skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"Imagine a world where education runs parallel to basic skills necessary to survive in the working world... We're living in it."

it's quite hard to read and very tiring for me to get through. The hue value of the yellow and turq make it straining to focus. I would lighten, darken, or put a drop shadow with the yellowish color.
I'm talking about government figure releases (employment, inflation, etc and the like).

In that case it was probably just a contractual issue between Google and their printer, to the wider market it would have been the same as if Google had accidentally released their numbers early.

(Actually even in the governments case it's still a contractual issue, it's just that governments have huge power by withdrawing early access rights)

If RR traded on those numbers they would have violated criminal insider trading law.
Doh. Just goes to show, you can open up your process, but you can't make people have judgement and taste.
Ask HN: Is it too early for me to find an angel investor?
I'm to the point where I have a fully-functioning SaaS (more than an MVP but not full-featured). Based on conversations I've had with a number of potential customers, they are extremely excited about giving the service a shot (as long as there's a trial period while I build up the end-user base).

The thing is, I'm running out of money. I'm married, I own a house and I'm pushing 30 so "scrubbing it" for a few more months isn't an option.

I'm pretty confident that if I were to get in front of investors that I could convince at least one that he/she should gamble on both the product and, perhaps even more importantly, me. I'm just really concerned about getting the chance to even pitch it. I live down in the south east where the population thinks a SaaS must be something that goes on a BBQ sandwich and an angel is, and forever will be, solely biblical.

I greatly appreciate any/all opinions, suggestions, rants or pretty much any thoughts you may be willing to share.

Thanks
Anecdotal, but the IPMI software I have to use regularly for access to a specific server is, without doubt, the worst server utility I've ever used.

I love having the BMC there, but you are really at the mercy of vendors to update their IPMI/BMC firmware. Guess how often that happens.
Yep, probably going to get a basic blog up by the end of this week (as soon as I take care of a dozen urgent things on my todo list!)
The founders I worked with were already successful and moderately rich from working at or starting previous startups, so I didn't experience anything like what you are describing.
Uh, how does dsl offer a solution?
Japanese goggles fool face-recognition cameras with infra-red light
I work @ PaeDae and created this on my spare time: http://developingthedream.blogspot.com

Good to see our competing devs from a different aspect.
Who has the best 2FA?
I've been analyzing Toopher's business model but I don't know enough about security technology to determine if they have a unique and marketable product. They use the smartphone's geo-location capability as the second factor.
There are a couple of more parts to that story that help to make it more persuasive.

1) Zero succesful airline attacks

2) Zero convictions for attempted terrorism of anyone detained by the TSA

3) Zero civilians killed in any form of (islamic extremist) terrorist attack on US soil in the last decade or so (all the way back to 9/12 if you don't count the borderline case of John Malvo).

The point being that not only is the TSA not stopping attacks on airplanes, it is also not doing such a good job that it would redirect those attacks to other targets.
Hope this goes into a lot of depth...

My main issue with existing books and tutorials is that I'm left in the dark about the more interesting/advanced parts of Haskell.

Some of the areas I would like to have a better understanding:

- More advanced kinds of monads e.g. Logic, Continuation

- Monad Transformers

- Arrows

- Rank-N types

- GADTs

- Category theoretical ideas e.g. Bananas and Lenses

- Type derivatives and TypeClass abuse c.f. Conor McBride

- Control patterns like Iteratees, Generic Zippers c.f. Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-Chieh Shan

I have an intuitive grasp of the above, but to me Haskell is more about programming with types than anything functional.

On the practical side, it seems like Haskell excels as a language processor, and parsing/compilation would be a great way to explore how to structure certain kinds of applications (like web servers, graphics pipelines, etc).

Please don't make it too real-world, I already have bash ;)
It may be leksah, which is currently available on hackage, though I've never been able to get it to compile (I haven't tried that hard)...
You think that's bad? My sister broke her forearm in half, both bones, by tripping over her own leg (while getting ready to do a floor exercise at a gymnastics competition, that's the ironic part).

Seriously though, you should never fall straight on your arms. They're just there as a quick cushion before you do a roll over your shoulders. Learned that viable lesson spending my teenage years racing bikes down hills in the forest.

Has saved me multiple times, once in a head-on collision with a motorcycle. (I was on a mountain bike)

I have never had a broken bone in my life.
Columbia Shuttle Crew Not Told of Possible Problem With Reentry
I was puzzled by this too, but I think it's an artifact of the way the map is done. I live in one of those $1800+ zones and I couldn't find a 1BR on the market for under $3000 last summer. My guess would be that mean per bedroom would be $2500 in that area (including studios and economy of scale for larger places), but I bet it gets lumped in with $1800+.
I actually miss mIRC... xchat is the best I've found for ubuntu, whats a good alternative?
The creator and developer of mIRC - Khaled Mardam-Bey - is Syrian and Palestinian, I wonder how often his software is used for tactical purposes against those countries?
"There is no “google analytics” for a shop or measurable ways they can promote themselves offline or online. Somewhere in all of this, there is probably a billion dollar startup idea or two."

