skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another question is.. how does a well made car burst into flames so quickly.

A fuel line is torn in the crash... a few milliliters of gasoline seep onto the ground, while the heat from the catalytic converter ignites some grass that has gotten a little long. The small amount of gasoline and brush cause a fire that is able to quickly spread through the damaged structure of the car, igniting the carpet, fabric, and seat cushions.

Within a minute the fire is well on its way. Within 3 minutes, the car is fully involved.

Obviously I don't know what happened in this case, but I've seen the exact scenario described happen more than once (the gas leak was only confirmed in one case, in two other cases, it was just the brush and debris under the car).
Python doesn't allow you to mix spaces and tabs.
When the atom went quantum
I think it's difficult to refrain from such sophomoric behavior when the title of the article so blatantly aligns with the joke. If an article was submitted with the title, "Beans, beans, they're good for your heart..." I think we'd all have a tough time abstaining from ANY sort of reaction.
I'm not trying to suggest foul play by refuting this, but nobody falls asleep at the wheel when driving that fast, no matter how poorly you slept previously. The adrenaline won't let you.
This happened to me recently, and it seems to be a very large scale problem on the app store. In my case there were three different copies of my app (UX Write) on the app store, under the names "Document Master", "Word Touch", and "Word to Go".

The only reason I found out about them was that in all three cases, there had been some extra resource files included for some unknown reason (likely from another app), which for a very obscure reason were causing the app to crash. I was receiving hundreds of emails containing crash logs and noticed that the process name was different, which is what tipped me off. The fact that all three had the same set of extra files (and all said "Document master" in the modified documentation file) suggested it was either three developers working together, or one developer with three separate accounts.

I found it extremely difficult to get this problem addressed. I contacted Apple and was asked to fill out a form on their website about the apps, and then their legal team just sent an email to the other "developers" asking if they owned copyright. None of the developers responded, and the legal team did nothing. Several more phone calls to the developer relations team left the problem unresolved.

I only managed to get the copies taken down eventually when I was at WWDC and took the opportunity to meet in person with two representatives from the app store team and show them the original & copies. They immediately recognised it was a clear-cut case, and removed the infringing apps within a couple of days.

I think there are some very straightforward technical solutions to this - the submission process could take hashes of all files in a new upload and check them for matches in a database of hashes of all files from all apps, with any matching apps flagged for further inspection. It amazes me this isn't done, especially given the reputation the app store has for being strict about political/sexual content etc. I've seen a ton of copied apps on the store; it's just ridiculous.
I don't see a framework-to-framework comparison. The .NET equivalent to a servlet is a "HTTP Handler"
Why nearly all markup languages ignore s, can we change it?
I'm a Chinese CoffeeScript user.
It confused me a lot the line breaks disappeared in most Markdown implementations.
It confused me that Github, StackOverflow, Gist, ReadTheDocs are all not friendly to line breaks.
Well, I want to keep wikis so that people may benefit.. But all platforms do bad on this issue.

There are some [demos here on my blog][blog] that show how text could be tidy and beautiful with many line breaks in Chinese.
And there's [a place][coffee] people always use line breaks to keep good readability.

[blog]: jiyinyiyong.github.io/blog/
[coffee]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/tree/master/src

Markdown is broken :(
I agree with most of the other commenters. I have a couple of close friends who have similar (not precisely the same) periodic but persistent troubles, and talking to someone qualified has not solved the problems entirely but has built their confidence in their control over them and allowed them to be sure that they can live normal lives and never be "owned" by their difficulties.
@dllthomas

"Of course they were; that's how the NSA found out."

Right. Yet to our knowledge the NSA does not have delete privileges to the data centers, meaning that copies of his notes most likely still survive on either local or cloud based storage.
I'm the OP on reddit (posted this morning), note that there are a couple of other sites that do the same, and some which seem to have a better choice or airlines and prices.

I put a comment together with all the suggested sites:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1hhqs7/google_fl...
Cryptome posting PGP messages that may belong to Snowden, Birgitta Jónsdóttir
We've named every point on Earth in three words
The engine was yards away from the car meaning the fuel lines broke, that's how it can happen here.
No need to jump to conspiracies. Is it really that crazy that France might just want to help an ally track down a desperately wanted fugitive? Surely they'd ask for our help if they thought a rogue intelligence agent was flying across the US.
What is the legality of this? I'm concerned that in general cryptography web products are potentially illegal http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5308601/export-compliance...

Also, how secure is AES 256 really? My understanding is that something encrypted with AES256 could be decrypted in my lifetime with a few million dollars worth of hardware and dedicated decryption workloads. It is a bit paranoid, but to me somewhat unsatisfactory that in theory someone with a large enough botnet could decrypt 'securely' encrypted data.
How do you differentiate those?
If I already know where I'm going, why involve a third-party?
>Neither has been proved, therefore either is equally likely" is false

I didn't say that. Go back and read my post.

