skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"NHTSHA urges that cars have the capability of detecting that their automated vehicle technologies have malfunctioned 'and informing the driver in a way that enables the driver to regain proper control of the vehicle'"

Yes, unless the system to detect that has malfunctioned.

Past the car screaming "shit's broke, take the wheel", i'm not sure what other ways they have of informing the driver.
Oakland ranks No. 11 on list of best cities for tech startups
I was going to make a cynical reply about them not finishing their first project, but this looks FANTASTIC.

I guess I'm a funder now instead :)
Memory profiler for Ruby on Rails
Awesome infograph. I was trying to figure out what would fit me best since I currently have a 9-5 and now that I see all the option, Shopify makes the most sense. Would love to see a side by side comparison of Shopify and Magento in a future infograph if you can!
People are getting touchy because of this response, but let me answer it myself.

To me, coding is like painting or cooking. It's a fun activity done for leisure and self-improvement. I do silly things like code Brainfuck environments because I mostly do these things for me.

I'm not in a startup or building a company because I don't want to give my leisure activity a work stigma. I don't want to code for money because it'll strip away everything I like about programming: the fun of untangling a problem, the casual pace of piecing together a solution and the independence of being able to code whatever I want whenever I want.

In the future I can see myself doing open source projects or writing professionally but I can't see myself coding for 9 to 5 or swapping out my silly activities for a dayjob where I build someone else's thing.
On RDP, the hot corners was such a problem that MS had to update the client to present a menu with the charms. Restoring the Start button would fix this.
Microsoft fails to understand that, for tablets, Windows isn't a feature
I'd really like people to turn these into specialized wikis or Github repos or something.

A format of:

Statement of Falsehood
Explanation / Description
Counterexamples
Suggested mitigations

would be fine. It'd make it possible for us to submit ones that aren't apparent to the originator.
If Keynes was alive today, I cannot imagine the failures of stimuli based on his monetary policy would change his views on it.
You forgot the 3 engineers to develop a replacement for light bulbs based on firefly goo. Granted, it only lasts for a few hours, and it's not very bright, and the firefly population is now almost extinct, but it's a really slick colour!

Light bulbs are so desktop-oriented, anyway. Fireflies are _mobile_!
"Fixing the bug ideally requires more resources than we have available, but here is a simple workaround" is actually a pretty common bug resolution.
Diversity in this context seems to be programming language specialty which is completely reasonable when getting something off the ground. The whole school thing strikes me as weird though. Maybe if you're dealing with really green engineers stuff like that matters.
You should look into franchising. You can leverage the capital of the franchisee and his management talent. Part of your expansion risk is finding the right people. You location has done well because you and your partner are there to work it. As for the investment why not split the buy out with your partner. ie. You each take half the buyout and keep half the shares. Then focus on franchising for expansion.
The Scientific American podcast Science Talk had a very informative show on fecal transplants: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=fec...
The Tesla vehicles have their own connector design (they don't use the standard IEEE one). The best reason I can come up with for doing this is that the car communicates charging conditions to the station so it can regulate current flow, and the standard connector doesn't allow that. When you buy a Model S, you get about 3 different adapters so you can plug in somewhere other than their own charger.

Will Tesla license this design to the other car makers? They may have offered to, but Nissan/GM/etc are probably thinking why pay Tesla when they get the IEEE design "for free".
The publicity was horrible.

Of course I would be stunned if even 5% of the gamers who were calling for EA's heads over it will abstain from buying the next game in their favorite series if EA is involved in it. Most gamers seem completely unwilling to boycott.
Another interesting bit at the end is the improved supercharging tech: "The new technology, which is in beta test mode now and will be fully rolled out to customers this summer, will allow Model S to be charged at 120 kW, replenishing three hours of driving in just over 20 minutes."
This article made me realize that I am unconsciously filtering out things that look like G+ posts. In part because my expectation of it being high quality content is low, and because the experience of switching to the G+ app on my phone is slow.
At first glance, it looks great. UI is slightly confusing at first, but nothing I can't get past. Most importantly, it has the primary feature I want in a reader: I can open it up on my phone and read articles in slap-spacebar-to-continue mode until I fall asleep. One-finger operation FTW. Haven't seen this from anyone besides Google Reader yet. Also love the vi-style keyboard nav (j/k for next/prev).

