skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about this for a while since I travel so much, I think there is a market although I don't know how profitable it'd be.

A site full of hotel wifi ratings, speeds and passwords would be so awesome. Kind of like bugmenot or maybe hipmunk with an agony rating for hotels.
I wonder how hard it would be to build a detector. I coul mount it on my front porch.
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I thought I recognized his sister (featured in the video). Turns out she is Kat Dennings, a relatively successful actress. - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0993507/ . Anyway, nice project...most of the key locator products currently on the market are junk.
>For me, lawyers extract the salient points avoiding the need to get bogged down in the text itself.

For me, the primary value of lawyers is that they eliminate or constrain the downside. It's too easy for someone untrained in law to introduce a mistake, technicality or otherwise, that could cause big problems down the road. Having a lawyer review everything you sign and agree to is a crucial part of downside risk management.
Are there any iPhone/Android + Doorknob solutions out there? I don't want keys at all! I would love to replace my doorknob and just have my phone transmit a key to unlock the door as I approach.

One problem could be if the phone ran out of battery. Perhaps a small usb charger near the door for emergencies?

Man I would love that.
In a few words:

250 of the 300 seats are allocated proportionally among the parties that got over 3% of the vote. The remaining 50 go to the first party.
There may be different ways to make non-minimal economic returns without copyrights.
technology progresses fast, more than that - it progresses faster than it progressed 2, 5, 10 years ago. getting newer laptop is not a linear jump in benefits you could get with upgrades so from consumer point of view getting shorter life span is logical.

also less repairable/upgradable device is often more solid and reliable.

dropped repairability is just a tradeoff between delivering more "awesome" device and delivering longer-lasting device - no wonder apple has taken the path it did.

p.s. no-one forces you to throw away laptop you own just because new version was released. in fact most macbook owners will just sell current devices and in 10 years time it might still end up in hands of 4 year old
>Well, two+ years then, although it seemed much longer in my mind. I remember having an Android phone back in the day, I've had 3 versions of iOS and 2 iOS devices since then.

That's still absurd hyperbole. You're claiming that more than half of Android users are on a 2+ year-old version, but the figures you're citing show 75% are running an 18 month-old or newer version.

>With only 7% using it as of now, despite it being 8 months out already, I wouldn't hold my breath. And even if it catches one 6 months from now, the next version will also be similarly stalled, and so on.

That number is for devices seen in circulation by Google Play. It makes sense that you'd see lower numbers for the newest version. Existing user haven't upgraded phones yet and old inventory takes time to clear out. More importantly, most handset manufacturers haven't been through a holiday buying season with ICS yet (because Verizon had a Samsung exclusive but shipped after last year's holiday buying peak).

So, I appreciate the gist of your argument, but you undermine your point with hyperbole and outright falsehoods. Objectively speaking, fragmentation and version updates are a difficult problem for any manufacturer, and even Apple is not immune. For example, I had an iPhone 3g that became pretty useless after the iOS 4 update, meanwhile I had over a year left on my contract. All in all it was a very bad customer experience even though I did receive the newest version, whereas I'm extremely happy with my Galaxy Nexus running ICS.
I knew I recognized his sister. She starred in 'Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.' Awesome, awesome movie.
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The way it was explained to me was that the corporate governance rules are different in Delaware, but the operational rules about how you actually do business and pay taxes and hire people and stuff would be the same. If you operate in CA but are incorporated in delaware, you have some added complexity, too, as you need to file both places.

The way it was explained to me was that I would only gain benefit from incorporating in Delaware if there were other owners; because I was the only owner and I have no plans to get investors, there's no advantage to having legal bullshit in two places.
I am submitting this with no expectation it will make it to the front page, just wanted to share the hilarity in the funniest thing we've found since launching
sed '$G;1h;1!H;$!d'
Naming things changes our perception of the world. This is know from centuries ago, zen master, buddist, they know this.

In the video, the Tribe need to see the difference between greens because they must know the difference between a poison leaf and a one good.
Each culture evolves to name the important things to them
And let's be honest, referencing Avatar, Minority Report and moral philosophy(!) raise a few red flags about the quality of the argument too :D
The industry will never let you get off strips because the strips cost a penny or two to make but sell for $1 each.

So they make millions off insurance for the strips at the expense of society and the people who cannot get insurance.

If they ever invented a $100 device that doesn't need strips they would completely destroy the crazy profit they have.

The article didn't mention the Contour USB which is completely digital but of course still needs strips.
I'm planning to try the same. Would you have some pointers where to start my job search? Did you write to specific companies or did you start your search by crawling job offer sites?
No, it makes the author a moron that wants to jump on a bandwagon to get a few pageviews.
> There's tons of decent programmers out there, and 99% of them won't get famous or found a sustainable business.

