skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but I still don't understand your reason. Do you avoid using Google because there's disturbing content on it? or Wikipedia because sociopaths also visit it? or Netflix because it's hosted on the same platform as a bunch of malware? or bittorrent because it's used for copyright infringement?

Why are you avoiding parts of 4chan because you don't like other parts?
I've used `ls -ltr` for years, and just recently I wrote a recursive version with the help of my local LUG mailing list. Here is my favorite version (put into a script in ~/bin):

find "$1" -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td_%TH:%TM:%TS\t%p\n' | sort -r

It'd be easy to add `-type f` if that's what you want.
> All of these, however, happened while humans were in control of the cars." - isn't this far more likely to be the case, since the human only takes control when the car can't figure it out?

That's a really good point, all though I'd wager a guess that most catastrophic accidents (e.g. crashes at highway speeds and t-bones at left-hand turns) happen when the driver is lulled into complacency by normal conditions.
IOS Date Parsing Issue
Funny but not very enlightening. This isn't a case of generations of companies still following the same pointless habits (wearing suits and ties, etc). If those monkeys were responsible for monitoring a return on a 700 million dollar investment, I think that one of monkeys would try to investigate the situation further. Also, I think science suggests humans are smarter than monkeys [citation needed].
I see them in heavy traffic on highway 101 near Mountain View most days of the week.
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I wonder how well these cars handle heavy snowfall or ice on the roads. I know firsthand how driving becomes infinitely more complicated under these conditions and it would be major selling point for these cars if they could handle it smoothly.
The embarassment lies in the 'twice'.

How difficult can it be to design a voting system that is coherent with our most fundamental law?
Terrific suggestions. I'm a bit lukewarm on the branding (it looks nice, but I don't know enough about marketing to really give it a fair assessment), but their redesign of the site content presentation is really practical, easy on the eyes, and improves usability a lot. I'd love to see something like this in practice.
You mean, be able to come up with in ten years, or understand in ten years?

The former is good. But in case of the latter, I wouldn't want to touch your code with a ten foot pole. (Even complicated Haskell type trickery, or, say, mathematical optimization algorithms shouldn't take longer than a few weeks to explain.)
Craigslist Attempts to Maneuver PadMapper et al. out of Existence
I agree, both of you have excellent points. 'Kyt' has a really good point about needing to bring in funding (whether it's your own or others') in addition to being able to make some sales.

Adam, though, you make a really good point of how important a good vision is to sales. A clear vision makes a sale so much easier.
"Have email, lost phone- help me" -Mallory
Before He Was Mayor, Michael Bloomberg Actually Liked Social Media
Sure, but that's not what this legal case is about nor is it the point I was arguing.
So the developers who built apps that read your FB/Twitter stream are also licensed to show the content.
Long-haul tractor trailers. We need long stretches of highway where autonomous tractor trailers can carry goods. It'll provide a good business case and limit liability.
> all of them are true expressions of people as they are, not as they pretend to be.

/b/ and 4chan in general is vile because it is supposed to be vile. They are supposed to rip into everything, that's their schtick. It's a series of one-upmanship attempts all for teh lulz. It basically is just people being dicks on the internet. Every once and a while a discussion breaks out.

The 'truth' about 4chan comes out in their hatred of animal cruelty, how much of a fanbase MLP found there, the beginning of the Chantology group and basically the acts of social conscience that burst from there. These things are diametrically opposed to the vileness of 4chan, yet they started there. The horribleness of 4chan is the majority pretending.
While impressive, not as big as this guy who has driven 3 million miles without one: http://compass.ups.com/article.aspx?id=370
Too bad it doesn't mention if this is better than a human or not. So, I decided to figure it out...

2.9 trillion miles driven in 2009 http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/tvtw/09dectvt/09dectvt.pdf

10.8 million traffic accidents in 2009 http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.p...

If my math is correct the average american can expect to get in an accident every ~250,000 miles driven, (NYC to LA 90 times) so this does seem to be an improvement if all else is equal (which I'm sure is not the case!).
Brown University's accelerated intro CS class only uses Racket (http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/csci0190/2011/). Beautiful language. Everything in the language, including basic core functions, can be built only using lambda
What browser ?

I am using latest firefox on latest fedora and I don't see any problems. No fake scrollbars either.

