skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We will also see cars that last longer, since the initial capital investment into reliability will be recouped over more time driven.

I wonder whether machine driving will lead to less wear and tear on cars.
[1F F0] (Activate Bicycle)

Well you don't get much more CISC than that.
It's one thing to be "negative"/"shit on it" and quite another to be direct and objective. I feel there is a new fashion in our industry where "I screwed up" emails are becoming quite common. In fact it is being expected from every leader who made mistake like Japanese want CEOs to publicly cry. The problem with this whole new fashion is that these tears/"I screwed up" emails are often empty and/or has no objective value other than asking for forgiveness. These emails are starting to almost look like template without any actual retrospection about real root causes and what someone else should do differently in future. In 42floors post, that's exactly the problem: there is absolutely no retrospection about what he could have done differently or what others should do differently. It's just plain and simple "I screwed up/it was the hardest thing/it hurts my heart" template. It's almost as if these leaders are suggesting that it was just bad luck, here's my tears and now let's move on. While all these regret and emotions are commendable, I fail to see single thing that CEO has mentioned as his learning on what he could have done differently. From his post my interpretation was that they hired whole bunch of guys to execute on single strategy, without long term feasibility and without disclosing the risk that failure of that one strategy would mean loss of jobs. Now that's something they could have done differently.
Wow, college tuition is cheap in Canada. Would it be worthwhile for an American citizen to pay international fees to attend uWaterloo?
Possibly this:

"OpenView minority recruiting deal resonates in VC industry’s tired monoculture"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9721568

I found it through Algolia HN Search (on the bottom of every page), but I used some non-standard settings.

edit: There are plenty of other candidates ...

https://hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix&page...
Keep in mind those numbers are for 4 month terms, not for an 8-month school year.
also betrayal at krondor
>Gas stations even today don't make money with gas

I've heard this a lot, but is this really true?
Gas is highly regulated in the U.S. and supposedly a Mom & Pop gas station's gas is just as good as Shell or Chevron..(because they are inspected yearly by the local county's Weights and Measurements department) But the price difference can be quite large, e.g., 15%+ higher sometimes. Also I'm curious how Costco gas is so cheap? Anyway so who is eating up this difference in price? Shell is making quite a bit off gas then? or is the owner of that particular gas station taking the profit?
Great, now I can justify playing even though I have no intention of seeking W2 status any time soon
TPP Leak Reveals Take-Down Measures Softened – But DRM Rules Remain Harsh
While looking over a recently presented slidedeck, I came across this slide:

https://speakerdeck.com/chantastic/inline-styles-react-europ...

In that moment, I was genuinely taken aback to realise that by using clojurescript and reagent, I was operating in what some regarded as the future. I knew it already, of course, but that moment pushed it home. Nice!

re-frame is pretty handy too. (But I'm the author, so on that point I'm pretty biased).
Hacking really messes up our use of internet. I have italian practice on skype at http://preply.com/en/italian-by-skype and my teacher warns me about the sites that I visit.
Definitely an upcoming issue. The 10% increase in minimum wage or so in no way compensates for the 1000% increase in tuition fees.
I also suck at finding the time for this too! :)
Yes. People moving to inner city apartments are dropping the car altogether, so for them what matters is what's most convenient for car-rental companies when they occasionally rent a car....

In an environment where people only use cars for special trips, not for day-to-day activities, the longer range of gasoline might end up being a bigger advantage than it is for current-day Americans.
> Weren't these the guys that famously wrote a blog post saying that culture is everything, and that people that come to interviews in suits are automatically denied?

https://web.archive.org/web/20140618142018/http://blog.42flo...

Not automatically denied. That's only ding #1.

You also lose-- ahem don't win-- points for leaving the interview on time, neglecting to bring a fancy gift, and failing to obsessively read the company blog.
Reminds me of Carsabi (YCW12). If I remember, they built a good product and found a vein, but ultimately struggled with a business model.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/01/facebook-acqhires-founders-...
Reddit Chief Engineer Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job
Laying Google's 9,000km undersea cable
Software License Generator
Are patents really what's blocking it?

I only have a passing understanding of the FPGA world, but I thought that everything in that space in shrouded in trade secrets. Do patent claim descriptions really have enough detail to help you produce a working bitstream?
There is a huge difference between granting Greece debt relief, and granting Greece more debt. So far, the only thing that is happening is the latter.
What does 'bailing out' mean to you - give Greece more loans? That is all that has happened - the hole was dug deeper. Debt relief is not the same thing.
False cognate
Yes, and ...?

Some say "kB" and "kb", rather than "KB" and "Kb".

