skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NY Times article didn't pass the sniff test the first time I read it.

If you look at the map on the article, it clearly shows that the writer chose not to charge in Manhattan when remaining range read 79 miles and destination was 73 miles away (he barely made it). Later he leaves Norwich after only charging the car up to 32 miles of range remaining while the destination is 68 miles away... No wonder he ran out and had to be towed after 51 miles.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/02/10/automobiles/10t...

Oddly, some of this data is conveniently excluded from the article. The writer claims Tesla cleared him to drive from Norwich to Milford (68 miles). But he fails to mention that at the time the car reported 32 miles of range remaining (As indicated in the data on the map). Something is very fishy here.
Well then thanks again :)
Here's another article which starts with a .c program and refines it through a series of improvements to end up with a very tiny elf executable:

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

Manually picking out hex opcodes is maybe a bit over the top. A nice assembler like nasm should be "low level enough" while still providing a lot more convenience and flexibility.
One of the cool things about "personal computers", when they were not synonymous with "IBM PC" or x86 box, was that you had total control over every bit and byte that went into them. Sometimes you had to use switches to manually set memory contents, sometimes there was a hard coded 'boot loader' which would do that for you. The coolest demo I think I've seen in this space was an FPGA computer design where the first download into the FPGA made it a serial device that could write memory, and then you erased that and loaded a computer which would then read that memory and execute it.

I believe that one of the reasons the Arduino has the appeal it does is because you can know everything there is to know about the program it is running. That is a lot of fun for a technologist.

It would be fun to have this blog posting written from within a debugger. I always found it intriguing to 'debug a program into existence' as it were.
If you are reading this article, your kid probably doesn’t need preschool
You could always wait till the server gets compromised, then the customers could alert you?
I've generally had success (and love the app due to the user experience and integrated nextbus functionality) but I was getting a message "Rover only works for SF MUNI right now." a few times for a particular route between Berkeley and SF. So at the very least, that text should get changed.

Also, the headline seems wrong since it doesn't seem to support some transit options such as AC Transit. Although, likely the spirit of the headline is that it supports "all" kinds of transit options such as buses, Uber, and bike sharing, but I'm sure that is also incorrect (i.e. does it include ferries? cable cars? private planes? hot air balloons?)

Edit: Actually AC Transit is East Bay and the headline says SF options (rather than SF Bay Area options), so the headline isn't wrong because of that.
Majority of that page tells me who the founders are, their business plan, and their investors, but not a whole lot about what they're going to do to help me.
GitHub exposes public ssh keys for its users
It looks like OP it's just a founder profile. The company's home page[1] is much closer to what you would expect. I was initially thrown off too, though.

[1]http://wevorce.com/
Well, only the boot loader. You could use paper tape after you had that keyed in :)
I wonder how much of that could be due to being less sensitive to danger than they should be. If most of the conditioning was in a context where there were never any severe consequences for failure, you'd expect trainees that were considerably more aggressive than those conditioned in contexts where consequences could include death.
i'm a tad confused. is wefunder related to wevorce? if not, it might be worth saying so, because the names are so similar.
I wouldn't be so sure, it's far more common to peak creatively when you're younger.
> I don't think one can meaningfully say that the "best" entrepreneurs come in one type or another

Of course you can, if the data supports it. If they had explicitly added terms like "the best entrepreneurs generally tend to come from people with many of these attributes" would that make it meaningful?

They were taking those as a given, since it's obvious that they apply when you compile data like this.

Just because a map is not the territory doesn't mean the map isn't useful.

And rejecting the data driven answer and then filling in your own interpretation retroactively is not a good way to arrive at conclusions that turn out to be correct.
That was my take-away as well. In addition to having a relatively stable investment (prime real estate in a popular city should hold value very well), you get to avoid the hassle of booking travel, and can manage your expectations about what you're getting. It's a more exclusive and more-personal place to visit or rest than a hotel, since it can have YOUR art, YOUR bathrobe, etc.
Hiring hardware hacker/Maker for open source HW dev ($15-30/hr, Menlo Park)
I am looking to hire an intern/hardware hacker/Maker in the Bay Area to help me develop open source lab automation hardware. All work will be entirely open source (Creative Commons or other open hardware license TBD) and public from the beginning. There will be no intellectual property.

There are only two real requirements:
* Local to Bay Area. I can provide part time office space in Menlo Park as well as a Techshop and Hacker Dojo membership. Since this work is with hardware you will need to be able to spend at least a day or two a week around the office or hackerspaces.
* The ability to learn extremely quickly. Some prior experience is necessary in electronics, mechanical engineering, and/or embedded software but a formal education is not. It is expected that you are a quick learner and will pick up most skills along the way in:
* Electrical and mechanical design (I will provide access to Altium and Solidworks)
* Large and small scale assembly of electronics
* Mechanical prototyping
* Embedded software development
* FPGA development

This position is a contractor position. I will provide guidance and direction during the development of the hardware but it will be entirely self-driven and largely done remotely at Techshop or HackerDojo. Starts out at around $15-30/hr for 20-40 hours a week as my erratic budget permits. (hourly rate will increase as you gain experience).

