skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flexible spokes, same principle as Michelin's tweel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweel

Although they still have the issue outlined in http://www.livestrong.com/article/222689-airless-bicycle-tir... (on the subject of the previous airless generation, using flexible foam instead of rubber fill): shocks can't be spread around as they are in pneumatic tires (where the tire gets overpressured all around and most of the shock's energy is spread around the tire unless it's so big it reaches — and damages — the wheel's rim)
Good question. That was the prize for winning CrowdHack that year - way back in 2011.
Locking the bad guys out with asymmetric encryption
It sounds to me like this is a per device deal. It makes sense that the number would grow annually. From what I saw in the article it doesn't make mention that Apple is extorting this money out of Google either. It seems that people see the 1 Billion dollar figure and assume something sinister is afoot. I would not doubt that this figure was the result of negotiations between the two companies.
Were you trying for 20% better?
I have just started going through the docs a bit. I am interested in 2 things. One, programs that interface with other commands -- essentially rewriting large shell programs in a "better" language. I saw the section on "external commands" and that looks very promising. Are there any other links or sample programs I can check out. Would Julia be just as good as say Ruby in this respect ?

Is there a readline interface ?

Second, I haven't yet come across an ncurses interface yet.

Thanks.

edit: Just came across your article "Shelling out sucks".
| In my followup post, I will describe how Julia makes constructing and executing pipelines of external commands as safe as Python’s subprocess and as convenient as shelling out.
I could not find a link to the followup. Do you have something ?
I have this same car and exclusively use this technique in tunnel traffic. The computer has saved me a few times from accidentally shifting into 1st gear at 40mph ..
Startup DNA Presentation: What's the Formula Behind Successful Startups?
I don't see a problem if you are single and don't care what potential employers think. And sure, if you aren't single then you shouldn't have the app installed in the first place (preempting this argument). But it still makes Facebook more of a landmine for less scrupulous users and they do make up a significant part of the population.
This app is interesting however, users are signing up for this with the idea that no one among their friends get to know about it. Unfortunately, facebook enthusiastically shows everyone using various apps.

Not sure if facebook has a privacy setting to prevent others from knowing the apps I use but if they do then the developers of this app should inform this to their users.

If facebook does not have a way for me to hide from my friends the apps I use then IMO, facebook should have this option.
I think we're talking about different things. digitalWestie's advice to use the gears to slow implied changing down through the gears to use the engine to brake, not simply leaving the car in gear while applying the brakes.

For what it's worth, it does makes complete sense to leave the car in gear while braking and not to change to neutral.
Why not just present users with a choice? I imagine no more than a single digit percentage would choose something other than Google, but it'd be enough to hit them and send a message.

I'd also be interested in the potential legal angles here: since Google are competing with Apple in a separate market, are they allowed to use their position as search leader to harm Apple? (e.g. by not offering similar deals it offers to other organisations like Mozilla, knowing that Apple doesn't have a choice but to use them anyway?) I suspect not, at least now now Bing is a viable alternative, but maybe a few years ago it'd have been a different story.
Bing is likely good enough for the likes of my parents.
Note that the GP said, "Even if that means finding Google through Bing."
> Then maybe try to fix that instead of complaining about bikinis in powerpoint presentations?

1. You say "instead", as if this were a choice between two alternatives. This is known as the "false dilemma", and it is a logical fallacy.

2. It is not clear how to fix the problem about discrimination based on names on CVs/résumés, whereas the solution to bikinis in powerpoint slides is much simpler (delete the pictures from the slides, smartass). To use a much abused phrase, this is low-hanging fruit.

3. You also assume that the issues are unrelated or isolated, and that (for example) showing inappropriate pictures of women at tech conferences does not cause people to discriminate against women on CVs/résumés, when it is very plausible that the pictures of women in bikinis normalize / contribute to the measurable acts of discrimination.

> Would anyone raise even an eyebrow if a woman sliped a sexy male model photo in a slide?

You think this is a clever argument, but it is not. Let me illustrate for you a better analogy.

Suppose for a moment that you are a guy who just graduated from college, make $20,000 a year in your dream internship, and are on the long trek to success in your field. You're in a new city, and don't know many people. You're constantly bombarded with pictures of men who "made it", have $200k cars, wear $10k suits, drink $500 bottles of liquor, and buy their mistresses $80k pieces of jewelry.

Now I'm going to kick the analogy up a notch, so it's solidly in the "alternate reality" realm.

You date a girl, and she tells you, "My personal goal for you is for you to make six figures next year."

What a jerk, huh? Well, if you swap genders and replace the line with "lose fifty pounds this year", then you're back in our current reality.

