skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has potential, but you need to quickly evaluate whether you should be going:

- Direct to consumer

OR

- Via dealers/mechanics

I don't like that you used a bitly link though. This is HN, you shouldn't be tracking people here who can provide feedback.

This has a lot more "value-add" under the hood than 1 would realize in the start (think about how valuable it would be for buying a used car when you could get a "qualified logbook" of maintenance on a car via your app, big potential indeed).

You need to put the app out there and through usage, see which parts are important and what users use the app mostly for.

I don't think many mechanics would like "cashless", but maybe in your market it is different (although I doubt a mechanic in 1 part of the world could be that much different to another).

If I were your marketing guy, I'd try these marketing segments to use the app: car enthuasists, buy/sell "on the side" kind of people, small carshop salesmen and any other folks you can identify in the used-car market.

Beware of big automakers, as they may have an app like this or 1 of them steals the idea (eventually, unless you scale fast enough).

Good luck though!
I am obviously not Jeff Bezos but I asked myself the same question.

Could such an extreme outsourcing service (not necessarily only fabricating chips) paired with the accessibility of AWS be viable? Does such a company exist?
> My recommendation: Make as much money as possible, and lobby for cap-and-trade pollution credits. Then you can buy all the credits you want, and simply not use them. It is a far more direct and economically predictable way to achieve environmental change.

I very much agree with this solution. I'd also consider the funding of genetic research into bacteria that could convert oil in situ into something stable in the ground so it could never be pumped into the future, pumping said bacteria into wells using the same equipment used for hydraulic fracturing.

We as a species have a terrible track record as stewards of our planet. We can, and should, do better.
When I worked for a former employer we had mega pushes leading up to CES. There's one month, we called it Red October, where most of my team was doing 100+hr weeks for the full month. How did we do it? Combination of lots of Red Bull (as in buying it by the pallet), free meals, onsite shower, and an amazing QA team who would consistently find all the stupid bugs coded bleary eyed at 3:30am.
Please...stop the madness! The trend of prefacing every criticism or, indeed, observation with an apology to the fanbois or a cheery positive "Apple is awesome, but.." statement has gone too far. It's actually quite amazing how many articles and comments follow this template. And it has to stop. The Cupertino Thought Police is not going to kick your door in and drag you to the Infinite Loop basement for a Think Different session. The Internet won't grind to a halt, you won't be named and shamed...everything will be okay!

Sure some fanbois with advanced symptoms might possibly berate you publicly or even downvote your post/article and that's it. It really is okay to not love Apple. Or point out that Apple isn't perfect. It's even okay to not own any Apple products whatsoever. Full disclosure...I do own Apple products and OS X is my daily driver of choice. But I have no emotional attachment to Apple's products, I don't buy Apple products exclusively and I do not worship at the iAlter or have a man crush on Steve Jobs.

The over-the-top reverence for Apple even by people who are far from being fanatical iCult members really is extraordinary. If you find some of their products useful, great, if their products aren't a good fit for you, that's great too. Apple is not the mafia (yet) and you owe the company nothing.
It's pretty funny, when we can finally build a machine in perpetual motion, nobody cares anymore.
Study on Marriage and Tech Careers
Hello Hacker News,

My name is Aaron Platt, and I'm a doctoral student in the sociology department at Berkeley. I am wondering if you would be willing to help me with my dissertation research. My study looks at how the structure of programmers/developer/software engineering careers affects the way people think about whether, when, and whom to marry, as well as whether and when they would like to have children. I am hoping to speak with 24-40 year old male current or former programmers/developers/engineers who currently live in the Bay Area. At this point, I am just asking potential respondents to fill out a short screening questionnaire. If I would like to interview you in-person for the study, I’ll be in touch via email. Selection for the interview portion of the study is based on meeting certain demographic and background characteristics for my sample (mostly having to do with whether I have already interviewed someone similar to you).

