skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that's probably the worst thing about the meme. Because the original was so famous, all others piggy back on it, giving their own arguments some amount of weight.

(off-topic, but goto statements being harmful has been debunked several times over).
Well, if i want a quick inspection this wins because i can rotate it without having to download other stuff.
Yet another Blob Cache library
Frankly, in my experience, it's all about perceived security. That and the utility of setting permissions for third party access with read/modify logs. It's kind of like Merrill's data room, but web 2.0'y and faster/more user friendly.

Dropbox was easier (I loved being able to right click a zip file sitting in my public folder), but our clients told us it was too risky to have a document sitting on an open live link without password/user access control. We're currently using sendthisfile.com, but I believe we're moving to box.com soon. We're a top end AmLaw 200 firm.
Indeed; Bitcoin has entirely different problems.
Microsoft needs some brutal honesty about its bold new design for windows: It's too much of a deviation from standard Windows, it is never going to be embraced by businesses as a better way to work, and no one I have talked to is impressed with the fact that they're basically just tarting up Windows 7 with unnecessary features instead of polishing the amazing OS that they created.
You were making unfounded assumptions (that enabling WebGL would be as trivial as installing Chrome) and at the same time ignored the fact that you get highly useful results from WA without any plugins or bleeding-edge tech. Having good fallbacks is important.
Ah, gentrification.

Anywhere that's a discrete suburb (preferably cut off from where decent people live by a bridge or railway crossing) takes a long time to go from "slum" to "trendy" in the eyes of most people, despite it actually being a nice place to live. But everyone who is in on the secret gets outrageously cheap rent, a great place to buy, and funny looks from co-workers.
Anecdotally, I've heard most hackers do best at 10PM-3:00AM. I've heard of many switching to an early riser schedule after having families.

These guys go to bed early and do a 4AM wakeup to get in a couple hours of hacking prior to their families waking up. I'm considering making that switch.
This is completely unscientific, but once something gains this much hype I just get the gut feeling that the value has disappeared for investors. If the likes of Ashton Kutcher are there, the game's up, the secret's out - these assets are no longer undervalued. If I'm an investor, it's time to pack up and move on to find the next market inefficiency, cause I really doubt it's in YC funded startups anymore.
It's not too far from the 30% that Apple charges for App Store distribution... You are paying for the use of Adobe's Flash Player.
The size of things (Flash)
I am definitely most productive in the early morning when my brain is fresh. I would like to take more advantage of late hours but I have found it causes annoying recurring dreams around whatever problem I'm working on. I always wonder if that happens to anyone else.
The article is quite clear that it exposes anyone's data that uses facebook and foursquare, not just women.
It also pivots them from a thin affiliate model, where they add no value above the traffic stream, (and fight other people doing same with less ethics/stature) to one where they have a competitive moat and produce value independent of insurance purchases. They're essentially a publicly accessible interface to "transparent" documents mandated by the regulations which, at present, might as well not exist outside the industry.

It's almost like they're a patch to the law, really.
There's a few of them: 0200,0300,0500,0700,1100,1700,1900, and 2300. Of course, if you include minutes, please see the list here: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=list+of+primes+to+2400
Ask HN: What's everyone's obsession with NDA's?
What's everyone's obsession with NDA's? As a freelance developer I am constantly running into people who absolutely insist that I must sign an NDA before we can either discuss their project.

My questions:

-Do you all run into this a lot?

-What do you say?

-Do you flat out refuse to sign and refuse to back down like me?

I think NDA's are arbitrary and unnecessary and I'm of the mind that if the person is so caught up on this they probably aren't worth working with.
I'm mainly referring to the article here, which is rather ambiguous and mis-stated in its wording, as well as the submission title, which is entirely missing the point of what Fabric does. I don't doubt that you have more in-depth information on your site, or that, for that matter, using Fabric from your scripting-language of choice can actually speed up your code (considering things like Cython have existed for a while.)
Between 8PM and Midnight and then after sleeping between 9AM and 12AM. In the Afternoon I prefer to make a little siesta.
Please, read the whole article before commenting.

>So I’m writing about it now. Not because Girls Around Me is an evil app that should be pulled from the iOS App Store, or because the company that makes it — Moscow-based i-Free — is filled with villains. I still don’t believe that there’s anything wrong with what this app is doing, and the guys at i-Free are super nice, and certainly don’t mean for this app to be anything beyond a diversion.

If you have read this, then you misunderstood him completely. He very clearly states that the creators of the app are not villains.
I find night time to contain the quietness I need to let my brain out. I've often wondered if that's artificial and just because everyone else is asleep and not bothering me? Or if it's because Im more creative at night? Or if there's something else going on.
Uncovering the Unknown: Principles of Type Inference
It looks like it's just a widget library. There's any number of those with no platform dependency at all: Bootstrap, YUI, Dojo, SproutCore, etc.
A problem never made you mad or excited? Did you never get motivated or deterred by a problem?

