skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I don't like all this for several reasons.

Whoever are working hard to bring justice, it seems like it's for glory of anonymous, because now she's dead, it's like "oh this was real then, it has gain attention, etc".

I like how anon can do good things, but I don't really like the fact that courts are fucked enough so than internet is the last common sense around here. It's like emotion driving the case. It's not really sane.

I would not like to let justice be handled by an internet group is all, to see become the mob or whatever thing.

When society is stupid to let those bastards go, society does an error, and it's responsible for it in a way. You can't always kick evil in the nuts and act like a superhero.

Even if those guys go to jail, it's still sad she's dead, but at least that will teach other people to have more courage to make justice happen more quickly.
The admin of bitcoin24 doesn't know what database transactions are
I think your post should be 'personal data', not 'big data', but that doesn't answer your question. But maybe I'm not understanding what you mean about your 'hard work'. I think you're talking about your personal information, but maybe I'm confused.

You could store your personal data locally, but would you back it up? Would it always be accessible when you need it? What about when other people need it, like your photo in a feed.

So local storage won't work. You could store it on your own personal cloud, but is it really personal? Somebody needs to run that service for you. That means somebody has access to your data, and every other service would need to be able to connect to that service. That is essentially what Facebook,iCloud,SkyDrive,etc. provide. Facebook just happens to have a front-end that you can interact with directly as an entertainment service and they can sell advertising based on you accessing your and your friends information.
Does DDG do all their own crawling? If I remember correctly, they mix Bing and some of their own crawling to get you a search.
Not to be unnecessarily argumentative but do you think a jury would be convinced by that 'she was throwing up due to strenuous exercise' excuse?
While we're talking about "smart cd" tools, I should mention my Windows PowerShell tool.

https://github.com/tkellogg/Jump-Location
Oh no! Your comment was a succinct description of the project. I didn't see your comment as negative in anyway.
More specifically they worship the state. They replace god with that (compared to theocracies).

Communism is a mystical collectivist ideology, that proclaims the magic will of the people can make the impossible, possible. It pretends to bring reality under the rule of the subjective whim, such that if enough people believe something then it will be so. That's classic doctrine however, and it's questionable how much of that style of Communism still exists in China, they seem to be far more practical in their application.
Regarding Firebase:
* How do you access logs
* How do you email users
* How do you run cron-like jobs
* How are passwords stored? Are they salted? AES256 encryption?

I've been reading the docs and questions like these are not readily accessible.
Lean startup, Hacker’s Way and the evolution of Necrotising Facebookiitis
I think a lot of people have experienced the situation where you spend like 10 hours staring at the same code trying to figure out why it's not working, then come back to it the next day and see the problem within minutes. It's like the brain gets stuck in repetitive cycles and you need to flush your cache to get a fresh perspective.

What the author's describing almost sounds like an equivalent to this with regard to inspiration- if you're in a creative state where you're constantly hacking away at something, it helps to step away from it all for a few weeks/months/whatever to let your creativity and inspiration rejuvenate.

Also, sometimes people get burned out without realizing it- this helps that too. For an unrelated example, sometimes I'll get really into some video game and obsess over it for several weeks. I'll get into the habit of playing it for a certain amount of time every day. At some point, I burn out on it and it's not as fun anymore, but it seems like it takes me a long time to realize that. I keep doing it because that's the thing that I do, but there's a lag where I'm not getting as much out of it and just keep doing it from inertia and habit. People's work habits can be very similar and I think there's a parallel with this article.
It seems a lot of these places have webcams. I guess it makes sense, if there's a dogfight or a dog attacks a trainer you'd want some video evidence of it.
>>Their religion is called "communism"

Oh come off it.
Obviously I'm talking about places that have both a real winter and a real summer. How well insulated your house is is primarily a function of the available technology and the cost of energy when it was built.

Probably the simplest reference I could give would be to point out that a lot of heavily populated places like Seattle, Chicago, the US Northeast, and much of Europe don't even install central air conditioning in homes at all. If we're talking about human survival standards of comfort, then obviously people have been living closer to the equator than you and I for a long time before AC was invented.

In the winter, often a furnace is used to burn gas or electricity in a pure "burning" of utility energy to heat. Some people have heat pumps which are more efficient, but when they hit their limits the backup furnace kicks in. Often additional water must be added to the inside air, and that must be heated as well. The temperature differential which must be maintained by the burning fuel is easily 40 deg F (say 28 to 68 on a mild day).

