skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their conclusion about density is bullshit, supported by bullshit assertions. Population-Weighted Density is what people experience, not geographic density. Nobody moves out of their 10 acre farmhouse in San Bernadino county because Long Beach is too crowded. Even the Census acknowledges as much. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2012/10/americas-tr... Furthermore, there are plenty of dense cities that are growing more densely as well as in absolute. In fact, the city that is densest (by a factor of 2x), is doing exactly that.
There are hundreds if not thousands of amazing dim sum restaurants in Hong Kong and Saigon that prove you wrong.

Beyond that.... as a former back of the house restaurant employee (10+ years, Cordon Bleu, blah blah) I can tell you that the only time fewer dishes is a guarantee of higher quality is when the staff isn't skilled.
Film is the high bar: The very best we can do with virtually infinite time and resources.

You're totally ignoring the fact that we've got near film-quality, interactive 3D animations, running at 30 to 30 frames per second on 10 year old hardware collecting dust in people's living rooms.

Meanwhile, this simple animation isn't quite getting the minimum 24 frames per second when run full screened on my 30 inch monitor powered by a brand new MacBook Pro.
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It listens on port 8639, but a firewall rule is not required (it does help). You should be able to connect to other clients that are port forwarding.

There's a small chance that you might have connected to a bad peer and therefore have a limited view of the network. Try restarting the client if the block chain doesn't start downloading within 30 seconds.
Stupid question, I know, but have you considered adoption? I wouldn't exist at all if my grandparents hadn't.
> “This is what generations of dreamers and futurists have waited for,” said MTA Chairman and CEO Joseph J. Lhota. “The ability to get subway arrival time at street level is here.

The breathlessness of the coverage of this app makes me wonder how much money was spent on it? First of all, the main problem for New Yorkers is the lack of this data for all the other train lines (i.e A-Z). Second, the MTA has, to their credit, made this data easy to get as others have posted. And apparently Android maps already use this information...so why build an app except for getting some public goodwill. Not that public gestures are bad, but it depends on the cost (puts 'file information request for app dev contract' on things to do sometime)
Ask HN: Anyone here have experience developing online casinos
I've been working on one for a teensy bit, but would love to hear any advice that anyone here has
Wow, the top post in that quora topic says $2M in ARR for an unproven team before they get any VC money. That seems kinda high to me. I feel like the team's proven themselves after a couple hundred grand of annual revenue.
Ah, interesting. Thanks for noting this. Something I'll keep in mind if we ever look at the PageSpeed service. I'm actually not certain if Cloudflare is doing something similar for pages with no headers set.
I really like these guys:
http://hackershelf.com/browse/
Pretty freakin' cool.

One thing the world doesn't need more of is Westerners living Western lifestyles. In addition to the freedom to focus on your life (if, like me, you are too selfish to give your life away for the sake of a child then you're better off not having a child), your conscience is soothed by the fact that you're sparing the world additional Westerners.
This seems to go beyond incompetence and into outright extortion and fraud. They caused you material harm by misrepresenting you. They wouldn't fix their information even after they were informed that it's wrong, making it willful, and tried to collect money from you to stop lying about you. I'm frankly surprised they haven't been sued into the ground yet.
You will have to excuse me if I don't sympathize with the taxation problems of people who are sitting on unrealized million-dollar capital gains.
There are wheel-mounted winch pullers that are much better suited for the task, since they don't require standing out in the cold or as much physical effort.

http://www.bushwinch.com.au/recoverysystem.html
> Are we going to do this for all submissions? Newspapers' leanings, political donations of blog authors...?

Well, this isn't an institution that most people are familiar with. For example, most people know the New York Times is liberal and that the Wall Street Journal is (moderately) conservative. We wouldn't need someone to point that out. But in this case, the OP's information is helpful in analyzing the source for any bias.
Here's one for you, no need for samples - retails $51.99 with free shipping: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Android-4-1-Mini-PC-TV-Box-Ro...
It's too lengthy an explanation to get into, but it's the combination of inflation plus low interest plus the usurious liquidity premium that leads to asset bubbles. Gesell covers this in great depth in his work, Natural Economic Order (http://www.ces.org.za/docs/Gesell/en/neo/index.htm).

With Freicoin we're talking about counter-balancing that liquidity premium (which, historically, has always been around 5%), thereby eliminating basic interest and keeping price levels stable.
> So compare what the standards have to offer.

Which I did. The XML standard only offers strings, and you can add schemas to JSON.
Today, in the age of gps enabled cell phones there is no reason to leave the car (unless there's a risk of explosion, car sliding off a cliff, etc, etc)

Get your position, call 911, wait.