I think keeping emotions out is an illusion.
That looks like a very reasonable compromise between short default terms and paid registration/extension.
I disagree with the comments indicating that the title is too emotional. I think it needs to be whatever it has to be in order to bring eyeballs to this issue. None-techies have no idea of what is possible when they sign-on to and use various social networks and tools. Because of this they, almost invariably, end-up horribly exposed in very public ways. Articles such as this one need to appeal to emotion and, hopefully, go viral, in order to have non-tech folks understand, protect themselves and their kids.

It's like folks that apply decals with the names of their kids on the back of their SUV's. I've never understood why someone would do something that stupid. In some cases they even go as far as also providing clues as to what they are into. The most common example of this is having the Christian ichthus (fish) symbol under their names.

I struck-up a conversation with one such parents at the local school our kids attend during an open house event. I explained just how much I knew about their kids by making a number of inferences from the very public access they were providing through these seemingly innocent little stickers on the back of the SUV. It wasn't hard at all to demonstrate just how bad an idea this was. They thanked me and went out to the parking lot to remove the stickers right away.

I don't like to think ill of people and I generally don't (and have scars to prove it). This does not mean that one has to provide all the necessary tools and information to facilitate becoming a victim.
Valve Software developing for linux
I believe that I'm a night owl, but there is most definitely something to be said about knowing with a 99% certainty that you won't be interrupted for the next eight hours.

It would be interesting to move eight hours in either direction, but keep working remotely - would I get my hacking done at night, but when my coworkers and friends are awake and online, or early in the morning, when most people I know are asleep or not online?
Starting Fresh - My last day mail in Adobe
agreed w/ the downsizing from 10 on down due to dropouts.

if you are working on a startup and not already in an incubator, would you join?
p.s. I'm glad to hear about the addition of the flux capacitor
Beautiful.

Elasborations - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&#....

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&pws=0&#....
False comparison - You buy a new car once every 5-7 years. You buy groceries 2-3 times a week.
"The truly educated man can never be bored" Arthur C. Clark, long before social media was invented.
Nice. Also interesting is this:
"About 274,000 results (0.15 seconds)".
Update: after reading the article at http://www.matthewcompher.com/posts/trouble-with-semantics-t... , the writer used the ÷ as a line operator, not a natural division operation.

I would maintain that since this is not taught in any school I've ever attended, it is at least questionable. I've never seen a math textbook use the / symbol for natural division either.
It would still be a huge improvement over our current system, where the majority of works enter the copyright blackhole and become inaccessible because they are too old to be profitable yet too "new" to be in public domain.
If pure higher storage numbers are the way to rock the boat, wouldn't Dropbox be one of the least impressive options and everyone would be praising Skydrive? There is clearly much more than just greater bytes equals greater storage service. Even if Gmail only offered a similar amount of storage as Yahoo/Hotmail when it launched, it still would have been a leap forward for its interface alone (though the lanuch would have lost some of its punch, obviously).
How a high roller took millions off three Atlantic City casinos without cheating
'before…within the term or factor":

2*2455(6) = 12
2+47435)7 = 14

(according to the iPhone calculator in scientific mode)
Google is becoming more like Wolfram. Semantic search engine all the way to go.
Fexl version b26 released
I disagree. Despite the high valuations, a lot of the companies in YC rise past their seed stage valuations. You may overpay a bit, but you're essentially paying for more security. Most seed stage startups flame out before they even hit Series A -- YC startups are far less susceptible to this problem.
I have noticed very little correlation between time of day and prime hacking hours. For me, it's whenever I can ensure a 4 hour (or more) chunk of time without meetings/interruptions, which tends to be either early in the day or late at night.
Uses chained resolution to report all occurrences of undefined symbols.
I think it's more a goal of eliminating uncertainty about which letter occupies a slot.

For example, if I have guess T and E and see _ _ E as the word I know it's not the word "The".
I suppose you need the latest mesa and drm. It works great here, but I'm running code from git.
that seems wrong to me too, either I lost my math or I don’t see how he went from

6 ÷ 2 (1 + 2)

to

(6 * (1 + 2)) / 2
Aw. Whatever this query does, it doesn't do it in Mobile Safari :(
I think "a $4217/mo CDN bill" may be a bit of an exaggeration :p I honestly had no idea how much CDN's charge, threw some rough stats into AWS Monthly calculator for CloudFront (596GB/Month, 500kb avg. object size) and the bill was only $73.87 /month. Call me surprised!
There's a great way to find out. Track your working cycles and your breaks, and see how long they are at what times.

