skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He expressed it in a bit of a one-sided way, and did that with a few other things too. I think he has the common tendency to do this when the other side of the equation is over-represented in popular discussion.

For another example, he takes a virtually opposite position to some versions of the Lean Startup dogma -- he advocates making plans and thinking conceptually instead of just engaging in "gradient descent" to find a product-market fit. But the truth is that both approaches have their place and are important. The latter is just over-represented in the popular mind these days, largely as a reaction against the rash of high concept "this should work because we've reasoned that it should work" failed startups in the late 90s. (Lean Startup itself is a reaction against the late 90s.)
Yes, and point taken.
In your home town, it's probably not a big deal. But if you're travelling in random towns, I could definitely see this being useful. Bonus points if you can tie it into a 'what's cool to do around here right now' service. Or 'what's the best craft beer place near here'. That kinda thing.
Except in Ruby, that error is raised by `NilClass#method_missing`. `method_missing` gets to know the name of the method being called, and the arguments passed to it, but it deals with the value, not the variable. It wouldn't be "trivial" to report the name of the variable, it would probably involve intercepting all NoMethodErrors raised by NilClass and then dropping into the debugger to know where exactly execution stopped. I'm not sure this is even possible with the current architecture of the Ruby interpreter.
You're way off balance and delusional if you think the natural human reaction to a snide smarta* relates in someway to 'hatred' for blacks/jews/mexicans.

Your comments reflect how out of touch with reality a good number of techies are in the valley. It's sad and pathetic and it only exists due to the relatively homogeneous bubble that has been created out there. If it were more heterogeneous like it was in the past, this frame of mind you seem to have settled on wouldn't be the case because you'd constantly be checked by reality of people outside of your sphere on a daily basis. That check/balance has been removed and all that remains is a bunch of immature newly minted self-absorbed dweebs who feel the world should bow to them because they made some app that monetizes other people's data.

You have no clear and sound perspective on race relations.
You have no clear and sound perspective on how to treat women.
and when you go about being a d*ck, on the off chance that someone checks you, you feel they hate you.. like the jews

Jesus.. This is why i left the bay area.
I seem to recall that synthesizing methane or hydrocarbons from water and atmospheric CO2 isn't that much less efficient than that. Given the efficiency of internal combustion engines versus fuel cells and existing infrastructure you might as well get your carbon neutral transportation that way instead of with hydrogen.
I doubt this is the case. If anything, the reasons you give boil down to: "the core of the car - the moving vehicle bit - will become commodity" and when this happens, cars will become "cars" like phones are now "phones," as in, they're not so much phones anymore as tiny computers that can also make calls. And this will definitely NOT increase their lifetime. If anything, it will decrease it... just like we replace our phones every 2 years.
Why dead??
Oh wow, that is so much more understandable for me! Nice :-)
Of course it's more efficient to use batteries, these are all entry level arguments. Perhaps I misread the audience.

The infrastructure cost is totally different. Electrolysis and immobile storage of hydrogen is very cheap.

We don't have a lot of places where for a significant portion of time when there is excess power from renewables, but we will, in the future.

Edit:
To clarify: if you want to produce say 40% of your yearly energy needs from wind and solar, you have to oversize the production since there are many days they produce very little. That then means there are days when they produce more than is consumed. The excess energy could be used for electrolyzing hydrogen from water.

Note no carbon involved. Also the low efficiency doesn't matter, as the energy is "free". Low cost of energy storage method is much more important in this case.

Any other reasons than "batteries are more efficient" for downvoting?
AC Transit also operates 12 hydrogen fuel cell buses. http://www.actransit.org/environment/the-hyroad/
> We will send you a 128-bit encrypted HTTPS link via SMS that you can click to enter your credit card number. We do not store your credit card number. All payment processing is handled by Stripe.

What if one of your operators sends me a link to pay them instead and I never get what I asked for?

Also, for something people are wary is a scam, saying "be careful what you wish for" in your first reply is a little bit ominous!
What is shadow banned and why am I?
> I think most of the advantages of FP languages (as they exist today)

You seem to be describing Haskell with that rather overgeneral (and incorrect) statement above. OCaml supports mutation and explicit sharing just fine, and is strict by default. As for the rest, as you get closer to needing manual resource control, it just gracefully devolves.
Portal: https://portalplatform.net/

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9040423
For those using python-social-auth with Django, omab has also produced a number of examples that aren't contained in the main PSA repo or docs. These were a real time-saver the last time I worked on a project using it.

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psa-allauth
https://github.com/omab/psa-allauth

An attempt to demonstrate feature-parity with django-allauth. Demonstrates: Signup of both local and social accounts; Connecting more than one social account to a local account; Disconnecting a social account (require setting a password if only the local account remains); Optional instant-signup for social accounts (no questions asked); E-mail address management (multiple e-mail addresses, setting a primary); Password forgotten flow; E-mail address verification flow.

