skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The series of “rigorous tests” that the company is putting its tires through are meant to prove their durability, hardness (efficiency), stability, ability to take high-speed turns (slalom), and ability to maintain their integrity at high speeds (up to 130 kilometers per hour).

That's only 80 MPH. I'm interested in the no flats and potential fuel savings but I'd want to be able to travel at freeway speeds on long trips with them too without having to change out tires.
I am actually a proud owner of an iPod Shuffle! It is perfect for long trips! It has no screen thus the battery lasts for 12~15 hours! Even after 2 years and it charges pretty fast (~2 hours).

It only stores 2Gb but since I've concluded that I can't hear the difference between 320 kbps and 128 kbps songs, it can hold a substantial number of songs.
THE+REEL+HIP+HOP+SHOW+PRES+LYRICAL+DIVA+WOMEN+OF+MUSIC+07/15+by+BLACK+OWN+RADIO
Yes I was surprised too. I've got a Samsung phablet thing, but it's a bit tedious to strap to my arm or thigh... even though I do use it for Zombies Run when working out.
Regarding the lack of streaming music, perhaps subscribe to your favorite musical genre podcasts? For example I have Classic FM, A State of Trance and haven't even looked further as my old school mp3 playlist collection is good enough. And then there is FM reception, old school streaming...
We're using Storm to handle high volume Kafka feeds to process advertising bid requests and other user data in machine learning models. Most of it is proprietary, unfortunately, so I can't write the article you'd like (and that I would have liked before starting this).

So far Storm is working as advertised. Frankly, what it does isn't that terribly difficult, but it's good to have a well-tested implementation of it so we can focus on our business logic.
This is a boring, uninteresting debate on an interesting topic.

I'm sure HN has much more to say in much less time about it.

Types help document code such that I'd prefer an optional typed languages wherein libraries and large code bases are expected to be typed but the glue on top doesn't need to be.

Javascript in particular is not very self documenting but I find typescript much easier to read. It's a real shame it's not often adopted if only to provide IDE hints.
If you replace the word with something currently more unpopular, and rerun the sentence, you may see a hole in your argument.
3 is irrelevant, google cancels projects often enough that it's sufficient to move someone to a troubled or questionable project and let statistics take care of the rest.
Dr. Jerome Corsi: Trump Is the Real Deal
I have an iPod shuffle, and I bought it myself :) But also bought one more as a gift. I use it when going for a run, or when I have to travel a lot. I like it for being simple, very well crafted (like to play with my fingers along its perfectly smooth edges). One drawback is the memory though, only 2GB, or max 4GB for older versions.
" friend of mine recently discovered a woman in her nineties who had lived as a "patient" in a large lunatic asylum for more than 70 years but whose only illness—as far as he was able to discover—had been to give birth to an illegitimate child in the 1920s. No one, surely, would wish to see the return of such monstrous incarceration and cavalier destruction of women's lives"

NO TRUE SCOTSMAN, indeed. The author seems to believe that the only thing we shouldn't "pass judgement on" is the immediate and well-documented result of letting moral scolds like him run a society.

And no, I didn't read the article to the end. Giving the author a fair hearing just seemed too... nonjudgemental.
Process vs. Outcome Thinking [pdf]
Yep you are right, added an extra zero in there. One of those days.
> low tolerance for under performers

I panic whenever I read stuff like this. What is an under performer? How do I know if I'm one? How can it be expected that everyone in an environment is a spectacular code ninja that does utterly awesome stuff all the time?
I wouldn't say often. Most of them, as far as I can tell, get that right from the start, and the ones that don't fix it fairly quickly after being told.
Conspiracy theory: the form factor was changed because it was too similar to a watch -- and Apple was in the early stages of planning the (much more expensive) Apple Watch.