I made an app that helps you with that, look for Zone on the Mac App Store, if you're interested.
New dirigibles are power plants in the sky
Pretty close. If you really want to make the process "safe" (idempotent, to avoid double posted payments), you might actually have to do something more complicated such as:

GET /order/42/payment/new (returns "3", for example)

PUT /order/42/payment/3 (supplying content for payment info and amount)

Re-issuing the "PUT" (in case confirmation was lost? user double clicked "submit"?) would simply resend the same value, thus, an "idempotent" action.

Viewing this particular payment is simply:

GET /order/42/payment/3

Without the "3", who knows which payment you would get? (unless you got back the list of all payments on the order so far)

I'm not sure if this an argument for or against REST, but I'd sure hate to see a SOAP example typed into a "comment box" in a discussion forum :-)
I don't understand this argument. We're commenting on a thread where lax regulation of a payment processor appears to have resulting in a breach that disclosed 10 million credit cards. I'm not sure how that story admits to a pivot about over-regulation of payment processing.

Different people have different value schemes. For instance, personal liberty is far more important to me than airport security. But in my value scheme, which I think is probably widely shared, the safety of consumer financial data is more important than whether it costs $500,000 or $20,000,000 to operate a payment processor at scale.

(I don't, for what it's worth, really believe that all new market entrants to payment processing have to pay 8 figure sums to launch).

Also: in case anyone's wondering, I've never worked for or with Greenspan, or even met him in person. I assume the history he's referring to is on HN.
HP C7975A LTO5 Cartridge A Biggest Hitter in Exhaustive Data Storage
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Exactly, there is nothing wrong with long range planning. Planning this far out allows you LOTS of time to iterate on your plans, making them better.
Haha I was about to post the same thing.

sqrt(xx+yyy)+3cos(sqrt(xx+yy))+5
The thought of being interrupted doesn't make me want to start hacking complex stuff. When they are all gone you can do the impossible....
He calls the people who use this app creeps and stalkers, yet he downloads it, shows it to a table of his friends, then writes about it. Comes off as a completely hypocritical white knight.

Wow! He downloaded an app and then showed it to people before writing about it. What exactly is hypocritical about that? I agree that the tone of the article is a little strange and posting photos of the women was unnecessary, but I don't see how downloading an application and showing it to people makes him a hypocrite.
> It doesn't work in Chrome 18 which has WebGL disabled (on Linux).

Chrome 18 on Ubuntu 11.04 with real crappy Intel Mobile 4 Chipset and it works.
My hours tend to be 10pm-2am but most of that is probably due to the lack of distractions. Everyone in my house is asleep at 10pm and I have no interruptions.

Is this the same case for others who are working late nights?
This is all good stuff. I'm pretty active in Co-Founder recruiting. When I apply to incubators, I still list out the portfolios of all the people that I've talked to, so that they are aware of who I'd like to get aboard. The main problem is not having any money to hire them. I've had a few that are willing to do sweat equity, but they have their hands tied with other commitments (work, school) and projects. When I go to meetups and hackathons, the first thing people ask me when I say that I need a Co-Founder is "Do you have any money?". Granted, I wouldn't want to work with the type of folks that say anyway, but seed capital will help me pluck talent away from cubicles or have a 3rd-party get a MVP made. I need a developer and a designer. I want to split the equity 3-ways evenly among us.

You also have to raise the bar of what you're looking for by learning to code yourself. Codecademy is great, because everyone on a startup needs to be technical to some extent, at least early on. You need to be able to collaborate shoulder to shoulder.
No, if you drop the number before the parenthesis you get 6/3, or 2.

6 ÷ 2 ( 1 + 2 )

6 ÷ ( 1 + 2 )

6 ÷ ( 3 )

2
It's more like a Devo hat...
Yikes. A lot of 'you' accusations there.

>You were making unfounded assumptions (that enabling WebGL would be as trivial as installing Chrome)

No, I made the point that installing Chrome is trivial and the message explicitly states that your system simply might not be capable. If that's the case, what is Google supposed to do? Just render an empty grid and make a "whah-wha" noise?

>at the same time ignored the fact that you get highly useful results from WA without any plugins or bleeding-edge tech

No I didn't. At all. I am not saying this is an "answer" or a competitor to WolframAlpha. This is a trivial feature that was thrown in. It's non-essential and I bet you'll never ever see Google pushing a browser plugin on any of their sites save for some existing exceptions (Talk). As you've noted, there are tons of places to go besides Google for a 3d graph.

>Having good fallbacks is important.

