skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like it needs intent, not just a particular shape. If you give everybody the finger because you mean to be offensive, that's offensive. But if you do it because you just find it more comfortable somehow, nobody should care (although I'm sure they will).
People want to talk about investment bubbles or the national debt, but here's a topic I don't see enough of: by subsidizing investment in college education for everyone without some feedback loop to make sure grads have employable skills, we've created a huge debt burden of people owing college loans for skills the marketplace isn't valuing. And it's just getting worse. And to "fix it", just like the way we fix all these other bad policies like taxes, we'll just tighten the screws on some minority of the population that people will accept.

Quite frankly I'm disgusted at the whole thing, and I blame both political parties for it. The young are getting screwed over royally by previous generations who knew economics but failed to apply it in their policy decisions. You can't pay for something for somebody else without a very detailed and tight feedback loop. You'll only end up driving up prices and getting less value.

But to your direct point: I can't play the hypothetical game here. It has no end. I'll propose a counter-argument and you'll shoot that down, and on we go ad infinitum. My point was that it is critical to view yourself as adapting to the market, wherever that is, not the other way around. If you sit in your figurative parent's basement waiting for that management job, it's not only bad for you it's also bad for the rest of us. You have to accept your role is adaptation, and the even more bitter truth that you might have spent four years gaining nothing but a bad attitude and a boat load of debt. Blech. Not a good place to start. But for some, that's the reality of where they are.

You have to make decisions and baby steps toward adaptation. What those decisions are and what those steps are is going to vary from person to person.

ADD: Note that this is the very definition of a startup. Go find something people want and give it to them. Adapt and pivot based on what the market wants, not what you want (or have been trained) to do.
The project is run and was started by the team asking for backing on Kickstarter. The article hinted at various ways they could make money. I think the most promising would be to allow advertisers on the servers they run, and let them have whatever data their users choose to share. Just because users own their data doesn't mean they will always choose to hide it from advertisers.
There is an actively maintained fork of GotoBLAS2, OpenBLAS: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS
Researchers found a lake of water so large...

...the water vapor is the finest mist...

Calling it a lake is totally wrong then. I was really disappointed when I discovered, reading further down, that this isn't a humongous blob of solid water, a space-lake, after all... :( Not sure if even qualifies as a "body" of water, more like an "atmosphere" of water vapor...
The information isn't being transmitted. Only the "public key" to read the information is transmitted from A to B. The information magically appears at B because of quantum entanglement. It's brilliant!
On the contrary, I see a constant influx of new users joining, and lot's of active very interesting topics. Diaspora can be an interesting place, or look like a stagnated wasteland depending on how you use it, and your skill in applying hashtags.
Sweet! I use tig daily as my main git viewer.

Here are some bindings my in .tigrc, which I use in the log viewer window, to make it more vim like:

bind generic g move-first-line

bind generic G move-last-line

bind generic n next

bind generic p previous

I generally use n/p to flip between commits in log view, hit enter to view a specific commit, and then j/k to move lines on the commit view.
Apple must build an iTV. Remember XBox? Microsoft still hasn’t made its investment back, but what it did do was buy them another decade of Windows dominance on the desktop, because gaming consoles could have been the post-PC devices that took over from PCs.

Now it turns out that phones and tablets are the post-PC devices, but thing might be very different if everyone owned a Sony PlayStation that also streamed movies and music into the home.

So what about Apple and their post-PC devices? If someone else figures out how to replace televisions with a connected device, they can also roll sideways into tablets and phones. If you subscribe to game of Thrones on your TV, you are going to want to buy the tablet that integrates wit the TV so you can watch an episode in your bed. You are going to want the phone that integrates with it so you can use your phone as a remote... From anywhere in the world.

Apple cannot allow anyone else to make this happen. Either televisions need to remain dumb terminals connected to coax, or Apple needs to own them. Apple cannot sit on their hands and watch Google (or maybe Amazon) figure this out.
Games Age Rating Rules Change
If you guys could read the update I've posted in my blog I'd appreciate it. I cleared up a lot of assumptions you guys have been making. Most notably that I was fired due to this incident. I was not.
Scala criticisms
I wrote a thesis about this photograph in 1982 and still have the TeX file on a floppy somewhere.

I also have a poor B&W negative of it taken on a fast film in low light.