The link to the screening survey is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XDQQQPN

Thank you for your time.

Best,
Aaron Platt
Google search reveals Indian prime minister among 'top 10 criminals'
It's trivial to find out you live in Scotland.

Your statement about toxicity is quite valid, nevertheless you can remove the word toxic and my point still stands.

I would love to know of the country that democratically elected to receive fluoride in their water.
Actually i've recently had a chat with people from DB Strategy, they've said that the Frankfurt-London connection is now technically possible and has been tested, but the ICE that should be used on it has a lot of technical issues that push the chances of having technical issues on one trip to above 20%.

That is a reason why they have pushed that connection off into the undisclosed future.

He wasn't a technical person, but the way he described it was that everytime an ICE crosses a country border, it has to change the settings on how the train operates, to comply with local laws and standards. This is stuff like how rapidly it is supposed to brake, etc.

He says that there is a 1 in 10 chance that when doing that "settings-swap" some part of the train software crashes irrecoverably and the whole train has to be rebooted, which can take up to 15 minutes.

So when crossing from germany into belgium, then france, then uk and back again there would be a high chance that those trains would have to be rebooted somewhere along that track, and that would wreck havoc within the international train system.
I've found measuring memory usage with STL containers to be difficult as they have their own allocator and unless you're using reserve() often end up allocating extra space for things. Dr Dobbs had an interesting article a long time ago around optimizing allocators [1] and also memory management was one of the main reasons that Electronic Arts rolled their own variant of the STL [2]. I use a lot of STL for convenience but have been burned enough times that when memory consumption his high or has heavy usage I manage it manually and make sure to use a modern allocator like jemalloc or tcmalloc[3].

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/improving-performance-with-custom...
[2] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...
[3] http://locklessinc.com/benchmarks_allocator.shtml
After averaging $5.00/day for a year with my iOS app using a freemium model ($1.99 in-app purchase), I decided to switch to a paid upfront model just to test. It resulted in a sustained average of $25/day. That's a big deal to me and so counter to everything I read about freemium being the only way to go in today's mobile market.
Apple doesn't have very many people working in software compared to hardware, sales, design, etc.
> It's trivial to find out you live in Scotland.

Yeah, I'd just assumed from the way you worded that, that you didn't know where I lived. My bad.
The fact that you are resorting to DIY language extensions rather than picking a more appropriate language for the job should tell you everything you need to know.
> It's beneficial for society if everyone is educated.

With no caveats whatsoever? Is any conceivable four-year program after high school beneficial to society?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_fluoridation...

TLDR: most of Europe
Chill, dude. His preface was to not insult fellow HNers who work at Apple.
>I also disagree that free markets are the same thing as capitalism, as does Benjamin Tucker.

Please never phrase your opinion like this ever again. Whatever interest I had in knowing what Benjamin Tucker said about this issue, I've lost due to your smugly phrased sentence.
But this one you pay back only when you're earning money. Writing off debt isn't a magic "get out of responsibility" card.
Don't Want Linux Server Security Problems? Get WizzSecure ASAP
Jesus dude I just didn't want to offend anyone
You are right, assuming the market is liquid. The market in these types of consultants isn't liquid, it is very possible that, if they don't hire patio11, they will have to search extensively for somebody else, whom they perceive as qualified to do the job. Given that they still make a lot of money of of the deal, that isn't going to be too smart.

Note that if I am right, this suggest an arbitrage opportunity, uber for small business consultants. It's most important issue is vetting the people who are doing the job and making sure clients know that they can count on them.
Whenever I read Western diatribes about China now, I can only think of http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-american-pundits-...
You'd think so, but in my experience everyone, family or otherwise, warned to know secret information and were embarrassed and awkward when interacting with Android devices near me. The factor you allege was largely a wash for me.
Not knowing much about the encryption used, would it end up using extra characters over a normal tweet?
Im in ur JavaScript, decoding ur webm
9 months is a 1/3 of its lifetime!
I'm confused, because it sounds like you're proud of that work.
Not all Lombok code is valid Java code due to the way Lombok hijacks the annotation processor using implementation specific apis to perform operations not supported by the annotations spec.
The gitcoin challenge in the stripe CTF was pretty cool!
This bit really hits the nail on the head, "One thing freemium compensates for is the lack of a free trial system in the App Store."

