skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting Freakonomics episode about testing for Huntington's disease. Turns out some people want to know and some people don't. Me, I'd absolutely want to know. If I had a good chance to get it then I'd adjust my life to make the most of it before ~55 instead of planning for a long retirement...as one example.

http://freakonomics.com/2013/06/20/do-you-really-want-to-kno...
I see this strange contradiction where some people are saying "this is nothing new, other manufacturers had this years ago" and yet somehow other manufacturers don't get reaction videos on youtube and don't get to the top of hacker news and reddit....it seems very clear to me that what Tesla has done is above and beyond anything in the past. If this already existed, nobody would really care.

You could make the whole brand argument, like with Apple releasing the iPad, but....I simply disagree. Tesla deserves the credit they're getting.
How Facebook's React project is reshaping app development
$294,000 -- Average employee

$1,500,000,000 -- Jack (25%)

$828,000,000 -- directors/execs combined (38.8%, per jwegan's comment), minus Jack.

Jack himself will get as much $$$ out of Square as all his employees combined.... times FIVE.

The other 12 directors execs will split a pot that's over twice as large as all 1000 employees combined.

That's cool for you, a 5000-to-1 discrepancy between CEO and avg employee? That's the reward system that we should all embrace in this modern age? How is it any different from the cigar-chomping tophat-wearing magnates of the past? Yeah, today the founders wear cool jeans and turtlenecks, and employees DO take home a nice little down payment, but the huge dropoff between the billionaire and the rank-and-file is as disgusting as ever.
The 14th Amendment has been held to apply the First Amendment against the states. And even in the likely event that incorporation gets overturned, most state constitutions have their own establishment clauses.
That's true but those are scalable components within the app specifically designed to be scalable. You're not scaling the entire app window.

If you have an area you want to be scalable, you'll have to implement it in JavaScript or use a pre-made component.
The actual report states that there was a repeated audio cue that this was the case.
Since it had to go through regulatory approvals, I'd expect it's not 'beta' as in 'potentially unsafe'. It's more of: it may require you taking over more often than we'd like to.
How much traffic now originates from VPNs?
The Super-Specialized Design Behind Motorcycle Helmets
My inability to comprehend the idea that 8 or 9 months is "old" is probably the surest sign that I'm the one who's old.
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-is-meat-a-risk-factor-fo...
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lipotoxicity-how-saturated-f...
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-diabetes/

> As long as total caloric intake does not exceed one's TDEE, so far it seems daily high saturated fat consumption (like some ketogenic diets) doesn't adversely impact blood sugar nor cholesterol metrics;

The diet does adversely effect cholesterol metrics. Take a look at the posts with lipids on /r/keto. Their cholesterol drops a bit because they lost weight, but most of them are still in the danger zone.

I'm sure you've heard of Loren Cordain, one of the leaders of the paleo movement. He is credited as an author on a paper[0] that comes to the conclusion that 50-70mg/dl of LDL is the true optimal. You can't achieve that eating a diet rich in cholesterol.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15172426

> Sweden's national health system has collated a lot of this research and is doing a lot of their own original research; they have recently come out officially in favor of low carb.

Could I get a citation for that? I thought they only recommended low carb in specific situations. Why would someone who isn't obese or diabetic go on a keto diet?
Yup, I feel pretty strongly about the point I was making and, to be honest, I think it did have content despite my sardonic delivery.
Is this a problem? Who stays logged into Facebook?

My browser does an auto fill for my user name and password, I login for 10 minutes to see postings from my brother, grandson, neices, etc. and then logoff.

Never occurred to me to stay logged into FB. In the same way, I like to use a separate web browser for just using Google and twitter. Small easy steps for maintaining a modicum of privacy.
Are you saying that video game music has more to offer besides reliving gaming memories? I'm genuinely interested in what is offered. For art music, there are already tons of resources for learning how to appreciate it more deeply.
The government doesn't create marriage, it merely recognizes it, and provides useful services like ensuring bigamy or incest doesn't take place. It surprises no-one that the bride and groom entering (and consummating) the marriage is the essential part, the ritual is the part that signifies the marriage has happened, and the particulars of the person presiding over the ceremony carry no significance at all.
OS X does show the notifications on the lockscreen by default though, right? Usually when I come back to my computer I see all of the stuff I missed.

I suppose there's a short time between when you walk away and the computer locking the screen though, where the notification could be missed.

However, I feel like I've missed way more Chrome notifications because I hardly ever open the notifications menu.
You've pretty much got it. The author mentions us actually.

The parent commenter does accurately locate the challenge to date with compressed air energy storage, but we've directly and successfully targeted that loss channel :-)
Centimillionaire is commonly used to refer to someone with assets of $100 million or more. From dictionaries, to lay people, to business publications, it's practically universal.