Notice that the Micky Mouse watch face - now present on the Apple Watch - was only present on that one version of the nano.
To be fair, there _is_ a lot of advertising which is nothing like that.
His or her reply was a link to the law that made it illegal for employers to prohibit employees from discussing compensation, which is exactly what we're talking about so it shouldn't be a huge surprise that a comment suggesting that "has nothing to do with what we're talking about" would get downvoted.

More importantly though, since it appears you're fairly new here, I'd suggest reading the HN Guidelines[1], particularly "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, I think this one's meant to run nearly unmodified because of an OSF Mach layer being supplied, rather than translating source code from Mach to POSIX.
I read the "Prevailing wage" column and thought "meh" then I realized I was reading the wrong column. Yeah, they do pay well.
A Startup That Doesn’t Scale? The Oxymoron I’m Learning at Y Combinator
Pre-Civil War shipwreck discovered off the North Carolina coast
Michelin has been marketing their "Tweel" (http://www.michelintweel.com/) product for industrial applications for a while, and I've read a couple of articles about their trials of the Tweel on passenger vehicles. I suppose that the challenges of higher speed applications have prevented that product from appearing.

Personally, I want some Mattracks :) (https://www.mattracks.com/)
> Since there is no objective standard of morality, and since "morality" is just a fancy word for "things that people consider good or bad," we probably just have to look out into the world and see whether advertising is against the morals of most. Given that we see little great outrage over the use of advertising, even among those who are aware of its risks, I have to conclude that advertising is morally justifiable.

This is a bold statement (italics) and you run into a circular reasoning by the end of that sentence (advertising is morally justifiable because some people are okay with it). May I suggest the following summer read: http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Tribes-Emotion-Reason-Between/dp... and http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/17/moral-tribes-jo... and then http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115279/joshua-greenes-mor...
Authorities Shut Down Darkode, a Marketplace for Stolen Personal Data
Presumably if there were any IP rights at all (what with it being a Communist state), they were assigned to the USSR government or, like products of the US government, are born into the public domain.
I highly recommend getting the Pocket Casts app for Android. In my opinion, it's better than iTunes for podcasts (except for the fact that you have to pay separately for the desktop and mobile clients).
Amphetamine and methamphetamine is not the same drug.
Of course, but I'm surprised he's spending as much mileage picking people up as what he is earning driving them -- it suggests inefficiency in the dispatching system.
Pardon me lisping, but I just read your code as
pseudo linearization of trees...

(cons a
(cons b
(cons c
(cons d . nil))))

(list
a
b
c
d)

a,... being condition/reaction pairs.
Our descendants will consider advertising like we consider tobacco: dangerous to your health.

Adv manipulates your agency, your ability to make independent decisions. Tracker-based targeted advertising exploits all human vulnerabilities that are used in "the long con."

Firms that make their money on more sophisticated advertising techniques understand this. It reminds me of the classic picture of 7 Big-Tobacco executives swearing to Congress that "tobacco is not addictive" despite evidence that they internally held reams of documentation from 1960s indicating the opposite [1].

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/tim...
Codec & hardware acceleration is a chicken-and-egg problem: who would include h/w acceleration for a codec that isn't being used?
whistles I'm surprised, and almost jealous. I produce music for a living and 128 is actually painful to my hears.
Until the IRS clamps down a tax break for well paid upper middle class is an easy target.
I wish that the iPod were ever available in those storage capacities, but 160GB was as large as they got. Of course, thanks to this [1] fellow, the sky's the limit..

[1] http://www.tarkan.info
Normally high paying jobs means they are trying to keep people and not the most fun jobs.
"great cleansing" of 201

Come on now, you can't just call something that and not elaborate!
Preemption. Erlang VM counts each instruction per process and uses it's own scheduler to switch processes, all other implementations of lightweight processes can't do this without implementing their own erlang.
>> You have killed them off

To be honest I find your idiotic remark disrespectful. I live in a country that suffered a lot under two world wars. While I certainly acknowledge that jewish people suffered a lot it certainly wasn't the case that the rest was living a trouble free life. I know from my grandfather that in my family there was also a cost regarding lost lives.

