skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worry that if it's buggy enough to get false negatives (not braking when it should) then it might also get false positives (slamming on the brakes when it shouldn't).

Maybe one day I'll have a car with a system like this, but I'd want to see it get quite a few years' real-world testing before I'd trust it to slam on my brakes whenever it felt like it.
How does Google Scholar work? Is there some algorithm guessing whether some site contains scientific papers or is there some manually kept list of sources? Or some other way?

(By the way, if your employer makes a fuss because of search results for a innocent search term your employer is the problem, not missing NSFW warnings.)
Where's Byte? :-o
No. Smoking's hard to stop because it's a crutch OR a boost (besides the physically addictive properties of nicotine). You make a great sale: I'll go have a smoke. You get your ass chewed because you screwed: I'll go have a smoke. So no matter what you're smoking.

The hardest part about quitting for me, was the fact that I'd gotten used to a 5 minute break from MY LIFE every hour or so no matter what I was doing. It was terrifying the first day I stopped habitually smoking all the time, because I had nothing to look forward to. It was like I just had to get through the next tiny chunk of whatever I was doing, but without that smoke break coming up, I had the rest of my life to get through. This was all on a fairly subconscious level and I can articulate it looking back, but at the time I was just really pissy.

I'm sure it's different for everyone. (The psychological part, anyway. I think the physical addiction is just chemistry and takes time to get over.)
Also even large scale sites use CSS/XHTML.. So failing to make it look the same across all browsers is on you, not the technology.
Strange format for debating. In Canada, every debate event my team went to had all teams taking Pro/Con on every argument; we also had to (and this may be a commonwealth element) switch between parliamentary and cross - Depending on how well you did, you would end up arguing both sides of a point two-three times.

There was never a "You will have to win a debate by taking just one side" type of debate - I've always thought that representation on television was just a simplification, and that, debate teams in the United States have to take both sides as well. (Though perhaps Parliamentary debate style wasn't required)

I have to believe a good portion of the HN audience has had debate classes/tournaments in High School - what was your experience? Had to argue both sides?
How is your friend list still public information, if you set it to private? You are suggesting that the privacy settings don't actually do anything, which is inaccurate.

For example, if your friend list privacy is set to "Everyone", accessing your facebook page while logged out will show a random sample of your friends. Switch the privacy setting to "only friends" or something restrictive, return to the profile page in a logged out state, and note that your friends no longer are displayed.
Yes, I agree, and that may be what we use in the future, but to meet our early goals, which is getting something stable out the door that's the plan we used. My primary objective isn't programming/architecture debates (or prizes) it's simply getting satisfied users. It's like you say, we're focused on what works.
Don't bother feeling sympathy for the banks; it's their own fault for granting very large loans to people they knew couldn't pay it off (or to people who they didn't know could pay it off, at least).

Besides, they're a business. They lose some money? The person loses their HOUSE. I'll feel sorry for the banks when the U.S. government forcibly evicts them from every single one of their physical properties.
Lol, they're not even hiding it anymore. "We recommend Everyone be able to see information that will make it easier for friends to find, identify and learn about you."
Scientists weigh in on Hawking's alien warning
I think you're exaggerating / misinformed. I'm a heroku customer, and I dealt with the pain of this outage earlier this week.

status.heroku.com had all the info about it. If you want more detail you can just submit a request to support, which I did, and after which I got some more info.

I'd hardly say they 'hid' their problems, they fessed up to them. I'd give them a solid B- on communication skills on status.heroku.com. If you message support they'll actually give you more detail, but really, that stuff should just be put on status.heroku.com.

Compared to a lot of other hosts I've dealt with they're pretty good (some colos don't even have a status site). They do, however, need to be more verbose. Customers need to know what happened and be told what's being done about it so it won't happen again.

At any rate, the only comparable product out there is EY Cloud, and I wouldn't say their support is any better / worse, and you actually have to pay EY for real support.
Do you really want to see this kind of government control of the internet?

I can guarantee that any new law designed to prevent facebook privacy violations would wind up having all sorts of awful unintended consequences for the rest of the internet.

Hugh's first rule of government: the unintended consequences of any major government action almost always wind up being more significant than the intended consequences. (See also: social security, Iraq war, emancipation proclamation.)
People can't even type "facebook.com" into their address bar. They aren't going to read a 3-page in-depth explanation of Facebook's privacy settings.
In most countries you don't need a model release if they are going to be used for editorial purposes.
Http://www.digi.com.my/iphone/getone_want_iphone.html
Likewise. Last time I used one to look up a person was probably around 1992-1994 - though I actually used the yellow pages (to find an emergency HVAC repair person) in 2003. I started getting free 411 service with my cell phone in 1998, so I'm pretty certain I've never used the white pages after that.

