to the community, on our secretaries en masse is a terrifies me enough to give me the shakes. Bleh.
As the founder of Stacker, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have
Barack Obama talks to The Economist: An interview with the president
This seems like a non-issue to me. Serialization isn't built into the core libraries, but there are a number of 3rd party libraries that will serialize from various data formats. Dart has mirrors (reflection) which allows any kind of population of Dart types from other data types.
That's for the Roadster, the Model S version is only $95: http://shop.teslamotors.com/collections/model-s-charging-ada...

The BMW vehicle would need the adapter to go the other way though, and apparently the cost can be reasonable. There's no reason why the j1772 to whatever the supercharger connection is should be greater than ~$100.
The watery sounds you find when listening to low bit-rate mp3, there was a bit of that in the video, especially the "Mary had a little lamb..." skit.