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psa-passwordless
https://github.com/omab/psa-passwordless

Passwordless Email Auth

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psa-recovery
https://github.com/omab/psa-recovery

Email Auth + Simple password recovery mechanism

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psa-friendsinvite
https://github.com/omab/psa-friendsinvite

Facebook Friends Invite with delayed permissions request.
New Cop Site
http://www.mapthepolice.com/

Its a web based application, the goal is to identify common places that police like to conduct radar, road blocks and other police activity.

We just launched a new feature that we're pretty excited about, its a "Police Incident Registry", a database of crowd sourced geo-tagged news articles. Soon we'll be pulling this data and adding it to the map.

Questions / Suggestions?
Someone told me that Heinlein's book is recommended (or required, can't remember) reading in US military academies (specifically the Marines).
Many of the places that work well for solar panels are far away from the people who use electricity. Hydrogen is a good energy storage solution, to the point that eg. Australia and Saudi Arabia are contemplating commercial operations, nicknamed "solar fuels": http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/abe-visit-may-hasten-solar-f...
> An atom that normally emits light will cease emitting when its surroundings become incapable of absorbing that light. Thus one event (emission) depends on something that does or doesn’t happen in the future (absorption). “That’s one of the examples of a particle probing the future and seeing what’s there, and then making a decision based on it, and just not decaying

Using the above analogy the message sent from the future (the man exists) to the past will prevent the grandfather to be killed just like the decaying atom, maybe the messages send back and forth from the future rewrites the events to prevent the paradox, something like backtracking until it works.
Right on. If we as a society want to help those whose skills don't command a high monetary value in the market, we should pay for that help as a society (through taxes)!
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Maybe women on average just prefer some jobs more than others?

Really, I'm sure there are millions of factors that enter into to those stats -- about one for every woman because everyone woman is unique with her own goals and tastes -- but I think the occam's razor for this topic is that men and women on average have different preferences. Would we be hunting for a root cause in social pressure or discrimination if we found women were a much higher chunk of the audience for Twilight and men were a higher percent of Avengers viewers?

The bottom line, whatever the reason for discrepancies, is in your daily professional life to treat both sexes the equally.
Certainly a great improvement, but it's sad that the WebKit Dev Tools are well over a decade old, and this change is just coming now. It shows how much room there is for improvement in developer ergonomics.
Not signing for a conspiracy. But the car companies actions look a lot like they believe that both:

1 - Nobody will buy alternative fueled cars

2 - They must appear to support ecologically friendly energy sources
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> Any such service would immediately be outcompeted by one which doesn't provide all that - it's trivial to clone an on-demand service, and if you have lower costs you can be cheaper.

In other words, it's the classic 'race to the bottom' problem, which is exactly what the OP is talking about. It's not helpful at a societal level to out-compete each other into the ground.

I don't agree that companies should become safety nets, but there absolutely should be a liveable minimum wage, that companies are expected to adhere to.
I can't really usefully answer that question without knowing more about what your purpose is.

If your purpose is to learn how to program in a functional style, then either language is fine. Other than that, the main difference between the two is purity/effects, lazy/strict, and type-classes/modules in Haskell and OCaml. That all changes the specifics of the code being written quite dramatically.
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You know how you swap the powertrain on a Model S? You pull the motor (~70 lbs) and you drop the battery pack. 10 minutes tops.

Sure, you could argue the interior will wear. Big deal. You'll have interiors you can swap on the power sled (battery + suspension + electric motor). Those sleds should last forever.
Almost all Tesla car charging occurs in owners' garages, where Tesla doesn't have to front anything. Tesla's supercharger network is funded by a $2,000 addition to each luxury car that they sell. Both kinds of chargers use a lot of pre-existing electricity infrastructure.
That sounds like you're trying to weasel out of having to accept the science. However, since you mention your interest, you'll probably be interested in the work of Richard Muller / Berkeley Earth. Their research reexamined the temperature data underlying climate change, and despite initial skepticism they were able to rule out alternative theories.

The debate is of course of political manufacture, because the science is unequivocal.
"You're not really solving any problems simply changing what hydrocarbon you choose to burn."

You are solving lots of problems:

1-Lots of countries in the world have natural gas(or coal), but very few have oil.Just not depending on the petrodollar is a big plus as it would made countries more self reliant.

2-Reserves of natural gas are way higher than of oil.

3-If efficiency doubles, you need to spend half of it.

