skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be just me but I think that people who can't correctly park have nothing to do on the road, no matter how advanced the car... Unless it's a fully automated car, where there's no driver at all.

And here that's not the case: a grandpa in a class S killed 5 workers on a french highway some time ago. Cars full of gadgets assisting people who should never have been driving or who shouldn't be driving anymore are only going to give these a false sense of security.

Also : when you brake you always must take into account what's going behind you, not just what's in front. Sometimes it's better to hit the car in front of you to give a little more room to the semi coming behind that is otherwise going to ruin your Class S and your life. How does a car applying stronger braking when you didn't brake enough to its taste deals with that?

Just as user 'bambax' wrote: a fully automated car with no driver would be great (but we probably won't have it widely deployed before a few decades) but a car trying to 'tell me how to drive' is not that great of an idea.

With all these gizmos starting to widely appear in cars I'm pretty sure that soon the Wikipedia list of computer bugs that ruined human lives is going to get way longer...
The tsunami warning has been lifted again, see http://www.jma.go.jp/en/tsunami/
A few Web forums have already started to discuss the updated files, which bear the version number 7.0.6000.381. The only explanation found at Microsoft’s site comes from a user identified as Dean-Dean on a Microsoft Communities forum. In reply to a question, he states:

“Windows Update Software 7.0.6000.381 is an update to Windows Update itself. It is an update for both Windows XP and Windows Vista. Unless the update is installed, Windows Update won’t work, at least in terms of searching for further updates. Normal use of Windows Update, in other words, is blocked until this update is installed.”

Windows Secrets contributing editor Susan Bradley contacted Microsoft Partner Support about the update and received this short reply:

“7.0.6000.381 is a consumer only release that addresses some specific issues found after .374 was released. It will not be available via WSUS [Windows Server Update Services]. A standalone installer and the redist will be available soon, I will keep an eye on it and notify you when it is available.”

In what way is this implied to be a bug?
A few years ago they were inadvertently dropping the link to the free signup... now they've killed the product.
Not fun...
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.ro/2009/07/google-apps-stan...
that was beautiful thanks
Uploads only on the new YouTube
I get the gist of your statement and don't entirely disagree on how to optimise your own outcome as an individual, but I also think you're ignoring that most seed accelerators are a relatively new, and there's a lot of shareholder value out there that hasn't seen an exit. Case in point - add a Dropbox and AirBnb exit and suddenly the number triples...
theoldreader.com seems nice
What on earth are you talking about? China makes more actual things, Germany makes more money making things. In what way is the US "top"?
There's also a lot of fun robots.txt. I forget where it was mentioned (I didn't find it myself) but this one always made me laugh:

# robots.txt for http://www.palm.com/ modified 7/28/09
User-agent: Vampires
Disallow: /neck
curl -I www.pinboard.in

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf8
Connection: keep-alive
Server: You got SERVED!
X-Cache: MISS
It's too soon IMHO.

I've set up Google Apps for Business / Domains for so many SMEs and this thing is definitely cutting the Office grass under a certain competitor's feet. I'm not saying said competitor is not enjoying amazing revenues: all I'm saying is Google is hurting other office suites sales with Google Apps for Domains.

People are delighted with this "free" solution. Now I'm going to have to bill them at least $50 / user per year and they'll start thinking about buying Office from another competitor again.

I understand Google needing to make money with this, but IMHO it's way too soon. They should have waited to "bait" way more SMEs into their net before doing such a move.
London Blitz interactive map created
What the hell is going on with those expand-on-hover boxes that you need to move your mouse to see? Who thought that was a good idea?
Ask HN: What languages and technologies/tools are you using right now?
Hi guys,

I'm writing you because I would really like to know what languages, libraries and technologies/tools are you/we really using.

Why you say? Well you see, I'm curious. I dont really like those "graph" showing which languages are popular, I want it directly from you!

