skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can provide you virtually unlimited storage for your authoritative photo collection on our servers.

That is what I've been looking for, along with a way to have multiple computers "own" the photos and use them off of the local hard drive as needed (such as to order prints, etc.)
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OK thanks once again, got it work. Decided to keep using my previous dispatcher to handle webdav verbs, plus I've already written exception handlers and stuff. Great result for me :)
Isn't code/drivers more valuable than the actual devices, though?
It appears a known criminal (gangs, drug-dealing) with a loaded handgun was shot by police while resisting arrest; he may or may not have shot a police officer [first] at the time of his arrest ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/a-dead-man-a-cruc...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8687403...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/08/mark-duggan-profile...
I don't want to turn this into a rumour thread, the news sites can keep people up to date.

I just want people to keep in mind that the news will be sensationalist, and not to think that the entire city is in flames.
London is a much larger city with what seems like a lower quality of life for many people. Basically the number of potential rioteers in London is way higher than in Vancouver, so it is logical that their riots will be stronger and longer when they do spark.
I'm speaking from my perspective of other's perspectives.

That they are YC backed encouraged me to click and try it out. Otherwise, I would probably not have clicked at all.

(But YC backing isn't really enough for me to eagerly give out all that information, not until pg and yc is providing ebay like yc-clickers-insurance on their portfolio. :) )

Regarding the average user, I suspect that insurance companies have names like Prudential, All State, State Farm, and symbols like the Rock of Gibraltar, big old granite columned buildings, and stuffy images for a reason.

And um, leaky isn't doing it for me.

ymmv
high five - I was certainly in the set of people who were surprised to find out that your IP was vesting with someone else. Welcome to the light side.
So, in the inverse, if it were not a YC-associated company, you would trust that company more or less? Regardless of your opinion of Flickr, I did not fear the future of my photos when Yahoo! acquired them. Last I checked, they were still there.

That aside, I do see your point, but to say that you will not recommend a really nice service to your friends and family on the sole basis that they are a YC company seems odd.
The mobs bent purely on violence were probably this guys friends based on the reported gang links of the guy that was shot.
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And now since that comment is dead, I have no idea what you were arguing against. I suppose from the response it's not worth worrying about, but it does sort of irritate me.
I mostly wanted to add some upvotes and some encouragement for other people to do this in the future. I see you've already accepted a student, so "happy mathing" to the two of you!
Unless you can't get anyone to offer you coverage which is pretty common.
It may not be. I was just going to Progressive which I think does something similar and iirc they say if they can't get you the best quote themselves, they're okay with that.

Otoh, how IS leaky different from esurance? I don't understand that from their website either.
The OP basically suggested all poor people be put to death. I don't recall the exact wording, but the assumption/implication was that poor people are incapable/incompetent and have nothing to contribute to society.
You don't understand the legal structures here. Of course there are rules, but there's no competitive barrier to entry to the stock analysis business. There are thousands of companies that provide stock research, but only a handful of official bond ratings companies. And there's an entire legal and regulatory structure around bonds and bond ratings, which does not exist around equities, and which connect bond ratings to the US banking, pension, and insurance systems. Here's a good overview of the debate on ratings agency reform: http://www.sec.gov/rules/concept/33-8236.htm
I'm almost embarrassed to ask, but why is this happening? I read that this started saturday as a protest against a policeman who shot someone, but that doesn't seem to be what the protests is about now.
The sources I checked don't reach any kind of consensus.
Are you saying business-intelligence should or should not be hyphenated?

We just launched a new website and I don't know if it happened to be hyphenated before.

My wife is a writer and I could see her wanting to hyphenate as a compound modifier, but sine it is such a common phrase, I don't think it should be hyphenated.
Wow, quotes without having to get a credit and background check on every insurance site?

Oh wait, DOB and SS# and driver's license?

Um, NO - there is no need for this kind of info to get a general quote - I've had it with big insurance harvesting personal info. There really ought to be a law.

