skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having spent a lot of time in a truck, I can tell you it's extremely difficult to cope on high-traffic roads. Most car drivers will crowd around you giving you no chance to change lanes, etc. Sometimes you have no choice but you just start creeping over and scare everyone out from around you. Obviously most truckers know what they're doing and they won't actually run you over -- it's bad for them, too.

When I'm out on the highway in a car and I see a truck ahead of me trying to get over into my lane, I'll most likely slow down to hold up the lane behind me and give them a quick headlights flash to they can get over. I'm sure the other cars hate me for it, but who cares.
What is ... http://www.flickmr.com/   ????
What is this? Another Google Service? http://www.flickmr.com/ ?????
Do something about it. Go to your grocery store and ask them to raise prices so they can treat truck drivers better.
I love when they do that, I hate all those last minute assholes who zoom by the rest of us who are adhering to the construction signs indicating that a lane is closed ahead. I always think that I should herd traffic myself, but I'm just one guy in a little car, so I really appreciate when the big rigs do it for me :-)
(Your 'About Us' link from the designer blog isn't working.)
After reading the news, did google search of Indian retail market and online retail market valuation and found following articles:

Retail Market to grow by $900 billion by 2014: Source PwC
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-02-03/news...

Online Retail Market worth 7000 crore INR ($203 million)
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Indias-online-retail-ind...

By looking at this market valuations, availability of good players (Flipkart, Infibeam...) in online retail market and Amazon is coming next year, what are you thoughts?

I fill the valuation is bit more but still fare and not that much high comparing how the company is doing and they have potential to grow. And also market has those many opportunities available.
I look at it the other way around: why would I want ads to be targeted at me? What advantage do I get from that?

I arguably get a small advantage from ads targeted at what I'm currently doing, but the relative impact of what I'm currently doing is decreased (by definition) when the relative impact of who I am is increased.

I don't need to see recruiting ads when I'm looking for computer hardware, and I don't need to see computer hardware ads when I'm looking for a library implementing a particular network protocol.
Links to Russinovich's explanation and a summary thereof:

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Mark-Russinovich-I...

http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/mark-russinovich-exp...
With clickable links...

http://quillu.com/stock
http://quillu.com/marketplace
http://quillu.com/news
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Wow, what a blatant rip-off of a Wikipedia article! Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_Water_Bridge

Oh, well, at least they name and link the source. Still, the Wikipedia article provides more information (especially links) and is better laid out, this ripoff provides no additional value.

Flagged because of the yuck factor.
That's why unions are for workers, not employers :-)
Seems like you've created a very polished control panel. I'm working on a wysiwyg web editor so I'm curious to know which javascript/css frameworks you've used.
The 15 Worst-Dressed Men of Silicon Valley: Style: GQ
0.http://www.quantnet.com/quantnet-best-selling-books-2010/
( you must start here )

1. http://finmath.uchicago.edu/new/msfm/prospective/plan_readin...
( i graduated last month from this pgm. if you have 50K$ and 9 months to spare, its not such a bad idea to apply. i believe 50% of graduating class found a quant job with max paycheck 165K & 20-100% sign-on bonus ( hope this isn't classified info :) If you are smart, just read Hull cover to cover and solve all the problems. I'm not so smart :( )

2. GS reading list ( supposedly...I worked for GS for 5 years, didn't see anybody reading these things :))
http://www.quantnet.com/goldman-sachs-reading-list/

3. http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/ ( runs the columbia MFE pgm. his blog's super-informative ).

4. if you understand very little math, then start here instead of at 0.
http://finmath.uchicago.edu/new/msfm/prospective/plan_prepar...

5. my favorite quant books:
http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Methods-Finance-Economics-MA...

http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Mathematics-Financial-Engineeri...

steven leduc primers ( cliff notes linear algebra, GRE subject math ) - quick brushup before interviews

6. personal suggestion - take 6 months to figure out if this is right for you. open a 5k brokerage account. don't buy any stocks, but grow that 5k by pure derivative play ( butterflies, condors, ratio spreads ) in simple equities. that math is invaluable and not so hard. plus, the programming is not too hard either - just simple 2D graphics, a few threads & number crunching will spit out payoff diagrams you can understand.
My favourite part of this was seeing the report that referred to "less smarter" people.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/190038/20110731/less-smarter...

They've since corrected the text, but the URL shows their original headline.

Ah, schadenfreude ...
Wow, thank you so much, it's really nice to hear that. And welcome to HN! :-)
I interpreted 'If [reporter] really tried' in the grandparent post to mean, "if reporter earnestly sought out and hired an expert".

Of course, the know-how for doing that takes time to develop as well.

