skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that an industry currently operating at 5% efficiency whose profits rely on this fact will fight disruption.

The Radial tire came from within the automotive industry, so even if there were some temporary losers, there wasn't any leverage point to fight adoption.

With Google leading this charge rather than Ford, I think the best hope is for American car manufactures to strike a quasi-monopolistic partnership to gain advantage over foreign manufacturers.

(I may be somewhat incorrect about the profit piece, what with the weird relationship between car manufacturers and car dealerships.)
Previous personal research, mainly. However, a quick check through the LSE paper you linked: However, performance in the late 1920s was disappointing, as we saw in
the previous section. His 83% equity allocation at the end of August 1929 indicates
that he failed to foresee the imminent sharp fall in the London market. This
sobering experience could well have led Keynes to his beauty contest metaphor
and to bemoan the seeming inability of the “serious-minded” investor, frustrated by
the “game-players”, “to purchase investments on the best genuine long-term
expectations he can frame” (Keynes, 1936: 156).

I'd be surprised if the other sources failed to acknowledge that he busted badly in 1929-31.
Another angle of human relationship to pain:

Agatha Christie wrote a book “Elephants can remember”, a detective story structured around people recollecting events that happened long ago. Years later, a group of researchers discovered that she had the starting signs of Alzheimer during this period. They did this by analyzing the range of vocabulary in her writings and there was a significant drop in the size of her vocabulary (15-30%) and an increase in the usage of indefinite words like something/anything. We can never be sure if she was aware of her slow deterioration, but something has pushed her to dwell on the subject of memory long enough. Even before we can consciously articulate the experiences of our brain, clues to our deep inner experience is scattered all over in the everyday choices we make, even in the choice of our thoughts. Look at the books that you bought, and the books that you ended up actually reading. You can apply the same to every bit of choice you make in your life, and you can put together a wonderfully detailed picture of your deep inner experience.

One particular corollary to this interrelation of pain and choice is our relationship to deficiency. Chuck Close drew pictures of human faces. His portraits are highly sought by museums and collectors. Chuck Close has a neurological condition known as face blindness. He cannot recognize human faces.

Rivers flow. The fertility from the resulting flow leads to formation of entire cities along its edges. The overwhelming focus that pain brings to particular deficiencies we face makes them the central structure around which we form our characters. I would not exactly say this is a bad thing necessarily, but it is a narrative that will help you explore yourself. It will take you to the far corners or more likely to the very foundation of your personality.

more here: http://urbanravine.com/discovering-you/
The down votes here are interesting. I don't argue an extreme position, imho?

No one has attempted to argue against my point about active terror threats imply high voter pressure for security.

But maybe the problem is that I'm Swedish.

Traditionally, Swedes trust the state uncritically to do the right thing (I've heard the explanation that the king historically was allied with the lower classes against the nobility).

I thought I was immune to those Swedish attitudes, after e.g. seeing oligopolies (food, building, etc) keeping prices high and hurting both individuals' economy and the country's, without getting any problems from either politicians or media.

But maybe I still have naive reflexes.

Edit: I wish I hadn't gone away for a while, so I could have added this comment while people still were reading and give feedback. :-)
This “lost” interview with Ray Bradbury is the best thing you’ll listen to today
What's the best way to install Go on Linux (Ubuntu in particular)?

Build from source? Any caveats?
please, could you elaborate on this? I loved the metaphor.

>"As long as nothing goes wrong, it can last, but the second you introduce some delay, somewhere, you wind up with a rapidly expanding solid "
Really interesting psychology involved with pricing and how we deceive ourselves when it comes to prices and anchor points. I recommend Dan Ariely's work (http://danariely.com/) - Predictably Irrational
No, it's the proof that ALL the bigger American companies are forced to cooperate with the authorities, sometime by carot and sometimes by stick.
This is also valid for ALL bigger companies in ALL countries of the world.
Besides, why are you complaining that the F.B.I. does what it is made for, to spy on all local and remote suspects, whether they are criminals or political oposition.
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Stopped using both Parallels and VMWare Fusion a while ago. Paid for both- but both of them screwed up too many associations in OSX (Parallels being the worst of the two). They would cause some Microsoft Word documents to open in the emulator (even though I had a current copy of Word in OSX). When I want emulation I want isolation: so I use Virtual Box which I consider better as it has fewer host operating system hooks.
What year is your Porsche 911?
Not true- they still sell the iPhone 4 as a cut-price version of the 4S. And they sold the 3GS when the 4 was the top model. Expect them to do the same- sell the 4S alongside the 5.
It does exist for strings, but the list contains both `.count('string2')` and `.count(object1)`.
I think we are at an impasse, because I feel the game was broken when the decks were not shuffled. A fair game requires a random (in the sense of unpredictable) deck. No, it wasn't guaranteed, but it was certain enough for me to call it broken.
Ask HN: What tablet apps don't take advantage of the tablet interface?
I'm in an HCI grad class and I'd really like to do a project on designing an interface for tablets from a desktop version where the current tablet apps don't adequately take advantage of multitouch and gestures. I've come up with some generic ideas (email, etc, ... ) but I'd really love outside opinions. Thanks!
Tarsnap runs without any problems under cygwin/windows right now. It is very easy to set up: the Tarsnap downloads page lists all the dependencies - you just need to make sure to include them in the Cygwin setup and then run his makefile. Frankly, his setup instructions are far more easier to follow than certain other gui-based installs that look shiny but induce far more stress trying to guess how to opt-out of the complementary crapware (e.g., Skype, Adobe Reader, utorrent...)

