skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Improbability of The Impossible
How many strands of thread does it take to keep us from being naked everyday? A whole lot for sure! How do you somehow collect all those strands and weave them into a single united strands that we wear everyday? Easy, a needle, strands with enough length and a significant amount of time and energy should suffice. So what’s the substance connecting all the dots? Technology.
Writing Code that Doesn't suck
Lol, I love the exponential curves on the traction slide: http://investors.dressrush.com/#slide7
Point of order: this is a blog post, not an "ask hn". Write it up and submit it. (Given the penalty for "ask hn" posts on the front page and the number of people looking at the "ask" page, that's likely to get you more eyeballs too.)
Steve Jobs would go thermonuclear over Consumer Reports smartphone ratings
Obama Pledges to Veto Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation
Yes, and frankly the micro-managing boredom. From my perspective, any system like this is starting to serve the needs of the platform in place of the needs of the consumer.

My car already has a light for when the oil needs to be changed. I don't need an oil-changer showing up at my door or the service-station calling me.

We have to fight for every ounce of privacy these days - why should anyone be expected to turn the whole life of their family into, essentially, an EZ-Pass?? No thanks . . .
Maybe it's just in my circles like this, but I think these days chat itself is no service anymore. You need to integrate it into something else, like social networks, gtalk, skype (chat+telephone), "webcam-services". 10 years ago Grove might've been awesome, but now it feels like something is missing, because I can chat everywhere else contextrelated anyway.

Look how meebo developed over the last years. First it integrated web and traditional chat media like ICQ, MSN and then they already moved on to integrate their chat services into other peoples web-businessmodels as a b2b service.
You bring up a lot of steps in the process, and you come to the punch line:

> Bet his wife doesn’t know that, call him in and threaten to tell her if Tom doesn’t cooperate with us.

Because, let's be honest, the "scale" argument is pretty well worn (and one I've yet to see argued well).

So, I'm going to assume this is where it breaks down. How this information can be used against you, even if you didn't do anything illegal. At least, that's the point you are trying to make. The important part isn't that this can't be done now, but the scale at which it can be done.

With this in mind, the problem isn't on the data retrieval side, but on the data retention rules, as well as the rules regarding how that data can be used.

More importantly, tracking is now cheaper, more efficient then before, more accurate, and less invasive.

You're scenario is fairly pointless. I can easily come up with arguments that make it a no brainer (Joe Blough is a murderer and Tom is covering for him).

So the question is, why are you so concerned with the capture of data when the negative you present isn't on the capture side?
I'm not saying that peer review doesn't take a long time to do it right, but I'm saying that perhaps a new job can be created who's job is to review and stay current on the literature. I'm not saying one person can know everything, but that there may be a better way. We have more scientists and papers being published every year, and I'm making the argument that we've outgrown current procedures. This is not an editorial job, this job does exactly what current peer reviewers do -- but it's their full time job.

Could I be wrong, sure -- but if the field is so big that a dedicated person can't keep on top of it then there is no chance for a scientist to do that either. The biggest issue is whether there is an incentive for someone with the skills to do it; why would I want to just review the work of others when I have the skills to do my own.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Hits the Shelves
And that little side-note unravels the whole argument: how much better can practice be? Can it be so focused that one reaches mastery in 5k hours? 1k? To what degree is being a fast learner in a field a talent?

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/08/training-talent-1000...
Ah, my bad. What's the saying about a little knowledge being a dangerous thing?
Journals should probably pay people to review works (well, really it will be included in a submission cost). But many people are resistent to the idea.
Cell providers are known to break SIP on purpose on thier networks. Sometimes by inserting broken 'via' headers in the SIP packets.