In fact, it's the opposite. We have many trying to claim the illegitimacy of asking questions, because there is no direct evidence. The parent went so far as to ridicule those asking questions.

So, it is they who are making claims about which is more likely, given a lack of evidence in either direction. That is exactly what my post was about.
I'm usually happy to beat up on conspiracy theorists, I actually sort of hate them. However this guy took down a General.
Is it possible to patent patent trolling, so trolls can be sued back? "Method for finding patent infringement in software" maybe?
VCs Confident In Bitcoin’s Bright Future, Despite Unknowns
Maybe your isp is buying ip addresses from a provider there?

(It positions me in Calgary, where I have done the search from).
YES! We JUST stumbled upon this but it's huge - if you can ship something cool everything 3 months, and assume upkeep on a rolling scale (as in your upkeep the things getting the most traction) you can cross promote your way to serious income. 1 app often won't do it unless it's a homerun, but cross promotion of 5 things starts to build a tribe.
Of course, flying car engines don't sound too good for passers-by... oO;
Also http://pastebin.com/Hrvq4bpz . Via Jacob Applebaum.
It's a 501(c)(6)— the fact that they are a non-profit is something you should have known in an instant if you bothered looking. Even their bylaws are online: (https://github.com/pmlaw/The-Bitcoin-Foundation-Legal-Repo/b...).
Apple hires former Yves Saint Laurent CEO for 'special projects'
Can you offer a bunch of destination based on a budget on hipmunk? This is the one particular feature I found different from other sites.
Why Pot Heads Are Slackers
Cars crash. Expensive cars crash. Cars catch fire after they crash (certainly not in the majority of cases, but it does happen). I'm a Firefighter/EMT in a department that covers a reasonably affluent area. The vehicle Mr. Hastings was driving would not be unusual around here (and vehicles like it would not be unusual to see in the wrecks we respond to).

Your suggestion that somehow being a late model Mercedes makes it impervious to collisions is just silly. I could run a report of our wrecks over the last year, but I'm sure there have been at least a dozen that involve late model cars like the one in question (from various manufacturers). Two of those included at least one fatality. None of them caught fire (but given the small sample size, that's not surprising, over the last decade I'd guess something like 1 in 50 wrecks I've seen involved a post-crash fire).

Regarding the explosion... I've seen nothing that indicates to me that there was an explosion. People described a loud noise (crashes are loud), and a fire. The video of that fire is completely consistent with a post-crash vehicle fire.
A good idea. It's time for someone else to have a turn. How about Putin? He has 10 years left in his term and knows a thing or two about espionage. Maybe the communist party of China - perhaps they could persuade us to adopt tougher internal policing.
Daniel Huckstep on Ruby's stdlib and golang
The US government appears to be absolutely terrified of this 29-year-old former NSA contractor.

What could he possibly be saving to use against them?
This is so true. At work, I never cease to be astounded at the number of people (supposedly computer literate, e.g. CS graduate students) who are just flummoxed by ssh keys. And ssh keys are relatively simple compared to GPG.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
Apple Hires ex-Yves St Laurent CEO for Special Projects
Do you happen to know the history or rather just watched Schindler's list and that's all?

Third Reich did not start the day they invade Poland and kick off the World War 2. IT didn't start with profiling Jews and putting people in camps. It started much earlier than that with elements of dictatorships here and there. US is not far from it; it just that times have changed. What before could be called "work camps" because of lack of means of information transportation so most people didn't know (there was no Youtube or Twitter ok?), needs to be called FEMA camps or other 1981-ish words of care and wisdom now. But the system is ready. Billions of bullets bought by DHS, tanks located across major cities, militaries of different countries training together and putting unified system in place, its all ready to go. What we are "missing" is that spark of fire to crank the engine. Like firing up the Reichtag. Some say, "hopefully" that Zimmerman's trial of founding him not guilty could cause a civil unrest and off we go from there. But in a case of emergency, like in Boston Bombing, Boston did look like Nazi Germany: armed forces of an official government "lawfully" but forcibly pulled innocent unarmed citizens out of their safe houses in the name of searching for one fugitive. Guns were pointed at them, regardless if they were guilty or not (they were not). Plus you have more and more check points on the streets, TSA start training with dogs on the airports (Germans loved them didnt they?), you have all communication scooped all the time, plus major monetary abuse in gov entities like IRS (noone held accountable), major huge abuse in security (Bengatzi) and noone held accountable, yep, we are getting close to a tipping point and things speed up rapidly!

