skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...electrical signals that you publicly broadcast from your house...

If you want to maintain your position on the matter, you're going to have to broaden that even further.

You know about residential power monitoring [0] right? Sewage systems have already been used to sample drug usage for entire cities, but the BONAS project [1] takes it to a new level.

How far are you willing to twist the logic? Would you consider the gravitational disturbance caused by the mass of my body within my home as a public broadcast open to government data collection?

[0] http://www.leagle.com/decision/199917586CalRptr2d89_1161/PEO...

[1] https://www.bonas-fp7.eu
Obviously IANAL etc, but I'm really not convinced about that. I'm genuinely interested to know why you say the law is different for non-residents. Even if that was the case, I'd be very surprised if an accountant could not advise on that aspect, given that dealing with company records and accounts is what they do. It's OP's time and money, though - if he wants to see a legal advisor of some kind, that's entirely his prerogative.
Walmart still meets or beats them on price many times and I can buy online and pick it up on my way home which is effectively same-day delivery.
DIY SelfieBot absolutely for free
Endurance is happy to announce that we open source for SelfieBot. Ready to share: design, firmware and software for all non profit organizations including schools and universities.
We are excited to share our knowledge, experience, key competences with students, hobbyists, professors and teachers letting them use our solution as a part of a project.
Our vision on slides: http://www.slideshare.net/GeorgeFomitchev/selfiebot-for-educational-purposes

We are planning to launch updated web page where we will upload all data sheets, software sources, video guidances, pictures, etc in April 2016.

Looking for feedbacks and comments.
We are looking for evangelists who will help schools, universities, students learn more about this opportunity to get DIY SelfieBot absolutely for free!
Looking for reviewers and tech writers who would like to highlight this topic.

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skype: george.fomitchev
LMDB already runs on iOS and Android. In my experience you will have issues on some Android devices though. For instance, I recently found out that on some Android devices writes to a mmap-ed file through the usual POSIX interfaces are not immediatly reflected on reads through the mmap, which means that on those devices you MUST use MDB_WRITEMAP.

For those who don't know, I/O on Android is a nightmare. On your typical phone, the filesystem you have access to is a FUSE that mirrors to an EXT4 filesystem mounted with crazy device-specific options which include noauto_da_alloc.

I don't know any DB which works fast and consistently across all Android phones on the market. SQLite is probably the safest bet for now.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines.

It's a pity, because some of your other comments are good. That's why we warned you before and even sent an email asking you not to do this. But no one gets to comment like this on HN.
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Traditional, long-only asset managers are still hired mostly out of some combination of nepotism, status signalling, cover-your-ass advisory board issues.

When I worked in a long-only equities asset manager, there even were frank discussions with the client services team about how to organize materials for when a client was preparing to fire us. We actually assisted them with the process of firing us, told them what to say, etc., so they would save face with the rest of the board or whomever they answered to.

Basically, it's a lot like hiring a manager in international soccer. Very few of them actually bring results, but big, wealthy clubs will still go through a huge media circus, pay a huge wage, and do all sorts of things, to hire status-signalling managers. Then, later, when it's not working out, it is that manager's job to be sacked gracefully, once again creating media buzz that makes the club look good in front of the fan base for "doing the right thing" and firing the manager.

In asset management it's the same. "Hire-us-now-to-look-fancy" and "Fire-us-later-to-look-like-you're-dedicated-to-ideals-and-righting-the-wrongs" are both very much the major parts of the services they provide, and both are things that these companies go on at length about when courting a new prospective client.

Heck, some client service employees even get part of their bonuses based on how happy the clients are with the assistance they receive in drafting press releases, putting together slide decks, or writing white papers about firing that manager.
> If something has had enough downvotes to go invisible it's nearly always because offensive, smartass, or spam.

Why does someone has more right than me to decide what's offensive, smartass or spam? Either leave that to the administration, or give that to everyone.

> The problem with downvote for everyone, including sock puppet accounts, is it becomes Reddit: "I disagree, have a downvote"

YMMV but I'm experiencing absolutely the same here.

Btw, when I agree, I upvote. Why can't I downvote when I disagree?
They only send a small part of the shirt, so 'one sample' is actually dozens.
Snowden is an attention whore.

I hope the Russians feed him some hot, fresh Po.
No one suggested 'pretty much never.' Early stage fund raising is often the most stressful and time consuming part of starting a business, and pregnancy/first few months is usually the most stressful/time consuming part of having a child. Both of those are usually less than 1 year commitments. It's fair to suggest that it's not a great idea to take them on at the same time (for either parent.)
I have personally used something similar when traveling a few places in Asia.

For example, in Seoul, South Korea I found this organization of university students who want to promote their culture and improve their English in the process.