I was in a cab recently, and asked him if he advertised in the Yellow Pages - he looked at me like I was a martian - "Everyone uses Google" was his feedback. (I'll admit that iPhone + GoogleMaps + Search is a pretty good replacement for the Yellow Pages - It's all I ever use now )
They seem pretty sure of a Cortex A8 with 64k L1, 640K L2 and NEON instructions, but then they claim about 2 trillion instructions per second (with 6 significant digits) in the same table so I don't know what to think of it. Maybe they meant Dhrystones/sec and didn't do the divide by 1757.
The person loses their HOUSE

It's not their house, it's the bank's house. The bank bought it for them, and all they were obliged to do was pay the bank back for it over a period of decades. They didn't live up to their end of the bargain.
If natural disasters belong to all of us, should this particular photographer be more generous than other people with some dough to spare? Wealthy people are mentioned all the time on HN. What prompted you to state your prayers in this case?
The First Rule of Privacy
No, I am not a mental trainer. I am a software developer. It's just that I once studied sports science and I am still very interested in anything coming from that field... especially considering that it is sometimes surprisingly applicable in my current work.

edit: some of the "performance psychology" things I learned helped me passing some of the more hairy tests during for my b.sc. in bioinformatics
I don't have a problem with opt-out when you sign up for a web service. For example, on Twitter the default is for your stream to be open to the public but you can opt to lock your account so only approved users can follow you.

That leads to stronger network effects faster, and creates a more usable tool for everyone.

The problem I have with facebook (note: I don't have a facebook account) is that people signed up based on a particular set of terms but the company then changed those terms and switched a default opt-in to a default opt-out after the fact.
Is it any good?
I use postfix for SMTP and dovecote for IMAP. All free software. There's a million guides for setting it up and for fixing issues. There's also a million different ways to tweak it to do anything you want.
How does Google Scholar work?

Not very well, apparently!

As of right now, that's still the top hit if you search for "iphone gender". The best part is that not only does it somehow think it's a scientific paper, it thinks that the author is "F. iPhone Porn" and the journal is "Lea".
I don't think anyone is suggesting self hosting of profiles, just to go from one provider to many providers. That would involve interoperability. The advantages of this are many, no service could just query one host and get all profiles that cross their path. A user would explicitly give pandora or Microsoft access to their profile by providing something like their email or some similar identifying string that could be tied back to the host of the profile.
I did debate in high school. Specifically the Policy debate variety. And yes, depending on the specific tournament, you had 3 or more rounds, and an even balance of affirmative vs. negative sides.

This sounds like this is more of an exhibition than a tournament.
I'd say it's lacking in originality and doesn't contribute anything particularly new to the field. I doubt it will attract many citations. No wonder they couldn't get it published in a decent journal.

(Narrowly avoided: a "seminal contribution" pun)
Yes because only 30% of computer uses something other than Windows right? Most computers aren't on peoples desks.
Smoking is hard to stop because it's a drug addiction. Like most drug addictions there is a physical component (addiction to nicotine) and a social/psychological component. The physical addiction to nicotine is easy to overcome compared to other physically addictive drugs. The social and psychological aspects are often much harder to deal with.
I was just wondering about how Google Scholar works the other day. It does seem like they can't just have a manual list of sources, because in many cases, it picks up papers from the websites of their authors, not just from large sources like the ACM or the NIPS proceedings or whatever. But even if you are able to pick out research papers when you crawl the whole web, and get author/title/citation information out of them, how do you rank them? In particular, they have citation links between papers -- but presumably any paper can only cite to older papers, so papers form a DAG, where it seems like PageRank shouldn't really work (because the most 'authoritative' papers would end up being old ones).
In Italy there was an old computer magazine called MCmicrocomputer. It was awesome: algorithms and data structures explained, for instance there was a great serie on compression, one on low level encoding of images in video cards, and so forth. Game programming, assembler, logic games, UNIX, science fiction! and many other advanced topics in their pages. I was 11 when I started reading this stuff, so it was more or less 22 years ago. I still miss this wonderful magazine.

There is a wonderful project to bring all the 20 years archive back online: http://www.mcmicrocomputer.org/

Edit: from the archives, an interesting article about anagrams. Very funny to read as there was no easy way to get a wordlist at the time, so a completely different approach is used. http://issuu.com/adpware/docs/mc048/37?zoomed=true&zoomP...
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
Glad that you're a hotmail user, oh wait that's not you ...
Why do I have to sign up to start using this? I think people would be more likely to try it if they didn't have to cross that barrier.

You should have it so using it on one machine just works and requires no signup, then have an option to add a user/pass at a later stage.
Your comment confronts this one individual with a lot of undue and unbalanced pressure and responsibility that he really has no reason to be accountable for.

