skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eco driving tips you can follow to save money
some eco driving tips you can follow to save money and planet, while cutting down on fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions. By doing some routine checks you can cut down on the cost of owning a car as well as fuel emissions.
Sure, but you built the house for a few grand.

I can't imagine the LNKD investors are too disappointed about a $300+ million payday.
A lot of people assume there's s lot of caffeine in Red Bull. There is some, but the "active ingredient" is taurine.
Internal DNS server with a separate domain for testing (ie. notbankofcanada.testing)?
Bit-fiddling at the C-level isn't necessarily faster on all platforms.
E.g., the "masked combine bits" case where he says that
r = a ^ ((a ^ b) & mask)
is one operation shorter than
r = (a ^ ~mask) | (b ^ mask).
On ARM, the (a ^ ~mask) can be performed by one instruction, so the instruction count is actually the same, and the latter way of doing it parallelizes better (only a dependency depth of two instead of three).
I.e., the "optimized" version is actually likely to be slower on some CPUs.
I believe the point here goes along the lines: ``instinctively, one perceives the fraction as (N-1 / N)'' -- where N is size of the group in question and the -1 is oneself... Which curiously renders oneself as a not-very-smart one. Which suggests one underestimated the fraction ;-)

Especially as the two supporting points (a: unpleasant letdowns; b: frequent bothering ``at the wrong moment'') are quite subjective.

To quote the venerable fortune(6):

Renning's Maxim:
Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying.
"There is no such thing as 'metabolism': just body mass, muscle mass and activity."

Those factors are not enough. The human body has many more important factors in play there, like hormones, intestinal flora, and so on.
They certainly made their pile, so I guess they're not 'unhappy', but still, it just seems that the only sensible thing to do would be to use a market to determine prices. That's what they're there for, right?
xplanet works on Linux and OSX (maybe Windows too, I dunno), but it doesn't do clouds afaik.
The reason I say it's the worst kind of trash is (ironically) the same reason the author says stupid people are the most dangerous - it has about as much merit as, say, a Daily Mail article, but because it's presented in a way that mimics science, it more easily slips past peoples' defences.

I suspect that you are falling victim to hyperbole yourself with "highest standards of intellectual rigour". I don't expect a double-blind randomised trial or publication in Nature, but surely when someone says to us "this is the truth", we must ask "why?"

If the author had said "I think that people are born stupid or clever, and stupid people are very dangerous, so we should watch out for them." I would disagree, but not loudly - it is, after all, a matter of opinion unless someone has facts to bring to the table.

But when someone dresses up their conjecture in make-believe laws and pseudo-scientific formulae, they are being deceptive. Perhaps a more acceptable thing to do would be dispassionately describe the flaws in his argument, but the deception made me angry and I don't see anger as necessarily wrong. I don't believe I wrote anything inaccurate, or anything I wouldn't say if the article was brought up among my friends.

Frankly, I'm surprised I was the only one. Perhaps it's just the wrong crowd.
Anatomy of a Spam Viagra Purchase
there is a minimal spec, and implementations, of JSONPath, which may be enough for you
What ever happened to good, old amphetamines?

Nothing beats a straight 36-hour coding session, and the one week of solid sleep that follows.
Please someone make this into a commandline utility that lets you pipe and query JSON around. My toolkit is missing a JSON slicer and splicer.
Nexus 3 - LG could be to produce
After Optimus Pad, it seems that LG has is about to announce a new Android device is LG P930 Android phone and suggests a possible prototype of the Nexus 3.
Call me paranoid but I would not even consider that as an alternative to doing the encryption on my own.
Rhythmbox needs you - Ubuntu Forums
> doing very nicely but in a niche where it's almost impossible to scale up beyond sole trader.

cstross is a sci-fi author:-)

I think for many, that would be going from startups to writing would be from the frying pan into the fire in that they're both "black swan" industries. Glad it's worked for him, though.
I have a row of favicons in my Chrome bookmarks bar (no bookmark titles, so it's just a row of icons). HN is one of them.
why does it bother you? Even if it only has a placebo effect on people - why is that such a big deal? It doesn't do a lot of harm. Chill
LinkedIn Is Worth $9 Billion? The New Tech Bubble Has Arrived.
My New Setup
Ask HN: Hello, I'm bipolar. Do you have any advice?
I'm 23, and it's been 2 years that I'm suffering from a sever mood disorder. Periods of depression where everything seems wrong. And small periods (hours) of clear mind thinking, where everything just make sense. And then periods of stability where I'm, well, like everybody else.
I was told by a friend that this is called a bipolar disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder. I started looking for reasons that might have caused this, so maybe it is the alcohol? or lack of sleep? or maybe a past relationship failure? I just don't know what changed in my life that can be behind this.
The only thing I know is that it is affecting my life in a very strange way; making me both creative and self-hater.
Did anyone here, members of HN, suffer from this? Do you have any advice ?
Please do share your experiences

PS: I know, my english sucks.
Very interesting, although I personally would rather have a SSH option.
New Accessory that Allows the iPod Touch to Detect Fingerprints
Here is a new accessory that turns your iPod Touch into a fingerprint sensor. It is called FBF MobileOne and was developed by Fulcrum Biometrics.
The RIAA really has become a disturbing entity.
later this summer we'll move to the 95th floor...hopefully we'll get to keep our ocean view (currently 21st floor). possibly not what you meant.
But what happens in the case where there is no author element?

