skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Protect Kids, Get F*cked
No, it is statistically most likely to be one of the 3 results above. "Has to be" doesn't have much of a place in a statistics discussion. There is a non-zero probability of the correlation being due to chance.
Agreed. I love Tesla. I'm really excited by what they're doing, and have nothing but admiration for Elon Musk.

However, Top Gear have made their reputation winding people up. He was being pretty touchy by responding.

Here's what I posted at the time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856821

Of course, only time will tell in the case of the NYT.
I don't think it is, as it hurts the green card holders and citizens and satisfies the demand for more green cards BETTER in the eyes of the corps than green cards.
If you're going < 300 miles, then it's really a moot point anyways. At that range, you'll have enough in the battery before leaving to get you there without a charge along the way.
I think this is pretty cool. It's a creative spin on the state of gender inequality. God only knows how it will turn out ... but if everyone plays nice and there aren't too many alpha personalities, it would probably end up being a pretty cool experience.

Humility is key in something like this. I'd just plant a ref in the middle of the room and anyone who can't be humble in front of the opposite sex would get ejected instantly as though a giant claw came out of the sky and picked 'em up. Like a screaming toddler: zero-tolerance. You're gonna cry and whine again? Boom! There goes your night light, now go back to bed and cut it out.

I'd have a lot of fun in something like this. We're wired differently so there'd certainly be some unique solutions on both side of the chromosome.

Whenever I make a big $$$ bet with a good friend, I can never accept their cash. It feels bad. At the end of the day, as the winner, it doesn't really matter that I won. The pure fact that there was a contest between us and the friendly trash talking is all that matters. Hopefully this ends up being kind of like that. Friendly trash talking, hacking on fun projects, and like I said, no extreme faux-alpha personalities who can't deal with losing.

We all know there is no winner in man vs woman. To quote the Bahai faith:

The world of humanity is possessed of two wings:
the male and the female. So long as these two wings
are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly.
Until womankind reaches the same degree as man, until
she enjoys the same arena of activity, extraordinary
attainment for humanity will not be realized; humanity
cannot wing its way to heights of real attainment.
When the two wings . . . become equivalent in strength,
enjoying the same prerogatives, the flight of man will
be exceedingly lofty and extraordinary.
It could be for demographic/statistical purposes. They are trying hard to learn about who to invest in -- data is key.

Also, do age discrimination laws apply to VC's? Not that it would be right to do it -- but is it illegal?
Hey, DigitalRev, that’s MY camera
Flagging on HN isn't really the same as downvoting on Reddit.

From the HN guidelines:

If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)
A Hypothesis of Relative Assurance and Chained Wins
From the article:

"Tesla data logging is only turned on with explicit written permission from customers, but after Top Gear BS, we always keep it on for media."
I'm 23.

I don't like people my age, including myself. We are inexperienced and foolish, and think much too highly of ourselves. The only cure for our folly is experience, which I believe does not temper ambition, but instead directs it towards wiser pursuits.

I know I will soon reflect on the things I create now and realize how flawed they were, but I've decided not to let it stop me. I know I will make mistakes, I know I will chase the wind, and I know that five years from now all of my running may leave me tired and broke, but what choice do I have?

The best things I create in my life will likely come ~15 years from now, but in the meanwhile I am left to do what I can with the resources I have, which are currently youth and ambition.

I will be a better entrepreneur when I am older, for now I will be the best I can be today.
Decryption: A Formal Security Treatment of SSH-CTR
Even if it is better to have immigrants than natives, why would H1Bs be the right way? Green cards would be better according to your theory than H1Bs. They would hurt current green card and citizen workers less as well.

H1Bs still seem bad.
Yes this is true but we proactively approach the problem rather than waiting for 3rd parties to find the holes. We are responsible for a couple of patch Tuesdays :)
Worst title.
As far as I know, there is nothing of that sort on HN. If you know more or can list sites that have the degrader applied to them, I'll be thankful.
Shadey SEO - 3 lines of code to go #1 on Google
All of this going on the assumption that the charge station is not fully occupied at the time you want to recharge, which with 30 to 60 minute recharge times is going to get improbable pretty fast when electric cars become more popular. Imagine everyone at the local gas station leaving their car at the pump for 60 minutes...

I think we can safely conclude that unless there is going to be a huge breakthrough in battery technology really soon, EV's that run on batteries alone are not going to be a success for anything but short-distance commutes.

I'm still hoping for breakthroughs in other technologies that would make generating electricity so cheap that we can afford to waste a lot of it producing hydrogen. That would instantly obviate the need to lug around heavy batteries that take long to recharge, run out fast, require a lot of energy to produce, and are full of nasty chemicals that pollute the areas where they are mined.