If you are a Maker or hobbyist hardware hacker, this is a great opportunity to build a portfolio and gain experience with a wide array of subjects in hardware development and lab automation on someone else's dime. As an example, the first thing you'd work on is converting an open source robotic arm to fully machined and casted metal with custom stepper motor control and power electronics. (Basically, turning http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:387 into a commercial arm like a Staubli)

Contact: akiselev (at domain) openindustrial.org
It took a while to load for me but that may be because a lot of peopel are viewing it. Over all it looks clean, its simple to use and minimalist. If I was forced to add anything I would maybe add a few more tags but thats all I can really think of. I think you've done a really good job from my angle, most of all it works on my moniton which is in portrait and not landscape. Always a bonus!
Where is eat and sleep in this equation? In a gasoline car, it's just sitting around doing nothing while you stop for lunch or sleep.
Azure Worker Role - Exiting Safely
Eventually, market pressures will result in new accepted standards for training with greater utilization of simulators. Hopefully, there won't be any deaths resulting from using too much simulator training.
Would like to read about your company, but something on this site is causing my browser to jack my CPU, and I'm unable to continue. FF18.0.2 on Ubuntu.
I would agree it's a myth that being 20 years old and ignorant of your own inexperience is a formula for success in Silicon Valley.

That being said, this article seems to have a bit of a slant against that demographic. I think it's a wonder so many of the people that age succeed the way they do, given their competition.

I'd also point out that Paul Graham has a good point when he talks about some of the advantages being under 25 has if you make a startup - for instance, that you're more likely to learn more tools and not become "set in your ways" so to speak.
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Well the title seems a bit childish (since obviously everybody on HN knows it's a terrible idea.) Why don't you change to post title to more appropriately reflect what you were trying to propose as an alternative.
Fair point. We wanted to express our excitement, but maybe it came off sort of generic. Our video is a work in progress-- thanks for the tip!
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That always stood out to me in Ender's Game. Especially when Ender had to learn the lesson to not be so flippant with the units under his command.
I imagine that short of someone who is a rabid fan of a particular speaker (e.g. Edward Tufte), it is unlikely that anyone off-campus is likely to find out about a particular lecture. Similarly, there's likely no reason to need to care.
I don't see why this should be so hard. They could use Google Maps to do the walking path and then just apply a default walking speed (or even let you set yours) to calculate walking time.
I'm really glad to see more folks discussing Celluloid and actor-model based concurrency in Ruby, too!

If you liked this article, you may also enjoy "A gentle introduction to actor-based concurrency"(*), which shows how to solve the dining philosopher's problem using Ruby threading primitives, celluloid, and a made-from-scratch actor model similar to what is shown in this article:

https://practicingruby.com/articles/shared/plgjjonrkggl

Disclaimer: I am the editor for practicingruby.com, and this is one of our contributed articles (from Alberto Fernandez-Capel).
When Zipcar gets a hold of Google's self-driving cars, then you won't even have to wait around at the recharging stations. You can just jump into the next available fully-charged car, and off you go. With a reservation, the entire route could be automatically planned ahead of time with railroad-esque precision. You heard it here first!
Oh gods. Oh, dear, gods.

First things first, the word they're looking for is gender, not sex. Sex is one's biology and matters in a handful of cases (such as certain medical procedures and intimate relationships) where as gender is how one presents one's self. Gender is the thing that they are attempting to differentiate by here. And there aren't just two either. What is a potential participant is neither male nor female? Or both? Congrats, you've just managed to alienate a whole bunch of people who've just had it reinforced that they've no place in society.

Second, the reaction to a "gender battle" shouldn't be something to be applauded or goaded on. Placing people in a group based on their gender and pitting them against each other is at best going to affect the decisions of the judges based on pre-existing prejudcies (conscious or otherwise) and at worst reinforce the ideals that lead to comments like "Why are you out of the kitchen?".

So yeah. This is a bad thing and the organisers should feel bad.
But they aren't really using the city services either.
Apple, Google nearly tied as top contributors to WebKit as adoption expands
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Another point: Wevorce not only has to convince both parties that an amicable divorce is best, but they have to overcome possible influence from friends/family/lovers as well. This is quite an accomplishment.
This actually isn't the homepage of Wevorce, which you can find here: http://wevorce.com/

We (Wefunder) are featuring Wevorce as startup of the week. We focus on the founders because we love the team and want to present the company from their angle.

