skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You bought a Q5 3.0 Diesel for clean emmisions? Wait... What?

I'm surely not going to defend VW or any of the associated companies for cheating. But it should be kind of obvious that a car with such an engine does all but clean emmisions.
not sure the career page links are working. ("View Open Positions")
sure the spying can be stopped... throw the machine away.
A late stage private co is not really a startup
Are you thinking of `hinv`? I have never actually had my hands on an SGI box but somehow just remembered this from all the reading I did back when I was lusting after one :)
Merely a joke. The recruiters (Cybercoders, I'm looking at you) that troll these postings do keyword matching on required skills when they email me about how they have the perfect candidate.

That said, I do like those things, personally :)
The thing has a 150 kW to 191 kW rating, granted on closer look it seems the Porsche one is shared across a lot of trims so maybe they didn't see it.

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

guess audi is the one that could be in deeper trouble.
Except that the future of Unicorns is not an IPO, its being sold to BigCo for a fraction of their Valuation which pays off some of the investors but fails to trickle down to the common stock. Or like with companies like SilverSpring there is a massive reverse split to get the the number of Common Stock shares down to a number that represents what the current market might pay leaving employees with pre-IPO stock options where the strike price is above the IPO price. How is that not a ponzi scheme?
It's worth noting that the newly replaced CEO of the VW group was the CEO of Porsche.

The CEO of VW was just fired for allowing this scandal on his watch, and he was replaced by a guy guilty of (at the very least) the same exact thing.
The price earning ratio is useful to compare companies in the same industry that are targeting the same growth level.

If P/E was any good indicator of value (in the absolute) the total market cap of Amazon should have been close to $0 during any of these quarters when it barely broke even.

I'm not implying that the P/E is worthless, just that it should be carefully applied and in some cases it shouldn't be applied at all.
I'm a bit curious about the battery thing. I have no problem plugging in my phone every night, simply because I expect to do so. It become very routine.

I also have a Microsoft Band, where the battery lasts about 2.5-3 days. It's always running out of juice when I don't want it to. Why? Because I don't pay attention to it and it doesn't become part of a routine. I don't have a 'I will charge my watch on Wednesday and Saturday' setting in my brain. I do have a 'I sit at my desk in the morning, I don't need my watch for 20 minutes, I'll charge it' setting, but I don't use that one because the watch doesn't need me too.

I wonder if there is a human factor design in having batteries last just long enough that they match a personal rhythm.
11) Star Trek: Kirk gets promoted from Cadet to Captain in one day
12) Star Trek <missing colon> Into Darkness: Spock is angry
Good point, sir. I'm not a native speaker, as you might already have guessed, and probably think of my spelling skill too much :) I'll fix the typos.

But I'm not going to "find out" about the quick sort, anyway. And the reason why is exactly what this article is about.

What I was trying to say by it, is that we as developers should invest our time consciously in learning things that will lead to company's profit. There's so much to learn these days. Many new shiny interesting things. And we are sometimes being too tech-y, we like to learn hard stuff, because it make us feel smart.

While the smart thing would be to constantly thinking about whether I really need that skill or not.
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If a reliable witness with no reason to lie came out and testified that they saw the suspect far away from the crime scene when the alleged crime was committed, that wouldn't be seen as compelling evidence for the innocence of the accused?
Sure that makes sense. But academics insist that all stocks have value based on their dividends. My local prof of finance (and old high school friend/poker buddy) is one. I can't fathom how the ivory tower types come up with this nonsense.
I wonder if it's manageable to build a converter to SVG with just XSLT?
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Yes. It's a 4500lb vehicle that averages 30mpg and supposedly passes the strictest emissions standards in the world... If I was in the market for a smaller car I would of course looked at models with a smaller engine (though I could have easily found myself in the same situation with a 2.0l TDI).
Have you ever heard that price is what you pay, and value is what you get?

The people who understand this look at dividends. The rest buy companies like Amazon for silly multiples.

P.S. Preferreds may or may not pay dividends. The preferreds that VCs get almost never do. If you own preferreds that do, you probably value them the way you value anything else: present value of future payments.
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There are all kinds of violations that are not stealing.

If I point a gun to your face and take your money, that's a law being broken, but taking that money is not stealing, it's robbery.

If I threaten to expose some dirty secrets and demand money or things from you, that's blackmail but not stealing.

