skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure Toyota will still end up issuing more recalls, and they probably haven't issued their biggest yet. (They haven't confessed to software problems in most vehicles yet, despite plenty of reports that can only be explained by either a software flaw or an unusually high error rate in throttle sensors that also haven't been recalled.)

Astute observers have been casting doubts on Toyota's growth rate for years, and the problems that have triggered the recalls have been around just as long. I'm actually surprised how long it took this PR crisis to reach critical mass, and I don't think Twitter did anything to accelerate it. In fact, I'd say it's in the nature of Twitter that it won't be significantly involved until a crisis has already reached critical mass.
The declaration of independence also calls for violent revolution as a means to obtain a more ideal society
Has your privacy been compromised in a way that conflicts with their privacy policy? If that's the case, you can file a lawsuit. Otherwise, the legal system cannot help you (and should not be able to help you). If this is a huge concern for you and it wasn't covered in their privacy policy, you shouldn't have used their product. If you implicitly trusted them, you can stop doing so now.

I agree that they are wrong. I just don't think we need more legislation to patch it up. It's between consumers and the companies - the government has nothing to do with it.
Because skiing and snowboarding are the most important pieces of gear in the big events that are also accessible to the general public? Skates are probably the exception but don't tend to generate that same cool factor in general use.
Don't wear a black suit for formal use.

1) you don't want to look dead-serious. Most people like business interactions to be relaxed.

2) most formal matters are conducted in the daytime. Daytime environments--outdoors, fluorescently lit offices, places with the windows open--will be brightly lit and comparatively low contrast. In these environments, black sticks out a mile away. There's a reason black tie is only considered appropriate during the evening, when street lights are on and interiors tend to use more relaxed lighting.

3) there is a rule in America that black suits are only appropriate for very somber occasions. Not everyone knows this rule, but some do.

4) cheap black fabric stands out a mile away. Cheap fabric of any color, not so much.

Get a dark ("charcoal") gray suit instead of a black one. Charcoal gray is the world's most boring color, making it perfect for interviews, presentations, important business, etc.
Can you tell me what features of Windows compel the normal user to buy it? Compatibility doesn't count because generally people will make their wares compatible with whatever has enough marketshare to seem profitable.

Compatibility and familiarity are features of Windows's ubiquity, not Windows itself. What other reason does one buy Windows?
If you're not aware of it, I consider the Saleae Logic (http://www.saleae.com/logic/) to be the perfect companion.

Of course I say that without owning either, but I've been keeping an eye on them both for quite a while now.
I don't expect him to not be ACM- but I would like more push from chairs to get ACMs policies to a more open position (such as making more material available on the web).
You could do worse than to listen to Hamming:

http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html

But, having said that, when you ask:

Is it dumb luck, inherited gift, or the result of a process that can be learned?

The answer is "all of the above". You need to follow good procedures that you will learn with experience, you need to have certain qualities, not the least of which are social skills -- bad research well described will trump brilliant but poorly-presented research every time -- but do not underestimate the role of dumb luck. For every awesome research problem that turns out to be tractable, there are many that just don't pan out.

There's a story I heard about Feynman. They say that Feynman used to take on grad students, and they would ask him what to work on. Feynman dreaded these questions. If he told a student to work on Interesting Problem X, and (s)he labored on it for years, only to find that it was intractable and therefore ultimately uninteresting after all, he was afraid the student would be terribly depressed, as depressed as only a late-term Ph.D. student can be. The story was that Feynman would tell the students to come back in a day or two, then take a problem and frantically work it out as fast and as far as he could in a day, trying to get a few years ahead of the student in a few hours, far enough ahead that he could be confident that an answer was likely to exist. Then he'd hide all his notes and present the problem to the student as an interesting and novel new idea.

Unfortunately, if you aren't a theorist, and your adviser isn't quite as smart, conscientious, and downright devious as Richard Feynman was, you'll be a normal grad student: You'll work away on a problem, and maybe it will be exciting, and maybe it will be boring, and the odds are on boring. [1] The secret is not to worry about this. If you want a successful research career, just keep moving from problem to problem: Finish your thesis (yes, with a stapler if you have to -- when you gotta finish, you gotta finish) and then devote your postdocs to finding a better problem, using all those Hamming-inspired skills you've been working on.

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[1] One truism: By the time you finish your thesis you are likely to be so bored with your own project that you will want to scream. Even if your project, properly presented, is actually pretty exciting to the independent observer. You lose perspective in your fifth or sixth year. That's why it's more important to keep moving than to hold out for the perfect project, or the golden dissertation.
> And how is placing ~/.gconf under git helps me to quickly restore configuration for selected apps? Have you looked inside of .gconf?