Thanks ;)
Full NBC interview with Tim Cook [Video]
Microsoft, it's time to drop the Windows brand
Ahahaha. Hover. On a tablet.

(Didn't see any controls whatsoever, but that site happily slowed my FF to a crouch)

And that ignores the issue of argueing for more fidelity while making the argument hard to read.
It's really nice that you put up the code. :)

I browsed around quickly and noticed a lot of calls to /bin/bash and curl via a system() equivalent. That looks a bit dangerous, hope the arguments never contain `special shell characters`. :O

https://github.com/saucelabs/sauce-for-mac/blob/master/Sourc...
Ceki is not liking the Apache model. He left because of that. You can read more about his reasons on his blog:
http://ceki.blogspot.de/2010/05/committocracy-as-alternative...

But still he is a community member and PMC of Apache Logging:
http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#logging-...

On the other hand, we (the Apache guys) are not liking how the logback project is operating. At least it is me who does not like it, but I guess the others think similar. We want a community driven logging project which uses the Apache License. We surely don't want a logging project which is officially run by a company (like QOS runs logback). I have seen many cases where this does lead into problems.

That said it will be difficult to motivate Ceki to get back to Apache Logging. But we are open to his contributions and hope that there will be a good, technical exchange between both projects.

Another personal note: I am really against person cult. The Apache Logging project has some really great and experienced committers on board. One of them is working on Java logging for around 20 years and he set a very, very high bar for log4j. Having Ceki on-board is definitely of interest, but he is not the only person who knows about logging.

Please have also in mind, that a new log4j2 release is just the beginning of our journey (hopefully).
Possibly because the human eye is more sensitive to green light.
This is terrible advice. If you need to make an emergency stop to avoid hitting an object in front of you, it's madness to try and assess whether you should "give a little more room" to a car behind you. If you waste a second on this kind of decision you're much more likely to die from hitting the object in front of you at a much greater speed.

The car behind you should be leaving enough distance to account for their reaction time in an emergency, and while you are driving normally you should be assessing the situation behind you and making sure you're not being tail-gated.
I thought most of the scientific value (at least in near-term) of going to the moon was in the getting there - not what you do when you arrive.

And other nations basically booking an off the shelf moon trip from a US company for 'prestige'? Doesn't make a great deal of sense to me.

You might be able to sell this to an extremely wealthy private individual, but I don't see anyone taking that risk until they've proved they can do it safely at least once, which obviously presents a catch-22 situation.

I would love to be proved wrong, but I'm afraid I just don't see this happening.
That's a horrible example. Jobs didn't consider the iPad a computer but an an appliance.
This sounds horrible to me.
I love the idea of having a car that drives and leaves me to do other stuff - but I can't use a laptop (or even read) in the back of car, I get rather queasy.

I also much prefer doing the driving to being a passenger - so I think the reality for me would that a self driving car would be rather less attractive than you might think, at least for longer journeys.
Ruby

- RoR

- RSpec and Capybara feature DSL

- Sidekiq

- Rbenv

- Pry

JRuby (which implies some java stuff ala ruby)

- Apache Camel

- Jetty w/websockets

Posgresql

Mongodb
For anyone considering it, some MS clients (and a few others) show something like :

myemail@gmail.com on behalf of Rob Aley [me@mydomain.co.uk]

It maybe looks a little unprofessional, but as long as your gmail account isn't something like offensivewords@gmail.com or cutesexyman32@gmail.com, its not too bad.
Am i getting too old? When I see "for fun and profit" I don't think I'm going to read about some easter eggs hiding in http headers.
My last car was a S - http://i.imgur.com/CgUI3.jpg

The nightvision was almost useless (visibility better from lights) and distonic was very buggy. I did not use either after a few attempts.

At a certain point, adding too much tech can become a distraction. The cockpit of that car is already extremely button laden and there is this entire command system as well. Don't get me wrong, its awesome. Its just a lot of the features are fluff vs useful.
Make that "comparison graphs". Show how many people use FB email, how many people use FB as a Web search engine, how many people use FB to edit office documents, how many people use the browser created by FB ; ) , etc.

