skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So.. in your mind bringing a very small disassembled clock in a custom housing is exactly like bringing a fake gun to school.

Ooookay.
You have a very good point. That said, it isn't the 'SF stop' law they are trying to pass right now. ;-)

Also, I'm a visitor in Vietnam and I'm doing just fine. It goes both ways.
This wouldn't be the first time Andreeson Horowitz has thrown money at a young founder positioned by the media as the next big innovator with a revolutionary wireless technology. First, Lucas Duplan of Clinkle, next Meredith Perry?
Which was nothing illegal, wrong, or even against school rules.

So yes, over-reacting is exactly what they did.
Hi, I am working as a business development executive for a startup software company which develops UX prototyping tool for mobile and web apps in China. Actually, companies like us generally visit the international sites through VPN. It is really inconvenient and we often lost connection very much. The speed is also quite slow. We are suffering from that so much.
The Art of War one looks more like "The Art of War In The Middle Ages" by C.W.C.Oman

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89265.The_Art_of_War_in_...

http://www.amazon.com/Art-War-Middle-Ages/dp/1481954636/ref=...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10422017
blowing a yield sign, into a collision, is as illegal as blowing a stop sign.
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I really would like to see Couchbase analyzed... and for aphyr to marry me.
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How on earth can I be an unintentional shill?

"A shill [...] publicly helps a[n] organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the organization." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill
See, I'm totally okay with that explanation then. If the upper bound is insignificant, then I see no reason to worry about the health aspects.
I drop some shields down for people close to me. But then again, I used to be so bad at assertiveness that I've been burned by people very close to me who assumed my time is free and can be wasted on anything at all.
Copper sulfate nanopowder can successfully diffract x-rays. I wonder how effective against a ZBV scanning would a paint with CuSO4 nanopowder be. Anyone have any idea?
If 97% of current Tesla owners would buy Tesla again, then perhaps the fanbase here and on Reddit is typical of all Tesla owners?

Still, despite the problems and complaints, Tesla owners
remain happy about their cars. According to its survey,
Consumer Reports said that 97 percent of owners would buy
their car again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/consumer-reports-...
No. I got to the home screen. You can disable it though.
circles and lights cost a lot more than signs.
sounds more like an excuse.
i'm struggling to find the words to express how ridiculous that is
I'm generally the same way. Also generally expensive cars -> expensive repairs. However Nissan Leaf's are selling for $10k on the used market. And Tesla is planning on a sub $40k model in 18 months. So stands to reason inexpensive used ones will appear on market in a few years.
Bikes are also more nimble, so you're a lot less likely to run into someone else by accident, and if you do, you're likely to only hurt yourself (running into a pedestrian is different, but you're not going to encounter a pedestrian in the middle of an interesection; cross walk, sure, but the danger there is the same whether you stop or yield).

Meanwhile in a car, if you hit someone, you're driving a big multi-ton metal vehicle and you're going to injure or kill anything you hit.
And don't forget that a bike is least stable when starting and stopping, especially for unskilled riders. Having to come to a complete stop at every intersection can be more dangerous, not less, especially if there are cars approaching behind the cyclist: drivers are likely to roll through the stop sign themselves and pass the cyclist right as he is starting again.
What percentage of internet users either have a middle-click or know how?
> the request was definitely not for blanket access to all users communications, which would be blatantly illegal.

Actually, this is exactly what was requested (and was eventually provided).

http://www.wired.com/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/
A truck is stealthy. It doesn't necessarily look like anyone is living there, which means you're much less likely to be hassled by the police. Compare carcamper's experiences below.
Mary sounds quite good. Apparently if you know how to write input files in the correct format you can get it to speak much more like a real human by including stress/speed/tone/etc. variations too.
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More commonly known, in competitive rather than cooperative endeavor, as the scrub mentality. From http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/more-on-losing:

> The loser usually takes the imagined moral high ground by sticking to his Code of Honor, a made-up set of personal rules that tells him which moves he can and cannot do. Of course, the rules of the game itself dictate which moves a player can and cannot make, so the Code of Honor is superfluous and counterproductive toward winning. [...] This type of player is trying desperately to remain a “winner” any way possible. If you catch him amidst a sea of losses, you’ll notice that his Code will undergo strange contortions so that he may still define himself, somehow, as a “winner.”

Working long hours, showing people unfinished prototypes, etc. are such "Codes of Honor." For the people who work under such rules, even if their output stinks, they can still feel like keeping to their Code has made them a "winner."

