skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the underlying message here is that a product can limp on with linear growth, sucking the team's time and energy that they could be investing elsewhere.

Conversely no growth is a clear call to action that the product sucks, and needs to be abandoned!
The two are not mutually exclusive. Most "capitalist" countries really have mixed economies, which are perfectly compatible with the tenets of Fascism.
Unfortunately, there are several items that interfere with maximizing the 10X. Then anode is only ~16% of the entire battery, so increasing the anode energy density by 10X does not translate directly to 10X battery life. You must also consider the cathode, and separator which can hinder this. Remember the 10X is a "theoretical maximum". It is important to constantly increase the theoretical maximum energy density. Translating the theoretical to an actual energy density is about downstream processing - see how Tesla increases battery efficiency each year by make the processing more efficient.

Amprius was promising 10X increase, but once they reach ton-scale manufacturing they were only able to get a 30-50% increase. I am sure they will be able to gradually increase close to the 10X maximum by making processing more efficient.

tl;dr battery material processing into the actual battery is where most of the batteries lose there performance. Step (1) Increase theoretical energy density by finding new material; Step (2) focus on battery processing to approach theoretical maximum.
I wrote up a detailed analysis of the HN ranking algorithm a while back, explaining the time decay of votes, penalized topics and sites, and the controversy penalty: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
Most people - who know C or any programming language do not ask for a book to read, just pick one, read it carefully, do something based on it, make mistakes, learn from them. Time went by, write a book!
Mandated in many countries:

http://www.niradynamics.se/scripts/newsletter.php?id=55
That would be practical, but something tells me it's not legal.
I'm not sure the level of FUD is unjustified.

I've seen far, far more cases of document databases being used in situations that are entirely inappropriate, than in situations where they are ideally suited.

I'd argue that the situations in which it's a good choice to use a document database are pretty rare, and that you're almost always better off using a bog-standard relational database.
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> Is there a word for government and corporations weaving themselves together?

Several. The fact that the economic system of the early industrial period featured an arrangement of property rights which favored holders of capital (corporations exist only as ideas, but their owners are real beings) who then exerted disproportionate power over all institutions of society, including government, leaving those capitalists the dominant power in all domains of life is why critics of that early industrial economic system named it "capitalism", and the weaving together of corporate and government power driven by corporate influence over government remains a strong feature of capitalism. (Supporters of "capitalism" who have attempted to redefine "capitalism" to mean some ideal system of perfect market freedom rather than the actual system the term was coined to refer to often treat this as something other than capitalism, or as a failed form "crony capitalism".)

More formal integration of government, industry, and organized labor is corporatism, top-down forms dictated by the central government of corporatism were features of Italian fascism and many authoritarian movements of roughly the same time. This has sometimes led to the equation of corporatism with authoritarianism/fascism, though this is an error: corporatism is substantially older, and has substantially broader reach -- it is no more equivalent to fascism than anti-communism (also a feature of fascism) is.

And, despite the rhetorical differences in how the integration works, such integration is also a feature of those Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist Communist regimes that either don't go so far as to completely eliminate private industry, or which back off from it.

Which, taken together, illustrates the reason why there isn't a term in general use for corporations (which are, after all, creatures of government) and government weaving themselves together -- its a feature of every economic system that has actually practiced in which corporations exist, from capitalism to the various reactions against liberal capitalism.
There is a place for document store, and in my opinion it's for prototyping in a domain one's not necessarily experienced with yet. In that situation, trying to come up with the perfect (or just reasonably good enough) data model is overwhelming. So it's easier and faster to just go ahead with a document store. I like Solr because I know it best and Apache licensed and I'll likely need a search engine later. Postgres JSON type, Elastic search, Mongo or others are perfectly valid choices too.

However, once the app has shaped up, I make it a priority to harden up the data model and move the core data set to a relational database (Postgres is the likely choice now). One nice thing with this migration is I can do a lot of clean up and normalization with the originally unstructured data set.
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piracyiseasier.com - was going to be a side by side comparison of the effort needed to watch Game of Thrones legally vs illegally on various devices.
This. I also like the quote from the article that Pynchon is a great stunt-man but not a great artist. I read a few chapters from Crying of Lot 49, and it felt like every sentence was a crossword puzzle I had to solve, like the author was playing an elaborate practical joke on the reader. Fine, whatever, style is style and I struggled on. The problem for me came when I was several chapters in and realized that there was absolutely nothing going on in the novel that I cared a damn about. All of the characters were caricatures with no real personality, all of the scenes felt contrived, all the names were juvenile jokes, and it all felt like nothing more than scaffolding for the author to play his masturbatory English-major word games. That didn't work for me. Obscurity alone is not great art.
Fair enough. I seems like a terrible decision from the start. But to me that connects deeply with people shipping stuff. If you're all learning the intricacies of some new tech, you're probably not shipping as much as you could be.
Yes, the concurrance is fantastic in general, and really hits the nail on the head of why location data needs 4th Amendment protections today:

