skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be cool on top of this is if they figured in mortgage prices, the average home upkeep costs for a certain area, insurance prices, and property taxes (whew, it'd be hard) to determine if you're flat out better of renting or buying in an area over an arbitrary period of time. This has always been something I've wondered about, whether or not buying a home or renting an apartment is actually cheaper based on a bunch of different factors. In the US, there's always this big push for home ownership, but sometimes I question the wisdom (financially) of buying a home for 'equity building' or whatever else. That's not to say that owning your own home can't be totally fun and a great place to raise a family or whatever else..obviously that's pretty hard to weigh objectively, but still. I think this would be an interesting direction for this site to go.
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I would say the two real barriers to writing effective Haskell projects are a.) "getting" monads, and b.) understanding the implications of laziness, especially with regard to space leaks and unconsumed thunks. Everything else isn't that big of a deal.

It's all much easier to digest, though, even for "really talented developers", if they have some experience with another functional language first. OCaml is a nice stepping stone before digging into the abstractions involved in understanding Haskell's powerful type system. Scala is good too, but having the object stuff mixed in there can lead you to rely on some patterns that aren't going to be available in a non-OOP language. I think the scheme/clojure path isn't bad either, but it's probably ideal to spend some time in the "statically typed" wing of the functional universe before going to Haskell.
Interestingly, one thing we DID do that's observable from earth is to put an array of retroreflectors onto the moon, so that we can bounce a laser off of it.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lunar_Laser_R...

My sample size of moon landing skeptics (1) didn't dispute that we've been to the moon, he just didn't believe that we did it in 1969, but if you do run into a skeptic this is pretty good evidence that we made it there eventually, or at least requires the conspiracy to be much more involved =).
It is a lot in the sense that we're footing the bill for handling all of this data ourselves ...

Also a million is such a nice milestone, I just had to write a blog about it :)
In London, Islington there is "the Hub". A visit to that space a couple of years ago, as part of an introduction to the startup-scene by a friend of mine, was a very inspiring experience, that oddly enough made me decide to study in the UK :)

http://islington.the-hub.net/public/

(and they have multiple locations, including two in the Bay Area: http://bayarea.the-hub.net/public/)
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You should be able to use Braintree or Authroize.net but you'll have to build you're own reoccurring billing system.

They both offer a PCI compliant way to store the client's credit cards (Braintree's Vault or Authorize.net's CIM) from there you can issue a command to charge their credit cards on file for the amount for your subscription.
Is massive infrastructure always an asset?
I was talking to a real estate broker from phoenix on my flight last weekend. He said you can buy distressed homes for < $100k and condos/townhomes for < $50k. He's got clients buying properties, renting them in less than a month, and having instant positive cash flow.
there are ~12K employees (~11K are meeting requesters)

That about made my day. It is true that in large organizations there are people whose only task seem to be to ask others to meet and talk about previous meetings and arrange the next meeting to talk about the current one.
Amusingly, there are media stories here in Australia about people working in Australia and buying property in the US. Might have the details wrong, but one woman had sold an investment property (in Darwin maybe?) and bought five apartments (in Florida, I think?) in the US with that money.
> two days after Argentina announced that it has certified 100 billion
> more barrels of oil as proven reserves

I couldn't find the announcement.
Agreed. Even where you can optimize the hot code in C, Python is no speed demon. Cassandra's java stress test can push out about 10x as many ops/s as the python one, even though Thrift C extension for Python is quite good.

/still a Python fan
Ask HN: Review my startup: Hipstaroid: Retro Photos for Facebook
http://hipstaroid.com/
Why?

Inspired by a lot of the retro photos I see being posted from iPhones I decided to enable retro photos for existing Facebook photos. Uses the Facebook photo tags to tag the 'polaroid' with sharpie.

API?
Yes, there is an API if you want to use this for other things. I'm planning on making a non-Facebook interface. Anyway for the API use the following:

http://hipstaroid.com/hipstaroid?img=<url>&caption=<your caption>
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I read in New Scientist a couple of years ago that Peak Coal has happened as well. Original article behind paywall. Its referred to in wikipedia article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_coal
The choice of a red-green gradient is probably not wise, considering the prominence of people with red-green colorblindness. ( Screenshot http://bit.ly/fcRHRk vs filtered screenshot http://bit.ly/frqlxP — Note the similarity of NYC and Jacksonville.)

Otherwise, I really dig the execution of the map.