Even if, y'know, the ROI on their time and effort was effectively zero.
They're definitely not thinking of city driving. Suburbs, maybe. They might be thinking of roads like Highway 1 in Pacifica and north of Stinson Beach. Stretches will have a 50mph speed limit, a narrow shoulder, and a grade that will drop many cyclists to 15mph or lower.
Someone demo'd it on a couple new iphones at the hackerspace yesterday. They got to the homescreen with all the app buttons through the clock exploit. It wasn't just access to the dialer. Once you get through to the clock, you can hit the home button and it just hops to the home screen.

I have no idea how this works in regard to the encryption. It isn't likely anyone else here does either. They are just speculating.

I hope that it is good, but I don't trust it. No one should trust it.

I would look, but I don't own an iPhone.
Posted this on Medium, but reposting here:

I think the judgement that this is a “PR failure” is taking a fairly tactical analysis. It’s evaluating Amazon’s response in the context of this story & new cycle, rather than considering all the ones to come.

This move was clearly not intended to neutralize and kill the story. This move was not intended to improve Amazon’s brand perception in the market. Attacking the story and highlighting the most negative aspect of it really invariably serves to double down on the impact of the story on Amazon. That’s why this kind of response is done so rarely. This move was intended to harm the brand of the writer and the New York Times.

If you consider a policy of never responding in this fashion, it creates an environment where anyone can and will produce even outright libelous stories without fear of consequences.
Every now and then you need to throw an elbow, just to demonstrate that you won’t be taken advantage of. In this case, they went after the New York Times… in public… represented their work as not even meeting basic professional standards… The NYT actually made the same “mistake” you are highlighting here by responding… and Amazon responded again to that response, no doubt doing more PR harm to both brands.

The overall message is clear: if you are write an irresponsible story about them, expect that Amazon is willing to sacrifice their brand image in order to exact as much of a toll on your brand as they can.

I don’t think it will stop an intrepid reporter from writing a hit piece on Amazon. It will likely make both the reporter and their editor far more cautious about whether they’ve dotted their i’s, crossed their t’s, and given Amazon every chance to respond to the story before they publish.

Assuming they achieve that outcome, that’s a PR success. Heck, that’s PR gold.
Except that there is also the cost to the environment. Conserving momentum in a car means using less gas.
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I wonder how it compares to boots-on-the-ground operations. It seems to me that what US is doing here is not reducing the risk for their own troops (thus minimizing total combatant deaths), but shifting it towards the civilians of the other side.
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I'm not the OP, but it sounds like the cyclist came up the edge of the lane, between the car and the curb, to get in front again. A car can't follow a bike into a 2-foot-wide gap.
OK, I get that one could make that inference. And, having read more about them [1] I think I picked the wrong thing to rebut, as they are probably one of the better examples of "restrictions on expression." The others, I still contend, not so much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
If you look up his father's history, it's pretty clear that this entire "controversy" was likely manufactured at the kid's expense.
Unfortunately, livecoding.tv relies on Flash: https://i.imgur.com/cD0vwZy.png
"You don't have Adobe Flash. Please download it."

I'll pass. Let me know when you support HTML5.
> "as far to the right as practicable". No such requirement exists for automobiles.

Incorrect. Cars are required to drive at the speed of traffic or get off the road. Example:
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.425

Bikes have the extra privilege of using the road at slow speed.
Moving to the US from Europe one of the most striking differences I noticed was the near complete absence of yield signs. Where I come from (Italy) yield signs are way more common than stop signs at intersections (unless visibility is very poor). Also, traffic lights seem comparatively overused the US, even at low-traffic intersections. I always wondered why. Yield signs would be a cheap and convenient alternative to stop signs and traffic lights at low-traffic intersections with good visibility.
My 2012 M3 needed an entire new engine at 16k miles. Unfortunately, unlike a Tesla, replacing my motor can't be done in a couple hours (or for a couple grand).

But the fit and finish is fantastic!
I have Flash; it says "This stream is currently offline."
You are 100% wrong. Here is an interview with the guy you are talking about who came up with the lethal injection protocol 40 years ago. The specific intent was to be humane, and all it is an overdose of the standard anesthesia of the time.

http://time.com/101143/lethal-injection-creator-jay-chapman-...
Similarly, Scoots (scootnetworks.com, those electric mopeds you see going around SF) are classified as, well, electric mopeds, and therefore are not freeway-legal (but they don't require a motorcycle license).
https://twitter.com/meredithperry

Looks like Meredith Perry read this article too judging by her latest tweet storm even though she said yesterday she would be going dark until product launch...

I don't understand why she is taking this so personally. Of course everyone is going to doubt you when you say you've invented a new technology. I would expect this type of response from someone much younger but not a CEO who has raised millions.

Go back to work and prove this to the world because you haven't proven anything so far
I don't necessarily think we need to have a discussion about being Asian in technology.