And the downvotes aren't affronting the view that the world would be better if everyone were more generous.
I agree with this sentiment. It's difficult to gauge broader market appeal on a site like HN if your app is better suited for the "average" person. We all tend to look at stuff through our developer/hacker/designer/startup lenses and lose sight of the fact that 99% of people will evaluate what you've built in a far different light than this crowd. At your next family reunion, see how many people have heard of Dropbox, Basecamp or Xobni.

My advice to the creator(s): Don't get discouraged. This is a cool idea and most importantly, you've shipped something. Keep going.
As long as there is some structural integrity to the passenger compartment, yes.

In the ford video the driver is the deformation zone.
Life After Moore's Law
"but we also believe in fast loading pages"

Is that for your benefit, or your users? Either way is a good answer, I just think you should know the answer. The word "believe" prompted this comment.

If you have icons 1-10 on tab A, and icons 11-20 on tab B, then tab B loads really, really slow, i.e. never until you click it. So you have fast access to icons 1-10 and really slow access to icons 11-20.

An option in the Settings would (eventually) be good.
Remember News Feed? People freaked out, started screaming about suing, etc. Just watch: people will get more comfortable sharing their basic information, and you will too.

This privacy freakout is really amazing to me.
UFC 113 Live Stream
Does it say anywhere what year that F150 is?
The FCC Makes Its Move on Net Neutrality
> They don't age well. Try playing a game from before ~2006.

As an example, I play Warcraft 3 a lot. Basic ladder works, but a fair amount of custom maps are broken on Mac and work on windows. OS upgrades made things worse. For example, Snow Leopard somehow makes Castle Fight crash -- the same version of the map worked fine on Leopard. I have to use bootcamp a bunch.

Fortunately Blizzard sells dual platform games.
Is this demanded enough that you'd actually pay for it? Don't wanna sound like a jerk or anything, just wanna see how big the demand is.
I think the backlash is coming from the fact that the "social contract" (if I may blatantly abscond with the term) between lenders, employers, and government regulators didn't live up to its "end of the bargain".

The promise to pay made by borrowers was made against the banking industries' promise to uphold a certain level of professional conduct.

The undercurrent of perception that's been created "when they fail they get a bailout, when you fail, you get screwed and pay for their bailout" is far more dangerous than most politicians and investment bankers realize.
If I understood what I read correctly, the car came out of the gate at 30 MPH. It hit the truck a bit slower than that, it seems. Airbags might be set not to deploy under a certain speed because there might be more risks from the airbags themselves than from the crash below a certain velocity.
Half of social networkers post risky information, study finds
> I want to rank my friends, be part of different social circles, because that's how I operate.

That's actually a really good point, you've hit the nail on the head with that one.
Oh man, and I haven't had a Beta VCR since the early 1980s. Talk about a niche market!
> He argued (or the article did, can't seem to recall whom) that people had a specific level of risk they were prepared to accept: make it safer than that, and people drove less safely.

Tom Vanderbilt also writes about this in his book "Traffic". I recommend it to anyone interested in the psychology of driving and road design.
Thanks for the follow-up! Oh well, at least those programming and CS books the site had collected tend towards being classics, and have some staying power. So the archive.org pages are still very useful.
All I can tell you is that it's something I'd definitely use, and something many of my friends who I've told this to over the years would use. That's not saying much, sure, but if you could provide a valuable and useful service, the demand will certainly follow.
Depending on the price range I would. My fiancee and I already use a shared calendar but it is woefully equipped for the heavy use she and I put it through.
At least some gaming companies have realized that launching on windows, osx and linux just means that anyone and everyone can play your game.

I'm a big fan of Heroes of Newerth, which plays great on my linux box, but it also runs on osx and windows. Its also only $30 bucks and launches in a few days.

http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/

Linux is always getting more popular, and I think more companies will realize that it makes sense to provide a working solution to all users, not just on windows.
You beat them on 2.

Correct. A lot of us joined Facebook because we thought we had reliable privacy. To see data that we submitted become public after previously being less public is quite off-putting. I called it "contempt for customer" in another HN thread, and the reply was that Facebook's customers are actually advertisers. True enough. But commercial broadcast television, another advertiser-supported service, doesn't allow certain kinds of programming or certain ways of interacting with viewers (users), because advertisers don't want users to be upset and stop using. This is Facebook's long-term problem.
"You also always have control over who can see your Connections ------ on your profile."
(Emphasis added)
If he wins it will set a nice precedent. But I'm afraid that not everybody would go to all that trouble (trials are long and expensive), and so "little guys" will only be marginally safer in these kinds of situations.
Heheh. As others have said this is not an ethical business model, and is nothing more than blackmail.
I just started reading a fascinating book: Andrew Potter's The Authenticity Hoax: http://jseliger.com/2010/05/07/who-is-our-authentic-self-exa... , which starts with the story of a French couple who decided that life in France was too boring and decided to buy a boat and sail. They decided to go through the Indian ocean near the coast of Somalia; they were warned about pirates; they ignored the warnings, got kidnapped, and eventually the man was killed in the crossfire between a French navy warship and the pirates.