Maybe it has been fixed ?
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I doubt it was one person who decided, negotiated and implemented the sponsoring of this campaign. So what is your point? Does it really seem reasonable to you that no one would notice how entirely unprofitable (hypothetically) the investment is? Over the course of a dozen+ years!?
We have a very different circle of acquaintances. I only know a few people that have fake information on FB out of a few hundred "friends." The most common I see is just a name change while applying to grad school. I see very few fake relationships, though I did see it more often in high school.
I wonder how much of car sickness is thanks to the driver. And if a good enough software could drive without causing car sickness?
I would like to see a customer service/tech support org where customers have to enter their 2-factor PIN at a phone menu before reaching a human support agent. You could possibly combine that with caller ID for better verification - basically use phone # like a username and the PIN as password.

Or you could just use them alongside other verification steps.
We’re All Non-Technical Now
New Yorker iPhone App Features Lena Dunham Jon Hamm
Funland, in the Trocadero off Picadilly Circus (very much the geekiest place in London), closed fairly recently. I find it hard to believe there'd be a better place for an arcade in the UK, possibly anywhere in Europe, so it seems like a pretty bad sign.

The one big success story here is the namco center, which I think works on a pay-for-the-day basis; I've only known corporate days out there rather than people going on their own.
12 Hour Timelapse of a Developer's Screen from Hackathon
Mathworks might fit that bill.
Some 911 replicas built on VW chassis: http://www.covin.co.uk/home_page.htm
You'd probably be further ahead buying a real one though...

I bought mine over 10 years ago for <$10k: http://www.octanenation.com/matt/cars/22/
No condescension intended. Sorry if it came across that way.

I can only throw in my experience, which is that users of the sites I run have a history of not understanding what it means when they hit the delete button, regardless of how many warnings you give them.

As I said, it's a trade off. The upside for the site owner is less headache and angry users. The downside, at least in my experience, is nothing (apart from a red X on this website we're discussing today).
How does compromising the phone compromise the password? I turned on 2 factor auth and the only thing that would be compromised is the code generated by the 2 factor auth. My password is still secure in my head.

My password doesn't get used for anything, all my applications have a 1 app only password.

An attacker would still need my password...
Most of the UIs show the same 30 or 40 movies, over and over again. It's especially difficult to discover anything new or specific on the Roku. A (truly) random selection button or category would be nice (one that ignores the suggestion algorithm). It's astonishing to see how many movies are available from Netflix when you visit a site like instantwatcher.com. You'd never know it from Netflix's own website.
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Clarity Handles 10k Calls
I like the results.

Maybe it's another wave of "redesigned websites" ?
This has the potential to be a great educational tool and hopefully in time will reach a wide audience.

If enough people are aware of the terms it will exert pressure on providers to be more open and reasonable with their terms.

Of course whilst many free services might argue they have more leeway in imposing stricter terms, this still doesn't justify certain treatment of users.

Providing a summary of terms in a standardised manner will also make it much clearer where one particular service deviates in an unreasonable fashion.

In particular, user data and usage of third party cookies would be two categories where it would be good to get visibility.
Does anybody have a citation for accidents per mile for a human driver? I've seen, uncited, 1/200,000 but when I tried to verify this I came up with 2,967 billion miles traveled in 2010 [0] and 5,419,000 crashes total (based on police reports for: property damage, injury, or fatality) [1]. Which, unless there is an error in my math, is roughly 1 crash every 550,000 miles.

0. http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Trends/TrendsGeneral.aspx

1. http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811552.pdf table 4
One thing I wish that Google would allow is for me to select what service my 1 app password can be used with. For example, I can create a new password that only allows access to IMAP and SMTP for example, but won't allow the attacker to log in to Google Talk...
What happen if I have a accident in the car? Will Google pay my damages if it's the car's fault?

How quickly will we adapt to the car?
I use it frequently enough that I've aliased "lt" to it. Any other flags people use with it?
The cars still need to learn how to handle snow-covered roads

That is going to be hard to pull off. For places that get a lot of snow, often you can't even be sure if you're on the road or not.
That's definitely something I wish I had joined. It's definitely one of the major things I regret not doing while in college.
I'm one of the many guest workers in Germany. I'm not an EU citizen and I didn't speak a lick of german when I got here. I'd say over half the other engineers in my company are non-german, and most of them couldn't string a single german sentence together when they started either (some still can't!).

The company has had an open engineering position for a german national (or at least native speaker) since before I started almost 2 years ago... and still haven't filled it, even after half a dozen foreigners have joined.

