skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now if only it were obvious what the next Google would be...

I agree with the spirit of this comment, and eventually left Google to pursue dreams of creating something from scratch. But it's usually not at all obvious what is worth working on or where to start. And for the 5 years or so that I didn't really know what I wanted to do and didn't quite have the courage (or foolhardiness) to drop something for nothing, Google was a pretty darn good place to hang out.
Thumbs up! Really.
Thanks! I managed to miss that development. I'm constantly amazed by how much advance thinking Elon Musk does -- it can't be an accident that the battery swap is so easy, it had to be planned that way.
You want to add EMET to your setup to shield (to a degree) against zero-days - http://microsoft.com/emet
yeh you could do it but what a hassle. Would require new meters at the premises, as well as each individual circuits for each charging station that you wanted to bill (otherwise there would be no way to separate out the usage).

IOW yes, but no.
Which Platform Should I Build on First? iOS vs. Android
Sounds like a great way to increase the unemployment rate on oDesk even more.
Sorry for double posting, I've gone into more detail in another reply to you.
> what's keeping you there?

Zero work experience. You can't really change country without finding a job first in another country, or at least having a plan. I would gladly work any job to become an US citizen or canadian citizen. Sweden, Norway, Finland, any cold country.

I don't know how to search for a permanent job abroad. I don't want to just do tourism and work abroad for one year. There always seems to be tons of discouraging paperwork. Canada requires you to have 2000 euros or more if you want to go there. With 9/11 the US will be a difficult place to go as I don't have any job experience.

> I find it hard to feel sympathy

I don't care about your sympathy, I'm not asking for it. Nobody has sympathy anyway. What do you mean by that anyway ?

> be part of the change

What does that even mean ? I don't care about change, I just want to get out in the morning, do anything that can be done, and go back home.

Like I always say, where can I pick a shovel and start working ? Job applications are stupid too, there are always requirements, and nothing about the real supply and demand of the job market for that kind of job.
Yeah, I assumed that might have been for the purposes of not lighting the server on fire, which is totally reasonable :)
$40/mo or $400/year seems like a lot of money... any indication that they break news before any other site?

The value prop isn't just breaking stories quicker than the next outlet, but we do happen to break a fair amount of news. For instance, we broke a story [1] last week that moved eBay's share price up by 4-6%. [2]

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/PayPal-s-Future-Still-in-Play

[2] http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=EBAY+Interactive#symbol=E...
Hi guys,

I'm one of the founders of SFOX.com. It's been great working on the product with the great team at YCombinator. It was incredibly helpful to us.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback on SFOX.

Thanks!
Wherever you're getting your data, it's not very good.

There's absolutely no way "boudoir photography" is more popular than "wedding photography". Most people can't even spell "boudoir".

http://i.imgur.com/SlVlngq.png
Anyone have any thoughts on how this compares with HitTail[0]?

[0] https://hittail.com/
Yes, absolutely, that wouldn't be difficult at all. A car's charging plug could have a chip such as is present in newer credit cards, and the transaction would be automatic.
Well, everyone could just bring lunch from home.
Aside: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGN5xaQkFk0
Well, the critique seems to really be leveled at pure capitalism, as opposed to just capitalism in general. I guess it's the lack of regulation to prevent a rat-race to the bottom of quality of life that is the issue.
> > Even the level of security we had before 9/11 was misguided and caused more deaths than it saved.

> Even if I grant that it saved no lives, it's not obvious to me how it caused any.

This is discussed elsewhere in the thread, mainly here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8220129

When you make flying less attractive, people are more likely to drive. Driving is orders of magnitude more dangerous, so people die in car crashes who wouldn't have if they had flown.