I understand what you were aiming for, however centimillionaire is the correct usage.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire

"A Deceased Centimillionaire Leaves $1.2B To Save Parts Of Rust Belt America"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2015/07/22/a-deceased...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Centimillionaire

"Unlucky Echelon of Ex-Centimillionaires Sees Stakes Plunge as Net Craze Fades"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB972002051942176166
Both companies had the same founders, correct? I'm not saying they are, but they could be idiosyncratic.
They are risk factors. That is all.

What does the popular conscious have to do with it? Are you suggesting that if saturated fat was considered healthy people who ate more of the stuff would be healthier?
> And, while it's someone's job to ensure an economic system with opportunity for all, it isn't Uber's job any more than it's yours or mine.

Agreed! That's why government exists, to create a social safety net, and to extract taxes from corporate and personal income revenue to support those services.
Don't worry, Tesla model S comes with a bathroom, a car office, a mini kitchen and a petting zoo
Thanks. It's mostly for fun but given the # of responses we've received, it'll be interesting to see if the wisdom of crowds holds.
What bbanyc said, for details see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...

and

http://leg.wa.gov/LawsAndAgencyRules/pages/constitution.aspx
Thanks for pulling that. As I said, I would be fine with it. The FDA isn't.
It's not just that privacy policies / ToS are using complex legal language. The real problem is that they are so broad.

For example, just about every privacy policy states that information collected can be used to improve the company's products & services, or to help develop new ones. That effectively gives the company free reign to do whatever they like with your data. Who knows that products they may decide to offer?

A company could release a new product tomorrow that sells your individual browsing data to the highest bidder, and that would be covered by this clause. Also remember that almost all policies state that they can be updated without notice too. Do No Evil today, Evil tomorrow...
Any estimate of how much the sensors as well as compute infrastructure cost in something like the Model S? $100, $1000, $10k, more?

I'd love to learn more about the increasing "computerization" of cars. Do you know of any good publications, blogs, etc for someone to learn about the computer systems powering cars?
A bit slow, which I will chalk up to the HN effect.

Would prefer query results to show up where that useless galaxy animation lives instead of having to click back to the guru.

UPDATE my_table SET ... returned "Query Success (0 columns, 0 rows)" even though it affected all rows.
Help a third of all US K-12 students use educational apps at Clever (YC S12)
Right now the market for educational software is a mess. It’s incredibly difficult for developers to get their products into schools, and it’s even harder for them to scale. School districts spend tons of money on learning applications, but they have no way of knowing if students are even using the apps they’re purchasing. Teachers know there’s great software out there, but relatively simple challenges like getting 30 students logged in at once make using it impossible.

At Clever, we’re working to change all that. We provide schools with a free API and single sign-on solution that makes using educational apps a breeze. We’ve grown fast: after three years, we’re moving data for a third of all K-12 students in America (19M kids), and 44,000 schools are using us to manage their education apps. Our goals are much bigger than that, though. We want to be two things:

-a single place where schools can easily manage and analyze all the software they’re using, and

-a single identity that students can use to see everything they’ve learned across multiple apps.

We’re a team of 85 (36 engineers) based in downtown San Francisco, and we’re looking for engineers who enjoy working in (or would enjoy learning) Go, Python and Coffeescript. More generally, we want people who are sharp, adaptable, and passionate about improving the way education works for everyone.

Check us out at https://clever.com/about/jobs, or check out our recent press here:
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/27/434667722/one-third-of-schools-are-using-this-app-youve-never-heard-of
> Speed limits are set to try and keep people safe, by enforcing a maximum speed.

That's one reason. Then there's the money printing aspect of it and the environmental aspect of it.
Please write a blog post when you are done?! This will be huge :)
My proposed solution to the whole mess is to separate the Marriage and the Partnership. Let people get Married in accordance with their religious or social practices as they desire but it holds no legal standing. Then, have the State offer some sort of Partnership entities ("Domestic Partnership"?) like an LLP or Corporation that handles the financial and legal responsibilities of the union. People could choose to engage in one or the other or both, but they're separate things. It seems like it'd solve a lot of the conflicts we're seeing.
I'd put 'having to unexpectedly take over driving' into the 'potentially unsafe' category.
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I cant believe this ive been up all night trying to beat this stupid game DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS GAME

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arcticempire.zombieslash
The act is closer to that of an "asshole", rather than a journalist.

Calls 'em like I sees 'em.
Half of the IRS's servers still run doomed Windows Server 2003
Certainly Uber are becoming an increasingly formidable competitor in this space for alternatives. And money helps ALOT. But Uber started out as nothing against an industry worth more than 50bn.. They won on 1) price, 2) convenience and 3) customer service.

Give that response was largely about someone saying when Uber has lost their customer service quality, that would be a large switching point alone. I went to Uber more for service and convenience. Price was a bonus.

