skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
are you US based? I was trying to do the same a few years ago and found it was harder than expected to justify for short time periods with:

- new license plates
- state registration
- sales tax
- insurance
- city stickers
- title application and fees

I remember thinking it wasn't even worth it for me to do buy it and sell it on the 6 month time horizon (and I also couldn't find sub $1000 cars).

I'm asking from a place of envy, not challenge. Please teach me your ways. I must be doing this wrong. Would you mind shooting me an email: ezl@rocketlease.com
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I believe there are a select few cases where it's moral to tell other people what they can say, yes.

Your disbelief on this speaks to your moral arrogance.
Does fastmail include phone support? Their support link takes you to a form and points to online documentation. This seems like it provides less support than Google.
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I can tell you now there are countries where it isn't optional. It probably depends on when you're there and where in the country you are, as well as what you look like. I was driving through Russia in a right-hand-drive vehicle which has roughly the same effect as writing CHUMP in foot-high letters on the side of your vehicle. We got pulled over 12 times in one day by policemen looking for bribes, when we had done nothing wrong (if you do actually commit a minor traffic offense and get pulled over, they're even more aggressive about getting money out of you).

It is perfectly possible to get through without bribing them in cash, and we did - we only ever gave out cigarettes. At one point though they did take one person from our group away from us, to a windowless cell with a chair in the middle, and interrogated him for a while. They were just trying to scare him into giving them money though, we managed to get out of that through a combination of persistence (both in not relenting, and pretending we didn't understand their broken English), name dropping ("I want to speak to the British embassy") and one of our group bursting into tears (no one likes dealing with someone crying, including Russian policemen).

I haven't been to Ukraine, but people I spoke to who took that route found it to be even worse than what we experienced in Russia.

Oh, and fun fact: The Western-most country where a policeman wanted a bribe was the Czech Republic. I was surprised!
I find it sad (to annoying) that these projects still use actual form elements instead of `contenteditable`, even though they're quite obviously full-JS (and probably not going to be submitted through HTML forms), given the difficulty of correctly styling, integrating and interacting with form elements.

The web is in dire need of a library correctly reimplementing "form behaviors" (events, mostly) on top of contenteditable, and allowing those behaviors to be applied to arbitrary (to the extent that browser implementations allow) elements on the fly.

edit: just in case, don't take me wrong, HTML forms should stay and I'm an advocate of less javascript everywhere as it tends to be mandated in places where it has no reason to be (and to ultimately decrease usability rather than enhance it), but if you're going to do "edit in place" and rich web applications which require javascript to run — and using the library linked above would probably qualify as you can't do anything without JS enabled and a fairly recent browser running it. And in those cases, HTML form elements tend to be a hindrance more than a help.
Looking for performance? Probably you should Not use [].sort (V8)
Who said instead? Why not in addition to? Don't be such a hater.
Honestly apart from a couple of times where the police were being extra aggressive, we found it fun. We just got used to it and it became a bit of a game - "this time, let's pretend none of us speak any language except German!"
How can we do custom styles on it? Right now it's not aligned with other share buttons.

Screenshot: http://g2f.nl/0c4ajy1.png

Edit: You can style ".hn-share-iframe". Then the next issue: it's much wider than it needs to be when the story has already been submitted (see the screenshot, there's a lot of blank space on the right). Is there any other solution besides just positioning it on the right of the share buttons list?
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markokocic I run the CTOvision site and I apologize for that horrid popup. I was experimenting with a new plugin that did not work right and I really screwed it up. But I pulled it down as soon as I saw that.
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> There's no class ring for PhD students, but this would make a similarly nostalgic memento.

While I can't internet-verify it, one of my Spanish co-PhD students told me that in Spain you _are_ given a ring upon completion. It's supposedly to signify your marriage to science. I think my wife would have something to say about that...
Neat!