Now, if you live on the US soil and understand US constitution, please tell me this is not disturbing to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MezLoczjfY
Astronaut in space successfully controls robot rover on Earth
On June 17, 2013, Astronaut Chris Cassidy successfully drove a K10 rover on earth, via remote connection from the Surface Telerobotics Workbench on the International Space Station, showing that robots deployed to explore Mars or the far side of the moon could be remotely controlled by astronauts in space during future deep-space missions. Telerobotics, which involves human operators remotely controlling robotic arms, rovers and other devices in space, is one means of reducing risk in dull, dangerous or dirty tasks as humans explore space. Dr. Terry Fong of the NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group describes how NASA’s telerobotics initiatives help mitigate risk in space missions.
GoldieBlox’s engineering toy for girls hits Toys’R'Us shelves
I've seen a lot of posts here over the years that are asking for community feedback, and that's what I was thinking I was doing. Maybe if I had prefaced it 'Show HN'?

The second submission was from a tech news site (geekwire.com).

I guess the target demographic for Klikaklu (outdoorsy people and families) doesn't really strike a chord here.
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Cell phones can be turned on remotely, and used as listening devices as well. This is why Edward Snowden told his HK lawyers to place theirs in a refrigerator.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html
It also doesn't look like old hat... Wouldn't that make it fantasy?
"One jumped on the hood of her SUV; another pulled out a gun": Do the girls deserve such treatment just because the police suspected they possess alcohol? Do you need firearms to handle such situation? US looks more and more like a police state.
Rep. Barton ‘disappointed’ by Google Glass privacy answers
To be more to the point, your post is noisy nonsense that attacks the mere existence of alternative theories, and those who might posit them. I was trying to politely say that your breed of Reddit-style "shoot-the-messenger" post is not usually well received here, thankfully.
If you need ordering, just use collections.OrderedDict :)
This is old, old territory. HTML's least offense is its syntax. XorNot just doesn't have the vocabulary (or desire) to rehash a settled debate.

Just to save some time, HTML+CSS+JS fuses, poorly:

1) page description / layout

2) appearance

3) interaction / animation

4) forms

5) content

6) metadata / markup

7) typography

8) vector art and raster images

You could probably throw in HTTP stuff, cookies, how much the DOM sucks, and multimedia too.

Sadly, bad as HTML is, there hasn't been anything better.
My intuition is that money is better when:
- There is some competitive advantage to being first.
- That the advantage is enduring.
- There are lots of competitors.
- It is important to fail faster.

For example, if you're trying to scale Google or a SaaS, and there is some kind of "Winner take all" then you need funding.

Funding makes less sense when:
- You're selling a service directly linked to people's time. (Consulting firms)
- You have other sources of money to carry you through.
- The market is less competitive.
- People will take significantly less money to get equity.

I kind of view funding like, "Do you need it bad enough to justify letting someone expect 30+% returns?" If it's the only way to get great growth for that individual company, great. If it's not needed, that's ok too.

In terms of measurement, there are two measures. "What % succeeded with and without?" and "What was the median and mean with and without?" The funders are more likely to be stacked in the huge winners and huge losers, because funding (to use financial terms) increases the volatility.
Doubtful, trapwire is entirely public if you do research on it. Also, emotion and behavioral recognition is pretty far fetched.
> That's a rather terrible example: a restaurant that had over priced wine and cheap ingredients would fail miserably in short order

Have you ever travelled? There are restaurants like that surrounding every airport, convention center, etc. because they know people will value convenience, speed of service, ability to handle large parties, etc. more than great food. The situation is similar near large office parks — it may be mediocre but it's the closest choice! — areas with lots of tourists or transient populations (how many college town date-night restaurants are great?), etc.

Actually, it's even simpler: Applebee's does not appear to be disappearing.
I really love this idea and hope it leads to a new generation of people making a living from broadcasting. I go to twitch occasionally just to see what people are up to. I've seen some funny personalities there.

That's it. I'm quitting my job and going to play minecraft. Someone sponsor me please.
Regardless of potential damage, he has made a lot of powerful people very angry. Simple retribution seems like it would suffice for the reaction to date.
I generally support the fight against patent trolls, yet one of my biggest frustrations is that way too frequently the nature of discussion online regarding this issue obscures or even hinders substantive legal discussion about ways to actually reform the patent system.

Unfortunately, it seems as if there is some of that going on here. Lost among all the valid criticism of Lodsys in the linked article is the actual motion to dismiss their claim. Rather than take the opportunity to challenge Lodsys' patent on validity grounds, which is what would really be needed to push meaningful reform, the author's attorney has chosen to pursue relatively unimportant civil procedure and state law defenses that seem a) unlikely to succeed (although IANYL) and that b) will do absolutely nothing to affect the state of patent law in this country either way.

