skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I rather enjoy driving my car; and I would enjoy driving a Tesla, too, and they're not [as] bad [supposedly] for the environment. Or at least their badness is a one-off rather than a continual thing. To each their own, I suppose.

That said, I frequently train myself to drive just a little bit better in just a little bit harsher conditions. Learn where my car's tires limits for sliding are, and learn how they gradually change over time as the tires wear down. Learn how much I can accelerate at a given moment at a given speed, so that I can use that for avoiding an obstacle. Learn how efficiently I can brake and turn under braking, so I know how well I can avoid other kinds of obstacles.

It's an experience, to me, to drive a car, and control it and tell it where to go; and the only way I've ever gotten better at it was to actually drive and drive quite a lot, in many unique situations. Rain, snow, heavy traffic, low traffic, light, dark, fog, low visibility, high visibility, and so on.

But meh, to each their own.

Back on topic. I think we need proper drivers education that has a physical foot-to-pedal, hand-to-wheel sort of education for our drivers :/
Thanks! Yeah I'd like to revisit this benchmark soon (I'm actually working on rendering choropleths on the GPU now). I'm working on a database paper that will hopefully be ready for VLDB submission by next month - that would probably be the best.

In terms of CS background - nothing formal except for AP comp sci I took in high school like 12 years ago. However I've always loved hacking on things on the side, and a combination of my research on the Middle East/burning desire to make an Iphone app kind of got me back into it. Then to be fair I took a GPU Graphics class (basically OpenGL) at Harvard and then a Database course at MIT while doing my Masters in ME Studies, which is where this project started.
Many of these books are out-of-print for a reason - they're not really relevant in todays tech landscape. There's a few gems in here though.
Nice! I've been wanting to know if Visual studio was resolution independent or not. Being implemented in WPF, this was always a possibility, but I could find no evidence on the web.
It's not quite as easy, because if you're using, say, Intel graphics, you get maybe two clock signals, so you'd likely have to use your own. (Although you said AMD and discrete mobile GPUs :-))

In addition, the laptops that use eDP (Chromebook Pixel, which uses https://www.revo-sys.com/prodimages/LCD-Display-Panel/LG-12....) are using those lanes (and probably the aux lanes) for the primary touchscreen display. The external display interface is going to be pretty vanilla (mini-DP IIRC).
The list of out of print books is twice as long as those still in print.
I like the way you've implemented this but what practical advantages does it have over adding the line

alias zack=ack -i --ignore-dir node_modules --nojs

to your .bashrc (or .zshrc or whatever) file?
kill -9 Word

Need I say more? :-)
That said, youth need experience, we are not ready made adults and have to suffer the consequence of our mistakes to learn much of the time.

I wonder if an argument could be made that the observed phenomenon of extended adolescence is a direct result of the excessive sheltering of youth.
This makes more sense every year:

It gets easier to run a business from home. Your website is your front door for customers, so you need not have a real receptionist & office, and cloud services just keep improving.

And, when you work at home, at something you love (your own business), you have no problem motivating yourself to work nights, after the kids are tucked in. And, mixing work time with kid time gives you good, rewarding breaks.

And, explaining my business issues to my kids gives me great practice in better communication, & better clarity on my own goals, and smarter, more aware kids.

That said, this works much easier with school-age kids. When they are under 4, it's much much harder to work while taking care, as they need so much more care.
Is your data relational? I can import anything from Postgres, MySQL, Solr (but has to be flattened), or shapefiles. If you tell me more perhaps I could put it into the system for you and we could try it out.
By commenting here you just proved that google has trouble identifying these kinds of sites algorithmically.
Ditto. In fact, for spontaneous events, I am often THE CAR for my friends! How's that for irony. Especially for the night-owl crowd and exploring person, a car provides an enabler for spontenaity.

Other things made easier with a car:

* getting to a mountain to hike
* getting to the mountain for extreme sports
* long distance travel on a whim
* going /anywhere/ on a whim that's further than a walk away, especially when
time tables are involved (see: movies)
* getting to a location where your fun activity is located.
Example: owning a horse and getting to their stable.
I had two, almost simultaneous reactions to this.

On the one hand "oooh, that's useful, I need another set for loaning to cat-sitters."

On the other hand, "Keys are worthless now!"

The gripping hand is that keys have been worthless for quite some time, but we continue to use them. Whether out of habit, or because they feel sufficient.
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Another factor to consider is the continual improvements in roads. For example, when I was younger, the main local freeway narrowed to two lanes with a dangerously sharp turn between me and the nearest major city. Over the past decade+, the freeway has constantly widened, with easier, more sweeping turns, better banking, better surface texture and maintenance, etc.
Link?