There is no reason the app store should not allow developers to offer free trials. This is the one thing that Microsoft got right with the failed Windows phone.
Human astrocytes are apparently better than other mammalian astrocytes. How do we know that? We've put them in mice. It made the mice smarter.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26639-the-smart-mouse-...

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/48/16153.abstract

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/Nedergaard-Lab/publicati...
A Coke and a pickled egg isn't exactly healthy.

The founder said in his first blog post about the subject that, prior to pursuing his Soylent idea, he was eating a lot of fast food and frozen burritos.

Of course, if you're just looking for a cheap, quick hunger fix, those things will work. As will a candy bar, bag of chips, etc. But if you're trying to eat healthy, it's kinda tough to find something that's also quick, convenient, and filling. Soylent solves that problem.
it's not possible to create a simpler text protocol than a well designed binary protocol

Huh? That's irrelevant, surely? It doesn't speak to your assertion. The best binary formats don't necessarily need "parsing" at all; it could be a simple matter of mapping into memory and adjusting offsets, like an OS loader. I don't think there's any debate that binary formats can be designed so that they are far easier to load than text. We're not talking about the design of protocols here (in this subthread). We're talking about writing parsers.

Parsing an obscure binary format is harder than parsing a simple text format.
We might be at the point today where solar and wind are more economically efficient than nuclear. That doesn't erase the tremendous damage that "environmentalist" groups have done by spouting FUD about nuclear power for decades, the primary result of which has been to keep us on coal.
The licensing for the Ada ecosystem is confusing to me. It seems that the major vendors are Adacore, Green Hills, and Atego. Am I correct that for commercial products, there are no free toolchains available?
Oh Ada. In college (six years ago), it was the language solely responsible for dragging down my grade right before graduation. I very much disliked the prof who taught it, which probably clouded my perception of the language, but I found it a lot harder to solve problems in the extreme type safety of ADA than C++ (our "core language"). Not sure why, just vividly remember being dead set against never seeing it again :)

I do remember the professor going on and on about why the safety was necessary for his beloved Military and Avionics software (he worked at an avionics software company in his "off" hours). It makes a lot more sense now, and oddly enough with my interest peaking in Rust and Go, it might be worth looking at again... or maybe I'll just stick with languages that don't invoke bad memories.
Pixel City – Procedurally generated city (2009) [video]
Worth keeping in mind that L4 kernels do much, much less than conventional operating systems. They're more like libraries for building useful OS's on top of.
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940
To some extent, yes, and a few of those companies already exist, with names like Xilinx and Altera. Their FPGA products are available at 22 nm now. But they're not of much use when it comes to selling cheap commodity hardware in volume, of course.
Reducing consumption is a much, much more effective strategy than divestment. If half the people halve their carbon consumption then global carbon use goes down a quarter. If half the investors stop investing in fossil fuel companies then those companies that are publicly traded will only see their stocks go down a tiny amount.
EMERGENCY Situation with Your Linux or Windows Server? Chech This
No, it's just taking up the space used to post an image. Here's an example tweet:

https://twitter.com/shazow/status/605748307688890368
Britain's current handout culture something that was better back then I assume?

Please have a look at the income of Indian families in the UK/US relative to other ethnic groups. Asian culture emphasizes a strong work ethic. It's not just Indians with this one.
Does the site list ALL studies regarding fluoride in water, or just hand select the ones that come to the 'right' conclusions?
The Dallas Cowboys Will Soon Train Their Quarterbacks in Virtual Reality
But uncountable sets do NOT model reality well.
IAP does pretty much the same thing. I understand we wanted trials 6 years ago, but I personally feel like this is a solved problem.
The resulting message should be much larger than just 140 characters, mostly because it's not only encrypted but also signed with GPG.