Car insurance quote should be three questions:

1. What zip code do you live in
2. What year were you born
3. What do you drive

(and obviously if you've had accidents recently)

Insurance tables shouldn't work like they do. What they are trying to figure out from all your personal info is if you own or rent, where you work, how many times you have moved recently, etc. That's a bunch of bull.
What Python book do you recommend for someone who wants to start learning the language? Thanks.
Down the bottom it says they actually derived their layout from Square till they can get their own designer.
That's right. The ratings agencies sit at a critical junction in the American (and global system) so when they fail, or have mixed incentives, the whole system breaks, which is a major part of the story of 2008.
If you are writing a sorting algorithm there will be a lot of math as in equations involved.

If you are writing a complex model, while it is ultimately math, it has more in common with the skills required to write a great essay than it does with the skills required to do complex calculus. A great essay is understandable on multiple levels of detail: if you read just the introduction you should get a sense of what is going to happen in the essay. If you want a more detailed explanation of what exactly happens it should be contained in a logical place later on in the essay. The body paragraphs should reference the structure of the introduction and they should contain those arguments in more detail. If you are writing a particularly large body of writing you might need a more expansive structure: chapters, maybe even multiple volumes etc.

The same should be true of your application. If I read the main file of it I should get a basic idea of what is going to happen. If I want more detail I should be able to understand clearly where to look for the detail I want.
esurance and progressive actually sell insurance. This site appears to be an aggregation who gets revenue through referral bonuses.
It's long since become little more than hooliganism. I'm sure a variety a deeper societal-reasons will be dredged up in the weeks and months to come; but what started off as a sit-in on Saturday is now just a backdrop for a large number of disaffected people, mainly youths, to smash shops and steal.
Filling out the survey was a breeze but it took at least 3 minutes to calculate quotes and then when it was finished, it listed quotes for each insurer as N/A... buggy and anticlimactic. I'll check back later when they've worked kinks out.
Am I missing something about the name? Leaky abstraction? It sounds more like a service targeting people in need of a plumbing repair quote.
Our database servers aren't able to handle the traffic. We're working on increasing space.
Started off as a protest against a police shooting (details will depend on which side you ask) and then escalated. Now it is just vandalizing, destroying property, and looting. Some BBC commenters were saying that for the young guys, the austerity measures with a combination of feeling marginalized, unemployed, and no hope for a future plays a part in this too.
If they're smart they'll send you a reminder email every six months [...]

Eventually that would just drive down the affiliate fees. The reason that they're (presumably) high is that they've factored in the lifetime value of a customer. If you systematically lower that, then the referral fees will follow.
"All design credit goes to Square. We based our design on their home page until we can hire a designer of our own."

With their permission?
Or, more generally: humans need to learn more than just one field.
>If they fail to take action and do their due diligence, and a competitor can later prove it (by citing this example with Notch) then they risk losing the mark entirely.

// They would lose the rights to a trademark "scrolls" but they don't have that mark anyway.

You don't have to protect against people using similar marks unless they clearly are confusingly similar.
I had to log in before entering the coupon.

Otherwise I got "Coupon 'agileweek' has expired."
I remember when i was taking intro to macroeconomics my prof mentioned that people can and do send money to the treasury department to pay down the debt. I just tried looking for it on the treasury dept website and couldn't find anything...

anyway...

Obviously the debt looks unsustainable now and it does seem like it could never be paid off or even be maintained. But the US debt (relative to GDP) was higher after WW2 and it had a serious debt put in it during the postwar boom (due to a mixture of economic growth and negative real interest rates). So, never say never.
It's not native Britons rioting, largely it is young members of immigrant communities. However, given the apparent youth of the rioters I doubt racial politics is a significant issue here. It appears to indeed be rioting for the sake of rioting.
This sir, is an awesome quote.
Here's a single datapoint:

