skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been following development for years, and am slowly starting to think that it is vaporware as the car has been announced years ago and apparently been delivered to unnamed customers last year, yet no one seems to have ever driven let alone reviewed one.

Its a cool project and Mate Rimac is a hacker type and their whole approach is somewhat unconventional with the whole company being born out of the modified m3 he had but i think the task might just be a bit too huge for them.

The car does exist, but i am skeptical that it has a really good drivability/range/handling/security concept to make it a good product. It costs around $1M and is also super heavy. It is probably more of a halo product to channel attention on their future smaller products like the greyp bike.
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But she still has to pay it back in the end, so why would the 7 year payment plan matter?
Sweet keyboard! It feels like it's missing a whole row of keys though.
I'd imagine this would introduce a lot of unintended side effects.
For all of those who speak German, there's an old episode of CRE [1] in which Tim talks to Hans Bernhard and lizvlx from Austria. They were involved with the project and elaborate a bit about its motivations.

[1] http://cre.fm/cre132-ubermorgen-com
> I deny that they made any improvement

The farmers buying Monsanto seeds over the competition and the customers buying the resulting cheaper/larger/less buggy produce get to make that decision, not you. They have spoken.

> I also heard about countries where farmers wanted to go back to their old crop, since after paying the price for the crops (and the pesticides, that are sometimes additionally needed), the value was negative!

Monsanto makes a point of A) not using terminator seeds, B) only going after farmers who are so guilty that they will possibly be a "PR win", and then donating the proceeds of the lawsuits to charity. Are they actually going after anyone in the 3rd world countries that don't ignore patents? I suspect that they would either be able to get away with saving seeds or are big enough that "the local seed dealer only sells Monsanto" isn't much of an excuse. But I could be wrong. Link to the specific stories you mention?
By the way they kept saying partner I was under the impression she was dating a woman. In which case she could theoretically hate males looking at women and still date a woman on the team.
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I'm going to ignore your insulting tone... :/

> But in the meantime you are going to be fine with gaining that power by abusing your privilege?

What I had in mind (and I tried to communicate to you in the above post) is more that I will be using my privilege, not abusing it. If you find that objectionable, what else do you suggest? That I give my flat to the homeless guy, so that he will be forced to move out in a month because he won't afford the rent, just because I was lucky enough to learn programming while young and can make a good living now? That I move to India and use all my money to buy food for the poor and when it's gone starve along with them, just because I was lucky enough to be born in a first-world country?

Maybe I misunderstood you, and you're only suggesting that I don't perpetuate inequal, discriminatory treatment towards others. If so, I totally agree with that and always try to do my best. If, however, you're suggesting that I should put myself, my family and my future at a disadvantage just so that I can fight some class war against unspecified enemies for an unspecified gain, I'm not going to do that. And even if I would, I would dedicate my resources to more serious problems than sex inequality in tech.
"First point of structural sexism: wife of founder has a role in the company, but it is undefined and she is not formally employed by the company. This is sexism, pure and simple. Because of her relationship and gender, she is excluded from a formal role in her husband's company, but is still expected to 'support him.'"

This is pure speculation. Maybe the wife doesn't want a real job in the company (she may have a job somewhere else, or be wealthy enough not to need a job). Maybe the husband doesn't want his wife hanging around the company but is uncomfortable telling her to mind her own business.
I wonder when will people realise that writing browsers in a language like C++ is not a good idea if you're semi-serious about security.
Here's that regex again, except actually readable:

(\s*|;)[\w-]*:
No. The poor are typically in debt on short-term scales (days, weeks) which does not benefit from inflation, and at rates (often double digits) which inflation does not mitigate.

The rich are typically in debt a lot, via leveraged investment ('trading on margin'), or, indirectly by things like leveraged ETFs, leveraged currency FX trading, etc, which enjoy very low, bank-level interest rates because it's done in bulk. Not to mention banks with direct access to low-interest loans, (as in bank corporations) which are not begging in the streets for alms (they get bailouts). These debts that the rich enjoy benefit greatly from inflationary devaluation of nominal prices.

Moreover, the investment activity of the rich tends to benefit from inflation.
I don't know how you develop Lisp, but one style which seems encouraged by environments like SLIME is this: You write your file in emacs, and each time you finish a function definition you hit the "send definition to repl" keystroke, and then experiment a bit in the repl to see that you got it right.

If you do things this way, the state of the running lisp interpreter depends on the entire history of the coding session. Each time you add a new definition, you mutate the interpreter's memory. There is no guarantee that the current state matches what you would have if you recompiled the entire system from scratch.

On the other hand, the usual style in Haskell development is that you write a function definition and then hit the "reload" key combination, and this makes the state of the repl exactly the match the contents of the file. It throws away the results of any commands you ran in the repl in the meantime.