It appears that this problem is solved by creating an image with the encrypted text and adding that image to the tweet. The decryption uses a simple character recognition algorithm to read the message back from the image.
For any discussion about penmanship, I feel obliged to supply a link to the PenmanshipPorn subreddit[1]

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/PenmanshipPorn/top/
Why "ever"? It seems to me like more & more artifacts like this are getting photographed -- and/or even scanned in 3D! -- and posted online. But maybe you're alluding to something in the culture of archaeology I don't know about...? Just curious.
Oh hey, published by the "Fluoride Recommendation Work Group"! Wonder what their agenda is?

You have only to look up the rates of tooth decay among non-fluoridated countries to find that there is no difference whatsoever.
Even if you need to get to the other side of Tokyo, it's better to start from Tokyo station than Haneda (or far worse, Narita).

But like I said: trains don't have security checks, or the 2+ hours of boarding/taxiing/waiting that come with any commercial flight. A three-hour train ride is...three hours. A three-hour flight will take half of your day (at least), and then you have to get from the airport to your actual destination.

For a journey from Tokyo to Osaka, I'd have to be pretty cash-strapped to prefer a flight simply because it was $50 cheaper than the train.
It seems that companion browser extensions should be first on the TODO list.
the FSF version of gnat is robust, mature, and reasonably up to date. It's licensed LGPL so you can use it pretty much like anything else.

Adacore also puts out a slightly more state of the art version of gnat but it's GPL so in theory everything you make with it needs to be gpl as well (though of course that's fairly irrelevent for many classes of software)
I think he's a contemptible ass. His mother is the cosignor on the loan. I would work my ass off to pay that back rather than let the negative effects of defaulting land on my mother.
Ah, I see. I shall call you "Big Fluoride" then, if that's the game we're playing.
This is representative of the Android user base in general. It's one reason you see so many iOS first apps despite the market share difference.
The problem is that priority must be conservation, so items are likely stored away very quickly and examined later with all due care. Pics will eventually emerge through studies and papers. But yeah, I agree with the sentiment. Maybe archeologists should film their proceedings, it would make things easier later on.
Sort of like how Scala allows XML as an object literal format, but less wacky.
I love orange, and almost anything edible. I suspect current production strategy to lower quality drastically in exchange for lifespan and other logistic qualities.
I've been known to print out the more objectionable emails from my clients and eat them...

OK, great, you deliver food. If your AngelList profile is your main publicly visible page at this point, you should - in my humble opinion - make it really clear what it is your service actually does: however slowly I read "we send you a calendar of lunches from awesome local restaurants", it doesn't suggest to me that you actually deliver food. The second paragraph does mention delivery. Make your copy accessible even to people who read quickly and don't care very much and you won't go far wrong (with your copy, anyway!).
Here is a link to Twilio Lookup https://www.twilio.com/lookup
Banach-Tarski is not absurd. Supposing the world should behave in a certain way because there is a mathematical theorem that seems to say it should, that is what is absurd.

Banach-Tarski is important and interesting, because it neatly illustrates why mathematics that seems to be sensibly related to reality sometimes does not describe reality very well. Relations between mathematics and reality are tricky.

BTW, the finiteness of particles is not sufficient to explain the problem. E.g. electrons and photons do not have a finite size. Yet you cannot something similar to a ball of photons or electrons either.
I think there's value in saying: "no one cares about your site because it doesn't stand out"

If Elon or Jobs are snide about the status quo, they're innovators who cut through the crap. If it's someone criticizing my conforming uniqueness, they're childish.
To be pedantically correct, CityEngine was a product of Procedural (spin off from ETH) which got acquired by ESRI later.
For the curious and lazy: it works by rendering the signed message to an image and tweeting that [2].