"[Location data] generates a precise, comprehensive record of a person’s public movements that reflects a wealth of detail about her familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations ... trips to the psychiatrist, the plastic surgeon, the abortion clinic, the AIDS treatment center, the strip club, the criminal defense attorney, the by-the-hour motel, the union meeting, the mosque, synagogue or church, the gay bar and on and on. The Government can store such recordsand efficiently mine them for information years into the future. And because GPS monitoring is cheapin comparison to conventional surveillance techniques and,by design, proceeds surreptitiously, it evades the ordinary checks that constrain abusive law enforcement practices: limited police resources and community hostility.

"Awareness that the Government may be watching chills associational and expressive freedoms. And the Government’s unrestrained power to assemble data that reveal private aspects of identity is susceptible to abuse. The net result is that [location tracking] making available at a relatively low cost such a substantial quantum of intimate information about any person whom the Government, in its unfettered discretion, chooses to track may alter the relationship between citizen and government in a way that is inimical to democratic society.
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"Yes, we've always been able to see people in public, but we've never been able to do it in a rapid automated fashion on a mass scale...

...This creates new implications for privacy. In the past the government simply didn't have the resources to know exactly what religious ceremonies, political meetings, protests every American was going to. Now they do."
When performance matters, or you are doing things on an order of magnitude, you may want to skip jquery
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Its multiple monitor support is the single best of any window manager on any OS that I've ever used.
I think many problems could be solved equally well using either technology IF you understand the strengths and weaknesses of each technology and implement them appropriately. It just so happens that knowledge of how to use a RDBMS appropriately is MUCH more common than document databases.
Actually, the root certificate itself simply does not need to be checked at all, as we need to trust it anyway.
In the last verification step, we verify that the last intermediate certificate in the chain has a valid signature from the root CA certificate, by using the public (!) key of the root CA certificate stored in the browser.
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Our research team is an intellectually diverse group of scientists and engineers. We are responsible for the development of our trading strategies. We perform the research, and we write the code. This is a collaborative effort; our success is derived from the knowledge we share. We program in Python and Cython, on Linux, using industry-standard open source tools like git and numpy wherever possible. When we build our own software, we do it carefully, with a focus on generality and reuseability. We work reasonable hours in a pleasant environment, and we dress however we like.

About you: We're looking for someone who has demonstrated the ability to conduct first rate scientific research and who is comfortable with programming and complex data. We generally prefer technical PhDs, but we are not degree obsessed - impact and contributions matter more than a degree. The ability to communicate clearly and collaborate fruitfully is essential. No knowledge of finance is required.

We're looking for someone who wants to stay with us long term, as we compound our knowledge and grow our business.

Compensation is attractive, consisting of a base salary and a bonus tied to company wide performance. Benefits are comprehensive. Lunch is delivered.

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Untrue. I believe they lease equipment to repo-men, who get discounts (and possibly payments) based on the amount of plate data they feed back to Vigilant.
It's an aggressive and controversial change - there isn't really much of a reason to reject SHA-1 certificates so early. May be that's why they want to be less alarming at least in the interim.
http://thismeetingcost.us

http://gohomecnnyouaredrunk.com — This one actually does point somewhere but I never got around to doing much. Just screenshots of the news networks being stupid.

http://kennedycolectivo.com

http://pointabulator.com — This was supposed to be a tool to figuring out all the possible uses of your airline/hotel points. At its most extreme this is essentially like trying to solve a sudoku puzzle where the numbers can move out from under you.
Well honestly, do you really need to? How useful it would to know name of every upcoming startup or every new technology. If it would be relevant enough, you would know it already.

I started reading Hacker News for staying up-to-date but lately, more than news what has become important for me is, insights. I read comments here first because the insights and advices they give are incredibly useful, much more than links themselves.
Uber fight to dismiss rape lawsuit shows it wont take responsibility for drivers
The Internet Archive already does this; their headquarters on Funston Street in San Francisco is heated by the server banks that run archive.org. (This occasionally makes the building a little too hot, but luckily the Richmond District in SF is usually a fairly cool climate.)
> Life's purpose is to just be here, have fun, be kind to others, and read a good book from time to time. And raise some kids if you want to see humanity continue onwards.