I didn't want to do the typical tourist things with my colleagues, so I had two students take me around the city for a day. They were willing to tailor their tour and activities entirely to my interests. In fact, they didn't even expect me to pay for their food or things like admission tickets to museums. I certainly wasn't going to let some university students pay for me (especially when those things were comparatively cheap to me as a foreigner).
I decided to rely entirely on their recommendations as locals. I had a great time!

I am inclined to organize something similar in San Francisco for tourists from across the world - meet new people and show them around for free (showing off your local pride).
This is, at best, weakly reasoned. A variant on many statements of the form "A and B have similar, overlapping qualities; therefore, A == B" (or is a form of B, etc). When actually there are important distinctions between the two, and the distinctions do matter.
The distinction is whether the creator wants to profit from it or give it away.
Why so many front end developers obsessed with React/Angluar?
I really care about a simple question,
why most of frontend developers, which one i know, obsessed with new frameworks.
In fact React / Angular / Backbone / Knockout are born and die again in a couple of years.
Everyone can see some interesting things (virtual dom (simply wonderful!)),
and begin to write / rewrite their applications using the new framework.

At the same time, most of the projects, which you can see
would be just fine by simply using server-side rendering and for example PostCSS.

The development would be simpler, code usually much simple and without MBs of JS libraries.

And, important for business, time to market, hiring of developers i suppose would move faster.

I understand that this is all very interesting things, good to be in trend and understand whats going on,
but to be aware of technology and immediately implement it in production system...hm, not so sure about this.

Now I look at ClojureScript as an acceptable replacement for JS development,
because after release of ES6, and reading ES7 specs, there is a feeling that the direction in which the ecosystem moving is wrong one.

So, the frontend world is changing a lot quickly and in different directions,
but which one is right one, i have a serious doubts.
Endurance is happy to announce that we open source for SelfieBot. Ready to share: design, firmware and software for all non profit organizations including schools and universities.
We are excited to share our knowledge, experience, key competences with students, hobbyists, professors and teachers letting them use our solution as a part of a project.
Our vision on slides: http://www.slideshare.net/GeorgeFomitchev/selfiebot-for-educ...

We are planning to launch updated web page where we will upload all data sheets, software sources, video guidances, pictures, etc in April 2016.

Looking for feedbacks and comments.
We are looking for evangelists who will help schools, universities, students learn more about this opportunity to get DIY SelfieBot absolutely for free!
Looking for reviewers and tech writers who would like to highlight this topic.

George I Fomitchev
Founder of EnduranceRobots.com
+1 239 302 0053
6528 Trail Blvd, Naples, Fl 34108
gf@endurancerobots.com
skype: george.fomitchev
Why Are Educators Learning How to Interrogate Their Students?
If Yarvin's views are as few, shallow, and unnuanced as you've characterized them as, then surely they can be easier refuted through reasoned argument instead of monkeysphere games.

(And just for the record, I disagree with the utility of Yarvin's technical architecture for the same philosophical reasons I disagree with Moldbug's political prescriptions. But I find his perspective refreshing and analysis spot-on. And I find social ostracization based on traditionally-unassociated context extremely repugnant)
CEO of Drift here.

Not a promotional piece just sharing what I have learned building multiple companies and product teams.
It's a pretty wide distribution, which is my whole point. Also, "recovery" can be defined in a lot of different ways. A lot of people feel pretty decent at their six-week checkup, if they're not too sleep-deprived.
I should clarify a few points:

The motive for releasing it open source is so that the code base will become better and more useful. The goal is not to make money. If a competing code base came in later and did a better job, this would be a good thing.

As for benchmarks - its not a database. Its a tool to much more easily create index tables, search against those tables, and keep those index tables accurate as you update your objects/documents. Especially the updating part is extremely hard to do manually.

As an added bonus/side-effect, you can easily store your data across multiple database. A pattern I like is to store indexes on an on-site Redis server with 128gb of RAM, store the serialized objects/documents in an on-site Cassandra cluster and on Amazon S3. If your hardware ever goes down, you can use the S3 backup to restore your data in Cassandra and your indexes in Redis.

The performance part comes from the database itself.
Implementation wise, did you train it with one of the widespread python libs or opted in to one the scala(nlp) frameworks? If the latter, I'd be interested which for LSTM worked for you (factorie more probabalistic, mllib afaik no good for compute graphs, d4j / sparkling water).
Have you ever seen a pump in actual use 50% of the time? Even if there is a queue of traffic waiting to fill up, by the time people have parked, got out of the car, paid, pumped, got back in, negotiated their way past other cars (potentially blocking them in) so that someone else can get to the pump, etc I find it hard to see much more than 25% utilization even today. This would be even worse in the 20s, where payment presumably involves handing cash over to a person who probably isn't stood right by the pump.