The defendant here isn't paying the "troll toll" because he doesn't want to cough up that money and believes he's in the right. Many of us probably agree with that belief. But it seems a bit disingenuous to write an article championing patent reform yet explicitly avoid the opportunity to take a real stand on that issue all while asking others to put their skin in the game to fight the good fight. Perhaps my time in IP law has left me cynical, so I've asked the author in his comments to address this and I'll update this post if he responds...
I would be very surprised if the US didn't have bugs in every embassy on earth.

In fact if they didn't I'd call the CIA to task and ask them to explain why not.
Cool article. Slightly OT, but one of the things I love about my Pebble is how I never miss the vibrations, nor imagine them when they're not there. When I had my phone set to ring, I often didn't hear it, and when I had it on silent and vibrate, I would get both misses (especially when bicycling or walking) and false alarms. I suspect that the wrist is more sensitive to vibrations, so with Pebble, it's easier for my brain not to screw this up.
There are at least 2 major differences relevant to message processing:
1) Erlang runs in a VM which provides preemptive scheduling and builtin message flow control (sending a message costs proportional to the receiver mbox size)
2) Unlike other VM languages, Erlang VM provides per-process heap, which helps to eliminate VM pauses. None of JVM based solutions can provide low latency processing unless you manage the heap by hand.

As people said before, Erlang combines several traits in a nice package, which is hard to beat.

There are other differences in the language as well. Bing a functional language with TCO it allows you to implement a lot of algorithms which will be cumbersome in imperative languages. Powerful pattern matching capabilities allow one to structure the program in a clean way, and pattern matching on binaries makes most binary protocol parsers one-liners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War

Notice the years this war was waged. The British were definitely not cool with the American colony seceding.
Forgive my optimism, but perhaps things like this happen all the time and it's hardly ever newsworthy...?

Yeah, I can't really find a positive outlook to all this international intrigue and espionage. There isn't one, right?

This particular development, though, seems way more dramatic than the rest. I wonder what point there is in waiting until tomorrow to release the source of the bug.
">Car electronics change very little year to year. If you have an unreported exploit, it wouldn't surprise me if it were valid for more than 5 production years."

Anecdotally, most ECUs I've seen change up 1-3 years. I have no idea if later units might be code compatible with prior, but I'd doubt it.

>I think you read this wrong - the car was disassembled to explore the systems, but after vulnerability development, physical access to a target was not required.

Obviously, I'm not certain, but looking at the previous work they reference [0 .p12-13] seems to say that the bridging exploits [1 .p5] are dependent on re-flashing. Perhaps the 2011 Bluetooth overflow is injecting 2010 re-flash equivalent code?

0: http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-oakland2010.pdf

"We were able to successfully reprogram our car’s telematics unit from a device connected to the car’s low-speed bus (in our experiments, a laptop running CARSHARK). Once reprogrammed, our telematics unit acts as a bridge, relaying packets from the lowspeed bus onto the high-speed bus."

1: http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf

"Note, such interbus bridging is critical to many of the attacks we explore since it exposes the attack surface of one set of components to components on a separate bus; we explain brieﬂy here."
Space mining: Challenging but realistic
Kris Zacny from HoneyBee Robotics says: Mining in space is challenging but realistic … and if we ever want to get serious about human exploration and colonization of the solar system, there’s no alternative to gathering local resources for fuel, water and construction materials. In this respect, space mining may be the ultimate high-risk, high-reward robotic initiative.
Interesting coincidence - I was just in the middle of analyzing my Alerts since January 2007 looking in whether Alerts stopped yielding many hits. (So far: there is no overall decline except in May/June 2011 when the monthly average total hits abruptly dropped from 254 to 147 for no apparent reason.)
Users do not need to back up their secret keys for your system?

Update: I wrote my question hastily; originally this read "private keys" instead of "secret keys."
A cool idea I saw a while back, http://robohash.org

Generating an easy-to-recognize image from the key fingerprint would be a lot more approachable to the casual user than trying to verify a long hexadecimal number.

I guess you're then trusting whatever 3rd party handles the image generation.... but at some point you have to trust software that you didn't write yourself.
This is probably the first HN readers have heard about your app, and it doesn't appear to be backed by a larget company, so they probably just skimmed the link in the new list and didn't even click on it.

One suggestion would have been to title it "Show HN: My first iOS app, real life scavenger hunts, covered in Geekwire", so at least it would make this ask section, where the links get a little bit more of a chance for upvotes.

Neither of your submissions had any upvotes, so I'm guessing it just got pushed off by a rush of other news.

In particular, for the last few weeks here, the front page has been overwhelmed with one story in particular, so startup launches and programming topics are going to fall by the wayside - it may have just been a bad time to launch on HN.
Chinese tourists urinate publicly in Summer Palace
Lungo - HTML5 Cross-Device Framework
IBM and Halliburton are both in the process of trying!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-you-...
If you do that, your steering wheel will lock, perhaps sending you into a tree or something.