If I take your textual content and re-publish it under my own name, then that's an infringing use but again, not stealing.
I hadn't ever really thought about it this way, but it's a good point.

Fundamentally, one would expect some relationship between total "digitized" (?) economy value (where digitized means able to be controlled, measured, and/or analyzed by software) and the value of startups.

And I don't think many people would argue computer-industry merging hasn't been happening across different industries fairly quickly.
Find advice from people who are one step ahead of you. The advice from the CEO of a late state company doesn't have as much value to a first time founder trying to find product/market fit.
Your question is cognitively devoid of meaning without giving a frame of reference, methodology, heuristic or other a priori anchor for me to be able to give you a reasonable comparison between two software architectures.

Nonetheless, I can give you examples of where launchd is deficient in its own problem domain, and particularly for a BSD. It has non-generic socket preopening (unlike UCSPI), its service classes are daemons, agents, XPC and Mach services. The latter two are OS X-specific and bound to IPC mechanisms no less, which is an odd taxonomy. Furthermore, agents (per-user/session daemons) are subdivided into four session types: pre-login, per-user, GUI session and non-GUI session. GUI and pre-login session types are specific to OS X's Aqua and loginwindow, and an impedance mismatch anywhere else. Further, non-GUI session is related to how launchd starts sshd from a plist, which again is a rather odd taxonomy-related coupling. Further still, the process types (four of them) aren't used as information for what readiness protocol or startup discipline to use, but are tightly coupled to scheduling policies and resource limits! These four process types make sense only within the context of a desktop system where you want priority scheduling and resource accounting to keep system responsiveness as events queue up, but are meaningless in the generic case. Then, launchd strictly limits you to a lazy loading startup discipline and does not have any formal ordering or proper service relationships (other than KeepAlive, all options of which are either prone to race conditions or too narrowly defined) and instead relies on daemons to resolve relationships cooperatively via IPC with all the problems of cooperative/uncoordinated protocol negotiations. Fine for a cathedral like OS X, unworkable anywhere else. This on top of system and service state being intertwined in the same critical paths of PID 1. The whole thing is a mess of layering violations. Let's not ignore how the NextBSD developers had to break Mach thread and task semantics to port the API (as a kernel module, no less!) over to a monolithic Unix with which Mach does not properly overlap. Finally, a more minor cosmetic gripe is LaunchOnlyOnce being a key instead of a job type.

It's an absolute catastrophe through and through. Awful design.

EDIT: Odd that I'm being downvoted for specific technical points.
Third advantage is it forces proper separation, it can be very tempting to do things you shouldn't to local resources for "speed".
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> It seems physicists in general have not had much to say in response to this idea

Huh? My impression is that the notion that the current laws of physics are an effective field theory of some more fundamental theory is pretty widespread and mainstream.
I didn't like DS9 when I was a kid. Same for Babylon 5. However gave it a try three years ago and watched all seven seasons. Enjoyed it much. Especially the last seasons are very good. There are also single episodes with very unique stories.

Also don't forget star trek: voyager, my personal favorite.
Yeah all that database skin stuff... It's essentially derogatory or veiled complaints about simplicity right?
Saturating Yelp's target market is labour-intensive work though, with high churn inevitable due to the nature of their customer base. Selling and renewing classifieds to a mass of small business is costly. Sure, you can eke out more profit even if your costs scale proportionately to revenues, but there's good reason to believe the CLV will actually decline and acquisition costs rise as they aim for higher saturation. With their brand and reach well-established for some time, it's the restauranteurs who aren't digital marketing-savvy (or think Google offers better ROI...) they're now looking to sign up.
I think it also delves deep into belief systems of different kinds and how that motivates people. It even asks questions around "if you have no choice but belief, is it still belief?"

It takes a little while to get going, but the story is probably one of the finest arcs on TV.
Does anyone know the status of using the Windows Firewall to block this stuff? Since Search and other parts of the OS are actually apps it seems, if you set a default deny, then whitelist only certain parts, wouldn't that sort itself out?