I must dig it out and revive it.
Well the trouble is really polymorphism, and I was actually thinking more about polymorphic data structure: i.e. data structures where the elements are required to have certain methods callable on them. I agree this is typical OO design and could be approached in other ways, but none I know of are satisfactory.
How much would it cost to get a lawyer to go over some contracts with you and let you know what's in there that you don't want? I imagine it depends on the type of contract, but a guess would be helpful.
All advertising is misleading in a sense, the question is where to draw the line: the legal complaint (http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/02/02/Nutella.pdf) states that the moms were duped because they saw TV commercials that showed moms feeding Nutella to their healthy families. Although I think the ""An example of a tasty yet balanced breakfast." label should be removed from Nuteall jars (which'll be done, http://commonlaw.findlaw.com/2012/05/nutella-lawsuit-company...) I don't the millions of dollars awarded (I misstated this, actually it was $3.06M) makes sense, but then I'm no lawyer.

BTW, you can go to this site (https://nutellaclassactionsettlement.com/FrequentlyAskedQues...) and claim up to $20 if you've bought Nutella, no receipts asked (until the allocated $2.5M runs out).
Unsorted bookmarks + Awesomebar in Firefox works great for that. It's search-inside-bookmarks is great.
And that's it, there's nothing more to it.

It's great if your goal is to avoid straightforward failure (= crash), it's bad if your goal is to also avoid undefined behavior (= invalid program state).

Have you discovered something else on the matter?
That depends on what you are using the map view for.

I've often used the satellite/hybrid view to help orient myself in unfamiliar cities or areas by finding reference points (coloured buildings, obvious statues or landmarks etc)...

If you just want to know that a given address is on street X between avenues 4 and 5, then sure, but that's not the only use for a Maps app..
Kickstarting an iOS App, Part 1...
If you actually want to be an astronaut and to pay off your student debt, your best bet is to join the US Navy or the US Air Force, and become a fighter pilot who is also a technical and scientific genius.

They will, however, start you off on doing things which are far more demeaning, gruelling and uncomfortable than merely flipping burgers, before you ever get to fly a goddamn fighter jet or a spaceship.

Flipping burgers isn't a particularly good pathway to anything, but all the good pathways to anywhere start off just as shite.
When did they switch from Chameleon to TwUI?
Mori: Persistent Data Structure & Reducers for JS
It's only smarter to put the electronics in an add-on box that you can upgrade more frequently if people actually upgrade add-on boxes more frequently.

But do they?

Tivos, VCRs, DVD players -- very few get replaced with an 'upgrade' by regular people. [1]

And gaming consoles, the case to study for set-top boxes that people do upgrade, get replaced only every 5+ years. And they have massively lower market penetration.

[1] Notwithstanding early adopters replacing limited early-run devices with later ones, as with early dvd players getting replaced by those that did dual-layer without a pause.
More likely, they're just doing whatever everyone else is doing, or whatever they were subjected to.
For turn by turn a lot os ios users use the Waze app. I've used it a fair bit and really like it.
I recently closed on a house in Ohio. At closing, the notary verbally summarized every contract we signed. I'm not sure if it was legally required (I believe he stated it was) but I also took the time to read them. Most of them were copies of contracts I had already signed with the realtor / mortgage company at offer / mortgage application, so nothing was particularly surprising.

Further, at offer time, the realtor read aloud every contract and answered questions we had about them. I don't feel that they tried to pull the wool over my eyes at any point. Perhaps it's different with other realtors?
Someone on HN caught that as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944467
If it's not too late, I think you should consider a name revamp. I get that you want to convey the speed and power/ease/fluidity of your application, but the truncation + concatenation of those two words ends up not bringing either of those words to mind. I don't blame you if English is not your first language; but this is a case where the combo does not work because you've combined two unrecognizable parts of two words to create a third unrecognizable word.

As someone said earlier, people are much more likely to think of "tragic." Actually, I think they'll think of "rage", which is an emotion that you most definitely do not want associated with your software.

Given that you aren't even getting the connotation of "rapid"/"magic", you're better off using an arbitrary word.

For Arrested Development fans, think of the combo-profession of "Analyst" + "Therapist".
It's better than not reading it, but you still don't really know what you're signing. Maybe there's some catch or you're on the hook for something and the lawyer doesn't say anything (or even notice) because it's relatively standard for that kind of contract?

Probably a better use of time and money is to have them forward the documents to you, read over them the day before and ask a lawyer if you have any questions.
We're seeing a lot of improvements in areas that never seemed to get the love before

Mozilla started increasing its paid staff about 1.5 year ago and it almost doubled. Most of those people are now well worked in. It would have been sad if there was no user visible improvement. (Of course, not all new hires went to desktop Firefox with critical projects like B2G starting etc)

Increasing the release schedule coincided pretty well with that in getting the new work out faster, too.
Actually, Google Docs has not succeeded. You and I may used, but last time I checked it had something like a 1% share of the "office suite" (i.e if you include desktop Office et al).
This isn't what you think it is. It's definitely not an excel competitor. It feels like a cross between an Access and a Salesforce competitor.