4-You can synthesize it artificially if you have C02, water, and energy.
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Bear in mind though the phones are 100x cheaper than cars. If the car prices don't come down drastically, they can certainly not become commoditized like that.
Then not sure how its supposed to distribute Rust programms... Maybe some installer at least..
OT, but I have to ask, do you use the flux pattern and if yes, any helper implementation?
Poor metrics win again!
A handy tip to reverse engineer complexity from empirical examples is plot on a log-log plot and measure the gradient (if its a straight line). The gradient is the exponent, ie. O(n^gradient). Great if your algorithm is so complex you can't analyze it.

http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/JamesStewart/378notes/05lo...
The world's largest car maker isn't going to bet their entire future on irrational choices.

Clearly they have either something in the R&D pipeline or have consumer research which suggests that EV isn't the future. We can all disagree with their bet but you would be frankly a complete idiot to ever dismiss Toyota's decisions lightly.
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I'm still reeling from how cynical and dismissive this comment is. The Rust developers don't like IEEE 754 any more than you do, but it doesn't change the fact that IEEE 754 is what hardware implements. I encourage you to take your complaints up with hardware vendors and the IEEE, as well as with with the popular programming culture of blindly pasting SO answers into your programs in frantic attempts to get them to compile at any cost. As for me, I very much appreciate that Rust is conscientious enough to throw up a red flag and force me to realize that this seemingly-simple task is actually quite complex, rather than implicitly imposing a leaky abstraction.
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I find monospace fonts easy to read. I write code all day using a monospace font.
Long-term viability of CoffeeScript
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Babel actually supports flow type annotations and declarators will be available once there's a decent ES7 spec for them.
Keep the Grand Canyon Wild
Traceur scared people away both because it was a build tool and had a runtime dependency. Now that tools like Webpack are common, introducing a build step at ay point in your workflow is trivial. Moreover, many of the JS Harmony improvements can be transpiled with a tool like Babel or jstransform without the need to introduce yet another library in your deployed code.
Twitter says that inactive accounts (six months with no activity) may be removed at any time, although their web site also says that they don't grant requests to take over inactive accounts (with an exception regarding trademarks).
"The standard interpretation of entanglement is that there is some kind of instant communication happening between the two particles."

This is flat-out not true. The standard interpretation is that the entangled objects are part of a single quantum state. Measurement/observation of the state collapses the wave-function, and does not necessarily imply communication between the constituent parts.
Yep. The Metro app on Win8 has a very poor UX, but the desktop version (also available on WinRT) is fantastic.

The OSX native app seems to have parity more or less with the Windows one. I use it at work and haven't had any issues.
Shipping Around the World in 1:40
his book, starship troopers, is on the commandant of the Marine Corps professional reading list. it is required reading in some commands, but not corps wide.
That's an interesting point of view. I've had multiple people tell me they wish they could find a 'traditional mechanical engineer' that knew heat transfer, knew fluids, could build a gear train, and knew some kinematics. I think MEs that graduated 20-30 years ago are in high demand.

Extremely watered down versions of those courses are in my curriculum. Fluid mechanics is nearly all Bernoulli's Equation and Linear Momentum. Heat Transfer is 1D conduction, basic convection, and basic radiation. Machine Design, while heavily focused on gears, was extremely watered down. Kinematics, on the other hand, has been completely dropped from the curriculum! A lot of these courses have been made easier to allow students to spend time on 'lab projects' that consist of filling in the blanks of Arduino sketches. It's a sad state of affairs.

You are spot on by stating that undergraduate ME curriculums are 'Engineering Undeclared' in my experience. I think part of this is because the 'traditional' curriculum that my grandfather and father took is 'too challenging' by today's standards. I'm not half the engineer they were when they graduated from the same department.

I think this can be attributed to several things. When my father graduated, everyone took the FE with plans of becoming a PE. I know maybe 5 other people in my graduating class who plan on taking the FE. He took 3 years of math, I took one and a half. We can't really get into 2D conduction in heat transfer because no one has the math background to handle it! The 'Intermediate Heat Transfer' I'm taking in grad school is the equivalent of the 'Introduction to Heat Transfer' my grandfather took.
Really interesting but I hope this doesn't become popular and appear in every site. A few comments:

* Wave2 is broken in Chrome (in Windows)

* The title should change, it's always "I'm sorry".

* I'd prefer that this doesn't destroy the history / back button.

* Add a stop button / link.

* I like the diy. Can I send one to my friends?
They take daily snapshots and keep them for a week.
> What I meant is writing new pages in a newer language (insert random lightweight text based format, preferably one where the 'see also' part is linkable)

A little bit of manpage history:

Roff has been around since the beginning of Unix (in fact, the group at Bell Labs who developed Unix got funding by convincing managers they could come up with a good typesetting system). Roff supports a variety of macro sets; for a long time, the most common one for manpages was the “man” macros.