EDIT: Cached the filtered screenshot so as to not hit the (relatively slow) colorfilter.wickline.org server.
I mainly use Dropbox, it syncs my eclipse workspaces as well as my other toolkits. If something hasn't been updated on my laptop you can always pull it from the web site.
Yeah, Haskell is roughly as fast as Java. I imagine, with the tuning I allude to in the blog post, we could restore about a 10x improvement, even on a single core. After all, 10x was about what we had with raw Redis ops/s before the serialization libraries got involved.

/also still a python fan :-)
Are the logs being read from disk? In my experience, python is highly optimized for reading (possibly compressed) files from disk. If your infrastructure keeps logs in memory, python will lose this advantage and compete on computational performance where Haskell has the advantage. This is important for those of us who grind logs on disk and might be considering a language switch.
Ah, I see. That makes sense, especially because the actual "city" of Pittsburgh isn't all that populated.
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I kind of felt that the $8m round of funding given to Zivity a few years back was the first indicator that we were in a pretty stupid bubble.
But so few photons come back, sometimes I wonder if the measurements are within a margin of error or reflection off atmosphere.

Mythbusters did a good episode on the moon skeptics though.
It appears to be using the data from KCK. If it's pulling the population data from there it might be a safe bet that everything else is from KCK, too. That being said, regardless, I think the entire bit about KC being ranked up near San Fran and NYC is way off. There's very reasonably priced housing in the greater metro area. I don't think the sample they're using on this site is very accurate at all. I find it really hard to believe that of all the midwestern places to live on this site, Kansas City is the most expensive in terms of Rent:Buy. 200-300k? This probably isn't true of some of the big swaths of outer KC I've driven through, and it definitely isn't true of the suburban areas.

Aside from this little sampling problem, and it's easily fixed, no big deal, I think this site is really cool and a great way to look at affordable places to live.
This reminds me of a story about public parking spaces in Ann Arbor. They had a live data feed of parking spaces available a few years ago. Someone used it to create a phone service that would tell you the available spaces and text when a space opened in a garage.

I can't remember what her position was, but some women decided that was a service the city should be responsible for. Instead of building the service, she decided that they should shut down the data feed.

It amazes me that someone could come to that conclusion, even after realizing the usefulness of the service. How could she not see that someone created something of use to the residents of the city that the city probably would have never provided or even thought of providing? I would expect that after seeing what people can do with open data, she would look for other things to open up.

I don't know what happened after that.
Nice tool! One thing I would like though is Image from a URL.
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you guys are idiots. banksy the lucky stuff is actually a qwiki team member stirring up controversy to propel his startup. any publicity is good publicity.
Some proof: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

I am not gonna try...
I can understand your point of view, but I think OP is saying that it will be interpreted differently, regardless of your intent. People's prior experiences put words in your mouth.
I agree. I dove into Haskell without doing any of the prior, and it was like running into a brick wall. However, persistence paid off in my case, but I do wonder how I would have handled it if I would have spent time with OCaml beforehand.
Hmm... Will test on mac.

Yes, Mac is not native in our team..
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Link: http://hipstaroid.com/
> Frankly I think any system that encourages people to create homes for others to rent as doing a public good.

All good and well, but land releases have not kept up with demand. A supply of cheap money from the US, the mining boom and negative gearing have lead to massive increases in housing prices in the past 10 years. It's not sustainable, IMO.

We in Australia brag about sailing through the GFC, but if inflation breaks out, the Reserve Bank will hike up rates mercilessly and a lot of people won't be able to cover the interest on their $3-500k McMansions.
In an academia of "publish&perish" the benefit of transferring your copyright is that you get published and add another point to your tenure-track bonus list.
Kickarse presentation given at the linux.conf.au multimedia miniconf yesterday by Silvia Pfeiffer.
I have noticed a disconnect between the reality of getting hired and the articles in the "career" section of the newspaper about how hard it is to hire programmers. It's tougher to get a job than they make it sound.

Are you focusing very heavily on android development? If so, you might be more successful if you expanded to web development, which of course has more competition but also has a lot more potential employers as well.

I'm also not sure how your interviews are going - one thing I've learned is that you should always pull out the data structures book and review the crap out of it before you interview. I've lost out on jobs almost certainly because I was rusty on this.

Not sure what else to say without more info about your specific situation... good luck.
Not surprised. The Australian dollar has surged against the US, and Darwin has the most overpriced capital city market in Australia (I live in Darwin, the prices are bonkers).
The article is not completely correct about the copyright thing. As an ACM author you at least retain the right to publish the paper on your web site. This is much better than say for instance IEEE paper copyright regulations.
"All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met."

