skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely you wouldn't buy a $65,000 vehicle based on a new technology without at least reading about the pros and cons of that technology first?

Right?
It's not exactly top secret.

"People gather at gates, bars, and security checkpoints."
Yes, they are required to sign or they don't get to do the review.
We are always learning how to learn more. Destroying the specimens would destroy an opportunity to learn about an organism that has had a significant impact on our own species.
One problem: It thinks that it doesn't take any time to walk from, say, Powell station to a street-level bus, so it gives you connections that you can't possibly make. This is the same problem that almost all transit apps have, unfortunately.

Edit: Also, it seems to give me really bizarre suggestions. Right now, for a trip to Alamo Square Park from downtown SF, it suggests that I take Bart from Montgomery to Powell (that's one stop) and then somehow catch Muni bus #5 in 2 minutes. A much better option would be to just take Muni bus #21 which comes past the Montgomery station in 5 minutes and heads straight to Alamo Square Park.

The quest for a good transit app continues, sadly.

Edit 2: More bizarre suggestions: From Montgomery to Alamo Square Park, it suggests this: http://imgur.com/bYLpJJI instead of taking bus #5 in 2 / 11/ or 19 minutes, which goes directly from Montgomery to Alamo Square. Also, it thinks that it takes 0 minutes to get off of Bart at 16th and Mission and make it to bus #22...
I live in a Vancouverism condo and about half the units on my floor are currently empty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouverism

These residents winter in Hong Kong, Phoenix, San Diego, etc. I don't really blame them. I'd rather spend the rainy months in a warmer climate, too.

I would imagine that the case may be similar for New York. If you can afford a multi-million dollar place in New York, you can probably afford another multi-million dollar place in some other place, too.
Murray Rothbard wrote this to Ayn Rand in a letter dated October 3, 1957:

"I now come to the painful part of this letter. For standing as I do in awe and wonder at the glory and magnitude of your achievement, knowing from early in the novel that I would have to write you and express in full how much I and the world owe to you...

When I first met you, many years ago, I was a follower of Mises, but unhappy about his antipathy to natural rights, which I “felt” was true but could not demonstrate. You introduced me to the whole field of natural rights and natural law philosophy, which I did not know existed, and month by month, working on my own as I preferred, I learned and studied the glorious natural rights tradition. I also learned from you about the existence of Aristotelian epistemology, and then I studied that, and came to adopt it wholeheartedly. So that I owe you a great intellectual debt for many years, the least of which is introducing me to a tradition of which four years of college and three years of graduate school, to say nothing of other reading, had kept me in ignorance."
These people are probably less likely to be interested in trying to be the next facebook and more interested in a profitable but humble B2B business or something such as that.

Why would you think a B2B business has to be "humble"? Do you realize how much money is at stake in the B2B world? Have you looked at the financials for Oracle or IBM lately? How about forget being "the next Facebook" and trying to be "the next Oracle" or "the next Red Hat"?
"Slab item chunk sizes" suggests they retained memcache's external fragmentation problem (if you mostly have big objects expiring, those slabs of memory won't ever be reused for storing small objects, or vice versa). On memcached with no persistence, you could recover from this by restarting (if you could withstand the availability hit), but what do you do once you're relying on long-lived state?
I'm thinking I could use twitter followers or alexa rank as a proxy for number of users. Anyone know where I could find a list of SaaS offerings?
Ayn Rand, it seems, didn't like that libertarians were concerned in any way with how to provide collective resources. She idealized a lack of concern with others and one role model of hers was a man named William Edward Hickman who killed and dismembered a 12 year old girl.

>“Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should,” she wrote, gushing that Hickman had “no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel ‘other people.’”

http://exiledonline.com/atlas-shrieked-why-ayn-rands-right-w...

Ayn Rand was an eloquent proponent of sociopathy.
She made the argument as a simple point - that they're anarchists and that anarchy begets collectivism.

I think the broader purpose of the post, though, is to point out the irony in folks who think of themselves as Rand acolytes and Libertarians. This is a common position, and I hear it a lot in Silicon Valley/startup circles.

Personally I don't think much of her ideas, I find them simplistic and in some places naive and immature, other places disingenuous. I think many Libertarians suffer similar failings and propose positions that are vastly simplistic in the context of the real world. I know that many smart people I respect disagree with my position, and that's fine, I'm not looking for argument on those points.

So, as a critic of both groups it doesn't bother me to see them lumped together. But it's amusing that Rand wanted nothing to do with that.
If there were no PoC, significantly fewer would patch, and even those that did patch would have a hard time verifying that their patch worked.
PG himself admits to a slight age bias.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5191894

"There's an age bias in that our standards get higher as the founders get older. You can't reasonably expect a 19 year old to have achieved as much as a 35 year old. But there's no sudden cutoff."

