skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great service. Although eBay Motors and Craigslist exist for this opportunity, they are very impersonal and create just as many issues as they try to solve. Here's some feedback on the website and service. Hope it helps!

1. Redundant content: I felt like you repeated the same value proposition in nearly every section of your website. However, each section had one small tidbit that wasn't addressed anywhere else (e.g. only available in bay area).

2. Excessive calls to action: Although it's great that you have placed many calls to action (various buttons, sliders, etc.), it really confuses the user. Having one consistent message and/or placement might improve conversion. Just a hypothesis and one you should definitely A/B test.

3. Poor navigation: The "home" button in the footer navigates the user to an awkward anchor tag on the home page. The About page has a large image that makes it seem like a homepage rather than getting in to the actual content of the page. The Contact page is an overlay modal and may not even be worth creating as a separate page. Perhaps placing it in the footer is sufficient.

4. Commas: In your slider showing the different amounts you can save, you should be sure to a comma as a thousands separator or a decimal point + "k" or "thousand". This will increase impact and hopefully conversion as well.

5. Reposition: Seeing this on "Show HN" and seeing lots of copy/images in the beginning made your site seem like it was a just placeholders. It wasn't until I scrolled to the bottom did I see there were testimonials and cars that were actually sold. This content should be placed further up since it demonstrates some form of validation/social traction. It would be great to have a ticker or some other indicator of cars sold at some point when it gets bigger.

Best of luck and feel free to reach out for any clarifications.
I guess I try to give people the benefit of the doubt rather than classify them negatively. True, maybe it's not that high, but one can hope. :)
lval* v = malloc(sizeof(lval));
v->type = LVAL_QEXPR;

For goodness sake, when teaching C, make sure to check alloc's return values.
You don't need a full unit - you can just do the seat:

http://www.amazon.com/Toto-SW574-01-Washlet-Seat-Elongated/d...

That + drywall + electrical is maybe ~$2500.

Sounds like the only expensive part is if you already have expensive deco.
Are we talking about windows for their workstations or for their servers?

In the first case I see a LOT of devs using windows as main os, I can easily say the big part of them use it. My last job was in a full lamp 3yo startups and ironically I was the only one who had a second partition with linux on my laptop. All the other devs where on windows7/8 and only 2 on osx.

In case of server yes, usally you use windowsServer only if you use asp.net or maybe node.js. It however depens

Anyway if you want to just use Azure Websites it is really nice to have all those Sdks for visual studio.
Nobody you are talking about in either scenario is doing that.
Did it factor in the effects on the body of ingesting all the added steroids, antibiotics, and hormones?
thanks for the note Matt. I think you're right and it's something we've debated before. In the end we decided to leave it in there. The first thing we do when you get started with us is call you to schedule the photo shoot for your car. We come to your place to do this at your convenience, but we need the phone number. We'll re-evaluate this over the weekend. Thanks for the feedback, we really appreciate it!
Poll: At what average price have you bought your Bitcoins?
Species don't necessarily have to be that closely related to hybridize. Compatibility is usually more complex but sometimes surprisingly more crude (when related simply to chromosome number) than a linear scaling with evolutionary time. Goats and Sheep are both in family Bovidae subfamily Caprinae. The species diverged around 7 million years ago [0]. Intra-familial (but inter-generic) hybrids are fairly well-known (savannah cats, zedonks, etc.).

Much more surprising is that people have reportedly successfully created hybrids [1] between chickens (family Phasianidae) and guinea fowl (family Numididae), which diverged around 50 million years ago [2].

Note that http://timetree.org is a beautiful service for finding out how closely related two species are (in evolutionary time).

[0] http://www.timetree.org/index.php?taxon_a=Ovis+aries&taxon_b...

[1] http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/2592/is-sexual-re...

[2] http://www.timetree.org/index.php?taxon_a=Gallus+gallus&taxo...
I'm in the learning and publishing industry. Our company has always been an MS stronghold and even here most greenfield projects are written in Node or other emerging technologies. I am a bit biased against Microsoft I have to admit, but I do believe they are on their way out of many industries. It's a down facing trend however you look at it.
Is Obama actually against gay marriage or does he just think it is politically expedient not to support it?
Such a creature is called a "musimones", as I recently learned from reading "Natural Magicks" by Porta, an endearingly incorrect popular science book from 1584. I quote his discussion of these creatures below. The rest of the book is quite amusing.

http://www.mindserpent.com/American_History/books/Porta/jpor...