With normal javascript you would get an exception .. hopefully with this you just get back undefined without having to check every step in the path.
Cobra does not apply to companies with less than 20 employees. If you like working for small companies it's very hard to switch safely, you need to interview and get hired with no gap in employment. The state of healthcare tied to companies is terrible.
KASHMIR ADVENTURE CLUB: GetAddThis
Will I stop being employable?

As a conventional, salaried programming employee? Yes. (In what other field does 5 of so years of experience allow you a title with "Senior" in it?)

My experience is illuminating in that I'm blessed with genes that allow me to look much younger than I am. I'm now 50 and in casual encounters (e.g. in stores or restaurants) I'm still routinely mistaken for an 20s something possible student (of course I dress the part).

In the '90s, as I made the journey from 30 to 40 I noticed it became harder and harder to get results from sending out resumes ... until I got a clue and scrubbed my resume of the hard evidence of how old I was (education dates; by the time this happened I'd already scrubbed it of jobs prior to 1990).

The difference was like night and day, and if I watched my words I was able to keep up the subterfuge until I was hired and had to prove to HR I could be legally employed, something that didn't necessarily make its way to my managers. There was one interview a bit less than a decade ago where I slipped and mentioned working on PDP-11s ... the response was "Just how old are you?!??!!" (yes, that's illegal, but it was an instant honest response). They did hire me but it didn't work out; they were desperate but it's just as likely it was due to total cluelessness of the real customer, a state agency.

So my advice is one or more of the following:

Hide your age if you can and for however long you can. They can't legally ask.

Transition as quick as you can to a field that doesn't care so much about age. Embedded tends to be one (although not the Detroit car companies).

Get out of the conventional salaried programming career ("Nobody ever got rich typing"). As noted by others, you can move to management (which is genuinely challenging). You can be a consultant, although that tends to be a hard life. Or otherwise become your own boss, i.e. be a founder of startups.

Note that my experience is on the East Coast; I've heard that age discrimination in the Bay area is much worse.
Taking a look at this Wikipedia Article listing Coca Cola Brands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_brands you will realize that Coca Cola, the company, is much more than just Coca Cola, the drink.
Apple-Loving Tech Columnist Allegedly Hit Wife with IPhone
Doesn't Ctrl-L show the URL bar? You can type one if you want to, but it doesn't show up all the time. Opening a new tab should do the same, and then hide the bar when the page is loaded.
Ask HN: automated random browsing against profiling?
Many people complain that all we do online is tracked and that governments, ips or even private people know too much about our interests, political views, purchasing preferences and so on.
To balance what we do, we could to the contrary: if a read a left wing blog, and then I pretend to read a right wing one..they won't know my views!
What about an app which "balances" all we do online?
My advice is: don't go looking for medical or psychological advice on internet discussion groups. If you're suffering from a severe mood disorder, you should be talking to a therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist.
Vertical space is valuable now because there is less room to work with. As hardware manufacturers push shorter screens, software will work harder to reclaim that height.
I'd read it. I guess there are others out there who appreciate all the good entrepreneur and business topics, but could do with less programming/coding stuff.
The best thing WP can do, security-wise, is ditch PHP4.
A New Approach To Reducing Spam: Go After Credit Processors
Q&A: How today's tech alienates the elderly
Only if it's in memory, that one was posted two months ago so the server wouldn't have been able to detect it. However I'm not sure why obtino linked to it as there's no comments on that story.
Hide navigation bar -> Ctrl+L to enter a URL. Handy on a netbook, arguably annoying on a desktop.
How would I easily modify GET requests without a URL bar?
How God is Managing The 2011 Rapture (Comic)
Indeed. I hate iTunes with a passion. It's maybe the worst product Apple has out. Usually they're at least great with interface design but somehow iTunes manages to make everything feel 3 times clunkier than it has to.
I have been told that the T410 at least had an option in the BIOS to switch to the discrete card without Optimus as Lenovo did implement a hardware multiplexer in addition to Optimus. T420s might also do this, you should check. One of the Dell Latitudes also implemented a hardware multiplexer in addition to Optimus and thus people have been able to get the Nvidia card running under Linux though without switching ability (but thats still vastly better than no card).