But, if this reporter's real goal was getting an app done, rather than writing a story, she probably would have spoken to more people who had actually hired devs for short projects. Instead, she seems to have spoken to just enough people to get usable quotes for the story.

She never switches from the layperson's "invent" terminology (a misnomer for the ideas-into-functions process of software development) and is only ever hand-wavy about going rates for expert help. There is someone out there who has the expertise to make a simple version 1 of her app in 2 weeks or less; how much does that person charge?
That depends. Sometimes economics can make it impossible. Beyond that, if you read the article, it's not uncommon for truck drivers to only have one free day per week. How quickly can you learn a completely new skill set if you only have one day a week (a day, I might add, which is also your only rest day)?
Within Houston, we often have the left lane (of at least 3) marked as "no trucks", but as soon as I get too far out of town, all the roads drop to 2 lanes and such a rule would be impossible due to the amount of truck traffic.
Let's say a group of Chinese citizens took it upon themselves to build a rocket that could carry a warhead.

These citizens then loaded a bomb onto the rocket and launched it at a neighbor (Japan, India, Russia) take your pick.

What would happen?

What if the Chinese gov't had full knowledge of this but failed to stop them?

OR say that a bunch of hackers in the US decided to hack into German banks and steal info.

Would the US gov't be negligent if they didn't stop them?

After say 100 attacks of either type above, would the gov't still have an excuse? Could it claim "this is a group of private citizens" and be taken seriously in the world stage.

Either it's government sponsored or it's a government law enforcement problem.

So in the end..how much does it matter?
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I've seen one of a different design in a small town in Ohio since earlier this week. Interesting.
I honestly can't think of any positives that come with being a truck driver. You aren't even "traveling" in the sense that you get to see different places. You're just burning away life with no time to do anything besides listen to radio shows/music. We should all be so lucky that we're never in that position.

My dad used to work for a company that sold communication services at truck stops. He always told me that it's important to not change into the right now too soon after passing them and to just remind that they've got a blindside much larger than a car. Pretty simple stuff, but I bet most people don't think about it. I've driven on I-80 a good amount at night when it's almost all truck drivers and I've never had a problem. I would often get a annoyed when two trucks would drive next to each other going around 68MPH, but now I know better. A little empathy can go a long way.
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I'm 25, but they think I'm 35-44... Guess I'm "old" before my time!
Every driver has had some life or death situation with a "semi-truck". I believe the widespread anger goes towards anyone driving a huge vehicle that a normal car has trouble seeing around. Most of my personal anger goes towards city buses and anyone who drives a work van , most of these drivers speed, don't slow down in crosswalks, and cut you off in traffic.
It only works because its been around long enough that there is a culture of tipping for service, to the point it's practically an invisible tax on each meal (granted, with the option to avoid it if you really want/have to, but is considered negative socially)

Elsewhere in the world, there is much less of a tipping custom, and wages for service staff tend to reflect that.

Isn't there some kind of US law that requires restaurants to pay the difference between wage+tips & minimum wage if the tips share is low enough?

(OTOH, I recall reading somewhere about people paying huge sums (order of $10's of K) for high-profile service jobs like Maître d' at a prestigious hotel, or head waiter in a high-class restaurant, due to the quantity earned in tips)
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Well the point is that now I'm set up to continue making money with minimal effort for a long period of time. So in the short run yes I was making very little money per hour, but eventually the work put in vs money taken out becomes much greater.
Give them a 9-page "Prior Inventions" list to be excluded from the agreement.
It all depends.

Systems like this are (IMO) great for doing proof-of-concept projects and development things where you are concentrating on other factors. Ex: if I enable my TV remote to operate my garage door, what should I use the Mute button for...

With these platforms (Arduino, BASIC stamp, etc.) you create a lot of "glue" between different devices and protocols, including getting samples from sensors, and so on without a lot of effort.

The down-side, as you note, is that for many many reasons they are unsuitable to build any kind of semi-commerical product around.

Going from Arduino prototype to real product is too vague of a question though. If your needs are simple, you might be able to use a handful of discrete components and 74xx series logic chips, or you might need to add in a PIC, or an Atmega chip, or whatever. But in almost every case you can put together a purpose built piece of hardware once you have your basic requirements fleshed out that is cheaper and easier to produce than a product built on top of the Arduino.
The title on Bloomberg is also incorrect, then: "Tepco Reports Second Deadly Radiation Reading at Fukushima Nuclear Plant"
IOS Developers, It's Time To Ditch ASIHTTPRequest
Yeah sorry if that was obnoxious, I've deleted one.
bear?
Media flunked IQ test on validating sources of IE IQ story
Most of the "pain" with starting from scratch goes away with just about any board-level product. I like the Teensy because it's cheap ($19 to start) and has an onboard bootloader so it programs (and is powered!) directly from USB with no other hardware needed.
You can get helloworld.c running in less than an evening.

