skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been totally missing that green rotating skull and cross bones! I used that thing everywhere!
Right.

Saying everyone should just drive defensively is most definitely not a solution.
It varies state by state and can depend on what kind of road you are on. Most states define a default speed limit for roads and highways.
Is the HTC Eye the Nexus 6? – Is RE Camera a New Category?
Thanks!
Will test it with different font weight.
I did a test ride of a P85D last night. It was breathtaking. The car explodes (silently) of course like a rocket. It feel much, much faster than a regular P85. Here's the test ride I took: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm5CQZalLg8

It's difficult to explain in just words how fast 3.2 seconds is and I had a difficult time grasping it myself until I actually sat in a Tesla P85D and experienced it going from 0-60 in a blazing quick three seconds. It felt like a completely different (and much quicker) car than the previous single-motor P85. The car accelerates so quickly with so much force that I found myself in disbelief and awe. Tesla truly engineered an amazing new version of the Model S.

This new dual-motor version of the Model S is available to order in the performance version and will be available in the 60kwh and 85kwh version vehicles in February. Overall, having an AWD dual-motor version expands the appeal of the Model S to more market segments, especially those in colder areas. And the addition of a dual-motor performance version catapults the P85D into the realm of a true super car.

Also in an unexpected and shocking move, Elon Musk announced Tesla's Autopilot hardware at last night's event. Most people were expecting some trivial driver assist features like lane departure warning and adaptive cruise control. Further, in previous interviews Elon had alluded to Autopilot being ready by the end of 2015. But in last night's announcement, Elon outlined a 4-part Autopilot system that would allow for driving to become increasingly autonomous over time.

The Autopilot system comprises of cameras, radar, sonar, and gps/navigation integration. At first, the system will allow for drivers to use Autopilot to keep in one's lane and to slow down or speed up depending on objects in front. Over time with software updates, Autopilot will allow for full autonomous driving from freeway on-ramp to freeway off-ramp. Autopilot will also allow for the car to be able to park itself or even for it to be summoned by the owner.

In my test ride last night in a P85D, there was a brief section where we were able to see the car drive itself autonomously. The car followed the roads as it curved and also adjusted for speed limits. It also managed to change lanes by the driver just turning the signal light on. It was quite impressive.

What's further impressive is that Autopilot is a feature that is now added on to the Tech Package at an additional minimal cost (new Tech package costs $4250 vs old Tech package costed $3750). This is a great deal and will make the car even more appealing to more people.

Here's the official video from last night's presentation by Elon regarding dual-motor and Autopilot. The Autopilot description is especially interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ6lZJWL_Xk

(ps, for those interested I curate a weekly email newsletter called Tesla Weekly, http://teslaweekly.com, with the latest news regarding Tesla)
This is similar to many other situations in the history of Linux. It's generally a matter of giving someone the option to do something vs forcing it on their machine.

The W3C action is interpreted (rightly or wrongly) as forcing DRM on your machine whether you want it or not. Having the ability to watch Netflix, if you want, is not controversial among most Linux users.

The closest previous situation was probably the blow-up over Mono being installed by default. If it had been available for installation by those who wanted it, there would have been no issue, but it instead had to be installed and then removed. [To avoid upsetting anyone, I didn't care much one way or the other, I'm just saying that was the source of the problem.]
I like the simplicity.

A few thoughts:

1. Radius. My location is Olympia, WA (about an 60-90 minutes south of Seattle). Does that include Seattle jobs? It seems like that should be on a person-by-person basis. Some people here do commute into Seattle. For me, though, Seattle jobs would just be noise.

2. Maybe another set of checkboxes for common technology stacks?

3. I didn't receive a confirmation or verification email to confirm my signup. (Maybe it hasn't come yet)

Thanks, for those of us outside the big metro areas, this could be helpful.
Sonic.net implements DNSSEC, performs MITM against customers
Someone has fixed that ;)
Much better. I would also suggest you check out this library for ideas on how to better structure your code:

https://github.com/edwellbrook/node-hacker-news/blob/master/...

