skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate, hate, hate the anti-scientific view that busted carbon promotes.

Carbon fiber's failure mode is different to metal - it breaks rather than bends. In most cases crashes that destroyed carbon frames would have also destroyed metal frames - but a frame bent out of alignment doesn't look as spectacular.

It is possible to build a bike from carbon fiber that fails in surprising ways (eg, clamping it in a bike carrier). That's because CF allows more flexibility in building with it, not because it is inherently weak.

If you want a strong carbon frame buy a cheap one. They typically use the same number of layer of fiber all over the frame (instead of trying to minimize weight in low strain parts) and they use plain woven fiber aligned randomly. That makes the bike heavier than a high-end frame, and not as strong for expected stresses (pedalling) as it could be for the same weight but it makes it more robust in the even on unexpected strains.
Perhaps not to you. Depends on where you stand on personal vs. political.

Personal: how much do your impressions of a candidate's personal qualities (trustworthiness, courage, honor, etc.) determine your vote.

Political: how much do your political desires, i.e., policies the candidates have pledged to adopt that will influence our interpersonal (political) lives (taxes, social services, regulations, etc.) determine your vote.

Because of your the question, I'm guessing your vote is determined by the political.

The most cynical about politics (e.g., all politicians are corrupt) tend to be the most political.

And vice versa: the candidate will choose the right thing to do, because he is so intelligent, trustworthy, knowledgable, honorable, etc., etc. It may not be what I think is the right thing to do, but he is so intelligent, trustworthy, knowledgable, honorable, etc., etc., he will know better than me.

I feel like Hacker News is probably dominated by political voters. But not everyone feels the same as Hacker News habituants. And to play devil's advocate, if I were faced with the collapse of the financial system in 2008, and I were told "Decide." My response would be, "Err." I might not want to be so political in my thinking. I might just want to choose someone who seems great and say, "Deal with it."

And of course, as with so many determinations made by us wonderful beings called humans, it is almost never an either/or determination, and there is a rich interplay between the two that is hard to fathom let alone to model. If you fundamentally don't trust a person, it won't matter how much their political agenda matches your own. Also, "the personal is political."
You're right. He's too attached to the idea of temp. He would panic if he hears "I would need you for 20 hours a week for rest of the year". Commitment-phobia is what I can think of - due to health and study reasons. Does your book address this?
Note to self: never edit a medical article drunk again.
He does end this section with "period, full stop".

However the rest of the comment is tangental does nothing to mitigate my response. Weight maintencance is not about calorie count, it's about understanding how our body processes food.
How does the top grossing iOS game make its money?
> How do you manage to achieve that - instantly stand out on the streets of Bangalore as distinctly "NRI"?

Now I will throw a claim which I am not going to back - I would like the other side to back theirs. It is impossible to stand out as NRI, let alone distinctly NRI. There is nothing in your clothes or hairstyle that marks you as such - it's in your mind. I would be happy to be proved wrong, but all I have got till now from two posters is they are distinctly NRI, without stating where does that distinction come from. One post did mention clothes and hairstyle(seriously?). If there is a distinct clothing and hairstyles for NRIs, I am unaware of it.
How to demonstrate such value WITHOUT it resulting in him getting tied down? As I said, he likes projects that last for a few weeks and then he hibernates.
He already is living in one such area in the US.
Bike registration would be a great service to outsource to bike shops. It generates foot traffic for the shop, costs almost nothing, and the local PDs can work with the bike shops in a fashion similar to how PDs work with pawn shops.

Provide a national registry, sell ads, viola! YC 2013, baby! (Okay, maybe not, but a useful public service niche.)
I'm assuming you're implying that attempting to deny the rights of citizens to use works in the public domain doesn't provide sufficient harm to support a law suit?

In which case I disagree; it is an insidious harm inflicted on the entire citizenship.
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And that's that HBO/MPAA/etc get so efficient at catching and prosecuting piracy, that piracy itself dies off.

There are just far too many ways to evade detection. Remember, bits copy easily. Controlling that is very difficult, near-impossible, and with encryption and other tactics, it's darn near impossible to detect.

Reality is not on their side.

EDIT: data point here: an alternate Internet. Imagine what would happen if the media companies really did start to succeed in controlling and suing "piracy" out of existence. This is what would happen: http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan
I don't know why more folks on HN don't understand this (or maybe the ones that do are just remaining more silent on the issue). I don't think I've ever seen so much ignorance rise to the top in HN comments as I have the past few days.
Not that unexpected, though. Pilots in general, and particularly fighter pilots, usually have a technical background on par with a four year degree in science or engineering. Often more.

Astronauts, even more so.
Unlike audiophile "benefits", weight loss to cyclists is directly quantifiable in theory[1] and measurable[2].

