skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, sit down, and let me elaborate on why this is a bad idea.

I was going to post a kneejerk reaction, namely "This idea is bad and you should feel bad", but that wouldn't help the discussion.

So let me assume you mean the best. Let me assume you want to encourage a better gender balance. And let me tell you that this is a terrible way to go about it.

Aside from the points elaborated in other comments -- and let me stress the "industry rife with sexism, inequality, and bro-culture rudeness" -- this flies in the face of the hacker ethic. To wit:

* Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position

Now, I can hear the defense mechanism riling up right now: "But wait," you say, "we're not judging participants based on their gender, we're just teaming them up that way. The judging will be fair!" And I believe you believe that, with the best of intentions. Nonetheless, you've automatically broken the blindness and impartiality of the judges, simply because they know that it's an uneven distribution. Think of it like a scientific experiment where everyone knows where the placebo is. It doesn't matter who wins; everyone loses, because one side will claim the other got some special consideration. Imagine if you did the same thing, only with college-grads vs. self-taught hackers. If the judge is from Stanford, you lose.

At best, this will fizzle, or go off unremarkably. At worst, you're actively making worse exactly the problem you're trying to fix. At best, this is a trite idea ('boys vs girls' is overdone, schoolyard, and simplistic). At worst, it's actively discriminatory.

Be more creative. You recognize a problem, but this isn't the answer.
NewsBlur is an open source alternative that's worked great for me over the past year or so. Even if GR isn't destined to be shut down, NewsBlur's worth the switch just for the Intelligence feature.
Show HN: Chrome extension for collapsible and alternating colored comments on HN
I got bored over the weekend and made a chrome extension for better HN reading. Inspired by reddit enhancement suite. Here's my code if you want to fiddle with it. https://github.com/louisinhongkong/Collapsible-comments-for-Hacker-News/
Most of these statements are so vague that she might as well not have made them. That was his point. The article doesn't give any real insight into her thought process, unless her thought process was indeed as shallow as this collection of interviews makes it out to be, which I doubt.
> 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.

To indict someone, you don't have to prove your interpretation of the facts. You have to present evidence that supports your interpretation of the facts. The fact that he hid is face is perfectly reasonable evidence to suggest he knew he was accessing MIT resources he should not have, sufficient to support an indictment.

Now, maybe he could have argued that he nonetheless didn't know it wasn't meant for public access. I doubt the prosecutor would have believed that claim, or a jury. I don't believe it, and I honestly don't think you believe it either. So why drag us both down this ridiculous hypothetical?

The miscarriage of justice here is that they dropped the trespassing charge because the CFAA charge was so much more lucrative. There is no reason a minor network intrusion should carry a firmer penalty than an equivalent physical trespass. I wholeheartedly agree on that point. But to make the stronger argument that Aaron did nothing wrong, you have to put aside common sense to the point where you're arguing that a grown man didn't know he wasn't supposed to be doing something when even a child could have parsed the situation correctly.
ICEs are, at their core, plenty elegant. The trouble is efficiency and low emissions are not their strong points.

I would argue that efficiency and low emissions do not preclude something from being elegant. Steam plants can also be elegant, and they can be extremely efficient and low-emissions, but a steam plant cannot be bolted onto a motor car or a small aeroplane for which a turbine would be inappropriate. All forms of heat engines have their upsides and downsides.

Anyway, at the end of the day, consumers don't care one iota about engineering elegance.
One problem I have with your second quote is that "speed of iteration," like intelligence of employees, is not in and of itself enough to make the result good for the product. The latter requires that the employees understand the target audience and their needs. The former requires that your iterations are moving in a direction that satisfies your target demographic, and if it doesn't, this isn't just not beneficial: Your speed of iteration becomes directly detrimental to the product.
Nice I like the uber / sidecar / instantcab integrations.

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The Next Xbox Has Mandatory Kinect, Game-Swapping and New Controllers
Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages
Smart Data: For Personalized Communications, Big Data Becomes Transformational
When Google's self-driving cars get off the ground, maybe we'll one day have a network of on-the-road recharging bots.
You don't have a “passion for writing” if you don't write
Well, the character she modeled was according to her "A Hickman with a purpose. And without the degeneracy. It is more exact to say that the model is not Hickman, but what Hickman suggested to me." Rand certainly didn't advocate killing children.

She admired one quality of Hickman's. In some ways this is actually a mature way of viewing the world. People aren't black and white-even supposed heroes like Gandhi had incredible flaws.

That's not to say her philosophy was right or wrong. Rand experienced significant powerlessness and oppression during her childhood, and a lot of her ideas seem to be a reaction to what she saw and felt in Communist Russia. After having the ideals of altruism and collectivism forced on her for several years, it's hardly surprising that she would admire one someone who completely ignored societal rules.

