skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the exact same reaction when I saw this.."congress? why is congress getting involved in this?"

If people are upset with how their Toyota cars are operating, then no one stands to lose more than the Toyota company itself in lost revenue. So what additional incentive or pressure could congress apply here except increased publicity? Let's see...we lose a billion dollars, or get chewed out by some old guys for a few hours, which sounds worse?

It seems really silly to watch politicians chastise a CEO and talk down to him. Good engineering (especially on a massive scale like that) is really hard. If they think they can do better then no one is stopping them (members of congress) from starting their own car company to try and compete. Otherwise, I'm not sure why they feel qualified to criticize.

Something else that bugged me is the quote from one of the witnesses which said 'Shame on you Toyota for being so greedy'. So...you're saying they intentionally pissed off all their customers as some sort of plan to make more money? I'm so confused by this mentality people have that greed in corporations is a bad thing. Yes, you could argue they sacrificed long term quality for a short term savings, but this is hardly greedy, it's just bad business practice that leaves you with LESS money.

This may be unrealistic, but I really wanted to see the Toyota CEO reply to congress with some sort of statement like, "We won't be appearing at any hearings. We are a private company and don't answer to government. We only answer to our customers. So if any of our customers have questions here is a toll free hotline. Members of congress, if you are a Toyota customer, feel free to call as well, but you're role in government won't be taken into account in how we respond."
They're effectively major stockholders of several competing companies. They have every reason to get involved.

It also allow them to organize two minute hate sessions for the media's consumption.
This isn't a startup.

I don't think you'll find many people willing to annoy their followers/friends with advertisements, even in exchange for some pocket change.
Rent the cheapest linode possible out in New Jersey and then set up a proxy to effectively tunnel the traffic.
I agree. I work in a govt agency and while linode.com is blocked, I can still access my site that is hosted at linode as well as the linked site below in comments. Searching us-cert for linode, turns up the following: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-055A.html
My stepfather told me to never preface a counter-argument with "yeah, but". He told me that other people hear it as "I didn't listen to what you said, but am talking anyway."
If your IRS refund is your only form of saving, then spending it on a MacBook Pro takes you to a whole new level of bad decision making.
There's "socially skilled" (i.e. able to use social cues and interpersonal contact to accomplish goals) and "socially functional" (i.e. able to function in society with a minimum of problem). By definition, most people are socially functional. Throw a bunch of people together and they negotiate a social protocol. (Even people who fail at negotiating with social protocols can successfully negotiate a different social protocol in different circumstances--science fiction conventions, for instance.)

Socially skilled people make good businessmen and politicians. They can engage in "powertalk" (http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-i...). They have charisma. They parlay a lucky strike running for the Senate into a successful Presidential run four years later. They radiate reality distortion fields. This is rather different than simply being able to speak the protocol.
I think your vision is a little short sighted. I think business could use this on their own social media sites and alike.
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While I frown upon Apple's policies sometimes, one thing I liked about them is when they announce something, they deliver it.

Courier has been publicized for sometime now but there's still no release date. Same with the slate they announced with HP during CES. They said later this year but no follow-up since.
Hmm...i got a casino advertisement...to a news website doesn't seem too targeted.
Geo-locked? That’s strange. Where? I can watch here in Germany. Despite having to endure ads which are in no way relevant for me.

I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.
Right on! Here's a bit more explanation from Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/strange-antipart...
What else would it be? Fact, conjecture, a hypothetical that you don't currently believe, someone else's opinion, something you read on a bill board, demon possession, a marketing message, something you read in a book, something you learned via a diving method such as reading tea leaves... The list is actually quite long.

I say "I believe" if I don't have any facts to back it up, I don't say "I believe" If I do.
If the following are true:
1) The device renders are close to reality
2) The software videos are close to reality
3) Users are allowed to install any software they want
4) Programmers aren't subjected to a crapshoot approval process
5) The price is realistic for the masses
6) A sizeable ad campaign is launched to promote the device

I can really see this working.
Use a disposable email address!! I'm a developer on one (whyspam.me)!
I just successfully cloned the repo, and the video/docs load fine, so yea.
Yeah it's by no means perfect but I am working on it. And I need more advertisers to match more effectively :)
Am I the only person that really hoped "unbig.me" was a weight-loss related app? And the banner at the top reads "Use unbig.me to to shorten your link and earn $". Obviously you should remove the "to to" and overall that just feels like someone talking in txt to me, which I hate.
I really like that someone came up with a site like this because the Mixergy interviews are too long, this is like a bare-bones alternative.
"Baseball Probe Begins Tomorrow" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 29, 1951.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DDAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d...

There are lots of other examples if you search newspaper archives using Google News. I encourage you to go look for yourself.
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process."