The DOD IP is in the 28/8 range which is not in the global routing table. So the packets never reach DOD.
Ally reimburses third-party ATM fees, as well: http://www.ally.com/
Nassim Taleb: End Bonuses For Bankers
Presumably one must buy the book before it can be lent. People may ascribe a higher value to a lendable book, or be more likely to purchase in the first place.
There is a workaround for the issues with language-python. One can do:

cabal fetch language-python
cabal unpack language-python
edit the language-python.cabal file updating the containers dependency to 0.4.0.0 then change the version number of language-python itself to 0.3.3
cabal configure
cabal install

However, this will not fix the more obtuse problem:

Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same
package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure.
package haskell98-1.1.0.1 requires process-1.0.1.5
package ghc-7.0.3 requires process-1.0.1.5
package Cabal-1.10.1.0 requires process-1.0.1.5
package berpinterpreter-0.0.3 requires process-1.0.1.5

I believe the only solution for this problem is to rebuild the entire Haskell platform from source, and if that fails, to format and reload the entire machine.

But you know, keep voting this thread up because Hackhell is awesome.
What's the problem? They didn't patent gc in general. And pauseless gc seems like one of those things everybody wants, so if it really were trivial and obvious, it would have been invented by now. The fact it took this long implies that their invention is, in fact, novel.
> If you'd like to take a shot at it, feel free to try to convince me that I should be concerned about warrantless GPS tracking of subject cars.

Without a warrant, you open the door to them being used for harassment. For example, by people who have videotaped police brutality and the like can be followed around in ways that would be impractical otherwise. With a warrant, they at least have to justify their use and it would create a paper trail that would document any abuse of power.

I think it's an interesting technology (though the devices are way too conspicuous if anyone goes looking...) and I see no reason to ban them. But I think there's a long enough history of bad apples in the police department abusing things such that we should be very careful about giving out grants of unchecked power. Today it's a GPS. Tomorrow, they might plant cameras or other devices, saying they didn't need a warrant for the GPS, so they shouldn't need one for any other device.

Sure, they've always been able to just tail you with no warrant, but that required more of an investment of their time, which limits how badly (and covertly) it could be abused. With technology removing these limits, the potential for abuses widens, and so it's reasonable to ask them to justify its use.

If a warrant is too burdensome for whatever reason, I could at least be satisfied if someone was required to articulate the reason for its use and submit that paperwork to the courts, without requiring their approval, prior to attaching the device, so that they would have someone watching over their shoulder for abuse without impeding all the legitimate uses of this technology. But I see no reason to grant them unchecked power.

Please don't misinterpret this as implying that all cops can't be trusted or something like that, though. I've known good cops. I lived in a small town and pretty much the whole force looked after us after something terrible happened. But I also know what happens when things go wrong; I've seen the recordings of corrupt cops and the brutality videos. I just think there's a happy medium where we check for abuse without tying the hands of the honest cops who are trying to protect us.
They still make some great gear, as does Redback (now Ericsson) and a bunch of others. But for direct, Internet facing devices that manage the full global routing table, the preferred option is still Cisco or Juniper.
You might want to try http://teamtreehouse.com/
They have some good videos that give concise explanations on a range of topics including design.

I would also try looking at http://dribbble.com for inspiration even though it is not an official learning resource it is valuable.

For books dealing with good design I would recommend "The Non-Designers Design Book". It is general advice but you will be surprised at what a huge difference it can make. Its a great foundation to build upon.

If your really motivate, buy some books on color theory, typography, iconography, and layout. These are all the essential building blocks for design (web and print).

Finally if you need to brush up on your photoshop skills, try psdtuts.com for some good tutorials.

Good luck.
nobody has been taken from inside the US and held in Guantanamo

No, we avoid this problem by killing natural born US citizens outside the country before they can be put on trial. Far easier politically that way.

Why does it even matter WHERE a teenager is from if they are innocent? Why would you imprison and fly them out of their own country before you know if they are actually guilty of anything? Then treat them so badly over years that you can never release them again because they will become a terrorist against you for the way you treated them?
Seriously? IE 5.5...
I kindly ask why.
I agree wholeheartedly.