Battery-powered EV's simply aren't all roses and sunshine, and I'm frankly quite amazed how easy the negatives are papered over.
> The gender battle has existed for as long as we have. An unending competition as to which sex is better. This is no different, we're just changing the rules and bringing in a few different twists with this contest.

Wow. No thank you.

This kind of thing might be fun and innocent if we were not already living in an industry rife with sexism, inequality, and bro-culture rudeness.
That's a chicken and egg problem. Electrical charging stations are far cheaper to build than gas stations. At least until there's enough electrical cars to require an upgrade of the whole infrastructure.
I realize it is for better sensitivity and control, but the lack of shoes in the picture is amusing.

On a more serious note, maybe taking that talent and having them move up through the ranks on lower series to get the experience to go pro is a viable option. If the talent is as good as they say, then they'll do well on smaller carts and get the experience to race professionally quicker. Nissan should just make it the "senior-class" part of their program.
Read the article.

It states you have to explicitly sign to have your data logged, and they have it on by default for media reviews due to some incident with Top Gear.
Good stuff. Being a 39 year old, I feel this issue more and more lately. Luckily, I haven't encountered a lot of overt / obvious ageism. If anyone has discriminated against me because of my age, I didn't recognize it as such. But maybe you never do, who knows?

Not sure if there's any "West coast / East coast" dichotomy or not though. It seems that you hear more stories about "ageism in startups" from the West coast, but, then again, there are more startup stories of any kind from the West coast, best as I can tell. Me, I'm on the East coast (NC) and I feel like the startup culture here is a little bit different. Ironically, it seems a bit more laid back, at least going from what you read / see / hear about WC startups.
So, why did the Rails maintainers arbitrarily decide to stop supporting 3.0.x versions, while still supporting 2.3.x versions?
Isn't it giving out information about exactly when and where crowds gather, in an area that doesn't require at least a basic security check?
Spoken like an engineer: your points are technically quite correct, and yet, often irrelevant to the consumer!

For the average consumer of automobile technology, these are non-issues. Logistical and pricing issues are moderated and subsidized by governments and car manufacturers. From the consumer's point of view, you go to a gas station once a week, and the car "just works."

As superior as an electric system may be technically, economically, environmentally, etc, if you want it to take off, the UI and logistics need to be smoothed over until you get a similar level of "it just works" which matches the consumer's experience with gasoline.
For truly time critical stuff, push notifications, done however the platform vendor does it for optimum battery life.

If not, then some sort of exponential backoff helps so that you're not updating scores every 2 minutes all night.
Sorry, but I think Firefox is doing exactly the right thing (by default) here. If you want it to do something else, I'd imagine there's a setting you can override somewhere.

In practice it is worse than no SSL because it provides a false sense of security to users who have been trained that HTTPS = secure.
I'm 27 and so much this. If I could find a 45 year-old wise person who can redirect me to work on something awesome in his area of expertise, that'd be awesome.

Perhaps a new site to connect would-be 45 yr old entrepreneurs with 20-something hot shot programmers?
The charger cable locks into the charging port while the car is locked, so no one is going to mess with it while you're gone.
> It works via a desktop client app; and like Skype, you create contactsfor quick connections

Nope, won't work in tech support. "Okay, first download and install this software. Your IT guys don't let you install software? Okay let me just send you a webex invite..."

"Now... you have to create an account. Just create the account and then... no they won't spam you. No I'm not trying to hack your computer I'm just... Did you create the accou-- I don't know if you have to give them your email address did you... nevermind, let me just send you a Webex invite."

"Now just add me to your contact list. Did you add me? Click here, then here, then here. You don't see that on your screen? Okay let me just send you a webex invite..."
I agree with siblings that we're not talking about a significant effect on mileage, but technically there is still an effect. When the ventilation fan kicks on, this will be an additional current draw. Since the voltage regulator is an analog device, it will respond to the resulting slight dip in system voltage by increasing the alternator field strength slightly. The engine will then have to apply slightly more torque to the alternator, which will burn slightly more fuel.

Since engine speeds vary greatly, having a dumb alternator that provided power scaled in proportion to RPM would be a disaster.
I've always wondered which early scientist chose mice, maybe they were a cat lover. It's funny how some commonly studied species like mosquitos or zebra fish have logical reasons (reproduce quickly etc.) But some are completely arbitrary.
Just FYI :
there is a NLP class starting soon on Coursera
https://class.coursera.org/nlangp-001
This seems counterproductive.
> False positives from SHA-1 hash collisions are detected after object retrieval from the disk by comparison with the requested key.

I was curious why they would bother, but it seems this isn't quite accurate.

What happens is they first use 32 bits from the SHA-1 hash to find the hash bucket, then they scan for the full SHA-1 of the key. They do not check for actual SHA-1 collisions.

edit: Also on the subject of hashes, the readme suggests switching to MD5 as a possible way to reduce entry size. That is unnecessary; SHA-1 can be truncated to whatever size you're comfortable with.
Nobody is claiming that it is as convenient as filling up a petrol tank.

