skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My parents spent the better part of the last year contracting on this project. They traveled with car company engineers, DOT people, and test cars equipped with the system around the country to various race tracks to test the system with normal drivers.

On the race tracks they would put normal people in these V2V-equipped cars with (I believe) a professional driver/racer riding shotgun. Then, they would run people through scenarios that would set off the system - i.e. they would send two cars barreling towards a t-bone collision, and the testers would be instructed to not stop until the buzzer/light went off - at which point they were to slam on the brakes as hard as they could. My dad said that this test was the scariest and he chickened out while in the driver's seat. The system is great for blind corners where you cannot see the oncoming car, but on an open race track it is scary to see the other car on a collision course with you.

After the race track test, my parents would debrief and interview the participants.

Here are some scenarios I remember them testing:

* The peek-a-boo: Three cars are driving down the road. The first car slams on the brakes. The middle car veers to avoid it. You are in the third car and suddenly there is a stopped car that you are barreling towards. The system would have alerted you as soon as the first car panic-braked.

* Oncoming car - you are on a country road, about to pass a car. You start to pull into the oncoming lane to overtake the car, but the system senses an oncoming car that you did not see and sends an alert to you.

Also, I recall a problem with testers who were former policemen. Apparently they are taught to drive with two feet - one on the brake and one on the gas, for quickest reaction time. I think this fooled with the system because the alert was disabled as soon as you put your foot on the brake, and having a foot on the brake at all times caused problems.

One final tidbit: If you are ever looking to rent a race track in the USA, apparently the Disney/Richard Petty track has the best catering for the least money, compared to all the other tracks!
It is false. Most of the time, at least. But then again I wasn't expressing my opinion but a probable opinion of Your Regular Customer.

Yes, Heroku should put up a different error notification when the problem is on their side, but I doubt it would make that much of a difference in the eyes of the user.

That's all.
Summarizing two years of experience marketing my websites
I wrote a blogpost to summarize all my experince in website marketing, hth

http://karim-ouda.blogspot.com/2012/06/15-steps-to-promote-your-new-website.html
Can you be specific instead of "to some?"
> Flame targeted countries such as Iran and Israel and sought to steal large amounts of sensitive data.

I had heard that Flame targeted Iran, which was one of the reasons people suspected US and/or Israel. This says Israel was targeted. Am I misinterpreting something here? If other evidence supposedly points to a nation-state, what nation-state dislikes both Iran and Israel? Something's not adding up.

Edit: Thanks. "Spy on friends" or "Spy on yourself to deflect attention" seem as viable as any other theories out there, if not more.
Smoke: Simple, asynchronous scala HTTP powered by Akka
There is a lot of good competition in this space.

We have quite a number of algorithms also (we used the whole of wikipedia's ngrams among others).

http://nametoolkit.com/
The Worst Bike Theft Ever
>It was their pushing IE4 as part of OS updates to kill Netscape

Did those updates break Netscape?
And it had nothing to do with Netscape self destructing with a failed rewrite, right? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

IE was simple the better browser at the time. I remember using Netscape 4 and then IE was just better and they kept iterating really fast(that seems to be MS' mantra, come in late and iterate fast, see Word, Excel, Powerpoint, XBox, etc and even the big fish Windows(remember the first few versions before Windows 3.11 for Workgroups?). Of course there are some failures like Bing and
Zune but you can't blame them for not trying.

>t was about cutting a sweetheart, loss-leader deal with AOL to replace the browser in the biggest ISP in the world

You mean like Google's loss leader Android which they put on the market for free by using money from their search dominance resulting in killing WebOS, RIM, Nokia and almost everyone else except Apple?

>And after achieving market dominance in browsers, it was about sitting on the technology for years, providing minimal updates and no standards work while competing browsers struggled vainly to move the technology forward (all done to try to kill off the "web" as a platform, of course

There is a grain in truth to what you say, but I believe it was primarily for two reasons. Netscape dying off, and browser releases tied to OS versions(maybe because of the antitrust trial where they claimed they were related). Since Vista got delayed and they hit the reset button the middle, IE7 got really delayed, and of course they didn't want to spend a whole bunch of money and effort to release an interim version, just like Apple doesn't really care about web apps right now or replacing Flash with HTML5(Jobs' blog pont rant about Flash on iOS promised much more and proper HTML5 support is still sorely lacking in iOS) since it is simply not a priority for Apple.

>MS is not a nice company. But they've maneuvered themselves into a position where they are no longer dominant, and are having to compete on technology. So they certainly seem nice enough now (and they did in the early 80's too). But I don't trust them; the culture is broken and evil.

If Apple had their way(which now they seem to be doing), Firefox wouldn't even exist, so there's nothing left to kill. Look at their 30% cut of services provided to iOS users and how it killed many apps and their MFN rule(no service can provide a lower rate for other platforms if it wants to use in app purchasing).