Now I really want to go and time this process :).
Picasa has a click-and-type description at each folder where you can write something like "Burning Man 2015" which becomes globally searchable (along with your people, place, etc. tags). I suppose an AI could determine that my photos are from Burning Man 2015 by inspecting the Exif tags and doing some Freebase magic but there's a whole semantic chasm between that and "Lorelei's first Burning Man".

Auto enrichment of my tags and descriptions would actually be a nice feature but that assumes some basic usable tags and descriptions first. It seems like the designers are too busy coming up with futuristic magic to think about good old practical usability. Worse they also seem completely out of touch with what's practically achievable so their futuristic magic ends up being useless.
No, just as sandwiches don't become a public good if I leave my kitchen door unlocked. Please just read the standard economic definitions of the terms.

Basically I suspect you just prefer driving, and are trying to create a tortured definition of "public good"

You sure got that one wrong. I haven't owned a car since 2000 and I hated it for all 6 months. The fact that I prefer mass transit and walkable cities doesn't mean that this preference deserves subsidies. (I'd be happy with eliminating the laws that make such things illegal and insanely expensive when legal.)
Europe Adopts Daylight Savings Time.  but Why?
A parent has to deeply consider whether they will be able to dedicate sufficient attention to their child and their company. Some may determine they can't, some that they can with reasonable accommodation, and some will decide to give either the child or the company short shrift.

The woman, by virtue of being visibly pregnant, will have to suffer the potential investor guessing which of the three she is, while the man will not. The investor doesn't know what that person's family dynamic is.

Similarly, lots of people make incorrect assumptions about what a physically disabled person will be able to accomplish, and the person with the disability suffers their bias. I think it's up to the person with the disability, or the parent, to judge whether founding a company is appropriate.

Of course, that doesn't mean you have to fund them. After all, it's your money. All I'm saying is that there are a lot of preconceived notions we have about parenting based on very deep-seated cultural norms and biases which may not always be accurate.
Vanguard's robo-adviser dominates inexpensive financial advice
Thank you so much for posting this!
Court: Essentially none of cryptocurrency firm’s assets “actually exist”
Indeed. He's amazing!

The gist of the article is that I try to grow product managers internally vs hiring experienced PMs. Just like in the case of Matt the PM on our homepage.
Nope. But this story is all over the internet today because the headline mentions Minecraft. Clickbait works.
Have you read Rule 34 by Charles Stross?

No I haven't, but I'll check it out as I'm looking for something to read, and that sounds up my alley. Thanks.
They'd probably have to prove you were doing this because of a pending investigation against yourself. What if you were just using it because you didn't want Zee Germans (or some other personal adversary) getting access to your data?
Yes it is unfair. But society compensates by loading off some shitty jobs on men.

Maybe in the future it will be possible to grow babies in incubators. There is actually a force in action to make it likely: the attempt so save prematurely born babies. The more that technology advances, the more possible it will become to shorten pregnancies and have them carried out in the incubator instead.
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It doesn't even have to be an "edge case", as stated in the article. My first name has a single accented vowel and breaks tons of online forms.

What annoys me is not so much having to re-enter my name with the unaccented version of the vowel, it's when the form throws up an error message saying "Enter a Valid Name" [or suchlike]. I find that insulting.

At least make your error text put the blame where it belongs: "Sorry. This form can only handle ASCII Text". Don't insult your users by telling them their name isn't real.
I use the blacken plugin on my browser, which automatically converts all text to black. I know this isn't your point, but it is much better than altering CSS to fix the web.

Otherwise, I'd just assume the designers disrespect all of us with poor vision and take it for granted the writing is done with equal care. Rather than ranting about it, I'd rather not think about it.

With that said, for some reason, blacken doesn't automatically convert this site to black, meaning I have to manually convert the text to black. Even after the author fixed the color, it is still impossible for me to read. Please don't override user-assisted plugins. Being on the fort page of HN, I'm assuming this is a decent article, but I have no desire to read it now. thanks.
Aah, OK, that's new then, I guess. I was originally going to comment on how they don't support RSS feeds, but it appears they have added that as well. So props to Medium for both of those things. I'd still rather run our company blog on our own server though. But, then again, a blog server is one of our products, so we try to eat our own dogfood anyway. :-)
"Programmable semicolons" is a cool sounding term, although I don't quite understand what it really means in relation to JavaScript.

Are programmable semicolons optional, and can you program automatically inserted semicolons?

It brings to mind my favorite C++ extension: Generalized Overloading for C++2000, that lets you override specific types of white space including space, tab, newline, and even the absence of white space! [1]

FORTH has programmable semicolons!

: ; POSTPONE EXIT REVEAL POSTPONE [ ; IMMEDIATE

There's an interesting comp.lang.forth discussion [2] where somebody asks a great question about defining semicolon in Forth, that's promptly answered by the great Elizabeth D. Rather herself, of FORTH Inc. [3] [4]!

