skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked the part where you talked about Clojure/West (http://clojurewest.org).
It's a survival rate chart, full article here:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/safety/4...
Based on 20 plane crashes in the United States.
It works, but it's not replacing the default munin stack quite yet.
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Quick synopsis:

Provider uses IP addresses for their internal network tunnels that correspond to a DOD ARIN allocation.
There isn't an API for that, but it's super easy to check the current browser/platform and update the text accordingly.

And you don't really need any library: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/obj_navigator.asp
Unless I'm mistaken, he's laying the reason/groundwork for a replacement PRNG for Javascript/ECMAScript. If one of these algorithms were executed in the backend it would be quite fast and have none of "javascript slowdowns" for those calculations.
That is very different than how things used to work on this side of the iron curtain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#House_Committee_on_...
Interesting. I downloaded the book to my books folder on dropbox for perusal in my next reading leisure session.

I think the subgroup I was trying to mention was the class who has managed to pull itself up through social organization (unions, guilds, etc.) and in the process has increased the incentive to disrupt the status quo (by making doing so more profitable). This will tend to attract disruptive technology (ubercab, khan academy, etc.)
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How about: they are tampering with your property (your car). I think that is inherently intrusive. If, say, they were automatically tracking your vehicle with software that recognized it in traffic cams in public, that would not be intrusive (though some may still find it creepy).

What if this technology was cheap enough to slap one on everybody's car? If you don't need a warrant, why not? Can the feds install a tracker on every car in the USA? It's a lot cheaper than following everyone.

There is a mechanism for targeting specific individuals in the course of an actual investigation. It is getting a warrant.
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Searching isn't the same as querying. -Q is for operations dealing on the _local_ repository. -S synchronizes your local repository with the remote repository. In a way installing could very well be -Si (-S --install), but installing is the default action in -S mode instead. Pacman is maybe somewhat idiosyncratic, but I find it very useful and simple once you get the basics.
> We do not use Nutch for the purposes of crawling, but instead utilize a custom crawl infrastructure to strictly limit the rate at which we crawl individual web hosts.

Were there any other reasons to not use Nutch (performance, etc.)?

I'd love to hear more about the stack you're using to perform the crawls. If you don't mind sharing, it would be very interesting to read about the costs involved in gathering this data (how many machines, how long did it take, etc.)

Any plans to open source that as well? In addition to a general lack of open web crawl data freely available, there are precious few open source projects (if any) that produce high quality crawlers able to deal with the modern web.
I will be honest, I sort of expected this to happen. I've worked with a lot of freelancer/project sites over the years and brought 1000's buyers/sellers into those sites. The biggest problem is finding the buyers. Now tinyproj aims to filter buyers, which makes it even more difficult to keep a steady stream of work coming in.

I don't think it's a chicken and egg problem, people go wherever the jobs are quite easily and fast. Finding those jobs is the challenge. I wish I could offer you some advice on that front but the ratio of realistic expectations and budget jobs to $20 facebook clones is pretty low. It's hard to brand or distinguish your quality versus a place like oDesk when they are almost as equally faceless (actually oDesk et al may even do a better job selling their talent with reviews/ratings/info).

I think you need to focus on the buyers, the workers are the easy part of the equation.
By my opinion markdown sux..

I'd rather write in pure html.

Markdown is irrational, unhandly thing.

The only reason to use it in projects is to make life easier for developer and avoid using wysywyg and html sanitising..

But for me as for end user (wikipedia, googlecode.. other shitty editors..) it is incredible headache..
Uh wow.That's not even wrong. Not sure if I should reply to a troll.

Even if what you said is true, how does it change the fact that MS makes the most money out of web servers and not others?

StackOverflow, NewEgg, PlentyOfFish etc. are not busy sites now? It's funny to see how StackOverflow was able to scale easily while Reddit couldn't. There's a lot more to running high traffic sites than just the web server.

Maybe you should enlighten the companies below?