(This isn't my library)
I'm guessing Gavan would like to protect his work a bit and not just give out licences to do anything you want with it - if others want to commercialise, he should get a fair cut, otherwise it's going to be a hard sell to investors. IMO that's completely understandable. I find it sad that things like non permissive CC licenses are regarded as so bad in the open source community - making a project like this completely open is very hard to do as a full time job because of that.
I looked through the four documentation links on the right and was unable to find out how to cat a Google spreadsheet as anything consumable by the shell. I took a guess and tried cat -o gdrive.fmt=txt and csv, but those were not fruitful. Is this possible currently?

edit: found mimeMap.js and saw tsv was an option. That didn't work either.
C++, OpenGL, JSON is used for data storage, but not strict JSON (I allow comments and may add a few other features).
This looks quite good in the video, good work!

You mention a few games as inspiring traits of Voxel Quest -- most of which are quite obvious -- including Hearthstone. In what ways was Hearthstone an influence? Art style, or something beyond that?

Edit: Just finished watching the entire video, it really does look fantastic. I will say, the one off-putting part of your game design philosophy for me was the whole "no long-term progression" thing. I find the way Rogue Legacy handles this a beautifully rewarding mashup of the roguelike quick permadeath and the feeling of making overall progress in the game world.
Ask HN: How are the new Google Drive/Dropbox plans so cheap?
Several months ago, Dropbox dropped their price[1] to $10/month for 1 TB, matching Google Drive[2].

But cloud storage providers charge a multiplier more than this:

* S3[3] is $0.0220 per GB at scale for reduced redundancy, or $22.53/month
* Google Cloud Storage[4] is $0.02/GB for reduced redundancy, or $20.48/month.
* Microsoft Azure[5] is $0.0224 per GB at scale, or $22.94/month.

The only cloud provider that comes close is Amazon Glacier[3] at $0.0100 per GB, or $10.24/month, but you have to wait 4 hours for your data.

These prices are just for storage - not including any transfer to/from the user.

What am I missing? How in the world can Dropbox and Google charge less than half of what just the raw storage would cost?

Is Dropbox taking advantage of most users not actually using their full 1 TB? Are they losing money when someone actually stores that much stuff? Is this some kind of de-duplication magic? Do they have access to a cheaper method of storage than the rest of us?

1. https://blog.dropbox.com/2014/08/introducing-more-powerful-dropbox-pro/
2. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en
3. http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
4. https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing
5. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/
This is a good skill set for San Jose or Austin, not so great for Dallas unless you want to work for one or two of the local telecom companies that are still investing in engineering here.
You were right. 300 is better.
'a couple of drinks' -> 'a coupla drinks' -> 'a couple drinks'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elision
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_reduction
You are just being baited. I agree with what you say, but did you really want to burn your energy in this discussion?
The sort of AI necessary to drive a car is not like conventional programming code. You already can not simply blindly trust a sign. As a human you're so used to converting bad signs into something meaningful or ignoring them, but it's just part of the base problem of driving, not some sort of special problem. The sign is merely one of a constellation of inputs already coming in, already contradictory (speed limit is 55, traffic is driving 65, road conditions should only be permitting about 35, what do you do? etc.).
Very cool. I learned to program on VB6. I was a really amazing product for it's time.
No love for Security? :(
A similar situation that impacts humans is someone getting funny and removing a stop sign. I guess the traditional countermeasure is to restore the sign.
I actually never read any technical book beyond a few pages, and tend to avoid papers which are typically too academic for my needs (I really just look at raw source, if anything).

My best recommendation - dive in and start coding. You are your own best teacher. :)
ixsystems also provides support for ZFS on FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD.
On one hand, I get where he's coming from. You'll get more people interested in something when you give them direct access to all the cool stuff first and none of the setup. This is how Khan Academy structured their Programming courses. If people don't have immediate roadblocks thrown in their way, they'll want to stick around longer.

On the other hand, there is a common mindset in computer science and programming of "I don't understand this, it must be bullshit." This article comes fairly close to fitting this mindset, and may actually exist squarely within those parameters.

Ultimately, everything you want to do is going to come with prerequisites. If you want to go out in public, you must first learn to dress yourself. If you want to cook something, you must learn how to properly heat your oven, stove, grill, or whatever. You can't just say "I'm making chicken - the appropriate cookware should already be set up for me and heated to whatever is necessary to make chicken." There are so many different configurations you can use to create software or cook chicken that you can't just say "this is the one setup that will take care of all your chicken-cooking needs."

There's always been a strange fear of the command-line interface. Maybe because it looks old we think it's automatically shit. "This is the way people did stuff in the 70s - how have we not improved on this yet?" Just because a method has been around for a long time doesn't automatically mean it's out-dated. In fact, if a method HAS survived that long, it usually means it's got something going for it.

