skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though multiplayer on these versions is dead for the most part, for obvious reasons.

The authentication-related stuff also is broken in most (old) versions, same goes with skins. These can be fixed through mods, though I'm not really sure if it's worth the effort.

TrueCraft seems pretty interesting. I'm always a fan of open source games, and voxel games interest me a bit more than other types of games.

MineTest had/has some potential, though it really needs some polishing. Movement doesn't feel as smooth as in most other games, the textures aren't the best, same goes with the menus. It has a decent modding API, though it's mostly server-based which means there aren't any client-side mods (that I know of).

Terasology is also an interesting open source voxel game, though the overall aesthetic of the game doesn't feel consistent. It has simple Minecraft-like textures, yet fancy effects/shaders. I'm also not a fan of the menus, though that's just me being picky.

I think what makes Minecraft a bit different from these open-source games is how everything is laid out. Movement feels smooth, menus are consistent and simple, the font is legible, the controls are fine, the textures are easy to get used to and the sounds/music are great.

I'm interested in seeing how TrueCraft ends up, if it will be following the style of Minecraft in terms of visuals and gameplay.
From personal anecdotes and the news, it seems like apps like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb are getting very popular, and the quality is starting to go down, and getting pretty hit-or-miss..

I'll probably be sticking with renting cars just for the convenience factor alone
You are probably right, and from a quick technical comparison it looks like a much better deal. Definitely not an expert in this field.

At the end of the day Tesla is generating mounds of press, and as a result will probably sell (or in this case reserve) more units.
They provide a 10 year warranty on their Ni-Fe batteries… but their spec sheets allow for a much longer lifespan: https://ironedison.com/renewable-energy-batteries
I was referring to its terseness, simplicity, extensibility and the large ecosystem surrounding it.

I said that Django is a better framework for this reason, not your straw man reason.

Scalability is barely an issue. You can horizontally scale both frameworks virtually endlessly if you maintain application statelessness. Dick measuring contests about which company uses what and has the most pageviews do not contribute much to the discussion. Are you going to argue that PHP is a good language because Facebook has a billion users?
I've been a GS user since almost the beginning, back when there was a little java tool for uploading your music collection. GS gave me a way to access my library for free and in a consistent manner over the past decade. I waited for days as my library of 10000+ tracks (90% indie/alt + underground artists) uploaded to their servers.

GS was way ahead of the curve when it came to delivering music easily and widely. The HTML5 interface worked simly everywhere. Using a IE on a 360? 1st gen iPhone? Potato? Search as song, press play, enjoy.

GS filled a niche that Spotify cannot ever fill. Because GS was built upon the libraries of its users, all the little mp3s that had been hoarded, recorded, never officially released, fan remixes and safegaurded had been uploaded with the mainstream content. It was built on what users kept because they knew it could not be replaced. The special, the underground.

So long GS.
"Hack the Gibson, hack the Gibson, I'm seedin' BitTorrents like a digital pimp, son."
This is something I'm worried about too, but it'd be hard to maintain the progress on "backup career", and if I were to make the switch I'd be starting from bottom again..
What if one has already dozens of photovoltaic solar panels, and just need a good energy storage solution that lasts many years? I trust Tesla more than some others companies that they can deliver it.
I have approximately zero chance of getting all of my friends and family to set up their own VPSs and tmux and irssi so I can chat with them.
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put it on the inside of your house. It looks like art and doesn't take up much space.

Up here in the Yukon everyone has their batteries inside, else they'd freeze.
Iinteresting how they are branding it as a backup solution, while Tesla is branding it as a complete replacement.

"What if we could move the electricity grid off of fossil fuels" (Tesla)

vs

"Be prepared the next time the power goes out."(Solar City)
Fine. 4.8kW Li-Ion battery for USD$3,278

1.9kW for USD$1,678.

