skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being installed on someone's iPhone on the home page is a pretty sticky place to be.

This strikes me as pretty disingenuous, considering the fact that the entire value of the Lyft/Uber systems is matchmaking. I can open both apps and check availability/price in seconds. Why would this not continue to be a healthily competitive space? (scummy, sabotage and price-war tactics aside)
Hands-on: The Tegra K1-powered Acer Chromebook 13
This is very nicely done, however css viewport units have what appears to be the same browser support and are built-in. I think what this delivers that css doesn't is explicit bounds for min and max size, whereas you'd have to do a media query or something to set those in a pure css solution.
That text should appear for all names whether there are removed searches or not.

In this case Google isn't recognising Mischa Leinkauf as a name.
I get this (from Germany) for almost any common name combination. And also for my name even though I never requested a removal - nor am I famous enough to be mentioned in other publications.

I guess Google just adds this footer whenever someone searches for a name.
The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
> Sexism in tech will start to become less of a problem once people recognize that it's an issue.

I completely, totally, 100% agree. And not only in tech, and the same with racism, homophobia, and other related issues.

But I don't agree that simple ignorance makes you part of the problem -- although I do agree that ignorance makes it more likely that you will perpetrate these kinds of problems accidentally.

As a white, heterosexual, privileged man I don't have a very good instinctive sense for the problems that those less privileged than me face. Gradually, but mostly four or so years ago, I decided I should learn some more, and started asking people and searching the net.

When I did this, I found learning about this to be a much more grueling process than it seems it should have been. In particular, I found some people (not all) who were more eager to belittle me for my ignorance than to simply to explain the problems that they have faced, or refer to me to some resource that would.

At the core I think that both of us agree: that it would be a very good thing if more people learned about racism, sexism, and related issues. I believe that your comment detracts from, rather than supports, this goal.
Misconceptions about Facebook Login and Politics
Why media companies are ditching their newspaper operations
"For a middle class student, it's just throwing away money."

They cost money, but that's not the same as throwing money away. It depends on what you're getting in exchange. If the gap year serves its purpose of helping you figure out what you want to do, the delta in cost is substantially less than paying a few years of tuition while you figure out the same thing.
It seems like they should have waited for the surfboard thing to make it's journey before launching the kickstarter. It would have made the project seem a lot more credible. Like another poster mentioned, I'm sure a lot of drug traffickers would be willing to invest if it's proven to work
He was never accused of any misconduct beyond wearing sunglasses while disagreeing with feminists.

This is self-evidently false, so much so that I'm confused as to how you could have written this comment.
And a hydrogen fuel cell can leverage more of the existing infrastructure and can be used in some existing ic engines.

whereas upgrading both domestic and the grid to support widespread electric charging has a lot of cost and infrastructure issues.
Yep. Everything included, including the AWS deal, were manually negotiated with those companies for them to be included.
On the prowl for local startups
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Startupolitan is an idea that I've been toying with for a little while now and I've just decided to put it out into the universe as I feel it is certainly needed by many.

It's been a ridiculous challenge trying to maneuver through those who've already received either enough recognition or enough VC funding to be well on their way. What I'm looking for most are the indie, likely bootstrapped startups. Be my guest and submit a neat startup that you know of, or even better, one that you're behind. Would love to hear back from some of you.

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Cheers,

Saphire, Editor
Excellent insights.
There's definitely a reoccurring theme here.

What do you think the best solution is?
Turns out Simon lost due to poor memory. ;)
Sorry about that. I sent you an updated invoice with all the information you should need. We'll make sure to add that info by default for other people.
Well, you've got one out of two already. :) Apple laptops can be powered by Apple external monitors.

It'd be nice to have a more "universal" standard -- where I'm sitting at work right now I see one coworker with a ThinkPad plugged into an Apple monitor, and another with a MacBook Air plugged into a Samsung monitor, and that means both of them need one more outlet than I do. But that's a meeting of the brands I wouldn't hold my breath for.
Replying to my own comment, I know, but...

Hmm, I just realized, if enough peers with 6500s/7200s have flapping BGP sessions with their upstreams, that would be a problem even for upstreams with beefier routers and more available TCAM - too many flapping peers == too many dampened routes == lots of "fun" resetting BGP sessions and coordinating with peers. Yipes.
This is anecdotal, but I've always found the contrast in average uptime between Unix and windows machines to be quite soothing. When the office is windowsless, that is.
But there is probably a hard ceiling to the efficiency of safe and cost effective Li-ion batteries. We can't be entirely sure because we don't fully understand how Li-ion batteries work, but my best layman's educated guess is that those are close to tapped out as well.

