skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reaction to this is similar to this one: http://norvig.com/21-days.html (Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years)

I've been exercising regularly for a long time and know pretty well what my "equilibrium" exercise time is, and it's about 5 - 6 times longer than 7 minutes. If I thought it could be shorter, then I would make it shorter because my #1 goal is to minimize the number of minutes of my life I spend on exercise.

All I can say about this is that 7 minutes strains credulity and sounds like marketing nonsense to me. At a very minimum, I need to sustain an elevated heart rate for a few minutes to feel good.
See also this paper: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2014/papers/5103a198.PDF. The authors implement a pdf file format parser and find bugs in pretty much all of the existing implementations. Basically pdf is a pretty shitty file format with several ill-defined corner cases. This is one of the reasons PDFs tend to be vectors for security breaches.
Difficult (intellectually challenging) != hard work (back-breaking, sweat-inducting).
Well, SMAC happened in the unspecified 21st century as well, but all of the background pre-Arrival fluff was written very subtly, and all of the factions were based around fundamental human philosophies/ideologies/motivations. The national backgrounds of the faction leaders was purely for flavor. All of the real meat of the story and characters was in the gameplay itself, which all takes place on Planet. You didn't need to know what exactly happened on Earth, except that it was bad stuff, and it helped to shape the faction leaders who are the personifications of those primal ideologies.
To me that's really the only bad part. Everything else is pretty smooth these days. I usually don't even deal with any paperwork or tricky waiver situations any more.
Not being able to pick it up at any time.

Not being able to return it at any time.

Getting charged for a full two days when only renting for a day and an hour.

Reserving the vehicle online weeks before, then getting to the rental office and finding that the requested vehicle won't be available for an hour or more until it's returned by the previous renter or sent over from another rental office.

Getting a vehicle that's damaged in some way that isn't visible, like grinding in the tranny, which only becomes obvious after having started one's journey.

The fear involved with reporting problems like the aforementioned problem with the tranny, out of fear of being blamed for causing the pre-existing problem, and then getting charged for it.
This is a big issue for me as well. Even with something Silvercar; I still had to take a shuttle.
Right. It's kinda impressive what it can do. On one end of the spectrum it has all the power of PEGs and on the other it has the predicative capabilities of LL(k) so there is basically no restriction on the kind of grammar it can generate parsers for.
Many airports have shuttles anyway. I'm not Hertz Platinum or anything, so I don't have someone usually bringing my car to me -- it's a shuttle ride to the rental place, which tends to be close.

SFO has the airtrain/car pez dispenser, but I never need to rent a car at SFO.
Very. Wow!
hah, OK, three-letter agency.
Musk's concerns have nothing to do with "Hollywood". There are very real concerns about the dangers of AI. See the Intelligence Explosion FAQ: http://intelligence.org/ie-faq/
The Ketamine Key
You are ignoring the base Kindle, which is bloody amazing at what it does. To the point that I am lusting after the new one, only because it does seem a little better.

The Kindle Fire itself, also, is not that terrible. I can think of ways it may be better. But as a media consumption device, it is pretty good. I like it.

The phone? Too expensive. Couldn't compete with the moto g.

The television? Beats me. Kids like it.
What do you mean by "Insurance is only an issue for morons."?

Not everyone who rents a vehicle is doing it while traveling. A lot of people living in cities only need a vehicle once or twice a year, for example. They don't own a car otherwise, and thus don't have insurance that may cover rental cars. And not all of them have a credit card that includes insurance, or if they do, it may not offer sufficient coverage.
I agree- the Discrete Fourier Transform can be easily explained in terms of basic linear algebra. And that explanation is usually included in an introduction-level DSP book. Both Oppenheim and Proakis have a section devoted to this view- understanding the DFT as matrix multiplication starts you on the road to the FFT algorithm.