{
"type": "Feature",
"id": "b52fc9c8940ff3885830dc3de305e5ac",
"geometry": {
"type":"Point",
"coordinates":[-122.393,37.7955]
},
"properties": {
"_id":"b52fc9c8940ff3885830dc3de305e5ac",
"_rev":"1-1b07544c7620ff6af55550eb2e3ed66a",
"Jams":"1",
"WIC":"1",
"Vegetables":"1",
"Street":"One Ferry Building, Suite 50",
"Credit":"1",
"Prepared":"1",
"Soap":"0",
"Nuts":"1",
"MarketName":"Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market",
"lng":"-122.393365",
"Cheese":"1",
"SFMNP":"1",
"WICcash":"0",
"Zip":"94111",
"Seafood":"1",
"Fruit":"1",
"Herbs":"1",
"Honey":"1",
"lat":"37.7955195",
"Description":
"The Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market is located at \
the foot of Market Street and on the Embarcadero \
at the historic San Francisco Ferry Building.",
"Flowers":"1",
"updateTime":"4/14/11 12:02",
"Website":"http://www.cuesa.org",
"Bakedgoods":"1",
"full_address":
"One Ferry Building, Suite 50, San Francisco, California 94111",
"Location":"City/ township public building grounds",
"City":"San Francisco",
"Crafts":"0",
"Meat":"1",
"Maple":"0",
"County":"San Francisco",
"State":"California",
"SNAP":"1",
"Plants":"1",
"y":"37.7955",
"x":"-122.393"
}
}

About 1 kilobyte of text. Throw away the GeoJSON boilerplate and the long IDs, compress all the 0/1 fields into a single int (all entries have the same set of them), remove 2 of the 3 redundant copies of coordinates, basically strip away the cruft and you can make it 2x-3x smaller. So optimistically that would be about 3 megs of JSON. And the user can throw away unneeded data even further.

I think the usability advantages of having the whole file available locally (compared to an API) outweigh the disadvantages here.
relevant to note that subsequent rioting has had little to do with this. (more general) anger towards the police, along with opportunistic looting.
Why would they need permission?
Frankly, I'm a little tired of the position calculus holds

You are not alone. Here is a quotation from John Stillwell that I put in a FAQ for parents about mathematics education:

"What should every aspiring mathematician know? The answer for most of the 20th century has been: calculus. . . . Mathematics today is . . . much more than calculus; and the calculus now taught is, sadly, much less than it used to be. Little by little, calculus has been deprived of the algebra, geometry, and logic it needs to sustain it, until many institutions have had to put it on high-tech life-support systems. A subject struggling to survive is hardly a good introduction to the vigor of real mathematics.

". . . . In the current situation, we need to revive not only calculus, but also algebra, geometry, and the whole idea that mathematics is a rigorous, cumulative discipline in which each mathematician stands on the shoulders of giants.

"The best way to teach real mathematics, I believe, is to start deeper down, with the elementary ideas of number and space. Everyone concedes that these are fundamental, but they have been scandalously neglected, perhaps in the naive belief that anyone learning calculus has outgrown them. In fact, arithmetic, algebra, and geometry can never be outgrown, and the most rewarding path to higher mathematics sustains their development alongside the 'advanced' branches such as calculus. Also, by maintaining ties between these disciplines, it is possible to present a more unified view of mathematics, yet at the same time to include more spice and variety."

That's from the preface to his book Numbers and Geometry (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998), which is a delight to read and full of thought-provoking problems.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0387982892/
Initial Twitter sentiment analysis of the London Riots
If you crowd sourced the problem you could probably make it work. Call it MoveOn.com, a group of people thinking about moving to another municipality get together sign some sort of binding contract forcing them to move to another municipality or not, the MoveOn representatives then canvass the two governments for the best incentives to stay / move, the company takes a percentage of the incentives negotiated. It could be instrumental in improving neighborhoods, schools and the general community, not to mention providing a much needed tax base to impoverished neighborhoods that could benefit from a better tax base. I'm sure with the state of legislation post-Kelo you could make it work with some helpful developers.
I disagree that we are seeing any significant number of first generation immigrants here.
Word of mouth will work if the benefit is there.
Previously discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850191
You can go to your profile and select "showdead" to see dead comments. It sometimes makes for an eerie browsing experience.