In the summertime, reasonable cooling involves using a refrigeration process to move heat out of the building. The refrigeration cycle isn't perfect, but it's surprisingly efficient since it's more moving the heat from one place to another. As a side effect, the inside air gets dehumidified which helps too. The summer cooling temperature difference is only 25 degrees F (say 98 to 75) on a hot day.
Am I the only one who sees this exact same behaviour here in North America, and indeed, here on Hacker News? A sense of entitlement? A feeling that things like anti-discrimination laws are an inconvenience to be brushed off, taxes are a way of stealing the hard-earned wealth on entrepreneurs, and so on?

I see nothing particularly Indian about this story. It seems like part fo the human condition. That being said, we have abolished slavery. Women have the vote and are struggling to control their bodies. Although the rich control the media, the poor still have a vote.

We humans can change.
I'm curious where George Vustrey (the publisher) is getting the weather data? Is it compiled from publicly available sources? Or is he just re-packaging somebody else's API?
Python http://sajjad.in/content/ALPR_paper.pdf
I can see it working in both directions, and I'm sure it does.
Hmmm, on Mac, might be possible to simplify using system's dictation (have no idea if they have API for that, probably no, but maybe there is a way to hack it) and system's voice. So then it might be even faster, and would require mostly just Wolfram|Alpha API key.
That's not very good reasoning.

If all software patents are bunk, so are many electrical engineering patents.

If software is built on hardware, anything I represent in software can be 1:1 related to the digital circuit equivalent. It may be silly or infeasible to do so - but I could make an ASIC or FPGA that runs my latest piece of code. Maybe those wouldn't count because they're too close to the way we think of software. Okay - I lay out my PCB with just 4011s NAND gates. Is this sufficiently far from software to get me a patent for my ideas?

I think software should move towards a trade secret model and abolish software specific patents entirely. Unless you can demand to see the source code, you can never prove whether or not I used your algorithm.

That - or, software developers need to make one gigantic document of every single idea they have implemented and used. If everyone has 5 ideas a day that they implemented and wrote down, we'd hit some sticky situations where a new problem is found. And, much like the patent system, if we put it online where anyone could potentially see it, we can say that it was prior art for any future patent.

Then - as they don't have to be good ideas necessarily, we run through and make all permutations of every single word on the page, leading to every possible idea that can be thought of in that context. Prior art for everything. Or just get Pi out and start translating it to English.
Better English version of your pitch line: "Get the latest tweets from your fave users in RSS."

The way it's written now is a bit awkward in English, and I can tell a native English speaker didn't write it.
I'd love to see some new search engines pop up and break up Google's monopoly. I'd like to see Apple release a better designed search engine, someone make an open-source search engine, IBM make a search engine with the tech behind Watson, etc. Right now there just aren't many good choices. Bing is basically Google with a face-lift.

I use Blekko. I like it, but it needs a lot more people creating topical lists of sites before it really offers something unique.
Sounds like a good idea to me, I wonder if Windows has a similar API too?
Whatever one does in America, in a car, is not a crime, even if a dozen people die. http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/04/08/immune-from-prosecutio...

As a bicyclist, I can tell you as a matter of personal experience that Americans do in fact run bicyclists off the road frequently. I have never heard of such things being prosecuted, even when the cyclists were seriously injured, or when their bike is ruined.

Now, why does this happen? It's because the American in his expensive 4-wheel drive Porsche SUV abomination has a certain mindset that he's entitled to something, because he paid a lot of money for his car. When someone is walking or cycling down the road at less than 60 MPH, that person's sense of entitlement becomes enflamed, and they sometimes reach the point of violence. Don't take my word for it. It is a proven fact that people in more expensive cars break the law much more frequently than those in less expensive cars.

So you see, sense of entitlement is not just for India. In America, cars are for real people, and anyone on a bicycle must be in the lower caste.
So it's just your gut feeling that the US is more innovative than the EU?
Edit: That comes across as more snarky than it's meant.
Seems to also discover rounding errors with float. Why would they store transaction amounts with float is another interesting question.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15165559/how-to-round-amo...
Pretty sure thats the only provider for Fusion.
When GMail came out, it was 2004 and the Iraq war was in full swing. I watched the service launch into beta and then resigned myself to not receiving an invite, until I received an invite at wil@wilwheaton.net, a domain I had been squatting at the time, because it was hilarious. Hilarious, but that's another story.

Anyway, I was an everyday, average idiot, receiving an exclusive invite to what was sure the be the premier email service of all time. A gigabyte. Holy fuck. That is such an inconceivable amount of storage, etc. It really is, still. I've never come close to using even a measurable amount of it. Why even have a limit? I'm digressing here. What a cool story.

Anyway, instead of registering my own name, which I did, I registered hitler@gmail.com. To this day, it's basically radioactive. It receives an absurd amount of spam, even withe GMail's fantastic filtering, and why would I want to receive mail at hitler@gmail.com? If only I could ask my 22 year old self, because I sure as hell don't remember why that was so hilarious. Kid stuff. My very liberal girlfriend at the time didn't think it was very funny.