Yes - it contains the hierarchy mapped to directories. In my case `.gconf` contains directories `apps`, `desktop`, `system`. Then `apps` contains a subdirectory for every application using gconf - for example `ekiga`. You can revert the chosen directory there to revert the version for a single application. I honestly don't know what problems are you seeing.

> Have you seen wifi.conf file in there?

No, I don't have it. All my configs are stored in respective app's directory in a `%gconf.xml` file. Are you sure that wifi.conf is managed by gconf? Maybe it's just some random file that was put there by a broken app?
Yeah no kidding! $5k and upward... I knew they would be expensive, but I wasn't expecting that!
Just add a plus to the end of the URL.
The big_pipe used on the homepage is quite cool. The initial request just returns <script> blocks as each partial is rendered. I wonder how they work it on the server side - they use PHP so they're not using any kind of threading.

Perhaps the initial PHP request passes off most of the heavy lifting to their backend services over asynchronous Thrift calls. If that's the case then their PHP layer wouldn't be doing too much work, which doesn't seem to really tie in with them releasing HPHP.
most 18-19 year olds aren't ready to be in college, anyways ... amen! I wasn't for sure.
I wrote two apps for the SuicideGirls[NSFW], and one has since been removed.

SG is sexual, but not out right porn. Apple can do what it wants, but it kind of sucks that an entire company's branding is essentially banned or "in review" for 3 months.

Yes, they have Safari, but that harkens back to the web vs native app debate.

If only Android was the popular one...
I don't understand the exact legal background, but I assumed this was a trademark issue: before being able to compete, the athletes presumably have to sign their names away for the duration of the games such that the official sponsors get exclusive rights to use them.
Thanks for that! I hadn't seen those either!

At the moment I'm still using my Pentax ME Super (which I love!) Personally I really wish someone would manufacture a simple 35mm digital adaptor, maybe something that used the film roll cavity for electronics and then had a simple, thin tongue containing the sensor that would take the place of the actual film?

Oh well...
Correct, good teachers do that or offer a better analogy.
Cost/Benefit of Including Quad in Men's Figure Skating
And when privacy policies change, do I have to re-evaluate each time/product that may or may not be involved (since google products are sort of all merged into one)? If I do re-evaluate, and decide I no longer agree with the policy, and I delete my account is my data really gone or will the data still be there, just hidden, and part of the new policy which may give them more rights to for example sell that information? I believe facebook makes notifications of these changes, does GMail?

There are lots of issues that a simple 'privacy policy' document does not solve and may that it adds.
It has partly to do with that most men buy terrible shoes. Particularly dress shoes, but they also tend to buy ugly sneakers.

Shoes are actually the easiest thing to understand, to the point many newbies on StyleForum start out by expanding their shoe wardrobe. It's hard to tell an expensive suit from a cheap one, but easy to tell a good shoe from a bad one, if only men would spend any time at all thinking about it.

A pair of Allen Edmonds dress shoes is $325 or so. Seems like a lot, but 1) they look ten times better and 2) they last ten times longer. In an office environment where the "best-dressed" men wear hideous $200 KC glue-jobs that fall apart after a few years, you can one-up them while saving money. Pretty neat. Most dress shoes have hard leather soles, but this isn't a big deal unless you walk several miles in them every day.

I can't explain why women love foot-destroying heels. It makes no sense to me.
The IOC needs to be dismantled.
For yet another alternate derivation, see http://www.mail-archive.com/boston-pm@mail.pm.org/msg02716.h.... I find that one the easiest to understand, possibly in part because it is the one that I came up with. :-)
Bollocks.

No enterprise solution is worth $1B+ on the strength of 'major high-level contacts'.

It's all about the actual work put in and a massive dose of luck.
This is FANTASTIC. So easy to use and gorgeous. Careful with that feature bloat, the killer feature here is the lack of a ton of crap I don't need. Is this a hobby or are their plans to monetize it?
Pressure Builds On NBC To Explain Why It's Ruining The Olympics
A lethal business model targets Middle America
Ask HN: Please review my website 
http://beta.mrtextbooks.com

The idea is to create a used textbooks market where users can post their book with ease and not have to register for an account when they post a book.

Thoughts?
How does one technically get a "share of the business"? What does this mean? What paperwork is involved?
Anyone who downvoted me care to explain why?
I don't twitter (which appears to be the primary audience of bit.ly users) and my experience with url shorteners starts and ends with tinyurl (and all the abuses I encountered with that service).

What, specifically, was unworthy about my question and rational?
Do people ever fully understand what they're getting into, I'd say not.

As for your second point; you can take facebook as they present it or you don't have to use it, it's not for you to decide what they can and cannot do
You can try the links here http://www.theeinsteinfile.com/portal/alias__Einstein/lang__... and they seem to be much clearer.

