skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beware: Four tell-tale signs of auto brake problems
You might have given it much thought, but brakes are one of the most important parts of you car that have to be in tip-top shape. That’s why you should always be able to identify the different signs that tell you that something’s wrong with your car brakes.

Here are four tell-tale signs that should serve as warning and mean that a trip to the auto car repair center should be in order:
There’s noticeable fading or reduced responsiveness. One thing you might notice is that the brakes may not be as responsive as they were once or that the pedal tends to “sink” towards the floor. This is most of the time caused by an air leak or break fluid leak in the brake hose. Observer your car while it is parked and look for any indicators such as puddle of fluid. Brake fluids are like fresh motor oil, only a little less slimy.

Vibration. Vibrating or pulsating brake pedals are often a fire-hit indication of warped rotors or vehicle out of alignment. Vibration may be felt similar to the feedback experienced in the brake pedal while a panic stop, in vehicles with anti-lock brakes.

It maybe the cause of warped rotors if vibration occurs in brake situations, when the anti-lock brakes aren’t connected. Warped rotors develop due to excessive braking for long periods of time, just like when you’re towing or driving down a mountain. Too much friction heats up the rotors in these situations, which then in turn cause them to warp. Vibration happens due to the brake pads failure to grab the surface evenly.

Do you hear some growling and grinding? If you do, then that means the pads have been worn out and maybe beyond replacement. The growling and grinding sounds are produced because the disc and the calliper, two metal pieces, are rubbed together. This scratches your rotors and creates an uneven surface. In this situation, your mechanic might even encourage the replacement of your rotors, if they could not be turned.

Pulling. Pulling happens when you feel that your car “pulls” to one side while braking. This maybe because of foreign matter that has found its way into your brake fluid, or due to uneven brake linings. Should this happen, your vehicle might just require a brake adjustment or your mechanic might suggest that your brake fluid be drained and replaced.

And if you want to get the best deal in brakes, check out http://www.budgetbrakes.com for more information.
To riff on that: i chat with friends on gmail. For a few of them, I've input their phone numbers into the gmail chat interface so that chats will be sent as SMS when they're not online. A few of them use GOOG411 frequently for directory assistance. Now google, if they care, can draw from the data of a user's GOOG411 calls, to feed them more relevant ads on their site.
Rate my micro startup: TweetzTV
Hi all,
Today my micro startup, http://tweetz.tv/ went online. It let's you watch YouTube videos, which people on Twitter have mentioned. My assumption was that the videos people tweet about must be interesting and therefore I combined these tweets with a Youtube player, which let's you sit back and watch TweetzTV. I wondered how you guys think about this website. Do you see any features that can be usefull, how do you think this website can be monetized?
kind regards,
japetheape
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Did you guys happen to do much mingling in the waiting area just before or just after your interview?

We got to the interview super early and ended up chatting with Kate (we asked her how to get to In and Out), Skysheets Dan (saw his demo), and two other interviewing teams that were accepted. Then there were two less social teams who sat in the corner with their laptops, I guess nervously testing their demo one last time.

Maybe I'm over-fitting, but for me the nerve-calming benefits of being social in the waiting room was helpful.
It's not the physical attractiveness of the staff I'm talking about, it's the lack of enforcement of a dress-code/personal hygiene policy. AA is the Walmart of airlines.
Why "cls" instead of "className"?
By the way: thanks for asking this. I was wondering the same things. I'm trying to concentrate on coding today, but there's this constant buzz in the back of my brain wondering about the application; I haven't been able to get rid of it.
What's killing publishers is not a content monetizing problem, it's a basic business-model problem: publishers have been making too much money on print-ad sales and like everything else the internet has made advertising cheaper.

Publishers don't just need to perfect a micro-payment solution for content, they need to change the way they create that content to make their entire business cheaper to operate.
clickable link: http://tweetz.tv/
you're not building a netbook, you're buying some other company's netbook and running Apple's OS on it.
Subversion moving to the Apache Software Foundation
I think the convention predates both. boost::bind for C++ does something similar: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/libs/bind/bind.html
Sounds like an opportunity for an outsider to step in and craft a more efficient model. Is it just that the industry is stuck in its own trap?
I guess what my situation was that I could balance school and the application, or school and the prototype. While I had an urge to work on the prototype I always felt guilty because frankly the application has a deadline, the prototype does not. Actually after the application deadline I was able to get back to the prototype.
"Clozure" is taken as well.

http://www.clozure.com/clozurecl.html

Any other consonants that can be shoe-horned into that slot?
Can someone explain why this:

geolocator.getLatLng("Forest Park, St. Louis, MO", displayMapAt);

Is better than this?