Then it relies on the fixed grid [0] and font to do a "poor man's OCR" [1] when decoding.

[0] http://git.io/vIWll
[1] http://git.io/vIWln
[2] https://twitter.com/Lukasaoz/status/607632001210925056
That's not surprising at all. There are older ties between Ethiopia and Egypt and between Rome and Egypt. By 1000 years or my be even more (I mean the Mediterranean, not Rome, that early)
> Luxury goods were widely traded, even in the ancient era.

Especially in the ancient era. As the security of the Roman Empire started to decline across the Mediterranean, long-distance trade routes were disrupted and it often took several centuries before they could be "rediscovered" by Europeans.
Sure - I either eat fruit as a meal, or add it as the sweetener. The nice thing about eating actual fruit is that you know what's in it. The key is just being cognizant of what's actually going in your body, and its effect. Sugar is sugar regardless of provenance.
To you and siblings, true. That speaks to a need to stop misleading consumers with marketing terms that don't mean what they mean. I'm speaking more from my personal taste than from public health - I just don't want my food to be so sweet. The industry has jacked up sugar and salt content, in all its forms, to where what the mass market demands is well outside my taste.

(Another example - my local coffeehouse has a half-sweet latte drink which is itself almost too sweet. I'm guessing the full-sweetness version makes room for more cane syrup by taking out actual coffee.)

Relevant read: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary...
> had problems with getting it to work with the win32 subsystem

Keep in mind that the whole _point_ of Cygwin is to interact with the Windows world. If you want a POSIX sandbox, you can use a VM with fewer headaches and better performance.
I think it's quite endearing.
Was any tooling built to help doing this?
It is $99/year to have apps in the App Store, but it is per developer account and not per app.

I almost think devs would be better off if it was per app. At least any devs planning to make a living off the store. It would cut down on a lot of the crappy spammy apps out there.
I started working on some side projects. I noticed something really interesting. I can get more done in 15 minutes of side project work than on a full day of regular work.

That's because, on my side projects, I'm not cleaning up after other people's poorly written code. My side project work is done in a clean style and also in my preferred style.

Hopefully, I can eventually get to the point where I can bootstrap something. I'm starting out with stuff for personal use.

- an RSS reader, mostly done, I'm using it

- a delicious clone (ironic, since Firefox is pushing Pocket)

- a video poker practice program (75% done)

I also noticed, surprisingly, that switching projects helps when I feel less motivated.
SockPuppet: Fun with WebSockets, Go, Python, and Nyt.com
I haven't really made any claims, but if you need me to source anything besides the one I already gave you, you're welcome to point it out.
Regarding Adria Richards, if you follow the "fuck them up" link[0], you'll see that he's not wrong.

————

0. https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
Taiwan? I mean, Motorola and even AMD have sold their FABs out to companies who then provide capacity out to the highest bidder. Now they do trail in process, so 14mm might not be available for a couple of years.
Oh god, please stop it with the medium.com, quantamagazine, and other dumbed down TED talk crowd 'news' sites. Can't you please link to the original articles?
This article just shows me that we need to teach more financial education in elementary through high school.

I find it 'absurd' that I can amass a crippling amount of debt purchasing a house, but it doesn't mean I should do it anyway and default on my loan.

If you think tuition rates are too expensive, don't take out a loan and don't go to college. It's that simple. I went to community college and then transferred to a more affordable university. I had a great career, now have a business, and paid off my loans within 10 years.

The other problem is that students decide to pick a major that will most likely never earn them enough to pay their debts off. I worked with someone that majored in medieval studies and had $60,000 in debt. She was working as a $10/hour call center rep because she couldn't find a job.

This article is shifting the blame to the Universities when the blame should be solely on the person that took the loan out. Take this as your first life lesson.