So I can sympathise with the idea that Germany is struggling to find skilled technical workers. It's telling that a company has to resort to hiring a bunch of non-german speaking foreigners and sponsor their visas and so on. I'd find it hard to imagine a French or Italian firm doing the same thing.

The article alludes to the fact that the Mittelstand firms are spread out across the countryside and many are headquartered in small villages. This is true and could perhaps be a big factor in why they find it hard to attract people - I mean, how many skilled engineers are willing to live in the middle of nowhere? I chose to work to here because the company is one of the leaders in a niche specialist field, and I certainly don't regret the decision given the amount I've learned so far. But frankly, I'd rather live in a bigger city.
Wow! I am amazed by the overwhelming response. Thank you guys!
On the other hand, staring at something is a great way to hit it. It's one of the first things they teach you in a motorcycle safety course.
I see two interesting aspects of the issue: (1) the astounding value in affecting perceptions of one's popularity and (2) the implementation schemes for #1. Whether Romney/Obama/whomever took any particular action is only a concrete instance upon which to consider these two ideas.
I don't know much about this google project. Can autonomous cars (i) drive on the highway (ii) drive at night (iii) drive in snow or rain?
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How John Carmack Has Missed The Boat He Is Already Riding In
I have two-factor authentication turned on and I can see this much (in a different web browser) without entering anything: "Choose how to get back into your account. Get a password reset link at my recovery email: uch•••••••@c••••.com"

The problem may be that "me.com" is so short that Google might display the full domain name. If that's the case, Google should fix it.
Beta Testers needed for free cloud-based HTML5 animation tool
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jmcbgcbedienblgnfe...
Mockups, loose parts, and the rumors all agree that the physical home button will be staying put, just slightly smaller than before.
Anyone know what the y-axis measures? The original Nanex source doesn't label it either[1].

[1] http://www.nanex.net/aqck/2804.HTML
It would be nice, but I can see the reaction from truckers who become out of work already...
How to spot a Vice President Pick in Advance
Systems Infrastructure Developer
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Great idea - similar to my website that got frontpaged a few weeks ago (www.tldrlegal.com). Very well done; I will definitely be using this in the future.
Any idea how much Knight ended up losing?
I remember interviewing with this company, Allston Trading in college. They were the only ones who showed up at the Career fair with the salary printed out on brochures. $100k for a fresh java developer. During the interview in their plush offices in the Chicago stock exchange, they were casually discussing how they ended up losing $5million in forex last night.
All of them were young, brash and looked like they had little regard for investors money. One trading guy was telling us how he flies to vegas just for the weekend to get with hookers (during a lunch interview!).

The managers seemed like your typical alpha-male..bullish, dominating and little regard for morals. Although some computer scientists that they had seemed brilliant and were genuinely interested in building safer, better algos. So i wouldn't be surprised if it's these wall st. types that are pushing the limits further even if deemed unsafe.
Well, at least in my case, it only happens as a passenger. I can sit there, and I'm fine, but the instant I try to read something, watch a video, or something like that, I start to feel bad.

Actually, even a glance at my GPS while driving wil occasionally cause a twinge.
Does HFT create value in any way? It strikes me as purely driven by greed and so utterly irresponsible for society as a whole.
I'm afraid that in New York, this would just lead to total gridlock as a few people would stop traffic by jaywalking, leading to a bigger flow of people following them.
I don't necessarily think that will be the case. As far as I knew (and from re-skimming the wiki article), car sickness (and any kind of motion sickness) is caused by the brain seeing different things than what it's processing from the inner ear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sickness

So it's more up to the individual in question, then the driver (considering a normal, average car ride, not anything in the extremes).
Titan Security Data-Sharing Project Presents Big Opportunity For Change
You can shim WebKit to use onupgradeneeded, https://github.com/matthewp/multientry-shim/blob/master/upgr...

There are still a few other things that it won't do (multiEntry, Blob storage to name a couple).
I don't think HN should be the place for this type of question question. Try Stack Overflow.
They don't handle snow at all yet. There is no question that will be quite a hurdle to cross, but I doubt it will be for the reasons most think. My guess is figuring out where the road is at is going to be the hardest part; where I bet most people think it is "how do I drive on ice". Without impatient, jacked-up-4x4 drivers driving a twice what conditions warrant, it is just a slightly different calculation of static and dynamic frictions.
"Human error" doesn't explain continuing the process after failing the security questions, unless by human error you mean merely that "someone did it."
India has power shortage, US has crops shortage
Aren't autonomous cars required to have a human "driver" while on the road? I can definitely see truckers lobbying to have some sort of law of that nature - they sit behind the wheel "in case something goes wrong", but would be allowed to drive longer hours with fewer mandated breaks. Sounds like a win for the profession in general... setting aside that longer drive times mean that at least some will be out of work.
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It helps liquidity. How much that matters is up for debate.
Facebook, this is creepy. And dumb.
I don't know why you would even try a feature like this...
Improving Transparency in Scientific Research
Please refer to: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Specifically the passage "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit."