I have been waiting for AMD Llano based laptops as I will be able to run them without any worries about switchable graphics. I need OpenCL and OpenGL support for work purposes.
How To Control Your iPhone From Your Computer
Why don't the cloud storage service providers encrypt/store all user content in such a way that it can only be read by the user? I doubt there are any ethical benefits in storing the data in such a way that they (the service providers) can read it. Even if there is I doubt that users would agree to such usage.
I wonder if he regrets selling those $1.6 million of shares then, considering that they probably at least 100 times more valuable now?
Linux Desktop Summit Team Unveils Exciting Program of Talks
The Cost of Being an Entrepreneur: Now My Stomach Hurts Forever
What makes you think that the rest of the nation will follow "The California of the East Coast" as I've heard North Carolina described? The last time I checked some states like Utah that are much more poorly served by ILECs and cable companies have healthy municipal level broadband efforts.

On the other hand Utah has 1/3 the population of NC, the stakes are much lower there. But I don't see how corruption of this sort is likely to spread widely, especially given how hard it was to just pass this law in NC (several years and several tries as I recall).
> In that future you'll type all your urls in the google search box,...

Many users are already in that future. One of Google's most common searches is "facebook.com" or "www.facebook.com" (if memory serves, both are in the top 10, along with "facebook").

It makes me sad, but I don't think Google's complaining.
To lie or not to lie online
Thanks for the advice! I'm actually a Mechanical Engineer and have mostly worked for R&D so far. Also, me and most people in robotics spend most of their time programing, they are not trained programmers. Unfortunately many use this as an excuse to keep writing crappy code instead of trying to catch up with the state of the art. Heck, right now I'm the only one in my group who uses version control ...
Ask HN: Do I Need an Email Platform for all the Individual emails we send?
We use mailChimp for our newsletter and that's what it's been developed for, so it's great.

On the other end our product relies heavily on email sent to user to let them know of candidate matches we've found for them and all the follow-ups we take care. Add to that all the typical 'fetch-back' emails like 'friend you know just registered', etc.

Currently these email are sent through the server mail client, nothing special. I am just wondering if we could do better to avoid the Spam folders. Typical email platforms (like mailChimp) are built to manage list so really not our use case as email are usually sent one by one based on events that happened in the last minutes. No need for list or managing subscribers (we include links to their settings page.)

Any advice ?
Ignorant? Why not the 'least skilled person in the room'? I think that what the original post meant, no?
Frankly it feels alot like LDAP.
Yes, we all just love to see the day when the web solely consists of a few dozen apps in everyone's browser. Buttons have no significant advantage over today's url bars. Pressing a single button, I get all the sites I recently looked at, my favorites, all sorted and easily accessible.
Agreed. I'm proud to say I've never consumed a single "energy drink."
How to talk to customer service representatives: a comic
And then there is only a small step to start taking speed. Legal or illegal...
It should also be considered that the underwriters gets paid on the amount raised (7% according to the article), so the underwriters also "lost" money from that perspective.
OK, You're Rich. Now What?
I like the next sentence even better: "And architects are really only paid discussion partners anyway."

Applies to SW development too.
I'd be a little bothered with $300 million if I could have had close to $600 million instead - especially knowing that the difference went to the middle-men in the deal.
Nocera is one of the guilty parties in the prestige press who propounded the "too big to fail" mythology.

But the quote you cite is of him observing the government's behavior - accurately - not prescribing what the government should do, or evidence of the government following his suggestions.
This is one of the most interesting articles I've read in a while.

A few observations:

- The similarities between GOOG's IPO strategy and MSFT's IPO strategy surprised me. MSFT did it on their own terms over a decade before GOOG was even founded. I wonder if the GOOG guys referred to how MSFT did it to draft their own strategy. Also, it seems that MSFT and GOOG, (and also FBOOK) all treat going public as a very low priority and not a goal in and of itself but really just something that needs to be done. Almost as a nuisance.

- I admire the fact that Bill Gates granted this type of access to Fortune during the IPO process. I found it quite interesting and instructive. We're so used to CEOs blogging and tweeting about the startup process nowadays but BG was doing it back in the 80's.
About History Essay
The writing of a history essay is something which needs to be handled in the proper manner. History is a vast subject area and students assigned this essay needs to know the best manner to write this essay in order to receive a good grade.
It's a funny idea but not too useful I'm afraid. Poisoning your own profile may help in the long run if many people do it because it destroys the value of mining personal data. But if you are one of a few doing it, you just come across as weird and it could even be counter productive.

Your affiliation with the NRA will not undo your wikileaks donation. Adding a right wing blog to a left wing blog will not make you look like a moderate.