displayMapAt(geolocator.getLatLng("Forest Park, St. Louis, MO"));

That is, why is it more sensible for getLatLng to accept a callback function that will accept its result, when one can just pass its result to a function?
Agreed. It's based on nested method calls as opposed to a tab-indented markup language. It's not really appropriate to call it Haml in Javascript at all.
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Thats a terrible argument... He did indeed "announce Clojure to the world" before Google did, and now we all associate the phonetic name with him. Treat "closure" as a project name and pick a different product name, Google.
Cloud of Atlases
The order of the polynomial is equal to the number of difference steps until a constant is reached. It MAY be as long as the number of samples in the series.
So difference tables are also a handy way to determine the order of a series!
i've used jTemplates (jquery plugin: http://jtemplates.tpython.com/) which is far easier to maintain, as it's much closer to html templating than this
Interesting. Do they not explicitly state some of the issues discovered here prior to submission?
Gadgets thrown against walls
exactly so.
I was one of those engineers that hated their job a month ago, so my job search commenced just around the time Joel and Jeff announced SO Careers.

At first the idea is intriguing. SO has a customer base of engineers, some of whom are very talented and where there is a rough way of quantifying talent through the karma points. Why not tap into that for the job market?

I was very tempted to sign up, because as I said, I was sick of my job and finally ready to move on. But $99/year? I spent a handful of hours on Craigslist and LinkedIn and within two weeks I had several interviews and two good offers. And I'm not nearly an all-star, just a guy with 5 years experience with LAMP (PHP and Perl) that isn't an idiot (or so I'd like to think).

So is SO Careers really targeted at someone like me? Is it targeted at the young post-college upstart? (If so, does he even have $100/year?) Is it targeted at the uber-engineer that has his own FOSS project and is a minor blog celebrity? (doesn't he have an even easier time picking and choosing his jobs than I would?)

It doesn't make any sense to me, and what frustrates me most is their explanation for charging is that "they need to make sure the candidates are serious." If they want to avoid the "stale resume" (and why do Jeff/Joel keep using the term 'CV'? are they too good for the word 'resume'?) problem on existing job boards, charging someone isn't going to make a difference -- a person is going to get hired and unless he immediately updates his SO careers profile, his resume is now stale too. Also why would I pay $99/year for something that I'll probably only use once a year, at most? Just how often am I looking for a job exactly?
I've been curious about some of the tools behind Google's javascript power. The Closure Library coupled with the compiler looks really useful for creating complex and fast web apps.
It works really well when you only follow people you're actually interested in. Most of the people I follow (and I only follow about 60 people) are fellow developers, entrepreneurs, geeks, and IRL friends, and I get a lot of value out of the stuff they post.

Twitter can of course be used as a PR tool as well, although I think there's a lot more room for abuse there. But I have about 1600 followers that I've gained over time from guest writing on blogs and putting my twitter name on apps and presentations and I can regularly get great feedback from my followers and sometimes some good business opportunities, too.

Twitter only works, I guess, if you are interested in other people. A lot of detractors forget that you can control the spigot of information coming in, and that you can actually get a lot of value out of Twitter without even posting one tweet.
Maybe, but one year you might not need the kind of complete change of direction that he managed to pull off earlier and which made the company what it is today.

While Apple could probably be very successful with their current direction for quite some time, if the market changes under them the lack of Jobs might become more apparent.
especially those who aren't self-confident enough to say, "Oh, you're right!"
Sustainable competitive advantage - excellent phrase. It covers a wider range of possibilities than are implied by rocket science.

One of the reasons I originally posted the question is that I'm particularly interested in one of the ideas that YC mentioned in the startup ideas that YC would like to fund, enterprise software 2.0 (http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html see number 5).

My experience in that space is that there are a number of companies that are generating huge revenues using software that could be improved via the "build a better mousetrap" methodology. But basically none of that space requires rocket science, unless you include the ability you have as a startup to use more powerful languages and tools than your standard corporate behemoth.

Now, that said, using more powerful tools might free you up to innovate in ways other companies can't, similar to how PG has touted Lisp as a big strength for Viaweb . . .
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Nano particles alter cell DNA via previously unknown cell signal processes
> twitter is not so different from a giant blog RSS feed

I think this is precisely the point. Twitter has basically taken the idea of RSS and made it RRSS (really really simple syndication), in that non-techies can easily grasp the concept.

It's curious you should mention Apple in your post, too. Were you one of the people who said "no wifi, only 5gb space, no FM radio, it will fail" when the iPod came out?
did the TSA guys examine your kitty?
How are you pulling in all the tweets from the lists - won't you run into an API limit?
gpsd is another, but esr seems to have trouble understanding parts of it.