Costco - http://www.costco.com/ [costco.com]
Crate & Barrel - http://www.crateandbarrel.com/ [crateandbarrel.com]
Home Shopping Network - http://www.hsn.com/ [hsn.com]
Buy.com - http://www.buy.com/ [buy.com]
Dell - http://www.dell.com/ [dell.com]
Nasdaq - http://www.nasdaq.com/ [nasdaq.com]
Virgin - http://www.virgin.com/ [virgin.com]
7-Eleven - http://www.7-eleven.com/ [7-eleven.com]
Carnival Cruise Lines - http://www.carnival.com/ [carnival.com]
L'Oreal - http://www.loreal.com/ [loreal.com]
Remax - http://www.remax.com/ [remax.com]
Monster Jobs - http://www.monster.com/ [monster.com]
USA Today - http://www.usatoday.com/ [usatoday.com]
ComputerJobs.com - http://computerjobs.com/ [computerjobs.com]
Match.com - http://www.match.com/ [match.com]
National Health Services (UK) - http://www.nhs.uk/ [www.nhs.uk]
CarrerBuilder.com - http://www.careerbuilder.com/ [careerbuilder.com]
Newegg http://newegg.com/ [newegg.com]
Geico http://geico.com/ [geico.com]
Capital One http://capitalone.com/ [capitalone.com]
Zecco http://zecco.com/ [zecco.com]
I wouldn't expect you to know, or if you did know, be able to disclose ... but I was more curious about the rest of the team that's now headed out to Facebook. Looking forward to the upcoming announcement / blog post.
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I wonder if the Mint team ever thought of going that route; they were/are very well placed to lead users into this model. Once you get used to the idea of being able to see all your accounts and varies metrics in one place it's obvious to appreciate being able to push data the other way and instigate transfers and bill payments from that nice central hub. Maybe the complications of getting the banks on board was the barrier.
A lot of Canadian companies are unable to use S3 (or EC2) due to the Patriot Act.

Sure, they can get around this by using European buckets, but that kind of sucks for latency.

I can easily imagine setting up a company using this software with servers in Canada using this software. So yes, it's a plus.

(It's not just Canada of course, and it's not just the Patriot act. Gambling companies, for example, can't host in the US)
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Here's more details: http://www.timothysykes.com/2011/11/how-a-penny-stock-promot...

The RAYS campaign was run by the same guys who did LEXG, the latter being one of the best pump and dumps last year-- ran from $1 to $10 in a short amount of time.
I checked the demo videos:

"Original Version" - 1080p, AVC uncompressed

"Standard Compression" - 480p, AVC uncompressed

"Raystream Version" - 480p H.264 AAC, ~1200kb data rate

Nothing that fishy here. They seem to be advertising to broadcasters. It's possible they have some nice custom algorithms for their videos. That isn't uncommon - take a look at Apple movie trailers and iTunes videos: they have their own magic juice too.

With that, maybe the investment is a scam, but posting a "hoax" via "ihatelawyers3" on github is waaaaaaay more suspect to me.

[EDIT] they seem to be pretty active for being supposedly fake. Check their twitter feed. They tweet as much if not more than most video companies and it's not fluff.
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JQuery aside... don't you think your business model isn't sustainable. Weddings are 1-time events.. noone buys wedding dresses regularly.
Actually it was: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3208387
"More generally, I'm tired of these articles where people make up a straw man version of Steve Jobs and then attack him. I feel like I know more about Jobs than nearly everyone who writes this stuff, and I don't feel confident making generalizations about his character."

Most people tend to crave easy explanations as to why someone did X. They need to see their ascent so that they feel that they could have done the same if some variable Y had been there. I think that's a very human and understandable thing to do, but in this case it has gone into over drive because something has changed.

Steve Jobs was a titan in an age where recording information is quite cheap indeed and everyone chronicles the minutest details of their life in some way or another. (be it through email or facebook, we're all creating heft tomes about our lives) Thanks to the age he helped along, he has the unenviable distinction of being a human being whose complexities have been recorded and will be poured over again and again until the human beings shall forget his name someday.
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I'm not against the authorities being able to subpoena my cell phone records through legal action. I would be opposed to my provider passing all my records to any agency without warrant or subpoena.
ah, the old "You Destroyed Not-My Property"
And yet somehow wedding dress stores and wedding planners all exist and are profitable ...
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Well, a lot of people consider that it is indeed more important. You've surely heard the notion that it's better for ten guilty persons to go free than for one innocent person to be convicted; this is not merely defense-lawyer rhetoric, but was enunciated as a basic principle of criminal justice by Sir William Blackstone (widely considered the architect of the common law system which underpins the anglophone legal tradition).
They use both, https://creditcards.citi.com/ is the 'official' domain name for Credit Card side of things.
Plus, you don't call the bomb squad. You report a "suspicious-looking item" on your car to local law-enforcement.
I dont' know if I'd call it shady, but it certainly seems more complicated than just opening a bank account.
Nobody needs to do "the groundwork" of implementing the existing algorithms in JS if they would be "in the backend." The reason author did it was to have different algorithms, with their own good and bad sides, giving the same repeatable results on the existing platforms implemented in pure JS and with the common interface.