OK, found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression_ratio

Which includes this section on "Usage of the term": "There is some confusion about the term 'compression ratio', particularly outside academia and commerce. In particular, some authors use the term 'compression ratio' to mean 'space savings', even though the latter is not a ratio; and others use the term 'compression ratio' to mean its inverse, even though that equates higher compression ratio with lower compression."

So, my bad, however in my practical workplace experience the above (in italics) has been the case, hence the confusion.
Ask HN: Successful mobile/web dev. studios in the bay
I need to contract out an app. to enhance visitor experience at a gallery in SF. Any ideas/suggestions on who might be a good fit? Does anyone have any experience with outsourcing app. development abroad(India et. all)
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It sounds like those are tools I could use to set up continuous builds on my own boxes -- I'm looking for a service I can just throw some code at, not instructions for setting up my own system.
while i don't disagree with the sentiments of the op, the other reason why ideas get shot down - or otherwise filtered out by management has to do with what Clayton Christensen calls the resource allocation process. see Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution.
Definitely 'the cathedral and the bazaar' which is imho a classic.
It could be this company:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22writing+for+blogs+stories...

For example:

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http://www.moneymakergroup.com/Jobs-real-Writing-Job-t427002...

Based in Las Vegas, Nevada we are a company looking for qualified individuals to help out with writing tasks such as:

- short stories

- movie scripts

- sales scripts

- articles

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- PR websites

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.....

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The fruit-calculus? :-)

Think about what your laptop is doing that we would have had no hope of doing with desktop Linux just a few years ago (if ever, depending on the hardware).

Sharing access to video capture and audio hardware between software written (sort of) by Apple, Microsoft (Skype, so -ish), Spotify, etc. would have been unthinkable. You would have been restarting your primary machine if you made the mistake of starting any two apps that tried to grab your QuickCam at the same time.
It's cloud.
Good for you, you got out in time.
I feel as though that idea is related to test-driven development
I'm sorry for your family. I'm a little freaked out by how many people think gigantic SUVs are great "safe" cars for bad drivers. They're really prone to rolling and generally have way too much power, so whether they're safe for the driver is questionable and they're certainly not safe for everyone around them. My neighbor pressed the wrong pedal one day and drove into my house. I and most of my friends learned to drive on crappy old cars that had trouble getting up steep hills.

Anyway, I think maturity is something you gain by being in situations that require it. I'm not sure that keeping everyone in a padded room until they're 25 will result in fully mature adults walking out.
I honestly didn't enjoy Diablo II the FPS with lulz maymays very much. (I'm exaggerating, but doing so to illustrate my beefs with the Borderlands series.)
But how clean is a "shared" car? I'm not one of those hand sanitizer people but the thought of sharing a car with 100s of people makes me a little queasy. Would you check the headrest for lice? The other thing is reliability. Read the Car2Go reviews, people get stranded in the heat or you follow the app's map and find out the car is behind a gate. Transportation needs to be reliable.

But besides that, it'll be a long time before we have driverless cars because governments, insurance companies, oil companies, road construction, they would all lose money, lots of resistance. If cars never crash, how do you sell auto insurance? If nobody speeds, how do you write tickets? LOL.
I take st johns wart mixed with 5-htp coupled with a 40 minute walk every day (or more exercise) to help mediate those kinds of thoughts. I don't know your situation but hopefully that can help.
What would happen if we encountered very advanced beings from another world ? How would we determine whether they were robots or really living/conscious. They would talk, they might say they are alive.

They may have metallic bodies, is there anything to say that conscious beings cannot.
What's a "medium.com" and why is it all over HN?
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I didn't like the first episode much either. But it gets much better.
I doubt iPhone CalDAV support is going away though:

> Update March 15, 2013: We worked with the developers who provide 98 percent of our current CalDAV traffic to assure access to the CalDAV API, which means many popular products will not be impacted. We remain committed to supporting open protocols like CalDAV.

This seems like an unrelated, isolated outage. I'm using CalDAV on my iPhone and iPad and haven't had any issues (although I don't use 2-factor authentication like a few of the commenters in the thread).
I'm Tyler, the main programmer for the human testing side of the project. In other words, I made the applet you will be playing!

The game that you play is intentionally vague in order to avoid the issue of prior knowledge in the tester. As a result, the game can be a bit frustrating. This is all part of the experience, as you struggle (or find it very easy, as some people do) to figure out what you're supposed to do and how you're supposed to do it.