If the signal is not good enough to make a call, send an SMS
This makes about as much sense as someone living in a trailer voting to ensure their own tax rate is higher than a billionaire's, "because I might win the lottery one day".
Show HN: EasyEndorse, a simple way to collect testimonials
Hi all. I just launched EasyEndorse about a week ago, as a bootstrapped solo founder. I'm happy to field any questions/suggestions, and you're more than welcome to email me directly.

I'm initially targetting small B2C companies (restaurants, web hosts, doctors, etc), so if anything on the site comes across as vague or unclear, please don't hesistate to point it out. Any feedback on how to improve the API/code samples would also be greatly appreciated.

You can check out the API docs and code respectively at:
http://api.easyendorse.com/easyendorse.com/ and https://github.com/EasyEndorse/EasyEndorseAPI
I have been working both as a product manager and as a lead developer. I think both roles are designs of companies where hierarchy are more important than the outcome. A healthy company probably lacks Product Managers, Lead Developers and System Architects and those roles are filled by loosely formed teams based on interest in the problems and products people are solving/building. Where I come from, it is called taking responsibility.
Could you list some of the facts Greenwald has wrong in this article? He is indeed good for confirming my biases, and he litters his posts with so many quotes and links that it seems trustworthy, but I don't want to believe it if it's false.
No, it isn't, but that's not what I meant either. I'm assuming that not all requests are equivalent because of the nature of S3.
Many people are saying that the Hispanic population could swing the state by 2020. It's not just population data that matters, it's also election engineering. In states like Florida, no one predicted the results that we saw in the recent election because they didn't pay attention to the Obama campaign's Spanish-language get-out-the-vote effort that targeted non-Cuban Hispanics. In Ohio, Obama's victory can be partly attributed to his success in getting the black population to vote at a higher rate than the white population (a highly unusual phenomenon) by using gathering places in black communities, such as barbershops and beauty salons, as local campaign branches. There's much more to the story than raw demographics.

Such efforts didn't exist in Texas this time around because it wouldn't have been enough for this election for Obama to have a chance there. But things could be very different in 2020. Of course, it will also depend upon the two candidates and the general political climate at that time.
If you can't be confident that an exchange (blind token signing key) will hold value for the long term, the exchanges are really only functioning as short-term mixes for some 'real' currency (as you describe), and the problem remains creating a currency issuer that won't eventually work to prevent anonymous transactions.

In your described system, the issuers still face the fundamental problem of having to have a good reputation, but being unable to obtain this reputation in the standard way (real-world identity in a powerful "rule of law" jurisdiction), lest the delegator 'discourage' them from facilitating anonymous transactions. Multiple competing issuers do not help the situation due to the catastrophic failure mode of each - bank run and worthless currency.

Creating a widespread reputation that isn't derived from real-world identity is the problem that bitcoin is attempting to solve, which is why the novel part of it is solving a coordination problem and not a problem from cryptography.
FISA warrants would not help McNulty at all; they cannot be used to target people who reside in America.
With a population of 7 billion humans and growing, "evolution" is doing fine.
The article has an agenda to promote low taxes. It casts the net flow of head count out of California as bad. In the Bay Area where I live, I personally see that when people talk of leaving they complain of the cost of living, but that is a consequence of how prosperous the Bay Area is for some industries. If the top destinations include Nevada and Arizona then I imagine we are reading of a migration of retirees as well people in softening industries. It is natural for societies to have premium destinations.

If we had lower taxes like Texas, perhaps more retirees could afford to live here, but I would rather have a state with better infrastructure and better institutions. Why should we have poor state resources because because some can no longer afford to live in an area where their homes are now worth 5x the price of when they bought them? As a parent I want good schools.

Side note: I don't think it is a coincidence that one of the top searches for 'State Tax' is www.retirementliving.com/taxes-by-state, and that the Republican Party (the party of no-taxes-no government-except-for-medicaid) is the party for old people.
It uses the http://shuffler.fm API. It's the blogs that pick the music.
Private social bets are not generally illegal, but if you're really concerned, offer the proceeds to charity.
Related question: should I register for a DUNS number even though I don't need one right now?

We have a live app in the US app store, charge money for it, etc., and have never been asked for a DUNS, though I did note it was one of the requirements for an Apple enterprise developer account -- which we obviously don't have.

It seems like it takes time and hassle to get, and also like it could come up unexpectedly. Worth the trouble to start the ball rolling now?
That is a completely understandable view and one that I hold myself. However, it's difficult to hold that view, and then simultaneously complain about things like driver support, which only come from attaining a modicum of popularity.
I think this has a lot less to do with taxes than it does with the prices of real estate. Buying a house in California is prohibitively expensive for most people, which eats up a huge amount of everyone's disposable income. In Texas, you make less money, but houses and rent are a factor of 2-4 times cheaper for what you get.

