skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"in a store through a phone's camera."

If it was for the store then you'd do one or more stationary mounts of something better and more purpose-built than a camera phone. Or something even simpler like counting bodies in and out at the door with the door dinger thing.

So I assume it's for surveilling the store surreptitiously, right?

I suppose it's an interesting problem for the machine vision people. But how do you deal with people down the aisles that you can't see? How do you avoid looking like you're collecting upskirts or kiddie porn? How do you avoid just plain getting your face punched in?

Is there a way to count cell phone signals, from your own phone or from special equipment? There were stories a year or so ago about some mall that was going to track individual phones through the mall, to discern shopping patterns and such. I imagine it's not impossible to create something that you could use surreptitiously (again, I'm assuming).
> Would the same library generate the same jitcode on different websites?

No. The jitcode is specialized based on actual observed types, so depending on how you call the methods you get different jitcode.
I've read and understood the reference I've provided (Bossavit), and I've also read and understood the reference justin_vanw provided (McConnell), so no, I'm not quoting Bossavit blindly.

After reading both, I found Bossavit much more convincing. In addition to meticulously following the chains of references back to the original research, Bossavit also examines how science is done and what is required in order for a claim to become established scientific fact. His conclusion is that the evidence for the 10x claim is "quite weak."

Here's my summary of his material from the last time this came up ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4118034 ). There's much more to Bossavit's research than my quotes here, so if you disagree, please read and rebut his work directly, not just these quotes.

"How strong is the support conferred to the 10x claim by the best-reputed list of references, for a reader persistent enough to follow the chain of citations back to primary sources?

"Based on our close reading of the “10x files”, we can now answer: quite weak.

"Not a single one of the references is to a replication, in the scientific sense of the term, of the original exploratory experiment.

"The empirical data is in general quite old, most if not all of it predating widespread use of the Internet - which we can safely expect to have wrought major changes in programming practice.

"None of the studies address the question of construct validity, that is, how meaningful it is to speak of an individual programmer’s productivity, and if it is meaningful, whether the experimental measurements line up adequately with that meaning." [1]

[1] The Leprechauns of Software Engineering explores what science is and how we distinguish between fact and folklore in software engineering. It specifically explores the 10x claim, and determines that it's folklore. http://leanpub.com/leprechauns
Depends on the market. Your results do not translate universally. Plus, who know if your headline sucked. What did you test?
This isn't funny or original. Please keep comments like these off of HN.
Because nobody can build such apartments due to a unique confluence of all the space already taken, NIMBY zoning codes and the expense of earthquake proof taller buildings.
640 Page Mill is now an ATT office. How fitting. Too bad De La Vega doesn't work there: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=640+Page+Mill+Road&hl=en&...

What's across the street? Why, an old folks home, of course: http://www.sunriseseniorliving.com/communities/sunrise-of-pa...

Also, luxury apartments and a VTA stop.
The method is not perfect. But a first step.

Because of lists like this VCs might in near future keep their traction very public on angellist and crunchbase, allowing founders to make better decisions.
Tax codes and wealth differences didn't cause this problem.

Let's start with a little history. We once had mental institutions, but those became evil. The solution was really to take those people in institutions and move them to residential programs. Well, it seems many residents don't what mentally ill people in their neighborhood. So, along came in-home and out patient programs. None of which actually worked as well as a well run institution.

Both political parties did their own damage to get us here.
Monkey Island makes BBC front page
Another article that gets it wrong. sigh

"I’ve also been told that this is only valid if the entire world is on Bitcoin"

So far the author is right. The whole world does not run on Bitcoin only, therefore the arguments against Bitcoin do not apply. But here is where he gets it wrong:

"but if you think about the world today, that’s not true. There are plenty of currencies out there, and the supply of some of them is too low, and that hurts the people who use that currency. The fact that the dollar exists doesn’t prevent the yen from being too strong."

The author does not cite examples of people hurt by a currency when a supply is low, because he is wrong: there are no such examples.

I don't know why he cites the Yen. The Japanese economy is not that bad. It is not that great either. But it is doing okay. Therefore if Japan is okay with a deflationary currency, why would not Bitcoin be okay too?

Or someone may cite the example of the failure of the gold standard in the US in the 1960s, but it would be incorrect. The gold standard failed because the US Federal Reserve continued to increase notes in circulation, while not replenishing gold reserves, which triggered all sorts of bad consequences, see [1]. By contrast, in Bitcoin it is algorithmically impossible to increase "notes" (coins) in circulation beyond the limit of 21M coins.

[1] See http://mises.org/daily/3325
It's nice you can import your posterous site (taken from the signup page)
You create a repo named username.github.io (eg., pkamb.github.io). Put static files in it, and they will become available automatically. More information here: https://help.github.com/categories/20/articles
What is there to fix? Can't a minority client just blackball UTXOs, allowing them to exist in the blockchain but refusing to publish or accept transactions built off them?