This is the site of the book by Jerome the Einstein Files. Extract from same site:

The story that emerges not only reveals a little-known aspect of Einstein's considerable social and humanitarian concerns, but underscores the dangers that can arise to the American republic and the rule of law in times of obsession with national security.
Less guns per citizens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_gun_owners...) and less access to planes?

By the way, there were also some incidence of pupils shooting up their schools in recent years in Germany. I guess you are just much more exposed to American incidents than to the rest of the world. (E.g. have you heard of the whole ugly neo-nazi stuff in east Germany in the 90ies? It still goes on, though at a much lower level of intensity. It's quite hard to find English language sources on the anti-asylum-seekers riots in Hoyerswerda in 1991 but http://www.jstor.org/pss/4146935 is on.)
Lovely usage of the font Rockwell, but you should specify some fall back fonts.

CSS example:

h1,h2 { Rockwell, "Courier New", Courier, Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; }
Whoa, there's a bunch here - thanks! All excellent ideas, I'll get started ASAP.

I'm thinking that some of the ideas that people have suggested will be implemented as paid-user features, though. The idea is that the free version is totally usable and useful, and the paid version has a few extra tools here and there. The usual model, I'm sure!

Anyway, big thanks for the list - that's exactly the kind of feedback I was after.
the key ingredient on HP’s innovative new data center in Wynyard, England: cool fresh air from the North Sea

Although I find it likely that heat exchangers are involved, my first, snarky thought was, "that's just the kind of 'freshness' my servers don't have enough of: moist and salty from The Sea."
The author tries to credit Twitter for breaking the story: Prior to the advent of rapidly updated social media, bad news about cars seeped out at the local level. A pattern of accidents here. A sudden uptick in complaints to dealerships there. ... Sufficient evidence to warrant even a NHTSA investigation could take years to organize. Deadly cars could remain on the road for far too long...

In fact, social media had nothing to do with discovering the pattern. It only fueled the flamefest after news stories based on government investigation.
I never tried speedreading, but since a friend of mine surprised me by telling me she read 62 books last year my new year decision was to read more.

I am keeping up with one a week until now and I am no genius yet I have a job, friends and girlfriend, so if studying how to read faster brings this little improvement, I'm baffled.
Does Education Make You Happy?
Science Education Should Begin at Age Three
Your child comes home from pre-K and tells you to shut off the lights to save electricity. Don't feel scolded; your child may be a budding scientist. To support these interests, one academic says children should begin learning STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects as early as three years of age.
silly things like this make me want to be mischievous and create a site that lists all the gold medalists winners + brands they were wearing.
Cool.

Bike-shed-color style: when I tried the tour, I was told to click the "Play" button. I did, but then I found it doesn't really "play" it. It's a "next" button, you have to keep on clicking it.
Impression:I'm not sure why I'd sign up. It says something about bookmarking, but like most people I already have a bunch of bookmarks in my web browser and wouldn't want them in two different places. Does it integrate the two?

Or is it another sharing stuff with people site? If so how does it differ from facebook, twitter, reddit, stumbleupon, delicious, digg, mixx, technorati, etc.?

I don't know what it's new big feature or innovation is. Or how it's different at all. Explicitly tell me what your new big innovation and feature is. Or if there is no distinguishing feature (which is fine), at least tell me "we are different than other sites because we are NEW, BETTER, and AWESOME"
So it looks like there are two bearings on the inside of the wheel, and probably a third against the tire? I wonder how wobbly that gets when the tire pressure drops. I would think that just having a triangle inside the wheel with bearings at each of the points would do the same job without the wheel being pinned along only a quarter of its circumference. Cute bike, anyhow.
Appeared already in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134342
I agree that there's different levels of complexity there, but the same principles apply.

jQuery is non-trivial. It's been worked on and improved for years. There are many big-time users of it. There are many who spend lots of time developing for it. It's fast and regularly tested for fastness. Its speed improves in each release. It's easily extensible and easily modifiable. It's not abstracting anything major and there is no major speed hit in using it.

It seems that this argument can't be solved without additional data, but if we assume that Facebook's custom library is the same speed or even somewhat faster than an implementation of the same based on jQuery, what advantage is there in the custom library? jQuery would be better here.

The only time Facebook's custom library would be better is if it was several orders of magnitude faster than it would have been if it had been implemented with jQuery. I would be very surprised if it were, but it's not outside of the realm of possibility, I guess.

That's our point of contention here. You think that jQuery is slower by default and I think it's faster by default. Does anyone know of any data to help corroborate one of these points?
I like the look, and the aerodynamic possibilities are intriguing. That being said, spokes play other important roles in current wheel designs.

For one thing, a typical spoked wheel uses spokes that are tightened until they stretch a small amount. When the rim is subjected to stress, it can bend a little and be pulled back into true by the spokes.

A spokeless wheel would probably need a very stiff rim that could resist deformation. This would produce a harsh ride, but problem can be solved with suspension.
No, Twitter is just another part of the media circus that has been following this, right alongside late-night talk show hosts cracking jokes about it.