Security makes flying less attractive because:

- higher monetary cost for the flight (some of this is reflected in explicit "security fees", some not)

- bigger time commitment due to having to arrive early to allow for security

- bigger chance of missing the flight (if you're the sort of person who tends to cut it close on time)

- less flexibility. For instance, before the modern security era you could just buy a ticket and then if it turns out you couldn't use it you could sell it on craigslist. Or if the flight was overbooked you could directly sell your ticket to somebody on standby - the airlines didn't care.

- greater chance of being stolen from because you are forcibly separated from your valuables which are accessed out of your sight.

- greater stress due to the fear of losing one's valuables.

- more stress due to fears related to dealing with security personnel, long lines, being treated like sheep, having one's personal space invaded and more.

The most DIRECT way all this translates into extra deaths is that fewer people fly so more die on the road. One INDIRECT way it translates into extra deaths is that fewer people travel at all (or do so more expensively) which damages economic growth; economic growth tends to promote health.
I don't have a Windows 8.x box to check on, but on Windows 7 you can still set the display attributes for active windows - it's just a bit more buried.

To do so:

* Right-click on the Desktop background, Personalize

* Select Window Color button/link at the bottom

* Select "Advanced appearance settings..." link

* Click on the Active Title Bar in the preview area, or
select Active Title Bar from the Item dropdown

* Customize the font appearance, including font, color, size and weight.
Ice bucket CHallENGE ACCEPTED
Android app to turn off annoying TVs via IR port
I guess my point though is that there's basically no way you're making much money - so the compensation really is the brand building.
it can't be an accident that the battery swap is so easy, it had to be planned that way.

It had to be planned. I don't think it was feasible in the roadster because of the battery placement. But the model S has a nice flat battery on the bottom of the car, making for great weight distribution and easy access. I haven't seen any news of any actual swap stations though.
What if Tesla worked with Solar City to sell a home battery pack swap system?
This isn't my app, but I wish I'd thought of it :) For years I've carried an IR transmitter to turn off annoying TVs around me, but this app nicely replaces that device in an even stealthier form.
Think of some simple operation you'd like to perform., like starting an existing virtual machine. Now read the documentation and try to figure out how to do it.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp#com.vmware.vcli....
Our mistake, sorry.
Agree, it's hard to say when was the last time Boeing did something innovative - on the scale of SpaceX - in space technology.

In 12 years SpaceX roughly managed to build two rockets and one space freighter cheaply - economical "first", to produce stages with e.g. high (comparing to industry standard) dry-to-wet-mass ratio, to produce a kerosene engine with, again, pretty high thrust-to-weight - and run a development program on vertical landing for the first stage.

Don't see anything comparable to that from Boeing.
> guarantee

What does this mean? Of course no guarantee of safety could be absolute, so how large does the threat have to be for us to give up our basic freedoms? Terrorists are already, for western countries a statistically insignificant threat. Nothing compared to drunk drivers, diabetes, cancer etc.

You are appealing to an irrational fear.
> VirtualBox is a bigger threat

VirtualBox would only be a "threat" to Workstation/Fusion. Products like that make up a small part of VMware's revenue. Enterprise is where the money is (products like vSphere, ESX, NSX).
I don't think Facebook is looking to optimize for those sorts of articles being shared on people's news feeds. It's far less likely that "short article with niche piece of information on specific case" will garner as much interest without context on a news feed (since relatively few people will care when taken from the general population) than "long article that gives an in-depth analysis on something interesting".

If it were Google going with this philosophy, I think I'd agree with you, though.
I hope Notch-senpai will notice us....
I think the article does not really articulate the root cause properly. The issue is that a Ruby object goes out of scope, while a low-level pointer to its internals continues to be used (in the middle of code that allocates and can trigger GC). How that problem translates to code generation on amd64 is secondary.

What is happening is that the string object has been reduced to its C fundamentals (pointer to data, and length), and the one and only variable ("str") which holds the original object from which these fundamentals are derived has no next use after that.

The fix in the patch is not very good; the real fix is to get rid of the nasty macro zstream_append_input2, and make it a real function.