I'm very interested to see some benchmarks for this. Given Nginx is pretty minimal in its system load (I think) might it actually be possible to run a reasonable-sized website off one of these servers?
"Almost every developer who has used Smalltalk still views it as one of the most advanced programming languages available. However, it has been out of reach for many developers because of its special, sometimes unfamiliar, tools. Redline opens Smalltalk up for wider mainstream adoption by allowing developers to bring and use their favorite tools, built on the world’s most widely adopted and advanced virtual machine.".
I think car sharing solutions like DriveNow (https://us.drive-now.com/how-it-works/) are much better for this case. Instead of giving your own car to somebody else, it is much easier to drive to the airport in one of the car sharing cars and drop it at the airport, where somebody else can use it to drive back to the city. DriveNow already allow free parking at the San Francisco airport and they are expanding very fast so I think it will be a really valuable service soon.
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That's Opera Mobile, the mobile browser in pre-smartphone era. The desktop version is a different product that works just like any other browser. It used to be the "fastest", like chrome is "fast" today, but I believe it has been surpassed by Chrome in this regard.
Agreed ... if the applicants are so uneducated, why are they choosing "rationally" (as the article puts it) to avoid these low-paying, high-skilled jobs?
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Do you think this model can work and also in other territories ? Basically people with just ideas can be taken on and then formed to be companies. This is even earlier then Y Combinator. I wonder if this can be done in other countries and what your thoughts are .
Would a good programmer (female or otherwise) want to work in HR instead of programming?
That's the definition of variance. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance#Definition
Google Apps works great. It is an incredible product. Google Apps is backed by a 99.9% SLA and they almost hit 99.99% last year. Customer service has improved vastly over the last couple of years and Google now provides 24/7 phone support. Do you get that kind of support running your own servers? No planned downtime? Your suggestions are dated. FTP isn't an easy thing for most users..you still need local programs to support whatever filetypes you are opening.

Many businesses rely on Google Apps..over 5 million to date, including some very big and important companies with extremely smart and technical people making the decision to switch from running their own servers to Google's solutions. Their evaluations of these services go far beyond what anyone here could ever imagine..I know, we setup Google Apps for some very large organizations (over 25,000 employees).

It is a great set of services that can be extremely valuable to organizations small and large.
Thank you very useful
They don't only bother you, believe me. Most of us have simply given up asking for site changes. We hack the styles ourselves or simply deal with it.
Ask PG: Has the algorithm been modified?
It seems that much less votes are needed to get a high position on the front page. I see stories with 5 points reaching nearly the same position as one with 600+ points. Which would be fine actually, if the 600pts are accumulated over two days and the 5 points within 10 minutes, but the 5 points story is an hour old already.

So what I'm asking/suggesting really is:

1. Has the algorithm been tweaked or changed so that a story makes it to the homepage more quickly, or does it just seem like that?

2. Can it be changed so that a story needs more upvotes before appearing on the homepage? I think this improves the quality of homepage stories.
It might be riskier, but most of the time nothing's going to happen either way. And I'd rather have someone trash my car, if insurance covers it, than trash my house.
And can you point to a single case of this happening, ever?
Leaders may be born, but management skills are learned from experience. Those skills require conscious thought to implement because they are antithetical to the natural inclination to abuse power disparities within a relationship.

Using management skills as a primary selection criterion would be premature optimization in YC's process. At some point, hopefully HR is screening rather than the founders, but early on putting up with the founders' bullshit is part of a necessary skill set.
Even so I want to believe the story, it smells a lot like the typical correlation = causation story. These things are so easy to construct, i.e. the pirates & global warming correlation [1].

There could be a lot of other factors that were leading to this development, e.g. studios concentrating more on pushing blockbuster movies, generally a weak indie/strong blockbuster movie season, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#Pirate...
Also true of Kazakhstan until recently.
Reduction to mere eye candy is not sexist. It's superficial. A guy saying a guy is mere eye candy wouldn't be sexist, same with a girl reducing a girl to eye candy. HR is often filled with attractive people.

His comment pertaining to not canning all of HR because they are the only cute GIRLS is sexist.
I think he meant the sum of two gaussian random variables is a gaussian. I.e., if X and Y are both drawn from a gaussian distribution, then X+Y is too.
All network interfaces go through the usb stack, a few monthes ago there were issues with usb polling (usb driver being in the closed-source firmware iirc) eating cpu cycles. I don't know if it's been solved since.
Frankly I find it rude to speculate. It's none of my business what someone has in their pants, or what they used to have in their pants.
Wait, first you say you're irritated that the OP wasn't "open" about being trans (where, I assume, by "open" you mean "announce it inside the very blog post", cause it's pretty obvious from e.g. the contact page).

Then, you say you're annoyed by "queer people making a point about their sexuality". Now, the OP did not make a point about her sexuality in the blog post (1). You complained that she didn't. And then she did anyway? And that annoyed you?