By definition, a UTXO is not in the history of good money.
Mexico: The Sleeping Giant
Facebook memorial fraud, the dark side of online catharsis
I think it's a great exercise--you will learn something if you try it. But you lose so much precision, and you wouldn't want to make that your normal way of speaking.
Are the facts wrong or the conclusion?
Dumpster diving seems to be the high point, if Larry[1] is anything to go by.

At least this is what people have be caught doing!

[1] http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,49039,00.ht...
The value of bitcoins floats with supply and demand, that is correct. However the demand for any currency is tied to the supply/demand for the total number of goods that are sold/bought with that currency. As the value of these goods rises over time towards infinity demand for bitcoins will rise over time towards infinity. Supply of bitcoins on the other hand is inevitably slowing down and thereby the value of bitcoins will rise towards infinity.

This makes it very cheap to "import" goods but prohibitively expensive to "export" any. It also provides a huge incentive not to spend or lend any money. Demand will fall, loans will be harder to get, innovation will come to a standstill and overall the economy will collapse.

This is called deflation and this is why we have huge central banks full of well educated people carefully monitoring the economy to adjust inflation and deflation.
The core address data of the Internet is in fact centralized on behalf of the U.S. government by ICANN.
> Incidentally, the millions of Buddhists in the world would be amused to know that none of them are "rational".

Why stop at Budhists? Billions of religious people would probably be amused to know that none of them are rational.

It's still a fact: religious people are not rational: they have faith, which is by definition, a belief that is not supported by reason nor evidence.
How to Spot a Zombie VC
Hehe, I have seen this done. Crazy. :/
For reference, here are pictures of said office: http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/05/hootsuite-unveils-swanky-n...
Would love to see something like the Thermodo[1] but for air quality or pollen sniffing.

The aggregate data could be really interesting.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robocat/thermodo-the-tin...
This would be incredible, please happen!
Your scenario of an ever increasing currency is impossible, because everyone will hoard it. No transactions will be possible because it will be impossible to buy.
"This web site is not affiliated with or funded by Posthaven.com

Honestly we just want POSTHAVEN to use our CDN."
Title isn't quite matching with the takeaway. Twitter has become an efficient distribution platform, not a gaming platform.

However, Twitter has always been an efficient distribution platform, that's not new, how they're doing it with Cards is but it's still building on the fact of brevity. Make it interesting quick or go home.
Requests per second vs. concurrent connections
If you use sublime as your main editor and your job is software development then $70 is really not much at all considering it's a core part of your livelihood
"could not be stolen through any amount of force". If bitcoins are practically unstealable/unconfiscatable then that'd be neat, but they aren't. They are stolen in vast quantities all the time by malware. If the government wants your bitcoins badly enough it can run a tank into your house, use force to compel you to tell them your password, torture you etc. You're not screwing the state over, you're giving it an incentive to take a hostile interest in you. Did anyone download the clients anonymously? Not many did. They will know.
No one will be able to use it for transactions because everyone will hoard it-buying the currency will be impossible.
There are places you can buy a $100 hamburger. Is it worth it? I doubt it. But it's not my money, so I don't lose sleep if someone else buys one.

If you own stock in such a company, consider selling.
https://help.github.com/categories/20/articles
I really fail to see why HN doesn't display the subdomain in the submission. Is there a reason for this?
Because we need a summary of a story that's on the front page!
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- Timeless. If you have an event and you set the date inside the URL, then after this date has passed, this URL gets less valuable. Either 301 these aged URL's to the current event URL, or make it so your URL's can be "re-used" for future events. Cool URLs don't change.

Where does the user go to find the 2008 event, if his post from 2008 has a URL that now points to the 2013 event?
It must be nice to know all the answers without having to know any of the facts.
Nice piece of marketing by the CDN for very very little cost.

Even if Posthaven doesn't switch over, some number of devs/business owners will think of them when they are choosing a CDN.
I've read reports that suggest addiction becomes a trait in homeless people after the fact instead of homelessness being a result. It's unfair to paint everyone with the same brush.
Core Gamers Still Favor Physical Media
Are you based in London? If so drop me an email at the address in my profile. I am looking for javascript developers for a team I lead.
Good if it's so.

For me Heroku is only usable as free "push-test-show-delete" demo server/testbed. It's either free or 35 bucks per month, and for $35/mo one can get quite powerful VPS.
Interesting that .me is already considered as being old-fashioned. It only launched a few years ago... :)

Now if we could only get Google to see .io as a "generic" TLD:
https://iwantmyname.com/blog/2012/08/dear-google-please-add-...
More sharing would be great for memory consumption, but it's really hard. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=846173 for an interesting example.
Cowboy BeBop at His Computer
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CowboyBebopAtHisC...