My point is that Tesla isn't really doing anything really unique here. Sure, they're giving it more press than anyone really has before, but the products aren't especially cheap, innovative or special.

http://ironedison.com/12-volt-lithium-battery-for-solar
they're good for watching movies while lying in bed - phones are too small, and laptops too inconvenient.
> 98. Testimonials. Create commercials featuring real-life people in situations where buying a Mac (or switching to a Mac) saved the day.

This is an example of one thing that Apple gets really right. For some reason, other companies have found it really difficult to achieve the success that Apple has with their commercials and branding. Some (in my opinion) great work by Apple:

1. 2013 Christmas Commercial
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v76f6KPSJ2w)

2. Shot on iPhone6
(https://www.apple.com/au/iphone/world-gallery/)
> evidence suggests that the cyber criminal accessed servers that contained some of our customers’ recipient email lists/addresses and customer contact information. We have not found any forensic evidence that customer lists or customer contact information was stolen.

Which doesn't mean the customer list data wasn't stolen. The wording on this is too cute. Accessing data from privileged accounts doesn't necessarily leave evidence, depending on the type of system access or server logging involved.

I think SendGrid should clarify what could have happened here, worst case.
it sounds so awesome, are there any reasons why I shouldn't get this?
If your garage is getting to 50°C you've got a major insulation problem! Where are you located?

In both cases if min and max operating temperature are an issue it may be best to install in an FIP enclosure and use ducting to keep the enclosure and an optimal temperature.
There were add-ons to seamless download songs as you played them, as we as playlists
Interesting.

It don't know that the "time" idea is really necessary. Each number is really an offset from the index of the current command to the index of the next, in a cyclic list of 200 commands. You can delay by that much if you want. Or just figure out the index of the next command, and then execute that command immediately.

The commands themselves are basically a minimalist Forth.
Elon has been working on an VTOL electric jet. He references his desire to fully develop it often. Obviously, he is extremely busy, but he says he will try and work on it at some point.
Interesting. I want a "developer-class" laptop. Well-built, moderately fast, reliable. The reviews on Amazon for that X240 complain about a crappy trackpad. Wonder if there are other good options.
What was their password hashing algorithm? The lack of specificity isn't encouraging. The vague "hashed and salted" could mean anything from MD5 upwards.
Zepplins can be run with very minimal environmental cost. They are slower, though.

Airplanes are extremely energy-hungry and carbon-intensive. Just one intercontinental round trip can put as much carbon per person into the air as a half a year of driving, assuming you have a new-ish car. And yes, this is after dividing the total emissions by the number of passengers.
CLEAN-ROOM implementation, it is even linked to an explanation. this means that he DIDN'T read the source-code.
Going off grid isn't something one does lightly.
They own zero percent of the codebase. According to the link all IP was turned over to the winners of the court case.
Yeah politics is crazy. It makes smart people seem stupid. When you're a politician, I think you just have to talk in a way that is imprecise and which appeals to base instincts, which makes you seem stupid.

But that is what works. Many politicians are brilliant polymaths and they all seem to have converged on the same behavior.

I guess if you were to design a computer to be a politician, it would end up in the same spot. Its job would be to appeal to people of different backgrounds, who are irrational in different ways. (And don't think that highly educated people in Silicon Valley aren't irrational in their own way.)
> Sure, they're giving it more press than anyone really has before

Ahh! But that's the most important part! Elon's portfolio companies are a pieces of an incredible future machine, all working together. Solar City is able to draw on Tesla's batteries, Tesla was able to draw on SpaceX for some of its engineering capabilities.

Tesla made electric cars sexy. Now, its making energy storage sexy. Clearly, marketing is important, and will be necessary for convincing the world a clean energy future is the right direction.
I don't know the numbers, but far more then 3 million will be affected. 3 million are at or below minimum wage, but how many make more than minimum wage but less than $15?
Not many of those. Maybe Thomas Massie (R-KY)?

U.S. Representative Thomas Massie entered Congress in November 2012 after serving as Lewis County Judge Executive. He represents Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District which stretches across Northern Kentucky and 280 miles of the Ohio River.