In fact, ordinary people do this all the time. Villains in movies are considered cool. Many Australian icons were basically criminals. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was enormously successful. And so on.

So, it's not really fair to take a few lines out of context and conclude Rand supported sociopathy. Yes, her philosophy was centered around selfishness-but she consistently supported helping others and argued that long term self-interest and long-term societal interest end up in the same place.
I got bored over the weekend and made a chrome extension for better HN reading. Inspired by reddit enhancement suite. Here's my code if you want to fiddle with it. https://github.com/louisinhongkong/Collapsible-comments-for-...
Doesn't seem like that solves the fundamental problem though. You could have django issues or whatever just down the pipe.
Or issues lower down the stack.
The first pictures of iPhone 5S
The car has a GPS on it, and (for owners) theres a REST API from Tesla that will relay its coordinates to you. I assume they are logging positions when logging is enabled.
a tool that exposes most of its options and features through a wide swath of icons and giant tree of menus leading to various dialog boxes of doom

To a certain class of developer, not exposing every feature in this way is a CRITICAL SECURITY BUG. See: http://web.archive.org/web/20040701202236/http://www.worldte...
Everyone wins in a proper argument.
This is why range extenders will stay popular even as battery technology improves.

In ten years' time, I predict that straight battery-only electric vehicles will cost less than the gasoline equivalent and be VERY popular as commuter vehicles because gasoline prices will be over $6/gallon (especially if we build the Keystone XL pipeline to send more oil overseas).

One car in many households will likely require some kind of range extender, which increases the purchase and maintenance costs. There's a reason why SUVs are so rare in Europe: we've been spoiled by cheap gasoline in America.
I took it one step further and integrated rotation into the mix:

check it out.
http://codepen.io/JAStanton/pen/meDLB

too far?
Sounds like interesting ideas to test out in the context of a company... good luck to you!
Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles
> This won't make any difference unless the thermostat is open

Actually, it makes a huge difference as it stops an enormous amount of very cold air going through/around the radiator onto the engine. Everyone up here does it, else cars would not be warm enough to run properly.

> Have you had your thermostat checked to make sure it's not stuck open?

Of course. Everything works great in summer when it's ~+25C

To give you a better understanding of how cold -50C actually is, I can drive for an hour, get out and put my hand directly on the exhaust manifold of my 4-cyl East-West engine (exhaust at front for cooling) and it's only just warm to the touch.

It's cold. Very cold.
This is petty compared to the purpose of the startup, but the typography/use of ligatures on the site is fantastic.
I'd bet there are insurance contracts suited for those apartments.
Or "Gone in 60 Seconds"... =)

Sorry. Couldn't resist.
How can someone do the same drive unless the temperature and weather conditions are the same?
Show HN: We used Animoto to make this video of Moupp - brilliant tool.
We used to do it with toggle switches, back in the day (long before ELF binaries existed, though).
Why somebody got divorced is the kind of info that could be very helpful when trying to set them up with someone new. If you knew the factors that led to the first couple being a match, you could really adjust the algorithm to detect dealbreakers.
Ask HN: Please give me feedback on my web App (Beta)
"Wevorce is already having success. While living in Idaho, Michelle ran a beta test. She put 104 families through the system and only one went to court."

This was the part that was most surprising to me. That's an incredibly good success rate (albiet with a small test) for something that's trying to mediate such a polarized situation. All it takes is either party not being satisfied with what they got to push it to court, so it must be extremely good at helping both sides feel comfortable with the outcome.
It seems that Emmy Rossum prefered Reddit's version, not the version you prefer.

Emmy Rossum went to reddit for an AMA, and used the site's commenting functionality to ask people not to be rude. She did not cancel her AMA, ask to have the rude comments deleted, etc.
I read this on the YC iPhone app. I prefer the native app because it's a vastly more suitable experience than the browser version.
All but two of these things have ceased to be a problem for many years. Gasoline cars of today are extremely reliable and generally very quiet. The primary source of wear is road abuse on the chassis, given you keep up on oil, and any engine requires lubrication. The primary source of noise on the freeway is wind and road noise.

Many of the other issues with gasoline- smell, toxicity, stability- have been largely addressed by the distribution infrastructure.

Oh, by the way, gasoline isn't all that toxic. It is more hazardous for its volatility rather than any poisonous properties for humans.

Last thought- one of the two things that are still an obstacle (performance at extreme altitude) is firstly always going to be an obstacle for any type of combustion engine and secondly addressable with a turbocharger if you care enough.
Many people get stuck at the (X-1).Y release of x.y.z versions. This is because upgrading x-1 to x can be difficult and costly.