—Mark Twain

Biggest. Dissection. Ever. (as a ratio to the size of the original joke, including the edit and at least 2 comments). You win ;)
MongoDB now includes geospatial indexing
Out of curiosity, why is the biobank necessary? Great review btw.
I haven't driven any newer Toyotas, but do they not let you turn off the ignition while in motion/gear?
Hopefully this means git will be coming to google code! (one of the big reasons they rejected it in favor of hg was that git was so inefficient over http before)
Nothing stops someone else from pushing reMail back into the app store. (Except, of course, the other ten someone elses doing the same thing.)

But this seems like a better outcome than previously, when the app just died with no recourse.
While we may draw some similarities to metacritic we also have the social aspect that they don't. Namely, you can follow other users on the site and see their reviews in your dashboard. You can filter based on people you follow so you only get the reviews from people who's opinions you care about etc...
You're not the first person to tell me that. If the concept isn't successful I'll change direction to a weight-loss app :)
Collatz is the last name of a high school athlete who made track and field headlines at around that time.
I'd drop the description on the Music/Movies overview page and add a recent/popular review. get the content of the site one step closer. when the user drills in then give them the description/synopsis.

Have faith in your content! Thats why you want people to visit.
If I have:

do_thing_A_and_after_that_call(function() {
do_thing_B_and_after_that_call(something);
}

do_thing_C_and_after_that_call(function() {
do_thing_D_and_after_that_call(something);
}

what should I do to execute some E after both B and D is finished?

I think that non-blocking effectively means introducing easy syntax for parallel execution while complicating syntax for sequential execution.

I think parallel and sequential execution should be easy:
on T1 and T2 do E where
T1 = (A; B),
T2 = (C; D)
I wouldn't use any provider that took an active interest in monitoring my traffic or examining my VPS.
I'm ok with Google buying and closing cool services as long as they keep open sourcing them in response to the nerdrage.
Interview with Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure
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In a talk Yegge gave some time later he did confirm that he was talking about JavaScript. http://vodpod.com/watch/395703-steve-yegge-at-oscon-2007 (at the very end, "NBL is JavaScript 2")
Almost all founder agreements - especially one signed by Cringley who has a lot of experience - is going to have ways for the board to get rid of a founder. Either outright firing, or a buy-out or something.

Just because a founder, for example, doesn't mean you don't have to come into work because you're busy at home eating cheetos and playing xbox (which is definitely not what Cringley did, but an extreme example of why you'd want such a clause).
One really provocative and insightful comment that is independent of clojure itself:

"I think programmers have become inured to incidental complexity... when they encounter complexity, they consider it a challenge to overcome, rather than an obstacle to remove.

Overcoming complexity isn't work, it's waste."

This is a useful maxim for me. I have definitely been attracted to complexity that was really incidental in programming.
You're not allowed to submit links like this to HN, because HN is too serious and important for humor. Cue the censorious "we're becoming just like reddit" comments...
My impression (as it might be wrong) is that the words "I think" are contextually appropriate depending on what you're trying to accomplish. If you want to voice an opinion for consideration but not push for it, then "I think" demonstrates your openness. If you are trying to argue for something directly and expect opposition, then you should state your case as directly and strongly as possible. A third option is when you are expected to be a voice of authority (ie. you're a tech and someone just asked you what Linux is). Authorities are supposed to know, and people will think you're BSing if you say "I think..." what you really know. I personally would prefer you admit if you're unsure, but some people would rather you act confident than disclaim.
If anyone is at all interested: Almost all the traffic from HN skips the ads via the "Click to close and continue" link at the top right - while the majority of Twitter users let the ad run for a full 12 seconds.
There are also very specific legal requirements for running contests of any type. I would suggest contacting an attorney!!
Brian Williams really has some phenomenal comedy cameos. I'm thinking of 30 Rock, and it seems like he keeps popping up all over the place.
Please consider the entirely of your own scenario. Bending down awkwardly and taking your eyes off the road to get at fuses under the dash could well kill you if you are in an out of control speeding car.

Most of the other actions suggested can be taken while in standard driving posture. Those will be much safer than reaching for fuses under the dash.
" It implies that people without a similar level of conviction should defer to your opinion."

Really? How so? I understand that an opinion expressed without qualifiers may indicate a strong belief, but I don't get the implied "defer your opinion" part.

Perhaps this is something that some people infer, whether intended by the speaker or not? There are some people for whom every strongly voiced opinion is taken as a personal challenge, rather than being just one person's thoughts, typically offered without any supporting evidence. Hence flame wars and such.