But most ECE undergrads will first see the Fourier transform in a continuous setting. Then it isn't so much an issue of "basic linear algebra"- students have almost certainly never talked about the space of square integrable functions, the inner product on this space, a basis for continuous functions, what it means for an infinite collection of objects to be orthogonal, etc... That is, if they have even taken any linear algebra yet!

Students learn to associate "Fourier Transform" with "complicated math" and then are discouraged when they learn about the DFT. At least, that has been my experience when TAing signal processing classes.
Reserving and finding they oversold is one i've heard a bunch. deff working to change that. As for the tranny, was this something that happened at one of the "main brands" (hertz, avis) or a second tier one?
and could the fear be solved by automatic free insurance?
GNU has survived in spite of itself and not because of it's message. It succeeds because the products under the GNU umbrella are world class. Very few people and a good portion of the technical community does not subscribe to the ideology or is just not interested in it. Hell, even Linus isn't completely subscribed to the GNU philosophy. He made sideshows in Microsoft Powerpoint at Linux presentations in the early days.
Images sent to me through iMessage come to my computer via AWS (verified when someone sent me an image like 10 minutes ago)
So would being able to circumvent shuttles be a value add to you? Or insignificant because of relatively short time. What about the wait?
What if it had some sort of, uhm, "thermal ballast" that would be refrigerated during normal operation?

Then when danger is expected, run the peltier modules in reverse, transferring heat from the outer layer back into the center for a short period of time.
1) I don't expect office workers to directly edit CSS any more than I expect them to directly edit the PPT file format. In both cases, they need GUI editors. PPT already has a good one; we need something similar for HTML5 presentations.

2) HMTL5 can't do "anything Excel can do", which is why I didn't say it could. But a Google Drive spreadsheet can cover the needs of the great majority of people who need to publicly distribute spreadsheet documents.

There are definitely quantitative analyses that I would much rather do with Excel than with Google's HTML5 spreadsheet, but it's very uncommon to publicly distribute complex spreadsheets, and I'm talking about document interchange formats. The kind of spreadsheet you might embed on half of a page of a presentation is the kind of spreadsheet that HTML5 could easily handle.
Interesting spin on content sharing.

I assume this is using webrtc as the platform?
Now that states are forcing Amazon to collect sales tax, it has no in-built price advantage over brick-and-mortar stores.

Additionally, the brick-and-mortar stores are using their retail space to handle deliveries and returns that Amazon has to deal with in terms of postage.

Basically, the brick-and-mortar stores have finally pulled their heads out of their asses, and Amazon has nothing to fight them with.

That's why Amazon is getting pummeled.
I tried the seven minute workout for a little while and saw no improvement in any dimension. This[1], on the other hand, has gotten me some significant results so far, five months in.

[1] http://stronglifts.com/
That is a completely different topic, but yes I am glad Vic Gundotra was fired.
To clear up some points (I am a professional tandem skydiver and use drogues)-

A drogue is about 3 to N get feet wide. It is used for z axis stability, to slow you down a bit so that when the parachute deploys it will not explode, and finally to actually deploy the parachute.

If you do not use a drogue chute then you would use a pilot chute to deploy the parachute. The difference between a pilot and drogue chute is minimal. In fact, design wise the only difference is that after you deploy the drogue you need to pull a handle to open the container holding the parachute, at which point the drogue chute becomes a pilot chute. A deployed pilot chute will open the container without needing to pull a separate handle. Drogues are also generally much hardier than pilot chutes as they have more force acting on them.

A drogue is not a parachute. The para in parachute means it is designed to be used to slow you down enough to survive your fall. A drogue is not designed to do so.

Tandem skydiving, the kind everyone does recreationally, uses drogue parachutes to maintain what would be terminal velocity for one person. Terminal velocity for two people lying on top of each other (or one 500lb person) would be too high to safely deploy either the main or reserve parachute.