Indeed. But personally, I'm aware that we don't have a self-sustaining system that would allow everyone to do just that - hence I find meaning in helping to enable that (and as a corollary, I find work (as in, jobs) that don't serve to further or maintain this goal meaningless and depressing).
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I'd imagine that such a future also means that a lot of the devices capable of what you say would be made "illegal" by virtue of countless regulations, requiring of licenses and approvals, and even grey-areas that make it a nightmare for private individuals to pursue, etc. I phrase it like that, because all of these things (though some may be noble/necessary/etc) do effectively make things "illegal".
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Was this prevented from hitting the front-page as well? It's top 5 in /ask, but did the people responsible for the title edit disallow it from being on the front-page such to prevent bad YC press?

If my theory is true, I will be extremely disappointed.
Why don't modern devices take advantage of free OTA braodcasts? FCC regs? Power requirements? I remember reading about Japanese devices that could receive UHF/VHF TV back in the day, and I always thought it was neat. Seems like a lot of freely available content that is being ignored in favor of more complicated, lower quality, and high bandwidth delivery methods.
Private companies working on behalf of the government are subject to the 4th amendment too.

The real reason this is probably allowable is that you have no expectation of privacy while driving around. People see you. Cops can tail you everywhere you go.

What we really need is some sort of anti dragnet amendment.
Monica is really awesome. And deserves to be listened to.
I'd tell as many people as possible about what I have built, but I might stay a little quiet about what I am building until it is ready to show.

If I have what I consider to be a good idea, and I am actively pursing it (i.e., writing code to implement it), I would probably keep it close to my chest until I have something to show.
I can explain why this hits a nerve for me. When I was first learning about 3D rendering (in OpenGL/DirectX) I intuitively thought about the screen space being 2D. I was wrong, and it made me confused about a lot of issues, in particular, I couldn't understand why there must be a near and far clip plane.

The 3D perspective page http://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-3d-perspect... clearly describes the rasterization phase as having 3D: the automatic perspective divide and the triangle clipping to a 3D space. Clip space being 3D seems very strange if WebGL is only a 2D API.

My suggested patch would be to rephrase it for the beginner. "WebGL is largely a 3D rasterizing API and not a fire-and-forget scene rendering solution."

If WebGL were only 2D it would be trivial to implement 3D without shaders in <canvas> -- and that is not true, canvas cannot rasterize 3D triangles.
moon.ie after my surname (Mooney)
datagrapher.com for data visualisation tools
One thing I've personally noticed is that being disciplined can quickly create or renew motivation. Getting something finished even though I don't want to do it feels great. That alone is often enough to jump start that positive feedback loop and get me moving rapidly again.
“if (IE) { var _retarded = true; }”
I believe we will see it much earlier than 2020. The DOE has mandated that they want to see lithium-ion batteries 5X in capacity and 5X cheaper by 2020.

I think it can be done. If would happen much faster if we manufactured here and did not have to worry about international logistical and quality assurance associate with Chinese manufacturing.
I guess either the story is missing something or it seems that someone has never seen someone spam with another persons email account.
http://highscalability.com/

These guys have some really great interviews and articles from time to time. They don't have "news" per se, but the "stuff the internet says on scalability" is pretty great and they interview technical leads for great tech businesses.

It is definitely more of a journal format though.
If one of the intended features of a language is that it can be picked up quickly, that certainly helps. I'd suggest that this is a feature of golang and historically modula-2.
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I didn't really understand this one -- what does it mean to be a brilliant developer who doesn't ship?
i tried using i3, but the behaviour when it comes to spaces made me mad (create on use instead of create a bunch of them).

right now awesomewm does everything i need and config being in lua helps a ton with readability and flexibility.
These are unsued:

- bootstraphub.com - free bootstrap themes

- qrcode.io - probably front page for qrunched.com

- webrop.com - drag and drop web builder

- qareeb.pk - location based services

- 9gag-clonescript.com - front page for mememakerscript.com

- mahadazad.com - for blogging

- pincript.com - frontend for pinscriptpro.com

Made many scripts but never focused:

- killmyboredom.com

- mememakerscript.com

- pinscriptpro.com

- qrunched.com
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Track page views with an analytics library, obviously.
I'll bite.

Values are subjective. Resources are limited.