It looks like you're close to making a good product. But you're at 90%.

Basically I tried creating a little app and it's very painful. I don't believe you've sat with a user and watched them try to create an app without you intervening and giving guidance.

So sit down with some real users and watch them try to use it. Your front page claims install>customize>import. It doesn't work like that at all. It was confusing. For example the upload excel img looks like it's a button. It's not. When I did manage to create an app I first tried editing the cells directly, but they're not cells like excel. Eventually I realized I had to add a textbox, which was also confusing as the width kept changing and I couldn't stop it. At about this point I gave up. Then got hit with multiple alerts when I tried to close the pages.

Then tried to save it.

The most confusing save mechanism I've ever come across.

Tried to just close the page again. Multiple warnings again.

Argh.

And calm. I'm in the process of stopping smoking so my temper is a little, hmm, Hulkish.

I decided to try again while writing this using the import excel function. It didn't work from the front page at all as you had to already have a project (why?). When I tried to do it via the upload the open file dialog never opened. I gave up again.

Also find someone who knows something about sales and marketing. There's not even a CTA button on the homepage to signup. The copy is terrible. You've made the mistake of going typical corporate million page website which doesn't actually tell me anything at all. The order of the home page is all wrong (you should not be leading with the app concept which doesn't actually seem to be in the product). You're making the mistake of selling features, not benefits.

I'd personally spend a little more time so the sales website didn't look like bootstrap (the irony being you don't even seem to be using bootstrap).

As I said, good, but no cigar yet.
hubot now counts as our official pet and as our new company feed provider. I'd wish for Stripe integration, so the gong plays every time we earn money. Great work with hubot on Kandan.
Not sure how much I can contribute, but I'd definitely appreciate it if you ever do publish it.
That's the point - a TV remote should have 2 buttons at most - input select and on/off. And that's if selecting an input doesn't turn it on and selecting "off" from the input list doesn't turn it off. Or none, if it turns on or off according to the presence or absence of signals in its selected input.

The set-top-box remote, OTOH, could be no more complex than an Apple remote - menu/back, play/select/pause, directions.

One day I'll try tearing out every button off my TV remote and leave just the power and input buttons. Should be an interesting experiment.
Some friends of mine are yelling "see? our tax code is pushing capital overseas!" My argument is, that with $4B at stake, even if we had a "reasonable" income tax, people like this would still seek out tax havens where the burden is even lower still.
Agreed.

Kohana's tutorials are pretty bad, but the API browser is solid and the code of the framework itself is very readable.

As a beginner, having to dig under the hood of Kohana to fully understand it initially turned me off, but I came away with a much better understanding of how MVC frameworks work.
> Even satellite map tiles are too- way too much extra, unimportant information.

They're great for geocaching though.
You're totally right. I forgot the solipsists. But I don't feel too bad, because they always forget about me, too.
Suppose you flip a coin on 100 candidates, one of whom is qualified. You'll get about 50 "hire" answers, and the odds are 50% that one of those hires is actually qualified.

So no, a coin flip is far worse.
Best advice: buy a pre-built theme on http://www.woothemes.com/ or http://themeforest.net/ or etc.
Ask HN: Teaching in the style of Khan
I am currently dissatisfied with Khan Academy's selection of history videos. I have been reading about Chinese, Japanese, and Arab history extensively over the past months and was thinking about explaining the major events and themes through a series of videos.

I regard Salman Khan's style as one of the best ways to teach, and it seems others do too (see Udacity).

Would I be helping the Khan Academy mission by making my history videos, or would I be seen as a meddling copy-cat?
Bitcoinica hacked again, 18.5K BTC this time (~ 100k US$)
Transaction: http://blockchain.info/tx-index/5416502/7a22917744aa9ed740faf3068a2f895424ed816ed1a04012b47df7a493f056e8

The website's DNS points to a porn site right now.

Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ti4a7/bitcoinica_hacked_again/
With Sarkozy out, French startups throw a tantrum
That would be great, tweet @nodeup if you do.
Legalzoom files to go public
I had to look it up,. This is what the contract was for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_flight_bag

It's basically meant to be a tablet-style display that contains all the manuals, maps, charts, checklists, and other information that a pilot would normally use while flying the plane. Interestingly enough, the night vision issue that TFA is talking about is one of the requirements for military versions of the device.
The problem never was the lack of OO, the problem is that you have to repeat yourself. There will come a type when you have a type that behaves a certain way (certain members, argument of certain functions) and then you will make a type that is mostly the same thing, but then slightly different (maybe one attribute is replaced by something else). You'll have to adapt everything you reproduce a lot of your logic or jump trough very annoying hoops to have your existing logic work with this new type.

