skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, lane splitting is illegal in many U.S. states, but is considered lawful in California (though there is no law for or against it... it is simply "allowed"). I might be wrong but I thought the main justification for lane splitting was due to the air-cooled aspect of motorcycles and the harm that can come from sitting in stalled/slow traffic (although, where I live I see this get abused everyday by motorcycles that just want to go faster than the cars around them). Being electric, this vehicle would not have that cooling problem and would have less need for lane splitting. Not being able to lane split would not be a significant negative to me.

Being two wheeled it will be classified as a motorcycle (at least here in California.. don't know if that is everywhere). Being a motorcycle gets you other privileges besides lane splitting like being in the HOV lanes and (in some places) special parking.
New York’s Tech Boom: Here to Stay This Time?
The common factors in this are having smart people looking at it, unfortunately. We're working on various ideas to become much more efficient at it, but it's a really hard slog.
Facebook is a platform company without a mobile platform in a world becoming increasingly mobile.

I agree that Facebook sees mobile as a serious problem, as evidenced by their planned foray into mobile phones, however I think it's a distraction and will be a money pit for them. Much as Microsoft felt they had to get into search to compete against Google (they still don't compete in a meaningful way), Facebook feels they have to compete in the mobile space, but will never be able to execute as well as Apple on hardware or Google on integration with web services. It's very hard to get right, and I doubt very much they have the product design talent and supply chain experience to pull it off consistently and long-term, and it is way off their main area of competence. I'd be very surprised if they do well with a mobile platform given all the challenges it presents - they should work on improving their offerings on the main platforms instead, otherwise they will have 4 Facebook app binaries instead of 3 to maintain, and no obvious advantage as most of the users will not be on their phone.

Mobile is a complement to other devices, and a way of accessing the web, it is not a new segment which is orthogonal to web use - I'd argue mobile has only become popular as handsets became capable of accessing the web fully, and mobile apps may or may not win out over websites for some services, but for websites like Facebook they offer no real advantages save more access to user hardware for uploading pics etc. - something that a website can offer with an API and third party apps. Mobile apps are of course competing with the desktop, and will continue to do so, but not really with websites, they usually complement websites and use their APIs, not replace them.

Facebook's real problem, and real competitor, is the open web.

Facebook has been opposed to opening up from the beginning, and has pursued a very successful strategy of corralling their users, and requiring anyone who wants to interact with the service to sign in and share their info - I'm constantly plagued by their login messages when I visit a page. At some point this walled garden is going to start feeling very restrictive - it only works if there is a continually growing, or at least not shrinking, pool of people using the service - if it feels like everyone is logged in all the time, otherwise it becomes a bit of an echo chamber, infested with spambots and spammy companies like Zynga, and if your friends don't bother to check it any more or post, what's the point?

I suspect as the gloss wears off Facebook, particularly if they make a foray into mobile and waste energy there, it will be harder and harder to keep users inside their bounded version of the web, and competitors without the barrier to entry for readers (sign-in required for all essential services), will come in and capture user interest, as pinterest has for example.

As to their stock price, given their current revenue/profits and potential future profits, I'm astounded anyone still believes it was worth > $20B in today's money.
I think that maybe tomjen3 is reacting to the (oft-repeated) idea that anyone who says that they don't want kids simply hasn't realised that they're wrong.

I don't doubt that the majority of people want kids. I imagine that at some point hormones will kick in that make me want to, but it hasn't happened. So, the idea of having children is awful, as far as I'm concerned. Yet I am told again and again that "one you look into their eyes...". What if you're wrong, though? Having a child is a one-way street, I'd hate to have one and then realise I don't have the same satisfaction about it that others do.
Design as Brand Expression
I agree wholeheartedly with this idea. Beginners and power users are useful categories but they are too simplistic and polarizing. There are many ways to be a newbie: maybe you're tech-savvy in general, but not familiar with this type of software, maybe you're using it every once in a while, maybe you're overestimating your skills, maybe you're underestimating them, maybe you're hopeless with computers and never going to learn anything.