I appreciate how attractive a conversation can be and/or a Asian American forum or movement that discusses Asian American issues etc.

However, in my personal experiences, those conversations unfortunately don't go anywhere; mainly because we are not part of the protected class (nothing against under-represented minorities, I actually support affirmative action in tech and education; but Asians don't get the same advantages conferred unfortunately and it is futile and dishonest for us to try to get them IMHO).

Also like the author said, Asian experiences are very diverse. Priscilla Chan (Mark Zuckerburg's wife) for instance would have a very different experience than say a first-generation Chinese female software engineer working for Facebook (Asian American female issues, "Asian Fetish"; "Joy Luck Club" pressure from traditional parents to still toe the line of an filial daughter), and also a different experience to a 2nd-generation Korean male project manager (Asian American male issues, bamboo-ceiling, being perceived as a work-bee and docile in professional and social settings).

The most successful Asians I respect and try to learn from have dedication and commitment to a higher goal. I respect highly a short Vietnamese guy who have forgone a high-paying medical specialty to toil in pediatrics but he loves it; he also found love in a FOB plain jane but also loves her too. The pure joy and happiness he partakes in life is a refreshing contrast to other neurotic Asians I know in extremely high paying jobs and/or partaking in the yuppie urban lifestyle.

I think we can learn from and even internalize the spirit of the American civil rights leaders. But we have to "affect change" through our work and remain humble instead of "dialogue" and "forums" that sometimes turn into a narcissistic navel-gazing. I think ironically, the traditional Asian values are quite American, in the traditional self-effacing American puritans or the Mid-West kind of way that made this country great.
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Our startup is having to cut back so this looks like a great idea.
This is correct--art of war in the Middle Ages.
im surprised to see Republic in here
I'm a bit confused... Is he saying overwork is good to shield you from over expectations and mistakes?
I thought about this more and in fairness I think since we don't charge for startup school, female founders conference, etc we should sort of count that as marketing. Though I also honestly believe they are good for the world.

And HN, sort of.
The official inquest concluded that paparazzi killed Princess Di.

"press" != "paparazzi"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales#Death
Exactly right. Stop sign is a simple rule to follow. You make full stop and then you go. yield is open to interpretation.
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That's probably mostly because we stopped trying to invent finer analog technologies once we got digital.
Should he? No. Can he? Evidently.

The ethics here are fetid.
The Tesla motors will get much more reliable with time. Nobody has mass-produced such a high torque motor before, it will take time to get the manufacturing ironed out. They will certainly get them to last much longer, but even if they don't the motor unit is only a couple thousand dollars and only takes a couple hours to swap. A Electric powertrain is significantly simpler than a combustion vehicle.
This is sad and is symptomatic of how broken the education systems are, not just in the US but in many parts of the world.

Going slightly off-topic (or rather accelerating the discussion a bit): I personally feel that fixing these issues in higher education will not be solved by MOOCs or 'democratization' of access to university level education. The change will have to come from industry. Until the current age of connectivity university grades/degrees/certificates etc were the easiest way to gauge a person's abilities and suitability for a job (especially when the person did not have or could not prove, prior experience) and they do act as a filter (unless you live in complete denial about reality). However, I don't think that it needs to be so. I wonder, how can we replace this (admittedly flawed, although working well for the most part) filter of educational qualifications ?
that's a spic comment.
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I go to one of the largest public universities in the US. I try to be a good biker (stopping at worst, true idaho stops at stop signs, full stops at red lights, of course). In between classes, when student pedestrian traffic is heavy on sidewalks many bikers dart and cut through the thick of people. It definitely is an annoying experience. I think I've witnessed only one accident however. While, as a biker on the road, I've experienced near death a number of times and being actually hit once, although not violently enough to case damage to me.

So yes, there is a lot to be said about bikers from a pedestrian point of view and a lot to be said about cars from a bikers' point of view.
"Such an hip and edgy Williambsurger".
They make lots of money by deliberately signing themselves up for privacy violations. The relation between celebrities and paparazzi is symbiotic, not parasitic, despite what the former sometimes say (or some even think). It's how popularity manifests and grows, and popularity is what celebrities make money on.
I smell WebKit-only APIs.
We considered indicating this in Chrome, but the problem was reliability - because JS can execute when you click, we actually can't tell you what will happen next, and we don't like showing unreliable UI (extensions, however, are great for this sort of thing).
Haha, I saw that and asked the same thing at Anandtech.

These server chips are slight tweaks to consumer chips. They work with server chipsets [and ECC RAM as you caught!]; don't know what else differs. There aren't yet "large" Xeons (E5 or E7) on Broadwell or Skylake, only Haswell.