Additionally he presented his own algorithm inspired by Marsaglia's MWC.
So the question is, who sold it, Jobs or Markkula?
Yes, from branding and advertising. TheKnot works because it's become the "go to" destination for brides to be.

Just saying the daily deal approach isn't the optimal way to leverage this need. Daily deal approach is perfect for things you do buy regularly. Groupon works because it pitches different types of deals you might use regularly. Gilt works because it pitches different types of clothing every day.
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I signed up for the waiting list 04/2010. Anyone here that's already in? When was your sign up?
I really like what you guys are trying to do here, but you still haven't made it more appealing than getting frequent flyer miles on my credit card. I know you want to use the normal card fees to make some cash, but why do you need those + deposit interest?

My brick & mortar bank provides me with a free-to-use checking account w/debit card in exchange for the interest made off my deposits. My credit card, paid in full each month, provides the same free service with flyer miles. The value proposition of making my data easier to search and filter from the information already given to me at my current bank/CC websites doesn't do it for me.

Love what I've seen, but I hope you guys find a better value/price point.
I feel like I'm about to ask an incredibly dumb question, but why does the radar image show such a pronounced crescent shape on the asteroid? What's causing the radar "shadow"?
This is the key to the whole thing, and very much like what we observe with startups and disruption. Say you make something cheaper, and you increase demand. It gets cheaper, cheaper, and then suddenly it breaks into an entirely new market and demand goes through the roof. People invent new uses for it.

Surveillance is like that. It’s more than just being cheaper than having an officer follow a suspect around. It has become so cheap that agencies can now (or will very soon) be able to simply follow everyone, everywhere, without the slightest need for justification. Collect all the data, store it away, and if you later suspect them of a crime, you can open up the archives and look at everywhere they have been and everything they have said in their entire lifetime.

By following everyone, everywhere, law enforcement can effectively go back in time. Joe Blough is a drug dealer? Interesting. Whose car has been on his street in the past five years? Who called him and who did he call? Who is on his Facebook or in his Google+ circles?

Look at that, he plays Settlers of Catan with Thomas Rapido. Pull up Tom's data. Interesting, he’s married but his car has spent a lot of time at stripper clubs. Bet his wife doesn’t know that, call him in and threaten to tell her if Tom doesn’t cooperate with us.
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Hi Alex - in a previous comment you said:

> When you get your Simple card, it'll say "issued by {Bank Name}" on the back.

How does that fit around moving money around behind the scenes? Will each customer's money be limited to a single bank, and moved around between account types? Will all Simple's customers be using one bank that you have partnered with?

If not, could one Simple account actually have its funds stored between multiple different banks (or multiple accounts within a single bank)?

And when you say "we automatically move your money..." are we talking about the automated equivilent of when a bank phones / writes to you saying "looking at your behaviour over the last 5 years this account might fit you better...", or is it more like "every day your money might move somewhere else", or (I assume this) where between those two?

If I weren't English then I'd be signing up for sure, good luck :)
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Darknet is an application server that uses JavaScript for the controller and model objects and FreeMarker for the view renderer. It’s currenty in early development so please be patient.
Lawyers always win.
You investigate if there are any hackerspaces near you. They are a modern incarnation of the teaching each other & learning things. Probably a bit more electronic & technical aimed, and less traditional crafts, but they would be interested in traditional crafts. My local space has a woodwork room.
It's still bad in general even if the PRNG is perfect.

For example, suppose r() is a random number generator that generates random integers in [0, 4294967295]. Suppose I want a random integer in [0, 3000000000]. If I simply take r() % 3000000001, I will get a horrible distribution. A given integer in [0, ~1300000000] will occur about 50% more than a given integer in [~1300000000, 3000000000].

Given a perfect uniform random number generator r() generating integers in [0,M-1], r()%n will only be uniform if n divides M. M%n numbers will be overrepresented, appearing approximately 1+n/M times as often as they should.
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No. They just deliver video compressed with H.264, with a target bitrate of about 1Mbps. The framerate is unaffected.
As a customer, I'd feel a lot more comfortable if you worked solely as a technology vendor to my bank.

This isn't a knock on the team you're putting together, or your ability to build a great company. It's caused by the realities associated with venture capital.

Now that you took VC money, there's countdown to an exit, and I have to think about likely buyers. If you're successful, one of the top possibilities is a strategic acquisition from a major bank. This basically means that if I buy into the vision and support it, I'm likely to end up right where I started.

I want to like this idea, because I want to see more great, customer-service oriented banks. But I just can't quite bring myself to like it, because of the guaranteed change in ownership that is pending and the lineup of probable buyers.
The device is installed on every car.