This reviewer went out of their way to fabricate a sub-optimal experience in the vehicle. Tesla owners seem perfectly capable (or we'd surely hear about it) of avoiding these same mistakes.
Perhaps being younger is an advantage in the sort of "go big or go home" swing for the fences entrepreneurship?

Lack of experience is probably helpful if you are doing something which is basically a bad idea but because of a bunch of factors clicking into place ends up being an awesome idea.

When you are older you are probably not in such a position to just run with some crazy idea.
"Pitting", not "pinning". Seriously different meaning there.
I was one of the oldest applicants and it never came up as an issue. Another in my batch was older than me by a year.
Manually creating an ELF executable
Linux flushes dirty pages in mmapped regions to disk every 30 seconds by default whether you like it or not (see vm.dirty_expire_centisecs). Unlike FreeBSD, Linux doesn't yet have support for the MAP_NOSYNC flag to mmap(2).
The Genome Institute at St. Louis, MO

The Genome Institute at Washington University has an opening for a talented software engineer in the Bioinformatics group. The position will work with an experienced group of software engineers to develop software supporting the tracking of laboratory data and analysis processes to support large scale genomic research projects.

The Genome Institute has been at the forefront of genome research since its inception in 1993 and has been a part of major scientific projects such as the Human Genome, 1000 Genomes and TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) Projects. The Genome Institute is a world-leader in the generation and analysis of genomic sequence data and uses this data to extend biological knowledge of the human genome and provide clinically relevant sequence analysis aimed at understanding human diseases (such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease). In addition, the Institute fosters public understanding of genomic science through various educational and outreach efforts.

https://jobs.wustl.edu/psp/APPLHRMS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM...

https://jobs.wustl.edu/psp/APPLHRMS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM...

You can also send questions and resumes directly to me.
I'm going to refrain from passing judgment, since the link is so thin on details, but I'm seriously having a hard time thinking up ways that this could be anything but a terrible idea.

Any help?
150 mile range even at 50 mph is only 3 hours between stops, right?
You're right! Thanks for the hint, I updated the blog post accordingly.
I think an interesting way to talk about programming that may be quiet successful for people who are younger is to try and strip away the sytax of language, and instead focus on the semantics. It would allow a person to develop a deep understanding of core concepts such as different data structures and algorithms without being bogged down in the minutiae. Once I think there is a solid foundation in the general concepts I think it would be much easier to transition from language to language since they already understand the semantics of what they are trying to do and simply have to focus on the sytax to accomplish it.

Now this has the potential to lead to disintrest since they wouldn't have the ability to create something and receive the instant feedback of their hard work. But I do feel like it may be an easier way to lead them into it without throwing them into the deep end of language specific syntax which i would imaging feels pretty dense and impenetrable to a lot of people starting out.

As well it would be pretty easy to create word problems or games that would help them develop the general understanding. Something like the following problem:

There is a 100 story building and you have two identical eggs. You need to figure out the highest floor that you can drop one of these eggs from without it breaking. Once an egg has broken you can never use it again. How would you go about figuring this out using the fewest possible drops possible? What if the building was 1,000,000 floors tall?
Not the smart ones. They lease shares.
Q. What do people give you for your birthday, given that you can buy anything you want?

A.Free software. Just kidding.

Books actually.
The front page has a working demo. I think that's way better than a screenshot, personally :)
I am not sure if this study is accurate. It seems like 675+ companies is a good sample size, but I have yet to see a very successful Founder Institute Company, maybe Udemy?.

If this test is so accurate why aren't there bigger successes in Founder Institute?

I am not pro or against age. I actually believe it's probably not a very good indicator of success or lack of it. Age is probably a very weak indicator.
May I ask your age? If that wasn't an issue then why even ask it on the application.
It would be great if instead of just a list it had a simple overview of each license in order from most open to most closed. I can imagine a page with little symbols on it like how the creative commons site uses to explain the different license types. Making it easier to pick a licence.

(I haven't tested it so it may already do this.)

Great work though, nice little tool.
Stone Spray Project
> Can anyone explain why boosterism gets upvoted so much on these RoR vuln posts?

I don't have an answer for that. Not to discount the work people do, but it feels weird to celebrate the existence of severe vulnerabilities because of the effort that goes into patching them. Perhaps the point is that the framework becomes more secure and vetted, but that's not something that can really be measured in that way, and a lot of observers will view the existence of so many high-profile vulnerabilities as a sign of poor design decisions.
30% is roughly the peak efficiency of an ICE. Average efficiency throughout a driving cycle is more like 17%.
No it's not. However, I am pointing out the underlying hypocrisy. In the valley we are for equal right, gay rights, which I fully support. But it seems like when it comes to age we all look the other way. That's all I'm pointing out.
Batteries heats up during discharge. I wouldn't worry about that.