In these conversations(like in Mozilla's blog posts about Firefox on Windows RT etc.), I frequently see that Apple is the elephant in the room that no wants to even mention in passing since it undermines their point.
And, this is only the list of the last few years. I actually stopped caring about this sort of thing for the last five years or so simply because microsoft fans are not part of my life anymore. However, when I did, they were doing evil way back then, and had been since I started to pay attention.
When you're looking to buy a product that isn't the kind of thing reviewed by sites you already know, it can be hard to find where credible sources are. What I generally try to do is start by adding "forum" to my search query with the goal of finding a group of hobbyists somewhere. If I can find a discussion among hobbyists that is somewhat related to the product I want, then often they will mention the sites they're reading or buying from. Usually there will be a couple of brands that get fought over, and if nothing else it can help discover better search terms.
I agree with others. I think this could really be an interesting story if you took out the name calling. I'm always amazed by the number of people who use mean in ways that make people assume they're talking about median (or mix the two).
To each his/her own, but having having and collecting a variety of nice clothes can be enjoyable. Especially now, since quality clothes – by historical standards – are incredibly cheap.
Intel plans to intorduce TV platform with facial recognition
I've done this recently. I watched it expire. I checked the redemption times. Then ordered it as soon as it came out of redemption. It was done manually.
I think it rarely makes sense to view Microsoft as one consistent entity; you have to look at which division is doing this and what are they're motives[1].

The Azure bit may have some affinity to the Windows Server division but probably doesn't feel pressure to sell desktop OS or Microsoft Office licenses. I think Azure wants to attract developers away from GAE and AWS, in that context this move makes perfect sense.

This is no more unusual than MS Office being available on Mac or Silverlight support being somewhat absent from Windows 8. Both things make some degree of sense when you 'follow the money'.

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6
Am I? The language doesn't need to make affordances for bad code, bad code needs to be refactored into better code.
This is all missing the point. Context matters in antitrust issues. Google doesn't have a 97+% monopoly position in web browsers, nor are they using Firefox (or Chrome) to deliberately harm their competitors in search (quite the opposite in fact). Apple likewise is not using a monopoly to harm Adobe, who have access to a larger smartphone market than iOS already (and in fact are shipping out of the box on most of those devices).

And you realize there's an important difference between "promoting one's own software" and deliberately installing (and making default) a free (!) equivalent to your biggest competitor's software on every single one of your monopoly-sized installed base?
Excellent use of icon art on http://jodd.org/

Why do we need another Java framework?
Dell launches a credit facility for startups to buy equipment
Gorgeous site. Excellent Front-end and UX/UI skills. Someone hire this Sir.
You may have a general point, but there's a couple orders of magnitude difference between 10,000 (your example) and 8 million (the company we're discussing).
Clearly good advice, but I'll add two cents.

Hang around people who are passionate about things and try to make your circle include people passionate about very different things.
I was helping my 9th grade step brother with his math homework, and I've noticed his math classes are no longer divided into subjects they way they where when I was there 10 years ago (algebra, geometry, algebra II, trig/precalc, calculus, discrete math)

His math book jumped around so much, that one week he was working on probability, the next basic geometry, and the next simple factoring.

It looked exactly like someone wrote a whirlwind study guide that covered just enough to pass some very specific standardized test.
Real World Startup Tips from Susan Wilson Solovic
Will the failure of the Facebook IPO change the climate here going forward? Possibly. But it doesn’t matter . . . we didn’t build this company with the intention to flip it. We’re in it for the long-haul and we’re committed to building a real business that makes great apps, not on selling-out.

The strongest position any founder can hold. It doesn't mean you can't consider and even take short-term options for funding or acquisition. It means you need not take them unless you can do so on your own terms. Entrepreneurs have come a long way in this most recent decade in being able to do rapid company development - historically, the scale at which this is happening is quite dramatic - but some things never change: to succeed, develop a sound business model and be very careful not to get yourself overextended financially in the process of building it out. Doing that is no guarantee of success but it is a sure-fire way to limit your risks of failure.
Steve Jobs and Stanley Kubrick did the same, many identical copies of one outfit. George Lucas may have more variation, but AFAIK limits to flannel shirts and jeans.
Right...that's my point. DPreview is a site that should've been killed off by the SEO tactics listed. They typically publish weeks/months after the competition. Yet because they are so reliably comprehensive, they still get the traffic/links to maintain their search result dominance.
Why games getting social is a good thing
How RSA works with examples
An explanation of RSA, very mathematical (no way to get round this) but with lots of examples, so anyone who has basic math knowledge should be able to understand how RSA works after reading this.
It's been about a decade since I took mine. Apparently, they got rid of analogies, which is what I was thinking of:

>In 2005, the test was changed again, largely in response to criticism by the University of California system.[32] Because of issues concerning ambiguous questions, especially analogies, certain types of questions were eliminated (the analogies from the verbal and quantitative comparisons from the Math section).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#2005_changes

That sounds like a great change. Each analogy required you to know 4 words (at least one of which would be rather obscure). I read quite a bit in grade school (still proud of myself for seemingly being 1 out of only 3 students who read the required 750 page John Adams over a summer), yet suffered miserably during this section.
"[edit] it's Friday morning and I'm done; any suggestions for a synonym for 'unobligated'?"