Now, imagine I am a intermediate user. I started to use your product because it's quite good and simple. But, as I don't like some setting, I open the preferences. What I find is five tabs, cluttered with many options, revealing the choices you couldn't make yourself. I cannot find what I'm looking for and quit the app out of frustration. By trying to cater to everyone, you tend to sweep the complexity under the rug and piss off users who don't fit in your categories.
If the hash function is any good, simply bitwise-and enough bits from the hash and use that as the index. (It's a modulo too, but simply modulo(2^x).)

Using 2's powers generally fits nicely with programming on binary computers. It also has the nice quality of producing number of slots that are always 2's powers and you can shove those naturally for example into a single memory page.
Only US merchants. Customers can be anywhere (except North Korea, Iran, etc. presumably).
How do you promote events in your non-bubble view of the world? An event can be in person (imagine TechCrunch Disrupt for instance), or a new TV series launching...

I can imagine very well how I would target people who like the series 24 if I'm launching a new thriller. Or readers of Hacker News for a tech conference. Etc...
misogyny is not safe for work.
Facebook Stock at ~28. Where is this going?
https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:FB
another win for the efficient market hypothesis. /s
The FDA has a concept of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassionate_use which would allow them to use the drug even without any proof.
Went to Italy last December, and in fact it's no common practice to tip. The reason is most of the time the tip is already included in the bill.
Look into format-preserving encryption. I wrote something that allows you to generate permutations for an arbitrary sized range. With it, there are no collisions.
I'm afraid it isn't the most in-depth of a write-up!

I'm a postdoc computational biologist at the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, so you could say this is somewhat up my alley ;)

Feel free to fire off an email (in the profile) if you've got any questions, and I can try to help out.
For almost every release of Windows it seems Microsoft has arbitrarily moved important and commonly used features around. Windows 8 is a larger visual overhaul but really not a huge departure from the typical musical chair sort of changes you always get with Windows releases. People will probably just be confused for a while, get used to the new system, and Windows 9 will change it again somehow. That's how it's always been so it doesn't concern me. My guess is most people will just randomly click on things until they get back to a semi-familar Windows desktop. They will remember the steps required to get back there. Metro and all these other things will just be another annoying thing that pops up when the computer starts.
Does this work for long-lived connections? Say I've got 1000 TCP connections open to my backend workers and I want to roll out new workers. Will the old connections die or survive the config change?
I was more saying that there's no lack of documentation than saying Java wins in a documentation-off with any other language. Seems to me the differences are mostly in style, they all include descriptions of each method on a given type and a description of intended usage. Java will typically only have sample code if the usage pattern is more complex than that of Random.
Why I Use Perl: Reliability
PrivCo forecast valued Facebook at $24-$25 days before IPO
"Unfortunately, we can't just order a batch and inject Bertrand.

We need to get FDA approval, and we'll need Genzyme's cooperation.

Even though his disease is life-threatening, his seizures are worsening and he continues to lose white matter, we'll need to prove that it's safe."

It's shit like this that makes me hate the FDA.
Actually it looks better than the real one!
Christine Lagarde attack on Greece backfires as she pays no tax
Yeah, women have a really annoying habit of realising that the world doesn't quite work the way that libertarians like Thiel think it does. For example, no matter how good they'd be at jobs like CEO, they're still at a disadvantage to men because the people who do the selection are other men who naturally favour people like themselves. The market doesn't penalize them for this either - the people that invest in them and write reports for investors and make loan decisions? Almost all men who think in the same way.
>" so I can't imagine that the overall number of fake accounts could be huge. A million at the most?"

Really? Do you have any evidence to support that? Because my experience working with a game that had about 1MM DAUs at its peak was completely different. The analysis wasn't perfect, because it's very difficult to prove there is no unique user on the other end. But there are behavioral queues. And we determined that 1/4 to 1/3 of the accounts playing our game were fake.