This ranks alongside the Pentium bug back in 1994, where researchers discovered a legitimate bug, which the Intel fixed, while millions of people who had never heard of a floating point number read stories written by equally clueless reporters.
Yes, just like it toppled the Iranian government.
An individual who has expatriated for tax reasons must pay US taxes on all US-derived income. True, and they're fairly effective at collecting it too by withholding at the source. So if you don't want the IRS in your life, you can't get paid by US companies. Billions of people manage to do so.
To a certain extent. You shouldn't overdress, because you'll look stupid to either gender. But you shouldn't sandbag yourself, either.

If you're wearing nice, dressy or semi-dressy clothes, a pair of casual shoes will look silly. And if you're wearing nice, casual clothes but cheap sneakers, that will look almost as silly. You're doing yourself a disservice if you wear a fitted RL polo, nice fitted raw jeans, and whatever pair of Adidas was on sale. You'll be making a fashion statement, and that statement will be "one of these things is not like the others".

Plus, a "real" leather shoe, like the OP talks about, can last one or multiple decades, if they are resolable and of good quality. In certain styles, you actually save money by buying more expensive shoes.
Answering PG's Arc Challenge: On the Road to a DSL
Pop and Circumstance - 50 Party poppers fired at quick succession.
Bringing Y Combinator’s Incubator Model To India
Here is my question. How long will it be until Toyota realizes that "Moving Forward" isn't really the best slogan for them? :-)
>> "Its speed improves in each release."

This should worry you. It does me.

http://blog.jquery.com/2008/06/04/jquery-126-events-100-fast...

>> Event Handling is 103% Faster

>> CSS Selectors are 13% faster

>> .css() is 25% faster

etc.

Each to their own, but checkout the source code, and checkout writing javascript without any library.

If speed matters, or large scale, or custom things, etc then it's not an odd decision to write the javascript code yourself.
Its nice to see that subversion as a project is still evolving, but I will continue to use git-svn as my subversion client anyways most likely.

They haven't really mentioned exactly what will be supported by these changes, but it seems to me that without local branches, offline commits aren't really worth much. The fact that you need 5 svn checkouts to work on 5 different features at once sucks. With git-svn I can work on as many features as I want with different local branches, and they can each be based on different remote branches if needed.
same as searching for "g"
That, and the fact that they have a big, otherwise unused upper surface. Where would you put a big honking logo on a skaters shoe?
Caveats of Evaluating Databases
No, I just think there needs to be a better way of funding it... Corporate sponsorship always comes with strings, and when you mix large multi-nationals into the mix, things can get complex real fast.
'Climategate' scientist attacks bloggers
Also:
http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gall...
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Unless they have a ton of the product already built, I agree with everyone here - you're a founder.

If they had a product up and running or even with customers, then you have to give some consideration.

The "idea" itself is worthless. Its all about the execution - and as a no-salary, techie - its going to be your job to help that happen.
The African sports coupé is not migratory.
EPL Tickets
The Premier League season is underway and we have tickets to every Premier League game this season.
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Sorry guys - I screwed up and didn't read the site guidelines before posting. It won't happen again.
Great suggestions. A nice Weller station will make your life infinitely better.

Another thing that helps make beautiful, clean solder joints is flux. I used to stuff PCBs with surface mount components, and my general practice was to just swab flux over everything before soldering. Then, when you're done, you need to scrub the board in hot water to remove the flux, but it's worth the trouble.
The tour looks beautiful!
Sorry, but whoever told Kevin Smith to wear baggy shorts with sneakers and no socks to a red carpet function ought to be shot.

I'll admit, his selection of glasses fits his face, but taking fashion advice from someone who's signature look is a backwards baseball cap, trenchcoat, and all black?
Efficient history-stealing attack to identify website-visitors
^Italian^French
...so?
stylish. I like the idea of saving a bookmark to look at later... does the service email you at your primary email address???
Lenders have begun mining Facebook and similar graphs, and turning down credit for people whose graph ("friends") includes people who are deemed risky.

So, companies are or may soon be dictating who are our friends. If we transgress against their judgment, we are punished in real and financial terms.

Examine this from the other side of those relationships, and you have corporate driven ostracism of members of society who are not deemed "worthy".

And Facebook now provides no means of opting out of participating in this graphing. Whenever a "friend" uses an Facebook application, that application has access not only to their list of friends but to yours.

Recently, Facebook took information that was shared by users under an agreement and setting that kept it private (e.g. profile pictures), and forced it, pre-emptively, to be public. Except for the weasel words that were surely already in their user agreement, they broke if not their legal contract then certainly their social contract with their users.

What is reasonable? Will we all have to acquire legal degrees and spend hours each day analyzing endless online and offline contracts, just to participate in society?