The function still has to solve the problem of pinning the object while the low level pointer is used, but it's more localized: we don't have to think about the interaction of the macro with the site where it is expanded (and will the hack always work).

In other words, don't write macros that break apart garbage-collected objects into low-level C pointers to their internals that are invisible to the collector. The macros spread dangerous code everywhere they are used.
Quite a lot of Marx's observations of the problems in capitalism are valid, if oversimplified and oddly phrased.

The two problems with Marx are (1) he was writing ~150 years ago and things have changed in industrialisation and (de)colonisation; and (2) his proposed solutions and those of his immediate followers were found to fail badly.

This does not necessarily invalidate subsequent leftwing economics. However, use of Marxist language and terminology is usually the sign of a crank. It really needs updating for the present world and modes of discussion.
I don't know about the barrage of articles, but at least in 24/7, the author cites Marx multiple times.
I haven't tried that backup utility yet. I'm frankly a little nervous to trust it with valuable data. I'll run it and something based on rsnapshot for the near term. Now I just have to figure out if I've got enough external drives for that, or do I need to buy more.

I'll likely first try to run things so that the btrfs snapshots are running over the Internet, which will really cut down on the time and bandwidth needed. And as a backup use rsnapshot locally.
what are you talking about?

Fukushima killed the political climate for nuclear. Obama had proposed $54 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear plants[1]. No one in Congress was going to vote for that with a nuclear meltdown in the news.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-14/obama-s-nuclear-pow...
Sorry, I was away all day after changing that. Can you suggest a better title?
I hope you realize that the design of GlassWire is far superior to that windows metro garbage of a UI.
I was only asking because in the US, if you're a passenger in improperly insured car, you're pretty much fucked.

Private health insurance won't cover you. The driver's auto insurance won't cover you. Your private auto insurance won't cover you.

There simply isn't a generally available american insurance policy which provides coverage for catastrophic injuries that occur while in a private vehicle that's being driven commercially.

It saddens (but doesn't surprise) me that you felt free to jump to an unsupported, bigoted conclusion, and then to spew hatred at me. Typical HN. Asshole.
Exactly this. Now we've only got the one problem to solve.
> Until we move away from burning stuff to make energy, Telsa can create millions of car, it still doesn't help anything.

Actually, it still helps a lot, because burning fuel at power plants is much, much more energy efficient than in internal combustion engines (I think I saw a factor of 3 or 4 in some analysis). So by going all electric, you get 3 times less pollution for the same number of cars (actually, you'd get even less, because power plants are better at filtering pollutants).

Also another added benefit is that the moment you go green by e.g. switching to nuclear power, suddenly all your cars get their carbon footprint cut down by two orders of magnitude.
Minister Wallace Fard would like a word.
As I write, another article on the front page of Hacker News is entitled: "This is what Tesla owners are doing while you sleep"

http://blog.opower.com/2014/07/this-is-what-tesla-owners-are...

"While you are in bed dreaming about how some day you too might own an electric car, many EV owners are doing something dramatic; something unusual..."
You could have said all the same things about YouTube when they got acquired. It sold for around the same amount of money, it wasn't at all clear that online video was going to become mainstream, there were massive copyright issues, existing competitors, and it turned out very nicely for them.
Thanks for your book by the way! I loved it.
(and it also made me recognize your username, proving your appreciation/reputation argument)
http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
It is also good for the market to have two larger game channels (youtube and twitch, yes there are Everyplay, hitbox and there will be more now this deal happened).

Amazon is really hands-off with acquisitions for the most part such as Zappos and Audible. They primarily add to the offerings by cheaper fulfillment or server/bandwidth/cpu costs and more. I think they will treat twitch better than if it was just integrated into youtube.

Also, it shows a dedication to game developers and supporting marketing of games on their platforms and others. Amazon buying them is actually better for Twitch and the gaming/let's play type new marketing channels.
Not the "only" way to say though. Email, Twitter, FB likes, recommending to others, are a few amongst many other ways to say.
It's not even EV owners, the study was performed on consumers that had opted in to a low rate night time car charging electricity plan.