One slight complaint: on the desktop, I'd kill the article-expanding animation for navigating through a feed. Instead of a nice clean i'm-scrolling-through-articles feeling, you get this weird jittery i'm-scrolling-through-articles-that-are-expanding-and-collapsing thing where the unexpanded portion of the feed below your current article dances up and down. Even on a feed like HN where the expansion/contraction is fairly minimal (or perhaps particularly on a feed like that), the list ends up doing this strange up-and-down convulsion that's very unpolished-looking and distracting.
I don't doubt that - I've bought games on both platforms (Alpha Centauri on GOG = awesome). But the point is, amongst total games sales, I would like some degree of proof as to what the actual effect of the outrage is. Of course the GOG forums are DRM-angsty; that's part of why they are at GOG! What I don't know (truly - not being adversarial here) is whether DRM is a real factor for a substantial number of buying decisions, or not. The recent Sim City fiasco was probably the highest profile DRM-related brouhaha ever; - Rock Paper ShotGun, QT3, Polygon, all the gaming press (including the larger offline press like PC Gamer) covered it and expressed outrage, as did some mainstream media. And yet, best as I can tell it had little effect on actual sales (I'm open to being convinced I'm wrong on this).

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/07/simcity-sales-reach-1-6-mi...
Right, on-line DRM is one of the worst kinds.
Ask HN: Love for Programming. Consequence or Motivation?
Most doctors don't love going into the hospital to see a patient in the middle of the night but they love what they do as a consequence of the meaningful work they do.

So does your love for programming come as a consequence of what you do or a motivation?
I remember finding the 'Jobs Menu', but never finding out how to change jobs and focus points in categories until I was half way into the game. It was a ruff experience of mostly pure melee and potions for those first 30 hours.
I imagine it's because of the pretense of morality on your part. For me it sounded like a no-no you say to a kid.
> As far as i can tell i still can't purchase a system without windows unless i build it myself.

I've bought a laptop from System76 which I've been very happy with. Everything they sell runs Ubuntu.

I've just bought a desktop from ZaReason; I'm looking forward to it. They list all the major distros (to include Debian!), and appear to be willing to load others if you ask nicely.
The key difference between HN and /. moderation is the "funny" moderation option. On the positive side, it seems to encourage more serious discussion. The downside is that, to the degree that HN has inherited the hacker culture, it has not retained much in the way of hacker humor.

It took a second reading to realize that this comment was not intended to be humorous -- which makes it even more entertaining.

Also, in reply to your subsequent post, there are web browsers written in javascript, so your self-hosting capabilities are realized, as well as all your browser-Inception needs.
>The Linux kernel is a complete unknown to the vast majority of people on the planet, yes. But it runs so much of the Internet behind the scenes that I don't think it's fair to say that it only touches the lives of "a small percentage" of the people

I encourage you to reconsider your position on this. Look for yourself here:

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

There are 7 billion people on the planet. Of that 7 billions, 2.4 billion use the Internet. That's 34.3% of people that don't even use the Internet, let alone have their lives touched by the Linux kernel.

Then you add to it that if it were not Linux running a server, it would be another operating system that would've been that particular system administrator's second preference.

The Linux kernel is an amazing thing, but it doesn't compare to the moon landing. As I said, the majority of people in the world would think you were a god if you landed on the moon and returned safely.

2/3 of the people in the world wouldn't even notice if Linux was never invented since they don't even use the Internet. The percentage of people that use the Internet and are impacted even indirectly by Linux is even smaller.
I think it's more than that. Open this lecture from Peter Thiel and ctrl+f "hoops" http://blakemasters.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-...
Avoid posting controversial issues. I mean, not only avoid posting them under your real name facebook/google+ account, but avoid posting them at all, since they'll be linked together automatically anyway.

If you consider a possibility of going into politics at age of 40-50, then you better think what you say even at age of 20.
There will be two big, competing points regarding automated vehicles in the public eye:

* Automated vehicles can save a lot of people a lot of money, save lives, and completely transform the way transportation operates (and perhaps even how cities and suburbs look. See, for example, the vast swaths of parking lots in much of the United States, and think how utterly unnecessary they'll be in a world of fully autonomous vehicles.). The NHTSA policy document says this in the first paragraph, in fact.

* Automated vehicles are untested and scary; would you trust your children's safety to a computer?

The entrenched interests like taxi drivers, truckers, etc. will push the second quite a bit, I imagine. As with a lot of new technology being introduced to the public, that argument will initially have a lot of traction (especially if there are big, public incidents when it starts being rolled out) regardless of what the statistics say regarding safety, but it will gradually be marginalized as people get used to it, based on the strength of the first argument. But it'll be an arduous journey there. People don't like change.

NHTSA press release, with link to the actual policy document (at the bottom): http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/U.S.+Departm...
They can still get you if you invoke SSH on the remote, as the password is sent to the remote machine one character at a time, then forwarded on to your ultimate destination all at once.
Creator of Neverhood works on a new clay animation game
panic/recover substitute for most reasonable exception use cases.
From Pirate3D in comments:

"@Usman Glad you asked!
What is the minimum printable detail?
>> We can get the facial features on printed figurines. Do you have any specific test print in mind?

What is minimal wall thickness?
>> We use a 0.4mm nozzle. We pjrint our single shell objects at this thickness (0.4mm)."