As any good writing or speaking course will mention, swears are a literary crutch.

English especially is a wonderful langauge for wordplay. Like most langauges we have entire genres of humor based on how and which words are used.

Most of the swearing I see on the internet is simply a lazy stab at adding adjectives or getting a reaction. I feel the same way about the (over)use as John Hodgeman does about the word "meh."[1]

I think you gain an even greater disdain for swearing with the more critical literature you read. Reading Ebert's movie reviews or perhaps Gordon Ramsey's words, you realize they have a kind of eloquence that you don't often see in everyday speech. It is because they work at it, and refined writing is beautiful, but also because they take the time to avoid lazy crutches like swearing.

[1]: http://waxy.org/2009/02/john_hodgman_on_meh/
Aren't the members of the handmade movement part of the capitalist system? If no one purchases their goods, preferring instead a factory made product, they will go out of business. Or maybe just continue to produce as a hobby or for friends and family as gifts.
Like I Promised YOU | Socyberty
Considering the whole reason they're doing this crap is to make it look like they're keeping up to date with Chrome, yeah, it kinda does make a difference.

Methinks they don't understand the concept of "Major release.minor release"
Before anyone points out that fuck is the most versatile word, I'd like to point out that 'blog' can serve all the same functions.
I'll guess mindcrime is the original poster.

Actually, no. But the OP is a friend, and this showed up in my G+ feed earlier. I thought some HN people might either A. find it interesting and/or B. have an explanation.

Due to responses to multiple threads, I figure a single explanation should suffice, referenced to related portions.
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That all sounds reasonable... but you'd think if somebody was going to squat on some IP address space, they'd pick somebody other than the DoD to mess with. :-)
Not sure whether it is in your vision as well, but wouldn't it be cool if Grove.io offered a library of such IRC agents in the same manner as HuBot from GitHub?
Banking is an industry that is not nearly as simple as it seems. There is a difference between "you" walking in to a bank wishing to establish an account and a "partner" like Simple seeking to move depository funds between banks.

The bank pulls a credit check on you, the individual, to mitigate risk. A company like Simple would secure a bond or insurance to mitigate this risk for the partner bank, reducing the friction for a business critical action (moving partner banks).

Pragmatically, Simple wouldn't survive very long if every customer were hit with a hard credit pull every time Simple moved their funds. I'm not even sure that would be legal.
Just a basic comment. If you dont' have content for a page, don't put it in your navigation until it is ready. No one will be disappointed about a page they don't know exists. Coming Soon... is very 90's
Neat.

Easy hosted custom plugins/bots would be awesome.

You can run your own IRC bot, of course, but then you have to worry about finding a server to run it on, keep it running, etc.
No, it won't remain free forever. Soon we'll having pricing plans that are comparable to existing team chat products.
Well...I think FICO scores should be revamped anyways, but if you're shopping for loans, from what I recall, you only get hit once per 30 days (as obviously if you're in the market for a loan, you shouldn't be negatively affected for every vendor you approach).
There is a bug in the memmove() function from ulib.c:

void*
memmove(void *vdst, void *vsrc, int n)
{
char *dst, *src;

dst = vdst;
src = vsrc;
while(n-- > 0)
*dst++ = *src++;
return vdst;
}

If the two blocks overlap, and the address of dst is greater than the address of src, then parts of the source will be overwritten before it can be copied.
So, they basically used javascript and target anchors to make a fancy navigation bar? The design and idea are really nice, but there's nothing earth shattering here.

I do like the idea of a one page "pitch" that flows more like a slide show than a website. It gets to the point and covers off the main ideas.

As to this particular pitch:

1. Let's hope the rest of the math isn't as optimistic as the 31% conversion rate. It's basically an online wedding dress shop, so it's going to suffer from the same issues that all online clothing retailers do. Interesting that none of the founders have a background in the fashion industry.