If at your entry point you're already thinking of a commercial or hobbyist product, it's probably better to skip the Arduino and either go straight to the chip (maybe get an Atmel Dragon development kit) or buy a cheaper board that has a bootloader and sample code.

At some point you're going to have to get comfortable with hardware, so Arduino won't buy you anything.
a bsd kernel would make a lot of devs happy to switch back to windows.
If I understand it, then, someone opens the initial payload which allows malware to be downloaded- and this downloaded malware orchestrates the "spear phishing?"

I haven't seen this as I've been out of an organization for quite a while. Thanks for clarifying.
Does anyone know if .NET micro supports F#?
It's definitely a two-way street. Employees bear some degree of responsibility for self-esteem and upholding of limits. At the same time, managers bear a big degree of responsibility for the productivity and wellbeing of their employees. And when they cross lines and reject reasonable limits, that shouldn't be seen by default as the employee's failing.

I've worked for a big corporation in the past that bore a particularly onerous, victim-blaming animus toward its employees. Anytime anyone, anywhere, had an issue with his boss, he was told to "learn to manage upward." "Managing upward" became a catch-all excuse for allowing a boss's failures to be re-characterized as your own. As it so happened, our division had a few downright abusive bosses. I mean, abusive in the legally actionable sense of the word. And their direct reports would invariably try to "manage upward," then get firmly reprimanded for doing so. To top it off, they'd be labeled internally as malcontents, politically isolated, and subjected to further abuses. Not surprisingly, very few people below the upper-middle-management tier of this company stuck around for longer than a year.
I agree, that is quite a sophisticated attack and I hadn't been aware of it (even missed it after skimming the McAffee article I guess). Thanks for clarifying.
If data isn't secure to governments, it isn't secure to anyone. If data is insecure the question should then become, how do we secure our data? Controlling the global flow of information hardly addresses that.
>I didn't know that there is a specific time limit to launching? I must have missed something in startup school.

If you're going to promise specific features(in this case, dynamic lighting, shadows, and animations), then you damn well had better deliver some part of least one of those after a year. It doesn't matter if it's handwavey or anything, you should show that the last year's efforts and money haven't been wasted.

Here's the presentation from last year:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/video-new-g...

><oversimplification of the situation>And it's a really weird argumentation going on as well. "This is a scam - it is totally possible to do". Normally you say that something is a scam if you think it's not possible to do.</>

It's also a scam if you take the results of other people's research and development(ATI has published code for a raytrace/voxel engine) and try to push it of as something brand new and innovative.
Thanks politician, that is the link @daeken was taking about. I have to say, that I was wrong.
title should be "how NOT to get hired by google"
How do you know a beautiful woman when you see one?
I have been a waiter actually, in college. I had no qualifications. I also wasn't very good at it. I did work at a 'Chili's'-type restaurant, not a nice place where the waiters would be more experienced obviously. I do realize that it's a demanding job and is difficult to really be good at. That doesn't change the fact that it pays very well for the class of jobs that a 17-year old high school student can get.
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I am a visual communications designer and have recently started learning some programming! I started with a simple idea which I made this using Processing.js and some HTML/PHP.

Hope it makes you smile! :)
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Technically, it's not the last-minute merges that jam things up, it's the people not letting the last-minute mergers in.

The ideal situation is if everyone merged at the end of the lane, and everyone in the other lane allowed people to merge.
Another one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2842362 (geekwire.com)

and another one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2842478 (bbc.co.uk)

and another one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2842894 (bbc.co.uk)
Ask HN: How do you read/parse HN comments?
I tend to read a comment thread once, then often come back to it again when I see that the comments count increased by a significant number.

For the people who have a similar habit: Is there a way you guys extract the content diff or do you just reread the whole thread again?
With upvotes hidden, I find myself to scan the longer comments first. Or does anyone have another, 'better' reading mode?
Nice work!

Off topic, but what platform is Scribophile built on, or is it all custom?
So, I assume that these "background check websites" are are one tool that prospective employers use to research potential hires? If you remove yourself, what answer will the background check company give your prospective employer? Will they just answer "this person is not in our database", or will they say "this person opted out of our service"? How will this affect your chances of getting hired?
have you seen qubes os?
"No interest categories are associated with your ads preferences so far."