Google+ seems to be, albeit slowly, achieving escape velocity. My G+ feed is definitely getting more and more interesting and I begin to see non-techies post there (people who previously only used FB).

135 millions active users vs 1 billion is not something to dismiss, especially seen the rest of their entire stack.
Feedback is great! Everyone loves feedback, even if it's negative, it lets us improve and move on. How you presented your feedback was completely and utterly terrible, and turned it from constructive criticism to a situation where you looked like a bit of an ass.
MBA programs are sometimes sort of a tool used to justify putting people in places they wee already selected for for reasons other than experience. Say you are a board member that wants your nephew hired on as a VP despite having never had a real job. The nephew would go to business school to fend off the obvious protest from the veterans of the org who (foolishly) put in years of work.

People that are bought out are sometimes given an executive title, but often are forced out as the whole idea of buying a company is that the new management wants control.

Other people hire executive coaches, lie profusely about their experience, suck up, and do whatever it takes to get into one of these jobs. Lots of execs are like this. I dare say most. It makes no difference to them what company they are at or even what the company's business is. You can be illiterate and follow this path. lots of people who do this can just barely send an email.
You were basically saying that holding people accountable is "fascist". We are in a situation where bad people want to do immoral things and pay well for it. There's no downside. The government isn't going to make a downside because they are the bad people so it's up to us. If no one does anything we're going to find our internet locked down and every aspect of our lives being monitored.
RubyJS. The Ruby corelib for JavaScript. Now MIT licensed.
I guess you are trying to do the MD5 yourself, while you should simply just enter the mac address with the : . The script will automatically generate the hash for u.
In practice it can be quite useful, proposing simple improvements and adjustments that you can't always be bothered to type out yourself. Occasionally its suggestions are irrelevant. And either way it's less annoying than Clippy.
It won't go away it'll be replaced by other things. It already is. People get more news faster from voices on the ground in events like the Arab Spring than they ever did from a newspaper. So for immediacy other avenues are arising.

Newspapers and media companies, have had no problem killing off their news departments in the name of profits - eliminating foreign desks, reducing investigative reporting, focusing on lifestyle reportage and opinion pieces.

High quality opinion writers are finding success as bloggers - some are able to make a perfectly good living as such. They don't need the label of a newspaper to sit beneath any more.

There will always be outlets for investigative journalism. There will always be some form of news show and publication. Advertisers gain a certain value from placing their ads alongside high quality news content. Just not enough to support billions of dollars of newspaper revenue.

If the commercial radio and TV stations disappeared from the Bay Area we'd still have NPR - a high quality news alternative. Why? Because there are a certain number of people always prepared to pay something for high quality content.

Long way of saying I think you're right - we'll end up with good journalism and no newspapers.
Thanks for sharing. One can clearly see

* the "I like last.fm" moment,

* the "let's make the content bigger" moment,

* the "actually I prefer Facebook" moment,

* the "ehi, Soundcloud is cool after all" moment,

* finally the "maybe I found my identity" moment.
Here is a blog post with some classic HTTP headers (2005):
http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-h...

The cool thing is that the approach to find these unusual headers was pretty systematic.
Presumably the newspapers are aware this might happen happen.

Then (in their minds) people will just go to the actual newspaper to see the headlines.
What's a "disc" drive? Can we proofread our journalism, please?
I'm sorry if this is obvious. What does the verb "to suite" mean?

*I'm not trying to be pedantic, genuinely curious if it is a word I do not know.
Coffee is a drug, combined with a tasty delivery mechanism that registers as food to the reptilian brain.

For that matter, so is beer!
Hey minikomi,

is there any site you know that tracks how the situation is at Fukushima, like how many of the 204 (?) rods / fuel units have been moved to another nuclear power plant?
>V8 was simply a drop-in replacement for existing Javascript VM's, so there was no "adoption" curve

I never said anything about adoption curve. I'm talking about money spend by Google on the project and promotion done by them on it. V8 had a large team assembled, with a star compiler guy, was heavily promoted with marketing material, website and even several videos.