But maybe k=1000 vs K=1024?
And if you want to see something crazy, here's 2.11BSD running on PIC32: http://retrobsd.org/wiki/doku.php
Microsoft suspends availability of Windows 10 builds
If you chase that link down, you find it is referring to the presence of pathogens on the handles of toilets, the surfaces of water fountains, and other moist surfaces like water play tables, in child day care centers. This is not the same thing as transmission through the stream of water itself.

My take away from that is to be careful of touching such surfaces, but not to worry about the stream of water.
Finding that perfect match
I am looking for a non-technical co-founder to start a company with. I have created something I believe to be innovative and have a prototype ready to go. Unfortunately, I am also currently living in NYC- -and have already been burned a couple of times by NYC salesmen-types on business ventures in the past, and am also out of favor with the NYC VCs as well, due to my having been arrested on a possession of weed charge 5 years ago while I was in a car with 5 other people in the deep South—and then thrown into solitary confinement for a week due to a clerical error by my probation officer a few years back as well.

I consider these experiences to be character building but the VCs in NYC were so appalled by my mistakes and indignity that I was basically forced out of the company I founded. I am in the process of moving to California in the hopes of finding some more like-minded people to be around. However, I don't actually know anyone out there and am really just assuming this on the basis of common stereotype.

The questions I had were: do VCs on the West Coast tend to be more forgiving about these sorts of non-violent brushes with the law than other places (like NYC)? Or would partnering with someone who is a bit more clean-cut be a wise move regardless of my location? Will I likely run into the same issues I ran into in NYC in California regardless? If it is the case that VCs in California are as touchy about these sorts of things as those in NYC, where would you recommend finding someone charming/straight-edge enough to balance out my past indiscretions and unintentional affect? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Vehicles driving at most 25 mph are regulated much lighter than `cars' in the USA, that's why Google chose that speed limit for their `carpods'.
Forget Flash, there are bigger fishes to catch: http://blog.andreineculau.com/2015/07/13/major-security-thre...
He's not an executive anymore...
Ask HN: Should I form a C-Corp or an S-Corp?
I'm at the point where I need to form a legal business entity for a product I've been working on, and looking for a little advice. Here's a brief description of my situation:

- Enterprise SaaS, the goal is to turn this into a large company

- I am not aggressively pursuing investors, but don't want to rule out the possibility

- Currently it's a one-man-show (myself)

- I'd like to simply pay myself a "normal" salary and re-invest as much money as possible into the business

Downsides of a C-corp (from my understanding):

- More complex paperwork for setup and record keeping

- Double taxation on dividends (but not salaries?)

Upsides of a C-corp:

- More investor-friendly, and more flexibility with stock classes

What are the reasons to choose an S-corp? If I understand correctly, double taxation in a C-Corp wouldn't become an issue unless you have extremely large profits and want to take a large chunk of it out of the business, so much that you can't justify the amount as a salary and need to pay yourself a dividend. Or maybe if you have shareholders who are expecting to be paid dividends.

I am leaning towards forming a C-Corp.

Is there anyone who has been in a similar position who can share some advice?
Lots of services limit usernames to a certain range of characters, but some don't. However, there's tons of invisible unicode characters that you can use instead, so even without this one, the problem would still exist.
Great thing about having an EU passport is that this situation doesn't even come up.
Url changed from http://gizmodo.com/this-company-wants-to-test-plastic-roads-..., which points to this.
The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-Based Malware [pdf]
I literally googled "Audi A6". The base MSRP starts at $44,800.
Its Funny
People have not historically relied upon private car ownership to get around, either, but the trend of history for the past several centuries is towards urbanization.
Excellent suggestion; thank you!
It appears that site is down right now; I'll check for it later.
> Even if companies wanted to do the right thing and keep the overall pay constant

It has nothing to do with what companies want. They don't pay an employee $X because they like to get rid of money, they pay $X because if they offered less that employee would go elsewhere and they would have to settle for a less productive employee, or none at all.
A startup is more likely to die for another reason first, such as a founder-breakup, or some form of "running out of money".

Google App Engine and Heroku and Azure also have lock-in too, to varying degrees -- but at the start it still makes sense to use these sorts of services rather than worry about lock-in. (And if someone later gives you $100k of compute credits on their platform, and it costs you less than that to rewrite the "lock-in" parts, then you still win.)
Building Microservices with Spring Cloud and Docker
having worked on a number of iOS apps (everywhere from 5k loc to 80k loc), i have literally never seen anyone work any other way -- you just put `[self renderView:model]` on your controllers and it's a pure function which sets up the state such that the system `layoutSubviews` call is also pure function.

i havent seen that "build a new version of the previous screen" tho, at least not the way you describe -- most of the time you just rely on `viewWillAppear` calling `renderView:model`, and `viewWillAppear` gets called on `popViewController` by default.
The viaduct will collapse even in a fairly moderate earthquake. A magnitude 7 quake that was closer to seattle might easily bring it down, for example.
I did get to level 2 :)

Have you considered making the alien-bot more dynamic or perhaps adding more bots?

