skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> remember when spreadsheets were physical sheets of paper and companies had staffs of dozens of women whose sole job was to type up correspondence on typewriters?

Back in the 60's before I was around, my mum worked in the accounting department of a mid-sized car dealer. Her job title was "Computer" because she'd update their books by hand. Later on they got the first electronic desktop calculator in the city and the local paper came by to do a story on this modern marvel.
However, if you do business internationally, this is not as clear: you do not have any a priori right to take money from citizens of other countries for your products or services; as a specific example, if you have customers in the EU (and you meet the various thresholds in any of the member countries) you must register for VAT (probably through the VAT on e-Services program designed for streamlined registration of overseas companies selling digital products). Every quarter, for example, I have to remit collected VAT for every EU country through HMRC (in pounds sterling, which is really quite irritating).

(Even domestically, the rules regarding whether you are doing business in a state are dependent on the state. If you travel at all, have any contractors, work with any other companies, or even simply ship goods around, it can be very confusing to determine in what jurisdictions you suddenly are liable for collecting either sales or seller's use tax. I ran into this personally while trying to figure out "am I doing business in Michigan, a state that imposes a 6% tax that includes digital goods?": the Michigan Treasury didn't want to commit to an answer, so I was going back/forth with accountants and lawyers for quite a while.)
They are customers of google search in that they buy search results in exchange for screen real estate and suppliers for the reasons you stated above. Google cares deeply about satisfying their search customers because they are also the suppliers of page impressions and personal information.

Why must it be one or the other?
How do you know Finland rates among the world's best for educational outcomes?
Check out OpenXC project lead by Ford http://openxcplatform.com/.

Also, check out OBDII protocol each car after 1996 implements it up to a certain weight. This is the data available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD-II_PIDs.

Basically there is a way to gather fuel usage, fuel levels, speed, Mass Air Flow Rate, rpm, etc etc. Adding accelerometer and GPS to the mix pretty much gives you a decent start to the vehicle analytics platform.

On heavy vehicles or if you want more data on light duty, tapping into CAN is the only way, but that can get very manufacturer specific...
I'm sure there was a reddit where someone said they'd worked in a restaurant and they'd seen the ketchup checks happening.
Kind of hard when you can't store to the filesystem.
Well, you have an economy of scale. 5 people.

For me, I think it is cheaper just to buy at the super market and buy ready meals.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if the city of Roswell itself, if not the state of New Mexico, had an interest in keeping the mythology alive and the documents classified. When the Roswell incident struck a chord with the public, it probably put the city on the map to some degree. I'm sure it has driven a fair amount of tourism over the years, if not strong pop-cultural iconology.
Android Dev? SendHub (YC W12) is growing fast
SendHub (YC W12) is looking for an Android Developer.
Skills: Java (2 years experience), Android (1 year experience)

About us: We’re making it faster and simpler for professionals to communicate.

Founded to help educators reach students and parents in under resourced communities, we’re taking on the Telecom giants. Hate your phone carrier? Us too. Telecommunications is a duopoly dominated industry, which has systematically suppressed competition over its 150 year history, in order to keep prices unfairly high. We’re going to change this, starting with business phone service.

SendHub has over 70k customers across the US in business, politics, faith groups, sports, education and many more; making hundreds of thousands of calls and sending millions of texts each month.

The Role: You’ll be involved in every part of the software life cycle from specs discussion to implementation to testing and releasing. You’ll work on challenging problems that require deep knowledge of the tech stack and work with fun technologies such as VoIP and Bluetooth.

Our Philosophy: We believe in building a wonderful product and taking care of our people. We understand the importance of personal growth so you’ll get autonomy, recognition and regular feedback. We move quickly. Working in short iteration cycles, we release our apps to market at least once a week. We expect a lot of each other but we wouldn't want it any other way.

Benefits: Health, dental, meals and we don’t track vacation days.

We're based in downtown Menlo Park, CA (very close to the caltrain station). If you're interested, please drop us a line: jobs [at] sendhub [dot] com.
you can't just blindly go around eating any mushroom or berry you find in nature. Natural does not always mean "good for you

Of course it doesn't. That's not what I was suggesting. Rather, when people are told that something is illegal or cannot help them, for them to conduct research into it independently. Even better, seek out studies like the one mentioned in this article and participate in them.

Concerning the Earth as an intelligent agent, can we be so sure? It's been around for an awfully long time to not know a thing or two.
Copycats Steal Design of Chinese-Developed Markdown App
> it's clear that it was uncomfortably cold for nearly 50 miles

No, that's not a log of the temperature reading. They logged the temperature SETPOINT. An important distinction.