It's true that it is usually much cheaper to lose weight on the rider than on the bike, but for some people it is probably easier (and more fun!) to spend the money.

[1] 1.5 kg makes ~8.5 second difference over 2000m on a 3% slope hill http://www.analyticcycling.com/ForcesLessWeight_Page.html

[2] http://www.training4cyclists.com/how-much-time-does-extra-we...
It's a plausible theory that cultural engagement with Iran might work better than sanctions. However, you can't have some people doing one and some doing the other. For better or worse, after trying various other things without success, the Administration has decided on sanctions. For sanctions to be effective, they have to hurt enough to force the other side to compromise. Weakening sanctions for any reason just draws out the conflict longer.
Every dollar out of Iran is a dollar less the regime has to "fight" its idealogical war.

What war? They haven't started a war in more than a century. Probably more. Seriously is there a war going on I don't know about?
Here's what my Firebug Net tab tells me:

GET ext-all.js
304 OK
cdn.sencha.io
442.4 KB
253ms

GET gnt-all-debug.js
304 Not Modified
bryntum.com
282.4 KB
251ms

With a clean Chrome, purged cache: I get "38 requests ❘ 829.55KB transferred ❘ 1.52s (onload: 1.07s, DOMContentLoaded: 1.07s)"

And this is still without making any effort to custom build Ext JS. We're using ext-all.js for simplicity, and to make use of Sencha's CDN which should speed up world wide access compared to us hosting a custom file.

Hope this settles it :)
It's extremely depressing how expensive property is in San Francisco!
Also, the Japanese police can hold you for 23 days without trial or formal accusation, if they suspect you stole a bicycle.

If you are charged, you can choose a no-jury trial, or a jury trial with no right to appeal; and Japan has an extremely high conviction rate (though few people are actually charged, the prosecutors are very selective).

If you see a laptop on a park bench, you either leave it or call the police. If you pick it (to check the browser for the owner's email address) and a policeman catches you with it (and they don't need a warrant or even good cause to search you), you can undergo a lot of hassle.
My line of argument is more complex than you give it credit for. It has 3 major components:

- if you do not include "unique elements" (that is, you quote straight from wikiquote or similar), a quote is less secure than 4 random dictionary words due to being subject to wikiquote-driven dictionary-style attacks.

- if you include intentional and unique modifications, a quote from a public work like a movie or play is not particularly easier to remember than something from passphra.se or similar. Once you have to remember what you spelled/capitalized/punctuated in a nonstandard way, what have you really gained?

- if you include unintentionally unique elements (a word you always misspell), or elements that aren't really unique (you always append the same character), then your passphrase is vulnerable to a dictionary-like attack by an attacker who has some knowledge of you, particularly one who you've told your scheme to.

The key to the xkcd-style passphrase is that it remains secure even against an attacker who knows how you generated it, and who knows your personal tendencies. It's a completely universal, memorable, secure scheme.

Movie quotes are secure and memorable enough the majority of the time -- vastly more secure than using your kid's name, vastly more memorable than a string of random characters. But it seems to me like you're advocating a second-best security practice when we already have a best one.
Even the map on the listing is only confined to certain cities, it seems. They're showing up on SF Bay and Portland listings, but not in Minneapolis, Chicago, NYC, Boston, Vancouver, Houston, Philadelphia or anywhere else I looked.

The really good news is that (somehow) PadMapper is still up and working.
The problem is that if the police do bike registration, but nobody actually expects bikes to be registered, then nobody cares that their stolen bike is registered.
Does this also mean that they can't play Diablo 3?
I live in Sydney Australia, so to me these prices look fairly reasonable in comparison.

To give some of you non-aussies an example...

The average price for 2 bedroom victorian era terraces (hundred year old plus buildings) with next to no real land except the land the property sits on in sydney can be anywhere from 800k (AU) to millions of dollars.

Our interest rates are also higher then US.
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You are mistaken. I'm not sure what blank to fill in. Google Auth use OATH for their two factor auth. Using the reference package just gives you their PAM module. It doesn't require hitting their servers or anything.

http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
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How about these quotes from the first page:

"She spent a few days in the hospital over this. On a normal ride with friends and frame let go"

"This shot is of a friend’s seat post sometime after he adjusted the saddle height"

"Just 'popped' when I stood up to do a fast sprint"

"I managed to mostly avoid it but got pushed into a barricade and when I looked down my bike was in two pieces"

"I was sprinting through busy downtown San Jose traffic with a guy a fixed gear when my seatpost went "ka-RACK." Fixie kid laughed."