Of course V8 was part of their plan to take over the web browser, whereas Go is just a language for them. Well, my sentiments exactly.
Well why should it be that way? If I want to get traffic to a new website I have to buy that traffic in - through ads or other mechanisms that cost money. Why should Google not charge them for the traffic they send instead? The value Google brings to the papers is far higher than the value the papers' content brings to Google.
10 Unusual Volcanic Craters
Honest Question: Do you think I said anything about the validity of the argument?

All I asked was whether people are tired of having the same argument over and over. The reason I asked that is because tptacek was specifically not doing so, and someone was dragging the conversation in that direction. You have to understand, people like tptacek, myself and others that have been on HN (or anywhere on the internet) for a while, have seen these exact threads, with these exact arguments, probably hundreds of times. At some point, you realize that no one is bringing anything new to the table. Then someone like tptacek comes along and does bring something new (and relevant) to the table, and he can't even do that without the same old debated coming up.

It's tiresome, is all I'm saying.
Individualism in Overdrive (The Cult of Selfishness)
Use an IP where it's unlikely that the last tenant sent lots of spam (budget hosters can be troublesome; don't use consumer DSL; steer very far clear of AWS.) There are sites that allow you to query all major blacklists at once, which may prove useful. Don't worry too much about SPEWS listings, though - they are sufficiently trigger-happy that few hosts will reject your mail just for appearing in SPEWS.

You'll want to point mail.$YOURDOMAIN at this IP, and set up reverse DNS (pointing to mail.$YOURDOMAIN; some hosts check for the "mail" name.)

Start by setting up Postfix (this setup is based on my own of a few years back, and by no means the only way!) Then, when you get annoyed with spam, add countermeasures in this order: postgrey; setting up some Postfix restrictions (no unauthorized pipelining, etc.); blacklists (Spamhaus' ZEN list was good a few years back); dspam. You may want to add clamav for virus filtering if you have non-technical users. You may need to set up amavisd to get clamav working, but I found that amavisd didn't filter all that much more spam than a properly-trained dspam, so I'd start without.

At some point, something will go wrong and you'll lose mail, or receive it much later than you wanted. Add monitoring to fix this - pflogsumm is good to check for mail that shouldn't have been rejected, something like the Simple Event Correlator can monitor your log files, and something like Nagios (or one of the commercial services, Pingdom/uptimerobot/...) can detect when your host goes down.
Agreed. It took me about 30 seconds to work out how to view the content (so long I nearly gave up and closed the page.

The problem I had was that I couldn't scroll. I ended up having to maximize my browser (Opera) to read them as every time I move my mouse to the scroll bar, they'd shrink again (same problem with using the mouse scroll wheel).

I can't image trying to read those boxes on a tablet where I don't even have a cursor to hover.
It still hasn't been very long since Facebook's IPO, I expect investigations like that take longer than a few months. Patience is virtue, especially when dealing with cases like the Facebook IPO.
It works, but Outlook (or at least some versions) will always show your emails as being from something like "address-you-forward-to@gmail.com (via you@your-real-domain.com)" which is annoying.
I am teaching a course on Udemy about Python GUI Programming
Hmm I think this is a good idea but the layout on iPhone is poor. I'd suggest making it more usable from a phone.
There's a good reason James Bond goes back to the classic Aston Martin in Skyfall.
First time HN user here, I lurked it for some time and I quite like it.

Anyway, the course is a paid course, however I present to you a coupon - just enter HN and the price will be down to $10.

I'd also appreciate any feedback you could give me.