Edit: Ah, you said GPLv2, my quote is taken from v3. Looks like they fixed it.
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/indiv.htm

Also perhaps money market funds.
And how about just googling the paper's title and finding the author version freely available?
You are correct, endtime. I said latent racism but meant overt fear. :-)
You do require a license from the copyright owner to use the software. The installer is just informing you of one such license that is available to you, and the conditions of that license. It is also usually the only such license, unless you have negotiated separately with the copyright owner.
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I too recently launched a MVP of this same idea. You can see the yc thread here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2087598 and the site here http://7courses.com

There are several features missing before I do a full launch, I have been working steadily though, and plan to launch it fully (with a normal login system) within a week.

Very interesting product. You focused more on making a Hub for storing recipes, where I just needed a dead simple tool for jotting down recipes I use. There is currently a mobile web app. We should talk/compare notes, you should email me templaedhel at gmail dot com. Nice product.
Flagged. The hacker content of this article is purely incidental. It could be about the stickers on any highly marketed luxury item. This is not a fanclub.
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I have come to the conclusion that buying to occupy is no longer a rational decision.

Consider a grid. On one axis, housing purchases are cheap or expensive. On the other axis, the local economy is vibrant or moribund.

Hence:

* Cheap + Vibrant: Basically doesn't exist.
* Cheap + Moribund: Bad place to buy, you're tied to a high-risk location.
* Expensive + Vibrant: Purchase cost will eat up the advantage of the local economy.
* Expensive + Moribund: Get out ASAP.

Why buy anywhere?

Similar logic applies to buying to rent. Why not diversify? Long term rates of return on share indices are competitive with property and do not have mortgage risk. They also don't have local property market risks. Vanguard will set you up with an international share fund, hedged or unhedged, very cheaply and easily.
I agree we should stamp out racial prejudice everywhere it appears, like that well-known racist Mel Brooks and his Canadian caricature, Dark Helmet. Neo-colonialist interpretation: inside every big black man is a whiny white man who can't breathe in this thing.

And let's not forget that closet bigot JK Rowling. Did you know the Dark Lord is really black? The movies got it all wrong.

Or the League of Shadows in Batman Begins... it was called League of Assassins in the comic books, so we can blame the interpolating hand of director Christopher Nolan...
how how people gone working with designers and grid layouts?

i have real difficulty getting them to stick to any kind of structure.

a grid seems very restrictive to me, so assume designers would get pretty shitty.
I think I actually saw that one on a cover letter.
Nope, this is a process that BLPOP's logs from some Redis queue, does some processing on them, then writes them to disk.
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fail-safe meaning you're ready to lose up to 50% of your investments? cause quite a few things on that list are mutually exclusive...
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The article starts off reasonably. The first sentence pulls you in, describing the case you fear most: you have "inadvertently" incorporated GPL code into your proprietary code.

But by the time it gets to the conclusion,you, the inadvertent infringer have become a thief. If found to be infringing, "you do have a choice under the GPL license: you can stop using the stolen code and write your own, or you can decide you'd rather release under the GPL."

Hey! The presumption of the article was that I inadvertently infringed. It was an accident. "Stolen" has a different connotation.

If I inadvertently infringed, I might have peppered that GPL code throughout miles of my own code. The "choice" might be no choice at all, in practical terms. Hey, you could always choose to go out of business.

This article reinforces the claim it purports to refute: that infringers "can be forced to release their proprietary code under the GPL".

No defending infringers mind you. Just saying, the article seems to confirm that the FUD isn't FUD after all.
Anyone else having hotmail and yahoo email issues after installing? Login info is no longer being saved. Each time I shut all chrome instances I have to re-enter the info to login. Before it was stored in a cookie.
Slightly off topic...

I don't consider myself a conspiracy theorist but in my opinion the demeanor of Armstrong and crew during the Apollo 11 press conference is indicative of deception.

Have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RcKLAo62Ro
Thanks for the offer, but looking over my finances, I don't think I'll be able to swing it for February, unfortunately... I'm trying to finish off my college loans!

If you're still as obliging in March, I might take you up on that!
Yes, but the real problem is you are blaming Google but forgetting all the other sites that can track.
I'm a member. Things seem pretty rad so far!

Dedicated members get the best treatment, of course, but community members like me still get 24/7 access to the building and full use of the conference rooms, etc.

The remodeling is great and they've done a good job with furniture. The common areas are perpetually occupied, but not crowded.

Will be interesting to see how the mandatory lessons and blog posts pan out. I'm actually quite looking forward to them.
What do you mean by optimized? Python makes the same read and write syscalls everyone else does.