And them I'm ignoring the fact how you could make me personally responsible for something that happened 40 years before I even was born and even in another country.

>> But people like you ignore the slaughter in Syria, the suppression in Egypt, and all the other crazy that happens in virtually every country in the Middle East

Except that in Europe those events are also wel documented and criticised for example http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.1711852, etc.

ALL events where people suffer are critiqued that is even the fact for normal Israeli-an people that suffer from terroristic actions. We are critiques of any form om terrorism being religious or state terrorism.

But it is not that because middle eastern countries are doing despicable stuff that Israel should get a free pass. While you can't be blind for those thing that is also the case for the illegal settlements, the "collective punishment" mantra, the constant war mongering, etc.

>> It wouldn't be because you're an "evil racist" would it?

There seems to be only one clearly uninformed bigot... .
I think her points are all generally true, but be aware...

Some of the companies on that list are not actually unicorns. Meaning: they have not consummated a financing with a post-money valuation that exceeds $1,000,000,000.

Just saying that her data (or at least a small part of it that I know about intimately) is wrong.
> I think people should have the right to count their money in public.

But people should not have the right to count someone else's money in public, which is what you were implying. An employee may have the right to share; but I don't have the right to that information. It is asymmetric.
Sandy Bridge actually, i7 2600k. I have an ATI card too, I might try that. Wasn't too sure how well those work on FreeBSD.
It's not just high school emotional blackmail, though that's a part of it. Billions of dollars are spent to scientific research and game people's psychology. On top of that billions of dollars are spent to then spread messages on massive scales that affect virtually everyone's thought process. It's social engineering in its truest sense.

The only way to see beyond it is to move to a place which is not affected by the same tools, say very very poor countries and see how different people's psychology is there. In Western civilization we are set up to be miserable from day one. Whether it's through the schooling process or workplace. It's a toxic environment and it is engineered to be that way. To sell more, to be more productive, and to drive everything in a very tight system.

It is a system which just like any other system serve itself much more than it serves the objects, humans, it administers. It encourages unstable mindsets and addictions.
Great idea. I hope you will add other languages in the future ?
If the disks only last so long, is it really so terrible that Amazon gets to keep the broken outdated junk?
Why not just use Elixir or Erlang? I never understood why programmers would spend years re-writing something in their language of choice if it already existed.
Playing music on your phone (not streaming) requires shockingly little battery.

I regularly play music from my phone for the entirety of a 10-12 hour flight without using more than 20% of my phone's battery.
I use iPod Touch-es for a corporate app, and have just begun rolling out the first few trial installations.

In May/June we noticed a shortage of iPods, which was kind of scary since we are eventually going to need several hundreds for our users. It is a relief to see that Apple is continuing the iPod Touch product line.
I've been looking at OpenBSD but the partitioning setup (fdisk) is off-putting. Why are we counting heads/tracks/cylinders in 2015? Also, the labeling thing is weird but I could live with that.
I would like to know how they gauge performance too. Some cultures are about the perception of productivity, some are about actual productivity. Taken to an extreme, either case can make for a miserable work environment.
The point of these is, presumably, to be as comfortable as conventional tires.
I think I phrased my statement wrong. I totally understand the benefit of basic research. We should do more agreed.

My question is, is space exploration the most cost effective form of basic research?

We could be doing basic research in any number of areas. Is it just because space captures our imagination that we choose to spend $ there, or is there something fundamentally better about the basic research in space as opposed to, say, the bottom of the ocean.
Ask HN: How can I improve my podcast about european entrepreneurship?
Hi all,

I have just published an interview style podcast for entrepreneurs in Europe.

https://itunes.apple.com/be/podcast/open-up-europe!-podcast/id1020257211

My question is - how can I make it better?