Startup idea or two? Don't mind if I do.

- http://www.ekahau.com/solutions/retail.html

- http://www.nearbuysystems.com/solutions/in-store-analytics.h...

And here's some additional coverage of that space in the media, with regards to car dealerships:

- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732478440457814... (google URL and click for HTTP Referer if you get paywalled, but I don't think you will)
> over 70% of the volume on the major exchanges these days. Very little of what happens on the exchanges anymore is directly attributable to long positions.

this isn't the same as being 70% of price movement. HFT is comprised mostly of market makers, who have books that, over the course of the day, are close to net zero. they do a lot of buys, but they also do a lot of sells.

most price moves over the course of a day are actually driven by people who take positional views, and buy or sell large positions. so actually, we're not really that far from kansas
OP is referring to a case of a buggy algorithm in a bot which was setting a ridiculous price on a used textbook on Amazon: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

HFT has already caused at least one "flash crash": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading#May_6.2C...
History of Kim Dotcom's Criminal Investigations
haha I wish Google Fiber is available here!
Haha me too. I was about to write almost exactly this.
I would think that exchanges would be one of the few places on earth to nail clock time because they are so dependent on it.
And there's no real reason to do it either given the availability of global IPv6 addresses and any of the free tunnel brokers/teredo/etc, other than the simple lack of adoption/momentum. Most ISPs will need a push, but from an infrastructure perspective it just boils down to a new gateway router or a firmware upgrade. It doesn't even need replacing the end-user equipment if ISPs simply set up a tunnel server for their own customers as a transitional measure.
do you have any case studies / articles to back this up? i had fairly bad scoliosis when i was younger which was corrected by chiropractic, and i got back every few months for a bit of preventative maintenance. i'd honestly like to see if it's justified or if i'm just waisting my 20 dollars...
It's happening at some other schools, too.

May I recommend to you the blog post "Will Your College Go Out of Business Before You Graduate?" by Mark Cuban?

://blogmaverick.com/2013/01/26/will-your-college-go-out-of-business-before-you-graduate/
"Surface Pro makes for a bad tablet because it has short battery life, is too heavy, and is far too expensive" -> "But it's actually an ultrabook, compare to the Macbook Air"

"Surface Pro makes for a bad ultrabook because it has a crappy keyboard with a tiny track pad" -> "But it's a tablet, with a 100% better keyboard than the iPad's"

The Surface Pro is going to be the opposite of a "no compromises" product. It's going to be a crappy tablet and a crappy laptop in one device.
In Australia, we have the "dutch oven", which is a childish gag involving flatulence.

I have no idea how this is connected to the Dutch. Then again, in the 80s here everyone made racist Irish jokes, but now they all pretend to be part Irish as it's trendy. (Disclaimer: I actually am part Irish).

People are weird.
Big venues like football stadiums can contact your mobile phone company and get contact information for all the people who brought a cell phone to the event.

Big casinos have crazy video surveillance but I think there's still a lot of humans in the loop. They've got the budget for it, after all.

Of course, the easiest way to track people and their purchases is to sign them up for the store loyalty program and offer them nominal discounts. Works for grocery stores, at least. Bike stores are trickier. Fewer repeat customers.
irssi
http://www.irssi.org/
Here is a story is about equipment failure.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fatal-fall-at-Yosemite-sh...

There are also errors in judgment, but the gear is the center of this story.

The final paragraphs are still hard for me to read, six years on.

edit: adding National Park Service summaries

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NPS Morning Report for October 26, 2006

Yosemite National Park (CA)
Noted Climber Falls To His Death

An experienced rock climber fell to his death this past Monday while climbing near Bridalveil Fall in Yosemite Valley.

Todd Skinner, 47, of Lander, Wyoming, was climbing a route on the Leaning Tower when he fell approximately 500 feet to his death. Skinner's climbing partner reported the fall at around 4 p.m.

Skinner was pronounced dead at the scene. He is survived by his wife and three children. The exact cause of death is under investigation.

[Submitted by Adrienne Freeman, Public Affairs]

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NPS Morning Report for October 30, 2006

Yosemite National Park (CA)
Follow-up On Fatal Climbing Fall

On the afternoon of October 23rd, dispatch received a telephone call reporting a fatal climbing fall.