If from OO, I could have only Java-like interfaces, it would probably be enough. Implicit type conversions could also work I suppose.
- facetime
- receive/switch call to tv
JP Morgan's Loss
I've recently become interested in HTTP caching myself, though I've started from the client side rather than the server.

My current idea is to have a ref that represents a HTTP resource, and takes advantage of the various caching headers like ETag and Cache-Control to limit requests to the server when you deref it.
I am sorry, but this guy is an idiot.

He is referring this study: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/hot-topics/caninequality.a...

It has a chart of INFLATION-ADJUSTED median after-tax income in 2009 dollars, from 1976 to 2009. He then takes a figure for 1984 from this chart, around $48500, and proceeds to compare it to prices in 1984 dollars, without converting them to 2009 dollars.

So from a house price of 100k in 1984, he infers it was only 2x times median income then. While in fact, he needs to convert 100k in 2009 dollars and get around 200k and 4x times median income.
Im surprised nobody is discussing the reason for the pull. Obviously the FBI has copied all the data on the server and are now using a backdoor in the encryption or brute force cracking to get into the information.

There is no such thing as safe data once the physical server is confiscated, and people shouldnt trust standard encryption algorithms to be safe from backdoors.

Microsoft Windows has had backdoors for a long time I reckon. Some of it are called "bugs" once its discoved and fixed with Windows Updates. Other stuff gets introduced that way as well.

Or they could have port knocking techniques built into the closed source kernel to allow people who know the code to enter the computer without any trace.
You are your new Competition
the phenomenon of mentioning Steve Jobs should probably be added as a corollary to Godwin's law

or maybe a broader law should have both Godwin's law and the Job's law as corollaries.
Cool! I've lost some love for google maps since they started showing the sponsored link as the first result. What was before a one search, one click activity is now one search, zoom to distinguish between the sponsored and real listing(often close by), then click. Pain!
Article rather specific to the Canadian big cities, in which prices are currently rather high. Some of this house price growth is transient, some is permanent.

How much does land cost? In a place like Toronto or Vancouver, it costs as much as it possibly can. That is to say, since desirable land in these cities is so much more desirable than undesirable land, people will pay as much as they can possibly afford in order to get a good piece of land rather than a lousy one.

What this means in practice for most people is: take all the money you're ever likely to earn, deduct the money you need to spend on other stuff, and what's left over is the amount of money you're going to wind up spending on a house. Sure, you can spend less if you want, but you're going to wind up living in a much worse place, and since (as I just said) the desirable places are much more desirable than the undesirable places, people are willing to give up, say, a fancier car, for the benefit of living in The Beaches rather than Outer Missisauga.

The good news is that things don't actually get worse for people just because they have to engage in this cut-throat competition for desirable land. Like I said, house prices merely soak up all the money that's left over once the necessities are paid for, and if house prices go up considerably in real terms it just means that the prices of necessities have, in real terms, dropped.
So you agree with your friends that people act in their best interests, including changing citizenship, when it comes to taxes, you just disagree on the amount of money it would take?
The strategic reason is mobile.

It isn't well known but all of these databases of aerial imagery, maps, street directions, speed limits, addresses are all sometimes licensable by third parties, sometimes not, and sometimes at extortionate rates.

How much of your mobile experience hinges on your use of location data? From turn by turn directions, general maps, businesses nearby, mass transit schedules, to friend locations and check-ins. Bottom line, Geographic information systems (GIS) data is a must-have feature for a smartphone.

Google has started raising the price on access to their data, this started a while ago and its been in fits and starts, but Apple can't just 'dump' all map info. Microsoft, same deal $$ for map datasets. So Apple is in the position of its two largest competitors having a way to suck arbitrary amounts of money out of them because they are suppliers of the 'must' have data on a smartphone.

New independent companies that can create GIS datasets can't compete with 'free' from Google and Microsoft for users, and even if they succeeded in creating a decent database and Apple used it, they would be subject to being purchased by Google or Microsoft. Finally there are patents (of course) around the use of map data and constructing maps etc from imagery, which a small company could not defend against but Apple can.

Therefore Apple has to own a GIS database that is at least as good as Google's version so that it can continue to provide a critical feature on their phone cost effectively.
Surely the number of people who would renounce their citizenship to save a small portion of their income is smaller than the number of people who would renounce their citizenship to save a large portion of their income.
Where is it now?
The catch here is: good luck getting back in. The US gov't takes notice of this stuff, and it's just good to be aware of the implications for if you ever want to come back to the US. Not saying it's wrong or right (by all means, the less tax the better), but it's important to be aware of the consequences.