2. I couldn't really figure out what the purpose of the pitch is... are they looking for Partners? Cash? Staff? To do what with, exactly? The expansion plans essentially seem to be: grow out what we have and build a mobile site or two. I'm not sure why they would need investment to do that.

3. (Late add): I disregarded the AppSumo/GroupOn bit, but I took a closer look... Do people really shop for wedding dresses like this? The thing about weddings is that they are a fixed time event, unlike say GroupOn which is a "spur of the moment" purchase enabler. Point being that you have a wedding, need clothes for it, will be in a "search" mode for x number of days, make the purchase and move on. This idea basically tries to hit you in that "search" mode. The thing is that they are presenting 1 or two really good deals rather than opening up a store for you to browse. It's interesting math, but I'm not sure that works... you're betting that those deals will be so good (as in - not crap that doesn't sell) that it will beat out all the other avenues that women will use to solve this problem - to the tune of 31%. Hrm.
I can't speak to how those companies have built their products, but I can say that the inspiration for our product was Manymoon, and a three-pane view was always in the cards. It's a fairly straightforward UI paradigm used across many apps. I'm a huge fan of apps like Reeder and Sparrow, and they take this UI approach as well. As for the focus of the app, stay tuned :)
white text on black is no better or worse than black text on white

Try dimming your display to a reasonable level and improving the lighting around your monitor(s).
How to Treat Sunburn?
The Kleene star is a fixed-point/recursion operator. Here's an example that causes an infinite loop:

(|a)*
I did not realize those were Google bikes the first time I saw the photos. Thanks for sharing!
I think this is a super cool idea and it's something I've been thinking a lot about. Right now, existing IRC bots work fine with Grove but it would be cooler to have more integration.
DealBook: Yelp Hires Goldman and Citigroup to Lead I.P.O.
The add-on thing could be huge, if it works out. I am tired of seeing computers riddled with spybars.
Yes, you can upgrade that way but it's not recommended (see the warning @ the top of that page). That upgrade method isn't really tested and may or may not work depending on your system.

You'd be much better off using PreUpgrade (making sure you update your system first) [1] or the install media. If you don't want to burn a DVD or CD, you can make a bootable USB stick with the iso [2].

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_PreUpgrade
[2] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installat...
Is it really reasonable that the police can engage in extended surveillance without a warrant? If I do it I might get arrested for stalking, so it doesn't seem outlandish to have the police involve a judge in the process.

The warrant process also happens to be agnostic to advances in data harvesting technology (i.e., even if omni-tracking like you speak of below becomes the norm, the use of the data in an investigation or prosecution could still be mediated with warrants).
You may be right. My thoughts here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212674

I thought it might help spur the imagination of the reader to show the nav.
Those are better questions. Perhaps lead with those, rather than trying to deduce the answers yourself.
I'm with Stephen Fry on this one:

"There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of a poor vocabulary. Such utter nonsense."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM
> The police simply aren't interested.

Probably because it isn't their area. Stock frauds and pump-and-dumps should be reported to the sec:

http://www.sec.gov/complaint/select.shtml

They are getting better at investigating them :)
This is a valid, on topic, cogent post. Why is it getting downvoted?
Hmm… I've actually never heard of FieldForce.

I can also say with confidence that our strategy complements Salesforce's, and shouldn't cannibalize their offerings in the enterprise software market. Do is for small groups.
Part 1 by The Grubs (http://blog.grubwithus.com/our-path-to-the-magical-whiteboar...) is great - is there a part 2?
No, DOD is not leasing out IP addresses; ISPs are basically "stealing" them from DOD. This shouldn't be happening, but for some reason cellular carriers are complaining that ARIN won't give them IPv4 addresses even though addresses are available and the carriers clearly have enough devices to qualify. Something has gone wrong here, but I have not been able to find out why.
YU55 Asteroid Closer Than JPL Indicates?
Do You Want to Be Someone, Or Do Something?
I'm a fan of the name Simple instead of BankSimple. I bank with ING and USAA at the moment, and I've never had any trouble with the fact that neither one has the name "Bank" in their brand.