Even though I'm older, I have to admit it makes sense.
unfortunately - I'm not sure how much longer Better Place will be around:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place

"In early October 2012, Agassi resigned from his role as worldwide Better Place CEO, and was replaced by Evan Thornley, CEO of Better Place-Australia. Briefly, Agassi remained on the company board, but a week later he resigned from that position as well. A few days after Thornley's appointment, Better Place asked its investors for a round of emergency funding, totaling about $150 million.[8][9] On October 11, 2012, Haaretz reported that Better Place might lay off up to half its staff of several hundred employees.[10] On October 29, 2012, Ynet reported that Better Place would that week lay off 150 to 200 people out of its 400-person staff in Israel as it seeks financing to combat its cash-flow problems.[11]
In late January 2013, Thornley resigned, and Dan Cohen was named acting CEO by the board.[12]"
Time passes faster the older you get. It's something you ought to be noticing by 27, but sometimes it takes people a little longer.

Your 30s are going to go by in a flash, and when you are 45, you are going to chuckle at what people in their 20's think old is.
Corner cases and shell scripts
The Happy Secret to Better Work [Infographic]
Then charge him with trespassing. To charge him under CFAA due to him getting on the privileged part of the network, I think you should have to show he knew it was the privileged prat of the network. Maybe they had evidence that he did, but just connecting his laptop in a closet after covering his face with a bike helmet isn't evidence of hit.

He could have covered his face after his experience with PACER where he was legally in the right, but still got hounded by the FBI.
To answer your Android development concern specifically, as I didn't see anyone else commenting on it yet:

Having done Android work in both Eclipse and IntelliJ, I much prefer the latter. It has nice tools out-of-the-box for every aspect of Android development; package signing (and keystore management), integrated logcat monitor (a bit simpler than Eclipse's), the on-device or emulator debugging works perfectly etc. I've never had a problem translating Eclipse tutorials to IntelliJ.

It's also a lot less buggy than Eclipse+ADT in my experience. Eclipse/ADT is terrible when it comes to larger Android projects that may reference other projects in your workspace, I frequently had to do a clean build to get it to detect changes across the projects (a known problem in the ADT bugtracker IIRC).

IntelliJ is also faster, has better code completion, and a really nice dark UI theme called Darcula out of the box (trying to make Eclipse dark is near impossible). It's paid for its price many times over in productivity gains for me.
Eh, I may be overstating things a little bit. I definitely have a substantial ego, but I don't think it's too the point that it's damaging to me. I'm definitely competitive, but I also value being humble. Certainly I acknowledge that there are plenty of people around who are smarter than I am.

Maybe it's not even so much ego, as it is a crazy high sense of self-efficacy. I still buy into that "I can do anything, if I'm just willing to work hard enough" mindset.
It's called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I don't necessarily endorse it, but here you go:

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” — Michael Crichton
That's great. I can tell you my personal reaction and another co-founder when we saw the age question in YC application. We didn't like seeing it there.
The electricity to power the fan comes from the engine. I'm not sure how much of an impact this actually is

The fan practically never runs in cold weather. The only time it's needed is in hot weather, when you're stopped or at low speed and there's not enough airflow over the radiator and/or condenser. In cold weather the thermostat controls engine temperature, not the radiator, so the fan never gets told to turn on.
Yeah, I guess it could be handled with a refactoring IDE... if Go has one.

It does: http://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/

This feels like a throwback to hungarian notation. Names should just be names, quit trying to cram code syntax into it.

Well, speaking of Hungarian notation:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

Following that logic you are right, but it's a throwback to the good kind of Hungarian notation.
Twitter works great for this.
When I first heard the A/C vs. windows-down comparison it struck me as non-intuitive. I eventually reasoned that having windows down at speed results in moving much more air through the cabin than the A/C does. It takes work to move air, but it also takes work to run the compressor. There would have to be a break-even point at which having e.g. the driver's window and the rear passenger's window down a couple of inches each is cheaper than the A/C.

Interestingly, the graphs on pages 14 and 15 of the linked report don't appear to support your point. That is, the green curve is strictly less than the blue curve at all investigated speeds.
That was a collection of questions and responses from different sources and times. It wasn't an interview transcript. I made the same mistake as I was reading it and at one point started to wonder why the "interviewer" was asking the same question over and over.
I'm 22 and I've noticed this trend when I was 10. It depresses me quite a bit actually, and I constantly check up on the latest research involving this phenomenon to see if there's a way to make time "seem" to go slower at least.