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There is a beast called "Musimones", gendered of a Goat and a Ram. Pliny says, that in Spain, but especially in Corsica, there are beasts called Musimones not much unlike to Sheep, which have Goats hair, but in other parts, Sheep; the young ones which are gendered of them, coupling with Sheep, are called by the Ancients, Umbri. Strabo calls them Musimones. But Albertus calls them Musini or Musimones, which are gendered of a Goat and a Ram. I have heard that in Rhetia, in Helvetian confines, there are generated certain beasts, which are Goats in the hinder parts, but in the former parts, Sheep or Rams; but they cannot live long, but commonly they die, as soon as they are born. And that there the Rams being grown in years, are very strong and lustful, and so often times meet with Goats, do run over them, and that the young ones which wild Rams beget of tame Sheep, are color like the sire, and so is their breed after them; and the wool of the first breed is shaggy, but in their after-breed soft and tender.
Honestly, much easier and more reliable via PubNub.com or such.
Yes, F# is missing parameterized modules ("functors"); these are simply modules which are parameterized by other modules in the same way .NET generics (for example) allow you to parameterize one type by another type. The reason this would be nice to have in F# is that, while the CLR's generics are excellent in general, there are some things that can't be expressed using the CLR's type constraints. Supporting functors in F# would provide a nice way to work around this and allow you to write code which is more generic.

Here's my proof-of-concept code. I'll warn you now though -- it looks quite messy, because the goal was to show that functors could be supported on top of the existing .NET type system. If functors are ever added to the F# language, the syntax will be much, much cleaner.

https://github.com/jack-pappas/experimental-functors
haveged seems to work quite well and, before I started using it months ago, I ran some of its output through dieharder, ent, etc.

There's also rngd which can also use the RNG in a TPM, if one is available.
Most dealer trade offers are so low because they don't even keep your car on the lot, they sell it at auction...at wholesale prices.

That is a lot different than individual sales...which is how this service sells your car. So yeah, you get a better price for your car, but the service still eats a good chunk of the sale price difference between dealer-trade and individual sale.

And "all the paperwork" amounts to downloading a bill of sale form and title transfer online with the DMV. It's not rocket science, nor time consuming. Certainly not worth hundreds of dollars.
Cereal box cartoons often stare down, entice children
I also didn't care for the term "earn" either.

I think showing what they make from a dealer, then what they make from you like this:

Dealer Trade In: 10000

With InstaMotor: 10500 (+500)
I work on ml code as well.

one awesome trick the jit does is in the case of child classes with virtual functions, if there is only one child class used in a run, it can remove the virtual-ness and inline the function used.

so, for example, one place you would see this is if you have distributions, and eg class Distribution has a virtual member function like deviance or some such. However, for a given run of your code, you only ever use one distribution. Also say that the loop that uses the deviance is hot enough that you can see the slowdown from the vtable and the function call. The java jit will inline the deviance function for the distribution you use (assuming the method is small enough, which it often is). The only way to get this behavior in c++ is to lift the decision out of the hot loop and generate one function for each distribution. I've done this and seen noticeable performance gains (10-15% on hours/days long runtimes), but it does not make the code nice to work with.
whatr pain and agony?
I found this actually an interesting summary, with a bunch of links to Mozilla employee blog posts. I was curious what the employees had to say about it and found the blog posts edifying.
People making 100-200k/year would love this service. People below that income range would want to sell privately themselves to make the most money. People above would just dump it at the dealer's and not care.
Without going too far off-topic, does anyone know anything about a SQL Server driver for Node.js? There was this, but it hasn't been updated in a while.
https://github.com/Azure/node-sqlserver
Can Free College Save American Cities?
I don't find the comparison all that revealing. Clearly, there is no substantive difference between races. However, there are a few obvious substantive differences between genders, and these differences might lead one to a different belief regarding marriage. A belief in outlawing interracial marriage necessarily comes from hateful beliefs. A belief regarding gay marriage doesn't necessarily come from hate/homophobia.
What are you complaining about? There was a leak some months ago and the BSI kept the information about the leak secret until they had set up a system to inform people. Lots of people complained that they didn't publish the information earlier. Now they are doing, what I think is the correct way. Now they have time to discuss how to tell the people whose data has leaked which they surely will do.
Checkout something like this.

https://github.com/antonagestam/collectfast

The problem is collectstatic will use modified date. When sending to S3 this means the entire static pipeline is uploaded each time. Packages like collectfast use the hash to look for difference and only uploads those files. Works reasonably well. We have had a few issues along the way that we have had to work through but its a start.
It should be patently obvious that 95% of people are not "above average", and that when considering two independent attributes, it is a statistical impossibility that 95% of people are above average in one of the two.
It's also not an opinion borne out by facts. Many children grow up with single parents and somehow manage to live healthy, balanced lives. Many children of gay couples also are well-adjusted and do very well for themselves. While having same-gendered same-oriented parental role models generally doesn't hurt children, its also not a necessity for them to grow up to be good people.
On the compiler course taught by Brucee (Bruce Ellis - one half of Mark V. Shaney - the other half being Rob Pike) he got you to do two projects : write a Lisp implementation in C, and a C compiler in Lisp. Most instructive.