Maybe people need to be encouraged to assume every expression has an implied "In my opinion ... " unless there is something offered to back it up.
Thanks, that's some good advice. I might experiment around with that. "Have faith in your content!", I like it :)
Two more thoughts; IF it delivers:

1) This would be killer in education

2) Would artists love Apple as much when Microsoft is delivering products like this?
Ask HN - Is it ethical to delete a submitted link that got no votes?
Hi everyone.

Say I submit a link to HN, and after a while, it finally drops off the "new" page. In that time, its still 1 point and no comments.

However, the delete button is still there. Maybe there's a better chance for whatever-it-is if I submit it at a different time of day, but the only way I could do that is to delete the old one while I still have the chance.

I will admit to having done this in the past. But is it ethical? I can see how doing it every hour for days and days until someone pays attention dammit would not be ethical, but is there a level where resubmitting could be considered reasonable.

(I promise I won't do it on this one.)
You can have an Open Source app in the App Store? I know GPL is out. I didn't know other licenses were kosher.
We're an impatient group. :)
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Django Advent. haha, I like it. If only you got a chocolate every day too..
I don't quite understand what you're saying. Do you mean businesses that are on Twitter and Facebook would use this to make extra money?

I'm not sure if that's what you meant but if so: Businesses are on Twitter/facebook to try to connect the current/prospective customers in order to encourage repeat business. Adding advertisements to short links would detract from that mission.
I run Chrome with an ad blocker - the test link gave me a blank screen with a non-obvious loading meter in the top left (which said click to cancel on hover).

Seeing as a large number of people use ad blockers that's not a great UI experience - quite a few people could even click back/close because they think it is the page their visiting loading.
The problem is when governments violate civil liberties, and you can't fix that by making a bigger government to enforce laws against the smaller governments.
node.js + coffeescript is the new sexy! It's going to kill my weekend :)
That was my reasoning before too. It's a deep rabbit hole of mental reasoning and social signaling, not to mention self-consciousness. I've often felt that it ties into the programmer's constant pressure to achieve syntactic accuracy and efficiency at solving problems. Not to mention that awareness that we're constantly making many small mistakes or misjudgments while coding. (Aside: It's got to be having a profound effect on society, given the pioneering that technologists have done getting us into the age of social tools like the iPhone and Facebook.)

I've experimented with "What if" too. I imagine it works for others, but for me, and perhaps something about my tone of voice that I'm not realizing, it sounds patronizing, so it hasn't worked as well.
When talking about something meaningful, I speak to people in a way that humans should be spoken to. It's their fault for getting offended.

That is, I speak to people with the dignity of humans in mind, which is our power of inference. Speaking in a lesser way is disrespectful, like talking to people as if they were dogs. Yet, that is where most people are comfortable. That is the level of sanity which is promoted through most human society.

And this level of sanity is, frankly, animalistic and insane.

No, even if people don't like it, I won't grant them the indignity of being spoken to like an animal.

With that said, I've learned some leniency with this rule. Now, I'm basically sociopathically socially skilled in places where people can't communicate at my level -- pretty much the article's last two paragraphs. I understand wit and charm logically, and I can apply it quite consciously. I am, however, always disquieted that I have to entertain myself like this -- and as a byproduct, entertain others -- and yet, people don't realize that they're being tricked.

Bah. As long as I'm not talking to the layperson about something meaningful, I'm fine. I just really wish it didn't have to be this way.
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I can't seem to find a free version online, but This American Life's TV show, the episode called "Pandora's Box" is very eye opening. They go to a modern pig farm and it's as disturbing and disgusting as this article makes it sound.

I thought it was very interesting that they had to scrub down before they could enter for fear that they might introduce germs to the pigs.
That is a very good point. I've been thinking about that issue for awhile now. Thanks for the input.
At least 3 different classes had me using threads at some point(c, pthreads library).
I had to write 2 different web servers. Both were multi-threaded. One had to serve static files from a directory, the other needed to implement a simple web service outlined by the teacher. For a separate grade, we had to make the web service one implement a threadpool.

I've also played with Ruby 'threads'(not really threads). For a databases class, I made a simple youtube-like clone that let users upload, tag, and comment on videos. When a video was uploaded, I needed to convert it to a flash-compatible format. I spawned a separate thread to handle this. If there were a bunch of people all uploading around the same time, you would end up with lots of extra threads hanging around converting video. I realized that this idea would never scale when I made it, but the timeframe given for the project didn't really allow me to implement a more scalable solution. I used a library off github called Spawn.

On the subject, I recently saw a great talk by Joe Damato and Aman Gupta at the Ruby Hoedown in Nashville covering different threading models. Some of their code has made it into Ruby Enterprise Edition.
Any comments on this article? This auto professor is able to reproduce the problem.

http://www.leftlanenews.com/report-toyota-electronics-design...