That story is only one of a single dumbass, but the larger point that Potter is trying to make is that a) we often don't have much of an idea of what authenticity really is and b) if we think of it as some aspect of danger / grittiness, it often turns out that there's a reason why many people are striving towards lifestyles that are merely boring all the time.

Boring often means productive, well-fed, and high social standing. If you're unhappy with boredom, by all means change -- but remember that you might not like what you get.
This is cool but... wasn't it launched like three or four months ago?
Meh. What are the advantages over daemontools?
Don't base it off this one angry guy. This kind of thing happens extremely rarely, and their support team is top notch. Aside from that the ease in setup, scalability and supported add-ons make for a very pleasurable deployment
There's not really any other option within the current environment of quarterly reports. We have to think with more vision.

The best solution would be to stop using oil as an energy source now with any purpose except to get us over the hump. We don't even yet know how to get over the hump, realistically. The options are solar, wind, and gravity and all of those options require so much energy that we could exhaust remaining supplies making them productive enough to satisfy us all. It will take a lot of solar panels to cover the sahara, connect it to the grid, etc.

In the meantime, we're powering inefficient combustion engines and growing corn to, you guessed it... power inefficient combustion engines...
Can someone very briefly explain the popularity of emacs and vim among programmer types? I'm aware that they're unix based text-editors with some degree of reprogrammability... but what's the big deal?
I'm not sure I'd be too worried about bandwidth issues - once content is replicated it could be served up from people who already have it rather than always going back to the original source. In fact, I suspect things would have to be done this way to provide some kind of resilience.

I think getting the security model for distributed content would be the crux of this kind of architecture, and I suspect that is probably solvable and would really benefit from an open architecture with multiple implementations.
What if there is a close to zero chance of you going to jail everytime you do it? When the government and the banks are in collusion, that's what you get.
Many of these covers remind me of this: http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers
The CPMs on event related things might be high enough to just rely on ads.

http://mixergy.com/evite-harry-lin/
"effective CPM, when I left the company, we got, we’d driven it up, the effective CPM was just under ten dollars. And on certain pages, certain classes of pages, we enjoyed a one hundred dollar CPM, on all those ads"
What is Sample thesis proposal
A thesis proposal is something that is extremely important before you start writing your thesis. If your proposal is not approved then you will not be able to start your thesis.
I watched this live on VC from our Chicago office and Conan was absolutely hilarious.
It is in fact very hard to find these bugs. Most of the time when a person sees something about you, that person has no idea if that's in line with your preferences, so can't even know if Facebook is working as it's supposed to.
Don't... even... start. ;)
After the impact, you can almost make out the year and model on the door. It does look a lot like it says "2001."
I applied 2 months ago and never heard anything back. What kinds of apps do you guys want to make?
Although placebos contain no active ingredients they often provide some relief, for reasons not entirely explained, but clearly show our capability for self healing. Religion works because you believe - not because of an all knowing, all powerful, invisible entity that everyone fights about.
The minimum charge argument is bogus. If I ordered a $20 meal by myself, 1 * ($0.30 + 3%) is acceptable, but if me and my friends order five $20 meals, 5 * ($0.30 + 3%) is suddenly unacceptable.
Ask HN: What should I learn to become a computer scientist?
My 14-year-old cousin came over to my place, woke me up, and asked me (a career software developer) "What should I learn now to become a computer scientist?" I didn't have a really good answer for him. I told him to pay attention to algebra, take a class in symbolic logic if he could find one, and take any programming classes he could find. I started learning to program in college (not counting little games in BASIC and hello-world level stuff in C growing up). I'm sure there's plenty of good teach-yourself-to-program books aimed at people his age, but I don't know what they are.

TL;DR: What does HN recommend as a course of study for an aspiring young pre-CS student?
PageRank already has some regularization (essentially epsilon of outgoing links to everything). Also, papers don't form a DAG because people frequently forward-cite or cross-cite (because authors and their friends often have relevant work in various states of preparation/review).
luckily prayers are pointless
Google logos throughout the years
Why has this taken so long , why is this not self-evident ?
Some peeps just need to be taught...
The Defensive Patent License makes patents less evil for open source
I am able to do this with Linkedin - my connections are tagged into priority groups. Selected Meetup, Yelp, Facebook and e-mailed events go to my public calendar:
http://sites.google.com/site/aurametrix/events
(It can be easily done with Google Calendar API)
Of course, this could just mean that I am not in your target market.
Not sure how the glitch testing is an instance of the halting problem, could you expand on that a bit?