And they will be limited on price wars. If someone comes in at slim margin, paying more to drivers, Uber can hardly go negative in pricing. Firstly they have investors to appease. And in many countries they would be charged with predatory pricing and be in a heap of trouble. They might knock out a few competitors this way but eventually anyone competing would have massive regulatory protection in this area.

Convenience is another protective moat. Simply having cars available. But its easy for a car to run 2 versions at once if they feel the demand is there, even if Uber demand exclusive service (again possibly causing regulatory issues), policing it would be nightmare when one can simply have a second phone in the car. And pushing for exclusive would likely shoot themselves in the foot if there is increasing demand from the market elsewhere as some drivers will be forced to jump ship hurting their own service.
I think it counts as "incidental" physical activity which has been studied for its health benefits.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/fidgeting-your-way-...
What about implanting an NFC chip and having the hammer stuck to a holder/floor as-is with a strong magnet?
Since we're talking about specific sums of money, how much is that time worth? You have to put a number on it one way or another.

If we wanted to be arbitrary about it, we could pretend that a janitor's time is worth a trillion dollars per hour because said janitor's time is a finite resource that can never be recovered. However that doesn't do much for you when you have to actually decide how to pay a janitor.
In my jurisdiction the yellow "limit" signs before corners are not actually speed limits, just references. You are allowed to disobey them at your peril. Sometimes that means you can do 80kph around a "30" corner, a common situation on mountain roads.

That also avoids the enforcement problems such as where the new limit should being and end, and the difficulty of measuring vehicle speed through a corner.
Mercedes has had 100% autonomous braking on several models since '09.
That's not true at all: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/business/cost-...

The BBC is, by far, one of the best. An average BBC page literally requires an order of magnitude less data usage than a page from Boston.com.
Well, that's because they're Tesla. Benz has had very similar features on their higher-end cars, and it was well received (I think) in the automotive industry, but not the tech community, because Tesla is more well known in tech compared to Benz.
Wait, so you see that it is a fact that many of these features have been in existence in regular cars under various names. It's undeniable, ofc. But __then__ you somehow refuse to believe that they are actually the same because it's on the top of HN and other media outlets. And then somehow you feel qualified to say Tesla deserve the credit their getting? It isn't "making the whole brand argument." You __are__ just being a sucker!
Wow, what stupid/terrible thing to do. I can't believe someone would seriously think that assaulting Tesla's employees is a good strategy to escape being prosecuted...
And we're saying that's not your decision to make. The user should always be able to scale and zoom.
Medical Breakthrough in Spinal Cord Injuries Was Made by a Computer Program
It's a huge UI problem, but browsers should probably default to the behavior that you are leaning over to one side and hopping on one foot to get. Then you need a UI for selectively turning on sharing of information between sites.

The advanced mode in uBlock is a big step forward for users that want to bother with it, but I'm not sure it is even solvable for users that don't want to bother.
This is a cool technical achievement, but I don't see the practical use nor does it seem like a big win for tesla drives. So it allows drives to kind of tune out while driving on the freeway?
agreed. it's amazing how clueless having money makes you.
You know, I don't even care if they are rude. The UX is sooo much better that it's laughable:

1) No communication problems telling the driver where you are going. If you or they don't speak English, that's fine

2) No tipping.

3) No cash/form of payment shenanigans

4) ETA and location information in near real-time

5) No hailing--great if you are an introverted person/don't know how to whistle like a truck driver/etc.

Honestly, if the taxi industry adopted that dispatch system I would have no problem using it. Uber should do enterprise licensing for "Uber For Cities" so they can finally run their taxicab operations properly.
Three-finger zoom is more inconvenient and a little inconsistent in my experience on iOS9. It is inconvenient in that scrolling a page is sometimes difficult to accomplish when zoomed in. I feel like three-finger zoom is a last resort for when something is not properly accessible. I am visually handicapped and being able to zoom is essential for me. I have a hard time using sites that disable zoom already, this is only going to exacerbate the problem.
Are you still a journalist if you don't have a job? Because these guys shouldn't get to keep their job.
Elon Musk is undeniable a hype machine. A lot of it is deserved, to be sure:

He doesn't have 100 years of history weighing him down; he hasn't made a lemon yet; his cars are actually pretty awesome.

But... all these features do already exist in other brands.

Disclaimer: I work for GM
The study links a high fat diet to diabetes:

"The current study adds weight to the longstanding recommendation to restrict total fat and saturated fat. While adjusting for BMI eliminates the effect, this does not mean that dietary fat is not important. It is biologically plausible that high-fat diets promote weight gain, which then promotes insulin resistance. There is a large body of evidence that supports this view."