You're not missing much in this case, a rather strange troll comment from an otherwise thoughtful commenter.
I'm just speculating here, but perhaps their primary target audience are casual users, not serious photographers. It seems like most of your feature requests are geared towards power users.
I'm curious why people consider DiP to be a bad book? I personally can't defend it since I haven't read it
Apple sued over speedy Mac OS X startup
One of the main complaints on Amazon was the poor quality of the printing & publishing, not the actual code or writing style.

Personally, I love the web version and was going to purchase it, but decided not to because of all the issues people had reported on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1JSR2ZJ2Q585D/ref=cm_cr_pr_vie...
Just curious -- how are you guys storing all this super-personal information, or is it ephemeral while you make API calls to various insurance provider backends? That's quite the identity theft kit that I'm being asked to upload to a site called "leaky".
This is just about the best "new version" headline I've seen, since it has the name of the project, the version, and what the thing actually is.
Show HN: My Twilio Client hack project - BirthdayGram
Former Apple Exec Creates New breed of Marketing Company
For Twilio's most recent developer contest, I decided to build an app to allow you to use their new in-browser Client API to record an audio message for your friends' birthdays.

There's plenty of room for improvement, like the ability to schedule birthday greetings to be delivered to friends on their birthdays in the future, which I might get to someday.

I'm also aware of the implications of people not allowing apps to see their birthday (even with the 'friends_birthday' permission granted to the user), so not everyone will necessarily show up in the list in the app. Sadly, there's not a workaround that I'm aware of.

Anyway, let me know what you think! This is the first hack project I've posted to HN. :)
It's a bit more than just the layout - the colours and look and feel are almost completely identical.
This is the problem yc companies now face.

It sounds like you're describing a problem all startups face.
My concern isn't their vanishing overnight.

My concern is recommending the service to my 70 year old father and getting a confused phone call from him about why his bookmarks are broken and instead lead to an acquisition notice and then having to walk him through the export process.

In other words, the value to me in recommending these services to my friends and family is 1) that they'll use them and see some benefit and 2) that I won't have to support it.

And, at the risk of getting all patio11, you know who spends a lot of time organizing photos? Older folks and housewives; NOT Silicon Valley wunderkinds who are trying out the latest and greatest YC company which got a mention on TechCrunch. The problem this team will face is that you have technically literate people like me standing between them and the non-technical friends and family who will shell out $20/mo until the end of time to organize and share photos of their grandkids.

If this is just a tech demo before a FB acquisition, disregard the whole thing though. :)
To be clear, this is a fallback that uses feature detection to determine if the browser rendering the page supports the <video> or <audio> tags.

If so, it leaves your tags alone. If not, it instead uses the Flash-based Flowplayer.

So, you can use the <video> and <audio> tags without worrying about browser support. I've used it several times and it works well.
How about this, this will compute more than pairs

<pre><code>

let dict = Data.Set.fromList["apple", "pie", "bread", "applepie", "piebread"]

let fn q = concat.Data.List.map (\(x,y) -> if (member x dict) then if y == "" then [[x]] else Data.List.map (x:) (fn y) else [] ) $ tail $ zip (inits q) (tails q)

fn "applepiebread"
[["apple","pie","bread"],["apple","piebread"],["applepie","bread"]]

</code></pre>
Anyone had any practical experience with this?

I'm somewhat skeptical of the practicality of a graph database backed by a network-connected datastore (as distinct from a graph database exposed over a network interface, ie: neo4j) due to the inevitable latency when traversing the graph.

Also the practicality of scale-out using an ostensibly sharded datastore (cassandra) for a structure that's notoriously difficult to shard meaningfully (graph).
The 2011 Crash Versus 2008
Almost every report I have heard, from the media and from people directly there, has made it clear that these are mixed-race groups of young people.