I think we read this article differently. His point is that, programming-wise, it doesn't take a lot to make a successful business. He's saying that being mediocre is good enough.
What changes you think will happen to make healthcare innovation go faster? And how can we help push those changes ?
> ... the old method presumes there is something wrong with your body ...

The comment you replied to is presumably about type 1 diabetes, an inflammatory disease that destroys the body's ability to produce insulin. You are referring to type 2 diabetes.
>Even though I used Orrick to create these docs, I did not hire them when it was time for a lawyer.

I don't think this was their intent. What kind of crazy law firm would want a client that used free legal documents off the web? They want the super rich people who would say "Oh, that's really nice what they are doing" and will file the Orrick name in the back of their head. People like you and me are the targets of the low-end of the legal field. $100/hr guys that work without a retainer.

The only case where they'd want a free customer to convert to a paid customer is if the free customer became really, really wealthy.
Twitter HTTP Error Code 420 - Enhance Your Calm
So the "constituency" map has no actual electoral meaning?
Worth browsing the code just to see some very well organized source for a tornado+redis+backbone stack, which is pretty popular I think on the real-time web.
Please stop using fonts with serifs for the web. It's a strain on the eye. Great article, though.
It'd be awesome if TripAdvisor added this (if anyone from there is reading ;-)). Not that I have great love for TripAdvisor but they seem to have the most reviews, listings, and an existing user base they could get to provide the info..
I'm at peace with the upgradablity issue. It is personal taste so whatever. I agree with others that it is a silly debate and that the author is overly butt-hurt.

However, his "rebuttal" completely ignores the 2nd half of the original article's point: the new macbooks, and all ipad, are not recyclable despite what Apple says.

Not that Apple has a monopoly on callously diluting terms like "all natural", "recyclable", "free range", etc to increase profits and mislead consumers, thereby, eh, destroying the...EARTH. But still, even as the norm, it's pretty f-ing evil.
Just to make it even harder, you can't really trust the websites when they say there is wifi. Sure, they might have an access point, but your room might not be near it.

Off topic, why not do AirBnB and go out for breakfast? Depending on the country you're in, it might be as cheap and awesome as eating in your temporary home.
Unless you're using enterprise class SSD's with SLC flash and ultracaps to guarantee that the writes make it in cases of power loss, you're risking your data if using this as ZIL.

Cheap consumer class SSD's are generally fine for L2ARC.
Yeah it really seems like something that would be a killer feature of a larger system.
Holy shit. This is genius!
There's a rough open source clone of Filelight for Macs[1]. Disclaimer: I'm the original author, but no longer involved.

A commercial app in the same genre, DaisyDisk[2], is much more flashy and polished. You can also get the KDE/Mac version filelight from MacPorts, as part of package 'kdeutils4'.

[1] https://github.com/jvhaarst/MacFileLight
[2] http://www.daisydiskapp.com/
I realise your intentions are good, but most diabetics get the paleo advice every other day.
I live in San Francisco. When I was last shopping for a car, the car's dimensions were one of the primary criteria I used to decide. No auto website supplies this information, much less let you query upon it, so I was reduced to pad-and-paper and Wikipedia. I have thought over the years that there "should be" a site that centralizes all of this arcana, but whether there's a market niche here I haven't found it. Heck, even Newegg et al, retail sites that use search facets (sidebar filters) have poor content and/or underimplemented details.

So, it's probably worth more to complain to BedAndBreakfast.com to be doing this since they likely already pay someone to pursue details like the one's they already do have. They probably just don't think it's very important and nobody is telling them otherwise.
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Marsha and John's guests and visitors, however, are a different matter.
FWIW, when building the second version of the core tech from which BT was of forked we did license the tornado codecs from digital fountain to try to get a better reliability rate and it ended up being worse than a wash; setting aside the additional complexity it adds to the system it completely screws with internal block verification based on hashes. The blocks are also not structured compared to other FEC codecs (e.g. Rizzo) so you lose any hope of streaming. Long sorry short, unless you are trying to get around nasty packet loss there are better encoding schemes for this sort of data distribution task.
I'm not very familiar with X-Frame-Options and X-XSS-Protection headers. Do they actually do anything for errors or empty responses, or does this stack just add them by default?
Upvoted cause you're apparently the only mod that saw it worth their time to give a reply.

Mods should obviously, as a rule, own up to whatever they moderate. I've seen many a forum go down in flames because of "invisible modding". You almost can't blame them, it's human nature that great power wielded anonymously will end up being abused.

So, the obvious solution is to fix the software to display "edited by ..." whenever someone edits something. I say "fix", because it's almost a bug. All popular forum software has this feature, and there are almost no good reasons not to enable it.