U.S. Representative Massie attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. During school, he invented a technology that enabled people to interact with computers using their sense of touch, and leveraged that technology to found SensAble Technologies, Inc., which raised over $32 million of venture capital, created 70 jobs, and obtained 24 patents. The hardware and software he developed is now used to design automobiles, jewelry, shoes, dental prosthetics, and even reconstructive implants for wounded soldiers.
The only thing I remembered was he was pro business and crazy. He wasn't very competant at debate and his 9-9-9 plan sounds like some weird food commercial.
Tesla and Musk have been teasing the contents of the announcement all week; everyone knew what it would be, but not the specs/price.

I don't think the stock will be blow up again until we see sales and profit numbers for these new products.
I don't get it. When I click on "Use This Photo", it always says, "Couldn’t detect any faces. Please verify that the image is valid and less than 3MB." When I type anything in the search box, it always says, "Oops, something went wrong. Please try searching again."

Just what am I supposed to be doing on this page?
genuine question: do you think all the employees didn't know till today, and is being let go all at the same time?
"Models

10 kWh $3,500 For backup applications

7 kWh $3,000 For daily cycle applications"

From http://www.teslamotors.com/powerwall

Maybe Solar City has been using the ones meant for daily cycle - that would make sense.
As the picture shows, can this evolve into a battery station residing within the garage? Experts please share your opinion.
Yes? It seems like a good choice. Maybe 6 months ago I would have said it's foolish, but with C# being an actual open language now, I'd say it's a rock solid choice.

What would you have done it in? C, and never get any contributor? Or Java, and do as bad as the original?
I used Grooveshark, they had the best service and they company was awesome.

Is a shame the music industry is rotten and went as far as to kill this awesome company. My best wish for the team, you guys are great, dont let this get you down.

And kudos for your all these years!
I could do this today. With my current time-of-use electric rate, I pay an average of $0.25/kWh more for peak power than I do for off-peak [the differential is larger in the summer, smaller in the winter]. If I shift 8kWh per day, then I would generate positive ROI in less than five years.

Your edit is spot-on. Utilities typically use natural gas "peaker" plants to meet mid-day spikes in demand, while nuclear plants are better suited to running at a steady state.
1. Admit it. You're out of the hardware game. Outsource your hardware production, or scrap it entirely, to compete more directly with Microsoft without the liability of manufacturing boxes.

Very first one, lol. I agree that many are spot on, but coupling Mac software to its hardware is part of how they make such good products, not to mention the plethora of innovative hardware devices that have made them the richest company in the world.
Hi guys, I'm the author of this. Going to sleep soon but happy to answer questions when I awake if you leave them here for me.
I'm in one of these. It costs a lot less than $15K per year - but I don't live in the Bay Area.

Our kids are enrolled in a charter school which helps with the state testing/state standards part and we pool resources with other homeschooling families to hire tutors and provide a classroom environment (<10 kids per class) for part of the week.
Milorad Pavic's Khazar Dictionary is another book with hypertext-like structure. You can start reading from any point in the book and it still works OK.
Where do you think "bad old dogs" at the animal shelter come from? It's also easier to predict an older dog's behavior than a puppy's eventual behavior.

Maybe instead this should be left to the professionals. There's some honesty.
@crdoconnor
suave.io, Websharper are some interesting open source projects that are similar to django.
Emojese: an interpreter for the Emoji language
The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed (2014)
Time to decentralize our data, people!
If we all do the same things during the day, there will actually be even more understanding and less perceived sameness or difference.

People don't live to achieve total understanding and zero perceived difference with everyone else, rather, understanding and sameness exists to facilitate living.

Slowly getting to know people who spoke no common language with you and finally both of you managing to build rapport and communicate clearly with each other is a fulfilling experience. Advocating monoculture of language isn't too different to advocating a monoculture of crops, destroying diversity of life in the name of efficiency.