This is not 'immigrant communities', this is people who were born here.
random (drivel) hack idea ... create hybrid pages with iframes that combine a meaty technical article (e.g., a russ cox blog post) with a fluffy tech gossip article, and post these hybrid articles to HN. e.g., "Fast string matching with DFAs / new music social network for your pets launch party pics!"
Wow that's an amazing concept. I never thought of something like that. I think that with the proper idea for the "MoveOn.com" platform to work would be a great way for the average joe to "lobby" like the big guys.

GE worked the hell out of the system when they got congress to pass their "green or re-usable energy credits." The energy credits often had more than 50% of the tax savings going to the company.
For me this is simple opportunism. The authorities have clearly been overwhelmed and people are able to do what they like with impunity. I really think the state response needs to escalate.
Good luck to all the current YC guys, I'm sure you're all feeling the pain right now only 2 weeks away from the big day!

As for launching around the same time, I'm of the opinion that if your own (non-YC) startup is good enough, it will stand alongside, or even above some of the YC guys and perhaps "cash in" on the startup fervour around at the time.
All due respect, I couldn't gather from http://digg.com/newswire what exactly Newswire is / does / is different from. You can't rely on a blog post to explain a site feature.
Because they've blatantly copied someone's design?

It's not like a new car company starts with someone else's body shape until they can design their own car or copies their TV ad for a few months. I can appreciate that Square might've OKed this or look kindly on a temporary copy from a startup, but for about the same level of effort they could've differentiated their site a fair bit more (even just a different hue for the background).
> They already do. Incompleteness Theorem ("some statements can neither be proved nor disproved", e.g., The Halting Problem which is incomplete) is one of the most significant achievements in logic.

Aaronson covers this, pointing out that those results are both in computability theory, not complexity.
I found this page pretty good: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/08/london-riots-t... Updated every couple of minutes with reports from various sources.

Also according to the latest updates, there are some incidents in Birmingham and Liverpool.
No, insurance depends on your previous fuckups, so you definitely need DOB and SSN. Otherwise they might misquote you, which can end up in court.
Source required. It's not completely clear what you mean by native and immigrant, but it could be construed as racial slander. Please clarify and source.

NB - I'm not normally a stickler for sourcing, but I feel a statement as controversial as this requires one.
In the UK pretty much every second advert on TV is for a car insurance price comparison site. The 3rd best selling book last Christmas was the fictional account of the character of one of these adverts (a meerkat called Aleksandr). Meanwhile the market leader is a FTSE 250 company. As such I couldn't believe it when I read (in the TC article) that Leaky is the first (or even the 10th) real-time aggregator in the US.

These sort of sites aren't a perfect solution by any means, but a large % of people in the UK now use them to buy car insurance, and so presumably Leaky is on the road (see what I did there...) to being a household name by doing the same thing in the US.
"The Cloud", or "The Could"
The world has produced such a procedure and beaten a path to its door - it's called the CDS swap markets, and they are extremely active.
Yes, the eighties austerity, cuts, unemployment and we had riots then too.

Local council budgets are being cut. Libraries and swimming pools, after school activities, policing. All being eroded.

From what I see of the news, it's somehow different this time. Perhaps more nihilistic, versus the more confrontational riots in the eighties. It definitely seems there's a goal of hitting shops full of 'shinys'.

Of course, modern messaging may also be playing a part in enabling more 'agile' riots.
It's always exciting to see what's in the works. In every cycle it seems like there is a YC site that I end up using a lot.

Has the culture around here gotten so hostile that a "be nice" request is needed?
Congrats to Snapjoy, Leaky, and Kicksend for launching today! Keep'em coming!
I'm honestly not sure.
If it actually had capability to share X GB files via Web for a small one time fee, then it will be really cool. Can you guys do that?
Godel's incompleteness theorems do not assert that particular statements cannot be proven. Furthermore, the "Haklting Problem" is not a statement.