Starting a gasoline engine in cold is a different story - there, the battery is required to provide energy far above their normal working conditions.
I think 27182818284 is talking about the downvoting of your comment, not the flagging of the original story.

Also, Reddit has the same guideline as you quote (only downvote things that don't belong) whereas HN has the creator saying that downvotes can be used to express disagreement.
Drag goes up proportional to the density of the fluid. Having more oxygen to run your engine will give you more energy, but I suspect that it won't keep up with increases in drag.
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Since the video player on their site is both Flash and not working for me, get the raw MP4 from here:

http://pdl.iphone.cnbc.com/VCPS/Y2013/M02D11/3000147320/2ED3...
There really needs to be a phrase for this. I've noticed it myself. Whenever the news reports on something I happen to know a little bit more than average about, they almost universally get material facts (not just nitty gritty details) completely wrong. Taken inductively this is pretty damn scary.
Wevorce (YC W13) makes divorce suck less
I'm just not sure how the two halves of that sentence combine. Are journalists explicitly signing?
I think lower ICE fuel economy comes at higher altitudes, not necessarily colder climates -- though there is a correlation.

The sparse atmosphere robs the engine of power, just as it reduces your body's ability to gather oxygen.
I don't know :-)
I've spent the last 10 minutes reading your comment history. You come across as an opinionated argumentative snide jerk. Note: before you take my comment apart and feed it back to me realize that I have no desire in getting into a verbal sparring match with you and won't reply to you.

I suggest that you follow the advice, "if you can't think of anything nice or constructive to say, bite your tongue". The irony is not lost on me that in taking you to task for the tone you couch your comments in I am failing to live up to my own advice, but I'll make an exception here.
How much strain does that place on the battery?
because it's easy to upgrade to 3.2
You mean like Elon Musk that bet everything on Tesla?

See the problem is, there is no real data there and these guys are betting on anecdotal evidence. Generalization is the root of all discriminations.
I thought many auto reviewers were like entertainment reporters (my perception could be out of date)-- they usually go on review junkets paid for by the auto makers and often don't post reviews that are too negative for fear of not being invited again.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Consumer Reports bought a Tesla for review, and when they announced it, they mentioned all the hoops they jumped through to prevent Tesla from knowing that they bought one.
The Non-Babble Intro to Cloud Computing on Linux
> I spent many years in the northern (continental) United States and never encountered a situation where the coolant temperature gauge on an ICE car failed to show normal operating temperature after 10-20 minutes of warm-up time.

Go further North. I have not seen the temperature gauge on my car move since about October, and I have a huge piece of cardboard blocking the entire radiator to stop air flow.
IntelliJ supports multiple languages, primary reason I use it
Yeah I met an owner of one of these and not a single problem was with it...As enthusiasts we read articles to know about what makes something great.

FWIW, NYT is the last place I would go for a good car review ;)
I'm going to throw my opinion/view in here:
Basically back in the mid 2000's there were 2 things that spurred the all-js apps: Google docs and the mobile phone biz. Google showed everyone what a full-on js framework could do in a browser, but there was no available API for people use to build their own tools. Then when phone apps became all the rage, people started developing js/app APIs starting with sproutcore way back when (now called ember.js). Then there's sencha touch, etc. Backbone, etc is sort of an evolution on these themes of having a front end API but for the web.

In terms of going backward, I think that there are some advantages and drawbacks. There clearly a polling/ajax problem when alot of people need to be pinging the server for tiny updates. If all of this can be pushed onto the client (especially requests for html blobs) you reduce server traffic and make things more snappy (no more preloaders). The downside is having all your code on the client. I wonder if there are unsolved security implications to having so much logic on the client. All-in-all for a standard web app, theres nothing wrong with the old school 'keep it on the server' approach. But if you need alot of dynamic "app"-like behavior, then having a front end API will benefit you more in the end.
Ask HN: List of SaaS with number of users?
Does anyone know any sources that list web software and include an estimation of the number of users?
What is the minimum viable blog?
I'm not sure who "they" are, but certainly not the core development team, and Samuel Tesla does not represent them. See for example Rob Pike saying how mind blowing and inspiring Tony Hoare's CSP paper is, how everyone should read it and how it inspired Go[1]. Another example is how Go's regexp implementation has a solid mathematical foundation[2]. Now, those are two examples of quite old programming research being used to good effect in Go, so there is an opening for criticism there. But in general I'm pretty sure the core go devs don't have have anything against programming research nor try to create this false dichotomy.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DtUzH3zoFo
[2] http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
This is already being discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5202138
...and is as useless as showing pushing any car ever made because it ran out of it's primary energy source (usually gasoline).