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.
—Erwin Knoll
Agreed with your sentiments.

It's much better to work on contract with the oil and gas firms. In this way you will definitely be in the 100K-180K range (at a minimum). It also offset's the domain issue a bit as you can move around.

Usually the start-ups are working on product that relates to oil and gas anyways.

How do you find these startups?
If you are going to insist on a deflationary economy, you have to admit the possibility of wages going down over time.

For a cartoon example, with high enough deflation and a less than perfect job market, that debt might represent more years of work when you are 35 than it did when you were 25.
Arrington’s History of Abuse Allegations Includes an Assault Investigation
This is a nice hypothesis but fails to account for the reality on the ground - foremost being transportation.

So you are displaced out of SF - great, where to? You still need to be able to get to work in the city - after all, it'd be pointless to move somewhere cheaper just to end up out of work.

So, let's head south. Oops, due to the overflow of demand in SF, as well as the sheer number of tech workers looking to straddle the peninsula and the city, prices down there are only slightly less insane than in the city proper.

Okay, let's head north - well, nope, Marin is not exactly poor man's territory.

West is water. Humans float, but not that well.

Let's head east - Oakland is rapidly being gentrified and colonized by tech workers also. On a relatively low income you can probably still scrape by - but not for long, in a year or two you'll be priced out yet again.

Further out? How do you get to work? The toll on the Bay Bridge is ridiculous, and it's not like you can afford parking in the city so you can work anyways. Your only options are along the BART, but park and rides are few and far between, and properties within non-driving distance of BART are all rising rapidly in price. Not to mention, BART fares are distance-based (rather than flat on, say, MUNI) so the further away you move the more expensive your commute gets! For a tech person making six figures a year the price difference isn't even noticeable - but for someone scraping by?

This whole problem has played out this way because San Francisco (or really, the Bay Area in general) is the most frustratingly myopic place I've ever lived when it comes to transportation. Unlike cities like Chicago or New York (or even Seattle, which is primarily bus-based), the transportation network is in such poor shape that it actively penalizes the poor. The well-heeled, like ourselves, can afford cabs and Ubers to bridge the gaps where the transportation grid fails. The poor cannot.
> A complex multi-million line project representing 1000s of manyears of work, essentially needs dedicated full-time highly skilled engineers to be forked.

WebKit, from which Google Blink was forked includes dedicated, full-time, highly-skilled engineers from Apple and elsewhere that could incorporate material from Blink -- as well as all the other browser projects which might want to use material from WebKit (pre- or post-fork) or Blink; so the situation with regard to "open source"-ness is the same as it was before the fork, even with this "it needs full-time highly-skilled engineers" to use it proviso.

> Highly complex codebases seldom progress much as community projects after the original company has abandoned the paid contributors

Which is one of the reasons that forks between projects where both sides of the fork are paying contributors and the fork results in both sides being able to streamline and more efficiently return value to their sponsors (thus, making the sponsorship from both the prime sponsor of the original project and the sponsor that used to pay people to work on that project but which is now sponsoring their own fork more likely to continue) is good, as it puts each post-fork project on a more secure footing than the pre-fork project was.
That is what I meant and like I said I wasn't aware of any. A quick Google search for "Bitcoin debt" mostly yields people expounding on the virtues of a "debt-free" currency. The existence of debt would complicate my example as popular opinion on monetary policy would differ. Debtors would prefer inflation while creditors and general currency holders would prefer deflation. Either way, I still don't think something like monetary policy should be left up to crowd sourcing.
Poor sentence structure on my part.

My son set off the smoke detectors by melting plastic in his bedroom with a cigarette lighter.

To demonstrate the danger of what could come from this, I had him read a news report of a girl who was screwing around with fire and ended up being badly burned over most of her body.
+1 -- Brian is excellent.

I believe we (4chan) were the first merchant to use their merchant tools and it's been a real pleasure to get to know Brian and work with his team.
Doesn't it seem kind of crazy that you have to sort through an FAQ to get started? Why isn't there a big call to action button that says "Create a Page"?
Ask HN: What is broken on the Internet today? A lot of sites dont work?
I feel like the Internet is weird today.

1. StackOverflow says: "Stack Overflow requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load."

2. Yahoo.com - The main news scroller doesn't work.

3. GoDaddy.com - I tried searching for a domain and none of the buttons seem to work.

I thought it was Chrome but confirmed same behaviour with Safari and Firefox.

What is broken? JQuery CDN hosting perhaps?
Again, these are C/C++ use-cases. That's exactly what asm.js was made for.

Apart from the potential of making some of Mozilla's insane ideas like implementing a PDF reader in JavaScript easier/faster, it's applicability is pretty much limited.