Failing that, mods can easily start taking this matter in their own hands by simply adopting the habit of appending a short tag to whatever got edited, for instance {ani} in your case (or soemthing like that).
Seed Funding for Startup
I'm looking for some seed funding for my startup. I'm 16, and we think we have an awesome product with a wide reach and we've racked up quite a bit of invite requests. Where should I start looking for seed funding? I'll be in the Bay Area for quite a bit this summer and I'll end up moving there at the end of it. Any help would be appreciated!
Wow, so few people ever used it im suppressed you remember it. You are correct, it was built with Django and did support about 10 services.

The mejor flaw with the service was that you needed to get all you friends signed up to it as well in order to get them to enter all their accounts.

It was fun to make and I lernt allot building it...
AirBnb allows you to constrain a search to properties that have Internet, Wireless Internet, and Breakfast.

Do a search, then look on the right side of the page for the "Amenities" widget (you have to scroll all the way down). You could also add "beach" and/or "ocean" as a keyword in the widget right under that.

Voila.

http://www.airbnb.com/search?location=California&keyword...
Interesting that most of them are detected in 1997 (4 out of 6 specific ones).
Give them a call?

Better than searching through sites when a lot of the time they don't have that info on it.

It should be listed though... it should.
Did you even read the article?

"Vizio is one of the best-kept secrets in consumer technology. The tiny Southern California company consistently sells the most HDTVs in America, but it's a sure bet that you know virtually nothing about it. Hell, most people don't even know Vizio is an American company, even though all but three of its 417 employees work in the US. That's sort of what happens when you run virtually no advertising outside of sponsoring a few major events like the Rose Bowl, hold no press conferences outside of CES, and build the foundation of your empire by selling low-cost TVs at Walmart. Yet Vizio's customers keep coming back, and bringing others: a combination of low prices, increasing quality, and solid customer support is pretty hard to resist."

Vizio sells their products in walmart for good prices and relies on word of mouth. How many average walmart shoppers even know what linux is? It might get them some free press but it's probably not the press they need. Personally I'd love to be able to get the thing $100 cheaper without the windows license, but what about the time they have to spend testing and developing drivers/etc will that even out the cost? What about the extra support they'll have to provide for Joe Walmartshopper trying to install word on his brand new machine he just dropped $800 on? What kind of press will it generate when they tell him, that no he can't use outlook?
As much as I'd love to see linux on these things it's not a good business decision. Company's like dell massive resources with a huge product like so they can have a linux offering, but for a company like this it just doesn't make sense.
I'm nearly salivating at the thought of writing graph algorithms at that scale . . . and actually having the outcome mean something and be acted upon in a timely fashion. It sounds like a dream job to me. That scale and depth of information is a very powerful tool, no doubt, and it should be wielded for a good purpose. This article at least encourages me that people are thinking beyond the bottom line on these issues. Awesome.
I had that as well (Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.151)
May I ask what's wrong with using Ubuntu on the Air that doesn't fit your criteria. It appears it does.
Running a couple of online businesses that require us to have online access wherever we are (it's always when you decide to go away for a week that the site goes down or an army of spammers targets your member), this is a problem we constantly run into whenever we go away, be in on holidays or for business.

There's nothing like that yet as far as I know. Most hotels and B&B will indicate whether they've got wifi access. Typically, if wifi isn't mentioned, it means no wifi.

But knowing that wifi is available isn't actually all that helpful. You'll often find that wifi is available but costs more than the room itself. Or, even more often, it just doesn't work or is unusably slow.

So we always try to get a place with wifi but also always carry an unlocked MiFi with us. In the UK, you can get one for £50 on PAYG on Three and unlock it for a few quids. PAYG data topups in the UK on Three are reasonably priced (£15 for 3GB of data). When we go abroad, we first check this wiki to find local operators with decent PAYG data plans and we buy a local SIM card as soon as we land: http://prepaidwithdata.wikia.com/wiki/Prepaid_SIM_with_data

It's a hassle but if you really need internet access, that's the only option at the moment I'm afraid. There is definitely a niche for a way to identify hotels and B&B with free / reasonably priced and reliable wifi connection (and also cafés while we're at it - it's an incredible pain to find café with working wifi).
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> PAYG data topups in the UK on Three are reasonably priced (£15 for 3GB of data).

When did that become "reasonably priced"?
We, as hackers, are not the target.

Apple is targeting everyone else; they are selling to the rest of the world, the people who want something that works and don't care a whit about upgradability.

The only people that care about upgrading hardware are an extreme minority and Wintel salespeople.

After all, when was the last time your uncle Bob, that guy who does some computer stuff but is not a power user, told you he needed to upgrade his ram?
Thanks for the helpful info. I did do a lot of research about it but still wasn't 100% sure. I am a solo "owner" so I think I'm good.
That's only because there's no punctuation. The sentences end, sort of, but the full stops have been omitted.
So how does this work if the winner is unable to form a coalition? Do they just keep having new elections every month?
I was planning on speaking with a lawyer but there really isn't much at this point except consulting so I was holding off. Thanks for the feedback & info.
Facebook is to buying Opera
People don't object because providing Facebook with personal data is voluntary and directly related to the service it provides. Facebook cannot store or display your private photos without having a copy, it cannot let you contact anyone without knowing whom you want to contact, etc.
This is the first one I've seen that uses Python as a backend.