So yes, a tandem skydive is still a skydive even though you use a drogue. Eustace, even though he used a drogue, has the record for highest skydive. Arguably Baumgartner had the record for longest freefall without a drogue. But longest freefall without a drogue is a silly record to cling to. Does anyone care who has the record for driving the fastest land vehicle without a helmet?

This still is amazing. And from the perspective of a professional skydiver, Eustace broke Baumgartner's record fair and square.
What a bad username.
How do you accomplish that? Through their loyalty program?
Thanks so much for the advice and all the links.
Diskless true SSH honeypot using Alpine Linux
Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor
By publishing the paper you essentially invalidate it, as people take advantage of it. Happens time and time again in any market.
What's your take on insurance - do you buy it?
The "ruthless" spring clean is a similar tradition in our household. Now, if only we hadn't bought all the stuff we "no longer care about" in the first place.
It's one thing for your ISP to be collecting information about you; it's totally another thing for your ISP to be silently modifying your data by adding a tracking header and sending it to all other sites you visit.

Modifying application-level data is something an ISP should never do. What if I happened to be using the exact same header name for some other purpose for a web app API? This should be considered illegal tampering with the content of communications.

The "encrypt everything" proponents are missing the point: yes, encryption (and steganography) can be used to bypass this easily, but I don't want to have to explicitly defend against my ISP modifying my data.
Right about the editing tools. I'm hoping that security exploits such as this will cause governments and big corporations to start demanding safer document formats (especially for public or other widespread data interchange), which will drive the market for better editing tools. I certainly agree that ease of creation is a major limiting factor right now.
Dealing with the staff is often the worst part of the rental car experience for me.

I book online, declined insurance, chose the car I wanted, I don't need your upsell and you telling me that I really should have insurance, which is a bunch of BS as I already have a ton.

As some have already mentioned the shuttle bus is a slight annoyance, you calling them 'sweaty shuttle buses' is leading the conversation. I've never been on a shuttle bus that I felt was sweaty.

I've always thought a curb-side service would be amazing, but haven't figured out how to make that work.

The fuel pricing hasn't been a massive issue, with the exception that again, the rental car companies try to up sell you on their hair-brained and over-priced 'pre-purchase' options.
slightly OT, but I remember seeing the blog of some guy who got rid of everything he owned except for a laptop, a kindle, and some clothes, does anybody remember this person?

I've always been fascinated at having as little junk as possible, especially since I've been moving very often recently.
Please Do Not Leave a Message: Why Millennials Hate Voice Mail
So...within 3 years.
I smell someone trying to dream up the Uber of car rentals.

It's a good comparison. The obnoxious thing about taxis has always been the uncertainty, the wait, the unpleasantness, and of course the stress of the thing.

Turn it into a trivial exercise in using an app and you can eliminate all of these things, although I imagine liability will be a significantly larger problem.
It seems to have muzzle brake on main gun. I wonder why they chose to use it, it seems none of the current tanks have them for a reason.
Can you elaborate on 'dealing with staff'- as in they're rude? Or having to wait?

You mention you book online. Do you find that process tedious?
I agree overall it always had a godaddy vibe where I feel as if they're trying to upsell me on everything- but find that more annoying from a UX point.
Keybase.io has begun sending out Alpha invite
Did you get yours?

This one was lucky.

What are your thoughts on keybase.io?

First impressions are... very positive.
Older, and I want to get rid of everything.
Hidden fees. It's never as cheap as the websites. Car rental firms need to go the way of the airlines and be up front about what you're actually going to pay.
This is pretty cool - I had no idea journalism students had to know SQL. Thanks for sharing!
In some cases, they've dramatically increased their prices on some products. A concrete example:

Honey Bunches of Oats 3 pack cost $14.33 with free Prime shipping in November, 2012. Today, that same pack costs $29.99 and is no longer eligible for Prime.

I've seen the same pricing trends across a number of their products, but other online retailers offer the same items for considerably less. I think they thought consumers might just stick with them because of habits and the expediency of "Prime" but when prices jump by over 100%, you can bet I'll seek alternatives.
Why is it that things which are problems, in general, only seem to get focused on when you get "Think of the chiiiildren."?