We should probably do a better job of clearly separating the Wefunder and Wevorce brands.
Wackier than TED. Entertaining at least.
Not the radiator/cooling fan(s), the climate control system/vent fan(s.
I had dinner with Bill a few times in the 1980s. Discussions were intense. Somewhat too much of trying to prove ourselves (both our faults).

I only talked once w/ Steve for a couple of minutes, in the same era. He seemed like a jerk.
Who's Manipulating Apple Stock With This iWatch Story?
The plugin can sometimes take a while to catch up to the latest in PyCharm, and with PyCharm you get an experience tailored to the language. (Download the trials for both and check out the differences).
A predictable response, but while I see the point regarding the "tone-deafness" of the message, I think it's also indicative that the attitude behind our "culture" has gone too far towards "holy crap anything that could possibly make anyone feel left out or even appear discriminatory to even the most oversensitive individuals must be utterly terrible and unconscionable."

Your research, to me, makes that a pretty safe bet. A woman who's big on females in tech helps organize it, and without bothering to find this out, everyone screams horrible endemic life-ending sexism at the sight of it. Oops.

I'm not suggesting we shouldn't decry discrimination. I am suggesting we should think and ask before we decide to burn people at the stake for attempting to have a little fun at the expense of a topic some people can't seem to deal with in a moderate and rational manner.
But for all of that, liquid hydrocarbons offer among the best weight/volume energy storage capacity available to us. The alternatives: EVs, LNG, hydrogen, compressed air, flywheels, etc., just don't hack it. For an efficiency perspective, the next best bet is human-powered vehicles, but these aren't an option for all people. Transit and dense infrastructures are your next best bet.

While I see us moving from fossil fuel, I still see liquid fuels playing an important role in mechanized transit (ground, water, air) for as long as we're technologically capable of doing so.
Show HN: Machines - Local Port Forwardings on Steroids
It does seem colossally stupid to drive a 79+ mile trip when the meter says you only have 32 miles left.

There are issues with how Tesla reports its charge and maintains it charge, but, seriously, why try a trip that the car is telling you you cannot make? (EDIT: and that's after the car has been over-reporting its range for you the whole time. What, did you think it suddenly flipped the way it makes mistakes??)

ANOTHER EDIT: The writer says in his article: "after an hour they cleared me to resume the trip to Milford." The trip wasn't 79+ miles, it was about 46 + 11 miles. I wonder if it's going to be he-said-she-said about whether he was approved to make the drive.
Based upon reports, it is my understanding that people who abuse the flag button lose the option.

It is my impression that high karma does preclude people from flagging particular topics based upon their biases and preferences.
Here's some advice to the founders: as a man I wouldn't use a site where it shows a graphic of a father being torn away from his wife AND child.
Our culture is badly broken. When "the social contract" for broad swathes of society is so little regarded that lying is a matter of course, then we have already reached worrying levels of dysfunction, of the sort that historians point out when they discuss the fall of the Roman Empire, Czarist Russia, or the USSR. A point all of those have in common: The denizens came to assume public information was false as a matter of course, as a time and sanity saving measure. Large swathes of our society think of lying, even when deceiving large swathes of the public, as a kind of sport, and profiting from such lying as a kind of serendipitous fortune to be exploited without conscience, like finding cash on the sidewalk.

Such attitudes are shoved in my face when I see exclamations like, "Pictures or it didn't happen!" It's the same when big media corporations trade in innuendo and conspiracy theories and deliberately sabotage the dissemination of knowledge for their own ends. Such attitudes are so pervasive, that large swathes of the population actually disbelieve in any kind of objective truth, and accept mere social proof as its substitute and superior.

It's entirely possible that the journalist in question is innocent of deception and only guilty of poor journalism and/or poor trip planning and/or insufficient UI design. However, the issue with the review and that of the social contract are entirely related. In a world where reality itself is relative and subject to social proof, there is no need to double check your facts or to prove the null hypothesis. In a world where science is just another fabricated self-serving belief system, there's no need to apply one's scientific literacy or application of physics learned in school when doing things like taking a car trip in winter. One only need know enough to read the dials and gauges to be a good consumer, then complain loudly if things do not go one's way.

True competence, be it in programming or journalism or any significant endeavor, requires diligence with and prostration to the truth. Our society as a whole has forgotten this and our society as a whole is oblivious to the price it is paying as a consequence.

Another way to think of it: Our society as a whole doesn't have the epistemological foundation needed for the level of technical sophistication it has.
I've had and heard about about enough encounters with journalists to say that while they may not outright lie, they will twist or omit facts to fit whatever angle they have in mind for the story. Often it's just somewhat annoying to those who know the whole story, other times it paints a completely wrong picture. But as a reader it's difficult to spot this because you usually don't have the entire background story.
All of what you said is true, but what people who buy these cars read is

"Only a four hour difference for not using gas? Sign me up!"