(This seems like an interesting cultural difference, something like "Haskell/ML/Java/Scheme programmers think of a program as a text, Common Lisp/Smalltalk programmers think of a program as an OS process").
Of course I would add that if your goal is more to make a cool board than learn about pcbs, it's easier to skip the PCB entirely and just hand-wire the switch matrix yourself. PCBs make sense at a scale of 5+ but IMO just add extra overhead for a one-off design.
Ask HN: How do you go about validating your startup ideas?
That's just common sense, though, to wait until you have heard both sides of a story? I don't think it is the same as implying somebody is lying at all.

Experience shows that probably both parties will think their version is the truth. It's just that they will both have selective memories.
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Facebook adds likes to my timeline
I was looking at my activity log on facebook a few days ago and noticed an entry about me likeing a page. I don't know that page and never visited so i thought maybe i clicked it by mistake. A few days later again, some woman clothing page (i am a man) then again, a sun glasess page. I am pretty sure i did not click those.
I have 2-step authentication enabled so no haking.

I personally think that facebook does this to privide it's ad network with fake likes.

Did anybody else observed this?
Homebrew or MacPorts?

I'm using the former and it works pretty well for me. Though I wish either of those would use apt-get like Fink did.
If the law creates artificial scarcity to enable certain types of enterprise (like technology and media), it is creating an incentive for companies in those industries to exploit the legal situation as much as possible. Not only that, but publicly traded companies have a legal obligation to maximise profit for their shareholders[0]. Together these things mean that a successful company in these industries is one that tries to extend the artificial scarcity of their medium.

In other words, it's the law, not the companies, that are to blame. Change the law.

0: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-com...
I just got a 13'' MBP and put Linux on it. The hardware is great and well supported, but you'll still have a bit of a hard time getting the boot in order.

I tried to fully wipe out the OSX partition, which I ended up reinstalling just to get the `bless` command back so I could boot off the drive. Ugh. So it is setup to dual boot now with Refit.

I am quite happy with it otherwise.

I'm not sure how Linux will look with a Retina display, though. That's why I stuck with the non-Retina 13''. The hi-dpi support in Linux desktops is pretty awful.
Difference is I don't actually know why people are defending GH here, whereas the other commenter has something specific to say to me about power (and they did).
What do you think a sensible alternative is? I have serious problems with C++, but few people (including me) would accept a "security upgrade" which made my browser significantly slower and memory hungry.
The mozilla guys know this already. They've specifically talked about how many serious security bugs would have been caught by using a language like Rust.
To match dialog but not dialogue in vim:

dialog\>

...in other regex systems:

dialog\b

"dialog" as part of a variable name with underscores:

:%s/dialog_/dialogue_/g

"dialog" as part of a variable name with CamelCase:

:%s/\([dD]\)ialog\([A-Z][A-z]*\)/\1ialogue\2/g

You don't need to capture every case in a single regex substitution, you can use a handful to cover pretty much every case though. This sort of change should not take more than a few minutes max of developer time.

I don't have experience with them, but I imagine an IDE with refactoring support should make these sort of changes trivial.
I'll just point out this thing over here:

https://github.com/mozilla/servo
Top hole!
I thought the experience of malls were essentially like that of casinos, in that they were designed so you would lose track of time and buy/gamble more?
Pretty much all the communist ones; the French; counterculture (see the linked article as well as Adam Curtis's documentaries)
I am not a fan of real name policies either and it is one of the reasons why I mentioned before that Vic Gundotra should probably be fired.
one thing missing in these predictions is the fact that we are still social animals. It certainly is convenient to buy online, but teenagers, busy parents (where they can amuse there little ones in play areas or Santa) and people (increasingly) seeking relief from the heat (as in socal), gather at malls, and engage in both planned and impulse buys by just being there. I'm not saying malls are good, or efficient, or will survive in current form, but, there's a reason why Barnes and Noble has converted into a coffee shop with books - people like to hang. We may see malls take on more experiential offerings to make up for underutilized retail space.

Additionally, I know that best buy and guitar center will price match any price I show from an online retailer on my phone (this is so not obvious, but just ask). Just knowing that, I will occaisonally go to the mall or physical shop to actually look at things & try them out.
"what looks better on my resume? Worked at GitHub, got bored/wanted a higher salary/wanted to do less work, left... or worked at GitHub and got bullied out of the marketplace for being a woman in tech, but is an honest and good person nonetheless?"

Left to pursue new opportunities is better for her. Generally speaking, employers are less likely to hire someone who got into public fights, whether by his own fault or not. And they especially do not want to hire people who talk bad about previous workplaces. They do not want to risk it will happen again.

Leaving company for usual unspecified reasons is normal, everybody do that regularly.