So there's a good reason to support both x and x-1, but less of a good case to support y, y-1, AND y-2: those people can more easily upgrade to y-1.

So, as you can see, it's not arbitrary: x and x-1 are supported, y and y-1 are supported. Just no series as of two revisions ago.
I've never lost a house because of a flood or hurricane or whatever, but I'm pretty sure that governments don't do make-whole reimbursements. Could be wrong..

That said, at least in Canada, I believe that federal, provincial and municipal governments share the burden of paying for restoration after a disaster. That is more or less what you suggest - there's a slight incentive to move away from Manitoba (for example), because they instituted a tax-hike to pay for their last flood. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/04/17/mb-b...
I'm not criticizing, but what's a better alternative to the two mainstream political parties we are currently saddled with?

I'm asking because while I don't belong to any political party, there are aspects of libertarianism that do appeal to me, such as dramatically reducing government spending, government waste, government corruption, and actually observing the constitution.
I've been much happier since I switched from trying to make a better wheel to simply trying to better understand existing wheels (by reinventing them).
Hickman kidnapped and murdered a twelve-year-old girl, cut her body in half, cut off her arms (possibly while she was still alive), and left her body for her father to find while intentionally leading her father to believe she was still alive.

Don't you find it just a tad bit strange that of all the people in the world, Rand chose to worship and defend this particular man?

It's not like there weren't plenty of individualists throughout history that weren't nearly as sociopathic.

There's more on Rand's worship of Hickman here:

http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/romancing-the-stone-c...

She described Hickman as "born with a wonderful, free, light consciousness -- [resulting from] the absolute lack of social instinct or herd feeling. He does not understand, because he has no organ for understanding, the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people ... Other people do not exist for him and he does not understand why they should."

Isn't that just beautiful?
My favourite programming quotes
Yes, but I wasn't so much conjuring up his response, I'm quoting him directly from the linked bug report :)
Even though I hate it, install the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension and enable the comment navigator and navigate via submitter. Or ctrl-f for "[s]"
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No. There's a reason why racers love cold air intakes, and it's not for efficiency, it's because you get to burn more fuel and thus make more power!

The extra fuel comes automatically because modern EFI (electronic fuel injection) motors use several sensors in a feedback loop to ensure that the air:fuel ratio is 14.7:1

There is an air temp sensor and compensation that adds roughly 1% fuel for every 10F drop in temperature. Then the oxygen sensor in the exhaust system measures whether combustion is hitting the 14.7:1 target and adds or subtracts fuel accordingly.
It looks like you've found a niche that works for you. I would be really interested in seeing a follow up blog post on the statistics (downloads, sales, usage metrics) of MUDRammer.

Used FHYW7K9TJYEX.
If success isn't a matter of luck, it also isn't a sign of natural superiority over those who are less successful, or the great universal ease of becoming successful.

I don't say this to be bitter, but let's have a little empathy with the many, many people in the world who work hard and still do not catch that many breaks. For example, no one doubts the greatness of Thomas Jefferson, but it would have been different for one of his field slaves to profess industriousness.
So what, people are trying to stop something bad, child pornography should not be tolerated
Bad Founder DNA:

- Predatory Aggressiveness
- Excuse Making
- Deceit
- Emotional Instability
- Narcissism

I see much more than I'd care for, of the above in the Bay Area, most of which manifests as a doppelganger of good qualities and/or ideas. There's a lot of Predatory Aggressiveness which takes the form of scoring points or humiliating others, deniably disguised or justified by some principle like "Just Say No," but which comes with a degree of smugness more suited to Reality TV than to a group of intellectuals genuinely trying to change society. This is often seen in combination with Narcissism and Deceit, where a self conception as a superior entitles someone to receive good fortune and to mete emotional abuse to others, and justifies (at first) small lies so long as they serve an ultimate "good" goal.

You see this happen with "scenes," like a music scene or an art scene. When a scene is new and truly obscure, everyone is genuinely open and supportive. Newcomers are welcomed and encouraged, as colleagues whom one can talk in common with about generally misunderstood ideas. When success and significant money starts to ramp up the competition, things change. Values change. Much of this isn't really "bad" so much as necessary: Fame and money invariably attract undesired attention.
You could have something like * [* FooType#4]
"'I let other people maintain and store the stuff I use'"

Sounds like a business model. I'd pay for it.
Ouch. Sorry about that. :-(
I have to wonder how many of those tests are merely performing the kinds of checks that the compiler would automatically perform were a compiled language like, say, C# or Java being used instead of Ruby.
Disclaimer: I'm not in a position to use this startup, but my parents divorced when I was young.