What you're probably observing is Python's slow code generation being masked by the inherent slowness of I/O.
Take a look at Recurly and at Zuora. Both have robust APIs and are designed to help with these problems. They should have the infrastructure and the flexibility to help. Braintree's recurring support is definitely not robust enough for what you're describing--you'd have to build everything yourself using their API.
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you should learn to take criticism then.
In such a case promissory estoppel would be a very good defense. Distributing your work under the GPL is a strong indication that you intend others to build on it, and their reliance on this is reasonable.
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Well, I wanted to buy both. Why not?
At twenty employees with several partners, a flat model works. Typically however, that approach only scales so far. As an organization starts hitting 30-40 people it starts to become hard to maintain informality and avoid territoriality. At 150 or so, you hit Dunbar's number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number

Don't get me wrong, it sounds like a great place to work and an admirable way of managing people.
This article is pretty old and a little outdated.

However, it is a creative free alternative to a paid reputation monitoring service and it works really well.
dojotoolkit.org has a well baked module system. You can use just the smallish dojo core, then edit your scripts to use dojo.require.
Hm. He's only one guy. To conclude that mercury fillings are correlated to improved mental capacity based on one sample is not statistics.
I don't understand the need to dismiss criticism as some mean-spirited activity that only useless "haters" do.
For computer science folks, "Considered Harmful" actually makes the title more catchy, not less. That phrase has a long history (relatively speaking) in the discipline.

Maybe you're being sarcastic/making a joke and I'm just not getting it?
I realize that emigrants of modest means exist. My point is that they're few in number.

I also realize that "domestic" depends on one's frame of reference. It is irrelevant to my point. International comparisons of rent-vs.-buy ratios are mostly useless unless you're very mobile or investing in international real estate.
From your article: our scraper just isn't all that amazingly fast. It takes around two seconds to extract the meat of the article out of a decently sized and reasonably complex website.

Since you're on AppEngine does that mean that your code to extract the article content is written in Python? If so, consider using the Python port of Readability.js: https://github.com/srid/readability

I haven't tested this one personally (yet), but before it came out I ported Readability to Python and it was very quick, less than a second to extract the content. I used lxml to parse through the X/HTML. You'll have to do a lot of tweaking to get the heuristics working more or less perfectly but it would be well worth it.

(The following assumes you're downloading and processing the content using AppEngine) As for bandwidth concerns, you will probably want to just get a fat pipe into your place of business (or wherever you're operating from). Where I'm at it's only $100/mo for a 16mbit/down line. That would handle your growth for quite awhile. Once the content is all downloaded and extracted locally you can push it up to your AppEngine server.
"I don't consider myself a conspiracy theorist..."

Do conspiracy theorists ever?
A fourth risk: Fed raises interest rates then your monthly mortgage payments cost more than renting and hopefully not more than you can afford.
JSTOR uses OpenSearch (there is a <link rel="search"> on their pages). This gives browsers information about their search engine.

If you look through the list of search engines that got automatically added to Chrome, you'll notice that some of those sites to not have the autodiscovery link. Chrome will try to autodetect search engines (probably by looking for a form field named "search"), but this doesn't always work.
Even with adaptive optics you still won't get close to the diffraction limit.

> Also, the increase in CCD densities have become enormous in the past few years. So it might be possible to make a matrix that could resolve the flag in the near future.

You can't work around the diffraction limit. There's no CCD that could compensate for the lack of the 5 km aperture required. You must have at least 2 (more like 3 or 4) pieces of glass separated by 5 km or more, otherwise nothing would work.
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I was an ACM student member. I joined because of the clunkiness of accessing the DL through my university.

Well I was tricked. I don't care about the social stuff. I don't care about the conferences. All I wanted was access to the DL, your single most useful asset.

I didn't get that because it's not bundled. My fault for not reading the fine print. And the ACM's fault for treating one of the two core bodies of comp. sci. literature as a luxury item.

I will not be rejoining.
That's one of the reasons to keep your company small.
I wouldn't cut them slack just because someone else's arguable worse.
Did they add yet that new feature where the software is actually updated when they release a new version? As opposed to manual update, or wait 6 months until the autoupdater decides it's time to wake up.
> All good and well, but land releases have not kept up with demand

This point I've heard too often and it's one I vehemently disagree with.

Australians need to get over this quarter acre with a 250sqm house nonsense. What's more the government should stop subsidizing it to the degree that they are. It's not simply a question of land but all the infrastructure that goes along with it: water, power, roads, schools, etc.

There is no God-given right to build out rather than up.
Yes, you can break below diffraction limit. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution
I've frequently Googled paper names from ACM and found that the author has put them on their own site as direct downloads. So, yes, I definitely second you but.. check their site first before you e-mail them too ;-)
Membership does not give you access. You need to pay another fee on top of membership.