The strength of the battery+motor electric drivetrain is that it's modular. Come up with another energy storage method, build it into a power pack, then plug it right into existing Tesla S cars, get the over the air software update, and you're back in business. There's also all of that frunk space.
There's a feeling that manufacturing jobs are leaving the US at a quick rate, that anything we can do to keep them here is a 'good thing', and supporting companies that keep jobs here is equally good. Marketing as such is therefore just trying to take advantage of that.
Sorry WhitneyLand. In case you haven't noticed, the one thing Hacker News is most afraid of is becoming anything like Reddit.
It's just personal preference. I really dislike the lyft product because I don't want the driver to treat me like I'm his friend (fist bumping and what not). It feels fake, forced, and awkward. I much prefer the general experience in an Uber black where the driver asks me where I'm going, makes sure I'm comfortable (a/c, water, music) and then let's me be. The irrelevant small talk just annoys me at best.

P.s. I also dislike the pink mustaches. So gimmicky.
Mobile OS Paradigm
Don't listen to people trying to pressure you on how you spend you money. People love to shame others.

You made a lottery. Nobody has to play. Do whatever you want with the money. Don't give it to charity because someone else told you to.
I diffed for my name (because I really was curious why I was on the list). Local German IP vs US VPN. The results were the same. In a different order but all items were the same for the first 10 pages.

So I guess it's just a "let's slap that footer onto all name related searches so we save a few DB queries".
Well. Microcode updates are lost on reboot, and they can only be applied from privileged code. Which means you'll have to be able to slip rogue code into the BIOS or the kernel, at which point you already have full control. The "negative ring" levels of code (SMI, etc) are quite powerful already.

But a trojanized microcode update file inside an otherwise regular BIOS would be a nice hiding spot, hard to detect and analyze, at least for anyone outside Intel.
I can understand that it doesn't seem to be a reasonable description (they are all-white stand-ins for what are usually American flags), but it doesn't seem to be a typo / slip of the pen—or were you making some joke or more subtle commentary that I missed?
> Scientists don't imply cause-effect relationships, they demonstrate them, using evidence, to the exclusion of alternatives.

You mean like Einstein did with the theory of relativity? Oh. Wait. That was only proven 30+ years later by Ives–Stilwell.

You mean like String Theory is completely proven to the exclusion of alternatives? Oh. Wait. It isn't.

Science observes, formulates hypotheses, and then falsifies or shows them to be true. It is never "to the exclusion of alternatives", or we'd be done with science by now. It is about forming the model that best fits the world, given our current knowledge.

> I've met the same evidence requirement the linked article does, and the latter is being described as science.

The "linked artice" is journalism, not science. Try following up on the links in there, to the actual science.

> one without any effort to explain it or demonstrate a cause-effect relationship.

You didn't read any of the papers, did you?

> After reading the original work, one is left with the same impression the linked article provides

Ah. You digested 35 years of research, and found no evidence? Or you skimmed the overview I provided, and chose to not further investigate?

Yes, there is no clear mechanism, yet. That's because we don't understand psychology well enough to always define clear mechanisms. That's what science is about - furthering our understanding.

The work on establishing actual causal pathways is still going on, and probably will for quite a while. The metastudies indicate that research is doing a decent job to control for other factors, and still reproduces nicely.
jq has proven useful for dealing with JSON. A nice way to reduce or reformat your data.

http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
Lyft tends to annoy me because people keep spamming their referrals all over social media.
A similar company is SeaBotix [0] they have a similar [1] thruster for sale but it uses a brushed motor. They have a newer generation product (not separately listed) that uses brushless motors that has integrated motor controller so all you need to do is send it power and I2C speed commands.

For people interested in this I recommend checking out the RobotSub [2] competition. Each team releases papers allowing you to see how the whole vehicle fits together.

0 - http://www.seabotix.com/

1 - http://www.seabotix.com/products/auv_thrusters.htm

2 - http://www.auvsifoundation.org/foundation/competitions/robos...
some related and well-reasoned, well-written essays:

http://monasandnomos.org/2012/12/05/the-idea-of-a-characteri...

http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/flowcharts-the-once...
The more I read HN, the more I am impressed by the diversity of its readers. Now we have the cousin of a field medalist, nothing less!
Scribble – A Revolutionary Pen That Draws In Any Color
Why Apple uses Picasso’s Bull to teach its minimalist design principles
> Talk about revolutionary, true automated pure math would be a human milestone on par with very few developments in history.

Hilbert thought so too, but it is proveably not to be (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem), no matter how much money is thrown at it by how many bored billionaires.

(EDIT: To be clear, I am not claiming that there is no room for automated assistance of pure math, only that it can never be wholly automated.)