We will be publishing our results both formally and in a more user-friendly format, so stay tuned to see what we all can learn about the human brain!
I am curious to know in what way have you felt that the Facebook way of rendering your app in an iframe restricts the user experience?
Plastic surgery has gotten better over the years but it's still pretty easy to identify who's gotten it and who hasn't. I shudder to imagine a world where anyone can become as beautiful as they want without others realizing that they've had work done. The societal implications are beyond what my brain can handle.

Apart from false genetic signaling, I'm curious: What do you think will be the most significant effect of widespread plastic surgery?
Ask HN: Company not paying salary on time, what to do?
It's been 2 months since i joined a local startup.
I joined the company at the end of January.
For the first month, i got my salary during the very start of march,
that too on forcibly mailing and chatting with the company.
Now, for the second month it was delayed for 17 days before i got the salary. As an employee, i would want to quit the company based on these problems and would like to quit as soon as possible without serving notice period.
Now, i'm being threatened from the employer saying he can sue me for not serving my notice period.
It states in the offer letter that,
"Your services shall be terminable by either party giving the other two months’ notice. Company may, however, reduce this notice period at its discretion by accepting basic salary in lieu thereof."
So, based on the statement the company can take the salary for the current month and relieve me, if i'm not wrong.
However, offer letter sent was sent to me as a soft copy to my mail during the start, nothing practically signed. Even at that point, to get the offer letter from the company, i had to mail them constantly to get one.
So, the Director of the company is using abusive words on me and threatening me for my relieving.
Just wanted to know, What are the legal protection i can get?
I have the same issue from France. First thing I checked was the blog post announcing the end of CalDAV, and yes, that's September.

Something else is not working right. Google may be testing just how much trouble shutting down CalDAV would cause... Or they may simply have made a mistake.
I just watched that transformation scene, so over-the-top creepy that it absolves the rest of the shows sins. So far.

Shudder.
Simple rule: If it's under 1.0 or expressed as a percentage under 100%, it's a compression ratio. If it's over 1.0, it's a compression factor.

Otherwise, it's not compressed. :-)
But how often does one actually fully understand the problem on the first try? Doesn't one sometimes take the wrong approach one or more times before and learn some things the hard way before he truly understands the actual problem he is trying to solve?
I am using 2-factor auth as well.
Remove any identifiable "footprints" from software you run on your server, like "Powered by wordpress" that should help you out...
Can anyone fill in the geology of this? Geographically, I'd expect an Andes-like volcano from the subduction of the pacific plate, but they're talking about rivers of basalt.
Thanks! Just finished reading the first chapter and I found it to be surprisingly well written.
You forget that this is before a woman would realistically be sure she's pregnant, and definitely before she would be able to get a doctor's appointment. It would effectively mean no abortion, except maybe morning-after pill, but certainly nothing else.

I forget, are catholics OK with morning after ?
Go to bed!
You clearly haven't bothered to learn about their service:

"To calculate the exchange rate for US Dollars, we pull up-to-the-minute BID prices from three exchanges. We take the 2 that are closest together and toss out the third, so that a bad feed from one exchange will not affect our calculation. Of the 2 rates that remain, Bit-Pay uses the highest BID price as our exchange rate. "

Companies don't end up changing prices every minute. Gas stations, for example, are prohibited from changing prices too frequently in many states.

A proper solution has to provide more than one minute of price stability. BitPay doesn't provide longer term price stability.
I blame the over-reliance of the journalism profession on PR to get stories. Few bother to do their research nowadays and access to celebrities, company spokespeople and officials are prised more than actually useful information. You can see it in also in politics, science reporting.

RPS actually looks pretty good with this - maybe the web can provide a solution to this question? PR and paid publications are ultimately boring, even with the best efforts put in by professionals. If opinion and reporting find a better way of getting monetised on the Internet we may see solution for the boring, corrupt and uninformative media we have today.
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I quit my full-time and started consulting literally the day my first was born. My wife went back to part time as well. It did require a bit of downsizing. Worth it.

Living a good life is better than "having the good life".
As much as you guys are going to hate on my comment, well written spintax is an art form.
Here[0] is the implementation if anyone is curious.

[0] https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/blob/master/lib/lib...
It seems to be smooth on my Nexus 4, but interactions do not work so I'm not quite sure.
Favourite would be NuditySearch?
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I think the only way it'll work is if you build a new city from scratch where driving is prohibited. Like Hotel California, you can drive in but you can never drive out ;-)
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And those are...?
I've never heard anything about Finnish driver training - if I were naming a well known exception it would be Germany.
A different take on data skepticism
I'm not your lawyer and I don't know where you live. However, I suspect that your employer will have no standing to sue you and at best can deduct notice pay from salary you haven't yet received, which you probably won't receive since they're going out of business or incompetent.