Maybe, in the future, someone will come up with software that's better to use to get you started on something new. However, the person who creates that software is going to have to have a fundamental understanding of how those command-line tools actually work. If you want to improve something, you need to understand it and not just dismiss it as "bullshit". And if you're a mentor in the CS field, maybe just complaining and expecting someone ELSE to fix the CS field-specific issues isn't the approach you should be taking.
Bear in mind that his use case is that people want to do novel things with their machines. You can simplify, automate, and GUI away things you can anticipate. When someone needs to go beyond that, you can try to give them a helpful framework, but that's it. Quite quickly they're going to be off blazing a trail, armed only with their wits and some basic tools.

But here's the catch - when blazing a trail, you can't expect to find a nicely paved road with regular bus service.
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But then /new has more of those submissions, and the site attracts more people who enjoy reading shallowly but intensely interesting articles and people who enjoy heat not light in threads.

Communities need to be careful about what they accept otherwise they get destroyed.
Thanks for the link. I need to spend some time looking at this.
Is it really necessary for this service to have the ability to:

"View, manage, and permanently delete your mail in Gmail
Create, update, and delete labels
Compose and send new email"

I'm sincerely asking - it's not a rhetorical question. Does Gmail not offer more granular permissions than this?

Also: the other commenter's point re unexpected privacy leaks is a good one. I don't think I have any secrets that would be revealed through my correspondence habits, but I do so much email, I could be wrong. Do I have the ability to delete my info after I've registered if I don't like the service?

It's an interesting idea, and I'd like to give it a try, but without a little more assurance that I can trust them with access to my email, it's not worth the risk.
How to Read a Dependency Structure Matrix
Since each node was handling 500GB of data (roughly), I think the disk speed may have been a more critical factor since each node had 244GB of memory. Their nodes used SSDs; the older nodes used spinning rust. The seek times alone will be a killer.
Not just 800GB of SSD; 8x 800GB of SSD!
The Search for the Antidote to Cocaine Addiction
It seems clear that quantum computing would help with QM calculations (which I think you were mainly talking about), but it is less clear to me if it would help with things like MD (and perhaps it wouldn't matter if QM could be sped up enough).

Could quantum computing help with MD or other kinds of simulations (e.g. monte carlo) where we are essentially searching for a minima? I have heard that quantum annealing, which some argue the first QC system are really doing, would work on this. But it's all too confusing. It seems like half of what I read about quantum computing would say "Yes!" to that, and half is saying "you don't understand".
I will put it up on github soon :) License requires a game key for now, but will be open sourced eventually if I can afford to do so. (see other comment on open source)
German City Gummersbach Drops Windows XP and Gets SUSE with a MATE Desktop
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but you may want to be careful with the generalizations.
http://forecast.io/ is another good web app worth putting in home screen
SSL is on the "short TODO list" (service still in proof of concept stage) so SSL should be implemented/enabled soon.

I need to study more about symmetric key cryptography. Any good hints from where to learn about it the best.
You don't specify -f to tell it you're processing a file, you specify -f to tell it that the next argument is the filename. And it doesn't have to come last.

tar -z -f foo.tar.gz -x

That's a perfectly valid tar command. Also, obviously you have to tell it that you're extracting the file. How else would it know that you don't want to create an archive?
> Do you guys feel debts are morally bound?

No.
As an addendum to my own thoughts, this approach is better from Apple, but I don't have much faith in Belkin, Linksys, Netgear, etc. being able to pull it off.

Given all of the issues we've seen recently with their router firmware, the router "cloud" features, and the number of different models, I don't think they could do this successfully.

Netgear has (at current count) 97 wireless routers for sale on Newegg, including some duplication for refurbs. Whatever the exact number is, it's a lot more than 3.
Like I said in an earlier comment, there are very few users right now (cough OK just me cough).

Mostly I have fun with it, e.g. trying out visualizations of interesting data (e.g. http://bl.ocks.org/ganeshv/raw/fada13e56d2c5b7b1a78/)

My Serious Use Case is full and incremental backups of the contents of my Google Drive, both personal and company, to my desktop. Running the Drive desktop app does not backup Google Docs, and you can only sign in as a single user at a time.
Most likely outcome is the employee is let go a few months down the line, and the company does not recognize the mentioned email.
Can anyone point me to a guide for migrating from software RAID to ZoL?
Sounds similar to EtherPad and Stypi, the latter of which is Y Combinator funded.