(Second, important EDIT: As Khaki points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8170062), I should make it clearer that many objections about what computers can't do apply equally well to show what humans also can't do.)
I believe he's referring to the fact that an all-white flag is just a flag, there's nothing American about it.
I've been one of those guys on contract, but only for really big deals, not really the ones I've seen on HN. The last one I worked on was a deal which was funded by Morgan Stanley and a few others - they put in about $800 million, I believe.

They bought the platform (mostly written in Oracle) and we recommended they re-write their external APIs (which were written in Java). They did both, re-wrote the APIs in .NET, which is what we recommended (because they had no Java programmers but they had 6 really solid .NET guys already on staff...honestly, companies have no idea of what assets they have in house). Company went public last year. Just hit $1B in revenue just before going public.

If we had walked in and seen a bunch of No SQL or some fad junk, we would have told them to bail. You can't play around when you are playing with these level of businesses.
Well, you can nitpick my comment, pick outliers and twist my words (I never said I justify age discrimination - I merely said it is a fact of life) but readers here are smarter than that :)
And in exchange for that audit they gained permission to get their own microcode updates signed, too?
Interactive Ruby Shell.
You did not see the flags closely. They have all of the same 'design' as the regular flag, alternating horizontal stripes, a square in the corner with 50 stars, but the artists used two slightly different colors of while to construct the flag. It made them appear to be bleached white or something.
They did actually resemble American flags, with the stars and stripes faintly visible.

Edit: See this image: http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9622820.ece/bin...
Read on. They used two shades of "white" clothes to sew in the patterns.
> It's rare for a college dropout to become obscenely successful, but conversely it is also not uncommon for someone obscenely successful to be a college dropout.

Reference?
Show HN: Video upload and sharing with meme and drawings
I don't disagree (at least w.r.t electric cars), but to play devil's advocate: a factor of 50-100 is A LOT. We're talking about two orders of magnitude here, which would require a fundamental breakthrough in battery technology to achieve parity with gasoline. Even if we make batteries twice as efficient, we're still 25-50 worse than gasoline. And breakthroughs in battery technology are hard to come by. So if Toyota wants to hitch their wagon to fuel-cell technology instead, all the power to them! Batteries are not necessarily the future of portable energy.
I wonder what prompted it, and if this means they could potentially fine anyone flying RC/Drone aircraft in that area during the NOTAM.
Very interesting read. Amazing to see where information gathering and simple hacking techniques can lead you...

Pilots have checklists, web developers have Application Security Verification Standard (2014)! https://www.owasp.org/images/5/58/OWASP_ASVS_Version_2.pdf
I'm baffled that this was downvoted. Does someone really not think that such groups of people exist? You must never have heard of college fraternities.
No not necessarily, though I wouldn't use a CV to apply to a job in the States or that is with a primarily US based organization. I just ignore the info when it comes up, it just catches me by surprise sometime.

I've actual lobbied to anonymize all applications as much as possible. Thankfully for some positions I have to review resumes for I'm unfamiliar with the cultural norms of what names are female and what are male. So in that way they are anonymized!
I'm pretty sure you are confusing Pax Dickinson with someone else.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/business-insider-ctos-is-your-ne...

http://www.businessinsider.com/statement-2013-9

Just a bunch of tweets mocking feminists, liberals and Mel Gibson.

[edit: Tom I really don't understand how you think this disagrees with what I said above. How do these links imply any misconduct, or anything other than disagreeing with feminists? Are you asserting that opposing the welfare state or mocking Mel Gibson is what got him fired?]
because you tag articles so I decided to go with the developers first. in the future I will build a general version of rssheap.
Thanks. Url changed to this from http://blog.cs.brown.edu/2014/08/12/photo-editing-algorithm-....
Apple – Diversity – Inclusion inspires innovation
So, I guess people really do use html mail now. I'm a little sad, but not surprised. I do find it a little bit ironic converting markdown (a format for structured plain text, allowing for easy quoting, in-line replies etc) to html.

That aside, I can understand the frustration with web interfaces, and if committed to using gmail, why not have a nice interface for composing mails at least?

My current pet peeve with google interfaces, are the text-editing boxes on g+ -- which are not text-boxes, and so doesn't work with "it's all text" -- and also breaks cut'n'paste for long sections of text. So I end up editing a text-file in vim, then copying section by section in ordert to post into g+ communities. Sigh.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
This is nice because it's completely flexible/dynamic. You don't have to worry about declaring font sizes for every screen width or breakpoint. That would require an unnecessary amount of media queries...
Ask HN: Would you sign an NDA?
Recently I've been encountering numerous individuals ranging from VCs to startup founders offering to sign an NDA.