Efficiency facilitates living. Sacrificing experience of life in the name of efficiency kind of defeats the point.

You want more, more of what, exactly?
You might fail to see it but it was seen by the lawyers who demanded or negotiated the settlement from the other side of the table where Grooveshark sat. The users weren't a part of the discussion and the winning side--the music industry--was able to get exactly what it wanted because otherwise they'd bankrupt Grooveshark.
Wow

This thing could sell like crazy in places like India. 10 kwH is enough to power an Indian home for more than a day and at 3500 dollars most middle class people would consider buying it seeing how frequent power cuts here are.
There are some very interesting things here... Some jewels that proved to be very accurate, and some that were way off... But i think that the positive ones are winning...

#1 - Foxconn.

#2 - OSX for computers, iOS -> iPhone, iPad, AppleTv

#3 - Debatable, but one could argue that Apple Store did this at first

#4 - Steve Jobs listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-dollar_salary

#5 - iPhone #, iPad #, but not related with speeds, besides of "greater number, greater speed"

#7 - Apple Stores

#8 - 1998. I still remember the ad with Shes A Rainbow

#10 - Well, they did build an enormous image.

#9, #11, #12 - Or... do just the opposite xD

#13 - Hello, I'm a PC.

#14 - Again, 1998. G3, and everything that came next...

#15 - Say Hello to China!

#16 - YMMV :)

#17, #18 - This will contradict the next one. A corporate won't buy based on fanaticism (at least in theory... I hope...)

#19 - They did what they could, with what was available back then.

#21 - With this item and #31... I really don't know what to think...

#22 - #24 - No, no, no.

#25 - Portables and mobile! That was the future back then. And they did... eventually.
#
26 - Here comes China again!

#27 - Or... make it expensive... I mean... exclusive

#30 - Secure the hearts and wallets of college students, OK. But with marketing.

#31 - What kind of advice is this?? That will NEVER, EVER work, cellular email? Internet Phone ??? ... Oh.. wait.

#32 - Always start with: We have sold X number of Y!

#34 - Done.

#36 - Hello iBook

#37 - Ok. Hello OSX

#39 - Easier said than done. Tech was not there yet. But eventually...

#40-43 - It didn't matter.

#44 - Or just buy someone who does... Hello Siri

#47 - New upgrade path: just buy the new device.

#50 - Give Steve Jobs as much authority as he wants -> OK!

#51 - Speak with both, but mostly to the consumer, yes. (through ads, and paid journalists...)
#53 - And sell everything from Ireland!

#54 - Ok

#59 - You can't have #15 (dump newton) and this (invest heavily in newton technology)... choose one. One could say Apple choose #59.

from here, a lot of the items seem like jokes...

#60 - Again, contradicting with previous items.

#63 - Ok.
#70 - Ok!
#76 - Ok, and bye bye PowerPC Eventually.

#94 - Maintain differentiation between Wintel and Apple... Even when using intel technologies, we are not a PC.

#95 - Hello, I'm a Mac.

#101 - Bingo!
I was referring to its terseness, simplicity, extensibility and the large ecosystem surrounding it. I said that Django is a better framework for this reason, not your straw man reason.

You're going to have to link me to the comment where you "referred to" and "said" all of that, because this was all I saw:

Where's the Django for .NET? and Does the same sort of thing, but is not nearly as good.

So maybe I got foolishly got myself into this by bothering to respond to two zero-effort comments. It wasn't a dick measuring contest, the point of the exercise was to examine that a .NET stack (including ASP.NET MVC at its core) can be executed upon with finesse and tuned to efficiency at high operational capacity. Futhermore, other frameworks (i.e. Django) aren't short of their own troubles.
You shouldn't. Tesla have a much shorter track record than someone like Iron Edison.