Have you spent much time playing these games? They're hyper competitive. So any mechanics which require or benefit a player by having more friends will be taken advantage of. Need 20 friends to advance past a level? It's far easier to make and use 20 Facebook accounts accounts than it is to spam your friends list for people to play, especially if no one on your list actually plays the game. The whole system was designed to promote this sort of activity. That's why I can't understand why people would be shocked at this. The ruse is good for users (more stuff!), good for the games and good for Facebook (more DAUs!).

Again, it's the industry's dirty little secret: nobody has any incentive to tell people that large numbers of people using their game or application aren't even real. That goes for Facebook, Zynga or any small gaming shop anywhere.

Look at companies like this:

http://www.buyilikes.com/20000-likes/

Do you think that they rally 20,000 people to "like" your page? Or do they have a script with many accounts?

The point is, nobody really knows how big of a problem this is. You seem to think it's small; my experience tells me that it's big. Either way, the data advertisers are using to determine spends and ROI is skewed in an undetermined direction.

Edit: Have you ever played World of Warcraft? Do you know how people use characters to store and transfer goods? Depending on the Facebook game, that principle can exist on a very large scale. Except, as opposed to WoW, every storage character is counted as a unique DAU. I would bet my life that any game where an edge can be gained by having multiple accounts has a large multiple account problem.
> Before you have children, understand that it's for the rest of your life. Really understand the impact. Your concerns are second, beyond anything you've ever understood. Marriage is about compromise. Children, however, afford no such privilege.

Related to that, understand that marriage is (generally) with someone who had a choice in the matter. If your spouse is not happy with some aspect of you that was reasonably discoverable before they married you, they can request that you change but have no right to expect you to.

For instance, if they know going into the marriage that you a workaholic who places the success of your business above doing "people" things, and they are going to have a problem being married to someone who only will have time for "couple" things maybe one night a month, then they should have declined to enter into the marriage.

Kids, on the other hand, have no choice. You made them, they are your responsibility, and if that means you have to limit your work to around 40 hours a week and do that on a regular schedule so you can be there to tend to them, play with them, entertain them, teach them, go to their school plays, and so on, that's what you have to do. As jasonlotito notes, your concerns now come second.
Well then congrats to you sir. When a company can manage that kind of profit, it's nice to see them using those resources to invest in serious talent for the long haul.
Experience has taught me that if you want to get something done, you need to stay off the bleeding edge, or at the very least only drag yourself to the bleeding edge at controlled increments.

The only thing that should be changing often is YOUR code. Everything else should be as stable as possible.

What I find works best is playing leap frog:
* your code is unstable / upgrade nothing
* your code is stable, stop changing it and upgrade things one at a time

test suites / regressions are a must.
The Evolution of Data Management
"Hacker-news, however, is more free-form and definitely much better for "need advice" type questions with highly subjective answers."

Assuming the question doesn't drop past the second page or so before someone who is interested in the question sees it. But yeah, is it is seen and kept alive for a few minutes, the discussion is potentially very useful.
Coventry? Fuck that. Travel in the UK is really expensive and thus it's better to do events centrally.
One of the reasons why I love freelancing
The problem is who is going to own the project built on that one day?
Why does Google show a market cap of only $62B? If the $38 IPO was a $104B valuation, $29 should be $79B
I honestly appreciated this read. To me this is "Genes for Dummies". Exactly what I need. I tried reading about genetics on wikipedia once but I got lost in all the details and thus failed to see the bigger picture.
Lane splitting in the UK is allowed and encouraged, as it reduces traffic on the road.
In what future will the two transportation choices be motorcycles and covered motorcycles?

On a more serious note, how is the current market unsustainable? Even if something as specious as "Peak Oil" were true, it's well within our power to move to another fuel source. And since when does fuel availability dictate personal vehicle design? If we can make any personal vehicle, certainly we can make one with four wheels and room for passengers and groceries?
Step one: self-respect.
Step two: go be with folks.