The table of Haswell chips from Wikipedia is the best handle I can quickly get on the how the server chip line works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)

- E5 and E7 have more cores and L3 cache

- They also support more sockets (the model numbers start 2, 4, or 8 according to how many sockets they support)

- They're released a lot later: the first Haswell chip was in June 2013, but all the E7s in the tables are listed as May 2015.

And Haswell is v3 so Broadwell is v4 and Skylake is v5.

If this roadmap is right, larger Broadwell chips will come next year and large Skylake Xeons might not be until 2017(!):

http://www.theplatform.net/2015/05/26/intel-lets-slip-broadw...

I was vaguely aware that architectures would mature before working their way up the server line, but not of how long that pipeline was. Anyway, guess we shouldn't hold our breath!
Yeah this makes it seem pretty crap http://frominsidethebox.com/view?key=5713144022302720
Speaking of history that tends to get buried, how many people know that the Canadians burned down the White House during the War of 1812?
That works great until such time at you jump towards the side the cyclist was intending to pass on. Then you might get hit.

The proper thing to do when being approached by a cyclist is whatever you were doing up to that point. The cyclist can't read your mind. They can't compensate for every possible thing you might do.

They know you are there and it will hurt them just as much as it will hurt you if there is a collision. They are not going to hit you on purpose.
But that is how you make money! That TMZ makes people talk about you, which makes it more likely they'll show up on your concert / performance, buy your CDs or whatever.
Why isn't PostgreSQL in the list on the first page? It is in the [blog posts] page though.

I would love to see the multixact data corruption problems introduced in 9.3 analyzed, and see if he can verify them to be solved in the latest version.
>everyone was patiently waiting to get around this guy

Reminds me of the beginning of this video in California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u64SFHVYyyg
Assuming that for their demo at http://flite-hts-engine.sp.nitech.ac.jp/ they would select a good data set and parameters, I have to say that I'm not particularly impressed. Do you know of any online examples of a well-tuned Festival set up? I didn't find the 'official' Festival or Festvox examples especially great, certainly worse than online available TTS services, and I have never been able to find an example of a well-tuned result of Festival.
npm is pushing pretty heavily towards being the source for both backend and frontend js assets. a lot of interesting work happening on that front.
I'd be very interested to see RethinkDB analyzed, particularly with the 2.1 release promising high availability through Raft. RethinkDB and Aphyr have talked about doing Jepsen tests for it, but I'm not sure where that's landed (https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1493).
>Seeing the number of other cyclists that just blow through lights and stop signs, I'm pretty sure that the majority of them must not even know that they're supposed to stop.

As a biker, I think we need to educate others on this. If we bikers want respect, we need to be willing to share the road sensibly. I have a bit of strong feelings towards drivers, but I also disdain bikers who don't follow the rules and just make it harder for the rest of us to garner the respect we badly need on the road.
Crystal radio is an interesting concept -- but note I didn't claim it was impossible, just highly inefficient and with mediocre power/range (I couldn't find sources, but apparently it's typically 40uW with a ~1m? antenna).

Remember that's for a (usually) 50kW station -- that's 1e-9 efficiency, or 0.0000001%. Realistically I'd expect you to be able scale this to 10k's receivers to up to about 0.001%. It's not realistic to increase this power significantly due to health/electronics concerns for persons living close to the source and massive consumption -- bringing the power near a single station to 4W would consume 5GW, about 1% of total US power consumption!

Interesting to imagine a system with sightly higher frequencies (20Mhz?) dedicated to power transmission. It'd essentially be a hugely wasteful system (and expensive with high powered antennas everywhere to mitigate invsq law) which however might be able to power ultra low power sensors and gadgets. Some clever phase distribution (pseudorandom modulation should do it) system would allow location with ~15m accuracy too (even working indoors, although building refraction and reflections might be a little troublesome).
sum = (values) ->
values.reduce (result, x) -> result + x
I'm actually genuinely interested in that as well (Not the marrying part), especially considering aphyr and Damien Katz went at it about a year ago: https://twitter.com/damienkatz/status/527588456747499520
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Agreed. However, I don't think we would need many more off then than we already have. I was just trying to make clear that I don't think we should turn every intersection into one with one street having the right of way and their other one having a yield sign.
Not being able to read the key material with a microscope (optical or electron) is a specific design goal for these things. This takes me back more than 30 years to my very first job, the summer between high school and college. I had to disassemble and modify a number of crypto units used in the banking industry. These things had all sorts of mechanisms to make it hard to access the key, including zapping the EPROM containing the key with very high voltage if any of the case intrusion switches were tripped. My boss cheerfully informed me that the previous model had used a small explosive charge, and this new one was a safer alternative!
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Your semicolon got added to the link. Here's the working link for anyone else who got stuck in the bowels of Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphoge...