skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"More-over how stupid does Fanny Mae management be to fire someone who can write and deploy logic bomb that meticulous in half a day? Let alone let any of their staff have that level of data center access."

Among their lack of oversight problems, this seems to be one of the smallest.
It's a fairly common photographic technique to splice together multiple different exposures of the same shot. Yes, technically faked, but common.
What problems? Package dependency problems? The worse that I've had happen is having to deal with broken packages. The amount of times I haven't had to deal with figuring out dependencies makes it more then worthwhile, IMHO.
Virtually all diesel engines use direct fuel injection so a large percentage of European cars are already taking advantage of this technology (which, by the way, was invented in the 1950s).
Six months from now, I bet you're going to remember the name though :)
Color me skeptical, but the only reason the auto-manufacturers are doing this is because if they don't, they will lose out to the hybrid and electric markets. Without the hybrid and electric markets, they wouldn't bother.

So there's your dilemma. Support the hybrid/electric market, even though you pay more and get less, or don't. If no one does, then the hybrid/electric option will implode, and the petroleum-only option will stop innovating.

Can anyone here suggest an alternative view? (I suspect yes)

(edited for typos)
Casual sex is disastrous for society. You are at a high enough social strata where you are not affected, but it has decimated the inner cities. time_management wrote an excellent comment describing how monogamous relationships are key for civilization:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=457614
How Ford & GM of them. These people are lucky to have jobs. I love how they point to the government and others instead of taking accountability for their own lives.
Jeff is not quite on the ball with his reference to the "Shlemiel" algorithm.

Joel originally described the "Shlemiel" case when referring to strings in C not having a length stored in them, and needing to use strlen to walk the string to find the length. The Shlemiel problem comes up when you use strcat in a loop, since each strcat call needs to recalculate the length of the loop, which takes longer as the string gets longer.

The problem with concatenating strings is not a length issue, but a memory issue. In order to concatenate a string in C# or C++ using built in string classes, the location to store the new resulting string has to be allocated and the two strings have to copied into this new location. The allocation does not take up a trivial amount of time, and reallocating memory over and over again for each time you concatenate a string is bad practice. There is still a bit of "Shlemiel" since you have to keep copying your existing string, which takes a larger amount of time as the string gets longer, but you have to take in consideration the allocation, which wasn't present in the original problem that the "Shlemiel" story described.
Virtually all diesel engines use direct fuel injection so a large percentage of European cars are already taking advantage of this technology

Diesel engines do not directly compete with gasoline engines in the United States. The reasons are:

Poor performance.
High cost.
High mass.
High bulk.
High smog pollution.
High noise pollution.

Gasoline direct injection is a new (not invented in the 1950s) and important technology that substantially improves the competitiveness of gasoline engines against diesels, electrics, air-cars, etc.
Lawyer/Accountant Advice for Starting a Business
I'm looking to start a company where I'll be doing mostly webapps, iPhone apps, the usual things companies discussed on here do. I'm doing it by myself for now.

I've read all the advice here about business types (LLC vs S-Corp vs C-Corp) and feel like I'm ready to get started. I've also read all kinds of tales here about paperwork mistakes, tax filing disasters, and improper accounting.

If I haven't made a dime yet, does it make sense to have a lawyer help me set up the company? Likewise, would it make sense to talk to an accountant to help me set up processes so I'm not in trouble on tax day? If so, what are some good resources for finding lawyers/accountants who are experienced in this sort of thing? Randomly picking from the Yellow Pages/Google seems like a bad idea. I'm outside of the valley (live in Wash DC), but general advice would be helpful for others I'm sure. Also, if I were to work with professionals, what kinds of rates are reasonable?
Color me skeptical, but the only reason the auto-manufacturers are doing this is because if they don't, they will loos out to the hybrid and electric markets.

You are skeptical of GDI's effectiveness (to help competitiveness), based on your perception that it is in fact effective?

Without the hybrid and electric markets, they wouldn't bother.

There are no other market pressures to improve gasoline engine efficiency and performance? What about:

Direct competition from other gasoline-engine makers.
Fuel cost.
Market-distorting legislation (CAFE, etc.).
Indian government explores $10 laptop
I love dropbox, but if google release basically the same thing, how are dropbox going to survive?
Bonus if you write some code to detect your activity (based on active application or typing/clicking patterns or who knows what) and then communicate via usb to your stoplight.

At that point, you could probably sell the thing on thinkgeek.com and watch cubicles everywhere fill up with activity indicators. Of course, there would have to be manual override, so cube workers could set it to red all day when they don't feel like doing anything.
infuriating.

Why is the text so large?

Why is there a floating image of the author
Godaddy SUCKS, ASP.NET and Discount ASP.
Review of Clark's Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
The Hacker History and movement.
Second http://www.microsiervos.com/, add Alt1040.com, and thats about it, AFAIK.
I wonder if theres a hacker scene somewhere, but i guess it isnt.
Maximizing Your Traffic Sources
Most of us are always on the look out for new ways to drive traffic to our sites. Yet in most cases the answer to this question is actually in your traffic data....
Making connections: Creating a wiring diagram of the brain
The tougher a market is the more you can make by doing it well, no?
The data is likely limited in scope by more than just income. For instance, its a web-based startup. This means that users of it are more likely to be tech savvy. It also means that the users are younger, which gives the baby boomers a weaker representation.

Mint is also a money management site, so by it's very nature it's users are interested in properly managing their money. People who care about proper money management are probably doing a better job of making/saving/investing it.

My life experience is limited (I'm only 24) but from it I can say with confidence that the majority of people in my community, family, school, etc are not tech savvy, don't worry about managing money, and frankly most still believe that if you can't buy the software at bestbuy or walmart it's not made by a reputable company.
As a founder of PayPal, Elon Musk made $250 million. But then he got bored
Yeah, it's a composite. There's a follow up[1]. (btw, the article is a send up of conspiracy theories.)

[1]http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/29/ok...
None of these things are true any more, nor have they been for some time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine#Advantages_and_di...
Dell choosing between Windows Mobile and Android for its phone, is there really a choice?
I don't know the particulars of direct injection for gasoline but I'm pretty sure some of the above reasons aren't valid (at least on modern cars). A friend of mine has an E320 diesel from 2003 or so and performance and noise seem the same as the gasoline version.
I love how on that page the Grauniad is advertising made-up public sector jobs that pay equivalent to six-figures in USD. That is where the money went.
Get an accountant from day one. Good ones can advise which bits really need a lawyer, and can usually provide a reference to a good one.

This will cost you money, but it's a valuable investment. Good accountants save you a lot of money and hassle.

I can't advise on rates, etc, as I'm not in the USA. YMMV.
None of these [alleged drawbacks of diesels] are true any more

Then why do diesels not dominate the auto market in the United States?
The Art of Pitching Cliff-Notes,from "Art of the Start" by Guy Kawasaki
I like it, but your idea only works if your back is to a wall.

My wife did the boolean version of this, though, when I told her I wanted to spend $100 on a fancy board from National Instruments. She folded a piece of paper in two, wrote "DO NOT DISTURB" on one half, and propped it up next to me.
Video game conditioning spills over into real life
Fake, it doesn't have a wheel. How are you supposed to drive that space truck?
A friend of mine has an E320 diesel from 2003 or so and performance and noise seem the same as the gasoline version.

C&D review of the 2005 E320 CDI: http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/hot_lists/car_shopping/l...

$1000 and change north of the base price for the gas-powered E320.

So what do you get for the CDI's price premium? [...] More mass [...] irritating old diesel noise and stink. [...]

The CDI's horsepower rating is modest—201 at 4200 rpm, 20 less than the gasoline engine [...]

With its heavy-duty cast-iron engine block—a diesel trait that hasn't changed much over the years—plus extra sound damping, the E320 CDI weighs in at just over two tons, 219 pounds more than the gas E320 we tested last year [...]

Diesel clatter? Yes, it's still there

The extra weight of a diesel engine causes increased tire wear and worsened handling.
am I just being slow or has he completely missed the point of avoiding concatenation in loops, concatenating small strings inside loops is fine, its tiny cost, but concatenating the results of those 100000 iterations is completely different
Or the "sliding of the signified under the signifier" if you lean toward semiotics.
Imaginative play makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed
Enterprise application development, reinventing the wheel
Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation
By 'agencies' I assume you mean government agencies; and by "gathered/guessed/invented" I assume you mean government agencies are wildly inaccurate. Citation needed.
People love to point out how Gates never graduated, but his Harvard experience was pretty instrumental in him starting Microsoft.
Nice. Maybe let user build rules like:

When a Terminal window is in the foreground and has an open ssh session --> amber

When Firefox in foreground, displaying news.ycombinator.com --> green.

Never automatic red, though: I would want to conserve its signaling value, so that it would always mean, "if you talk to me right now you are going to mess up a thought structure that was difficult to build".

[edit:

Hm, a little bluetooth-enabled one of these actually would be a pretty cool thinkgeek product.

]
I get asked this all the time. Here is my suggested startup to do list. I hope this helps. http://www.angelblog.net/Startups_The_Essential_To_Do_List.h...
Memory allocation is something that is typically O(1), or O(log(n)). The constants attached are fairly large, but doing lots of allocations/deallocations isn't a BigO issue.

The schlemiel problem still exists when doing '+=' in a loop. Each copy requires some code to walk the length of both sides of the operator, same as strlen in Joel's example. The loop is an O(n^2) operation, even if it has a smaller constant on it than a memcpy(src, dest, strlen(src)).

It's "Schlemiel", but with different constants attached. For big enough N the O(1) or O(log(n)) of the allocations lose importance making the entire thing O(n^2) just like "Schlemiel".
What is your (least) favorite syntax gotcha?
You know, they could have shot it using High Dynamic Range (HDR) techniques as well.

Of course, there would be other tell-tale signs then, like flaring or clumping. But at least it wouldn't be a composite.
At this point, history. The diesel "brand" was badly hurt by the early versions.

And there is still a price premium for the engines, so that point stands. They just aren't inefficient or terribly polluting any more.
They could at least have updated it to 2009
Me too - scary...
I took a quick look at this yesterday. I was not aware that this was supposed to be real, it looks like a rendering to me. If it is real... ummm shouldn't someone be driving the boat?
I've developed something like this myself, but it didn't get this much polish. Lua is a great asset when it comes to being able to reload your game's code as it runs.
Market inertia.

Diesels are all over Europe and American tourists don't even notice.

The difference is a whole bunch of chicken and egg problems, that influence price, availability, choice and support.
You could also just feed a ramping pwm output to a lowpass filter and have it go into a comparator, with the other input to the comparator be the analog signal to be measured. You watch the pwm count and when the comparator fires, you have the digitized signal in the pwm count.
Sorry to take issue here but one point at a time.

1. The whole world does not live in the USA so the problems of Diesel fuel distribution in the US is not a world wide issue.

2. Diesel fuel has a high energy content and diesel engines are more efficient than petrol engines - thus bulk and distribution costs issues do not apply.

3. Modern diesel engines produce way less smog and noise than the average US car or pickup engine.

4. Gasoline direct injection was invented in 1952 by Bosch.
The Schlemiel problem is a BigO problem. BigO is really only useful analysis if your N is large enough. If you always work with data sets that are small (and have confidence that they will remain small) there is no point in doing BigO analysis or worrying about bad things like O(N^2).
Anyone else find the upward inflection in his speech to be annoying?
At this point, history [is holding the diesel back in the American market]. The diesel "brand" was badly hurt by the early versions.

You said that none of those diesel-drawbacks I listed have been true for some time. If that were the case, it might seem that the public is taking its time coming around. here is a recent forecast for diesel market share in the U.S.: http://news.google.com/news?q=%22diesel+market+share%22

Automotive industry analysts at JD Power have forecast that diesel market share in the US will quadruple to 9 percent by 2015

Only 9% market share by 2015? And the technology has no drawbacks in comparison to gasoline?
The first automotive direct injection system was developed by Bosch, and was introduced by Goliath and Gutbrod in 1952.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_Direct_Injection#Histo...

Apparently a number of cars since 2000 already use it. Likewise, turbochargers are old technology. And many of the other innovations in the article apply equally well to hybrid or electric vehicles. With that in mind, the article appears a little desperate.
That's a real mystery to me. Seriously, it's baffling.

I live in the US and drive a diesel Passat, and I regularly get 40+ mpg without paying attention to how I drive or particularly close attention to whether my tires are fully inflated.

To address the comparisons you brought up above, some are clearly wrong:

High mass-- irrelevant; gas mileage is higher.
High bulk-- irrelevant; the car is normal sized.
High smog pollution-- not since the introduction of ultra-low sulfur diesel in the US in 2007.

The particulates are still worse, but diesel wins on the rest, mostly through efficiency.

That leaves the causes of the poor market acceptance as

Poor performance.
High cost.
High noise pollution.
Something else we haven't thought of

I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but the performance is great; the acceleration is particularly good above 30 or 40 mph. From a maintenance perspective, I have done literally zero maintenance on the car in the 3 years I've owned it other than to fix a leak from a clogged roof drain.

On cost, I've been saving money on gas on a per-mile basis since I bought it. So far, I think I've saved around $1000 on gas. I don't know about the market price for diesels vs. equivalent gas cars across the market, but I'd be surprised if I lost on this.

The difference in engine noise is not noticeable inside the car; I don't know whether my neighbors hate it or not. I am quite certain that engine noise was not a factor in my purchasing decision at all.

So, I don't know, gravitycop. I'm as mystified as you are. If diesels are this great, why doesn't everyone in the US buy them?

My best guess is that people don't think of it as an option. They remember the loud, smelly diesels of the 70's and think, "Hell, no, I want a nice shiny Honda Accord!"
The fallacy of volume and revenue: The iPhone difference
Prêt-à-porter mobile video
Easy, lightweight and effective: videos are almost ready to wear. Finally we will explore all the capabilities of the devices we already carry in our pockets.
Most of us probably don’t use a mobile video service yet, but we will start using those services during the new year [...]
They could also purchase the full domain name (charge37signals.com) and have it redirect to charge.37signals.com; that way they account for all possible permutations.
Market inertia. Diesels are all over Europe

European governments introduce market disortions that favor diesels. They also allow high smog emission levels, which again distorts the market in favor of diesels.

Recently, there was a year in which there were no diesels at all on the American market, because no diesel at that time could meet the required smog-emission regulations. The trend has been: Americans care about clean air, and Europeans do not, and therefore the latter have been more willing to operate diesel cars.
Bad Python: How Java Programmers do Python Wrong
I wasnt talking about the length of the iterations but what the result of them is, he is just concatenating tiny strings, then apparently throwing the result away, if he used the first example in an iteration of 100000 then I dont think the results would be negligible.
That's a pretty weak argument. Anyone can make a market share prediction, and our track record at this kind of prediction sucks.

And in any case, market share quadrupling between now and 2015 in an automotive market is rapid adoption.

How about a counter-argument based on the lack of availability of diesel pumps? Seriously, that's the worst thing about owning a diesel car-- trying to find a gas station that pumps diesel.
Methinks gravitycop just does not like Diesel engines so perhaps we should stop trying to correct his misconceptions.
I think you're probably right about this.

But it doesn't explain why we allow all of our large trucks to use diesel, does it?

