skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had an evolve board for 12 months, it was the first generation and I have had loads of fun. The newer models have a bigger motor and are better at climbing and stopping by all accounts. I haven't had any reliability issues and have been able to ride it every time I wanted to. Recently though the range has reduced and I am hoping its just a single battery cell that needs replacing or rebalancing. I haven't opened it up to look and will most likely send it to evolve to diagnose. It still gets more range than the boosted board so its very usable.

I think battery problems will be discussed more frequently as electric boards age. They make up a significant portion of the board cost and I hope suppliers have a good strategy to help customers when problems arise.

Boosted boards look awesome and I can't wait to try one someday. I only ride for fun and its typically 45-60 minutes at an average speed around 14-16mph, so a boosted board falls a little short in their range. I was wondering if Boosted had considered having an 'eco' mode that only runs one of the motors enabling extended range?
Pure wisdom here. That's why I read HN. Thanks for sharing.
>> We want a market where houses below a certain level of quality just don't exist, because it's better for everyone.

> But are we sure that's true?

It depends on how you calculate the cost of the low-quality thing. Take houses. If people could sell houses made of compressed dryer lint, some would. And some poor people would buy. And many of them would be horribly burned in fires.

What's the cost? It depends on how much responsibility we take in caring for them. Do we pay to treat their burns? Do we pay for their funerals? Do we pay to raise their children and give them counseling? What about the lost potential of all those people to contribute to the world? What about the value of life itself?

> One outcome of the arguments for net neutrality, and your argument in particular, is that there's no means for providing low-cost services designed for the less-rich. It's not obvious to me that setting a bar this high is a good thing for the lower economic rung in our society.

It's not obvious to me, either. But it seems like Facebook-only phones are a bit like dryer-lint houses. How much would it cost society to have its bottom ranks unable to read Wikipedia or look up medical conditions on MedLinePlus or comparison shop on Amazon?

And if such plans succeed, how long until we have to consider every ISP's plans with "features" such as "doesn't block category X" and "doesn't throttle site Y"?
It's hardly "reckless and suicidal" if you think

1. p=90% the Swedish policy is so much hot air, at least until international tensions reach the boiling point. (A person who thought this would have been right.)

2. You might have stealth tech sufficient to evade the Swedes' sensors.

3. It is valuable to know for sure about #2, and there's only one way to know for sure.

The p=10% that #1 is false certainly constitutes a risk, so the only rational actor who would make the play we saw would be someone matching #2 and #3, and right now that's the Russians. Plus the Russians have a history of actively probing their opponents' defenses, so the move would hardly be without precedent.
> Consider your diet as well. Do you find yourself often in a low-energy state? Look into what helps your energy level. Sleep is a factor as well.

This one is big for me - it's much more difficult to use your willpower to continue working if you're in a low energy state. I found that eating a meal with a lot of carbohydrates before doing mental work messes my energy levels. That's why I prefer high fat, high protein meals to ones containing carbohydrates. I try to get most of my carbs from vegetables and fruits.
I have failed (about 50k people saw how I failed and what I learned here: http://www.sergioschuler.com/startup-lessons-learned-from-my...) and now I work for a pretty normal company, as their digital marketing head (not as impressive as it sounds, but I enjoy it).

I am building something very simple on the side (libertarian tshirts, since the idea is growing here in Brazil) and I still crave to solve problems.
Which is why you scrape while the site is in business, and then only display once they've gone out of business.
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Just to be clear, is this fiction, or a dramatization of reality?

Both would please me, but not knowing which does not.
Just flag off-topic, political articles like this. They always lead to bad discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reclusive EBay Billionaire Lived for Years in Second Life
Very self aware, I wish more people on Twitter (or in real life) realised this. Or at least read this post.
My father in laws ranch is surrounded by wind farms. I asked him why they were suddenly cropping up all around his land, and he told me 2 reasons:

1) TAX BREAKS AND/OR
2) Huge government subsidies

The folks that lease these things get huge tax breaks for allowing them on their land, and there is massive government incentives out to build these things. That would signal to me that they are not yet economically viable. When people start building them on prospect(similar to wildcatting an oil well) then I will believe the economics work out. Until then, its a bad business to be in.
Any technical reason they might offer (sparse array performance) is just facetious. They have the technical know-how to solve such problems, but business wise it makes little sense.

Indeed. They cared about open standards when Microsoft was still dominating and the new categories were in their infancy. Later, they cared because Apple dominated smart phones and tables for some years. But now that Android has an ~85% worldwide marketshare, Google Mail is probably the most popular e-mail provider, and Chrome made serious inroads on the desktop, they feel confident enough to slowly start ignoring standards to lock other browsers and ecosystems out.