Sexism is not a simple problem and you do not help anything by imagining what it would by like if a woman put sexy pictures of a man on a powerpoint slide. Fact is, men are not generally worried about getting raped.
Despite what Wikipedia says, most Vertu phones sold in the past weren't smartphones (unless you consider a personal concierge a kind of Siri); they were powered by Nokia's Series 40 firmware and had tiny 2" screens much like more mainstream Series 40 business phones, albeit covered with protective bling like sapphire glass. Apparently they still promote those on Vertu.com under the name Ascent. Nokia had just started transitioning Vertu phones to modern, touch-enabled Symbian with Constellation phones when they sold their Vertu arm to EQT.
'New York Times' Finally Closes World's Most Obvious Hole in Paywall
I am impressed by his original troubleshooting, but this followup seems impractical. Of his three suggestions, only the third (Intel providing improved board testing tools) even seems like it could possibly prevent this sort of problem. Asking for hardware-enforced "sane" behavior is like asking, "why doesn't my computer know I don't want my program to deadlock, segfault, or loop indefinitely?" That is, if the controller could do that then it would solve the Halting Problem. Improved drivers, his second suggestion, are always a good thing, but drivers only get patched to handle broken hardware in response to the discovery of broken hardware. There is no way to anticipate each particular way a NIC could possibly be broken ahead of time.

The market demands controllers with flexible and expandable functionality. Board manufacturers use the EEPROM to specify exactly what behavior is required. If a particular manufacturer underestimates the importance of correctness and doesn't perform the code review and testing necessary to prevent a PoD, that isn't Intel's fault.
Those examples are not (only) sexism: they are blatant incompetence at being funny. A good joke is that which appeals to your intelect and is never offensive. Gut-jokes (and offensive ones) are an insult to the attendants' intelligence. If they laugh then they show they deserve that insult.
AFAIK mine does it automatically (i.e., when driving down a slope, it engine brakes to avoid acceleration). Then again we don't have that many slopes so maybe I misinterpreted what was happening the few times I drove down a parking garage :)
I beg to differ. Drugs, specifically the hallucinogenic types (and for this case I am also including marijuana in that category) or meditation (for the more enterprising and diligent) are the easiest way to extract yourself from the tunnel vision with which you see the world.

In fact, I think most (say) 50 year old people who are "set in their ways" would find it VERY difficult to see the world with "new eyes" without some very strong outside stimulus, whether it is drugs, meditation, or some traumatic event.
It still wear components that are not as easily replacable as brakes. As for coasting to a stop whilst still in gear, I agree with that being a good idea but I don't think that's what digitalWestie was getting at.
I think his point was that his parents don't just use the search field -- they use google. That is, they'll search for google and then they'll search for what they want. If google ever quits paying apple, this is the bet they'll be making. Who knows if they're right.
Link to the Bloomberg and CNBC interviews:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/musk-model-s-works-well-nyt-a...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100439335
For point of reference, Little Boy (the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) was 16 kilotons and 90k+ people. I'm sure there are a ton of other factors besides kilotons that determine how destructive the bomb is, but it's a data point to understand the potential magnitude.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy
Agree. The current war of numerous Javascript MVC frameworks reminds me of the situation of Python Web Framework a few years ago, the community was confused by so many choices to select from. In the end, nobody wins, even the ultimate winner Django lost the opportunity to become mainstream. In that sense, the merging of Rails and Merb seemed to be a wise and successful strategic move in hindsight.
The most obvious to me are: Apply to internships in your zone and start github-ing to let others watch your work
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> A lot of us don't think one of the is even a problem.

The rest of us think that this attitude is part of the problem.
When I use my brakes I don't put the car in neutral until I'm almost stopped. The fuel consumption is the same.
Why not? What if the mixing service operates like a checking account, and you keep a permanent bitcoin balance with them, making deposits as you receive bitcoin payments? When you want to make a bitcoin payment, you instruct the service to make a transfer from its own bitcoin wallet, and reduce your balance in its own records accordingly. With this method, incoming and outgoing payments would be asynchronous, so it would be hard to use timestamps to associate them.

The interesting thing here is that with bitcoin, a cash-like transaction may not be anonymous, but a check-like transaction usually would be.

Of course, the middleman institution could still be compromised here, but since it uses its own protocol to track its customers' balances, it could use one that does preserve anonymity effectively.
I wonder if car technicians go around making weak analogies with software development to justify their industry practices.
Something like: "Why do software developers have compilers? blah blah blah, and that's why we need to keep your tools organized"
> "Single women I am not friends with who use BangWithFriends"

If I understand the current user base of BangWithFriends, this will return no results.
My email and my twitter are in my profile, feel free to shoot over a quick message and we'll talk shop!

