skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I managed to learn it all on my own; I rebuilt an engine too, but it wasn't some junkyard car's, it was my wife's car that she had gotten caught in a flash-flood and seized the engine on (see: "hydrolock"). Worked great for another 90k miles after that and was still running great when she sold it.

All you need is the ability to read, the desire to learn, the courage to get your hands dirty and not be afraid of breaking things, and some mechanical aptitude. And a little money to spend at Harbor Freight for some tools.
Yet another reason to install Firefox extensions I guess.

http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/
True, true, we don't produce and buy > 12 billion rounds in the US per year to shoot each other with, sorry if I wasn't clear in constraining my remarks to only self-defense uses, which I consider to be the essential uses of guns, if you include the ability to resist/prevent the establishment of a tyrannical government.

The most notable example of that in my lifetime was the reevaluations of some liberals on the wisdom of gun control in hit's heyday after the Saturday Night Massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre) where Nixon dismissed the Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and his Attorney General and Deputy AG resigned rather than carry out the order. We mostly Nixon supporting "gun nuts" were among other things part of the insurance that mess wouldn't go too far.
But I can make $60 million

https://blog.optimizely.com/2010/11/29/how-obama-raised-60-m...
C++ PROGRAMMING – PT.1: BASICS and HELLO WORLD /W VIDEO [Nepali]
Ghostbusters.

They identified a niche, bootstrapped their company, solved a real pain point for their customers, and spread through word of mouth from their satisfied customers to become the dominant player in their space.
Ask HN: Process and cost to create an inc
I have an Inc name I want to reserve for a startup I want to create later. What is the best source to understand the incorporation process and what is an estimate annual cost to maintain an idle inc?
I sure hope a company has a scalable business model before going public. Then again, Twitter?
I think your right - there definilty a different incentive dynamic. At intel, I once heard someone mention recruiting strategy that goes something like "Intel - you're next 5 software jobs" ..which i thought was a pretty interesting and powerful approach. I've certainly had 5 software jobs at Intel over my 16 years there, and the ability to move in a large company may have also allowed me to select for better managers/mentors.
> When you're dealing with people, though, that kind of response can be actively counterproductive. Anyone who's had a significant other "vent" and respond negatively when you try to turn to problem solving will probably recognize this dynamic.

Nonsense! As a logical, clear-thinking engineer, I recognize that if my wife is emotional and needs to vent, that the best way to improve her mental state is to listen and give emotional support and ask her if there's any way I can help. There's nothing illogical or non-intellectual about realizing that, it's just a matter of learning from experience. In fact, people who regularly turn to problem solving and annoy their significant others are probably too driven by their own emotions of frustration and empathy.

A better example of how logical, intellectual approaches to people problems don't always work might be with character judgments. Many people can derive intuitions about people without consciously recognizing where those intuitions are coming from, and deciding whether or not someone is trustworthy is often impossible to break down to logical terms until it's too late.
If you actually look at the changes to xscreensaver upstream (as the Debian xscreensaver maintainer did), you will see that most of the changes only mattered for iOS users so there was little point updating to the latest version, apart from the security fix, which was backported quickly.
Humans and robots work in sync at Amazon warehouses
I don't really disagree. OTOH, the UVA story in Rolling Stone was supposed to be journalism as opposed to something supposedly "truthy" and heads rolled as a result. I'm not opposed to new journalism as it was called at one point but I think I can feel a bit of legitimate discomfort when the boundaries blur (even when they're net positive as in the case of HST).
That doesn't work for many people, for example me.

Simpler to just copy the text into an HN post.
I'm starting to wonder if WSJ has a team of people upvoting it. I can't read any of it and it's not particularly noteworthy information.
Today I Sent This Note to the Mashable Team – Pete Cashmore
huh! I had also assumed that. I was pretty confused, but as I hadn't read Wind in the Willows in a while, I gave it a pass :)
Are there any distributions that audit all source code incoming from either maintainers or upstreams?

Are there many software projects that have full peer review of every single commit?

Are there many software projects that have more than one developer?
GitHub URL's
https://github.com/410

https://github.com/420

https://github.com/422

https://github.com/429

https://github.com/500

https://github.com/502

https://github.com/503

https://github.com/c
See the "web" link at the top of the page? Open that in an incognito window, then click the WSJ article.
A Mysterious Mammoth Carcass Could Change Human History
I'm just going to start flagging them unless we get links to the full story.
> I'm really surprised how shocked people are when they join startups and aren't happy. What did you expect?

The life-stage of a company rarely has much to do with the working conditions, cult/culture weirdness or how well the business is run.

There are plenty of great startups that are very solid companies that anyone would be happy to work for.