Because step one requires step two, go straight to step two.
But keep in mind that's really only $40M after data loss.
"Rationally there is no point in having children at all"

What does that even mean?

Is it "rational" to stay alive? (isn't it only "worth it" because your genes order you not to kill yourself?)
At this point it can't be done. StackExchange is the way it is by preference of the older controlling users.
Pictures and Vision
I've had a frantic last week, but am I confused? Didn't Gruber spit it out and say it was about the income on his last The Talk Show podcast (#2, I think?)

As an aside, I love Dan and the work he does a whole heck of a lot, but I listened to the new The Talk Show episodes, expecting them to be rambling trainwrecks, but I'm starting to think these new shows are better. Gruber seems much more engaged. It's a little more entertaining. It really illustrated how wrong I was that Dan and John had this great "odd couple" chemistry.

The only issue I have (and had on the 5by5 version) is that the time vs. information value ratio is (for me) really weak. I could spend that hour on something else that has more value to me.
What monitors do you use?

I've tried that a couple times now, and always revert to having both horizontal because rectangular pixel shapes were messing up the font rendering.
Facebook had been public for last few years. The shares were for sale, without a healthy look a the numbers. Going by the P/E ratio, it should go by Google's PE of 18 instead of 93. Event a healthy pop up on P/E to 48, the shares should be worth $15 or a FB valuation of no more than $30Billion.

By most optimistic estimate, it will be $20 by June End.
Yes, I remember the Segway. I've owned a pair for five years and have 13,000 miles between them.

It didn't take over the world, but it fits my use case perfectly.
Yep, it will indeed work. New workers will be spun up, the old workers will get a signal asking for a graceful restart, and those old workers can hang around for as long as they need. You'll have twice as many workers alive as you might like, but there's not much Einhorn can do about that.
Slippery chicken - algorithmic music composition software in Lisp
That's really awful.

How hard is it to get a car with bullet proof windows?
IIRC, two and three-wheeled vehicles dodge a lot of the safety and licensing regulations of four-wheeled automobiles. Partly why there are so many more custom motorcycle builders than custom car builders. I don't know what two-wheels gets you over a three-wheel version except the expense of cool gyros.
What happens if Greece defaults (a flowchart)
Kroes: I will end net neutrality waiting game |ZDNet UK
A lot of Apple's power here comes from the fact that they have a near-monopoly: not on any protocol, technology, or format, but on good industrial and UI design.

The situation with good design and usability today is similar to the situation with formats and OSes with Microsoft in the 90s.
The last thing iOS needs is better multi-tasking
Thanks Matt. You are amazing. period.
This is excellent news. Now the only thing that keeps me from using the Xbox (rather than the Roku or Apple TV) to stream movies & TV is the loud fans...
>> Gruber would have very quickly and publicly called Dan a 'dicknose'.

He probably would have made Dan the "jackass of the week".
I found this video helpful - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VabEa7CxIo&feature=relmf...
> But the implication that no one with kids could ever disagree with you is not correct

It is impossible to speak about any subject intelligently unless you have experience with it.

That's just how reality works.

If that offends your sensibilities, may I suggest you're a tad too sensitive?
Code name "Beefy Miracle"? And the next one is "Spherical Cow"? Why the sudden obsession with bovines?
Small Business Needs To Look Beyond Print Media
How to Prioritize Your Marketing Projects
An internet legendary destroyed by wallstreet.
"get rid of all law enforcment..."

Are you confusing libertarianism with anarchism?
Modestly off topic: Can I say how much I have grown to hate StackOverflow and its cousins? Just like this article, half of my favorite threads on there are closed or have been deleted due to violating some sort of rule that is not unreasonable in theory but leads to obvious idiocy in practice.