This is what the article says about the prof:

Instead, we were treated to Dr. David Gilbert of Southern Illinois University, also a guest of Mr. Kane's, who claimed to have found how Toyota's electronic system could totally malfunction, creating a runaway car—and claimed he'd found the error in less than four hours. Spoiler alert: Dr. Gilbert was assigned this work by Kane's safety advocacy firm, with at least partial funding by trial lawyers.

Here, too, is a problem: Dr. Gilbert said he relayed the results of that test and his concerns directly to Toyota. In short order Toyota looked into Dr. Gilbert's claims and found them not to be valid in terms of creating unintended acceleration. Then, to the company's surprise, it watched his appearance with Brian Ross on ABC News this past Monday night, Feb. 22.

According to Toyota, it now appears that Dr. Gilbert had done something completely different in order to get a Toyota Avalon to accelerate under its own power. Toyota offered to evaluate Dr. Gilbert's Avalon, with ABC in attendance, and see what he did electronically to cause it to accelerate.

Additionally, Toyota is fairly adamant that Gilbert's "test evaluation" on ABC News was not the original "discovery" he relayed to them on Feb. 16.
> A third option is when you are expected to be a voice of authority (ie. you're a tech and someone just asked you what Linux is). Authorities are supposed to know, and people will think you're BSing if you say "I thin

In that scenario "I think" is not to do with opinion but uncertainty (it can be used for both).

The definition of Linux is an established fact so if you know what it is there is no need for "I think".
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pretty cool idea. I was going to use bluetooth pairing between my phone and pc for this purpose since my phone is always in my pocket, but the battery drain on the phone was not worth it.
Human-powered monorail
The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions
I upvoted you back up. When does one get the ability to down mod, i have over 100 karma, do i need to top 1000? not that i have a deep desire to downmod people, i'm curious
Met the guy at the Clojure user group here in NYC, apparently there are a couple of financial firms in the city already using it. Stuff is pretty cool. Rich looked like a total hacker dude ;o) Actually all the clojure developers were all bearded long haired hacker dudes. Definitely my kind of place
Stuart Halloway's "Programming Clojure" is a very good book but unfortunately there's nothing I've seen online to match it for pacing and quality of examples.
I read an article in the Harvard Business Review relating to this some time ago. The author basically argued that social interaction comes from the limbic brain, so trying to learn it the way one would mathematics is awkward and misguided. The complex, inconsistent world of social cues simply has too many variables for logical processing, but each human is equipped with an older, instinctual understanding of this world that sometimes goes ignored or even repressed. Maybe the key to success here really is learning to stop thinking too hard and trusting one's instincts.

A good example is how we tell people they're being rude. Many nerds want an explicit, clear answer, maybe even a right/wrong mark or a grade. In reality, we respond to body language with body language. If everyone's avoiding your eyes or shooting you dirty looks, you've probably said a bad word. Sometimes it's more subtle, such as with the many meanings of crossed arms and angled stances.

I dealt with these challenges by studying acting. The practice of theater collects and refines centuries of study in body language, emotion and personal interaction. Even more importantly, it is a practice rather than a knowledge base, which matters if one believes that one physically cannot learn certain things from a book.
I beg to differ; obviously no hard proof to back this up but I expect that "I think" is used to express an opinion as much as it is to express uncertainty.

Also uncertainty is presented in delivery and tone too; so distinguishing the two is relatively easy.

When uncertain main emphasis is on the word "think". In an opinion (where you have conviction) the emphasis is on "I"
The site also lets you connect/link your own ads to display with the short links you create. For instance say I ran a retail business... I could "target' my own links to display my own ads. So when a user clicks on an one of my unbig.me link in the retailers Twitter stream - one of the retailers own ads could display.
No, I think they're morons. That seems more consistent.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-daily-show-with-jon-s...

Well, that gets you the full shows, rather than this particular clip. Still it's a start.
i'm guessing they want to address the notion that women perceive colours more accurately than men (as opposed to just giving them fancy names they learnt from style magazines). i think maybe it checks that you were consistent in the naming of the same colour, or what colours there was most uncertainty about
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You're service has some nice features, I happen to have also created a disposable email service :)
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We have a guy in the office who is very low-social skilled and is definitely a nerd (of the D&D tabletop variety).

He's a nice enough guy but if you speak before he is totally finished he will ignore you and continue. He also gets stressed by the interruptions.

However he does interrupt others frequently in the same way and will just power on with what he wants to say.

This makes having a 2-way discussion really hard.

I suspect that from a nerds perspective it's fine to interrupt - and they forget they hate it (he says this is the case when I call him on it)