So, 0.4mm min. XY resolution.
Reading the article, this doesn't strike me as inappropriate. "Self-driving vehicle technology is not yet at the stage of sophistication or demonstrated safety capability that it should be authorized for use by members of the public for general driving purposes" is probably true. The cars are good at what they do, but that doesn't mean they can handle all sorts of bizarre detour, road construction, rural roads, faded/incorrect markings, conflicting markings, control from officers/construction workers on the roadway, etc. It's a huge, promising field, but still under significant development.

They also say, "as self-driving cars improve, they will reconsider."

Seems fair.
I18n in your Angular apps, made easy
Fancy new website! (still a WIP)
1) I don't think I'm that crazy, I mean this isn't Temple OS or anything (http://www.templeos.org/).

2) Integers! Strings are integers, arrays are tapes of integers, etc... I guess this means it's dynamic, but at the bottom levels I'm not (yet) concerned with typing.
So basically people are learning that the first Google result, especially if visually "enhanced", is usually irrelevant advertising?

That would concur with my personal experience, and is pretty much the same as what happened to standard size display ads.
What I don't know (truly - not being adversarial here) is whether DRM is a real factor for a substantial number of buying decisions, or not.

I'd be interested if someone could make a thorough research on these decision factors, but I'm really not sure what kind of methodology can be used for that. It's hard to measure such things for external researchers. Companies which participated in DRM fiascos (like the SimCity one) probably can estimate how many customers they lost in result, but they might not want to publish that information :)

Ironically though, lost sales caused by DRM won't necessarily make them change their minds about DRM. Some publishers executives can excuse failures of their low quality products by lost sales caused by piracy, so they use DRM to cover up their incompetence (i.e. "we are doing all we can!"). So additional lost sales won't convince them to drop that excuse for their products which fail just because there is no big demand for them. They'll claim it's because DRM wasn't yet strong enough, and pirates just cut their profits ;)
I use three different browsers: Firefox for real browsing, Safari for activities which require me to log in to a Google account, and Chrome for activities involving Facebook. If I want to move a link from one context to the other I use the clipboard.

I have never logged in to Facebook or Google on my phone. I don't feel confident that I know enough about Android to be sure my information isn't leaking.
Are we going to see this before every Apple event? It's getting a bit old.
Since you're an authoritarian with bad philosophy, may I declare you a "fucking idiot" and "protect" you from yourself by e.g. discarding your opinion and promoting a free society anyway? Or maybe I should force it on you? You seem to be telling me to. A (more) free society would actually be good for you, even though you don't know it.
The photos look amazing. May I ask what the license is on these photos?
How Mobile Is Your Industry?
What? Not finished? I guess you are technically correct, but I got my money’s worth a long, long time ago. They have been delivering kick-ass videos all the damn time. This documentary is fucking awesome.

I think only non-backers or very confused backers could say something weird like it not being finished. I don’t think I want them to ever finish, I want to get my documentary fix.
Go was meant to replace C++ as 'systems programming language'.
One problem is that once information is collected about you, there's no guarantee use of it will be limited to the people or entities who collected it. There's also no guarantee that the information won't be abused.

Corporations get hacked in to and have data stolen from them all the time (the frequent news stories we hear about data breaches are probably just a drop in the bucket compared to those that happen and go unreported).

Unscrupulous employees of these corporations could use the data the corporation collects. This information could also be sold (either legitimately or illegitimately) to others. It could be for stalking, harassment, identity theft, finding out your political sympathies, sexual orientation, etc.

The data collected on you could be used by prospective employers, insurance agencies, or love interests to weed you out based on the impression (accurate or not) that they get of you or your social media "friends".

Once the data is collected, it could stick around virtually forever. And good luck correcting any mistakes in it.
Printrbot Simple is $299. http://printrbot.com/shop/printrbot-simple-beta/

My son wants to get a 3d printer for his birthday (and he wants to print a lot of airplanes with it) and I think it'd be a fun project to do together; to learn about computer controlled robots and programming with OpenSCAD. I've been reading the Printrbot forums and there's a bunch of work to do to get a good print, which is fun, but probably won't get the best prints. I'm not sure if I want a "consumer" or "hobbyist" printer given that it's going to be for education and fun...

EDIT: Though having read the page, this looks totally awesome, and if I could buy one right now then I probably would (instead of the printrbot).
Decades of research in numerous fields were required before the Apollo missions could happen.

Actually, it was less than one decade of research post-Kennedy's-announcement, and a lot of groundwork had already been laid by then. The whole thing was standing on the shoulders of giants from day one. It's really difficult to pick any single ground-breaking development in the Apollo project; it was more like a lot of R&D trickle in disparate areas converging on a solution for a single goal, all of which was being built on a solid foundation we had already had by that time.