I asked my grandparents the other day if this acceleration of time kind of levels off once you reach old age, and they said nope, years go by in what months used to be.
I have a huge piece of cardboard blocking the entire radiator to stop air flow.

This won't make any difference unless the thermostat is open. If your temperature gauge is on "cold", you're not even close to the point where the thermostat will open if it's operating normally. Which raises the question: have you had your thermostat checked to make sure it's not stuck open?
So, we have startups that help get people get together, startups that help people marry, and now startups that help through divorce.

If I were an entrepreneur, I'd cut out the middle man and vertically integrate all three into one startup.
I'm 23.

I don't like people my age, including myself.

I'm 29. It doesn't change. I've no problem with the average 29-year-old (or the average 23-year-old) but the types of people who do well, young, in VC-istan are pretty irritating.

The types who do well at older ages aren't much better.

For people, I prefer Wall Street. No, I'm not kidding. The work isn't as interesting, but the people are more decent.
Bmac27, what kind of enterprise seo toolset do you recommend ? I am currently evaluating Skycara, Brightedge and SEOcatalyst but wanted something else to try and look at. I'm runnign a site with 15,000 pages, 10,000 errors and about 20k keywords
Very true, and that was far from sarcastic. :)
Well for a subject with such gravitas I can sympathize with the mods.
We actually moved off Ruby/Rails because of all this, but previously it was a test in QA, then patch Prod, both on same day of the word hitting the street that there was yet another hole to close
None of which matters a bit if you just want to take the thing on a 200 mile road trip. People do care about the things on that list, but they care about being able to get where they're going more.
This begs the question: Are the Rails devs reading that?
This is awesome. One nit: if I pick a route, then the bus leaves there's no easy way to 'refresh' the route and get a new timer without backing all the way out and starting over or going to more routes and doing the time math.
this sort of goes against one of the philosophies/purposes of 'timeline,' namely a journal of your life along with all the related connections you may have made. you may be able to hack something, but is the gain/ROI really worth it?
I'm the TA for the class. The first lab was intended to get students up to speed with go; the rest of the labs are significantly harder. That said, the labs are completely new, so we're not exactly sure how hard they will be for students. It's a process.
Sorry, didn't realize "celluloid" meant something else. Changed the title.
I think it just comes down to business.
If you are a tech company saying "we are happy to employ gay people" makes you sound all progressive and fair. However there is no business risk that you are taking on here because nobody is saying that gay programmers write worse code or anything like that.

Now contrast that with the US military and the shitstorm around allowing openly gay people to serve. Since there are many conservative types in the military who threatened to resign if openly gay people were allowed to serve you have the argument "allowing gays to openly serve will hurt our national security".
Now even the most liberal gay friendly person might see that as a valid argument.
someone should just grep /^ $/
html5 apps != web pages
It is a source of energy that not every country has enough. Most countries in the world have different sources of energy(from coal to wood, going through nuclear).

The countries that do not have enough of it have to invent stupid excuses for invading the countries that do have, incurring in high costs while killing millions, because if not transportation halts and the economy nukes.

It is a highly pollutant for cities, specially diesel particles that are carcinogenic, while on electric generation plants you could use particle filters that are very efficient and cheap, and also far from where most people lives.

It is very complex and things breaks a lot. You need to change the oil frequently, drive belts and also the brakes while with regenerative braking they last forever.
I don't think you could do this without actually solving the labs the way we wanted you to.
Pick up what's important
http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/05/saferweb-injects-in-vari...
it is usual mistake in url validators
This somewhat undercuts your point. If I know someone I am not nearly as likely to ignore their email, evaluate their idea superficially or assume the worst. What is the use of having contact information when you can't actually get heard? It does matter a great deal who you know.
Have been reading your comments for a while now, I honestly thought you were in your 40s.
I am very confused about this event. My initial reaction was horror, and I think Twitter agreed [1].

Then I looked into who was behind this, assuming it was a hoax. One of the organizers appears [2] to be Sarah Herbert [3] the CEO of Curious Pixel, a brand/design shop in Kansas City. It seems that Sarah and Curious Pixel are very supportive of women in technology [4].

So, I think this is just a sad case of a well-meaning person creating a tone-deaf message and ultimately being devoured by the Internet.

[1] https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=hackofthesexes&src...

[2] https://twitter.com/hackofthesexes/status/300007467759304706

[3] https://twitter.com/SarahSHebert

[4] http://www.curiouspixel.com/investing-wisely-in-the-success-...
I think that both ambition of youth and experience based wisdom are incredibly valuable in most areas. I think one of the major mistakes that people make is trying to focus on why one is better then the other rather then seeing what each of them has to bring to the table. I personally would love to work in an environment where both are present and valued.
Colder weather reduces fuel efficiency because during warmup, extra fuel is injected into the cylinders to maintain performance, since it's harder to get ignition when the air is colder. In other words, better to waste some fuel than to hit the gas and have a lot less acceleration than usual.
I'm a few years older than you and feel exactly the same way.