Are there anybody amongst you who is interested in launching europe? What are your thoughts?

Thank you all in advance.
Free food is easy. It's "just money". Low on money? Cut back to soda and snacks from Costco.

A flat organization is something else entirely. The Valve way is simple, but not easy. You need to be able to put a huge amount of trust in people. You can't be shy about getting rid of people who aren't working out. It's not "managerless nirvana," it's different, and it's unclear if it's really what you want in a focused company like a start-up, where you have a financial fuse and little luxury to experiment.

(I read the Zappos manifesto. It was full bull-goose batshit crazy; basically unreadable psychobabble power-blended with scientology-class buzzwords. It looked like they didn't want employees, they wanted bio-robots capable of running some funky version of Python. Hoo boy).
Wrong or right, I don't think that most people would consider ocaml simple to read.
I'm kind of alarmed at how not-alarming people are finding this. The idea that eating the foods we most need to eat for health will result in heavy metal poisoning via a vector about which there is no regulatory control or even awareness is a pretty big deal.
Pretty sure this was in this presentation http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/brendangregg/performance-tu...
I've seen them on construction equipment, which admittedly moves very slowly.
This statement is ridiculous. Evidence of life on Earth millions of years ago is buried deep in the Earth soil. Mars exploration has literally only scratched the surface of the planet, a few inches deep.
C projects are generally subject to more code review as the compiler is no help at all with allocation issues and someone has to check ownership semantics manually whenever a function has a pointer return type.

Thinking about this, almost my entire career has been spent writing "C with classes": projects where the preferred subset of C++ is a very narrow one. The first one didn't even use the STL (it wasn't reliably portable enough at the time), instead defining a few container and zero-copy string classes of its own. It did however have overnight CI builds on dozens of different platforms including more than one non-GCC vendor compiler. We had an Itanium. We were living in the future.

The exceptions to this were C projects of size 1-2 people. Oh, and a glimpse inside a big multinational whose C products were the products of successive mergers lined up along side one another in the source control system. The sort of environment where it might take weeks to get anything committed without breaking some obscure corner of the test suite.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus (2007) presumably?

"inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road
you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all
your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you
cannot fix it without rewriting your app.
"

That sounds like he believes it's less flexible.
True, but I'm assuming he was on Desoxyn, as opposed to some low-grade diet pills.
They are making it better everyday though.
Oh boy I love this thought. I think very bad of advertising in public spaces. Was there ever a public discussion on this topic before bill-boards became the norm. Even in semi public spaces, likes the 20 or so Dutch TV channels people receive I feel that it is reason enough not to own a cable connection at all.

But... I would not make it illegal, but very heavily taxed. Tax billboards for 95% out of this world because they are disgusting (that 5% might give us 50% of the current tax income), tax companies into only having small logo's on their buildings and into sponsoring events/art/archtecture/etc.

Focus, awareness, peace of mind, not selling out, "outside and inside come in pairs".
It is very simple to regulate without getting into freedom of speech issues. Just declare (yes, I'm aware it's a constitutional/SCOTUS issue, not a legislative one) that corporations are not people and do not deserve freedom of speech. If individuals want to write checks for advertising that abuses psychology, that's a more troublesome issue, but getting rid of just the corporate funded advertising would be a huge step forward.
I would go with nvidia - they work beautifully on FreeBSD IME.
Anecdote time. Our cat has gotten into the annoying habit of moaning whenever things aren't to her liking; even if its 3AM. If she hears other cats playing outside, she wants to go out. If she thinks we are awake, moan again to demand breakfast. Heck, if I'm sleeping on the side and she wants to sleep on top of me, she'll whine about it till I'm on my back. And so on.

It became so bad that I could barely get an hour or two of continuous sleep a night.

Finally, I found a bunch of videos: https://www.google.com/search?q=rain+white+noise&tbm=vid and started playing them at night. Boy, what a difference it made. Now, I wake up at most once a night; I'm sleeping better than ever, and not a zombie during the day.