Blanket hate of "startups" doesn't make much sense. Also none of the companies you mentioned are "startups" anymore either, incorrectly applying that label to every company doesn't help.
A paywall bookmarklet I find handy for WSJ and NYT:

> javascript:location.href='https://www.google.com/webhp?%23q=' + encodeURIComponent(location.href) + '&btnI=I'
Open in incognito window works.
On the plus side, you have far more to work with these days than a Haynes manual. You'll have Youtube videos, discussion forum posts on every job, 'borrow a tool' programs from stores/libraries, a range of parts-suppliers competing for your dollars that will ship to your door...
>"like-minded people"

This particularly obnoxious phrase seems to be coming up a lot more these days. Maybe it is just people admitting they really do not want diversity except in looks rather than substance. It seems to reflect a lack of ability or desire to deal with real world conflicts of opinion.
Hahahaahahaha, what a bunch of horseshit. Here's what's really happening (or rather, what's not happening): Wall Street's pay grade model has turned into "Jump ship or get fucked".

So people jump ship. End of story. Banks don't want to give people raises, so they leave after a period of time for a new position that does give them a raise.

Pretty much every firm does it.
EFF and Tor: Why and How of Reproducible Builds
The posted article suggests that they already do allow this: Unlike some other intelligent assistant companies, X.ai gives you the option to choose a male name for your assistant instead: Mine is Andrew Ingram.
The timing chain and the camshaft seems really inefficient; I'm looking forward to when camless designs become more mainstream. Koenigsegg (among others, I assume) has been working on this tech [0][1].

0: http://blog.caranddriver.com/koenigseggs-camshaft-less-engin...

1: https://youtu.be/Bch5B23_pu0
Ask HN: What's your experience with developers in Indonesia?
Next week I am going on a trip to the Indonesian student cities Bandung and Yogyakarta. I already work with developers there and my goal is to hire more. I speak intermediate Indonesian so language barrier is becoming less of problem. Anything else I should be aware of?
Suppose a candidate spends 9 hours on your 3 hour challenge. What's the incentive for them to tell you the truth? I think the only way around that is to not tell them what the expected time commitment is, but that still doesn't completely remove the incentive to spend much longer than intended and to understate the amount of time spent.

As to the time commitment, I would say finding the time to do these coding challenges is no harder than finding the time to come in and interview. And not every company even does a take-home coding challenge. The last 2 companies I've worked at did not.

My point is not that there's no signal there. My point is that the incentives encourage candidates to spend arbitrarily large amounts of time on these challenges and to not mention the fact, which distorts the signal.
BMW have had VANOS for at least a decade.
Ideally there should be a way to render JavaScript on the server side for views/templates, like React, without having to write your whole backend in JS. In fact I just googled and found something like this in the reactjs commmunity repo: https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js
They've been working on it for years, and improving it. They've only recently started claiming that their javascript rendering was ready for "prime time".

The "hashbang" URLs (they call them Escaped Fragment URLs) actually required you to use server-side rendering, that had nothing to do with the spider's javascript rendering engine. I used them on a few sites and it worked pretty well, but I have heard of mixed results on sites that weren't originally on hashbang URLs who transitioned to them. They don't recommend you use these anymore.
But why? It's obvious. Making it explicit has no benefit, and makes you waste a bunch of words explaining yourself.
> I don't think Dan Lyons misrepresents your ideas, but rather I think more fundamentally he doesn't share your vocabulary, worldview nor expectations.

Pretty much the #1 asshole behavior on the Internet is criticizing other people's books/studies without having read them. Chris is right, this reflects extremely poorly on Lyons.
There are such places for adults: https://a.zozi.com/#/express/motoguildca/products/128672
I'd imagine if you live in such a place you'd already be aware of the issue. The article mentions some local variations:

> Two South African entrepreneurs, Ernst Hertzog of Action Hero Ventures and marketing executive Frans de Villiers, concluded that a plastic box, that can be used as a bath rather than a bed, was more useful for South African mothers.

The box is also a lot more than just a place to sleep for the first few nights.
Donald Knuth: My advice to young people
Sweet - when can I buy level IV plates made out of this stuff?
I recently started reading A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel and one of the first chapter is about the past and how learning from it we can avoid the same mistakes. One of the stories that he mentions is how in the early 60s anything that sound "electronic" was valued 10 times more just because of that, even if it had nothing to do with electronics. We are probably in a similar situation with "tech" and "startup", they are cool buzzwords that get thrown around from people that don't really know the meaning to add some special attributes to a company.
>I think understanding the principles of each system here is key. For example, if you understand how a motor works, it's easy to see you could either have a mechanical contraption with cams responsible for timing and controlling fuel injection or simply a computer-controlled system with some electrically actuated valve.

Are you trying to teach theory or real-world mechanics?