Also, as he notes in his install page, it _definitely_ is worth checking out the source code: one of the cleanest C source I've ever seen, and very educational.
The Family that Sold It All for a Life on the Road
Not to mention the possible implications for the auto insurance industry. When all cars drive themselves, am I responsible for my car getting into a collision? If not, who pays for it? If so, how can that be justified given that I didn't actually do anything to cause the collision? It's interesting to think about, for sure.
"Jedi-level reality distortion skills needed to negotiate with the cellular carriers." You rock, CamperBob2!
There is a large amount of pollution cause by the manufacturing of cars, which can have a net benefit. Another benefit is that you could use very efficient cars for the trips that they are suited for like going shopping for groceries by yourself, and inefficient ones like picking up a new refrigerator.

That said I'm also worried that it could increase the time spent in cars since there won't be as much negative feedback from stressful/boring/unproductive driving.
iPython[1] or bPython[2] will usually be a better reference since you can explore API's, documentation, and source code directly.

[1] http://ipython.org/

[2] http://bpython-interpreter.org/
Does anyone know the browser support for this? Does it degrade gracefully?
Any chance of providing an ePub version?
Very important...sometimes. I had someone order 100 of the wrong generation once... We needed front facing camera in out setup. I'm not sure how typical our use case was but there was another 10,000 item order of the correct generation after the contract completed.
More specifically, a pointer in x86-64 (and most other 64-bit architectures) is going to be 8-byte aligned, which means that a struct of an 8-byte pointer plus a 2-byte short will actually consume 16 bytes.

Alternatively, keeping them in separate arrays removes the alignment overhead, and each pair of values will consume 10 bytes. That's a substantial savings when you're trying to fit into something like a 32KB L1 data cache.

Another technique that can help you fit as much useful data as possible into L1/L2 cache is to store offsets rather than raw pointers. Using a 2-byte unsigned short for an offset rather than an 8-byte pointer would save another 6 bytes of cache per entry, assuming you're happy limiting your URL size to 64 kilobytes. The extra address arithmetic should be essentially free on a modern pipeline.
It also works on lists, I think he got confused.
How To Avoid An Evil Datacenter
I recently met a young woman working in the Mission at a tech company in customer support. She has cancer, and she's waiting another month for her health insurance to kick in.

The consequences of this stuff could actually be life and death. That said, the risk for most people is quite low.
Yes, but I'm already using tarsnap. Running it with "--backup-to-glacier" is easier than rolling my own. I don't want two passwords, two super duper secret keys, two online services I have to pay, ....
Supercooled water for example could stay in liquid form if it was in a vessel with no imperfections. All it takes is one imperfection or seed to be thrown in, and the entire mixture will suddenly turn to ice, even though the temperature has not changed. Plenty of videos on Youtube showing it happening.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

- Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
Here's a similar case: Ranking of poker hands. That can involve many of the same steps, like sorting a small list of inputs (5 or 7 cards) into a normalized configuration (three-of-a-kind is represented as AAABC where B > C) and taking a hash to memoize the result. And you sure might want that in a tight inner loop if you're writing a poker simulator or AI where you want to crunch a few billion iterations.
The valuation of the FB IPO was floored by the private market trades in 2010-2011.
I was hoping someone would fill in the details; it's been quite a while since I've dealt with anything like that. Thanks!
Is it a crime to plug in a default router in the UK?
Yes, you could probably run the games on your PC.
What I mean though , is if you bought a Steam branded console and ran all your games through that.