However, please talk to a lawyer in your area about this. My post is meant to do nothing other than encourage you to find out your rights and the practicalities of the situation and take care of yourself.
The problem is that if your account is disabled, it's unlikely you'll be able to acces Gmail, IMAP or otherwise. I think Takeout has an exception so that it works even when your account does not.
Don't captchas solve this ? Are spam tools able to bypass them too often, or is it because people find captchas annoying ?
I facilitated a workshop recently where one of the speakers specialised in, among other things, crisis PR. She said that the two best ways to approach most brand attacks were 1) Silence, and this wasn't appreciated enough by brands wanting to respond; and 2) to 'burn' the story by giving access to mid-level news organisations or softer journalists - once they run with the story, it's often 'burnt' for larger / hard-hitting outlets because it's been covered.

Definitely won't work for all crises, but was eye-opening to me, and a good lesson to those of us with businesses.

Bonus tip: the best / worst time to make a social media complaint is on a Friday night - most businesses don't pay someone to monitor social media on the weekend, and conversely most people interact when they're not at work, so complaints are more likely to go viral without a response for many days.
Nugget of truth buried in the [fun but not-too-novel] article:

"real progress in the workplace, for women and men, will come when more men forge flexible work schedules and wash dishes in front of their children, then turn those experiences into corporate policies."

Sure, in many industries and many parts of country/world, there are still lots of battles to fight to eliminate discrimination and bias against women in the workplace. But here in the SF startup circuit, I find this to be the most relevant issue facing working parents. Because I'm a mom (and a valuable, contributing member of my company), people don't hold it against me if I need to take an afternoon off, pick up my sick kid from daycare, and then get back online at 10pm. Pattern matching tells them that it's necessary "for a mom." But if a male co-worker does the same, I don't think there's as much leniency. Pattern matching kicks in yet again, and instead of being compared to me, he's compared to other dads (many of whom might have a stay-at-home wife, allowing them to put work first).

Still, we are lucky to be here on the bleeding edge of this issue. I almost feel like this complaint is the femninist equivalent to a #firstworldproblem, while women elsewhere being denied real opportunities.
Or.

Imagine that Google's self-driving car efforts come to fruition. That self-driving cars are common, legal, and trusted.

Who needs to drive in that future?

More: Imagine a successor to Zipcar with a fleet of self-driving cars. Who needs to even own a car? You just log in and summon a car from a nearby lot. It's there in a few minutes, and it takes you where you need to go; when you need to go back home, you summon another one.

In the future, owning a car and knowing how to drive it yourself may well be considered eccentric.
While tragic those anecdotes are no basis for a sane public policy. Picking ages like 16, 18, 19, or 21, or 25 is entirely too arbitrary.

We should be able to mathematically model the optimal age to allow driver licenses. All of the data is out there. In favor of waiting longer we save quality-adjusted life years and reduce property damage from fewer collisions. But there are costs to waiting longer by reducing earning potential and forcing other drivers to waste time ferrying youth around.
Or he's just curious who his adversary is. I would be.
Wow. I didn't realise just how incompetent Linode actually is. Not only terrible security at a coding level but completely non existent audits.

I wonder what they were after if not money. What are people hosting ?
This is a dupe; I posted the same story 18 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5588737
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You still have to deal with the storage fabric.
Got my driving licence the day I hit 18 (disclosure not living in the US) and always had the means to support a car and drive (bonus of starting working as a developer on age 15). Two years ago it expired and I didn't bother to renew it. The car shines only outside the city - great public transport and cabs give you more than enough flexibility.

I think that factors are coliding - the car is deromanticized, it is expensive and it is a drain on the free time. I feel that rent-a-car is a industry in grave need of disrupting.

There are a lot of owned vehicles that do less than 2K miles per year. A Uber/Air bnb type startup that allows to rent a car from a person for the weekend may have potential.
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What are you even talking about! How are Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook email decentralized?

And what part of my comment prompted you to believe that it was a "Fuck Google" statement?
"That the claims weren't true does not provide room to conclude that [Maxis studio head Lucy] Bradshaw was 'lying' [...] such accusations don't help this discussion."

What!? Perhaps part of the reasons evil triumphs in media situations like this is that "good" white knights like the author carry water for people who, like Bradshaw, objectively make the world a worse place.

Hanlon's razor is irrelevant here. Regardless of whether Lucy is so stupid/irresponsible that she really didn't know such an essential detail of her studio's feature product or is simply a manipulative sociopath, decency dictates she be replaced.
I've found http://f-droid.org/ to be an increasingly viable alternative Android app store. All open source so obviously the choice is comparatively smaller, but it seems to have pretty much everything I need.
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You're still using Linode ? Why ?

http://turtle.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/linode/linode-abridg...