I'm wondering if there are any command-line rain generators for Linux? And is there some research on how to generate the 'best' (most realistic?) rain sounds.
And they ride more harshly, are less compliant, are heavier (look at how much some spend on light-weight rims; tires are even further from the center of the wheel), more expensive, can get bent / dented, and rely on finicky tire pressure monitoring systems.
I have an iPod touch and its not very good for audio. Often it doesn't remember where you stopped. You have to take it out and look at the screen to pause it. Despite there being a big redundant button on the front. It requires some proprietary software to load audio onto it, which is difficult to figure out and has some strange quirks.

I miss my old generic MP3 player.
I've known people who've worked at Netflix and have complained about some toxic policies.

Some highlights I can recall:

Unlimited ESPP rewards already wealthy employees. If you can afford to not take any pay for six months, you basically get a big bonus.

I was told there was (and may still be) some kind of stack ranking system. Employees are fired if they're in the bottom x percent of performance reviews, even if they did a good job. In a company that's obsessed with everyone being exceptional, merely being adequate is considered failure.

Unlimited vacation time is like an Orwellian joke. What it really means is you don't accrue PTO, can't cash it out like at other companies, and how much vacation you really get to take is a constant negotiation with management. The net effect is nobody takes any because nobody wants to be the guy who takes too much vacation, for fear of being perceived as one of those lower performing employees that gets let go each year.

The whole thing sounded icky to me.
”Anyone old enough to have lived through those paranoid days of mutually assured destruction will find it a bit disturbing to see familiar hometown streets and landmarks labeled in Cyrillic script.”

I was only a child during the Cold War, but yes, a few years ago when I saw one of these Soviet maps of the Swedish Tiveden forest, it felt quite strange. The quality of the map was indeed magnificent.
This job is actually important.

The LoC administers the Copyright Office which includes DMCA and the Copyright Royalty Board.

Hopefully the next Librarian would be well versed with digital copyrights, technology, etc.
That's really interesting. Deserving of a top-level submission, too, I think.

May I ask what your plan is for defending lessons against cranks, crusading ideologues, and the less-than-knowledgeable once it gets more adoption? Other collaborative projects such as Wikipedia have suffered as a result of this, but I noticed in your talk that your aim is to maintain "higher" quality than Wikipedia or even Stack Exchange and Quora. I'm curious how this can be accomplished once the user base expands beyond its initial network.

Congrats on this year's IMO result!
LinuxBBQ.org, a Debian Sid/experimental derivative... i3 with no DE/DM.
Sadly, depending on what you want to accomplish with your storage the future is still not here. For example, if you want to share a virtual disk with multiple servers through NFS you will still need to manually create a NFS high-availability cluster using e.g. DRBD on most cloud providers (e.g. EC2 or Azure). To be fair, MS Azure offers fully managed SMB shares as a service, but the transfer speed is quite low (60 MB/s in the best case) so they are not very useful for most tasks.
> if you cought [sic] nail close to a tire sidewall it means you I'll have to replace a tire since it's not fixable

That's true of traditional tyres also - internal patch repairs require a minimum distance from the sidewall.
Anyone interested in a quick introduction to capsicum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9PmtF9jdM
Awesome! Do try the campaign if you find the time.
You are conflating disparate issues.

Corporations are people - this means that a corporation (rather than some of it's individual members) can own property and owe you money. If you want to sue or enforce obligations, you do it against the corporation itself rather than tracking down specific members and enforcing against them. That's all it means. If you eliminate this and then Comcast injures you, who do you sue?

Freedom of speech is held by the owners of a corporation and it's employees; the corporation is property used by the owners to engage in speech. Saying corporations don't have freedom of speech is like saying inanimate objects such as printing presses don't have freedom of the press. Note that printing presses do NOT have personhood, yet they still have freedom of the press.