That's a tough market, but I would love to figure out some way to help you out.
The "Benign Violation Theory" of humor explains this well - basically, that humor results when we simultaneously perceive a violation of "how the world 'ought to be'" and realize that the violation is benign (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_humor#Benign_Violat...).

Thus, something one finds funny can be not-funny to another either because it appears dangerous (offense), or because it seems normal (meh). This correlates with how closely or exclusively one feels the "norm" that is violated.

It's interesting to analyze why I find jokes funny or offensive (or funny in spite of myself), such as self-deprecating humor, puns, racial/religious/dirty jokes, etc.

Although this can explain why some are offended when others attempt humor, it in no way excuses including offensive content - the point is to be sensitive to the feelings and values of others. We should work both to avoid giving offense, and to be tolerant when others offend without intent.
I notice there's quite a large discrepancy between the link title on HN and the actual article title. The "to" makes it sound like the deal is done but the article really just seems like speculation. Is this TC just desperate for more HN clicks?
Not unconditionally - yes you can switch to a 'manual' mode, but it won't let you e.g. shift to 1st gear when you're driving 100. The manual shifting is useful when driving on steep slopes, mostly. Furthermore, the gear selector certainly won't let you slip the clutch a little bit, like what you need for engine braking.
Yeah, in perfect conditions (i.e. unlimited stopping distance) with perfectly matched revs when downshifting you will save fuel.

In the real world, just brake.
Surfendipity: Implementing PageRank
You have to remember that search is Google's core business, it's where they make their money (well, advertising really, but advertising in search).
I am currently 19 years old and in my second job in the industry, I was completely self taught and didn't even finish what you would consider high school (since in the UK we leave when we are 16.) Your degree is a piece of paper which tells your employer you are capable of learning and remembering large quantities of data and theory, your practical experience on the other hand, is what tells your employer you are genuinely capable of doing the job.

Get yourself an internship or go work for a small company for 6 months or a year, you will learn soon enough that your degree is mostly irrelevant and that university is more-so for building character and connections than actual practical experience.
I have had this issue, as many others have. If your site requires a community to work, i.e. your site will take something from one user and give it to another, then you will need some form of entrance strategy. In this case, your user base won't slowly start building up on it's own, even if the idea and implementation is great.

You will have to do most of the initial leg work, whether you spook yourself as a "real user" or not is up to you.

Additionally, find the problem you are solving, and put yourself in the shoes of a user with that problem, how can you solve it without your site?

Hopefully this will lead you to some communities that are relevant to the one you are trying to create. Now you just need them to sell you your product, one by one, until the site's popularity does it for you.

You need an entrance strategy.
Mint has been useless due to the fact that they have never let you set the date in which your monthly budget starts its cycle.
The phase "Entrepreneur DNA" in the article is a shame - Entrepreneurship is a behaviour, and behaviours are learned, not inherited.

Obviously, people have varied aptitudes for behaviours, based on a whole set of genetic and environmental factors (especially early developmental environments) BUT, anyone can practise at entrepreneurship and get better, which is why I'm not surprised older people with business experience are more successful.
Opening a new Incognito window still works
It's standard dogma, including in the advanced driving courses (eg. police). "Gears for go, brakes for slow"

Why this is so, I'm not entirely sure; it does mean that you can change from manual to auto transmission without thinking (and potentially without making a fatal mistake at speed if you are pursuing a suspect). However, it just shifts the cognitive effort of making sure you're always in the correct gear (which I think is also standard advice in eg. the roadcraft system).

From a professional owner / driver perspective (eg. a taxi), the answer is simple; brakes are cheap to replace, clutches aren't.

What they really don't tell you about are things like left foot braking (which I don't do) and heel-and-toe (which I do, especially when leaving motorways where we tend to have a junction followed by an uphill slip road).
I think it would be incidentally helpful to hand you a list of these sites - in the act of helping speeder, I would be researching a list of these websites. Happy to share!
Not really - DNS failover is typically much slower to respond compared to load balancing because records are cached.
In my case my hands were numb and in pain from the strong grip.

After a while (days? weeks?) you get used to the real car and the racing simulation muscle memory comes back.
Getting Into The Heads Of Departing Insiders
Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks
> I don't see a problem if you [...] don't care what potential employers think

Wait, what? My employer cares that I have sex?
> I guess English-Chinese-English translation has reached an amazing stage!

It's a misunderstanding and/or an illusion.

Most of the technological terms, e.g. jquery, node, ember.js etc, were merely copied from English to Chinese without translation. And BTW the retro-translation reads as if it was translated with Google translate service, which explains the low quality of translation.
This was my first thought too. People use their brakes way too much (and usually because they drive automatic transmissions)
Political Parties Struggle to Define "Internet Freedom"
Some cars even stop fuel flow if you're in gear but not applying gas.