If she is "tired of working there and this is her way of finding new work', then she would be exceptionally dumb.
Do you know this? Does she hold no stock? Do none of the finances have her signature?
Awesome. It's a fantastic community, full of incredibly smart people, novel perspectives and ways to actively improve the functionality of your mind.

Coincidentally, the user I originally replied to up above, Eliezer, is the founding member of LessWrong and author of most of the early posts.
Very cool! I wrote a project a few years ago to do something similar: https://github.com/christiangenco/t_time_tracker

It lets you add tasks like this:

$ t browsing HN
Started: browsing HN (now)
$ t @website writing blog post
Finished: browsing HN (0:12)
Started: @website writing blog post (now)
You need a fork of Apache too. Maybe call it Gurkha?
When you work on a large scale problem you WANT to get a consensus of the large picture first, and that's why whiteboard is so handy. We don't jump straight into implementation since it's very often trivial and it's always much easier to improve and refactor implementation than the design/interface of a system itself.
Thanks for linking - I've thought about all these things, but didn't know the terms. Accessing the literature is basically impossible without knowing to call them 'coordination game' or 'free rider problem'.
As a Canadian even, I can't count the number of times I wrote "colour" with a 'u' in my CSS and was surprised when it didn't work.
> They didn't patent the lifeform, they patented value-adding modifications to the life-form. If you spent the time and effort to remove Monsanto's additions, the life-form would no longer be patent-encumbered. The idea that they were patenting a lifeform is utter nonsense.

They still enforced that patent on the lifeform itself, not just on the modification.

The point of a patent is to restrict the reproduction of your invention. The point of a lifeform is that it reproduces itself. Putting your patented thing in something that reproduces itself, means you are releasing control over the reproduction of the thing you patented.

As far as I'm concerned, the only thing a gene patent should protect is taking the patented genes and putting them in a lifeform. Not the reproduction of the lifeform itself, since that is an automatic thing, inherent to life itself.
Not suggesting that at all, since the value in many primary sources is their bias, opinions, or editorializing.
Seems like the creator needs an English lesson of their own.
Rust or Go would be pretty straightforward replacements for C++. Mozilla is actively using Rust to make Servo. I think both Rust and Go are less conducive to bugs than C++.

There are other languages that could be used to write very secure browsers, but using them wouldn't necessarily be straightforward.
Loved it, especially the royal try/catch:

would_you_mind {
// Code here
} actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) {
// Politely move on
cheerio('Message');
}
If you are male and a founder, one of your most valuable business resources is your wife.

If you are a male founder, you might not be married and you might not be straight. Also, one way to kill romance is to tell your significant other that they are your most valuable business resource.
"No return, no make amends
Is this the future or this is how it will end?"

/everything's cool
I swear only Canada makes this distinction between "university" and "college". In the US they call what we call college "community college".

And.. holy crap, that library is freaking awesome. Although, I think the Geisel Library at UCSD takes the cake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geisel-Library.jpg
It would probably be better to say OSX provides nothing I need outside of Linux but adds a few restrictions (choice of hardware, desktop behavior, etc).

If I were forced to use OSX or someone gave me an OSX machine I think I would get along fine and be productive, though. I can actually get along fine in Windows, too, but it is somewhat frustrating and slower for me to get things done.

Not that Linux is perfect, but I'm used to it.
Exactly my thoughts. I guess they do it because they can, and the candidates are willing to go through this.
This sounds terrible, I'm sorry what happened and I'm sorry it's all out in the open like that. While github may have some bad actors, I'm sure there are some decent hard working folks there and in the leadership team there as well.

At risk of sounding like an a-hole, what has she done and why does she have a gigantic twitter following? Just out of curiosity. As with Adria Richards I can't help but think the social media power of the victim and then the public nature of the story has a radical impact. One or both parties is likely to receive some hate from the wild internet and that just doesn't seem useful or good at all.

Not to condone or downplay or silence a victim, she could have just as well hired a lawyer, spoke with HR and followed the same channels that are followed at the IBM's and MS's and other big companies, all of which have had far more torrid things happening. If there is anything I can take away, it is that I'd be very careful with the kinds of social media I allow at my company.
> If you are so wrong you aren't even wrong, there are bigger problems at play and you probably shouldn't be working in that position in the first place.

Which is precisely why it would be eminently reasonable to quit, and therefore reasonable to threaten to quit.

> But in that scenario, whether or not you quit should not be contingent upon whether or not the change is kept, it should be whether or not you have to continue to work with that person.