A great example of people losing track of the forest because of all the damned trees in the way.
One thing I noticed is that many Americans had their CRTs at a 60Hz refresh rate. That instantly hurt my eyes so bad I couldn't look at the screen for more than a few seconds without them hurting a lot. Yet the Americans were completely impervious to this.

In Europe there was legislation mandating a minimum refresh rate of 72Hz and I ran all my monitors at 85Hz.
نتيجة كادر المعلمين 2012
نتيجة كادر المعلمين 2012
Within the realms of legalities and liabilities, Apple does "let" you buy and install OS X on any machine. Supporting a broad range of hardware is a whole other rat's nest. And nothing's stopping you from installing third-party hardware and its accompanying driver on your Hackintosh, this does work.

That said, my Hackintosh days ended with the realization that the hardware was as important to me as the software.
I agree.

Windows (and MAC OS) has been a closed platform for more than 20 years, iOS for 5 years and so far we are all still alive, no doomsday apocalypse scenario with zombies and aliens!
Really? I've been pretty unhappy with it on mine. The large, permanent top bar, the enormous window chrome, combined with the miserable vertical screen real estate on my netbook are all... aggravating. The performance on Atom's GPU is also erratic and often multi-second laggy (though it's much better than 3.0 was).

I wound up switching to KDE, which has... strange characteristics, but window management is butter smooth, like you might hope for in 2012. About as smooth as it was before everyone switched to compositing.
And my $150 2012 LCD is really quite satisfactory. You're really curious about why the switch happened?
The gallery shortcode supports this, just add these attributes wherever you use [gallery]: columns="1" size="full". That tells it to make it one-column instead of the default three, and for the images to be the width of the post. (They'll resize automatically if you switch themes.) Hope that helps!
Power plants operate at a much higher efficiency than internal combustion engines, on cheaper and more diversified fuel sources, including renewable.

[Electric motors and batteries also have relatively little energy waste, making the system as a whole more efficient to operate, especially when you consider being able to leverage the superior distribution infrastructure of the electric grid versus the relatively sparse network of fuel stations. Consider that most fuel stations receive their supply by tanker-truck, which introduces yet more inefficiency.]
Widbook - First social network of authors and books just launched
Why Open Data isn’t enough
Creating boundless experiences with Continuous Client and Transmedia | kellabyte
I'd like to add that an hours_saved calculation is a great hack for building internal projects/tools. Even moreso if you are saving the time of expensive personnel.

E.g., I build a medical data entry system that is used 10x per doctor per day by the ER doctors in a hospital. There are 10 doctor-shifts each day. Each time they use my tool they save 5 minutes. My ROI calc would be 10 shifts * 10 usages per day * 5 minutes = 500 minutes of doctor time. At $200+ per hour, each day my internal tool saves $1,667 in doctor time.
Important Tips for Managing a New Tech Startup
I think in this case, that behavior is actually just the solution the parent was looking for.
"If they wanted to hit the tri-fecta of buzzword viral bingo they should use a 3D printer to print the body out of carbon fiber or something :-)"

I can see the headline now: "Printable Solar Powered Hover Bike Vending Machine Hits Congested Highway Rest Stops"
Why Prismatic goes faster with Clojure
Addendum: Gruber did a sponsor read, and well, I don't know that I'd pay him $2500 to do a monotonous, unenthusiastic promotion of my product.

The tone of the podcast for the sponsor message went from conversational to "I gotta read this so I guess I will". At least he admitted that Dan does better reads of sponsor messages.
Have been trying to submit a post on our work/startup:

http://blog.bubbleideas.com/2012/05/what-is-letter-that-pape...

My karma at HN isn't bad (+60 for ~15 comments). Am I missing something?
Wow, missed this one. I no way did I equate "embrace ignorance" with "embrace mediocrity". You misunderstand me. What I mean is that you have to write code in such as way that you don't have to understand previously created parts. They should be designed in a way that they just work -- they are easy to use and use without error.