It also references the large body of evidence that high-fat diets are associated with impaired insulin:

"A large body of experimental data generated in laboratory animals strongly supports the notion that high-fat diets are associated with impaired insulin action. It appears from animal studies that saturated fats, in particular, have the most detrimental effects. Based on this information, along with the known risks of high saturated fat intake on cardiovascular disease risk, professional organizations such as the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have made recommendations that Americans aim for a total fat intake of no more than 30% of calories and choose foods low in saturated fat."

I wouldn't describe it as tenuous. But this is just one review of a study. There is a lot more out there. It doesn't necessarily need to be the most recent to be substantive.
I recently moved states and was in person at the DMV. I handed the clerk an existing (out of state) license that had a corrective lenses restriction on it, and I informed the clerk that I was currently wearing contact lenses before taking their eye test. They still didn't put the restriction on it..
Junk food is not memorable, really. All I can see in this list is just junk food.
I agree from a 'correct' sense. It would be interesting to see a graph of what people rate.

Personally I give a 5 star as default unless they are sub-service given I know they face being cut if below ~4.5. So for me it almost works as a negative only scale with no positive points for exceptional service.
My suspicion is most founders actually do have a pretty good idea of the answer on some level of consciousness, but avoid thinking about because it's terrifying.

I'd lay heavy odd the subconscious thought process goes along the lines of "If I'm default dead I have no idea how to fix it and so I feel powerless about it and that terrifies me and so I don't want to think about it and so I don't know the answer."

Not that that's exactly a successful strategy, but people don't always lock on successful strategies.
You can't use statistical evidence to invalidate someone's personal experience. It doesn't work that way!

When someone says that a standing desk has helped them, you can't just jump out and say "aha! this study says on average they don't work, therefore that someone is rationalising their purchase".

The best you can say is that it works for some people and not others.
I love that calculator. Picture is worth 1,000,000 words here.
The way that steering wheel twitches would make me very nervous.
Next up...treadmill desks.
Topic was discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386214
I think it's a mix of effects. Tesla is definitely pushing car engineering in some respects, but as far as I can tell the only thing new in this story is that the feature was added to the cars in a software update. Do you really think Audi would be #1 on Hacker News if they updated the 5 series over the air to stay in it's lane automatically while on the highway?

I've had a bit of cognitive dissonance recently while reading Elon Musk's comments on Apple's electric car project because I have to remind myself Tesla isn't owned by Apple. Tesla does do some great engineering, but I think they have also Apple levels of hype within technology circles.
So can you cause a pile up by putting up a fake road sign with a speed limit of 0 or 1mph and waiting for a Tesla to come along??
Neoluddites?
The Science Behind a Relaxing, Hallucinatory Float in a Dark Tank of Water
Common misconception. Jobs was Pixar's main investor, but he never ran the company.
I live for the new ways to think.

Philosophy should be right up your alley, in that case.
Just wondering if those employees will be showcased on www.rgj.Com's local crime mugshot.
>There's a finite number of people seeking a ride...

Is that really true? More people might ride cabs if the experience was less annoying.
Generally, stuff that lands on webkit master is available in the next major iOS release, e.g. iOS 10.
All these controls sound very similar to those in my current year Mercedes...although i would be hopeful that the autosteer on offer here is better than the Distronic plus "lane assist" in the Merc, which while OK, does not do a great job on less than gentle turns above 50km/hr (but its actually great below that speed - to the point I wonder why i'm even in the seat, in particular in stop-start traffic situations). It certainly sounds similar from the "hands must be on the wheel" requirement.

I look forward to the next step up from all the car makers, which is clearly the car driving on its own in a much more confident way, with the driver simply there to manage exceptions as opposed to being 'assisted' by technology as is with the current implementations.
> Instead you'll be compelled to seek growth in other ways. For example, by doing things that don't scale, or by redesigning the product in the way only founders can. And for many if not most startups, these paths to growth will be the ones that actually work.

Or you could reconsider the size of your total addressable market (hint: it's probably a lot smaller than what's in your pitch deck) and give weight to building a smaller company that's sustainably profitable.

Note that I'm not suggesting growth isn't important. What I am suggesting is that a lot of founders seek "Silicon Valley growth" without considering the possibility that they have an opportunity to build a lasting business that doesn't need hundreds of employees, tens of millions of dollars in funding, hundreds of millions in revenue and billions in enterprise value to succeed.
Calling them old is maybe a bit much but lots of start-ups never make it to the 1 year mark, 8 or 9 months is doing pretty good especially if the company hasn't yet had any outside investment.
Gene Kan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kan) also had the same idea, until he shot himself while working on a distrubted peer to peer real time search engine in front of his computer I think.

I heard about him when I watched a documentary about Napster.

No documentary about Gene Kan exists. He is virtually unknown but his work was an important contribution.