I'm going to be that guy. I really don't like this startup, or at least how it's presented.

I have never seen a startup's front page focus so exhaustively on a founder's background. After reading about her story I'm not motivated to look elsewhere.

Her story garners a lot of sympathy, but how does the company work? That's all I care about when I go to a website's page. And it's not immediately presented. What I'm hit with first is the name, tagline, graphic and founder's story. I get that she went through divorce. The part about the judge is particularly riveting. But I, personally, don't feel it is as professional as it could be. It doesn't need to be cold, but this is trying very hard to be relatable.

I'm not trying to be cruel, I'm just being honest. I hope I don't offend the founders.
There so many moving parts that this could either be a great tool to analyze data or it could open up a can of worms which could lead down the road to network re-architecture. If this takes into account best effort or SLA based ISP, Network topology, QoS, Packet Prioritization, etc then I think it could be a useful tool. Without it it's just a tool that spits out pretty pictures. If your main selling point is data then it has to be more than just what latency can show.
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Voice & Exit is an upcoming conference featuring twelve short talks about major innovation in social entrepreneurship and radical community. Parallels SXSW, Austin, March 9.
Suggest HN & PG: Fix the flag button
The flag button on HN is broken and needs to be fixed.

It seems like a good idea at first glance. Unfortunately, it instead ends up stifling discussion by allowing a limited cadre of people to remove posts that, while still interesting to most of us, they don't like. The most notable recent example is the rapid flagging of positive Surface Pro reviews, which consistently showed up below posts that had less upvotes and had been around longer.

It has a few main problems:

- Anyone can do it.

- A flag seems to negate more than one upvote.

- Flags are consistently used to silence discussion that some people don't like.

There have been several popular pleas recently to stop using the flag button inappropriately. While these may have had some effect, some people will continue to use it inappropriately, no matter how much we ask them not to. The flag has good intentions, but it's simply used as an extra-powerful downvote by many.

There are two immediately obvious solutions:

- Remove the flag button entirely.

- Add a significant karma threshold to the flag button. Since high-karma HN users are more likely to be active on the forum anyway, a small number of high-karma users can keep the spam off the site, while preventing a small number of users from preventing the community from organically choosing these to prominently display.

These fixes will not overrun HN with spam for the following reasons:

- Most users only see the frontpage. It already takes a large amount of upvotes in a short amount of time to reach the front page, and spam wouldn't generally achieve that.

- Spam generally doesn't show up on the new submissions page, indicating it's not being submitted that much in the first place.

- The moderators are quite vigilant when it comes to high-profile content. This can be readily seen by their constant retitling of posts that hit the front page. The tiny amount of spam that might hit the front page would be easily and quickly squashed.
If you want to do long trips you could change the battery. The battery of the Tesla S is flat and on the floor, attached with a few screws..

Changing it takes seconds, the entire operation more or less like going to the gas station to fuel a conventional car.
Would likely help with the whole 'sound attracting x kind of post-apocalyptic monsters/raiders' thing, at least a little, too.
These articles are good because they show beginners new projects to tackle. If you know them then more power to you. But dont assume everyone else does.
Just don't hate yourself for it. I was the opposite way: I didn't realize how ridiculous I was early in my 20's until I hit my 30's, and the fact that you already know it does put you ahead of the game (i.e. your peers).

Keep going cautiously, but always keep going. You have a great attitude.
If I'm not mistaken, CR buys all the cars they review, unlike most news organizations, who get loaners and/or expenses paid junkets.

The most likely reason is that they didn't want Tesla to cherry pick the best unit they had available to ensure a positive review.
But Tesla explicitly says that even while they recommend it, you don't have to plug in over night: "The Model S battery will not lose a significant amount of charge when parked for long periods of time. For example, Model S owners can park at the airport without plugging in." And that the temperature make no difference: "Model S is engineered to perform in both hot and cold climates." (http://www.teslamotors.com/models/facts)
We stop every 1.5 hours, when possible, for stretch/potty breaks, and every 3 hours or so for food. I think that planning your meals around charging isn't such a bad idea.

They'd likely need more charging ports, though, in the long term.
Challenge Accepted.
-- Couple app team W12 :)
Where does philosophy end and mental illness begins?
The "if you don't, then somebody else will" argument only applies if you're in a commodity market: A market with a lot of players selling the same product, or a market where there are few barriers to entry keeping out people who sell an interchangeable product.

Much of the world inhabited by HN'ers is not like this. If you have a typical software or web product, then a competitor would have to spend substantial resources developing code that duplicates your functionality, and then they have to worry about the head-start the first mover has in branding and network effects.