I do this all the time, being from cold climates. I jack up the heat at the start of my trip, and then once I get going, I eventually turn the heater off completely.
You might be surprised by the semantics assigned to double clicking the button by some manufacturers. On some BMWs (mine included) locking it twice DISABLES the alarm. It's intended for ferries / low-loader recovery etc. but if you don't know it...
An amusing but tangential implication of this is that less popular frameworks are either 1) more secure or 2) equally insecure but less explored. Hope for 1 but assume 2, because security is hard.
How about to expose the stupidity of a car bricking under normal use (if it indeed would have bricked)?
Flowdock acquired by Rally Software
If someone can just turn off secure boot, how does secure boot increase security? Isn't the whole point of it that you can't boot a compromised machine?
Just when I thought it had jumped the shark.
Dont wanna spoil the party, but these are all taken from the famous StackOverflow thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-c...

At least some attribution should be given. (The link "via cobaia" is a 404).
Regenerative braking allows you to more efficiently drive within a city.

But the big win is driving at city speeds. I had explained this the other day, but power usage depends approx. on the square of your velocity.

So averaging 30mph in the city would take about 1/4 as much power as averaging 60mph on the highway, all other things being equal.

Normally all other things are not equal, as idling at a city stoplight wastes energy in a gas-powered machine, and pressing the brakes wastes energy in a gas-powered machine.

With an EV idling uses very little energy, and you can reclaim some energy from braking. Braking is still a net loss, but not as much.

Combine the two effects with a 4x power efficiency and it's not at all impossible for a hybrid to get better mileage in city, especially in stop-and-go traffic where the average speed is even lower.
In NYC, downtown is anything that is down from the part of town you are referencing. Realistically, if the drive drove from the Lincoln tunnel and down the west side hwy, he would be driving downtown.

Anyway, to anyone outside of NYC, downtown is where the streets are crazy and one way and lots of business takes place... so, really, by that definition, anywhere below Central Park can be considered 'downtown'... especially if you are uptown.
Not sure what you guys are defining an email as these days, but all I get is the following text:

"NOTE: This email's content (shown below) will self-destruct after being viewed.
-Sent w/ ghostmail <http://www.ghostmailapp.com/>

And nothing else. Plus when I re-open the message I get the same thing.
Makes sense. As far as I can see, it was not directly copied from the Mac dialect; there are some differences, like how the Mac code requires methods in the declaration to be declared fully qualified with the full class name ("PROCEDURE TEraseAll.IEraseAll (view: TImageView);").
Berkshire Hathaway's biggest problem is finding productive investments on the scale of the cash they generate. There insurance float provides them with what is essentially interest free loans if they estimates losses well.
Exactly what I was thinking... one vulnerability in their stack and every car is pwned.
Magnetic Attraction
Book Review: Internet Down - A Modern American Western
The user manually requesting an unlock is one thing. He's the software running the lock. I'm talking more about an automatic unlock request from high-level software control.

There are techniques to monitor the health of the switch and know when the sensor is failing/has failed. THEN you can whack the solenoid to your heart's content if you believe the sensor is damaged. But if you have a working sensor, there's no need to overstress the solenoid and mechanical linkage.
This has been done before, in many variations. There's always a way for the recipient to save a copy. At least this scheme doesn't require special client software.

Note that this depends on the recipient's email client making a request for the image, which, thankfully, most clients provide a way to turn off.
Marketing experience from a first time cofounder with a technical background.
Hello HN friends!
I’ve posted not long ago about the startup we launched right after graduating: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5007703

Since then a lot of happened, we've discovered some interesting things.

A little bit of context: we launched our app on iOS and windows phone, and we’ve got 20 times more downloads on windows phone although most of our effort (especially design wise) was done on iOS.

Most windows phone news sites were responding and replied and some wrote about us.
iOS news sites, not so much, some asked for money, others didn’t reply and while going through their content we noticed most only talked about apps that already raised funds or apps that were built by “already known” founders.

“Free app of the day” – (or burst campaign apps) costs a minimum of around 5000 $ for free apps.

We’re really proud of the quality/ design of our app, we still have a lot to do! (We’re in Nice, France yes we have the beach! But we don’t have all the startups around ;))

We’ve read a bunch of “How to market your app with no funds” stuff but they seem really out of date (when I say out of date I mean 2/3 years ago when there was enough room for everyone)

We’re not looking for the easy recipe, shortcut way out, we know it’s supposed to be hard!

Apart from that we’re really happy we launched our windows phone app at the same time as the iOS app, we were on the top/featured app list for a while and windows phone users invited their iOS friends.