"Voluntary" or "volunteer"?
Another article on this (I don't have the link) indicated that the operators were carefully picking their targets and uninstalling it from uninteresting systems. If you have a virus like this, you can target people in your own country and help deflect suspicion at the same time.
Thanks to reading lots of articles on HN about password security, I upgraded my site's passwords from salted MD4 to bcrypt about a year and a half ago (a bit late to the party, but still). Here's what I did:

I added a second password column to the users table, then ran a script that queried the table for the existing hash, generated a bcrypt hash from that value and wrote it into the new password column. Then I removed the old password column. No need to wait for the user to log in.

When people log in today, the code takes their password, runs it through the old hash routine, runs the output through the new hash routine, and compares that to the password on file.
99dresses for video games
hey,
I am working on something,where i can exchange my unused video games with others to get the game i seek.

Right now i am done playing Ghost Recon Future soldier And now i am thinking about playing MAX PAYNE 3.But again i have to pay for it.It would be easy on me if I could exchange it with someone,who is done with MAX PAYNE 3.

I am planning on doing something like 99dresses for video games.

I am putting out here,just to know your viewpoints about it and if you are a tech guy and have the interest of doing this.We can definitely talk.

Let me know what you think guys.

Himanshu
I know it was a joke comment, but names like "Flame", "Duqu" or "Stuxnet" are not names in which those viruses were developed, but those were attributed to them later through security community
Also surround yourself with slackers. Surround yourself with people every type you can. Learn from them all. Even the lazy ones can teach you things.
No, they are not.

The company has, and has always had, a winner-take-all, paranoid violent reaction to all possible competitors in any of the spaces it occupies. It has established and held a strong market position by defining for itself an exclusive platform, first through mandatory per-unit licensing (MS DOS/Windows 3x), later through its mutually leveraged dominance of the desktop OS / office suite space, which it has tried (with varying levels of success) to extend into servers and services largely through mail and calendar, directory, collaboration, and database (MS Exchange, MS Active Directory, Sharepoint, MS SQL Server) tools. Introduction of any of these within a business environment pretty much inevitably sticks a wedge in the door. Moreover, interaction between Microsoft and other tools is often weak and buggy, encouraging a Microsoft-only monoculture.

I've just addressed this in a recent thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4081701

As others have noted, Microsoft have a hell of a lot to live down. Not just in the F/OSS world, but in their mortally aggressive attitude toward all comers: DR DOS, Novell, WordPerfect, Lotus, Netscape, Sun, Linux, GPL, BeOS, and Google. Among others.

Currently, they are looking to quash competition on the x86 platform by locking down the UEFI bootloader:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsoft%E2%80%99s-take...

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/red-hat-linux-pa...

Many, myself included, see Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures as one more in a long succession of Microsoft-acting proxies fighting its battles on the patent front:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/30/intellectu...

"Looking cool" is the last and least thing they've got to do to atone.

(Edit: paranoid winner-take-all intro paragraph).
How far down the rabbit hole would you have to go before you find a connection from a .gov machine?

Or do nation-state malware programmers maintain a strict no-contact policy to keep the government's hands clean?

I suppose we'll never know the answer.
I'm not sure where the cutting edge work is being done in this case, but generally speaking we 'hear' from Kaspersky/Symantec in these sorts of press stories primarily because they have notable press/marketing operations with tight relationships to mainstream news organizations.

Even if they were doing little more than independently confirming the cutting edge work of other firms, their voice is massively 'louder' and today's mass media landscape is tilted away from the independent investigation that we could rely upon to properly attribute the work being done in such technical situations.
What America Spends on Groceries
I've seen the sentiment on HN generally is that if it's ageneral conversation about the post-PC world, MS is totally a dying platform losing relevance and Windows 8 is the worse software on the planet which will totally crash and burn and take down MS with no chance of survival in the hands of Apple and Google.

However, if we're talking about Secure Boot in Windows RT or Firefox on Windows RT, suddenly it's Microsoft trying to kill off Linux and Firefox in Windows 8/RT with their utter dominance of computing.