And any idea why MS is acting this way? Certainly offering a hidden opt-out registry key would satisfy a lot of customers, and not impact the telemetry data in a meaningful way. For Office, they literally discarded/sampled the telemetry data as it was simply too much to use.
I'm not bold enough to say he's wrong, but I don't think it's much of a reach to suggest he's failed to account a truly monumental level of sampling bias in his 'research'. He hears a lot about Go being the future because he hangs around with lots of Go users. As he says himself, his company probably has the most information about Go users outside of Google or Github - but he doesn't have information about trends in other languages and that's what you need in order to predict that Go is going to be big.
Compare to humans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MBW8zoZUR4
Why not? Is it illegal to hack your own iphone on a closed LAN? Do you have to be a startup to negotiate with the NSA? I reckon it would be worth a try.

I'm not pro-surveillance, so I wouldn't, but speaking hypothetically here.
I think what you are asking is do I think there is any connection between the sorts of mutations found more frequently in the Ashkenazi population and intelligence and the answer is there may well be some, but the contribution for any one mutation is very small.

I don’t think anyone has shown that being a carrier for any of the common mutations found in the Ashkenazi population increases intelligence in a measurable way, but if anyone knows of such a study I would love to read it.
Nice, I've written a few scripts to do things like this such as creating heat maps of areas of change between two sites and giving you the percentage of difference for CI builds etc...

Do you have any plans to open source this? That's the big factor for a lot of organisations decisions as to whether they'll make use of software or not. For example we have a policy that we won't rely on any proprietary software within our build / test pipeline.
I understand, I'm saying I don't think they believe they are giving up much upside at all
Just stop before the last season, for the love of god.
Somehow I always thought the computer tracked people's badge, not the bodies.
Because it's government, and you need the right person who can approve such a purchase.

Also, who cares about the middle man? It's a MILLION dollars now. Today. Not maybe in 6 months, but now. Seems like a great way to earn a living as a geek, without getting too involved in the whole intelligence thing.
From http://www3.epa.gov/otaq/cert/documents/vw-nov-2015-11-02.pd...

"the high temperatures heat the selective catalytic reduction system ("catalyst") and improves the catalyst's ability to reduce tailpipe NOx emissions"

There has been recently http://www.thestar.com/autos/2015/09/30/canadian-trios-exhau...

I wonder if this tech would work for SCR systems or not.
Spot on. Being able to carve a 60-90 minute chunk out of your day to hit the gym is a great way to cut low hanging wasted time.

A consistent wake up time anchors your sleep schedule, and prevents you from accruing a sleep debt. Most sleep debts gradually sneak up, and can be hard to diagnose.
Does Windows 10 actually log keystrokes? If so, that's pretty disturbing.
Stages in Pricing Computer Games (2014)
Microsoft has essentially forced me to turn off Windows Update on all my Windows 7 machines/partitions and migrate everything I can to Linux. All I am waiting for is SteamOS delivering AAA games to Linux and I won't need to touch future Windows ever again.

How can you justify using Windows for enterprise work if due to new policies you can't be assured you can keep anything you work on secret? I am not willing to keep the possibility open of sharing my competitive advantages with whomever is in bed with Microsoft's management to capitalize on my ideas. Can somebody please tell them to get back to their senses and become trustworthy again?

Do I need a dedicated NUC running super-secured *BSD/Qubes filtering out traffic towards known Microsoft servers while using Windows 10?
Are you fucking serious?
The language is promising, but given the incredibly fucked-up state of the Android build tooling merely getting to the point where you can evaluate Kotlin is an exercise in extreme patience.

> The tooling is also world class, as you might expect from a language developed by JetBrains. I recommend using Kotlin with IntelliJ -- the intellisense is guaranteed to boost your productivity.

It's a sad state when IntelliJ can be considered "world class". Sadly, I've had nearly as many problems with it as I have with Eclipse. I've been thrashing about desperately trying to find any production-ready alternatives to straight Java for Android development. I will literally cry tears of joy when I do, but it's not going to be today.
Reminds me of Steele's Rabbit compiler (as noted by Appel and probably others). Always made a lot of sense to me, though I never worked out the details. I thought in terms of every basic block taking arguments (in registers), and every branch passing some arguments. Lexical scoping gives us a way to express common arguments. This should be interesting to read and think about.
I found my current position at AttackPattern here on HN a year ago, and I really love it. I would highly recommend others check it out.
Given that I have to have the video files in an ATV supported codec already, what is the advantage of using Plex over using iTunes to manage videos?
Absolutely, its a slow burner but so many stand out episodes in stand out seasons, it also benefit from been able to jump into the world of TNG which definitely had its teething pains at certain points (and Wesley Bloody Crusher).
> I sure as hell wouldn't want my wealth in advertising-funded stocks