Also, what about adding the ability to destroy bots too?
Thanks. Mathematica is indecipherable to me.
But like I wrote: I cannot know when an email address gets out of my control. When I quit a job sure! But not when someone gains access, not when that mail gets recycled (or mistakenly taken as an alias - re:my dilemma in the post)

Even if I kept two email addresses, resetting a password should have more steps than just "click this link once" in any of those inboxes.
I was waiting for somebody else to notice this.
Is iTerm keeping my history safe? Where is it saved, and how is it kept safe?
Using Git Repos as Project Templates
> I cried and many of them cried. It was emotional for everyone. Some were angry and some were already focused on what to do next.

I don't find this behaviour particularly galvanizing in a leader. Your feelings and tears aren't worth much to me but your business acumen is. I'd prefer you spent more time analyzing the business strategy that apparently lacked careful scrutiny and cold logical evaluation so we could have avoided this situation altogether.
Give me the Steve Jobs and Larry Ellisons of the world so we can stop the group crying/healing session and get back to work innovating and generating wealth.
Indeed! I haven't seen a warning on Github, but there you yourself have more incentive to link your commits to your account imho
you mean _ ?
You're missing the point. Who is going to pay to extend electricity into each car bay of an apartment building car park ? It's a significant cost that any property developer is not currently doing (they clearly see a weak market) nor likely to do for the handful of people who will request it.

Much of a future hydrogen distribution network already exists (we have transportation companies, gas stations etc) all of whom would be more than happy to add a new technology. Just like they have done already with LPG.
It's not like any other announcement. Is that a bad thing?
Just a later note... since I wrote this, Sam Altman and others have repeatedly stated that they are not worried about monetization in the short-term. So I was way off-base...
Seems that this article fails to mention that owning a house is a prerequisite to buying an EV (electric vehicle). If you rent a room in a house, it's unlikely the landlord is going to install a charger just for you, and the same goes for apartment complexes. So that already excludes a large portion of the population from buying an EV. I bet 90% of EV owners are not renting their residence. (The other 10% can charge at work or other places, but relative to the number of parking spaces, count how many charging stations there are at BigCo)
This is one of the papers mentioned:

"A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Choice with Limited Data"

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0063
It's also how Backbone has always worked.. Canonical Backbone has you `this.model.bind('change', this.render)` where `this.render` is a pure function (typically just passing `this.model` to a Handlebars template).
Lisp does the equivalent of scope-level RAII with macros. For instance,

(with-open-file (myfile "foo.txt")
...body...)

will execute the body with the opened file bound to variable MYFILE, closing it when the end of the body is reached (or is unrolled away).

Many libraries expose this type of interface, and by Lisp's use of dynamic scoping, nested functions within the scope can access the current state of that particular scoped resource without having to pass it around manually.

In effect, RAII is programmer discipline which can manually repurpose a particular object allocation/deallocation style to support scope behavior, while languages like Lisp can simply work with scope behavior directly.
The BMW I3: Nissan LEAF Owner Reviews the I3 After 3-Day Extended Test Drive
I had to laugh when a bottle of water here in Australia became more expensive than the same-sized bottle of carbonated syrup drink.

A barman friend charged a client $X for a round, including a bottle of water. One of his regulars scrunched up his face in thought, did the calculations, and said "Did you just charge $6 for a bottle of water?". The reply: "Did you see her blink?". It's been ridiculously normalised. For the record, my hometown is supposedly famous for excellent tapwater for drinking.
They give advice that if you live in a house with lead pipes to run the water for a few minutes before using it if the pipes have been still for a while.

http://water.epa.gov/drink/info/lead/lead1.cfm
I lived in Cincy and didn't know this existed.
Why does Iran have such a serious brain drain problem?
The Year of CoCoRo Video #28/52: All Magnet Finding
> But the take-away from Icarus seems to be about hubris

That's the cashed interpretation from ancient times (when flying was for gods). Do we think Wright brothers were guilty of hubris and arrogance too? Or Otto Lilienthal for better analogy?
There's been a lot of meta discussion how Yishan Wong, Alexis Ohanian, and Ellen Pao have been talking trash to each other about Reddit and seemingly ignoring every NDA in the book.

The comments made in the linked interview trashing a former employer seem to perpetuate this culture.
It was far less personal than that, I generaly only lurk on HN, but your post one that struck a nerve finaly, after many similar posts here and in /..