Every once in a while, I log into it, chuckle a little bit at some of the things people have used the email address for (mostly forum signups and Williams-Sonoma mailing list entries), and forget that I had registered the address for another couple of years.

I think the thing is that it was an email service that was launched by an already extant search provider, whereas before most email services had grown organically, beating out the land rush for Hilarious Email Addresses. That said, if anyone wants that email address, let me know. I'll take some fraction of a bitcoin or something for it, you fucking anti-semite.
I think earbitscom is talking about the protected APIs in Chrome. There are APIs that regular web sites get and there are APIs that extensions/packaged apps get (like local file storage). Chrome Web Store is still a weird concept for me, but especially so when most of the 'apps' are, as you mention, fancy bookmarks.
Thats why i think CSP and thermal storage (via molten salts KNO3+NaNO3) might work better in the long run (at least in an environment with an atmosphere).
Anyone remeber AltaVista?
Yes you can.

Many unmarried techies live in the same apartment and share a room and still have a maid/servant. These guys earn $500-$1000usd a month. They have a TV but it isn't a flat screen. They have a decent mobile phone but it is not an iphone 5. They might have a decent motorcycle but not a car..

They split the cost of the servant who comes from another part of India. The servant might cost $150 a month, split 4 ways. The techies are not above middle class at all. The guy they employee is just really poor.
> I might get some flack, but.....if you don't file the patent then someone else likely will.

If you don't file the patent and someone else tries to you can challenge it with your documented prior art.
Solution Proposed to the CIA's Kryptos k4
"Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault"
Beautiful minds
I think there will be some cool applications with this and a Rasberry PI. I'm floating around this half-baked idea of plugging Rasberry PI's into the light sockets of my home (since they're all central to the room [better for audio and microphone quality] and negates the need of running wire all over the place) so that I can have voice controlled computers in all my rooms and play music/make calls/automate my home/etc. Being able to ask the computer some random question and get an answer without having to go to my computer would be insanely cool to me :)
Actually the upper class in the UK are known for shabby chic ie wearing the same 2nd hand Barbour coat that smells of Labrador for 20+ years.
yes, in fact I think this is the perfect time for it. Google has hit a wall. It has not really gotten that much better in years.

Any new player cannot be just as good as google. It must be much better than google. If you manage to build something that is objectively better you can expect investors to shower you with money. Would not be surprised if google, facebook, MS would enter a bidding war to buy you. Don't know if Apple would be interested though.

The only way google can improve search is to drastically change their search algorithms. Perhaps throw away whatever they are doing right now and approach it from a new direction. This is the opening I believe new players have. A new approach to search, like contextual search will probably be enough to seriously threaten google.
If I facepalm and close the comment tab, it is usually not because if a single posting, but because of a complete subthread that has become a trope. E.g, every time a post contains the phrase "steal software", there will be someone saying "you can only steal cars, not software" and it will go on forever; same for eating meat/going veg, is Google evil or not, skeuomorphism vs flat design. I haven't ever learned anything from these discussions.

Too bad I have already started another weekend project :)
It's obviously speculative. Both battery tech and methods of local power generation technology is improving. At some point one can imagine a tipping point that it'll become a worthwhile investment for those that aren't super rich. The assumption is the utility companies will act to protect their levels of revenue and raise prices to compensate. This will result in more people investing in solutions. Rince and repeat until your utlility companies are getting bailouts.
In USA everything can be rape, even consensual sex between two 17 y/o teenagers. So please don't talk like this was or had to be universal or something. Nobody is a child until 18, and then magically become an adult when law makers say so. I'm proud to say that 15-17 years old girls can be hot, and I can feel attracted to them.
Spiders are big PITA for security cameras. I have to brush their webs off my outdoor cameras at least weekly.
Show HN: tmux.sh
You make good points, but each of these is solvable:

1) Require the code to be consistent. Tell the submitter how to do this.

2) Merges have to be straight forward, or you don't accept the submission. I think Linus Torvalds has the same strategy for the kernel - you figure out the merge, I'll accept it.

3) That depends a lot on how you set up your tests and documentation. If you make it simple to write both, it's simple to require them. If they're not simple, you should make them.
It seems to me what anonymous was saying is that isn't good enough. Also that the identities of the assailants would become available eventually with or without any help.
Alas, it is all too feasible to compose inane comments using sesquipedalian vocabulary and an overly-reticulated sentence structure in which dependent clauses which add nothing to the comment save for syntactic complexity, and sometimes only a small measure of that, as when one just links relative clause to relative clause, are stacked, to no one's benefit, one on top of the other.
I don't know. Honestly, I don't. I think it seriously would come down to what context that issue was brought up, how good the prosecution is vs. the defense attorneys (both supplied by the Crown, presumably. Unless one or more of the accused male youths are wealthy enough to obtain his own legal counsel), and how the issue is presented to the judge and jury.