While it's nice that people are doing things for children, these same privacy issues exist for adults.
Okay, I give up. It's time to bring back the Polish jokes.
This is happening after the request has left the browser and the phone
Uber of car rentals is zipcar though or Relay Rides. But close :)

I agree on the taxi thing but I think the use case of a car rental and a taxi are quite different.
It's not getting pummeled at all. The sole change is that investors are annoyed at the losses Amazon is incurring by making large investments into the business, and are going to adjust the valuation down.

They grew sales 20% this quarter.

Target has seen effectively zero sales growth for three years. Amazon is now larger than Target.

Walmart is now seeing almost zero sales growth.

Costco is lucky if it grows at 5% annually now.

BestBuy is contracting as a business.

Radioshack is disappearing.

Sears is disappearing.

eBay is growing its platform sales at less than half the rate that Amazon is growing its retail sales.
It's even worse when the vehicle you reserved days before isn't there, but there are several equivalent vehicles on the lot, and no other customers obviously waiting for them, yet the rental agents insist those vehicles aren't available. I've had problems with a well known national brand. The problem I had wasn't obvious unless going at freeway speeds. A replacement may have been available, but that would have cut into the rental time, which just isn't an option when there are places to be and things to do on a tight deadline. And I just can't trust these companies to honor whatever damage waivers or insurance they might offer. I don't want to waste my time arguing this crap with the foreigners who often work as agents at the rental counters.
No matter what car rental I choose, I feel like I'm not getting the best deal. Prices are never clear – just like telecom companies, you'll rarely see the full (price + taxes + fees + "convenience" charges + mystery airport fees + …) price listed. Suddenly your $50/day rental is $75/day rental. If you search online, you'll find a dozen different prices – heck, even calling the place to get rates won't always get you the same results.
They can't, because the endpoint is not the one that added the header. Application-level data sent over the network is being modified as it travels through Verizon's equipment.
stealin your karma :)
If you rent infrequently and don't have a car or good credit card, just pay the $10. If you drive once a year, you're probably a sufficiently bad driver due to recent inexperience so you're getting underpriced coverage. (e.g. when I rented cars right after getting my first US license, with no experience driving on highways or in cities.)

If you rent frequently enough that you dislike the fee, and don't have a car/insurance, either get a real credit card, or you're probably doing it wrong.
Ask HN: Should I switch sumodrop.com off?
I built this product but havent seen any growth, should I switch it off.
Hotwire shows you "total" price. I think this comes from
a) insurance/ underage driver fee
b) no clarity on 'taxes'
c) messy UX...
thoughts?
"The fact that we have four generations in the workplace, and they're going to be there for some time, the younger generations — the millennials, the Y generation — they're going to need to adapt," Napier-Fitzpatrick says.

That seems like an odd thing to say, given that they arguably are used to using a superior medium of message leaving.
I hope that some of this work gets open sourced. Is this the next logical step from balloon cameras?
According to their CFO, it amounts to a $170m loss, with "$83 million worth of Fire Phone inventory on hand at the end of the last quarter".

http://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazon-takes-170m-loss-fire-pho...
I know. I've being thinking about how to do it, currently it involves having N hashs where you generate them like:

echo -n "password" | md5sum
5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 -
echo -n "assword" | md5sum
297dbe7699dcfa60609bf9e667e2e4dc -
echo -n "pssword" | md5sum
537319a7934aea9825d1af85df588fde -
echo -n "pasword" | md5sum
22e5ab5743ea52caf34abcc02c0f161d -
echo -n "pasword" | md5sum
22e5ab5743ea52caf34abcc02c0f161d -

ect, then check the submitted password by testing it against these hashes by removing characters in the same fashion.

Just as an early idea.