Really, you can be a transphobe all you want and make an idiot of yourself that way, but this is HN, at least think about what you write.

(1) And, by the way, being trans has little to do with sexuality, but ok.
I believe aioprisan was referring to the Opera Turbo feature that was introduced to the desktop version of Opera a while back.
Am I understanding this right, that this papers hasn't even been peer-reviewed and are just 3 pages uploaded by the authors to ssrn?
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Something like nginx, monkey or pancake would be a much better option for a webserver/pi.

http://nginx.org/
http://monkey-project.com/
http://pancakehttp.net/
I like to see a good amount of competition in the field of learning code. Everyone seems to have a different approach to things and I think the more sites like this the better.

This one seems to cater to the reader-types (I'm one of those) so it's sitting nicely with me. Other people I know seem to prefer video + activity (like Code School, etc). Having these kinds of options is really nice.

One critique: the name is great but when I read the domain, I thought of Perl Monks, just ruby flavored. Not sure if that's good or bad -- just an honest response.
Where to? What is a good discussion site similar to HN nowadays?
I would definitely use this if it had Foundation tooltip support. How easy would it be to adapt this for other tooltip systems?

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/elements.php
If you're so well versed in business risk assessment then you surely have heard of the advanced concept called having a backup plan.
I have a Raspberry Pi attached to my home network with one of these tiny WiFi adapters (http://www.expansys.com/edimax-wi-fi-150mbps-mini-usb-202741...). It's in a small white box (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Raspberry-Pi-case-professional-injec...) and attached to the wall. It's completely unobtrusive, looks like it might be something to do with the phones.
Give Vincenzo Villamena a try? 24% of his practice is expat taxes:

http://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com/accountant/vincenzo-vill...
How is lazy evaluation in Haskell useful?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4801782
Another factor is Opera's very low system requirements. In poorer countries people have less powerful hardware, not targeted by the big browser vendors.
secure communication of Vstorker(see qdot76367 comments) + this hack with video == Sex over IP.

Target customers: long distance couples, virtual sex business.
Taking it further: build a Airtime like social network around it.

Revenue stream: from selling the hardware, membership.
Forgot about that thing, I stand corrected.
From the introduction :

They're also not as well documented as they need to be.
All of the magic methods for Python appear in the same
section in the Python docs, but they're scattered about
and only loosely organized.
There's hardly an example to be found in that section
(and that may very well be by design, since they're all
detailed in the language reference, along with boring
syntax descriptions, etc.).
AOA could mean Asalam-O-Aliquem kn=koran hi or hello in English
In Romania it was never number the primary browser, but it was second, after Internet Explorer. Then Chrome came and overtook both.
Raspberry Pi vs MK802
I have tried a couple of color scheme and for me Made Of Code is the best, by far!
Well, my ISP provides 100Mbps Ethernet semi-unlimited connection for about $20/mo. (Though, it doesn't even cover entire capital city of Minsk.) And semi-/fully-unlimited ADSL connections at speed of 5Mbps cost around $10/mo. Not so expensive, either.

3G internet is a different story, though, my carrier provides 3Gb data plan for $10/mo.

It's just that for people with average salary of $500, it might be costy.
The Netflix Prize winners had a few RBM models that used the dates.

Regarding the DBM - I also tried to use more than one layer, and without success. I tried out 3-layer and 4-layer autoencoders (can be called 1.5-layer and 2-layer DBM), with initialization by stacked RBMs or without it. It did not work well probably because: a) the model was inaccurate, and b) the learning method proposed for DBM was not completely correct. Intuitively, the right DBM-like model with the right learning method should have a chance to improve something on the Netflix task.

I found some improvement though (rather learning time than accuracy) in the standard RBMs. Instead of using CD, I split the weights into two sets, creating a directed RBM version. The "up" weights from the visible nodes to hidden are learned with CD with T=1. The "down" weights are learned to best fit the visible nodes, using the hidden nodes as predictors. The hidden nodes generated by CD T=1 are good enough, and we do not need additional iterations with increased T.
I like yor attempt at emotional manipulation, labeling as "awkward" people trying to have a civilized discussion about a strong bias and doble-standard; also calling it sexist when if anything we are asking for gender neutrality wish is the opposite of sexism for all I care.
> The idea that you should not _be able_ to sell a copy of a book without also selling distribution rights to that book strikes me as anti-capitalist.