Of course, the historical difference compared to Microsofts rise is that hackers always had contempt for Microsoft, while Google is loved in large contingents.
Mocking the behavior of your code may be as hard as writing the actual code. I mean, you are right, you can feed an outsource code with fakey, but covering all test cases in the mocked up code needs a lot of work which drives us to the point I mentioned earlier: You have to teach them your code.

You are right, though, at some point that aiming to create parts that are easy to mock and test is a good practice. But here we have a question about one -a single freelancer- getting help by outsourcing at some point (which is probably close to the deadline) some functionality. I don't think there are plenty of freelancers out there who put modularity on top of their priority list when writing code. They care about the time deadline, functionality, robustness, error tolerance and at some point modularity shows up in the list. Many one-guy-cares-about-all projects are black box whose features other than functionality are not taken care of by the customer and the programmer.
> Certainly this is what will happen if everyone thinks the same way as you...

What will happen? More people will block small providers because fewer exists? The issue is much larger than that. There need to be better ways to deal with email than just dropping it for arbitrary reasons.

> I was blocked exactly once

... that you know of

I've worked for companies where our internal mail servers just couldn't email some people; we presume their ISP black listed us and never published it on a shared list. (We only know this because people would call because they never got the email with the link to their purchased item.)

I do not have the time to worry about if every email I send will get delivered. Many systems don't send you a status notification; they just accept and then drop the message, meaning you may not see an error in the logs. You may not show up on public black lists for days. That's not something I want to be sinking my time into. I'd rather pay someone to run a well-known service that is very unlikely to have delivery issues.
Only this one is not designed by you...
Google blocked Windows Phone from accessing Google Maps in the browser (both the desktop and mobile versions) with the claims that IE was unsupported, even though Google Maps UK worked just fine.

Google does have a history of blocking browsers they don't support, no matter how functional it may seem.
> ... she smiled so broadly that she looked almost attractive despite her unkempt red-grey hair and nondescript clothes.

Why is this necessary?
> Objectively Russia may have nothing to gain from short military intrusions into neighboring countries

The entire idea of "objective gain" (and "Russia" as a unit that could have gain) is sometimes-useful but often misleading convenient fiction. All gain (in the sense that it motivates action) is grounded in subjective utility, and so is not objective, and, further, is the gain of individual actors for which larger entities (e.g., states) are potentially-misleading aggregate units of analysis.

Its not a matter of whether Russia has something objectively to gain from short military incursion, but whether Russian decision-makers feel that they have subjective utility tied to decisions which produce such incursions.
I know a couple of startuppy companies that are still using it, but it certainly feels like a language in decline. There's a lot that's elegant about it, but the syntax is awkward in practice, and compared to e.g. Python there are fewer libraries available and no really compelling advantage, IMO.

It's a language that deserves better than it got - it should've become the standard for *nix config files (thanks RMS for the mess we have now). It should've been the language Sun pushed to run everywhere (it even supported java-style applets in web pages, without the slow vm startup). It should've filled the Lua niche (to a certain extent it did) as an embeddable scripting language. It should've filled the perl niche - it had good support for invoking external executables in a shell-scripting role, and could even be used as a login shell; it had good regex support, and was a first-class programming language that could be used for web backends. Heck, it even did reactive I/O in the very early days (IIRC there was a fantastic server product that was caught up in the demise of Netscape or AOL or some such) - it should've been Node too. But it always felt a bit unloved at Sun, especially post-Java (and to be fair, who can blame them when Java was that popular?), and it somehow never seemed to reach critical mass.
Look at the bottom of the page :

- DataDraw (this project)

- gnetman - an netlist translation tool, compatible with gEDA

- BTSlave - a BitTorrent client

- NetFS - a BitTorrent replacement
What exactly is a northern accent? Is that a midwest accent crossed with a new england accent crossed with a new jersey accent?
> Utility scale solar on the other hand is far cheaper.

I guess it all depends on your definition of "far cheaper." The DOE reported this year [1] that the price of electricity generated by utility scale photovoltaic power plants is higher than every other plant type, except offshore wind.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#E...
> The Russians have nothing to gain from risking a submarine in swedish (of all) waters.

Testing detection and response capabilities, wiretapping undersea cables... they've been caught red handed in Swedish waters in the past.
A good start is assume that ANYTHING published from russian channels will be propaganda. It's a bandit state.
Of course generators are completely unusable until other browsers start to support them.

That is, unless you use a compiler to convert your generator code into more mundane javascript [1]. It would be nice to see these "emulated generators" in the comparison too.