Here are some of the scenarios:

"Dude, I have this awesome idea, and I'm 100% sure it's going to work, I just need someone to build it. I can't tell you anything about it until you sign an NDA"

"We don't have any product yet, but we have a provisional patent for the technology, you have to sign an NDA"

"We would like you to do some contracting for us, and maybe become a CTO eventually, but we need to build an MVP first, to go ahead sign an NDA".

I've read through the documents and it seems safe to sign those, but I'm not a lawyer and I might overlooks some details.

Is it considered a normal practice to sign an NDA? Do you sign those?
jq,http://stedolan.github.io/jq/,best tool to handle JSON files in command line
#The tool that immediately comes to my mind is jq, a tool to transform and process JSON objects. It's one of those powerful tools that is super easy to learn and once I started using it I just couldn't live without. The only negative thing I have to say is that it does not have good native support to transform between JSON and CSV.
MagSafe 2 works without issues for me, and is plenty strong. There should be no way that it is "falling" out!
The idea with HLE at least, was that anywhere you had a highly contended lock that protected not-highly-write-contended data, it was a drop-in performance boost. Really sucks that they had to pull the plug on it.
"I guess Google just adds this footer whenever someone searches for a name."

As I said, this does not happen for Mischa Leinkauf (it also doesn't happen for the combinations of Matthias Leinkauf, or Mischa Wermke).

It also does not happen for John Smith, or Bob Dobbs.
'Manjul Bhargava completed all of his high school math and computer courses by age 14.[..]
Princeton hired him at the rank of tenured full professor within only two years of finishing graduate school, which is considered a record in the Ivy League.'

Fascinating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manjul_Bhargava
That sounds like a management / leadership failure (ok, I'm being Captain Obvious here).

I've been one of the "apathetic" people before, I've seen it happen due to burnout, too many times working with no recognition, lack of faith in the higher ups, etc...
I think you are a bit naive to believe that both Uber and Lyft with survive long term. In a network effect business its typically winner take all.
Build and Monetise APIs in 99 seconds
Ah, thank you for pointing that out. I would agree with the anti-snark stance I just didn't perceive it quick enough in my own comment.
I agree with the commenters on the article, this sounds a lot like correlation: not so much like causation.
This is not a privacy issue.

As with age, people are not expected to state their race in an interview, nor are employers allowed to discriminate based on race, yet this diversity report includes anonymized racial data. They could have easily included anonymized age data.
The cynical interpretation is that the police don't want TV helicopters covering their riot control tactics.

NOTAMs apply to all airmen. You can't fly a drone in any other no-fly zone, so this one wouldn't seem to be different.
Exactly, The tech between Uber and Lyft comes down to crowd-sourcing users/driver and payment system.
It won't make any difference if the load is embarrassingly parallel, like rendering one frame of video per core. In those cases the amount of independent work is huge compared to time spent dealing with locks.
I wonder if the study controlled for quality of life at work; its plausible that offices without windows are generally more miserable than those with windows (but not because of it).
I have been using "Gmail old compose"[1] together with
"It's all text" / "Edit with Emacs" to achieve the
same effect. With the old compose, there's no need to
convert to/from HTML: email body is just text.

[1]: http://home.oldcompose.com/
I can't of course say that every startup company has this sort of culture, but my impression is that most small tech companies in startup hotbeds lean in the direction I describe. The sort of startups that catch my attention seem either to have such cultures or be straining to have them. They seem to think that hipster/dorm atmosphere is important for recruiting (the kind of people they want – 23 year-olds) and actively strive to create, maintain, and advertise it.
That is a mean thing to say to a newcomer who wouldn't necessarily know that signing comments isn't customary here. Please don't be mean.
Cool. Done. The groovy photo ask was kind of annoying, but then I got over it.
So, easy enough way of testing this is to go and compare, across fields, gender ratio and percent dating within that field.

A different field might be, for example, perhaps nursing--traditionally a very female-heavy field.

I'm not aware of any such dataset, unfortunately.
Needs more combinators! It's already got Y, so why not SKI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus) or BCKW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B,C,K,W_system)?

(I'm not sure if it's kosher to link to it—if not, then please let me know and I'll remove it—but I implemented a SKI combinator reducer in Perl regexes a while back: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=809842 .)
Fragile? It's a solid piece of metal. You really have to try, hard, to break it. It's about as durable as it's possible for something of that size and complexity to be.

By contrast, for instance, the design for the connectors for most USB "SuperSpeed" drives right now is incredibly awful. Fragile (both the port and connector designs), only plugs in one way, and it's quite hard to see what way that is without giving it a close look.
Im sorry is there any more context to this? It seems a Rodney King-a-like incident, cop shoots kid and riots ensue.

Is this to give the cops free air to fly in without worrying they might hit a private plane, or is this a bit more "we don't want any maniacs crashing into us"?

Seems a bit drastic - can you imagine banning of driving cars for this long or this far?