Wait, what? Last time I looked, there were about 6 million vehicles with OnStar. It's certainly on a lot of new cars, maybe even most, but all? In any case, there's a good argument that reading off the GPS data from such a device wirelessly is less instrusive than physically attaching a device to the vehicle.
If anyone would like to read more on the externalities of fair trade:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj27n1/cj27n1-9.pdf
You are describing crimes. If you have reason to believe the device was placed by law enforcement, tampering with its function to deceive them is a criminal offence.

It’s far better to work to make such activities illegal than to do your complaining from behind bars.
But often times I think people are too strong in fighting to protect their rights.

I'm sorry, but I can't even parse that into anything that makes sense. How could you ever fight too hard to protect your rights?!?? I mean, what could possibly be more important than protecting our innate, individual rights?

Maybe it's just me, but in my world-view, the whole "give me liberty or give me death" thing is not just a tagline. The only reason I can see for not fighting tooth-and-nail to defend your rights at any particular moment in time, is if you're faced with overwhelming force to the point that trying to defend yourself would amount to suicide, and you're willing to exercise discretion and "live to fight another day" when the odds may be more favorable. But that's a strategic decision, not abdication of your rights...
No, computers aren't very good at creating unique things without explicit instruction on how to do so. But they are very good at replicating things to an exacting standard. In the case of a painting, a computer could probably make an exact replica of an already existing painting far better than any human artist could.

In the case of knives, a computer could make a copy so exacting that it would be indiscernible from any of the knives this guy produced if given the instruction and materials to do so. The only thing that would give the computer made knives away would be that they would be too perfect (if perfect is measured by how close it falls to the original), while the knives produced by hand will all have inconsistencies because they were made by something that isn't precise to a micrometer.

Speaking of which, that's part of what I think drives the hand-made movement: you're buying something unique. Even if that particular artist made a hundred of them, there are no two exactly alike.
More generally, I'm tired of these articles where people make up a straw man version of Steve Jobs and then attack him.

Where is the straw man? You may disagree with the conclusion, but to my knowledge, the facts given about him in the article are true, including the exorbitant spending at NeXT.
Time must be used up.

You don't get to just stop using your time until you have something in particular you want to use it for. If making something by hand is rewarding to you, and someone else will pay you for it then it's probably a good use of your time.
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Just saw a demo of this; it blew me away with a clean UI, and some awesome features -- the search/ACL implementations are REALLY slick. It also gets rid of another problem I have, which is that I hate installing/configuring IRC servers.

Every company I've ever worked for has needed this.
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That page ends on a cliffhanger - does the hoax.avi look as good as the ray_480p.mp4 or not? How does the framerate compare?
What about running Linux inside a virtual machine when you do UNIX work? That would certainly add up some CPU overhead (how many is that these days - 10%?) but I doubt that graphics chip would kick in unless it's really needed. I hope you can get your laptop run Linux with a little less overhead that way.
Why do you get to say attaching anything to clothing is extraordinarily intrusive? What if I believe attaching anything to my vehicle is extraordinarily intrusive?
Oh, i used it. Found it delightful, actually I am yet to encounter a very bad package management system. They are all really good since I started using linux.
"don't sweat the details if you don't get it" is probably the opposite of what you want to communicate to a reviewer ;) if there is a problem in "the details" the entire work might need to be scrapped.
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The first thing you need to realize is that Tinkercad is only partially a browser application, we also run a relatively complex cloud based component. Every operation you make is actually distributed across a 100 core cluster with the result shipped back in a few hundred ms.

Interesting, but why?
Just curious, I know nothing about javascript, WebGL etc. but what operations are not suitable to do on the client?

If WebGL is supposed to be able to drive games etc. shouldn't it be able to handle this, without any help? (avoiding JS might be enough but I often feel that the, practically unlimited, power of the client is ignored)

(only looked at the intro-demo of the google talk, will probably watch the rest when I have time)
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If you want to go beyond (upper-middle) class with Global, you can go to Japan to buy the only-in-Japan Global-Pro line. It's hardened more (and thus more prone to chipping or breaking if abused), but even better than the regular Global series for most kitchen tasks.
You know, I think you should look at the government arguments for by-default strip searching in prison, even if your arrival at the prison is the result of having an unpaid ticket (Florence v. [Burlington] http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/florence-v-board-...). Although I see where you're coming from, law enforcement generally seeks to broaden the scope of any and all new powers, just as it seeks to narrow the scope of things like Miranda. Look at the incredibly low thresholds that are suggested for probable cause in drug arrest or asset forfeiture cases.
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