I see what you mean about convenience, but a lot of people will forgo that. Besides, if you're traveling 1000 miles, why does 4 hours matter unless you have a hard deadline and need to travel straight through?
Implying that the the oil and auto industries have gotten to the NYT is a serious accusation. Incidentally, the NYT is sticking by its story and has called Musk's accusations "flatly untrue".
An important clarification but I still feel great pride at fellow gamers showing people what's what.
And to also answer my own query, programmableweb.com seems to be the best resource.
Do we have an easy way of finding other HN members nearby, or was that more similar to e-mailing patio11 if you happened to move to central Japan, since we know (already) that that's where he is?
This was the reason to allow squats in Amsterdam. It was 'legal' to squat a building or appartment that had been empty for 12 months. Moreover, the burden of proof (for new plans with the building and/or use in the preceding 12 months) was on those seeking to evict.

Now squatting is illegal again.
Thanks. I agree the filters are pretty limited. It was a wrong design decision (the drop down are too big and thus reduced space for more filters).
The biggest ongoing problem is going to be CO2 emissions. Given few alternatives to ICEs (EVs and hybrid vehicles are available, but unsubsidized TCO remains higher, and even accounting for carbon costs may be higher, I'd have to research that), we're going to have liquid-fueled vehicles for a long time.

The real question is where that fuel will be sourced.
Ah I see. Thank you for clarifying that. I was operating under the assumption this was showcasing a startup.
So, i'm a little confused. Whats the downside of this:
curl -O https://github.com/<username>.keys

Does Github just want us to use the API Method? http://developer.github.com/v3/users/keys/#list-public-keys-...
Yes, that makes much more sense. Thanks for the link.
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I wasn't sure of that either. I'd prefer to curl it myself.
Ask HN: Email + FAQ + Manual + FAQ + Bugs?
Right now, I use a hodgepodge of services for user support. Can I replace all or most of this with a good SaaS solution?

* Google Group for public support group

* respond to private emails and Olark chats

* advise people to post feature ideas on UserVoice

* track bug reports in a Google Spreadsheet

* wiki for user manual, which gets formatted for web and mobile, and an generate a PDF

The issues with my system are:

* the user support process should drive the wiki updates more

* too many moving parts, fragmented support venues

* Google Groups seems lame

* UserVoice ideas separate from bug-tracking

* don't like telling users in email to post to UserVoice
Why not make it super efficient and simply assign members a person to whom they are legally obligated to pay support? There's too much latency if you actually have to go through all of the steps.
Haha awesome! My approach is actually pretty hacky - I just have an array of random words that I select from and then search amazon for :)
These are good suggestions, thanks!
Oversights now will ensure that we can't use this system when we have the capability of storing that many petabytes in RAM.

By then, maybe the founders of this system won't even be alive.
But it seems pretty obvious that these measures haven't fixed it.

In addition, it doesn't seem to be so much the high karma people that are the problem, rather the large numbers of low karma people who exercise their unfettered use of the flag button liberally and inappropriately.

Frankly, I don't see a good reason why flagging exists in the first place. Unrestricted downvoting is really what has made Reddit's community such a miserable morass, and flags are barely any better.
Good clarification, that point was lacking in the title and most of the article.
That's good, as according to everyone in this thread, all journalists do is lie and every action they take is malicious.
It's Gordon Ramsay's campaign to 'Get Women Back in the Kitchen' applied to code.
Site looks neat, like Goodreads for games
What are the odds of creating an intentional SHA-1 collision in a chosen plaintext situation?
Well either way, cool way to retrieve keys.
CO2 emissions is coupled to gasoline, not ICEs. Hydrogen ICEs do not give off CO2.
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"so she could help make sure other children didn’t have to go through a similar traumatic experience."

If her goal is to help other children avoid going through this wouldn't the better problem to tackle be how to lower the number of divorces? Any divorce, no matter how "smooth" the process is is going to be painful for the kids.
Future features of next gen computers
Can we stop acting like this is a problem when $5 chemicals off the shelf at your local auto parts store fixes this problem?
HN, what do you think of my weekend project?
i can't actually explain why it works but it does work. I think it is result of both of the buggy regular expressions.
What are you going to do when whatever you're currently using has a security problem?

Moving off Rails is not a panacea
Good luck selling that to the rest of the residents; property taxes are pretty unpopular even compared to income taxes.

And really, the better way to look at it is that the property tax paid by some multi-billionaire who only drops into town for a few weekends a year is all profit for the city. They're not using services. They're not sending their kids to public school or generating garbage or calling the police ... whatever they pay to the city each year is just gravy. They're subsidizing people who actually do live there, and would otherwise have to pay more taxes (of one form or another) for the actual services that NYC provides.