Headline: Consumers use plan they signed up for to expected effect
In a perfect world, all software would be open source. Our world isn't perfect so I just live with asking people to make their security-related software open source.
Reminds me of a clip [1] by Steven Levitt about how people have no clue how to set prices.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABM20X0iZg
Really the only thing that Amazon Video doesn't seem to support is non-Amazon builds of Android....
Army’s experimental hypersonic missile explodes four seconds after takeoff
That conclusion really only applies to Linux; VMware can't run VMs in containers. When all you can run is VMs, then you'll promote $X in VMs for all $X.

You might be thinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146536
'sign of a crank' is grossly wrong, like it or not most of the vocabulary we have to describe the capitalist system as a mode of social organization originates with marx
HitTail uses the existing keywords people are using to find your site and automatically generates long tail suggestions for you each day or week (depending on your plan). It uses your proprietary keyword data to come up with more keywords your site is highly likely to rank for (low hanging fruit).

It appears that KWFinder asks you to enter a phrase and provides a list of long tail keywords. So it's more similar to LongTailPro or the Google Keyword Planner than HitTail - meaning it pulls from a single database of keywords they have compiled or otherwise have access to pull ideas from.
>But I fear we'll eventually see a time where HVAC/dryers/fridges/etc turn on full blast at 4:30PM and stop entirely at 5PM, then turn on again right at 10PM, leading to grid instability due to the sudden change in usage at exactly one point in time.

If you know it's going to happen and you have a decent grid you can manage. The UK supposedly has a 3GW spike in power draw every time the BBC's soap opera goes to comercial. That's a sizable chunk of total power in an island grid that doesn't have the rest of Europe backing it up.

http://www.geek.com/news/tea-time-in-britain-causes-predicta...
I believe tailoring search results was not as much of a factor in 2012 when the article was written.
I uninstalled both FourSquare and Swarm a few weeks ago. I was one of those "check-in everywhere I go" types for years. I enjoyed the gamification aspect of it (mayorships/badges) and the historical record of where I've been (both in the context of it telling me I've been at a place X weeks in a row or looking at when was the last time I was at X?)

Swarm took all the fun out of the whole check-in concept. [I can see how Swarm might be appealing to people who have a lot of friends in a close geographic area that also use the app...but I am not one of those people].
If not in cities, where do your electricity plants exist?

You are right in that electric cars only relocate the pollution and energy consumption, but it still has to happen somewhere.
A couple of things, one my kids like to hang out and watch me play, it was entertaining for them and they enjoyed seeing their dad get smashed by the monster. And second, for games like World of Warcraft where there difficult engagements with high level enemies (boss fights) it really helped to watch not one but several folks do the fight first before you could effectively participate[1].

What I find astonishing are Youtube "clip shows" on cable channels. These are "shows" where the hosts screen videos they found on Youtube and talk about them or rip them apart. I don['t get the appeal but apparently they fill the air time. Something which was a curated set of videos about a particular video game might actually have appeal to me, either from a shopping (I wonder if I would like it) to a mastery (I wonder what other people do at that stage) kind of thing. Not saying it would make money but I would be tempted to watch it. Some of the Eve commentary would make for an excellent show as well.

[1] - Blizzard however is doing what they can to make it unnecessary much to the demise of the 'fun' aspect.
What do they even think confirmed means? "Confirmed: Amazon could", "Amazon may", yep.. sounds really confirmed at that point.
Bad title, as if everone cares about some facebook specific thing.
Now we just need an app turn off Android devices used by annoyingly entitled people running this app.

Better yet, everybody just comport themselves like considerate adults in public from the start.
> time you almost certainly don't have.

As a runner for the past 23 years, you really, really do have a whole hour a day to dedicate to moving.