In the early 1990s, BSD came up with the “mdoc” macros, which are a significant improvement over the original “man” macros. mdoc is inherently semantic, and allows easy searching and conversion to other formats, including HTML. You can search for based based on function return type or argument type, program authors, include files and environment variables used, and many more. mdoc pages natively support hyperlinking, including links to other manpages, links within the same manpage, and external hyperlinks.

Mdoc is a very pleasant language, and since it’s used in roff you can combine it with other macro sets like tbl (for tables) and eqn (for mathematics). It supports UTF‐8, it can easily be converted to PDF and/or semantic HTML, and provides great searchability. It’s well‐documented and widely supported (mdoc pages are supported out of the box on any system using mandoc or groff for manpages, meaning Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, Illumos, Minix…).
In what way? I've spent a considerable amount of time in Calcutta -- it has its extreme positives and extreme negatives like many cities. The analogy needs some clarification.
This might not be that exciting for most people on HN. However, the Greenplum parallel database is pretty decent at what it does:

http://www.slideshare.net/emcacademics/dcd01-final

I don't believe there is another mature, production-grade parallel RDBMS in the open source world, so this has the potential to be quite interesting.
This only happens with phones because of rapidly increasing performance.

The same thing happened with desktop computers, but eventually the performance increases leveled off and people stopped purchasing a new computer ever 2 years.
> I thought it was already well known that Evernote software cannot be trusted.... I'm baffled that users continue to trust it.

It's unfair and condescending to blame the user when companies like Evernote actively mislead them. The service called Ever-note, with an elephant as their logo/icon. Their website even features this slogan: "Your life's work. For everything you’ll do, Evernote is the workspace to get it done."

Most HNers realize that cloud syncing and backups aren't the same thing, that cloud services do fail, and when they do customer service is likely to be woefully unhelpful. And that the marketing departments at companies like Evernote overpromise because it serves their growth strategy and they never face repercussions. But that doesn't mean that any of this is okay.

This is on Evernote not its users, and we only help Evernote when we downplay this as old news or presume average users should adopt some of the far too sophisticated alternatives mentioned in this thread (like org-mode).
Does this provide a "different" type of REPL than gore?
Ah, I wanted to know why viggity agreed with Lea, not for a list of reasons to use ad-block, but you make some good points... although I disagree about the presence of an implicit contract in the first place.
"I really don't understand the whole cars are in league with big oil."

Yeah, nobody would ever "conspire" when trillions upon trillions of dollars in economic activity, millions of entrenched (and often unionized) jobs, hundreds of billions of dollars of sunk cost in infrastructure, the economies of entire nations and regions of nations, and generations of established thinking are at stake. That never happens. The parent poster is just one of those conspiracy nuts.

Sorry for the combative tone, but I'm a bit tired of seeing this kind of naivete. Of course people will conspire and engage in stalling and other underhanded political tactics to stop things that are a threat to huge industries and entrenched ways of doing things. They'll do that and more. They will lie, cheat, kill, undermine democracy and foster political corruption, start wars, you name it.

A lawyer friend of mine explained it to me this way (we were discussing shady behavior in the startup world): "There are people who will beat you up or kill you for a smart phone or the contents of your wallet. What will people do for a million bucks?" I sort of got it. Answer is that people will do everything they'll do for your cell phone or wallet and then some, but they'll do it with far more sophistication and cunning. The higher the stakes the more cunning and otherwise sophisticated the crimes.

BTW, the mention of unionized jobs above highlights that it's not just oil companies and car companies we're talking about here. We are also talking about a massive infrastructure for making, selling, and servicing oil-burner cars that employs minimally tens of millions of people in the US alone. All of that is threatened by simpler, more reliable, grid-connected battery EVs. EVs are downright apocalyptic for entire sectors of the economy. Hundreds of thousands of businesses will die, and millions will find their entire skill sets completely obsolete.

It'd be like if suddenly there were computers faster and cheaper in every way than silicon-based ones but that are programmable through some utterly alien abstraction that has almost nothing in common with present-day programming languages. All your skills are now obsolete. Google is done. Microsoft is done. Etc...
Currently technology is OK.

Your reference to 300 miles is probably based on your most extreme situation when you go on a long trip. If the charging network (DC fast charging, in under 30 mins) is there, 300 miles isn't a problem.

I have a Nissan Leaf with 160 km range and it has never been a problem yet. Home charging is perfectly fine, every morning my car is full. I will never need a faster charger at home. Fast chargers are useful on the roads near highway exits for when you do long trips, much like with gas stations.

95% of the time, my travel distance is under 120 km per day so for only 5% of the time I need to plan a recharge or swap car with my parents, sisters or friends or rent a car for very long trips.

For people with a Chevrolet Volt, they don't even have this issue, when they go on long trips, they simply charge when they can and run on gas for most of the trip.

Personally, I am fine with current technology.