Also… if you read my comment, you'll see the batteries are cheaper than Tesla's… and if you look online, you can see they come in various configurations… rather than predefined 10kWh bricks with 2kW output.
I think it depends on local weather. We spend about $600 on electricity and $600 is gas per year for 4 people in the Bay Area. And this is with an older water heater and furnace in an old house with moderate insulation. We would replace the heater, furnace and improve the insulation before even considering solar ourselves.
2-factor auth might be good for SendGrid but depending on another device (be it your phone or a token-device) sucks big time in the real world.
Made me laugh. This: “It’s impossible to build a back-door for just the good guys — if somebody at the Genius Bar could figure it out, so could the nefarious folks in a van down by the river"

Hopefully any encryption back door is not entrusted to somebody at the Genius Bar. Why is the hacker in a van and at a river... phishing trip?
I'm one of those devs who is loathe to admit our tooling sucks. I hate MSBuild. Love NuGet, it's so much more than just a library package manager. Chocolatey, plugin provider for other apps, and you can even use it to dynamically download behavior at runtime and load and execute it. Love VS and ReSharper. I used VS for about 1.5 years w/o resharper and thought it was loads better than everything else i had done, and resharper just makes it better.

I am really a total C# fanboy, though was reared on unix and c/c++/python/java.
The insist method is an old way of testing logstash introduced by Jordan Sissel, one of the creators of the project. However since a few weeks we're moving forward in favor of using the good and great rspec3 syntax ;-)

Disclaimer: I'm a LS core developer, and initiated all the rspec improvement stuff :-)
In 1 in 5 Families in U.S., No One Works
Which was my point :).

You seemed to be suggesting you could just buy 2x $3500 batteries and go completely off the grid.
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Wow! I had no idea that they had a web only client. Thanks. I definitely prefer webapps to desktop installs.
Near the end Congressman Hurd asks the revealing question: "What exactly is the FBI asking for?"

This is the classic programmer-and-requirements problem. Ms. Hess and Mr. Conley have very reasonable-sounding aims, but: they're impossible. That's all there is to it.
Nice, that came in lower than I was expecting. I was thinking $5K for the 7kWh unit. Of course that is the "installers" price so who knows what those folks will consider the 'retail' price. My wife still has her solar installer certification so we could presumably get one that way.

It also makes for a really interesting opportunity for grid tied solar inverters. Now you want the inverter to power the house first, then push power to the batteries and only if they are full push it back to the grid. Software update for sure :-) of course it might make more sense to leave it DC for the push into the battery and only have the AC conversion happen post battery, so charge controller between the battery and the DC disconnect.

On a safety note I'd also really like to mount this outside, preferably against firebrick rather than my house. I realize the batteries are much safer than they have ever been, but still a cascading lithium battery failure inside my garage is not my idea of a party
Seasoned professional investors, such as those who managed hedgefunds or buy real estate, are rarely able to beat inflation by much. I doubt that someone investing a small amount (under $500k) part-time is going to become "independently wealthy".

Adjusting one's lifestyle to decrease expenses is a much better way to "create" wealth.
The main advantage of Lithium Ion is the high energy density which is good for reducing the weight of laptops and electric cars but doesn't seem that useful in a house, especially when you compare it with cheaper and longer lasting battery technologies.

This feels more like them trying to find a new business line for their existing technology than coming up with the perfect technology for the home market.
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Ask HN: Join a “unicorn” startup or a well established giant?
Hey there !

I have offers from a "unicorn" status startup and a well established giant (~ $6B - $8B in revenue). I'm 22 and have recently graduated and plan to do my masters in Computer Science sometime in the next year or two.

Considering such a short time horizon, and ignoring facts such as pay, city involved or closeness to home, which could be advised as better time spent working and learning ? What factors do I consider while making my decision ? Do I not ignore factors mentioned previously ?

Lastly, if I do end up joining the startup, I'm also worried that I'll end up staying at the place for too long, and not doing my Masters as planned.

Any advice and outcomes/experiences involved in both paths would be welcome.

Thanks !