To mislead a data mining algorithm in a desirable way requires very specialized knowledge of what the algorithm does. There is no such thing as a generalized notion of a compensating action.

But I still think there is demand for tools that help "sanitize" public profiles.
They don't; they "reverse" along the mirror's surface normal.
Grooveshark?
with the reference implementation:

JSONSelect.match(".nonexistantkey .somechild", obj) returns []

Alternately, if you use the JSONSelect.forEach() method your callback will just not be invoked.

So no existence testing before access for recursive values. A main benefit of this thing in javascript.
Wake me up when Wuala open sources their client.
CS Education: The Deep End of the Pool
By your count it's at least 100% faster--a single click and I'm where I want to be. I also get by fine on my computer by having a dock of app icons. Similarly, it works well on my phone. It's not the end of the world.
Procrastinators Rule Among Wishful Entrepreneurs
Who cares how much the cost to you was? All that matters is the market price, and you were lied to about that.

>>
I can't imagine the LNKD investors are too disappointed about a $300+ million payday.
<<

That is exactly the sort of cavalier attitude folks on wall street display when these issues persist - "who cares, we made you a lot of money didn't we?". When in fact their responsibility is to try and find the most accurate price and minimize risk to the underwriters.

The thing is like others have mentioned, there is a degree of "buyer beware" going on here. Its not like LinkedIn had no clue about the market situation. They probably had a staff of ex-bankers (like most tech companies do) help them price the offering too.

It's just the nature of the beast. Taking companies public is an oligopolistic business and till we figure out alternative ways of doing this (a-la google tried) this is going to be a perennial problem.
even a score of 5 is a useful signal in telling me that it's trustworthy

But that can be a false signal. It's quite possible to have eloquent writers make total crap written in an authoritative style sound believable enough to have 5 people nod and upvote. Having no scores forces people to do their own research and form their own conclusion about trustworthiness, which is more work, but better.
I hope to build jsonselect support on top of yajl and expose it as a native command line tool, so fast stream based filtering... but that's still ideaware at this moment :)
This is fantastic news. Now if only Google would release Chrome for Win2K to un-obsolete many valuable Win2K licenses.
I'm friends with too many architects to enjoy that one. There are certainly architects out there that serve as paid discussion partners (and I don't doubt that Red Bull uses them), but by and large it's an artform.
A user's total score represents a very broad measurement of his/her contribution to the HN community, and is unlikely to negatively impact an individual's decision to post. If anything, seeing an overall high score makes a user seem more worthy of respect and less likely to trigger a points arms race in a single thread.
The Mature Entrepreneur - Part II (Bringing your A-game)
I am all for a reasonable employer-employee relationship, and I'll be the first to agree that many employers try to impose offensively one-sided terms that I would never want to impose on staff at a business of my own. Things that distort work-life balance to invade employees' private lives are top of my "never" list, with artificially limiting someone's career as a form of employee lock-in probably coming in second.

On the flip side, this deal looks so one-sided the other way that I can't see it working out for most businesses. For one thing, many of the preferences seem to be subjective, and I can see different priorities being in the interests of both employees and employers in some cases. A few of the ideas sound like either crazy risks to the business or even implicitly illegal behaviour in some business areas/jurisdictions.
A Sinatra inspired micro web framework
Words matter - USAA sent me an email about their "Privacy Promise"
Hack of the Day: Stronger Wording by Script or Click
Even if you eliminated the FDA from the equation, you'd presume that some degree of level 1 and 2 testing would be done (and hopefully level 3) and you're still left with the question of who pays for the costs, right? Isn't the US pretty much the only wealthy country where something resembling the market sets prices vs. an agency of the nations' socialized medical system?

Drugs from e.g. Canada aren't cheap because they weren't vetted by the FDA or the like, they're cheap because Canada negotiated a price above the incremental cost of production and distribution but way below "their share" of the cost of development including testing.
They're kind of busy.
My gut reaction is that 'feels like CSS' is not a selling point.
And I think that's exactly the reason points shouldn't really be shown...
Thank you for this piece of advice. I was actually looking for someone with a past experience dealing with bipolarity so I can "orientate" my search.
I use it occasionally if I need to stay up late, or crunch, but it typically takes me half a week to recover.

OTOH, I'm not sure whether the "recovery" is from the Red Bull, or the after-effects of sleep deprivation.

In general, I recognize the insidious and far-reaching effects of sleep deprivation, but I still do it sometimes. :\.
This is a red flag for Facebook.
reminds me of the Wizards First rule: "People are stupid...given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything."
i once talkes with the former coo of red-bull: the first (unpaid) marketing success of red-bull was when a F1 (cars driving in circles) team leader (i think it was ferrari) held a victory speech while holding a red bull in his hand.

they just took it from there...
Surely you must know you are way outside the norm.