So basically lesson learned is: no marketing budget build for windows phone then iOS/Android… have a budget build for iOS/Android.

We’re open to anything you have to say about the subject, specially feedback and advice on how to get our iOS app known!

Best Regards,
Rod H.
Co-founder Kwixer ( https://www.kwixer.com )
The Coming Anti-Tech Counterculture
Tesla says he spent five minutes driving around a parking lot. I don't know about you but in a busy station, I've spent far longer trying to find an open spot.
Not sure how moderation works on HN. Are there mods who are supposed to take this kind of stuff down?

I flagged the original post though.
I don't understand how so.

Sure, they shredded the Times article. But this looks to me like an extremely finicky car. I mean, you have to drive it slow, possibly turn off the heat in the winter and charge it for an hour at a time? That's craziness.

Edit: Whoever is just combing through the comments, down-voting anything that doesn't praise Saint Elon, how about you step up and point out what I've said that's wrong. Or do we just downvote differing opinions now?
And these are all laid out in front in their footer, the FAQ and About page.

You know what you're getting into when you post on a Stack Exchange site. If you don't like it, then you're okay to not use it.

Not like when you post on Quora. Do they tell you that your answers will be blurred and hidden behind a login-wall?

But really, the best programming joke hidden in source code is nothing more than noise. There are other places for that. When you want to cram that into Stack Overflow, then you'll have problems with its moderation.
Not bad. Do a search from SEA to RNO to see that there's a "via SEA" choice. I'd clean that up.
Context-Aided Sensor Fusion for Enhanced Urban Navigation
On the contrary, he probably would have been risking his livelihood by posting a glowing review. Major automobile manufacturers would call the NYT and complain that the review was not fair and balanced and did not adequately highlight the drawbacks of the Tesla compared to ICE and to their own electric or hybrid vehicles. Not wanting to do business with an institution that severely misrepresents the products of these major manufacturers they have decided to cut ad-spend at NYT by 50%. Editor is now responsible for multi-million dollar decrease in revenue. Editor cannot afford to publish stories or employ writers that will result in significant loss of revenue.
It's an interesting concept, and I will always give a lot of credit for the sheer act of building something. But talk to us about the need and the use case here. Snapchat I understand -- but is there really a big need for self-destructing emails? If anything, the real problem in the email space is long-term storage and management.

I see the email space and the SMS/text space diverging into very separate use cases: email for long form communications that, if anything, are to be saved and filed; SMS for short-form communications that are disposable (literally, in the case of Snapchat, or figuratively). I get that there are long-form communications that are sensitive, and that we sometimes wish wouldn't stick around forever. But what proportion of all email conversations do we think this use case represents?
It all depends on the context. Many small websites were threatened with legal action if they displayed more than a couple of weeks' worth of football (soccer) fixtures on their site. The claim was that the data was part of a copyrighted database.

Luckily (and advsior at) the ECJ saw it differently. I don't think it has been officially challenged in court yet...

http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/december/football-fi...
There should be security footage from the parking lot where the car was running in circles.
As a bonus, you get lots of tasty horse!
Bored of Internet dating? MeetCute gives fate a helping hand
Secure passwords? Are you sure? I see some trivial custom "encryption", which is not hard to reverse (at least, provide 59 variants of master password).

Here's some quick code which reverses generated password to master password: https://gist.github.com/dchest/4953638 Currently works if master password consists of English letters.
There's a difference between analyzing terrorist motives and using terms like irony or implied hypocrisy on the part of the U.S. -- this is where the line crosses from understanding to justification.
So, I largely agree with you; I agree with you sufficiently that the app-ish store that I run, Cydia, works much more similarly to Google Play than to the App Store in this regard (although not all the way down to personal phone numbers and addresses; these are not given to the package vendors).

However, I can appreciate the other side of this argument, and I think you are failing to draw the analogy the way a normal user would: when you purchase something online from Amazon, do you expect the manufacturer to know who you are? I would actually be very surprised if that is true right now.

How about when you purchase something, twenty years ago, in person, from K-Mart; do you expect the people who made the product you are purchasing to know who you are? Sure, it is clear that the K-Mart employee talking to you does, and it is clear that K-Mart's credit card computer does, but the manufacturer?

Further, while many people probably didn't realize this, it is clear that K-Mart's computer could (although it probably didn't twenty years ago; almost certainly did ten years ago) keep track of exactly what was purchased, and by whom using what credit cards, for their own data analysis and optimization.