Also 9 year old is quite a frac cry from your initial post of "(3y+) machines", 9 year old machine almost guaranteed has absolutely no support in hardware for modern codecs. So no wonder has strong limitations on resolution. Still flash working better than HTML5 players is still suspicious to me, I still believe with correct configuration reverse should be true, as flash is basically just another layer in between screen and bits on the net. Though possibly not applicable in all cases.
For Costco, gas is a loss leader for custom loyalty. People go crazy for saving $4 dollars for gas, even if it means waiting 15min in line.
>> Median salary in Ontario is $49,088, before taxes, university expenses of 27kCAD are insane for me in that scale!

What's also insane is that the average detached home in Toronto just hit over 1M last week (http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/07/07/toronto-average-h...). I live just north of Toronto near a highly desirable high school, and there are usually bidding wars on homes. A lot of houses sell over asking. Getting 100K over asking is not unheard of.

I bought my house 10 years ago (and thought I was overpaying back then), and I don't know how people can afford to buy a home these days in the GTA. In the decade that I bought my house, property values in my neighborhood have doubled and then some, and I'm pretty sure salaries have not.

A lot of young families live in my area, and I can't imagine how expensive tuition will be when their small children are ready for a post-secondary education. Juggling a gigantic mortgage and saving for your kids' education is incredibly tough these days.
Yeah, 1 Km does not mean 1000 meters, it doesn't mean 1024 meters really either, it's just written as 1 km. For some reason, the metric system is only capitalized for mega, giga, and tera... only mega conflicts (with milli), nothing else is t or g. K, M, T, G seems more consistent than k, M, T, G.
Too impassioned for my own taste but that's how it was in the spur of the moment. I still cannot understand what through their mind making it so easy I have never reset a password, only changed it on one of these services where I have 2FA enabled and I expected them to make use of 2FA! Like it is today, it is harder for me to change my own password (enter email and password, enter 2FA code, go to settings, enter password --- again only password ---, change password) than to reset it (enter email, click link in my inbox, change password)
Temporary Reprieve for Pirate Bay Founders
Google's virtual-dom library: incremental-dom
A good chunk of the optimizations are timing related, though. Low tide, summer, mid-day, etc. Not inducing the quake gives all of those up (not to mention the moral hazard of lying about it mentioned by others).
If China wants to do it, they will just block Telegram servers. Why bother to DDOS?
I wasn't able to read any of this because of the stupid fucking flashing view counter at the top of the page.

View counters have been dead for a long time and need to stay that way. No one cares how many views you have and certainly no one wants to have a flashing box at the top of the page they're trying to read.
I'm pretty sure these tell-all blog posts about running a startup are a key part of their marketing strategy. Their product is largely targeted at startups (or, at least it was, maybe they're expanding). I suspect there are more startup decision-makers interested in reading about running a startup than reading about trends in commercial real estate. Being a little over-the-top now and then - or just brutally honest - only gets them more attention.
public funding leaks money

Public funding's issue is that its value, while very real and substantial, is difficult to quantify because it's not in the business of making money. It doesn't deliver a product in the classical sense, it doesn't have a calculated ROI. Improving the lives of humans isn't something an accountant can plot on a spreadsheet.

Public funding is in the business of making new discoveries - many hold little immediate market value but a tonne of value when implemented by private industry years and even decades down the track. That's hard to put a solid number on.

Add to that, private industry leaks money as well. Any sufficiently large organization will require more resources to communicate a policy/directive/goal or pivot than a smaller one. Look at it like an organism - it eats more, wastes more but leaves big tracks in the sand and can attack the bigger problems that smaller organisms can't.
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A Helper Application for Getting Data Ready
50 Awesome Chicago Based Startups You Should Get to Know
They are simpler to fix and cheaper to fix.

If you ignore a lot of things. My current car, 2001 Volvo S60, which I still drive as the first owner with now 200.000 km. I had one issue with the drive train, the clutch broke. Everything else which got replaced you will find in the Tesla itself: Tires, Brakes, Air conditioning. Yes, I am still doing regular service to have it in this condition.

BTW: The Tesla has a gearbox. You know, gearboxes need oil as well, like every regular car/device with moving gear.

Electric engines won't die like that.

Yeah, right. Read on: http://www.dailytech.com/Following+Reports+of+Drive+Motor+Re...
Thank you for spotting the typo. Fixed now
NASA Deep Space Network Now
Most electric cars have regenerative breaking. So just lifting off the power pedal will decelerate it (regaining energy for the battery). This means, in most situations you don't even have to switch over to the break pedal, which is quite convenient. For this reason I miss my old stick-shifted car which had a short gear reduction ratio. I could drive it in the city without breaking except for reaching a stop.