Jim Hewitt reported that he and his partner, well-known climber Todd Skinner, had been working on a first free ascent of the "Jesus Built My Hotrod" route on the overhanging west face of the Leaning Tower. Skinner's fall occurred when he was rappelling.

Hewitt told investigators that he had been above Skinner when he fell. As he was rappelling on the low-stretch ropes that they had fixed on the route, Hewitt came to Skinner's Grigri descent device on the rope at the point where he had fallen.

The Grigri had a still-locked carabiner attached which had been connected to Skinner's harness. When Skinner's body was recovered, the belay loop on his harness was missing.

The next day, rangers recovered a broken harness belay loop in vegetation at the base of the wall. It was very worn at the spot where the break had occurred.

Hewitt later told investigators that Skinner was aware that the belay loop on his harness was in a weakened condition prior to the climb, and that they had talked about its poor condition three days earlier. ... .

[Submitted by Keith Lober, Emergency Services Coordinator]
My personal title: "Why I moved to New Hampshire"

As a remote worker, the cost of living in Boston is just an unnecessary expense for me. Lower taxes too. My new rent + utilities is less than 800/mo for a 2br.
We use Mediawiki. Tracks revisions, lets you rollback, let's you make comments, let's you provide reasons for changes, gives you easy diffs...you can do a private wiki for specific project, or projects. It's free, open source and extensible, the data is portable, easy to move from one SQL to another.

Book it, done.
What you are looking for is not "OO language", but "dynamic interpreted language".

In a traditionally compiled OO language like C++, classes cease to exist after compilation; there is no fully generic way to instantiate an object of a class by data determined at runtime. So this whole concept of deserializing to whatever the protocol specifies goes completely out of the door.
"this guy"? This guy is Dan Farmer[1], I realize that does not make him infallible but he is definitely not someone looking for his 15 minutes of fame in order to make a name for himself.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Farmer
In Silicon Valley, perhaps. Everywhere else, acquisitions are business acquisitions of the target company's assets (usually, goodwill, cash, or other actual assets). In this regard, employees/founders are not considered assets.
Poll Results: Version Control Usage
This is why dropbox communications are preferred to point-to-point protocols, where a dropbox might be a physical box, but is more likely to be a classified posting in a newspaper (old school), online classifieds (hello, Craigslist), radio "numbers station", a posting on a community bulletin board, flyers on telephone poles (or other public property), etc. Often the overt message will be putatively legitimate (an item for sale, a job offer, services offering, business advert), but coded within it will be a ciphertext message of interest to the designated target.

In a recent discussion (which I can't track down at the moment) of Wikileaks and Julian Assange somone noted the juxtiposition of photos of Wikileaks' own dataceter, and the paper-based filing system of the FBI during the 1950s. Whilst computers make accessing, analyzing, and searching through large record dumps much more efficient, they also make disclosure of those same documents to others, including unauthorized others, more efficient.
Python project dependencies diagram gallery
I really like your design for it: very simple and elegant.
I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but I knew Jody, and while he had many terrific qualities, he was not a saint. He had issues. And his biggest problem (at least when I knew him) was his unwillingness to admit he had a problem. It's all but impossible to help someone who won't help themselves.
MEGA's first week - a retrospective
This particular map can be approximated pretty well by the function 1/(public transit time to Park Street Station). There are a few exceptions, mostly in areas with higher crime rates than the rest of the region.
Do they handle your fulfillment or are they only an outlet to sell products?

If they do handle your fulfillment , are there any specific requirements ?

Do you use Amazon's advertising services?

I'd have 100's of other questions , but these would help fill my knowledge gap on that subject.

Thank you in advance for your insight on the subject!
Wow, amazing
Agreed, but I think that if and when the Apple TV does wireless mirroring without noticeable lag it will compete against the living room consoles.
Read the article:

"Some key features like secondary indexes and live backup are still in development"
Gorgeous. It's one of the few games I've seen (Gyro[0] being another one) that truly look at home on Android.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.submachine....
I don't see how it's evidence against his claim, since he's not saying that certain companies do this perfectly. Surely you would agree that it would be better to have a button style that you would instantly recognize (all else being equal, of course).
I think he's implying the kernel as a whole. Clearly, the whole kernel is developed by a very distributed "team".

That said, you get right to the heart of the matter: the interactions between kernel components are well established. Sufficiently so that one person can work independently on a subsystem and another on a driver.

In my own personal experience, designing component interfaces is the most important aspect of building a system, especially when you are working with a team. Very often, I have found that the "all in one room" development model is implemented because the team lacks the ability to define those interfaces first. They are very fluid and so it's necessary to be able to lean back and yell at the guy working on the driver or subsystem and say "yo, I need this additional parameter". On a distributed team you need to write that in an email and that extra effort is often seen (rightly or wrongly) as a major bottleneck.