Right, but anything less than reverting the change means you have to put up with the person, which again... is why one might threaten to quit.
I'm pretty sure this is done on a different scale for the sites that fake data to get traffic.
I usually don't mind stupid jokes, but stupid jokes that auto-play music? Big thumbs down.
> The correct thing would be to do is create a chemical that kills all unwanted stuff and leaves the wanted stuff unharmed

I think you stumbled into the biotech equivalent of CSI picture enhancement[0] or unlimited data storage.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
Pointers in Go: Not like C
there are more "open air" shopping plazas here in socal than I can count, which I think is the reason indoor malls are a dying breed here: our weather isn't bad enough to warrant indoor shopping + the population/foot traffic here in California is growing and highly congested compared to other states.
Rock climbing. Seriously. It keeps my neck strong, my back strong, and my hands from getting RSI. Also, it's not like I'm looking at the same monitor all day long so I have a fair amount of head movement during the day.
>and you can't get it from Target/Walmart/Etc,

When malls were in their heyday when I was growing up, there was no Target or Walmart. At least not anywhere close to where I lived.

>A sanctioned place to hang out with friends outside of school

Malls now are starting to outright not let kids in unless they are accompanied by an adult. I am dead serious, I got carded entering a mall in 2008 and was told the policy is nobody under 18 unless accompanied by an adult. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/shopping-malls-increasingly-p...
Homeland security's untestable sensor array
Nobody is dismissing anything. OP has posted a story about his bad experience with AirBnB-approved people he let into his place, and the knee-jerk response was "that's why we have hotel regulations". No, that's not why - hotel regulations would not do anything to prevent the specific thing OP was complaining about.

That is a very common knee-jerk response which appears any time new and disruptive industry challenges one with entrenched regulation that had already captured the law and the regulatory agencies. Every time something wrong happens - and eventually something wrong always happens, nothing is perfect - we get a knee-jerk "that's why we need all that regulation". Never it is examined if the said regulation would actually prevent the said bad from happening (usually not) and whether the costs of this regulation is worse overall than the bad thing happening. This is so basic logic fallacy that it just boggles the mind how so many people insist so much on not seeing it.
I feel like almost any laptop will work with Linux. Most just happen to come pre-installed with Windows.
tally ho
Certainly Rust is aimed in that direction. I'm unconvinced one could (for example) write a high-performance javascript JIT in Go. Also, neither of those languages has been around anywhere near long enough for a browser to be written in this (Rust still isn't finished!), so insulting people for writing browsers in C++ without suggesting a useful alternative doesn't seem very sensible.
This is a big question which can not be answered without knowing detail about you and your startup ideas. (In my opinion, B2B and B2C startups have totally different structure about idea and validating.)

Today I read a post about it in this link http://www.jasonshen.com/2014/test-your-startup-idea-with-a-...

When you think about your idea, generally tend to think about technology, product, development but generally this doesn't work.

(When Twitter first launch, most of people can't get their Twitter account. A big UX problem!)

(Beginning of something is totally different than already exist business.)

When validate idea, first don't too much focus on validating and speedly generate your prototype business. This business maybe your first sale or your first counseling.

Don't forget needed and optimal is very different. Everybody talks about their optimal but you should focus on your needed strategy.
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The amount of time we spend "designing" on the whiteboard very often outweights coding, yes.

The implementation part of "software engineer" very often is much easier and sometimes even trivial when compare to the design/architecture of the entire system. Implementation is also very easy to improve upon and refactor out, if you have a good design to begin with.
Hello r3m6,

Would you be interested in buying one?

This robot will be on sale soon. I developed it for an Intel programming challenge and won an award. Have been showing it on trade fair shows for the last few weeks to get feedback.

I integrated most of my software from previous research work about localization and mapping and computer vision.

Are you a robotic enthusiast?
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Something I find inconsistent is the "color", shouldn't it be "font-color"? (I definitely could be wrong, I'm terrible in css)
It may not be of any importance, but I figured I should warn you that the photo you linked earlier contains Exif-data which reveals your location.
--- ATTENTION: THERE IS NO SEXISM AT GITHUB!!! ---

Proof #1: Do I read it correctly that a woman got into fights with another woman -- and that is termed as "sexism" now? Give me a break…

Proof @2: how came "sexist" is an organization that is under influence and control of the boss wife? Who doesn't even officially work there!!! Like, really? This is sexism now??? WOW!!! So, again: give me a break with this nonsense!!!

Some old good venting:
And finally, is this a forum for morons now who can't see through once they see a PC piece in the news? Because it seems to me so. HN is full of intelligent people but once PC piece is involved they all act like a band of brainless morons mumbling all marxist buzz-words from "equality" to "social justice". Give me a break again. And go back to coding.
MIT faulted over its support for students
Half the problem is that every single mall where I live has basically the same shops. I find that often new malls seem to be built largely as speculative investments by property developers, rather than to fulfill an actual need. All that happens is that that the new mall is either a disaster, or gradually replaces an older one, simply because the demand doesn't exist for yet another collection of the same chain stores.