But, would you ever have expected K-Mart to put together a massive list of all of the information on all of the people who purchased the shampoo you bought, and then send it to the shampoo company? If you did, I'm pretty certain you would be in the minority, even with today's technology.
True. It's not truely RESTful, just REST-ish. But if you wanted to wrap this in an HTTParty or RestClient library, that would still work.
What email client are you using? Are you rendering the html in the email? There should be an image displayed below that text.
How Lockheed Martin's 'Kill Chain' Stopped SecurID Attack
Thanks for the answer, I haven't done any application dev before so I suppose I'll learn all of this as I work with iOS.
I created a "test" Facebook account which I use for Quora sign in and many other sites. Works like a charm!
And how's that scale when we're talking about a population larger than 700k residents?

Just because something is factually true in a narrow context does not mean it remains factually true when abstracted to a generality.
What's the penalty if you get caught? Restaurants usually just say it's "ketchup" without mentioning that it's Heinz. What can Heinz actually do to you if you buy a bottle of their stuff and fill it with something else?
Re:tweeting model s. Who would have thought that Knight Rider's Kit would be so into social networking?
Well I guess it comes down to a matter of opinion with regards to the scale of sexism and what is actually happening. I am sure you will argue otherwise and that what you, kludolph and halostatue claim is happening is actually happening. Having been born in the 80s, I feel as though I have been brainwashed my entire life to believe that women are constantly persecuted and men very rarely. Through my experience, I have found nothing of the sort to be true and it is frustrating to find that the same brainwashing continues despite what I have encountered.

I do disagree with a number of points in your reply but I am not going to respond to them because then you will respond to my reply and so on without us getting anywhere. This is futile. Agree to disagree but hopefully you three will try to look at things with a slightly more open mind and I will do the same.
"Does it mean that Americans are loosing jobs? no. But it is easy to skew the numbers when you only show that IBM is shedding jobs. But when it is all tallied some of those jobs are being replaced with US based contract labor."

Agree.

Two points. One - I know that when ATT did layoffs in the 80's many (or at least some I knew these people) of those laid off got contracts with ATT as subs and used them to build up companies.

Second what you are saying also goes to the heart of the issue of job creation. People talk about startups creating jobs. But there is only so much purchasing power in the economy. A startup offering a product or service that is charging is going to take purchasing power away from a consumer or business that is most likely already spending that money somewhere. The only net gains sometimes are only if a country can take jobs from another country or a state or region can take jobs from another state or region or city.
This is when software bugs start affecting physical (costly) things.
Precisely. I'm definitely not a startup worshipper; in fact, in terms of the HN spectrum, I'm probably at the more cynical end of the spectrum. But I like the ease of integration, and the fact that, for a smaller application, it certainly helps with my administration and infrastructure overhead.
If I can help just one other geek avoid the social grief I've suffered, it's all been worth it. ;)
Do those articles have a negative or positive sentiment for the large incumbent industries like oil?
What's the point of posting a link to the front page of your blog

Well, he promised a detailed blog post, at which point that link will be extremely helpful.

I do not think it is fair to expect an immediate detailed response to those questions. If I were CEO of Heroku, I wouldn't say anything definite until after talking to the engineers and product managers involved--even if I was already pretty sure what happened. The worst thing you could do at this point is say something that's just wrong.
DDoS Attacks Take Down What.cd & Major Private BitTorrent Trackers
Irrelevant to my observation really.

The point is that the actual warfare component of the war was fought and won with the doctrine the GP suggests was yesterday's tactics.

The occupation of Iraq - notably barely a war never mind a use of maneuver - is where the US is failing.
WebKit: An Objective View
I'm pretty sure they were talking about the first visit to the Milford supercharger. In fact, he can't have driven around the parking lot for 10 minutes before charging on the second visit, since the Model S was delivered and initially charged on the back of a pick-up truck - Tesla haven't challenged that part at all.
How a boy became an artist
The homepage. With the links. Mostly that, in plain, no groups or nothing. Sometimes I like to fiddle with the background and some settings but 99% of my usage consists of that. I watched the statistics page once when I found it. I even disabled the sidebar because it was annoying. I really liked Opera and it remembers it a lot. If you can come up with something similar give me a shot I will gladly try it.
As one of my favorite private equity friends likes to say, "a bridge to nowhere is a dock."

We were offered some additional capital but it wasn't enough and our conviction was smashed. Until you've been in this sort of situation, you can't know how you will feel or react. Experience is a great teacher.
Very cool. Thanks for the explanation.
@tatsuke95 normal use being continue to drive in circles after the car flashes "0 miles" and "recharge immediately" in your face for minutes? Besides, it turns off before the battery is depleted for that exact reason, it won't be bricked unless you try really hard.