[1] http://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.forth/79XR...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Rather

[4] https://archive.org/details/Programm1984
Skin markings are pretty complicated for an animal. Each cell somehow needs to "know" what color it should be, potentially different from its neighbors, without carrying any information unique to that cell.

Imagine billions of LEDs, and you want to make them display a picture, but you separately program them, you can't address them individually, and you can't even really have them talk to each other. You can sort of flood them with broadcasts of different strengths to influence how they turn on. The sorts of patterns you could form would be fairly limited.
Or say you are planning to finish grad school while also seeking funding / starting a startup. Sure you could hide that from the VCs, but if you didn't hide it (well enough) could you blame them for going cold based on your plans? Is it realistic to try to do both at the same time?
Cloud Computing Weekly Digest with Joe Kinsella: March 25
How Microsoft's HoloLens could change communication via 'Holoportation'
The U.S. convention to start the week on a Sunday dates to Christian conventions which date to Jewish conventions. In the Latin-speaking Christian world (and also later among the Quakers), Sunday was considered the "first day", Monday the "second day", etc., because that's what the Genesis creation narrative says.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week#...

This is taken from the Jewish understanding in Genesis 1:3 to 2:3. According to this tradition, the world was created on a Sunday, and that's why it's the first day (יום ראשון 'first day').

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_creation_narrative#Six...

Early Christianity mostly adopted Sunday as the "Lord's Day". (You can still see the history of the two Western weekend days in Latin and Romance languages; for example in Portuguese Saturday is sábado 'sabbath' < L. sabbatum, while Sunday is domingo 'Lord's day' < L. dominicus.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday#Christian_usage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord's_Day
For an example of what Greg Maxwell might consider "adequate testing", see https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/82/slides/codec-4.pdf (he is the one responsible for all of the testing described in that presentation).

Slide 20 lists no less than 8 toolchain bugs found with a codebase of less than 50k lines of C code (no C++), using only thoroughly trodden language features, without "massive functions" or anything else. Admittedly 4 of those bugs were in pre-release versions of gcc, but the rest weren't.
JustSomeNobody is right. fail-as-a-noun is in the same dumb bucket as overuse of zombies.

Also outside of extreme cases, a silly product name should not be a big problem.
What a time to be alive.
And on the flip side of that you have dysfuncional large orgs where incompetent people get to move up and form networks with others just as incompetent.
What use case patterns are you working on?

Its interesting how much you can actually do with Redis for. We actually implemented binary search in the indexing engine so you can do non-equality searches against sorted tables of strings.

I haven't found much you can't do with Redis that you can do with other NoSQL databases. And with the cost of RAM and motherboards that support huge amounts of RAM going down, you can index huge amounts of data in RAM and then just hammer it.
You're "admitting" that you were going a certain speed, but not that said speed qualifies as "speeding".

I agree you're better off trying a different tack with the ticket troll, I'm just saying it's not wrong.
Estimating the Size of the H-1B Population in the U.S
> Bluntly, I assume a woman will be far more involved in childcare than a man.

That's a fair assumption across an entire population, but I doubt it applies very well to the population of women looking for funding. They're going to be a lot more likely than the average woman to prioritize business over childcare, and a lot more likely to have a stay-at-home spouse.
> "I worked on one project where in addition to finding several compiler bugs I also found a flaw in the design of the processor, but that’s an NDA tale for another day…"

Yeah I really want to hear this story; whens the NDA expire or does it never? :)
They're factually wrong observations. They don't have a "business model," because they did the work for free and they're giving all profits to charity, and they're not begging for donations.
Node Module: Search text patterns across multiple files
Don't forget no warranty doubling, no theft/loss protection, no price increase protection, none of the usual benefits for a decent credit card.
Herb bennet
I think it has more to do with expectations than the money per se. AirBnB is first and foremost a business relationship, and it's probably common that neither person wants any more out of it. If I hit it off with the host I might recommend them to friends, but actually pursuing a friendship... probably not. Whereas getting to know the hosts is part of the appeal of couch surfing.

As another example, clubs and classes are a great place to make friends because you already have a common interest. You can become friends with the instructor/leader no matter what the monetary arrangements are. Whether there are dues or class fees, if the instructor gets paid a token or reasonable amount. Of course, the more of a profession it is for the instructor, the more likely they are to be spread thin across classes and students. But again, that's not the money per se.
For those who think this isn't a parody, among the links in the footer is "the useless press". This project is a sibling of

"the Decapitated Animals Dataset" - An open call for projects utilizing New York City decapitated animals data.

"Call to Wait" - A phone line that puts callers on hold for seven years.

And others.
http://uselesspress.org/

It might still be an actual thing.. but it's a parody for sure :)