A Steam console if likely to be much more tightly integrated with their cloud stuff than a regular PC would and be reliant on valve for software updates so there might be more implications if they switched the cloud services off.
A Linux VM has worked for me for some time now. I reached my limit dealing with the horrible desktops and switched to Windows on my laptop, which has worked well. Plus I like having totally portable development VMs.
They sell all 3 right off their site:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...
I think my One Page Dungeon Codex came out fairly quickly, although this was before they made you estimate delivery: http://kck.st/9oJ3jq

And the Miskatonic School for Girls was actually a bit early, shipping in March when it was estimated for April: http://kck.st/rlbUrH

I'll admit I usually assume that the estimated delivery date is an early bound on the time range when it will actually be delivered.
That's a pretty sobering write up. Good luck to the team with Fireplug.

If anybody from the team is reading, it's not really any of my business but I'm going to ask it anyway on the off chance they feel like sharing: it looks like there's a time line of at least 12 months (probably more factoring in time to MVP) and a team of anywhere from 4 to 6. How did you guy's sustain your living costs during that time, consulting, credit cards & savings, incubator money, day jobs?
Netflix open-sources Eureka
Yes, both are super interesting, but it's a shame it's taken so long to pursue these technologies. Mind if we exchange email addresses? It's rare to meet someone who's knowledgeable about these technologies and also on HN. My professors don't even care about these, and I supposedly go to a very good school. My email is in my profile.
> I haven't read Bossavit's critique (should I?) but anyone taking that position had better first make sure he's not standing on a swamp too.

Author of "Leprechauns" here.

I'm not sure I follow you in the above sentence. What happened time and again in my investigations was that I would find a citation (in McConnell or in Boehm or elsewhere) that was metaphorically accompanied with the statement "this here is a solid piece of land in the swamp".

When I got there, however, what I found was, in fact, just more swamp.

It takes a higher standard of proof to demonstrate that something is solid ground than to demonstrate there's a flaw in it. That may be unfair, but it's why scientists need a lot of training.

To take just one example, Graham mentions the Hughes Aircraft study, cited (by McConnell and others) in support of the usual "exponential" curve for defect cost (as "Willis, Ron R., et al, 1998").

When you actually read that paper - which is both one of the easiest to obtain and one that has the more detailed data about what was studied and how - and look for the raw data, you find numbers that do not obey an exponential law OR a monotonic increase. For one column for instance the numbers in fact vary within a narrow range .36 to 2.00 with two maxima at the "Coding" and "Functional test" phases, dropping off before, between and after. In a different column the costs vary only by a factor of two between Unit Test and System Test, by a factor of less than four between Code and System Test. The exponential rise is generally not true for the pre-1991 period; some post-1991 measurements get closer, but many do not.

It's hard for me to see this evidence as doing anything else but undermining the original claim of the exponential rise as a generally reliable regularity in software development.

Given this, I don't think that citing this paper in support of the claim is appropriate.
you haven't seen EnterpriseDB or vFabric data director then
Yes, but it's Flash-based and thus doesn't require separate installation.
Ask HN: A new kind of forum
As a member of a lot of forums, I have repeatedly observed that nearly all forum software suffers from following issues:

1. Poor discoverability of interesting discussion threads.

2. Large number of duplicate threads covering the same discussion.

3. Linear discussion threads without heirarchy, making it difficult to follow discussions.

4. Annoying and detracting user signatures.

In order to solve these problems, I propose a new kind of forum wth the following features:

1. HN style voting for bringing interesting discussions to the top.

2. Stack Overflow style similar topic search to prevent multiple threads for the same topic.

3. Heirarchical threaded discussions.

4. No user signatures/minimal 1 line text only signatures.

5. Hosted service.

6. Mobile optimized version.

Basically this would be a hosted HN/reddit clone without the link aggregation bit.

Does this idea hold merit? Would forum owners/moderators be willing to jump to such a forum?
Decluttering Tips
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2001/dreaming.html
It's to make sure the player or other third party hasn't messed with the code. And if the machine is paying out less than it should, there are penalties from the gaming commission.
Yes! I knew a 22 year old developer who had a heart attack. He had a super unhealthy lifestyle, was overweight, ate crap, worked insane hours and was super stressed out.

If he was 30 with those habits, he might have, indeed died.
I'd love to see BetterPlace work with Google on this one, because an autonomous electric car with a robotically swappable battery is a lot more interesting than an autonomous car that needs to park for a large portion of the day.

Most of the pieces are available for a wonderful new transportation infrastructure. Here's to hoping they mature sooner rather than later.
Atmosphere 1.0, the Asynchronous JavaScript/Java Framework now available
The most surprising thing to me is that the casino let the betting go on for over 2.5 hours.
Try this, it helped me:

defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES

I really don't want to upgrade because of this BS. I don't know if switching to VMWare is worth it.
Thanks guys. This is great info. I messed around with different types for the length value in the struct. Figured something like this was involved.
founder savings.
then a very small seed round.
then we completed a round of funding.
It's an interesting question...but as someone who used to word in the survey world, I've gotta say it: the questions here are not going to give very useful data. Here's a couple of examples (& a tl;dr):

1) "Have you been to the US recently"?
The way this Q is worded suggests that the audience is not people who live in the US. Either way, the non-specificity of the Q makes me worry with what info will be extrapolated from the responses.