(well that's just the first half of the page, will stop
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Well, if that were the case, when I lose my phone (sadly, not if), I would be locked out of years of Google account data. Fortunately there are backup codes. (And for Google a phone number call/text recovery path).
Cool, I met these guys when I worked out of the SOMA Rackspace office. Very impressive people. Hope this was a good thing for them.
I noticed a lot of questions here on the capacities of the Google/YouTube "Content ID" system used to recognize infringements. The following analysis is a bit old, and not particularly scientific, but it will give you a better idea of its recognition capacities:

http://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/
I know some studies that showed work sample tests to be effective, also showed general intelligence tests to be effective in positions where the employee would be trained in new skills.

It's difficult to pull off because of possible discrimination claims, e.g., IQ tests are racially biased, but it can be done if you can demonstrate a business need.

I wonder if there are any examples of businesses that only hire people over a certain score on a general intelligence test?
For me its firefox extension causing it. If anybody facing this kind or problem try disabling India Rail Info App extension.
Agreed. Further, take the PD out of the equation. There needs to be a grassroots effort. Each new bike purchase should be in tied to register and be active in an online community to police the used bike market and put the swueeze on organized bike thieves.
I live in a block of flats in a suburb near North Sydney and one of the 2 bedroom flats like mine was sold for $695,000 AUD. It's completely ridiculous. (The flats are pretty bad quality)

Meanwhile a friend of mine just south of Newcastle bought a 3 Bedroom house with double garage & front and back yards for just around $400K... It's tempting to just start doing the commute with a difference like that
In a way, part of me wants the patent circus to lead to an actual ban on U.S. sales of a popular, high profile device for a considerable period of time. I don't even care which device. Maybe the system will somehow wake up when confronted with grey-market sales of devices bought outside the U.S.
Tiny data point . . . extrapolate. Great recipe for tech journalism.
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Its firefox extension - India Rail Info App
Dunno about easy, but we use Require.js with either the text! plugin or a custom plugin for jade templates, so they're in their own files.
You're fine as long as you stick to medical research articles.
Can IBM sue Apple for Siri?
Watson was created by IBM a long time before Siri's origin. Had IBM patented Watson (I am not sure if it did so or not), could it sue Apple for Siri on grounds that they copied their idea?
I am just trying to figure out the extent to which a patent can be used to defend one's IP.
Thanks for pointing it out! It came out an extension(India Rail Info) causing this.
Right, that's what I kind of had in mind. It'd be tough to combine them to get a "checkerboard" result, though, since you can only specify them along a single axis. You might be able to do something fancy with multiple overlapping backgrounds, though.
Will Watson Be the New Siri?
Trying to legally define what is and is not a valid financial transaction coming in and out of Iran is a fool's errand. There's these things called commodity markets, and most everything is a commodity (more or less liquid) that can be bought and sold. Including WoW accounts, WoW gold, etc. If you wanted to launder, say, oil revenues into completely respectable US financial holdings....

And just think: due to these new restrictions, many Iranian players could get into a whole new world of encryption, non-Iranian VPNs, non-Iranian bank accounts, etc., etc. Which could have very positive political ramifications for the US down the line.

Say what you will about America or Germany or whomever in the western world, but I can still write here "Obama is an idiot" or "Merkel is a crook" or "The American Government should be destroyed, the Constitution should be abolished, and the ancient Corinthian Oligarchy should be enacted in its stead" or whatever and still sleep like a babe without any fear of repercussions.

It's far from a perfect freedom, but it's better than the alternative.
At least it is significantly more affordable than in Honolulu even though the prices are more expensive. This is because pay is low in Honolulu, one of the costs of paradise I guess.
The current police policy is to not investigate thefts under some threshold, say $2000. So you can steal bikes all day long and never get caught. A better policy would be to investigate thefts of value X with probability X / $4000. It's roughly the same total work, but doesn't create a safe haven for low-value thieves.
I had a number of mainframe mentors back in the 90s who taught me about TPF...

TPF is an OS, transaction processing & database system that was written in mainframe assembler and deployed in 1979 to run SABRE and a few other core transaction systems (VISA, AMEX, Marriott hotels, etc.) - maybe 100 customers still use it today - and it was a descendent of a previous assembler system developed in the 1960's.

It probably was (and is) the closest system to "web scale" through the 80's and 90s's in that it ran some of the highest volume workloads globally (e.g. 5000-10000+ tps back in the 80s / 90s, 25000+ tps today) at 99.99% availability. In context, Twitter hits 10-15k tweets per second during big sports events.

These days it's extremely expensive and slow to make changes to TPF relative to modern technology (as it traditionally required S/370 or S/390 assembler, though these days requires C). IBM has a newer version called z/TPF which makes it easier to code in C or C++ and communicate with the outside world via web services, etc.