[1] https://facebook.github.io/regenerator/
I don't understand the appeal of that show. I almost cringe every time I see a clip, and the popularity suggests that the world actually thinks nerds are like that.
"But take a look at what CNN says before proclaiming anything about NATO aggressiveness!"

okay, counsel :)
Works all over Europe. I was talking to American friend who moved from US Mid West to Seattle. It's a distance of ~3,200 km. From where I am in western europe, I'd have to drive to Jerusalem to have a similar distance. Even "far away" places like Moscow were 'only' 2,500km away. The sheer distances in North America are massive compared to Europe.
If it had worked in Firefox and Chrome, but not on Internet Explorer, what should they have done? Think about that...
"The Left." is in a weird place. Objection within NATO countries to Afghanistan and Iraq (coalition, NATO, whatever) has led to many leftists seeing their job as critics of their own country. A part of that is trying to cut through the propaganda where your country is always innocent and other other guys are always malevolent. Getting the US/Coalition to accept culpability for its role in the collapse of Iraq. Etc.

A lot of those things are positive. Internal criticism is extremely important. But, there is a danger of going down an enemy-of-my-enemy route and turning yourself into a dumb reflection of the thing you are objecting to. In the UK, the parody hard left produced MPs actively supporting the Syrian Baathist party up until recently.

Russia does feel threatened by NATO. They have for a while. But mores, Russia's objection to NATO is a nationalistic ego thing, and shouldn't be excused. Most of the "aggression" in Eastern Europe, of countries joining NATO and encouraging NATO presence in their territory is fear based. It's based on a terrible experience of Russian dominance a generation ago and a fear of Russian invasion now. Russia's neighbors are afraid of them. They are afraid of invasion, interference, stuff like that. They want NATO presence because they are afraid of Russia.

At the same time the baseline political rhetoric in Russia is belligerent, democratic rights like free press are diminishing and human rights are receding.
> The world today is quite different from the world then.

Not really. Everyone used Git and Github 5 years ago too. That's why it was so annoying that Go chose to use Google Code for everything, although not surprising considering it's a Google project.
They literally just said Visual Studio 2015 will run on Linux and Mac.

--As people pointed out, this isn't true. I was confused by Ars Technica's headline declaring VS to be "cross platform".

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/visual...
Because they don't operate SSKs any more, same reason it isn't the sneaky UK. Both of whom are accused of operating in Russian waters, but those decisions are made at the very top of the political hierarchy on a per-mission basis. Doing so inside Swedish waters is incredibly unlikely due to the massive political fallout for negligible reward.

Edit to add: SSK due to the size and operating on the bottom. "Small U boats" are SSKs (diesel electric) not SSNs, as the nuclear power plant is massive.
very much working to expand the standards to meet the needs of modern e-mail.

Obligatory links:

https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/tree/fastmail
http://jmap.io/
I think it's popular because everyone has a character they can relate to.
~1/2 the cost of rooftop solar = far cheaper.

Also from your chart PV = 130 which is between Conventional Combustion Turbine = 128 and IGCC with CCS = 147.4. But that's "U.S. Average Levelized" so some solar is well below that number.

In the end it's a complex subject where for example building solar power plants reduces the value of solar power.

Edit: Further down the page you find the minimum cost for PV solar = 101.4 which is below the max cost of Conventional Coal = 114.4 or Advanced Nuclear = 102.0 and close to the average cost of coal 95.6. So there is quite a bit of overlap.
Should I use delegated or native comments for my niche community site?
I'm building a MEAN-stack reddit/HN clone as a fun side project and toy. Although its value is primarily its educational benefit for me, I'd like to build it out and go through all the steps of a proper deployment to learn more about production and get experience with stuff like analytics, ads, etc.

I'm adding authentication right now and, facing the O-Auth question, wondering if I should go with delegated comments via Facebook or Disqus, or stick with my native system.

Since this is a side project (I'm a writer in a tech-ish field) I don't have much time for moderation. My biggest fear is that, left (relatively) untended, my small community site will be overrun by spambots and trolls.

A delegated system doesn't completely forestall this, but it does offer its own spam tools and (in the case of FB especially) a persistent user identity that might discourage trolling. On the other hand, I could do more with a native system, and if it turned out to be possible, I'd love to add my own simple spam/hatespeech detection as another learning exercise.

Does anyone have experience with a similar side project? Or are there any moderators who might have insight into the system?
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Maybe this wouldn't have happened if Google didn't fuck up releasing Google Glass like they fucked up releasing Google+.

Making it so god damn exclusive for several years then expecting people to jump up at the chance isn't how things work anymore. You can only stay hyped about things for so long. I've personally even forgot the damn thing existed and only reacted with a "meh, no one has it, so it's not a loss to anyone".
The same Sweden was basically sleeping when russian planes contested swedish aerospace, and danish F16's had to act on it, and show the russians the door out.
Swedish military isn't exactly famous for being on the ready and deliver on threats.

It's so relaxed, to the point that its a running joke among neighbour nations.