Additionally, if this is completely inappropriate (for me to post here), please let me know!
JQuery implements map but not reduce
In my libertarian college days it seemed like bureaucracy was a horrible waste of resources, but the more and more I think about it, the more and more it seems like our social institutions are "memes" of a sort; a military which does not use bureaucracy loses wars to ones that do. A bureaucracy is thus seen as a natural consequence of marshalling very large quantities of resources. That is, a bureaucracy allows you to "ignore" details of the collective -- at Microsoft you don't need to know what Janet from down the hall is working on -- but then you don't feel like "part of" the collective per se, and so we have to have a system of managers to both protect you from the collective and to protect the collective from you (i.e. corruption & free rider problems).

If you're less of a manager and more of a programmer then it's actually really nice to think about how we might use this to architect software and/or to collect nodes together. Capitalism might have an analogue for example in developing the same software multiple times, and taking the simplest and most elegant result.
The slider on the homepage is just a static image. Why not make that a working slider?
This is why rear end accidents are always the fault of the following vehicle. (This is also the oldest trick in the book when it comes to insurance fraud--slam on the brakes when you get tailgated, claim you saw an animal dart across the road, and collect.)
It's a very recent RFC from June 2012.
What are you complaining about? You think the piece of hardware that reads/writes "optical discs" is a "disk drive"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc
iPhone Mac address "Wrong Password" explained: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/issues/192
Is this not a terrible waste of bandwidth though ? At about 10 bytes per header (on the low end..) and say 100 million requests per day, that amounts to 1Gb of outbound bandwidth, if you count inbound bandwidth then that comes to 2gb in total. Not to mention the cumulative time spent by users downloading those bytes, thereby delaying resource display.

Okay, I see that I sucked the fun out of it :P
Matt Jaggard said on that Google discussion:

- "I think you're missing the point. Some startups are getting going with zero capital because an individual with some skills and some time can produce and sell a product using free cloud services and then once they've made a few bob can upgrade.

- Google WERE supporting this model very well - shame on you for stopping."

Maybe, Google may continue to offer this services to start ups. They can ask for 0.05 or less share per startup using their services for free. That will not be free anymore, but is a viable model. I think.
Most screens aren't able to display reliably 24 bits color anyway. In fact, until recently many cheap LCD screens were able to display a 16 or 20 bits color space.
Oh wow, the nineties called and they want their grayscale-only AA back... To make a point he conveniently totally forgot to talk about RGB decimation / subpixel rendering. WTF !? Seriously...

If he really thinks that there's only one step between #484848 and #494949 then I'd suggest reading a bit on MS' ClearType and using a magnifier to take a closer look at how Windows or OS X fonts are rendered. Hint: it's not grayscale anti-aliasing.

I honestly don't think that using dithering "because pixels are small" would provide better result than sub-pixel anti-aliasing.
Right. Back in the pre-web days when I was a mere teen I would spend breakfast, and often late afternoon going through the English broadsheet newspapers. Usually back to front to read the sports first.

But the key is that the first read, the morning one, involved skimming articles for their gist and reading the ones that interested me. The afternoon session possibly involved reading more, due to boredom.

The real problem the newspapers have is that most of the articles they produce fail the skim test. I don't want to read more. I get the gist. I'm not interested. If they're good I click through and read them on the original site... often then clicking to other things I find there. Win for the Google link to them. If it's a hot topic I'll often read many articles from many pubs on the same topic. But in a world with so many news sources the truth is they don't stand out, I am not going to check a thousand sources very day, or even ten. So I'm not going to wade through to find the things I'm interested in. If they don't want their headings and summaries in Google I don't care about their product.

And I'm a Google user. I pay Google's bills. I don't want them raising my rates in other areas to pay publishers for links to content that I may skim over and never want to read in depth. Why should my costs for Google - in terms of what they can deliver me for all that surplus attention of mine they harvest over a year - go up to subsidize failing newspapers producing product for which the market rate doesn't support their costs?
A $5000 option would only be a high end add on too. You can get a perfectly good used car for less than that. 5000 adds another 25% to a $20,000 car.