Which is good.

Because I'm finally motivated to actually accomplish something. For whatever reason the motivation wasn't that strong when I was younger, but now it is.
It turns out, however that when you're talking about transportation, energy density is much more important than efficiency generally speaking.
It depends on the buildings amenities and staffing levels. You can find multimillion dollar properties with no staff but generally there is a dozenfull time staff members is a 100 hundred unit building
I'm also sick of tiny fonts. 14px is way too small.
The best entrepreneurs are ones who work in their field first, gaining valuable real-world knowledge and experience for a decade or more.

I don't think one can meaningfully say that the "best" entrepreneurs come in one type or another. Certainly the YC juggernaut tends to confirm that young entrepreneurs can be extremely able and can lead ventures to spectacular forms of success.

But the statement above emphasizes for me what has always seemed obvious and yet has often been brushed aside in, let us say, the impetuousness of youth: that is, that experience can and often does make a huge difference for entrepreneurs and it is a mistake to ignore its value in assessing startup prospects.

Someone, somewhere, somehow needs to have "been there before" for a startup to work in a big, complex, and disruptive field such as those targeted by the most promising startups. If it is not the founders themselves, it is those with whom the founders surround themselves. If those persons are not there, it has been my experience (having represented countless founders) that the founders will tend to stumble around to their detriment. I believe the main value of the YC network, for example, is that it gives young entrepreneurs precisely the sort of connections and guidance by which they can connect up with and be guided or even mentored by those with solid experience in their respective domains. Without that, their chances of flubbing it are magnified by a lot. A VC with deep domain experience can add similar value, with or without YC, but of course its connections with key VCs is one of the ways that YC links its entrepreneurs with seasoned hands in a given field.

It follows ipso facto that entrepreneurs who are older and can bring direct experience to a venture will also often have it over younger, inexperienced ones. The opposite may be true as well and that the value of such experience in any given case may be limited or worthless. My point is that having key experience, when it is authentic and coupled with the right level of talent, is extremely valuable and should be eagerly welcomed when brought to the venture by older entrepreneurs.

We learn from our mistakes. That is a recurring theme on this forum. Those lessons don't simply take the form of "fail fast, fail often" because the virtue is not in the failing as such but in the lessons learned from the process - and that same virtue attaches to any quality experience by talented people who have tilled the soil in their areas of expertise for lengthy periods. That group may or may not be the "best" entrepreneurs but there will certainly be large numbers of them who will wind up being among the best by virtue of the depth and expertise that only quality experience can bring.
I don't think journalists who are borrowing gear for a review are considered "customers"...
I admire Musk and love what he's doing in general. I think he's an inspirational entrepreneur. It makes sense that he's defending his company. Having said that I think this is an interesting tack to take. Firstly, this is the New York Times. I'm sure they take their integrity pretty seriously. Secondly, Musk has sued before so that would make them particularly sensitive to ensuring that they got their facts and figures correct if they're going to post a negative article. Thirdly, I'm not sure how much of an argument Musk is really mounting here. There are still a bunch of charges left unaddressed. That the charge dissipated much faster than it was telling the driver. That cutting things like heating and speed were solutions? That it didn't have a sufficient charge to unlock a handbrake etc.

Why does this matter? Well, we all know Tesla is a cutting edge technology. Those who buy that car understand that they're going to take on additional hardships and risks vs a gasoline vehicle. Culturally, what message is Musk sending by attacking the author and avoiding many of the issues raised? If you buy a Tesla and experience problems do you want a company that questions your honesty and integrity or one that says "Sounds like a horrible experience let's do everything on our power to fix it?"
When I saw the title, my first thought was "Some poor soul is nitrating cellulose at home, and the BATF is staging a raid of their 'bomb factory' right now".
All the lecture notes will be put online, and you are welcome to clone the code and do the labs. If your code passes the tests reliably, you would have gotten full credit.
You're right.

Experience is only a treatment, not a cure, for folly. People will always be imperfect, regardless of how much they improve, and will always make mistakes. We just get better at avoiding the easy ones.
Its like you took the words out of my fingers.
Lessons from a Failed Social Entrepreneur
I was always told that when you turn 30 your birthdays start coming twice a year... interesting you made this comment.
Maybe the top prize could be that everyone has to read Difference and Dominance.
It doesn't exist yet. Gemcanary is the MVP.