A very different world...
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I think that the ones who do are silent on the issue because it's not a popular view point to defend these patents (or any patents). There are so many people that already had their minds made up that anything that ran counter to that viewpoint was obviously wrong, or biased, or ignorant. Or they would rather attack the jury for having to try to work through a really complicated case and coming to a different conclusion than they would have. Or maybe they'd rather just ridicule the foreman's patent... because that's helping a lot.

But really, who has read the points of the patents, or the prior art? Who actually followed the case in it's entirely without cherry picking comments from media coverage? And more importantly, who actually understands patent law? I think a lot of people think that they do.

This is one of the persistent issues that we'll have to deal with on HN for the next few months. Any time an Android vs. iOS article appears it polarizes this community like none other. Hopefully after a while it will all die down...

Then just wait for the appeals court decision...
One of the things I always appreciated about Silicon Graphics was just how different their design was from anything else on the market.

It's not exactly the computer that the world will only need five of, but focusing on machines like this is certainly closer to IBM's roots.
Zynga creative chief quits
In Datomic you can setup a function the transactor can call within a transaction. This function takes the current value of the database and other supplied arguments (e.g. $100 and -$50 from your example) and according to its logic produces and returns a list of "changes" the transactor should apply to the database. The function is pure in sense that it doesn't have any side effects, it just "expands" into new data. And of course this "expantion" and application of its results happens in the same transaction.
yes. it seems that this detail has been missed by many.
Honest question: since all devices connecting to a WIFI network are by definition within a short distance of the router itself, is there a WIFI solution that uses pre-shared key cryptography? That seems to me to be the only truly unbreakable option.
This looks cool, but I'm afraid it's too little, too late. I've been pure Javascript for a long time now.
Let me say that "web scale" to a startup is a different beast than "web scale" to big companies.

I remember being at a startup and being impressed that we were doing a million dynamic pages per hour. Then I got the chance to see a real system at a big company pumping out orders of magnitude more traffic than that per second. (I am not at liberty to share exact numbers.) And doing constant processing on that traffic.

I doubt your father would laugh at systems like that if he learned what they manage to handle.
In reaction to this article I googled around and found SolusOS. Building on Debian stable, adding convenient non-free stuff (drivers, flash, etc.) and fresh apps (e.g. current Firefox). I'm currently preparing the install disk, so no real experience so far, but the reviews are good.

http://solusos.com/
Average weekly wage vs Median price per square foot. Smells like data cherry picking.
Speaking from a team bootstrapping our company out of Houston, we wouldn't have stood a chance anywhere else, especially anywhere near the Valley. We were running off savings for the longest time, and so a month's worth of expenditures in most places lasted 2-3 months here, easily (the company and team's cost of living all combined, primarily rent). It gave us the time to figure out which way was up with our business. And the times one or two of us had to get some income on the side, employment was readily accessible.

Buying a house might even be in the near future for one of our founders, and that's only possible at the prices around here.

Slightly unrelated: I'm surprised to see the average weekly wage out in Detroit so high ($1,015), given all the tales of woe you hear about it.
If I'm doing some kind of research, I'm quite likely to have over 100 tabs open. In Firefox, I use Tab Mix Plus to get 3 rows of 10 tabs with the option to scroll the rows. 30 tabs is a good working set really.

Whenever I'm stuck with another browser, I'm still in the habit of launching lots of tabs but then I immediately get lost.
Sanctions have not done anything to change Cuba or North Korea. However openness has.

Just look at what happened when Nixon opened doors to China. Now, China is no perfect country, but they have become a business partner and opened up a lot more than they would have otherwise.

Sanctions actually help the Iranian regime to further hide the population from democratic ideas. The regime in Iran was weakest when Obama gave his speech in Cairo and Iranian had access to internet and other means of communications. You need the population to have access to computers, smart phones etc. and sanctions do the exact opposite.
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In Indian cities (especially metros), housing prices have risen beyond the reach of the average wage earner. Despite several projects still languishing unsold, the prices have been artificially kept high by greedy builders. This puts tremendous pressure on single income families even if they earn well above median salary.
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Samsungs new design after court ruling,

http://i.imgur.com/O585V.png
I'm not sure what your point is?

Yes, people get injured when they have bike crashes.

Yes (as I noted), carbon can fail. Metal can too! [1] is a much better survey of random broken bikes than bustedcarbon. [2] is a good summary of the hysteria around breaking carbon frames and some of the facts.

Here's a pic of a broken titanium (!) bottom bracket: http://www.pardo.net/bike/pic/fail-001/FAIL-143.html

Assorted mostly steel and aluminium broken frame pics: http://www.pardo.net/bike/pic/fail-001/FAIL-167.html

[1] http://www.pardo.net/bike/pic/fail-001/000.html

[2] http://isolatecyclist.bostonbiker.org/2011/02/21/carbon-bicy...
Well on the plus side, with the Bay Area, there's plenty of other relatively affordable areas to purchase if one has a car.