And what boggles the mind is that it's many of the exact same posters making both these arguments.
After Tim Sweeney Haskell investigations and Allan Willard comment about using non-standard language, I'm non-surprisingly disappointed to see C++. ^^
So they would! You live and learn, thank you.
Four Lessons Once-Rejected but Now-Famous Books Can Teach Us about Social Media
Video Interview: Greg Brockman of Stripe
Regarding the two-foot driving police: I thought the purpose of using one foot to brake and accelerate was all about removing the mental process that occurs when having to choose which foot to use. I was always taught that removing that decision was the reason for using one foot. The point of heel-toe pedaling is that your foot can reach both pedals simply by pivoting, which theoretically makes both pedals equally quick to access. I learned on stick, which clearly dictates that style. But, I'd be interested in hearing what others think.

Regarding the stories from your parents: pretty cool info!
If you can code, Project Euler is really good. Particularly the problems past #100; those tend to concentrate more on mathematical insights than programming ones. It's what kindled my interest in math in high school.
IMHO, the antivirus makers deserve even less credit than we give them. They have been demonstrating their competence, so why is their software a bloated mess that slows computers to a crawl and still lets through unsophisticated crapware like the fake antivirus stuff?
Personally, I would have preferred a breadth-first approach to mathematics when I was in school. All of those concepts are related, but it's very difficult to make those connections when you are "only learning [algebra|geometry|etc]" in isolation.

Edit: related http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers...
I don't really see how this relates to SEO at all. If anything, this is link bait.

It has more to do with publications writing unsupported reviews for products trying to get clicks. This is no different than tabloids printing sensationalized headlines to get eyes when you're standing in line at the grocery store.

I just ran a search for 'Nintendo Wii U' and the whole front page contains none of these types of articles reviewing the Wii U. The front page has articles from ABC News, e3, Youtube, Amazon, etc. If someone is searching for 'Nintendo Wii U Reviews' and the results return the only page's available that display themselves as 'reviews' then who's fault is that? The searcher, who is uninformed enough to not realize that the Wii U can't be reviewed yet because it is not available, or Google, who assumes the searcher wants to find reviews for the Wii U, regardless of their validity?

If I search for 'aliens are real' I get results that support my search query which assumes aliens are real. It's not Google's job to decide if 'aliens are real' or not. It's job is to return relevant results for what I searched for. If I want 'Wii U Reviews' then I'll get reviews, regardless if they are valid or not.
The Accidental Empire (George Soros on Europe)
You're welcome.

Your graphs on the frequency of each length domain name is misleading as it is too easy to interpret it to mean that the most popular lengths are 10 or 11 characters long, when in fact shorter names are more popular but have a limited since shorter means fewer combinations. You discuss saturation later, but it would be more informative to combine the two pieces of information. For example, on the same graph you could plot a ceiling line representing the total available combinations for each length. It would be obvious that the frequency bars for lengths less than 10 are shorter only because they're bumping up against the ceiling.

Secondly, a lot of experts disagree with you on the importance of having a .com domain name, and many successful sites are on different domains.

Thirdly, what actual utility do the couplet/triplet and start/end character data and graphs provide?

If I were looking for an expert to select a domain name, I would choose someone who understands what matters, not someone buried in inconsequential minutia.
Let's not forget that these are the guys behind MacHeist and plenty of VERY successful apps. They've turned their loyal MacHeist users into a social marketing platform for their apps. They have plenty of capital.
If you had three pair of well-made leather shoes, you could potentially keep them for decades by not wearing the same shoes on consecutive days and treating the leather every few months.
While there's certainly a lot of crap out there, the example used is weird. Yep, if you search for reviews for a product for which no credible reviews exist yet (due to it being unreleased), you're going to find garbage.

Search for reviews for a product which actually exists, and you might get some better results. Drop the "U" from "Nintendo Wii Review" and you'll find reviews as sensible as you could hope for.
Your friend is simply wrong. I think buying a house in italy and commissioning a custom super car is evidence that he doesn't know what he is talking about.

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/07/pagani-zonda-hh-commissio...
Why on earth are people trying to hang onto the paper style?

I get that publishers don't want to rehash all their print media just for digital downloads, but why do we have to shoe-horn that into some crappy, unneccessary page transition process?
I tend to agree.

I think we measure ourselves against our peer group and the more slackers we hang around the more mediocrity seems like success.
Hacking the Midwest
Competing with Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning.  What could go wrong?
POSIX isn't divine and infallible. PowerShell is actually quite nice, save for the arcane Windows console UI. I still prefer zsh, but that's no reason to immediately discard a competitor.
Maybe you already did as it was very popular back then, but you should read the detailed story on stuxnet that was featured in Wired a while ago: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detecti...

Very fascinating.
I think the point is that doing this is riskier, and more difficult than just stealing CC numbers and such.