Where I have seen companies fail to work successfully with geographically distributed teams, it has generally been because their "all in one room" culture has allowed them to establish an adequate process/culture around designing quality component interfaces in an efficient manner. This inability to define quality "contracts" is typically what leads to slipped projects and missed expectation. Often times, it is what plagues teams that are co-located.

If you can do a good job at defining system components and their interfaces, doing the development independently and distributed is easy. You can write test harnesses and stubs around those APIs. The question is: can you work on that design process in a distributed manner as well?

In my experience, it doesn't matter, local or remote. Designing component interfaces is hard work and hard to get right. But it is essential.
Governments don't care if you use bitcoin or not. They can, and do, tax you based on whatever income you earn, in whatever currency it is denominated. Indeed, the US, Europe, and most of Asia already have tax laws for how to report income denominated in currencies other than the government's own currency.

Not reporting income denominated in bitcoin will simply result in prison time and financial penalties measured and payable in the government's currency.
Show HN: Swapidy: Trade up your old stuff for new stuff
How we drove 30K Visitors from a single Reddit post to our beta test.
> I strongly disagree with your implication that it's only useful as a presentation layer, however.

That's not what I meant. I meant that it was created from the perspective of a View. There's no other reason that php code has to be delimited with <?php ?>, other than it was originally designed to be embedded in html. This alone shows how the creators envisioned PHP to be used.
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The best
Thanks for following up, this is very interesting reading.
2) Depends what they're trading, and how much capital they have to start with. If our inventor can only buy and sell the S&P 500 they can't make a whole lot - it generally climbs at a pretty steady, known rate; when it moves dramatically it's usually a fall rather than a rise, so you need to be able to short to take advantage of those moments. If the inventor's buying and selling junk bonds, or advanced derivatives contracts, they can make money pretty quickly for as long as they can find people willing to trade with them.

Also the total value available to be made in HFT is pretty low (on the order of tens of billions of dollars/year). To make serious money you need enough capital to be able to make somewhat longer-term investments.

3) Prices for mature, stable, dividend-paying companies would increase a little bit so that their P/E matched that of Treasury bonds. Futures contracts would probably stick around (although they're now essentially just another form of loan) but options would disappear, because you'd have to be stupid to buy/sell them.

The effect on the industry is that there's a lot less inefficiency available to exploit, so much less money to be made. The industry contracts; market-making becomes a boring way to earn small amounts of money, like car insurance. The smart people go elsewhere.

For riskier investments and especially young companies we'd see more dramatic shifts; a share in Facebook is now worth however much a share in Facebook is worth as a mature company (discounted by the risk-free interest rate). So a few would shoot up to 40x their current value, while many would drop low enough to be delisted.

In the slightly longer term an IPO becomes some kind of weird singularity - everyone knows which companies are going to be huge, as soon as they go public. The SEC would hopefully relax the rules (because their reporting rules are now basically obsolete) so we'd see companies being listed much sooner, or even funded based on whether or not they show up in the future data. Suddenly, every startup is a megahit, and there are many more of them, because it's now a safe way to make enormous amounts of money, so everyone wants to found one (or at least, everyone who has it in them to found one that works). The market abhors safe ways to make lots of money, so all the investment money available pours into this, and we hit the singularity in fairly short order.
Signed up. :)
This is my nth attempt at learning Haskell, but I have a fairly good handle on most of the basics.
Hi! This is Adam and Pulkit, the co-founders of Swapidy. We've been tirelessly working on this for a while and hope you'll check it out and give us some feedback. Right now we're only buying and selling limited products but we plan to expand our category line based on demand. If you're in the bay area, there's a good chance that we will hand-deliver your device the day you purchase it and it would be our pleasure to talk to you in person for a few minutes.
Yes, I know. It was a joke. You are right. I apologize for not conveying my tone adequately.
Good question, I think about that a lot. So far it seems that it's better to break down too much rather than not enough. Because at worst you'll have easy cards. In other decks I have some puzzles that require more steps than I can do in my head, and I always feel annoyed when those cards come up.

For programming languages, it seems like a good fit to use it for rules and syntax, and the principles behind why the language works the way it does. I don't think I'll use it to ask me how to write scripts, though.
@iNate2000 good suggestions, I had considered a similar edit but then found the edit link was no longer available due to HN's time limit for making edits.
alas waiting list

doubt i'll switch from scheme but still interested
Indeed, irssi is the only acceptable choice.
Why banks are likely to face more software glitches in 2013
That's not a weird case, that's fairly classic (though utterly irrational) market behaviour.
About as much innovation as "let's make it a rounded rectangle".