2) "I haven't installed the following apps: Facebook, LinkedIn...OTHER".

...there are a lot of apps I haven't installed. I hope you don't want me to list them all...?

tl;dr - when putting together a survey like this, be careful to look at it from all sides and see where you could be introducing a bias of some sort. Drawing conclusions from flawed data = FTL.
i like the approach.

also (in webkit) you can use an svg data url in your css mask-image to eliminate the extra request. works like a charme for all elements.
Unless the article derped
Not all pain is gain. A little story:

I once knew a guy who trained martial arts, a lot. He had a proverb he was fond of. He used to say "Pain is just the sensation of weakness leaving the body". And so he kept on training, even when it really hurt, because he knew it was just weakness leaving his body. And it worked; over a period of twenty years, nearly all the weakness left his body. When I last saw him, there wasn't enough weakness left in his knees or ankles for them to even bend. He walks with a stick, of course. Turns out that you probably ought to leave a bit of weakness in there.
Traffic waves. http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html

Takeaway: don't tailgate.
Researchers create world record laser pulse
I'm not certain which I would feel worse about: making a mistake that kills me (as in, dead), or making a mistake that causes someone else economic ruin (unable to send children to a good education, for example).

It is that latter situation that keeps me awake at nights being an entrepreneur: that other people are relying on me... that in some way, I am responsible for them and their families... I often ask "am I worthy of this?".
With the right software, they will be able to drive like a school of fish, at very high speeds.
As a highway fills with cars moving the same speed, it begins to resemble a 4-lane-wide moving bus, or a huge conveyor belt. More than half of the surface of the roadway is covered with large steel boxes moving independently at the same speed, just a few feet of space between each one.

When humans operate on a roadway, they don't manage cars on the roads. They manage the bubbles of space between their cars. Physics tells you that you'll need a bubble of space ahead of you for you to move your car into. Traffic jams happen because not enough "space" is "bubbling" backwards for drivers to form a bubble in which they can travel forward.
The capacity of the road as being the number of cars passing by per second. Which is the number of lines times the rate at which cars are traveling, divided by the distance between cars in a lane. Now compare:

Smooth: Going 60 mph and leaving 2 car lengths of space, so the distance from front bumper to front bumper is 3 car lengths.

Congested: Going 30 mph and leaving 1 car length of space, so the distance from front bumper to front bumper is 2 car lengths.

In the former road you go 2x as fast and need only 1.5x as much space, so the former road has a third as much capacity as the latter. So if cars are moving along a highway already operating at capacity into a congested area, cars are arriving at the transition faster than they are leaving. Thanks to the law of conservation of cars, excess cars must accumulate at that transition, and since they have nowhere to go, they wind up parked in a traffic jam. And as long as the road feeding it is at capacity, that traffic jam grows.

From the point of view of the driver, this is what it looks like. You're sailing along in smooth fast traffic, and then hit a sudden traffic jam with no warning. After sitting there for a long time the road starts moving again, but goes much slower.

This is common experience in Los Angeles traffic. And a significant fraction of accidents happen at that sudden transition from smooth sailing at 60 mph to a dead stop. (In fact my wife got rear-ended in that exact scenario a year and a half ago on the 405 near Los Angeles airport.)
The auto insurance companies will make a killing for a year or two, issuing coverage that will not be cashed in.

Then the auto insurance business will go nearly extinct - after all, their margin is a percentage of the compensation paid. If there are no accidents, there are no payouts, and no margin ...
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It sounds like for you merging of simultaneous changes to the same file by multiple developers due to one person coding features while the other writes error messages wasn't a pain you needed to address so it made sense to delay the work to a future date.
If software drove all cars, driving cars would become much more efficient

1. cars will last longer, which would make car manufacturers unhappy

2. cars will become more fuel efficient, which would make fuel industry unhappy

3. insurance rates will go down, which would make insurance industry unhappy

4. number of accidents would be less, cars would require lesser maintenance which would make mechanics unhappy

etc

But, more people (elderly, people with disabilities) would buy cars, so number of cars sold would go up. Also, it would open up whole lot of possibilities on the software side, construction industry etc (what if roads are designed for super efficient drivers, than humans?).

Overall, it would be awesome to watch this happen - kudos to Google for tackling this.
Or how did the no idea experiment go? http://ycombinator.com/noidea.html
A timing attack against URL query strings as processed by a normalizing cache proxy?