Here's an example of pg writing an essay: https://code.stypi.com/hacks/13sentences
Great story guys! Best of luck in the new phase!
Aren't we all having some cancers cells in our blood and lymphatic fluids, and tissues, but those with a healthy immune response have nothing to worry about? In most cases, doesn't cancer take years to fully developed helped by epigenetic factors, but predominantly by the external ones? Won't such device when massively used for blood testing lead to predominantly false positives, redundant biopsies, and overtreatment? I think this is a great device with an enormous potential if used on narrow targets and responsibly, in general. I just think focus should be on true prevention, i.e. dietary and lifestyle changes, and not developing a false sense of assurance by living unhealthily and relying on a test to catch the results of the poor habits, and also rely on medicine being advanced enough to correct our mistakes. Of course, some factors are unavoidable today, but we also have a growing arsenal of knowledge and means to counter many of them.
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The command line is the heart of Unix and Friends, which is why it wasn't abandoned decades ago. And it's almost impossible to replace the *nixes because of network effects and extraordinarily high costs.

The command line is "powerful" because it is "simple" in the sense that it doesn't really do anything for you. Commands have their own input and output syntax based on their needs and it's up to the user to figure out how to fit it together. I think one having standard serialization format, so that you wouldn't have to waste time learning and thinking about each command's special little syntax would be much more powerful.
The nexus looks promising. But the camera is a flop for sure.
With some practice, or even better, some support libraries, this looks like a great way to quickly explore viz prototypes. Great work!
Doing a MVP is fine, but frankly your web-site is so light on details that I don't have a strong opinion about where this product would slot in.

I cannot help but immediately want to compare it to Ruby On Rails or Microsoft's MVC framework. They both offer a lot of the plumbing for you, and leave the actual content to you.

Maybe it is more akin to Microsoft Lightswitch, not sure.

But that might be just from my misunderstanding. It should be noted I watched the video without audio, and it just shows someone entering XML and showing a form.
My edit was referring to the fact that right after I posted my comment it was getting down voted hard.

After I made that edit the down votes were removed/counteracted.
What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
> With love to all the UNIX apologists in this thread: you're missing the point.

We didn't miss the point. We just don't agree with it. We use text-based systems where we assemble small things into the tools we need because one shot do-exactly-what-I-need items are impossible to anticipate.

We know these needs cannot be anticipated. Instead of trying and failing, we do one better. We create an array of tools that can be assembled into the ones we need at any given moment. The result is the power and expressiveness to be flexible and suit the needs of the moment.

Imagine if your car could only ever go to places the manufacturer cared about when it was made. Probably not what you want.

> I think we could do a lot better.

We await your thoughts with bated breath.
I usually throw them out there because if someone disagrees I may learn something. I imagine I gain more than I lose from that.
Some good news, the Majorana fermion has recently been independently observed.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141002141757.ht...
Why CMSs will not die
> For example the US is wealthier than Algeria. That is a generalisation ...

No, that's a statement of fact for some definition of wealth.

> ... but doesn't reflect the individual status of people within each country. I.e. some Algerians will be wealthier than some Americans.

This is simply a recognition that your fact applies to the whole and does not hold for every possible pairwise comparison.

My issue is that you cannot generalize about any cultural phenomenon in India. You can state some facts you've seen, but India is,

* a country dominated by three distinct religions,

* in some places resembles New York or Paris

* while in others it the remotest parts of Afghanistan

* and still in other parts more closely resembles Tibet

So to say that you could make one statement about the status of Indian women is misguided.

I'm glad you enjoy (presumably?) your Indian family and your trips there, but your experience is limited, and still that of a foreigner. A person having lived their whole life in India could hardly be expected to give a coherent assessment of the situation, much less so with you. The question itself is rooted in a level of imprecision which makes it useless when applied to a country as diverse as India.
I'd recommend getting a bit more specific. Your question is so open ended as to be unanswerable in any practical way.

First figure out which areas of "work environment" you actually care about.
* location / commute time / remote?
* if onsite then physical workspace ?
* develpment environment (mac/windows/linux)?
* technology stack?
* personality of company?
* social value (if any) of the company?
* etc. etc.

Until you know what aspects of "working environment" you can't really define what the min requirements are. Also, everyone's idea of "utopia" is different. We all have different values.
Projects you mentioned are real time editors. Writer.is platform for authors where posts are showed word by word like it would happend in real time. It's not a real time editor. It's animated publishing platform.
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