I think there are two main reasons for this: proposition 13 and CEQA. Prop 13 keeps property taxes really low, which makes buying and holding onto single-family homes really cheap. This is a giant subsidy for people who have lived in California for a while, but jacks up the prices for everyone else who gets in after them, since low ownership costs translate to high upfront prices.

The California Environmental Quality Act has a different effect that also raises housing prices: empowering NIMBYs. Because any new development can be pretty easily be slowed down/made more expensive/stopped altogether by a bogus CEQA request, new housing isn't getting built in nearly as much as one would expect given the demand. This makes existing housing more valuable, which increases prices even more.

In addition, some municipalities, notably San Francisco, have an insanely regulated rental market that makes renting incredibly difficult for a landlord, which makes it more attractive for people to buy housing instead of rent. This means there's less rental housing to go around, which makes the rent in SF absolutely insane.
Hard for me to say what happens for 'free' accounts. We only use pro or higher (A good number higher than pro). I would say not counting the additional performance features you get at the pro level, if they're purposefully slowing things down for free accounts that would be pretty crummy.

That still doesn't answer what you're doing with your cache headers. I took a basic look at your fantasysp site and I wonder if there isn't some changes you could make on the cache-control settings. You seem to be setting no-cache quite a bit.
The politicians were showing sympathy with the grandma on social security liing in her house she bough in 1940 with no plumbing, etc. It was not her fault NASA moved in next door to send men to the moon, etc. That, at least was the context. I don't have sympathy for entitled people either, particulalrly those we are talking about who "developed" and paved over CA with freeways. But before them was a genration of home-steaders, who had no income because they were modest people. They took a lot more risk and invested a lot of sweat equity to make CA a better plave to libe, so perhaps worth showing them some respect...etc. or not YMMV.
What is up with this website? I scrolled around a bit and all of a sudden I'm on a new article with no sign of the original. Terrible user experience.
Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in Singapore
What if the signal isn't good enough to send an SMS?

I'd tend to agree that staying with the car is sensible. Maybe with some bright orange tarpaulin / flag thing over the car (although that'd probably get buried in snow.)

At least if you're travelling in really bad weather you know you might get stuck and so you should prepare.

People in England were caught out when light snow was forecast; they left work early and joined the M25 at the same time as the road gritters, which caused a weird cascade effect and blocked a major motorway in the UK for 24 hours when there was only 1 or 2 cm of snow.
The copyright issues caused by book post-scarcity would have been a nice problem to have in Ben's time. In the 18th century, the best printing technology was still the Gutenberg press, which could print about 240 pages an hour. Presses that could scale production to the point of common affordability (millions of pages/day) weren't invented until about the mid-19th century.
It's on-topic because you're presenting yourself as an authority on Cloudflare's reliability then dropping small numbers to back it up. 150 Mbps isn't really interesting as a data point on speed/reliability either. What you've described so far fits in a single rack several times over.
This is a classic Receiver-end bug that can never be fixed! Even if Snapchat & FB fix this issue in future upgrade of the app, what if the receiving user does not upgrade the app? The sender may have the latest version of the app and think that it is totally secure. However as long as the recipient is using the old app (something the sender will never know), poof goes the security! Breaking support for old version of the app may solve it, but that's very inelegant and don't think Snapchat or FB will try it or Apple will allow it.
In my experience, native speakers make a distinctly different class of mistakes from non-native speakers. Non-native speakers almost always learn the language formally in some sort of class, with a book and a curriculum. The mistakes tend to be simple memory failures, or incorrect analogies with their native languages. For example, a French-speaking person might say "rape the cheese" because "rape" is how you say "grate" in French, and they've forgotten that it's a false friend. Chinese speakers will say "he" instead of "she" a lot (or vice versa), because spoken Chinese doesn't distinguish and they're not used to tracking the sex of the subject. (Both totally real examples I've seen.)