I think it's called Deceleration Fuel Cut-Off (DFCO).
If you present users with a choice, they'll still choose Google and Apple gets nothing. Make it the default, and Apple gets a cool $1B.

"A billion here, a billion there and soon we're talking about real money" ;-)
I feel attracted to these threads like moth to a flame. It's not healthy. I could make all sorts of rude suppositions about why frustrated douchebags comment on these threads...
This is ridiculous. The typical "stoner effect" -- a phrase that sounds in some way deep or metaphysical causing susceptible people's neurons to flare, producing only the word: "Woah..." I know this is probably controversial, but in my opinion it's the same effect that causes people to find deep meaning in a Jackson Pollock painting.

As others have pointed out, lots of fast things don't have brakes, because they don't need to stop. As I don't think others have pointed out, slow things have brakes too, such as the space shuttle transporter.
Note: perfectly matching revs while downshifting isn't using your gears to slow; it's just slowing.
> Classes hold state. More state adds more complexity, and typical OO design add lots of layers of indirection which also add complexity. Most of the time, you don't need the flexibility that the extra indirection gives you. So you get complexity for little benefit.

Functions hold state as well, they just encapsulate it. You can still break up your algorithm into a class with multiple template methods and then encapsulate it in a function if you're afraid of leaking state elsewhere.

What I see instead is that people can't get rid of state and put it as global variables into Python modules. Case in point: pickle. It uses sys.modules and pickle.dispatch_table to store some of its state.

> If you don't need to hold state, then a collection of functions will usually suffice. In Python, you can use modules for this.

Classes have another advantage: virtual method calls. If one function in a module calls into another function in the module I can only do two things: a) copy/paste the library and change one of the functions or b) a monkeypatch which modifies a shared resource someone else might want to use with the old semantics.

A class I can subclass and change the behavior for each method separately.
A rational thinking community? What a wonder! I need to investigate that stuff and take part in some discussions.

Thanks for that site, friend!
Sun NeWS had a pizza tool for ordering by fax in the early 90s:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.gif
Nice site/idea. I would try to get some better images (the low resolution when stretched to my screen isn't too nice). Overall though, very cool.
Just to clarify for the future people - the deleted comment isn't me.
$1 :)
Incredible Secret Money Machine
I think we only saw it on FW-7550's at the beginning of the production run (the ones with the "snout" fans on the CPU and no case fan).
True, but doesn't this apply to Facebook in general? The graph search functionality wasn't created by BwF. It's been clear since the beginning of Facebook that they are eager to reshare any info you share with them.
Ford Freestyle with continuously variable transmission. Revs the engine way up on downhills.
If all it does is provide a talking point to Ortiz' political campaign opponents, it's worth signing these petitions.

A signature on Heymann's petition contributes to undermining Ortiz' political aspirations, so it's worth it to sign this petition too.

No Ortiz political opponent will ignore this rock to throw.
Except that was yesterday :(
The PDF is free. Kevin Kelly wrote "If I had to sum up this book in my own words it would be: If you are willing to build your business on expertise, you can make a living instead of making a fortune--and occasionally the fortune comes anyway."
Zonebox goes out of Beta
Effortless deployment and scaling of a Ceph cluster
> I always do a combination of down-shifting and braking as this saves fuel vs purely engine braking...

Assuming your car is reasonably recent, engine braking doesn't use significant fuel. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_braking#Legal_implicatio....
Author of original post here ...

... this is a crazy trip for a comment to make! And I still think most people over-engineer and over-think their startup tech.

Customers don't care what you use, as long as it solves their problem. The rest just helps with recruiting I guess.
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Surely there is more to the Bitcoin movement that a desire for a currency that's worse than those sponsored by nation states. Just pointing out that Bitcoin sucks does nothing to address the underlying reason why people want to use Bitcoin. Where I live, alternative currencies seem to have sprung up as a response to feelings of disgust with the current economic system, or mistrust of government or bankers.

States and groups are looking at how the federal reserve is currently purchasing more than half of all newly issued U.S. Treasury Bonds, and drawing the inevitable conclusion that the the failure of the system is accelerating. The natural end to an inflationary currency is BOOM! There is a desire out there for a deflationary currency. Bitcoin is deflationary, right?

Now I think Bitcoin Sucks is sound economic advice because for every altruistic financial scheme, there have been a hundred scams, but I don't know if Bitcoin has the potential to be useful if we experience hyperinflation.
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This is really nice.

How can I make sure I check it every day?
But when driving a manual car the driver doesn't put the clutch in while braking until almost completely stopped.

If you need to slow down quickly enough that you're not just letting the car coast in the gear you were driving in then using the brakes to bleed some speed off isn't going to be less fuel efficient than down-shifting to a gear that will stop you in time. The engine is engaged for almost exactly the same period of time.