No engine in any car in the world has electrically actuated valves, except for a handful of prototype test mules such as one by Koenigsegg in Sweden. Everyone's still using "mechanical contraptions with cams", so it's pretty important to teach that, because any engine you look at will be made that way, and the design of the camshafts (and any support components, such as a variable-vale-timing mechanism) is critical to the engine performance.

>The benefit of the computer controlled system is of course you have more flexibility and have the ability to integrate data from various sensors to achieve some kind of "optimal" injection volume.

Yeah, that's great, but you might as well be talking about Moon colonies. It's sci-fi at this point. It may come in the near future, it may not; we might end up just skipping it in favor of EVs.

However, distributors by now are truly obsolete. I don't think any cars have them any more; they've all gone to coil-on-plug systems. Distributors aren't quite that old; there were still cars being made with them about 15 years ago, but those were the last holdouts. So I don't see the point in showing the distributor as is done on this site: it's simpler and easier to just show the spark plugs by themselves firing at the appropriate time, perhaps with some wires shown connected to the ECU.

It's a bit odd too, because aside from the distributor, this guy's illustrations seem to show a fairly modern engine, though he's omitted the variable-valve timing system that most modern cars have now. Notice that the fuel injector is squirting fuel directly into the cylinder: that's called "GDI", or gasoline direct injection. It's become pretty common these days (I think some Kias and Hyundais have been holding out on it), but go back just 5 years and not that many cars had it, and go back 10 years and it was pretty much none. Of course, like distributorless ignition, GDI is simpler in concept, though technically more difficult to accomplish reliably (the fuel pressure is much higher for one thing), as the old way had injectors shooting fuel into the intake plenum before it got sucked into the engine.

My only other complaint about this site is that they left out the V-12 configuration. There's still plenty of Ferraris that have those.
The article is poorly phrased -- I believe the "in a row" applies to (7+ hours of sleep) instead of (20 days of 7+ hours of sleep).

In other words, just the seven hours of sleep has to be contiguous?
There is no need to insert arbitrary ageism. It just makes you look immature, whatever your age.
I suspect the reason that Dan Lyons mentions "The Alliance" is that we cite some of HubSpot's programs in the book. Specifically, we mention HubSpot's "Learning Meals" program, which encourages employees to take smart people outside the company to lunch. HubSpot will pick up the tab as long as you share what you learn with the rest of the company on the intranet.
That's what happens when you make a for-profit business out of people's health, hoping the clients either never make a claim or that you can loophole your way out of saving some zeroes in a spreadsheet. Unfortunately, those zeroes could be the difference between your spouse living or dying. The underlying problem is a flawed healthcare system, but with even socialist countries' citizens starting to have to buy insurance to get the care they need [0], I'm skeptical any easy or relatively short-term solution exists.

[0]http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/22/socialist-swedes-take-to-p...
This remind me of RoboCop's ED-209, which also had a linear-motion way of moving the lower leg.
"There are dozens of projects under way in US states, but the biggest will launch later this year in Fort Worth, Texas, when all four of the city's hospitals start handing out baby boxes in an attempt to bring down the high infant mortality rate of 7.1 per 1,000 births in 2013."

Would be interesting to know if the local government will be modifying any of its infant programs alongside the hospital program. Thinking specifically of crib giveaways. Back in the day, municipal governments had such programs for low-income families to ensure babies did not have to co-sleep.

Similarly, the boxes offer an opportunity to promote municipal/statewide 211 information and referral systems. When done well, 211s are super efficient at information-sharing for people at every socio-economic level.
> he was lying to himself
> delude themselves about how awesome startups are
> people continue to write articles about this nonsense every month

You seem to be unrelentingly "blaming the victims." Obviously, it is to people's benefit to have the most realistic expectations possible about companies they join.

But does that in any way absolve employers of making realistic representations of what employees can expect? Does that absolve people in management positions from behaving with decency and fairness?

When two cars collide, sometimes both parties are at fault, "blame" is often a positive-sum game. It would be fair to hand out as much opprobrium and vituperation for the employers in these situations as the employees.
Hm..

I worked at a bank whose shortened name rhymes with "Damn'l" that did a LOT of things similar to this article to get younger candidates and college students onto their teams.

A few personal examples..

10k startup bonuses and great pay for the mediocre tech graduates who never stay - largely because of the lack of respect they get. At the same time, I was the youngest on the team, including the college grades and got no such bonus, despite having a "higher" than theirs. I still don't really see what they were trying to do there (besides the obvious) and why..

At the same place I was told by my manager, "I had to step out for a phone call when representing you in bonus talks, so you're not going to get a good bonus. Sorry about that." Sure enough, I got an insulting (in comparison to my peers) bonus and not an extra dime in pay. When I quit, my boss paraphrasingly said, "You should stay because we're severely underpaying you and can increase your pay at any time." Yeah, right.