When it doesn't require confusing your user, or compromising standards to ask them to install a gargantuan plugin.

edit: If the whole point of this was merely to clean up the error message or simply suppress it on unsupported browsers, then sure, but like I said, I genuinely just didn't understand the sarcasm, my apologies.
Another thing we could do instead is index the copyright length to life expectancy. It was 14 years in 1790 (average expectancy was 35.5), which means it should be around 28 years today. It was meant to give creators a time-limited monopoly (presumably while they were actually alive); that length sounds about right to me for that.
Welcome to the brave new world. You can single out this app but it does not matter - once the data is out there, it's going to be used this way. Most people do not understand participating in social networks means broadcasting your private life to the whole green world. This is a very new thing - you never before had an option to do that even if you wanted. So there are no common sense rules about it, and mothers can't teach their children to behave right on Facebook - because nobody has enough experience with that stuff yet. And unfortunately, I foresee a number of creepy and outright evil things happening before this common sense emerges and becomes part of the collective wisdom. It's much bigger than any single app, that app is only a tiny symptom.
When I used to do contracts in my 20s I would wake up at about 8pm, go out to nightclubs, not drink, come home about 3am then work on code until 11 am and then talk to clients. I would then fall asleep around noon. It was really great because I was really fresh and happy when I went out clubbing and the most annoying part of my day, talking to clients, happened when I was about to fall asleep.
This quoted argument is moronic, he is saying in effect "either do it our way or not at all". No one is saying there should be no security at all. In the rest of the world there was pre-boarding security prior to 9/11, it was pretty much only the US where there was very little security on domestic flights, this presented a soft underbelly to attackers which only an idiot would have ignored.

El Al is the perfect example of how flight security should be achieved, and yes, it involves profiling to select the people you want to pay most attention to.
Well, if I was Google, I probably wouldn't make an error message the top search result.

I am running Chrome on a Thinkpad, so it's not like I can actually do anything to fix the error.
Disclaimer: I live in SF, not NYC, but I disagree with your post.

> "$2000 apartment which is an insane amount to pay for housing."

SF is at the same level now. A solid 1BR in the city proper (as opposed to say, out in Outer Richmond) will easily hit $2000. And beyond. New construction (SOMA) would be closer to $3-4K. This is in the same range as what both dev_jim and cletus claim.

> "BART stations are much cleaner than NYC subway stations, I find the trips much more pleasant."

Being someone who commutes on BART daily, no, they're really not. MTA stations are older and slightly more run-down looking, but cleanliness-wise, they're about the same. The interesting thing is that MTA subway trains are considerably cleaner than any BART train.

Hell, if we're going to talk about general city cleanliness - just about any sidewalk in Manhattan is much, much cleaner than any sidewalk in SF. I don't know about you, but I've never had to dodge human excrement in NYC, whereas it seems to be a semi-frequent occurrence here in the City.

> "Eating fast food <$7 will quickly make you feel pretty unhealthy in NY. All that greasy pizza and chinese food."

As opposed to greasy Chinese food in the Sunset? Burritos in the Mission? The food scene between the two cities are not too different - both NYC and SF have a lot of cheap, good-for-you food if you know where to find it. Both cities also have a whole lot of greasy stuff-that-will-kill-you food that's just as easily accessible. If you think eating cheaply in NYC necessitates pizza and Chinese takeout, you're sorely mistaken, just as you would be mistaken if you thinking burritos are a necessary food in SF.

> "The fact is that if you work late into the night, the cars come less frequently"

This is true in SF also. Live in Oakland and work in the city? Welp, you're fucked, frequently. BART also shuts down at midnight, which puts you in a SOL position a lot more often than it would be in NYC. I've talked to numerous cabbies/Uber drivers who laugh at the idea of doing an East Bay run on a busy night. You can't even find a cab to drive you across the bridge at exorbitant rates! :P

> "Don't forget that, during rush hour, you stand in a sardine can with a hundred other people."

Hop on a BART car at rush hour. Or worse, hop on a MUNI train at rush hour in one of the downtown stations - I've been on a NY subway car during rush, it's actually marginally emptier than, say, the N-Judah at rush.

> "$1000/mo one-bedrooms"

Have you looked at SF housing prices lately? You can't even find a studio in the Tenderloin for $1K.
I haven't travelled as much as some, but I've travelled enough to learn that nowhere has the monopoly on the best way of life. Australia has great weather and a relaxed outdoors lifestyle, but few opportunities in technology, not much cultural life, and an over-reliance on cars. London has amazing energy and cultural institutions, but it is crowded and expensive. Then consider that things which are important now might not be important in ten years time.

There is no best place to live. There is just the best place to live for you right now.
Ashton Kutcher preceded the hype. During his trophy husband days, he branched out into VC/angel investing to prove that he was more than just a pretty face married to Demi Moore.

Despite his affinity for playing idiots onscreen, he's very intelligent in real life.
How China's New Love Affair with U.S. Private Schools Is Changing Them Both