Google has nothing on me, apparently.
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"Strategic Communication" is a phrase with very precise meaning to those in the DOD.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_communication
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It was suggested to me recently that the widespread push into trucking and away from rail for freight had something to do with busting strong railroad unions. I didn't think much of the idea at the time because of historically how powerful the Teamsters were in trucking. However, reading this and considering how many owner operators there are that have apparently been subjected to declining wages and worsening working conditions, I wonder if there might be some truth to that suggestion about rail vs. trucks. Obviously there are other advantages to trucking, but does anyone think there is some validity there?
I'd imagine (on the basis of common sense, rather than evidence, so I may well be wrong), that there should be rail facilities fairly close to any major port.

Trucking from the railhead is probably unavoidable, but the article talks about a 1000mi trip, whereas according to wikipedia at least, greatest distance across the 48 states is 2800mi. Surely the nearest freight depot should be less than 1/3 of the country away?
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This is why any successful political community needs to be largely made up of people with the same beliefs, just like almost everyone at Hacker News believes the same thing about startups and are too emotionally invested to change their beliefs.
With Patrick, you can do pretty well by just seeing what he's commenting on:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11
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So, what the article is trying to say is that we should be using trains more for long hauls to concentrated depots and trucks for short hops from the trains?

That would alleviate highway traffic congestion, save a ton on the amount of fuel used to ship goods around the US, and would keep Chuck the Truck Driver in a location close to home.

Wonderful idea.
Isn't there some kind of US law that requires restaurants to pay the difference between wage+tips & minimum wage if the tips share is low enough?

There is but that doesn't mean restaurants necessarily follow said law. A lot of servers don't really have any means of actually properly enforcing it without just straight up losing their job in the best case so, in practice, you find people just staying silent as they get shafted.
Submitted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2841992

Much, much discussion there already.
The fundamental problem is that we have completely inadequate rail infrastructure in the US. Why is it that everything has to go by truck? Trucks are extremely inefficient compared to trains, and are much more likely to be involved in traffic accidents, create congestion on our freeways, and damage our roads requiring tax dollars to repair.

Too many trucks and fatigued drivers is a symptom of the greater problem, which is inadequate rail infrastructure.
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I don't think you're exactly understanding the economics. This is not someone getting paid $500/week and having to buy a truckload of deisel fuel out of that sum...

Most OTR contracts are paid a set amount per mile as a gross number. Drivers (privateers) are independent businesses and they take that gross amount and buy everything they need to fulfill the contract (including fuel) as a business expense.

It's no more criminal than the fact that an independent software developers need to pay for the electricity they consume in their offices.

There are employee-drivers as well, and in those cases, the fuel may or may not come out of the drivers' pockets. (And if it doesn't, they obviously get paid far less per mile, because someone is picking up the $0.55 per mile in fuel costs.) To my mind, having the person with the most ability to influence fuel efficiency be economically incented to be efficient isn't a bad thing at all.

It's a matter of contract terms between consenting independent actors. Hardly something I'd call "criminal". (Same thing with waitstaff in the US. Everyone understands how it works, and the system works...)
App developers are businesses, not workers.
That's certainly true, but Chrome ostensibly doesn't know that, and spins a new process per tab (or close to it). Creating 150 new processes, even if just to load an image in each, increases memory consumption and processor overhead.
That's not the solution. The fleet manager should have seen the condition their driver was in and found a way to get another driver out there ASAP.
It doesn't matter, if HN users legitimately voted it onto the front page, it's by definition HN material.
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Driving trucks is also one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. For example, this list shows it to be more deadly than being a firefighter or police officer:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-15-most-dangerous-jobs-in...

When a policeman or firefighter dies, it's all over the news for days. The funeral is gigantic, with hundreds of peers drawn from all over the region. The mayor almost always attends.

When a trucker dies, he gets a regular funeral attended by his loved ones.
Ok then, sorry. I sincerely didn't know that they are using published code and claiming it to be their own.
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I have that Chrome extension and a similar one for Safari.

I just dislike opening images inline or all loaded into one separate tab, because then it turns saving individual images into a mouse-driven task rather than a keyboard-driven task.

As an aside: what do you use to browse Hacker News on your phone?
But, you can have depots and these things called "Train Stations" to drop off goods and have a trucking company move the goods the last 10 miles.

As for small loads, this is where combined shipping comes in handy. I believe many of the shipping companies like UPS and FedEx used to do a lot of ground shipping via rail for their 5-7 day deliveries. I don't know about this anymore.
I have to agree with the commenters. You should ultimately build on whatever you're comfortable with in order to get your product out the door. If you have to worry about optimization and scalability later, then you will have to cross that bridge when you get to it, but it is a good problem to have. Aside from that, I can say that Node.js is an ultra fast, low footprint platform. The amount of throughput that you can get out of node is pretty incredible.
I usually do a depth-first search. Skip over huge mega threads and just read the top-level ones.

If any of them look interesting I'll recursively dig deeper.
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