I'm not with you on that one. "distribution rights" in this context would have to be artificially enforced by government, since it doesn't exist naturally in a market place.

I'm not saying that government shouldn't enforce these distribution rights (I don't think anybody should for instance burn pirated movies to blank DVDs and sell them on the street).

But to call it "anti-capitalist" because of lack of law and regulation on the governments side strikes me as kinda ironic. Wouldn't it be the exact opposite, more capitalistic if every individual can sell and buy without interference?
This is very cool.

I would be interested in collaborating with you to add some more physics: refraction (laser passing through slabs of glass) and curved surfaces (parabolic mirrors and lenses using the thin-lens approximation).

This would be the coolest way to learn about ray-optics.
You could make one. That's the easy part, though. Getting people to show up would be the hard part.
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Windows 8 apps passes 20,000 mark, or does it? 
News reports say that the Windows Store in Windows 8 has "20,000 apps", most of which are free, in its global store, but is this really true?
Ask HN: What Are Some Good GitHub "Contributing" Examples?
With the addition of Contributing Guidelines[1], there is now a clear incentive to put your general and idiosyncratic guidelines into succinct prose.

I have written what I think is a good set of guidelines[2], but there is a chicken-and-egg problem in that I don’t really have the following to test it on; on the other hand, it might very well have discouraged some people from posting borderline-useless project feedback.

In addition, my Travis continuous integration also automatically vets the pull request code on a very, very basic level, which is something akin to a second layer of defence against bad contributions.

Where else are there some guidelines that could be instructive to learn from with direct application to a GitHub project? I don’t think community guidelines like those by pg are relevant here, especially in the spirit of brevity.

Perhaps we could look into creating a CONTRIBUTING Bootstrap as a default template for writing your GitHub contribution guidelines?

What are your experiences? Especially those of you with very popular projects that have to straddle a deluge of feedback and scale accordingly[3]?

[1]: https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines

[2]: http://pygm.us/9uVqoDHQ

[3]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4820149
Clicky linky:

[1]: https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines

[2]: http://pygm.us/9uVqoDHQ

[3]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4820149
Can't speak from inside knowledge, but it has been observed when this was asked in past that during slow period (middle of night, U.S. time; Sunday mornings) it takes surprisingly little activity to rise quickly to top (if only briefly).
It's obvious when I go to conferences and user group meetings that the majority of us programmers, admins and managers can spot most recuiters and HR folks at a glance. And it's offense to have clueless people in those postions, even more so when they are hired for looks.
Or even (()) :D
Oh good. It isn't just me.

Although, I wonder if it is because I'm a professional computer programmer? It seems these desktops are getting simpler in-lieu of settings and customisations? Fine for casual users but for us power users it becomes more and more frustrating.

I think the "post-pc" era is going to be difficult for developers and other computer professionals.
Noel, did you mean to say "while the Gaussian is important it is by far NOT the only distribution of interest in machine learning"? Not trying to put words in your mouth, just seems to me you may have intended that.
I clicked on this only because of the extreme curiosity the headline generated. The article did not disappoint.

Easily one of the smartest things I've read in quite a while, and much of the hardware stuff is over my head but wow, color me extremely impressed.
infinite power!

http://imgur.com/AbvXE
Thanks. That's really cool. I would be interested in getting some pointers regarding the soft-margin SVM.

I've used neural nets a fair bit, but I've never built an SVM, although I'll probably get to them soon in my ML study (I'm using Bishop's book and Hastie's, as well as the online course videos).
This makes sense, really. So few votes are cast (on page #1 of the newest, often seemingly 10-per-50-posts) that people voting means something is significant.
> Something I would like the programming world to discuss is that it isn't the best coded product that wins - technical quality rarely matters

That depends. If by code quality you mean living up to every aesthetic whim and being fiddly over inconsequential details, then no, it doesn't matter. On the other hand, for any code base that lives through a few pivots the conceptual integrity of the architecture starts to break down. At every juncture you can just power through with a quick hack to ship the feature, but over time you are weaving yourself a rat's nest of unmaintainable code. If you have to do this to win the customer, so be it, but at some point this does catch up to you, and you will fail oh so very hard.
Love this...can't wait for a Rubygem.
Vector graphics look too clean? Simulate hand-drawn lines and curves with LaTeX.