Non-native speakers, on the other hand, learn the language informally, and they learn it spoken long before they learn it written. Really formal education in the language doesn't start until they're generally fluent. Thus you get mistakes like its/it's and your/you're and their/there/they're. Native speakers grew up with these as single words (it's all based on sound, after all!) and only later had to learn to distinguish them. Non-native speakers, on the other hand, were exposed to them as separate words from the start, and so don't typically mix them up.
"for the purposes of this discussion, an MBA"
I'll disclose that I've known Adam personally for the past few years and I know you've only got this blog post to get to know him. I'd first like to say that Adam is one of the half dozen of MBAs in Boston I know quite well that do have the "humility and willingness to learn". I'm not sure how you don't get this feeling when Adam IS in fact blogging, tweeting, hustling into a VC role and early startup, connecting others in the community and learning every day (both at HBS and outside the classroom). It's rare, at least my in experience, to find an MBA so engaged in the flow of the tech community.
I agree with you that the stage of the company one is entering is sometimes a strong barrier to entry though I sometimes think folks like yourself forget that it's not the MBA label or title that truly matters. For the best folks, it's simply a new skill set, network and experience they've gained. This is layered onto the respective individual's natural personality, network and skill set.
Assuming the MBA title didn't go to their head (ie drive and humility remains the same), I would find a smart 25 yr old 25 yr old with an HBS degree (and all intangibles that come with it) more attractive for an early hire than the standard smart 25 yr old who simply had an extra full year of work experience. Similarly, just as many employers in the startu
While I'm just a ugrad at the moment, not intent on getting an MBA, I have deep respect for many of my friends and colleagues here in town going to Sloan, HBS, etc. I'd recommend looking into the backgrounds and great things current MBA's like @besvinick, @jamesIII, @parulia, @jdraschil, @nickpatrick, @kylejudah and various others. Folks couldn't give a hoot that they're "MBAs"...
How VCs Deploy Operating Talent To Build Better Startups
http://www.cloudvps.com/ A Dutch company that I've used for the last 18 months to run my VPS without issues. It also provides VPS's to the largest online accounting software company here (Exact software) has reasonable customer support

11 Euro (14 dollars) a month for:
1GB Ram, 20 GB HDD, 250 GB traffic and a single core.

If you want even cheaper you could try hetzner.de with 8 euro/month, 512MB VPS.
Yeah, but doesn't support message groups (exclusive consumer): http://activemq.apache.org/message-groups.html
Huge discrepancies in #visits/#speakers of the language. Extreme example that caught my attention:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language: 23.5 million native speakers of Dutch.

This article: top dutch-language Wikipedia page had 12.7 million visits. Those 32-33 million searches for 'Facebook'on English Wikipedia pale in comparison. Could all those visitors read that page?
I've been coding for about 8 months and just used regular desktop notepad lol. So noobish but yea I'm trying to see what code text editor people recommend
I don't understand why people get upset about these corrections. If I make a mistake, I'd rather be told than not. If the person making the correction is a jerk, sure, that's no good, but that wasn't the case here and usually isn't.
I would disagree with your assertion that "growth" is what's needed.

The problems we're seeing, in many places, are the result of pursuing "growth" -- some seemingly-smart people show up and say that if only the local government will provide, up-front, a bunch of infrastructure and tax breaks right now, it'll all be made up in "growth" from businesses and people moving in and creating jobs and wealth.

Of course, what actually happens is the businesses and people move in, take advantage of everything provided, and then scream bloody murder about "expropriation" and move away when finally presented with the bill for all the services and breaks that enabled that "growth".

What is needed is a responsible expression of some kind of actual social contract, with obligations and benefits for both sides. But good luck rallying support for that on HN, where short-term lottery-syndrome has everyone blinded.
Have you raised a kid? lets try another example, you get fed up with the puppies barking all day, you could legally kill them all in the spot (horrible I know, but some people do that).

Now compare that with raising a kid. If HE don't like the food and gets too thin, YOU may end in prison for kid neglecting. So you better cook nice food to your kids. Still think it's easier than a dog?
Convert any machine into a web server using these one liners
A collection of one liners in different languages and tools for converting any machine into a web server.
> you will learn that it is "C", applying gas, which will get

> you back in line the soonest. You will notice that as soon

> as you give it gas, the spin will stop or slow down

> significantly.

That only helps with more common, oversteer situations (when the rear wheels are skidding).
On the contrary, if you're experiencing an understeer (front wheels are skidding) applying more gas will only make matters worse. You want the front wheels to regain traction, and there are two ways to do so- countersteering and do nothing with accelerator. A tiny little bit of braking may be neccessary.

All this advice is rarely useful when driving a car (except in places where temperature is below freezing point) but it's extremely important when riding a motorcycle on every kind of terrain.
As far as publishers are concerned, there's very little difference.
Ultimate music experience for YouTube content
The idea is simple: There's a plethora of Music content on YouTube but the experience of listening to music on youtube isn't optimized for music. With Demiba that's what we aim to do.

A few of our key features:

-Create radio stations with as many genre/artist seeds as you want
-Save music in a personal library
-Listen to music via natural playlists. For example, by artist, by album, etc..
-Demiba automatically attempts to find the highest quality most suitable video for each song so you get the best experience.

And lots more.

We've been working really hard on this and would love some feedback.
The idea is simple: There's a plethora of Music content on YouTube but the experience of listening to music on youtube isn't optimized for music. With Demiba that's what we aim to do.

A few of our key features:

-Create radio stations with as many genre/artist seeds as you want
-Save music in a personal library
-Listen to music via natural playlists. For example, by artist, by album, etc..
-Demiba automatically attempts to find the highest quality most suitable video for each song so you get the best experience.

And lots more.
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