I know I sound mean quoting guidelines, but this happens surprisingly often and I can't help myself whenever it does :)
The BEST way that I've found so far is Intercom (https://www.intercom.io/) not only are we using Intercom to talk to our early users, we are pulling metrics from Mixpanel and our own database into Intercom in order to communicate with users who are at different stages in the lifecycle.

For example, we do some analysis nightly to see if a user is 'active' and if they are we update the intercom custom data property for that user, we can then do really complex types of messaging to our users such as: 'When a user who is active and created at least 3 widgets has not logged in in a week, send them an email'.

Major props to Des and the whole team at Intercom.
Impressive game demo using WebGL shaders made with Construct 2
+1

I've had a few ideas, only seen one through to release and it was successful. It's made me believe I can do it, so it's just waiting for that next idea...
I don't think you're catching my drift so I'll just come out and say it - I don't want to be tracked by my government going to a site that is a known gathering spot for criminals and juveniles just so I can see some silly pictures, thereby associating myself with criminals and juveniles. Now we can split hairs about whether that's true but perception is reality. So let's just end it here - I won't visit 4chan and it's not a big deal.
Had me fooled.
I hadn't even thought of that. I wonder how this will effect the car insurance industry.
As has been pointed out a few times in connection with this incident, Knight is largely a market-maker (not an HFT firm): Knight keeps open quotes on both buy and sell sides of transactions at all times and provides liquidity. Their strategy to make money is the "spread" -- they price the buy a couple of cents lower than the sell and on average they end up buying a couple cents lower than selling.

They are part of the infrastructure of the major markets; a company listing on NASDAQ or NYSE is required by the market to choose at least one market-maker who will be designated to always keep open buy and sell orders on the books.

As it happens, Knight does its market-making through computers; this replaces sweaty men who would stand in the "pit" of the trading floor and trade by waving fingers at each other (including, occasionally, the middle one). It looks like HFT in that computers trade quickly, but it is intended to be a liquidity-providing service to the market: there is always somebody willing to buy or sell anytime the market is open.

(In contrast, HFT does not require always-open buy and sell quotes.)
Car sickness tends to happen when you're focusing on the interior of the car. That's what leads to the disconnect between your visual field and your mechanical sense of motion. I expect this is the main reason that drivers are rarely affected -- they're always looking out the window (more or less), so their visual sense of motion remains aligned with their other senses.
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They do now. Doesn't necessarily mean that in 5 years they still will.
So it is mainly just cheating your citizens. I can't believe economists seriously put this forward as a problem. They should seek to educate the population, not defraud them.
Office 2013 RT for Win RT tablets will ship as Preview, lack features
Our startup finally cracked into the Android Market
The Evolving Tolerance of Web Readers
For me, it is a side effect of some problems with my vision. I hear it is curable with vison therapy, but that is quite expensive.
Most importantly it allows for more usable screen space when the keyboard is open. In some iOS apps at the current resolution you can end up with less than 30% of the display being usable with the keyboard open.
I'm of two minds on these.

On the one hand, these will help close the "fun gap" between the city and the suburbs. One big problem with living in the suburbs is that you can't really drink a lot wherever you are, because you have to drive home afterwards. If your car drove itself that restriction would be removed, and over time the suburbs could start to compete with cities for nightlife despite the large delta in density. Places might even start staying open later because they could make more money selling alcohol.

On the other hand, I have a power-nothing manual-everything sports car that I love to drive. Already most people I know drive cars with automatic transmissions, and now some manufacturers don't even ofter manuals anymore, even on fairly powerful high-end cars. I can imagine many of the same people who choose an automatic transmission today will choose a fully automatic self-driving car tomorrow because to them it's a utility and not a form of entertainment. Eventually, the market for non-self-driving cars will shrink in the same way the market for cars with manual transmissions has.
Judge Alsup orders Oracle, Google to disclose paid advocates
Alright I didn't realize you were worried about the government tracking you.