CML2 is yet another, though it failed to gain acceptance by the kernel group.

the GNU ncurses library was maintained by Mr. Raymond for a while.

fetchmail wasn't an original idea, it came out of UC Berkeley's "popclient".

ESR has also famously over-claimed his experience (several times).
Another great IDE to keep an eye on is KDevelop, the amount of context aware data that is made easily through it is impressive, see for example: http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/c-ide-evolution-from-... http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/really-rapid-c-develo... or http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/code-navigation-in-kd...
Money can let you take more risks, market better, do things faster and larger -- but none of those capabilities are 'network effects', any more than a 'mountain lion' is a 'wedding ring'.

Geez, people, is there some sort of contagious aphasia going around? Somebody call the CDC.
I've been chasing Dell for two weeks about an order. Two people from here have spoken to nine different Dell people over four call centers between us and emailed five Dell people three or more times each and still going nowhere.

All I needed to do was write a grumbly blog post and they'd sort it out within 3 hours? Why did nobody tell me!
Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
If they do, they're not particularly clear about them. Every app developer would love for Apple to post a page that CLEARLY lists rules and guidelines for submission and reasons for rejection. 4 submissions delayed our app hitting the market by about 2 months.
Even if your spouse doesn't do your web design, he/she is in business with you. Its critical your spouse supports this lifestyle.
Does Tech Boost Social Isolation?
I agree completely with this author. Following more than 100 or so people becomes completely unmanageable and I think destroys the value of Twitter for anyone who does it.
Luckily, mathematicians have already done this for me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-form_solution

Note, that I said "reasonable people." Reasonable people know what is being asked. If, for example, I asked someone how much they weigh, they are not going to respond "I don't know. I weighed myself five minutes ago, but I must have a different weight right now."
My question is, why not just get rid of password confirmations altogether, or at least make them an optional feature for security conscious users.
Unless you're going to pay journalists less or hire fewer of them, journalism isn't going to get any cheaper. It's a revenue problem, not an expenses one.

I want the best journalism possible, and I'm willing to pay for it not just so I can read it, but so others can be informed and our democracy will actually have a chance of working. Producing journalism as cheaply as possible won't result in the kind of democracy I want to live in. The sacrifices that have been made have already led in that direction.
Can he get laid?

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Is this what the world has come to? I need to get a semi-popular blog just to get human customer service?
Django Lean could be added to the list:

http://bitbucket.org/akoha/django-lean/wiki/Home
It only takes a counter-example (an example of a shorter program) to show that an answer is incorrect, but you could probably pick up a Turing Award or two if you find a way to put a tight bound on the Kolmogorov complexity of a bit string.
Danish pupils use web in exams
E.U. Leaders Bolster Internet Access Protections
The most important quote:

Under the compromise, any decision to sever Internet access, an approach championed by several E.U. countries seeking to clamp down on digital copying of music and movies, must be subject to a legal review.
Yes, there are advantages being known online.

But we are not talking about about search results. We are talking about wide and not controlled by us stream of data stored somewhere.

Risks for a user?

For example exploiting one's weaknesses by, in most trivial case, serving her ads or search results tailored to push her to make desired action.

I, personally, prefer to build my online image by taking my own conscious actions, not by data hungry algorithm running by corporation which goal is to maximize shareholder's value.

Edit: added missing not in first paragraph
Clo-de-jour?
Crowd control gets intelligent
This should be so great but the implementation is hit and miss. Don't waste your time on #2 and #3, they are showing data that doesn't matter, nor. #6 and #12 should be great but are done in absolute terms instead of per capita, so... lose. #7 is great - nice work.
That pretty much sums up my thoughts. Not quite sure what you mean by "get past the prototype stage, then some more serious conversations can begin." Do you mean build it on my own and retain code ownership?
I can see this is going to be a project. ;)

The light really is more hazy and dull in the office with the (four!) incandescents in the overhead fan.
Life imitating art: Cookie Monster sang about Google in 1982 (short video)
Pretty sure that's pre-funding. But even after funding, I thought that was unrealistic on his part, but needed sanity check and thus my Q to HN.
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My GF always does better with salesmen than me. A year or two back I bought her a 32 bit Dell with dual processors, a middling graphics card, and 4G of ram. She didnt like it because it was too underpowered. She sent it back and negotiated a 64-bit quad core machine with 8G of memory, and an an advanced graphics card for 10% more than I paid.
I think that was the one.
And scope creep begins!
thats good for you... common see hack tricks never see before
Take a look here: http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tutorial3.h...

When you turn on advanced mode they do automatic inlining, variable substitution, and they don't respect the globalness of anything unless you specifically force something to be global.