A portion of my work was making sure things were good during Sunday market opens...... by myself until an hour after market open when an offshore team got on. When I quit, that shift had to be handled by four people. Can't give a good bonus, my fucking ass.

The complete lack of empathy at places like these is mind boggling.
Bandwidth use over 5 min video call: FaceTime
several managers and mentors at Intel that we're sincerely interested in helping me develop my career

I know that Intel has changed. A lot. But in the early 1980's Andy Grove (as President, before he was CEO) came up to Oregon to speak to the employees. Someone asked him when they were going to have showers for the employees. Andy responded "Intel is a place of employment, nothing more."

That's not easily forgotten, even though Intel did eventually install showers while Andy was still in charge!

Of course good managers care about their reports, regardless of the tone set by top management.
I think Komodo is currently the strongest chess engine, although the open source engine Stockfish is pretty close.
Neat, though of course this raises the question: what would it take to engineer a foam-piercing bullet?
Making it explicit has the benefit of making people actually think about who has control over the computers they are using.
For these discount pizza chains, there is usually plenty of coupons floating around - they even accept 'competitor' coupons. You can probably find some if you search for them on the internet.

But as old adage goes, you get what you pay for.
You can just learn by doing. It's no different than a self taught programmer.

I learned entirely by wrenching on my own car. Engine internals and transmissions are hard simply because you often need specialized tools. But there are plenty of parts you can fix yourself with only simple tools.

The main challenge now is that newer cars have a lot more complex components. Back in the '70s you could completely disassemble and refurbish a carburator. Fuel injection systems are a lot more complex. However, a lot of the systems on newer cars are still pretty basic.

One of the benefits of knowing how to work on cars is saving money. I fixed my wifes car (emissions failure) with a $12 part from ebay when a garage wanted $150 just to diagnose. And if you do have a garage work on your car, explaining what's wrong in way that makes you sound knowledgeable goes a long way to prevent being ripped off.
The failure rate of modern handguns is extremely low.

I carry a 1911, which is a design more than a century old. I've fired that gun around 15,000 times without a single failure of any kind.
As the other poster said, they have advantages and disadvantages. Subarus and Posches use them (though in the Porsches, they're flat-6 engines, not flat-4).

The big advantage is center of gravity: their shape lets them sit basically flat, near the ground, and since engines are the heaviest part of a car, this gives the car a lower center of gravity, which is good for handling.

The main disadvantage is mechanical complexity: instead of all the cylinders lined up in a row, with the crankshaft on one side and the valves and dual cams on the other, you have two banks of pistons, each with their own camshafts. So now instead of two camshafts, two camshaft gears, and one timing belt/chain, you need double all those. This of course increases cost too.

Flat-fours also tend to have rather distinctive exhaust notes, which not everyone finds pleasing.

Another notable place flat-4 engines are used is in small aircraft. Lycoming and Continental engines for small (e.g. Cessna) airplanes and helicopters are all flat-4.
A bullet made out of metal foam?
Who would even attend a party that their boss threw for them after firing them?
Getting Odoo into Linux distributions would help users to be able to install it easily and trust it.
As an engineer and former Hubspotter, I think Lyons is pretty accurate, if filtered through a Main Street lens and embarrassingly self serving.
That was my read too after listening to the fresh air interview. He said he thought it could be fun working with a bunch of out of college kids doing something exciting in a growing company. He had that experience before, afterall.
Take Advantage of Your SSD/HDD's Self-Encrypting Capabilites
I don't remember any panic except from Fox News talking heads who assumed the executive branch would bungle containment. The author and the article are not in any way comparable to those fear mongers.
Oh, I get it, like when you go to a funeral and people try to focus on the the memories that make them happy, or find comfort in religious fairy tales about 'living forever'.

Or when people who are fired are allowed to 'resign' to save face.

I think this isn't as nefarious as the internet hive mind seems to think:

Imagine that someone quits to go onto better things, more money, etc. Of course you throw them a going away party. Then someone else is fired, but you want to let them save face. Do you throw them a party? You've established that people leaving on their own get a party already...

You guys seem to think that the answer is obvious, you tell everyone "so and so was just fired for poor performance, they are bad at their job and that is why they are unemployed now." and have the person do a walk of shame out the door and never feel like they can put it behind them or face any of their former coworkers again without overcoming a massive amount of shame.
Holy shit, that website is atrocious (I also don't have an adblocker installed...)

Here's a direct link to the video for anyone hoping to avoid a monster of "modern" web development:
https://youtu.be/iyZE0psQsX0
This documentary captures the early dotcom era

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds
Renting computing resources will probably always appeal to a certain proportion of the population, same as for houses.