But I can certainly seeing it played to the accused favour by the counsel saying something along the lines of:
"She was drunk enough that during consensual intercourse, she threw up."

Thereby sidelining that issue for pretty much the rest of the trial. Even if it's ever brought up again, in the Jury's minds, it wouldn't necessarily have the negative connotation that you're envisioning.
That's the idea, this is literally just the first concept there's a whole bunch of cool things to be done. I'd love to make it possible for others to build their own extensions too.
I don't think it's just about money though. There's this entitled class who just fundamentally believe they are superior, the example from the article being the guy who threw over the fruit stall because the crowd wouldn't move.

It's actually a problem in Australia where we all sort of treat each other as equals, for example our hospitality classes won't scrape and bow and call you sir, and everyone is ok with that. Racism has started to emerge because the only Indians who can get to Australia are the rich ones. All it takes is a few bad interactions and people start to write off the entire race, when I'm sure that 99%+ of Indians are actually pretty damn nice people.

I just wonder if those new generations will be less cheap but more entitled than ever.
This is the height of cargo cult behavior.
Or they have already selected charities or provide professional support, and don't want countless more charities hitting them up.
oh I don't know America likes to think it doent have a class system but look at the Bushes old money also Bill Gates fits into this class where as say Larry Ellison doesn't
The future is an API mashup. Neat. It does make me wince a bit thinking that the actual techniques driving all of this are locked up tight, and subject to going away whenever the owning business decides to do so. Hopefully the actual future is a little more open.
Are Distractable People More Creative? (2010)
> Don't even consider solar panels until you've reduced energy needs first.

Absolutely, asynch13! That's what I did. It took over two years, starting with a home energy monitor.

Using a home energy monitor such as [1] or [2], one can get frequent measurements, every six seconds for [1], then identify individual loads by switching them on and off during a period of otherwise steady demand. Other loads silently switch on and off of course;

Then one can start making evaluations and upgrades. Some can be surprising; I was able to reduce my demand by well over 20 KWh / day; details here [3].

After that, a 5KW / 8000+ KWh-per-year grid-tie no-storage solar PV system went in. My utility charges $11 for a month when the PV system produces more than the home consumes during a billig period.

The utility did change out their transformer (to a smaller 25 KW unit feeding 3 other homes) on the power pole in my back yard. But home and location is 40 years old, so I can imagine the old transformer was fully amortized long ago.

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[1] http://currentcost.net
[2] http://www.theenergydetective.com/
[3] https://discussions.zoho.com/powersave/topic/how-much-i-ve-b...
"The median four-year cost to attend medical school -- which includes outlays like living expenses and books -- for the class of 2013 is $278,455 at private schools and $207,868 at public ones."

Whether the median is $278K (private) or $207K (public), that's a lot of debt with which to start your residency before starting to practice.

I'd also dispute the "military...if you are not good enough" assertion.
Actually, It took Rockefeller 0 generations to decide he had obligations to society. Massive philanthropy and libertarian-flavored egalitarianism was a hallmark of the old "robber barons". My hometown library was a Carnegie library, and the college I went to was founded by Rockefeller. Rockefeller also funded one of America's first colleges for black women (Spelman).

By contrast, the Indian elites described in the OP seem to consider themselves above humanity and the law. Wealth alone does not make you a horrible person, though it's fun to believe that it does.
This spawned from a thread[1] in the "Workflow in tmux" story[2]. There seemed to be a bunch of people that were frustrated because session grouping wasn't the default operating mode in tmux, so I whipped together this shell script that makes the behaviour the default.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5542227

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5541401
This is rather shallow and superficial- nothing new besides blanket general advice and personal anecdotes. Seems like self-promotion to be honest.

The "do this because I did and it's great and I work at a super cool startup now!!" is rather nauseating- how did this reach the front page?
It's complicated, but the sentiment that charging your most price insensitive people a fixed price is nutty is still true - I don't think that's wrong. Although Jira has a fixed price ceiling, Confluence is not priced that way: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing/?tab=do...

As for FogBugz, as another poster wrote "if your competitor is an order of magnitude cheaper, and not significantly worse" you have to respond to that (even if you think they are nutty, and a bit more than significantly worse).
My thoughts exactly. The whole "Step one: learn to code!" part made me laugh.
> doctor's have to undergo a residency after med school in which they barely earn minimum wage.

Residents earn between $45k and $60k a year. While they do work long hours (my wife is a neurosurgical resident, so I am quite familiar with the hours), and are grossly underpaid compared to their skills, comparing a resident's salary to "minimum wage" is absurd.