I think it's a good idea, what if you could encourage users to use stronger passwords by telling them that "the system will forgive near misses, so don't be afraid"?
I think I was a minority who loved UAC as it existed on Vista. I didn't mind the OS saying "hey, something is happening, pay attention."
If it makes you feel better, each hour you spend exercising extends your life by around 3.5 hours (net 2.5 after the hour you spent) on average. These are just rough numbers, backed up by the Framingham heart study and an analysis of the Framingham data by Jonker, et al.: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/29/1/38.full.pdf They say 2.5 hours per week over a 75 year lifetime makes you live 3.5 years longer, and 2.5 hours per week over 75 years is around 1 year.

(Of course, you might get hit by a bus tomorrow, but that's true whether you exercise or not. I guess you should avoid exercising near traffic.)
There is already a "national internet sales tax", but nobody pays it. In most states you are supposed to pay the local sales tax on anything you buy, even out-of-state. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax
in my recent visits to quora I saw no barrier
AT&T locks your new iPad's SIM so you can't switch carriers without a new one
Did he jump through a supersonic flight corridor?

New Mexico has designated corridors for supersonic flight.

FAA has been known to grant waivers for record attempts like this and it sounds like he was too high for the sonic boom to cause major concerns.
Has anyone audited "less" on Unix recently? These days it does a whole bunch of magic stuff under the hood to show special formats "correctly."
Hertz and Avis shuttles, at least, are frequent, and usually fast. It'd be a slight positive to get Hertz Platinum style "driver drives to curb with you car, gets out, you get in, and the delivery driver takes a shuttle back to base", but I don't think I'd pay much of a premium for that. Maybe $25 per rental, tops.

At airports with big on-site car vending machines, you're not going to generally be able to do that at any scale without being arrested, and you'll probably be inferior to my current experience of walking across to the car vending area gold stalls, going to the number which was emailed to me, picking up my car, and driving off.

It might be more of an issue at smaller airports with no onsite cars, or where at certain hours all the shuttles are infrequent.
There is another HN thread discussing this. I would not take Assuage at face value, and Newsweek is not a particularly good source either.
> dealing with staff

Standing at a counter having an absurd conversation that we've all had dozens of times. Saying no to the insurance. Saying no to the GPS. Waiting in line. Paying. Having the contract explained, again.
I've never liked dealing with the staff either. Many of the times I've done it in the US I've had to deal with foreigners who speak very poor English, and just don't seem to care at all about giving even a basic level of customer service. I don't expect much when renting a car, but being able to understand the agent does matter to me, as does them showing even a slight amount of interest in making it a tolerable experience for the customers.
Adbrite shut its doors owing me (and a lot of other people) a whole lot of money. Bastards. I think SiteScout only acquired some of their intellectual property. I wish they were liable for their debt too :(
About 35 million USD in trades on the public bitcoin-paired markets today. About 40 million USD today in total volume for all pairs on these exchanges.

http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/coins/info
Almost exactly the opposite is true: http://www.pcr.uu.se/digitalAssets/66/66314_1armed-conflict-...
Exactly, you don't want a guy with his kind of intellectual firepower headed to your competitor.
> Android

From all indications 5.0 is a terrific release.
The number one thing which annoys me is when I'm in Europe and I do something stupid like rent from Sixt and they promise me a BMW 3-series Automatic SATNAV, and then when I show up, it's a Golf manual.

I drove it in first/second to another station, on the clutch a fair bit to get the special smell, and then ended the rental early, walked upstairs to Avis, and got a suitable Audi. (I don't like driving manuals in cities, I especially hate vw clutches and golfs in general, and I don't like driving without satnav in foreign countries where I have no data coverage and where the car has no good place to put my phone for google maps use.)
I think Larry just wants to spend more time with Amanda Rosenberg
Taplytics (YC W14) is looking for a kick-ass front-end UI/UX designer
Um, did you read, or try to understand, at all, thr second sentence?
Cool, would love to see it if available publicly.