No one out there who is waiting for a sane language for the web will rejoice that he can now use C/C++ instead of JavaScript.

> That is being worked on with the Binary Data spec: http://asmjs.org/faq.html

I'll believe it when I see it working. Most likely they will still find a way to make it next to useless, forcing people to keep writing/targeting JavaScript.
I've been told they're encouraging add-ons to move away from a per-dyno price. (Looked like New Relic is the only one right now).

The guys I talked to cited both the future (now present) "dyno is not a unit" problem, as well as reporting user dissatisfaction with non-flat-rate billing.
I'm considering a move to SF with my three young children and this gives me serious pause. I can research schools, crime, and "normal" pollution.... but how can I learn more about where these sorts of toxic environments are located? Especially if, like the OP states, the EPA are simply ignoring areas like his.

(I'm inclined to believe him too. But I'm biased against the EPA anyway... I'm still mad at them for telling us it was safe to go back to lower Manhattan days after the towers fell.)
This kicks ass.
Apple says VPN changes coming in iOS thanks to VirnetX verdict
Note the contradiction: It was diagnosed that the recession of recent years was caused by uncontrolled lending which was possible thanks to issuing money by central banks and keeping low interest rates in this way. At the same time bitcoin that is free of this flaw and prevents reckless lending is criticized.

Deflation and hoarding was never a real problem. Baby-Sitting Co-op IS a silly story that does not scale. Gold had similar deflationary property as bitcoin and somehow it was used in trade for ages. Critics miss the point that monetary wealth is useless if you can't spend it, so at some point hoarders will say: enough, it's time to use some life. At the end of the day, money is just numbers with the potential to convert it to comfortable life.

My selfish, self-interested side says: I would wish more hoarders who collect numbers and don't convert it, so they don't use real world resources. They leave more for me!
Agreed; for example, in our (in-house) use case, switching a django app from using either stdlib's json or simplejson to using ujson[0] was a significant performance increase when serializing/deserializing large-ish (~100MB) JSON datasets.

[0]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ujson
No one thought about pages.github.com?
I posted this in that Reddit thread, but I will post it here too:

Hootsuite has a level of arrogance like no other. I've called them out on this several times:

hxxp://ow.ly/jN4M1

vs.

hxxp://ht.ly/jN4M1

(Just replace "hxxp" with "http")

If you're aware of information security practices, the issue is quite obvious. For those who are not aware, you can shorten a URL using their ow.ly service and then just replace "ow.ly" with "ht.ly". By doing so you end up with a frame at the top that ends up as a result obscuring the actual destination.

Therefore Hootsuite is making it easy for phishing campaigns. I have called them out three times on this since 2009 and it has fallen on deaf ears.

To see behaviour like this in regards to hiring practice is deplorable to say the least, but they cannot even get their act together to make sure their product isn't dangerous.
Saw this on Quora...

Many years ago I read a quote attributed to Peter Norton, "When life serves you a bigger slice of the pie, you share." It has always stuck with me.
While it may be down, by 1 out of N, problems related to drug use, dealing, and the petty theft that comes with it has exacerbated issues around homelessness here in Santa Cruz. It is a complicated issue, but those seeking help are often overshadowed by the guys stripping bike parts to sell for scrap to get their next fix or very obvious drug dealing going on in and around the homeless services center.

A number of people in Santa Cruz are in a bit of an uproar due to an uptick in crimes; as well as needles littering parks, beaches, and other public spaces.

In the 20+ years I've been here, it certainly at a low point over that span of years.
Hi. I have worked in a burn unit. Inhalational injury is usually not the cause of death. In fact of the people I saw only one who died of bronchoscopy-confirmed inhalational injury. And he was an obese smoker with minimal residual lung volume to begin with.
In that case maybe VCs should stop investing in the next Facebook and instead look at earthquake-proof building technology. Clearly there's a market for it.
When a housing spike appears then land becomes expensive, and as land becomes expensive and demand increases prices rise. That's a function of a capitalist focused economy.
Got it. Sounds like you guys are actually building something I fantasized about while I was working at Google, while I grew steadily more disillusioned with their whole data-warehouse business model...

Got any work for someone who has experience with large distributed systems but is basically allergic to frontend web technologies?
Oh, man. That was stupid of me :)
So your solution is deflationary collapse?
"My view is that a database of facts should contain things that are believed to be facts. It should be possible to remove facts that are shown to be incorrect, but those things should never have been true."

But they definitely were true. I thought you were making a distinction between 'something that is true' and 'something that is a fact (ie: is unchangingly true)' which I don't think most people make.
We already have some emblem code in production :)
There's an easy solution to that. Just install the free version of New Relic add-on. In there, you'll find an option to periodically check availability. That will trigger a request to the URL you provide every 30 seconds, keeping the dyno alive at all times.