For example, the Apollo Guidance Computer was, AFAIK, the first serially produced digital computer made of integrated circuits, and I believe that for quite some time, the manufacturers of ACGs in the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (an offshoot of MIT) were the single largest purchaser of ICs on this planet. The consequence was that the use of ICs in complex computers had been validated, Fairchild Semiconductor (who provided the NOR gates used in the computer) amortized their investments and went on churning them out in ever increasing numbers. You know what followed. But this was more about speeding up the adoption rather then stimulating the development of something completely new.

Experts in numerous fields had to collaborate on the mission.

Since it's a software project, you could also argue that you need experts in various fields of programming. The guy who writes a driver for a new device manufactured by his employer to be included in the mainline kernel probably isn't somenone who you're going to trust with redesigning the kernel memory allocator.
> Regulations are to prevent cynical, or stupid, people from offering dangerous untested unproven "treatments" at great cost to desperate and ill people.

That's the rationale for the regulations, but it's not why we have them. The laws we have didn't get passed because the public demanded protection. They got passed because industry groups pushed hard for them, as a way to lock out potential competitors.

A system actually designed to prevent harm would look quite different.

Preventing the use of a good treatment (type I statistical error) is just as bad as allowing a bad treatment (type II statistical error). A balanced regulatory regime would make both kinds of errors with about equal probability. Our current system is so heavily biased toward preventing type II errors that we accept a vast number of type I errors.
It doesn't surprise me. It is easy for people who are well off to meet people who want a piece of their money. It is much harder to meet people who are smart, attractive, and have enough going on for them that they don't need your money. Doubly so when your success comes from your ability to be a workaholic, but you've never developed dating skills.
Hacker-friendly SBC runs Linux on ARM+FPGA SoC
Basically, you don't have to enter ketosis on the way to burning proteins for energy.

If you stop eating entirely, you will enter ketosis and also be breaking down some protein for energy as soon as your blood glucose and your liver glycogen is depleted (your brain still needs about 20 grams of glucose a day even in ketosis, so gluconeogenesis will occur turning protein into glucose). You probably won't even smell the ammonia at this rate, since it's pretty low.

After being in ketosis for a while (a few weeks) your body gets better at producing ketones on demand instead of just supplying them all the time and the acetone smell decreases substantially, but you still shouldn't be breaking down protein unless you are low body fat and not eating enough fat for the calories you need.

I never smell like ammonia unless I'm working out really hard and in ketosis.

If you aren't lazy, you can work hard enough to smell like ammonia no matter what you eat if you are pushing yourself really hard in an anaerobic exercise set.
Stupid question: are you just doubling every pixel of a non-retina source for the @2x images? Does that really provide any extra clarity on a Retina display (beyond setting the proper size of the image?) Or are you actually starting with an @2x image and halving it for non-2x default?
Gonna app which enables you to discover future is redesigned.
I agree with you. Linux is possibly a bad example, there's nothing special about writing it.

Are you sure about it? Wasn't it one of the first really large software projects with the distributed development model? (Were there any predecessors to that?)
Not in the US. They're very rare in the US, and everywhere with indoor plumbing.

People who are deliberately trying to get infected as a treatment for their Crohn's or arthritis have literally resorted to travelling to the third world.
Mobile Payments Company Fortumo Adds Support For Corona SDK
Fortumo has made their Android SDK compatible with Corona development framework. This means that if you are using the Corona framework for developing apps, you can now add native in-app purchasing functionality in less than an hour using Lua and Corona SDK.
If you don't mind my curiosity, what do you do for money?
Why do people on HN always jump to "vested interests?" The NHTSA is conducting a study to determine whether a new kind of vehicle should be allowed on public roads. This is the prudent course of action, whether or not anyone stands to benefit from it.

I worked at a company that does what you'd call today whitespace wireless technologies. I remember when I was young and naive, my reaction was: "why doesn't the FCC just get out of our way and let us put this stuff on the public airwaves?" And I distinctly remember when Microsoft did the test with their whitespace technology, where it couldn't handle, of all things, unlicensed wireless microphones (commonly used by churches and sporting events). And my thought was: "who the fuck cares about churches? They're standing in the way of progress!"

Then I worked for a summer at the FCC and realized: "shit, the world is really complicated." There are tons of stakeholders who use the public airwaves and it's imprudent do anything without first being sure what the impact will be (measure twice, cut once, as they say).

Self-driving cars will happen, and have to happen, the same way. The governments of the country spend $160 billion a year on the public roads, and the people of the country are absolutely dependent on them, and before they let a bunch of yahoos run computerized cars everywhere they are going to have to be convinced of what impact they will have on the system.
Given how bad humans are at driving cars safely, it is unfortunate that we are holding self-driving cars to a higher standard than we hold humans. It will cause needless loss of life.