Since Python is all I use in my shop, you've earned yourself my dearest thanks and a new follower.
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I like to think:

"I am not a special snowflake, the sun does not shine out of my ass. But, if I work hard and apply my skills creatively in areas where others aren't it doing it as much, I may well have a shot at something cool.
At least, a better shot than if I did nothing today"
> Moore’s Law: RAM and SSD

Not true with RAM, at least for capacity!

My late-2008 MacBook Pro has been upgraded to 8GB of RAM, which is the maximum available for all current MacBook Pros except the new Retina edition (16GB). Just barely doubling in 4 years ≠ doubling every ~2 years.

Likewise, SSDs are not doubling in meaningful specs every two years, either.
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Seems like something you could use a site like exec or taskrabbit for. Have a "personal assistant" call around some diffetent B&Bs (or even have them find B&Bs for you) and get info on their wifi.
Honestly if Djang is any indication of the development skills of the team I highly doubt the codebase is a huge mess. There are not many organizations where the development of an in-house tool spins off a high quality framework that becomes a mainstream tool.
I thought there wasn't one single root, but 13? And aren't root DNS servers already de-centralized geographically and using anycast?

Here is the map of current root servers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Root-current.svg
UK companies can hire workers from anywhere within the EU without any sort of bureaucracy - EU citizens have an automatic right to work anywhere in the EU. The EU includes a number of low-wage countries with good numbers of skilled developers.

There is currently some amount of anti-immigration sentiment in many EU countries, mainly because of the recession. Governments can do nothing to restrict intra-EU migration, so tend to make life hard for non-EU migrants to look tough on immigration. The current British government is tightening quotas on non-EU immigration.

A British company is unlikely to even look at your CV if there's another qualified applicant in the pile, because of the cost and complexity of employing a non-EU worker.

There is no shortage of generalist developers in the UK and wages are significantly lower than in the US. Unless you have some specialised skills, your job search is likely to be quite arduous.
And I'm saying that that pattern doesn't exist, at least no more for scientists than for any other field. (If you broaden your field to other than politics, then think about all the other people who have switched careers. President Obama was a law professor earlier in life. Sting was a schoolteacher.)

I gave a list of famous scientists who did not move well beyond the scientific area where they made their name. I'll add more: Cyrus Levinthal, Dorothy Hodgkin, Hermann Weyl, Edsger Dijkstra, Maria Mitchell, Abraham Maslow, John Wheeler. The list goes on and on. Again, consult a list of Nobel Prize winners and see how it's no more common for "famous scientists in a particular field" to do what you say they do than for any other profession.

I posit that you have sampling error, in that you've mostly only heard of scientists who are known in their field and are also known for work outside their field.
I find it reasonably priced to be honest given how handy this is what I use it for. 3GB goes a long way actually. What would you find reasonable?
ZFS has an interesting caveat -- when you're adding disks to an existing pool, you can't simply add an arbitrary amount of new disks and rebalance the data across the existing disks and the new disk(s).

I'm using FreeNAS and 5x2TB raidz1 in the N36L and if I need more space, it's going to require some very careful planning.

That said, the hardware is a STEAL for the price, and FreeNAS + transmissiond + remote-gui rock my socks off. I'm strongly considering just buying a brand new one when I'm out of space on the N36L.
U.S. Air Force's eight most wanted fugitive, turns up in Sweden
The large strategic moves major vendors like Microsoft, Adobe, Google, and especially Apple with the IOS platform seem to be doing a good job of killing whole subclasses of vulnerabilities, and of driving up the cost of exploitation (above and beyond flaw discovery).

Your point about software maintenance introducing a continuous stream of new flaws is well taken, but ultimately I think vendors who take this problem seriously are in a very good position to do something about it.
Same.

I wonder what the barrier is like for kids these days to make their first code edit, and how likely it is to happen without any intention of learning to program. All these walled gardens may at times contribute to great products but so much of my personal development came from tinkering on systems that not only allowed but invited such behavior that I wonder what is being lost.
This is pretty cool! I'm just disappointed that 420 doesn't say Enhance Your Calm, but then again, you're not Twitter https://dev.twitter.com/docs/error-codes-responses
Please re-read the article--the author is absolutely not making the point you think he is. All he is saying is that hackers are less likely to be willing to pay for software than most people, so the fact that the typical hacker news reader is unwilling to pay for something doesn't mean that it isn't a viable product. It's a shame that the top comment on this article is attacking a straw-man argument.