If you have an HP printer with a Postscript renderer and you can get an image of it, you can find a digitised photograph of him too :)
Interesting side note: Here's a link to an Amazon review of _Dark Pools_. The review claims the name Brad Katsuyama and opens the review with "As an insider in the world of electronic trading..."

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2HRZNW5661QVR/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit...
Which is somewhat humorous, because the CarMax process is much easier than a traditional dealer.

Disclaimer: I have bought/sold over 10 cars with Carmax over the last decade.
> That’s the beauty of Scala. Tony is right. I am right. There’s no wrong, there’s simply a matter of personal and team preference.

That's not really a good thing; at least not for maintainability. You have to learn a new grammar for every codebase.
Many discoveries were based on unintentional or natural accidents. One could calls these hacks since they broke the conventional "usage pattern." Not necessarily for this case but in situations like these.
Listen to an experimental song created by bats
AutoCast – Chromecast App
According to this the demand was highest in 2005. :)
Websites Must Use HSTS in Order to Be Secure
Formal details of Rust's borrow checker
They are very easy to shim with polling though.
I want to end this charade of free market and capitalism. It's obviously not capitalism or a free market if a company can maximize their prices to fit each countries GDP and not be instantly killed by arbritrators.

It's not a good fit, which is presumably why even the current market doesn't resemble a free market at all, but the illusion is unnecessarily costing a lot of money and wasted productivity.
It's better late than never. It's just easier to say 'I quit' because it's likely none of Node.js developers will switch to using Visual Studio rather than give it a try. Though I probably will never use Visual Studio for writing my Node.js project, kudos for MS not being the old MS.

So what's next for MS? I think they are getting the direction right for opening up for external MS product users, and now it's time to recruit top talent again. There are just too many great hackers think MS is old (just look at some of replies in this story), which to large degree is true, and it will take time to fix that, but it can be possible done with: 1) create openness [culture, keep taking more open-source project like open-day-light, keep opening tech inside MS to others, etc.]; 2) buy early-stage companies through acqui-hire. It will be an uphill-battle and I am not an expert on this, and I am very interested in what other people here on HN thinks.
Hi Token,

I agree with you, it's important to be able to have open scientific discourse about the future. I wouldn't advise you not to post, but to strengthen what you write by being a little bit more critical and scientific.

The concern is focused on the change of "If the pace of increase in life expectancy . . . continues" to the materially different unsubstantiated claim of "more likely than not to reach the age of 100".

It's important to recognize that published literature is often wrong or misleading. We should all be very critical, particularly when relying on a single source. It's also dangerous to present conjecture or prediction as fact as done here.

>How would one prove this claim wrong?

You are highlighting that it's questionably falsifiable. Need I say more?

I am very interested in what you have to say, but when cracks like this show up it throws everything you write into question.
Nest suspends sales of smoke and carbon monoxide alarm over safety concerns
It's constitutionally-protected in the U.S -- a ban would require a constitutional amendment, which is very, very hard. Many of us on both sides of the political spectrum consider America's robust free speech protections to be the keystone of our society and government.
Even if they don't use any Intel products, I'm positive they use software that was developed on Intel products.

My pitchfork is itching for some action.
"Capture more value of the used car sales funnel?"

I jest of course. I think going for the simple "Get more cash out of selling your car." Is probably the simplest.
As soon as you come to Seattle, I will sell my GTi with you (srsly)!

Ofc, you'll be awesome, so then the Seattle Government will issue legislation banning your awesome idea because Used Car Dealerships won't be able to compete, and they'll use their Good Ol' Boy network to shut it down.
possibly logos/advertisements.
There isn't enough attention to this in my opinion. When you research it, everything lines up so nice.
I wouldn't say it is a huge factor. The biggest by far is that each manufacturer/carrier has a slightly different implementation of Android to the next. I have seen small Android projects that have hundreds of defects despite the factor being implemented exactly right.
> the farmer said he was not planning to send the geep for slaughter

I'm ignorant about most things farm-related, but maybe someone knows what rules apply to meat coming from unusual mixes? I assume it's harmless to eat it, but would it be legal to sell?
^ This is how it should read.

I had the same issue. Couldn't figure out the 'you earn' part for a solid 30 seconds or so.
If he disappears and suddenly my backups aren't available. Then I'll start backing up somewhere else. No biggie.

If he disappears, suddenly my backups aren't available, AND my drive blows up, all at the same time, then I'll be sorry I guess.
This seems like a reasonable enough position to me -- although I don't share it

You have just blown thousands of collective minds. Such a stance is possible?
agreed, this is definitely one place where being explicit is better than trying to find a short phrase
Bitcoin Megaphone's Embed Widget Launches
How the U.S. Built the World’s Most Accurate Atomic Clock
The realistic use case is to use a tree-structure similar to the one we have, then use namecoin as verification.
In exactly 137 days.
And I was talking about how convenient it must be to simply choose to believe something different.