Source: I'm from denmark, and lived in sweden for 6 years up until 3 years ago, and my father has lots of nordic military contacts.
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The author seems to have contributed to New Scientist on the subject matter[1], therefore I'm hoping (and expecting) it to be the latter of your two possibilities.

1. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18224452.100-inside-th...
Happy fastmail user.
Salar.ly gets it's data from foreign worker visa applications how representative of the wider work force can that possibly be?
Good article, thanks. It's amazing how such relatively simple techniques get some fancy names.
Yes exactly. I started coding in Python 2 days ago so I went with what I found (asyncio) but it could be easily recoded in Python2!
> Its Business Politics at play

Or alternatively it's economics. Maybe someone, somewhere had to make a decision similar to "If we want a good experience that includes Firefox users from day 1 it will cost $x and delay launch by y weeks". And he had to sell that to his boss.

Even in a company as awash with money as Google, someone has to justify budget choices.
This would make a great science fiction piece, if elaborated on. The moralizing at the end, however, was a little heavy-handed.
I think it's science fiction, but I'm not sure. The reason I think this is because it's in a section called "futures", which Nature describes elsewhere as "Science fiction from the home of science".
Sorry for typo, I meant "slides", but especially second and third slide.
More services can now tell you if solar panels are worth it for you
>The 'would have been bad experience to new users' is a strawman arguement. Solution: dont release product until it works

Not really. And here's a list of arguments why it's okay to focus on one browser (at least at first):

1) It's in beta, so you want to get it right before focusing on making it work everywhere

2) Developing for multiple browsers adds overhead to developers. I imagine they like to utilise some experimental webkit features, which are either not available in Firefox/gecko

3) Related to 2), they would add a lot of overhead making sure the UI and UX is the same, using multiple vendor prefixes and workarounds for other things.

And just to point out,

>dont release product until it works

is probably the worst advice ever to give to people. You want people to actually test your application. You can never catch all the edge cases that can/will happen, in your mind, and sometimes your assumptions are wrong. This is a pretty basic concept or Lean UX etc.
I've spent the last 8 months working on my own stuff. Before that I worked primarily as a backend engineer. My UI experience was limited. I did see the need for the skills.

I also believe that there should be at least a strong mobile offering with any web application now-a-days. That said, here's my thought on the matter.

UI sucks for everything. It really seems to have always sucked and probably will continue to suck. Swing is a pain to develop. WinForms too. I assume from looking at Cocoa code, so is Apple.

I've been working on a Pomodoro app during this whole time. Just getting lists to work efficiently in Android is a bitch. You have to serialize objects in and out of view items to make sure scrolling doesn't absolutely crap out when you've got a lot of items. Even with Swift, the same is fundamentally true in iOS.

Making a native app that looks 1) unique and 2) nice is terrible. You have to have a team with a designer and developer. Anything less and you're going to be out of the market longer. Making a native app that meets the two criteria above on multiple platforms is incredibly time consuming.

So I've now decided to use Ionic + Angularjs + Cordova. I've been on that platform for 2 weeks now. In that time, I've learned Web SQL, Angularjs, Ionic and enough Cordova to get plugins installed. I am also further along than I ever was in my Android development. It even looks pretty using the default Ionic styling (I got a free UI team by using their stuff).

So even if I accept your speculation that apps will dominate the world. I assume it will be developed on an HTML5 or HTML* stack. That does require "interoperable universal interaction standards".

I'll continue this speculation to say that I think the appearance of apps will merge. There is little reason to have a brand for Android and a brand for iOS and a brand for Tizen, etc. Ionic apps look like Ionic apps without having to spend a lot of GUI logic saying stupid things like, If Android, put the tabs on the top. Again, you need a common standard for this type of design and that is HTML.

P.S.
I know that games will suck in JS in the browser view. I know that JS has some serious issues with performance that will probably not be overcome for sometime. I've seen that analysis blog post too. But for CRUD apps like the Pomodoro or Foursquare or LinkedIn, Ionic and its ilk are perfect. The reason is, to beat the horse, is because of advancing open, compliant standards. CSS animations can now be hardware accelerated. JS performance is constantly improving (even if it is a horrible, horrible language).HTML is being banged out to house newer features. This isn't a polemic about how native has no values. It's a polemic against the idea that CRUD apps should have gone native.
> The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the flights publicly, also said that the pace of Russian flights around North America, including the Arctic, have largely remained steady, with about five incidents per year.

> Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, declined to call this a Russian provocation. He said the Russians have a right, like any other nation, to operate in international airspace and in international waters. The important thing, Warren said, is for such exercises to be carried out safely and in accordance with international standards.
Seeing it works really well, :o) gotta love http 500 errors before you can love the framework i guess,

500 Internal Server Error
The server was unable to fulfill your request.
It can be binded in C++ yes
They were all drunk, c'mon! Obvious :)