YUI Compressor assumes anything not in a function is global, so it won't rename top level objects. Closure in advanced mode will trample through your globals and property names like rhinos mating in a field of daises.
Recommended reading: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0241143535/alaindeb...

Talks about happiness and work.
As well as Whizzle, including source code and developer notes...this is quite a throwdown against Valve. Should get interesting!
You too? :) I have a slightly different focus, but I'm amazed I don't see more startups in this area. I'm very early stage, with a slightly different focus, but I'm curious now if there are other people in stealth...
Good point. Apple's demonstrating that can continue to operate at a high level, but innovation like the iPod/Phone usually relies on one or two people in an entire organization.
You forgot to read the parent comment ;)
I'm aware. fnid just seemed to be under the impression that ESR was a newbie that was genuinely looking for help from more experienced hackers. I was just showing that he (ESR) is a noted (notorious) figure that should know better than to make noobish mistakes in code.
We are white listed by Twitter. Which up lift your limit from 150 to 20000 requests per hour. See http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
I would have been plenty impressed if the article was framed like that, without the hype. As you say, the kid has made a great contribution at a young age. No need to dress up a good thing.
I know the principle, but I don't see any attributions to malice here, so I had no cause to apply it.
I don't see how scope is relevant.

The argument is: do interesting uses of Twitter exist?
If they do, the banal is irrelevant, since you never need to see it to access those interesting uses of Twitter.
Drag down a few more cells and use a difference table on the resulting sequence.
I think most of the intended audience will not find 'Closure' confusing, because they are unaware of the concept that already has that name.

The overlap of people interested in Clojure and people interested in Closure is rather small.
Is anyone else dying to know......
If YC will fund you? Today is November 5th! Shouldn't we hear today?
I don't think anyone wants to see anyone sit and write code, even other coders. But what 37Signals/the FogCreek guy/Godin/Kawsaki and others have done is take us a step into their world and what goes on there. They've built a big audience doing so.
its to bad the project i'm most proud of is owned by my old company, and i don't have the rights to give them a demo.
oleis turns up nothing, sadly
"It's an interesting subject to be sure, but probably OT for Hacker News :-("

Thanks for sharing that anyway.
email me please.
When one considers this LHC incident and also the one earlier this year in which birds supposedly brought down a plane that had to land in the Hudson, it might be suspected that our feathered friends are finally getting back at us humans for all those years of kicking pigeons and feeding seagulls alka-seltzers.
I'm not going to look good on Stack Overflow. I like to spend my spare time actually programming, you know? It's the difference between being a spectator and playing the game.

Edit: Of course, a high SO rep might mean that you spend your working hours answering questions there. Generally you're employed to do something else [says the HN contributor, midday].
Previous discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729556
Aren't the salespeople paid on commission? In that case I find it hard to believe that you really would be paying less than the guy using the internet.

But then again, the salesguy might be there to ensure future business. The next time you need a server, are you going to pick on the phone and give Mick a call, or are you going to waste your (presumably) valuable time doing some comparison shopping?

Maybe it's worth it to give the through-salespeople orders a discount because there's a person to person relationship built that encourages future sales.
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In NLP there is a large amount of boilerplate and perprocessing code. The barrier to entry is actually quite high. New machine learning model for machine translation? "Sorry I'm not convinced your model would work with a sophisticated multitext grammar using available translation lexicons etc etc".

Building a convincing baseline is hard. Which means that it is difficult to show your approach works in general
Tom excellent point. There is a huge market for innovation in the enterprise space. At the financial services company I work for, the average employee uses about 25 applications and has a different username and password for each. And most of these apps are terrible. There is enormous pain in the corporate world and it's an understatement to just build a better mousetrap. Just build something that doesn't suck as bad as their current software; and sell to the business people and upper-middle management decision-makers.
The discounts are often given based on annual purchase totals.
It took me a while to figure this out, but there's a lot more than "just" a js compiler. Since nobody here commented about it, I guess I'm not the only one that didn't see it.

We can now use all the google fancy widgets (from gmail, gdocs, etc). Check this: http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog...
Oh come on, what about Ballmer? The man laughs at Steve and dismisses Apple's products as irrelevant on an ongoing basis.
If somebody wants to try this method on different sequences, I made a simple solver in JavaScript:

http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/hn/sequence/
Also note that the code at the core of packages like numpy is often still written in Fortran or C. For example, I'm pretty sure all the linear algebra processing in numpy is handled by the popular LAPACK written in Fortran. Note that software like Matlab and IDL also generally uses these well-understood packages.

Fortran isn't going anywhere, we're just hiding it in the background.
That makes a bit more sense - I'll buy it. Thanks.
I've gotten terrific answers to the questions I've posted on there, for what it's worth. And it was stuff that was difficult to google for (which is why I asked it there).