Where do you expect advertising to go? It looks like about half of all clicks are fraudulent one way or another, but in spite of that, if advertising didn't yield a positive return, I wouldn't expect it be so popular.
There is enough market for an android laptop.
There is no need to kill chrome OS.
Is google planning to release an Android Laptop or not?
8) First Contact: the one withNO! IT ENDS HERE!! NOW!!
Is... is the video intended to be a parody of something? It's like they took two shots of a drone turning slightly to avoid a tree in the middle of a field, and decided to hit it with a nuclear bomb of "MAKE IT FEEL MORE EPIC" in editing.
They might be able to deal with some of the older codecs like FLV or WMV but even many laptops struggle with codecs like VP8/9, with some users going so far as to use plugins [0] to disable them. I have a feeling you'd be hard pressed even getting something like 10-bit H.264 (common for anime releases) decoding in software.

Things like this have been attempted in the Raspberry Pi community but the last time I checked there was no success.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihd...
Better link for paper:
https://github.com/plasma-umass/coz/blob/master/Coz-Curtsing...
Founder of 'Minecraft' threw a huge Halloween party at his $70M mansion
The plaintiffs in Citizens United, lest we forget, wanted to be permitted to release a movie critical of a presidential candidate during an election. If that is made illegal again, that strikes me as being quite definitely against the spirit of the First Amendment.
"Premature deaths" is not a useful measurement because it does not take into account how premature the death was. You could say everybody who dies of a respiratory problem dies prematurely, because pollution made them die a few hours/minutes/seconds faster than they would have breathing perfectly clean air. The correct unit for measuring the harm caused is the disability-adjusted life year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year
One of my best search skills appears to be ego surfing, so here is a link from a previous discussion I participated in about ten years ago:

www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/29/20293/9910

Edit: It contains the stats I was trying to reference above but was misremembering. They are 3% of the population and 27% of U.S. Nobel Prize winners.
I disagree that the 4GB RAM cap is entirely arbitrary. Guess how many GiB of memory you can address with 32 bits? 4. Now, x86 CPUs have been capable of addressing more memory since the Pentium Pro [1]. But even then, not all motherboard chipsets supported that, probably because back in 1995, RAM was more commonly measured in megabytes, not gigabytes. Then consider that Microsoft discovered that some drivers became unstable when addressing more than 4GiB of RAM.

From a tech support perspective, the decision makes sense. Most target consumers probably aren't going to have enough RAM to hit the limit, but are going to notice and complain when their computers become extra-crashy. I may well have made the same decision.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
That is supposed to go into your profile. (e.g check my profile) and not submitted as a thread.

Delete this submission and edit your profile instead. I forget if users can? If not email hn@ycombinator.com to request deletion.

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Insurrection is underrated. It's by far the best TNG movie as far as pacing goes. First Contact feels like it is stuttering and I think people like it mostly because the Borg are always a hot topic for Trekkies.
Now just so some UI polish (or maybe calling should be a part of the texting UI. Who am I to judge) and a better audio codec (say, CBR opus) and Signal has everything I could ever imagine wanting. I have had a rock solid experience, and the simplicity is amazing . My whole extended family is using it, and a couple of them are computer illiterate.
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Yep. I have a '97 Honda Del Sol. I did drive it in the winter some for a while but haven't for a number of years; I live in Massachusetts. Now, whenever it's in at the dealer, I invariably have a mechanic or service manager commenting on what great shape it's in. (It's not in mint shape by any means but it doesn't have serious rust other than the exhaust replacements that it's inevitably had.)
The vehicles have to independently pass the emissions tests. Even if they have a a crate engine from some other supplier. All of the compliance engineers throughout all of VAG only test emissions to the EPA test rig? Even the ones at Porsche?

Nobody is going with Porsche for fuel economy but nobody is expecting to have their Porsche lose power due to a recall either. It's a premium badge, I expect them to dot more of the I's and cross more of the T's when I pay that extra $20-$40kk for a Porsche branded Touareg.
And then the causes that are not popular with those in power will be the ones defined as "political."