As far as "five lights", I suggest viewing "Chain of Command" from Star Trek: The Next Generation, which has a famous scene that riffs off of Orwell's 1984.
Wait... you're saying he's arrogant because he's taken a job that he enjoys primarily because of the humbling perspective it offers?
http://www.dailydot.com/technology/google-sneaky-change-for-...
The scopes had a great deal of overlap; although we (Least Authority) didn't consider the iOS client at all, the rest of iSec's audit has essentially the same scope as ours. The point I was trying to highlight is how easy it is to miss things, and therefore that having independent concurrent audits is actually a really good idea. It would probably be even better if the teams worked mostly independently but were able to exchange draft versions of their reports (before the mitigations necessary for a public release).
Double standards here. You wouldn't be against anyone who donated to the cause because you think it's 'right'.

Now substitute 'gay marriage' with 'legalizing drugs'. See where your argument is going?

"He's wrong because he doesn't agree with me and took action to oppose it". If people never took action to push their beliefs then we'll still have slavery in USA.

We're a democratic society, and people are free to voice their opinion or donate to campaigns that support their beliefs as long as it is legal.
HFT participants (and those who deal with them) have been villified in an industry already viewed in a negative light. There are some bad apples, but there are also many who genuinely believe that they are doing a service for the market.

Without discussing this particular issue, doing evil and feeling evil are two very different things. People who do evil almost never see themselves as evil people, and they almost always justify their actions to themselves. There are no Bond-villains in real life, and if you look for them to find evil you miss its actual manifestations. Those are often quite elusive.
If you can get this working on cars, I would love to see what you can do with residential real estate. 42Floors might beat you there, but they seem pretty focused on commercial.
I think a lot of people underestimate how much money is going in in in-company-apps.

As an app developer I prefer Android over Apple because of how easy it is to deploy your app.
> Clearly, there is no substantive difference between races.

http://jaymans.wordpress.com/hbd-fundamentals/
I think msft building this kind of tooling around exciting tech like node gives node more credibility in a big enterprise type of shop...will only be a good thing for node,
Here's a polyfill: https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource/

2 issues;
Last-Event-ID is not a header, but a querystring param.
Needs 2kb of padding from server before any data.

Looks pretty usable.
Windows XP Security: Hype or a Real Threat?
That's fair ;-) I added that because I think Hollywood has the average person convinced computers can think. To most people a computer is a magic black box, not everyone that reads Hacker News is a developer that understands what an algorithm is or how software works. After three decades of movies like Star Wars and The Matrix, it's not much of a stretch to imagine the magic black box thinking for itself IRL. The movies and books are highly entertaining but I think there needs to be a nerd somewhere saying, "You know son--that's a special effect using XYZ technology, that's not real."
I'm liking it a lot so far; it's written by an author who clearly thinks HFT is sinister, but who also seems to think the code behind it is really cool. (Maybe I'm biased, because that describes me pretty well too.)
I'll counter with Clarence Thomas.

"I cannot endorse a view of the First Amendment that subjects citizens of this Nation to death threats, ruined careers, damaged or defaced property, or pre-emptive and threatening warning letters as the price for engaging in "core political speech, the 'primary object of First Amendment protection.' "

- Dissenting in part, _Citizens United vs FEC_. Regarding Proposition 8, and the fact that the law compelled the disclosure of donors and made all this donation information public to begin with.
I don't think it works like that. Last I understood, right to food & shelter is primarily a negative right, meaning nobody can deprive you of those things. Similar to right to movement- nobody is obligated to buy you a bus ticket, but outside of special circumstances nobody is allowed to stop you from buying that bus ticket.
Agreed. Having sold several cars in NYS this is the typical situation with selling a car.

- Post on craigslist for a few hundred under KBB and few thousand more than what you're willing to sell for

- Get several calls and appointments in the evenings for a solid week

- Within two weeks someone offers you $1k less than what you posted on CL for but still $1k more than your lowest point

- Collect payment from buyer, give them the signed title, and a piece of paper saying how much they paid for the car.

In this situation there are literally two pieces of paper. The bill of sale that you can write on any old computer paper and the title that came with the car. Signing up for this service may be even more work than just selling the car yourself.
I concur. Another result of informing the public in this manner is that reporting on the leak is murky and alarmist.

Yesterday I watched the Tagesschau, a highly-regarded public TV news program, and their report on this story was so short on information that all it could do -- whether consciously or not -- was to vaguely convey how dangerous cyberspace is. They even had the visuals of numbers flying through space for lack of actual informative content. In a country that's already often backwards when it comes to digital communication technologies, this kind of reporting is completely unhelpful.
But I would rather drive a nail into my eye than write in Eclipse.