Do you think that's just a loophole big enough to drive a truck through?
I don't know. I guess part of it is just you do what you feel is good, and you watch yourself to make sure you don't trip up. I'm probably not the best example: I unfriended every Facebook user that said they liked the book Twilight, and when I remove friends to prune my list it's always people who like Donnie Darko and Across the Universe. But that's something that I'd imagine every person comes across: it's natural to exclude people. That's not just something hipsters do. It's just that they're the ones with the most annoying tagalongs right now.
The article mentions "40 miles a gallon (U.S.) or about 5.9 litres/100 km" for a medium sized car (think Toyota Corolla). Doesn't strike me as "super-efficient" at all, this is what cars have been doing for years already! Or am I missing something?
Must . . . resist . . .

Not . . . Reddit . . .
There's something we must ask before that. Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?
Methinks gravitycop just does not like Diesel engines so perhaps we should stop trying to correct his misconceptions.

Did I state something that was not true or was wrongly interpreted? What misconceptions do I have?
There was an article these days about how companies are starting to wish for the other face of Moore's law: computers getting cheaper every year at the same performance. The article was about the next Windows, but I always thought it applies much better to laptops.

I'd say there are three levels of performance suitable for such mini-machines:

- The equivalent of the last 486 or the first pentiums: can play mp3, browse the web (without the bells and whistles), display a pdf, run simple office applications, have ethernet and usb, may not have wireless. This is what a real $100 laptop should be like, and what readers could become (keyboard?)

- Can show movies, run a contemporary OS and application suite (including last versions of Open/Microsoft Office) - pretty much everything an office computers does, without the games and other needy apps. This is already covered, as there are many cheap laptops just like this.

- Sub $100 laptops. This is a very interesting field, because anything can be done. Text-only and monochrome displays, dedicated applications, the field is huge and the prices can be as low as any hand-held chinese game ($10 is not at all absurd). There are two big issues here: compatibility and net connectivity. I don't know what an USB or Ethernet chip goes for, but it it's $2 it's too much.
They are apparently launching it on Feb 3rd. We'll know soon.
CrunchBase API Implementation
Funny thought, but was the bubble created by web applications? I am thinking usually if you own some shares, you own a number of shares. But then web applications came along and put an approximate number next to it, the assumed the value of the shares.

Maybe without web applications, people wouldn't have thought "I own two million dollars in shares", they would just have thought "I own 100000 shares"? All that created that "money" was the web applications writing out the assumed values.
40 miles a gallon (U.S.) [...] Doesn't strike me as "super-efficient" at all, this is what cars have been doing for years already!

The EPA fuel-economy test protocols have changed (to be more stringent) recently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFE#Calculations_of_MPG_overes...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ (EPA) laboratory measurements of MPG have consistently overestimated fuel economy.[ This results in a shortfall of about 15 percent in actual vs. measured CAFE goals. Starting with 2008-model vehicles, the EPA has adopted a new protocol for estimating the MPG figures presented to consumers. The new protocol includes driving cycles more closely representative of today's traffic and road conditions, as well as increased air conditioner usage.

The new (second generation) Honda Insight only achieves an EPA rating of 41 MPG combined. http://news.google.com/news?q=honda+insight+mpg
1) Be a better piece of software
2) Get acquired by someone who wants to compete with Google
3) Have enough customers to stay profitable even if Google has a larger userbase.

Google doesn't have a monopoly, even in its core offerings like search and e-mail. There will always be space for other players.
The two options presented have some difficulties:

1. Private companies have no mandate for universal service. They are free to refuse to deliver to any area, or to subcontract delivery out. In fact, SmartMail is a service that relies on private shippers delivering parcels to a destinating Post Office with the Letter Carrier making final last-mile delivery. The private companies wouldn't do that if it wasn't cheaper to use the USPS for final delivery.

2. As far as taxpayers subsidizing the USPS, this has not been the case since 1970 when the agency stopped being the Post Office and became the Postal Service. It's just incorrect.
Compiz is dying?