I assure you that your body will fall apart sooner than later if you dedicate no time to keeping it strong and limber.

I'd also say consumption is closer to 120 calories per mile. 3600 calories per lb. of fat so ~30 miles = 1 lb. I usually advise 5 times a week x 3 miles as a beginner program (after a moderate buildup of walk/run and less days per week). So every two weeks our subject would lose 1 lb. That's 26 lbs. in a year.

Assuming these are 12 minute miles (which is just a bit faster than a walk), 12 x 15 miles = 3 hours a week. That is really a bare minimum of activity. If people start doing this at age 25 or so instead of trying to start at 45 when they are 60 lbs heavier than they should be it's not too difficult.
He/she likely didn't get hacked. It's just a narrative created to get clicks. Basically a lie. Marketing.
CO2 isn't the only pollutant I don't want in my lungs. Hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter are moved from cities and reduced overall.
I haven't installed the app, so I don't know if this is part of some alert functionality, but why are there Twitter and Facebook API links in the code? https://i.imgur.com/QPIYUfQ.png
Well the battery swap has to be easy anyway since these will go bad after 6-8 years anyway.
GitHub for windows is not a beautifully designed Windows app. It's an app with an abomination of a UI. I immediately uninstalled it after using it for 10 minutes. The metro UI is such a disaster in terms of UI design.
Bitmessage (afaik) works like alt.anonymous.messages, but w/ a bitcoin-like broadcast protocol instead of usenet. Not sure how well this will scale (if we're talking about Bitmessage as an email replacement)
And is there a way it from my machine without installing MacLisp? is there some way to translate MacLisp into Common Lisp?
Introducing Titanium, an image preview component for iOS
Powerful Design to Show 14 Services in a Simple UI | UX Case
Generally it's watching people play online games, not single player ones like Fallout. And usually the top streamers are very highly ranked in their respective games. A viewer gets a chance to learn things, root for someone they like, and maybe have aspirations of their own.

Think of it this way: imagine if Kasparov and Fisher live streamed all of their chess practice, informal competition, and formal competition. Odds are chess fans would line up to watch.

It's just like that, but with strategic online games instead of strategic board games.

Also, some of the streamers are practically comedians, so they sometimes watch for general comedy and enjoyment as well. Or a mix.
Not sure, it doesn't explicitly say in the article, but these scripts run on the same server as the stuff that it's hosting, correct? If so, that will mean that if the server is down, nothing is being monitored?
The reason they closed down your "cable TV service" was largely because it was your "cable TV service". Compared to twitch that website must have been an absolute nightmare to run.

You may as well complain "I'm upset that the city bulldozed all of those crack houses; they were a really great place to buy crack."
Wow. I don't hate how so many Windows applications are considerably uglier compared to Mac counterparts.

In fact, I don't even care. There are more important concerns!
Also, the Indians have a big incentive not to allow any scientific inquiry that might disprove their claim to "First Nations" status.

This is a cynical way to look at the issue, but I don't see why it's not valid.
ITT: people care way more about the superficial qualities of security software than, ya know, security.

This looks way easier and prettier than open sourced NIDS and HIDS like snort and OSSEC, and I think that's why I'm supremely skeptical they hired enough security people versus frontent people.
well what else is there? We tend to think of economic systems as falling somewhere along the one dimensional axis between Marxism (no private property allowed) and Capitalism (everything is private property). What other axis are you suggesting?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_system
https://twitter.com/marick/status/455143028177764352

$45K is good money as far as I'm concerned.
It's published by Verso Books a publisher that releases works by a wide variety of philosophers coming out of the school of thought called critical theory. These philosophers took up a task similar to that of a lot of great thinkers - to assess and critique present society in the hopes of liberating people from oppressive circumstances.

Many of these philosophers based their critiques on Marx. Some went further back to Kant, Hume, and Spinoza. Others start with Nietzsche.