Capitalism is one way to choose who's values are satisfied.

It does this (in general) by giving points to people who satisfy other people's values and proportional to how much they satisfy them. These points can be used to satisfy their own values after and this creates a feedback loop of value satisfaction. IMO a very good thing.

Of course there are problems, every system has winners and losers and thats why we have taxation and welfare, to smooth out some of the issues. (perhaps not enough but thats another debate).

If you have another system in mind, I'd like you to think about who the winners and losers are and talk about the alternative system in those terms.
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http://www.thingsclick.com - blog/advice guide on how to run a software house plus ebooks on the subject and tools

http://www.truesta.com - Possibly a replacement for spreadsheets with built in workflow and auditing. Good for companies that are over reliant on spreadsheets and need to share that data and most importantly keep it accurate.

http://www.expirify.com - domain/ssl cert expiry reminder service

http://www.inhumanely.com - no idea

http://www.signalizing.com - a communication platform

http://www.overawes.com - no idea

http://www.statesideproperty.com - it was supposed to be a Right Move for the US but never got around to it

http://www.swishapps.com - no idea

Mostly rubbish but I quite like things click. I need to stop buying shitty domain names :-/

Edit: Added more info about some of the domains.
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socialwheel.com -- show user connectedness
I agree, though I've never really agreed with the concept that idea and execution are separate things. I see an "idea" for a software application they way I see an idea for a novel. The execution and idea are very closely intertwined. Even intertwined is probably the wrong word, because that conjures up an image of two different things that are too tangled up to separate. I'd go even farther. The idea becomes the idea through the execution.

I suppose there is a sort of genesis of an idea, but even that probably already arrives with images of a UI and perhaps code in your head...
2048x2.com

Back when it was the cool thing to do, I was going to create a multiplayer (2^n player) 2048 using websockets.
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These are the better ones I have. Mostly acquired for different startup ideas I'm riffing on.

- read.io

- tit.io

- fix.io

- foodcopter.com (for when drones deliver your dinner of course)

- burgercopter.com (same reason)

- pizzacopter.com (same reason)

I've developed a simple tool for parking unused domains. Just set your nameservers and the whole inquiry process is automated. Would love feedback! http://parktap.com/
World War I is still playing out.

http://mises.org/library/war-collectivism-world-war-i

(I don't really mean to endorse that article, but I do think it looks at the world through an interesting lens. WWI probably does represent some sort of transition point in history, where the idea of an actual global empire became realizable and we are still in the period of developing a global governance structure to deal with it. Maybe such a structure is not inevitable, but I think it is quite likely.)
Big difference between this one (which is great) and OP's is that OP's done all the WebGL himself whereas Nop's uses Three.js
http://facestositon.com/ - This was a small-business idea to mock the UK porn laws. It was supposed to be floor pillows with caricatures of various politicians.

http://30mars.ca - This was an old gift from 2 years ago to a special someone who's birthday's on march 30th.

http://sfew.co - Was supposed to be a shortlink address for Selective Few. Still not using it.

http://branlettedenoel.com/ - This was a xmas card for a card contest. It's conveniently called "The great xmas jerk off"
And the /bin symlinking... systemd and GRUB legacy were bigger. But about annually there's something arch land that will break even the most minimal installations if you aren't careful.
With the rise of realtime applications I'd argue that the situations for using NoSQL for the common project are growing.

I think the author of the post has made a good point, that many seem to forget - it is always a trade-off whichever tool you use.
How can tires broadcast the VIN? I bought my tire+wheel package on Tirerack, certainly didn't tell them my VIN.
You're right that there is no real expectation of privacy when you're in public but I think the difference between tracking/storing movements and seeing your neighbor at the bank is you expect the loss of privacy to end when you get home.

The data something like this collects is so vast that it actually encroaches into the parts of your life you would reasonably expect to be private. For instance, you could determine that I'm seeing a psychiatrist, that I'm cheating on my wife or that I have cancer. That's private information you don't expect to be exposed by simply driving around.

To push the limit of the broad interpretation of your public data, consider the following scenario. Imagine in the not-to-distant future that a technology exists that allows people to scan, from a distance, the electromagnetic field produced by your brain and use that data to map your thoughts and memories. Would me simply stepping into public be a tacit agreement between me and the government to forfeit that privacy?
I'm not quite a hoarder of domains, but I definitely have a few:

- beltway.wtf

- startups.wtf

- recy.(link|co|in|info|io) as I had grand plans to do a link curation app

- saltmaster.net

- hostedsalt.com