I agree, calling it "BankSimple" feels limiting, and carries baggage from bad experiences I've had with banks in the past.

Now if only I could get an invitation to open an account!
Como conseguir el trabajo deseado?
Well, I don't think it's meant to be taken as a literal graph. The X or Y axises aren't labelled. But otherwise, yes, a chuckle-worthy presentation of growth.
Agreed. We need to figure out a good way to do better bot integration! (suggestions welcome)
For sure. https://do.com/users/sign_up?invite_code=PROTROSTYBY
reminds me of the intel comment in their implementation of memcpy, something like 'no overlay check as implicit convention'
Exactly. This is the sentiment I expected to see on HN, where there is always praise for the hacker "building" and sticking it to the man because he/she can make something on their own.
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." ― Robert F. Kennedy
He could be a short-seller trying to get the stock to tank. This is what is interesting about small-cap public companies, you never know who is telling the truth (since there are so many forces at play from longs, shorts etc.) until you check it out yourself (or somebody you know/trust).

Edit: after checking it out I am 95% certain that this is a fraud. shame there is no stock to short :( (even though it is +6% today)
Could even open a market of such bots for you: Customers of Grove.io could then offer their bots in your IRC bot market place ... but now I'm just dreaming ;-)
Don't let it get you too discouraged- Leah doesn't last very long with any one project so you'll be fine in a few months.
"I think, when you say that banking is simple to the moderately educated, you're objectively wrong."

Moderately educated means that a person as spent a few days in their lifetime informing themselves how simple accounting and consumer/small business banking works. It's not rocket science. If you can't read a simple financial or income statement, you can't make an informed decision about a choosing a bank or understand starting a company. Most people do cargo-cult personal finance.

Why should people pay a middle man for good treatment when they can shop around and find a credit union that will do so, sans the vig?
it's small enough to fit in one `ls` screen, really inciting to be read, kinda like plan9 source code.
"Shut the blog up" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
I'm pretty excited they'll be turning their efforts in this direction. I remember one of the original reasons I dropped prototype/scriptaculous was because of the file size difference, so hopefully this will continue to keep it a lean, mean JavaScript machine.
How do you know when it's about to get dumped?

If you're confident it's a pump and dump and it will fall you could short it, of course.
I think its time for a Hacker Kit to disable GPS tracking units that LAw Enforcement uses. Make it so simple that common motorist can use..and make it viral by having a open source license..we outnumber law enforcement by large numbers..and they do not have the manpower to face that set of circumstances
Grove is primarily an IRC server for your business (the client is tangential), so please don't give up! Actually, feel free to send me an email - I'd love to help you get your web client working smoothly with the Grove server.
YouProve: Authenticity and Fidelity in Mobile Sensing
Meebo also took $ SEVENTY million in funding.

When you take that sort of investment, the rules of the game change a lot I think. It's no longer sufficient to make a few million profit a month.
Paid Surveys And What They Can Do For Your Finances
Grove looks very cool. But groupme is free and has a good iphone/android client that a non-technical user can setup and use. Push notifications work great.

But Grove intrigues me for the ability to hook up useful bots to IRC.

If Groupme had an API available now, I'm not sure Grove would offer any benefits for my purposes. But I love how this space is exploding with all sorts of cool services.
Thanks for responding,

So when you say you aren't a bank, you really do follow many standard banking industry practices (at least in terms of security/insurance).

I think it is important that you show this when advertising a service like this to possible customers.

I appreciate the importance of keeping the pitch simple, but for me, I act a little more cautiously with my money than I would signing up for a new social network or something of that nature.

I want to be able to read all of the fine print and know exactly what recourse/assurance I have, before I fill out an application. Having it spelled out somewhere is important. Perhaps I simply couldn't find that part of the site, (but even if that is the case), any security guarantees might be worth putting front and center.