skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably right on that one. There is a comment elsewhere in this thread that mentions a SaaS company that handles sales tax automation and reporting, so clearly there is some money to be made.
Is that really the case? Sync will store data on my hard drive that I don't have access to and that benefits me in no direct way?
Facebook announces new Data Center in Iowa
This looks a lot like the MongoDB query language, where an update is constructed as a JSON object with special key names.
She definitely does. I'll encourage her to do the same. Thanks! If you know of mobile dev firms in Austin that look for Junior devs, let me know :)
"Make something people want (at a reasoneable price)"
I will try it later
I find the way you show 'recent poems' difficult on my eyes, but I REALLY like the create poem page. It's really nice.

I'd use that page for song writing even without posting it to your site.
GotCms
Sorry about that. Let me look into it. In the meantime, can you try again on a different browser?
This is the problem with stating efficiency in terms of energy instead of exergy (work). Capturing the low-temperature waste heat of the solar panels is not comparable to capturing the same amount of energy as electricity. It's a good technology if it can be made inexpensive, but calling it "80% efficient solar" is quite misleading.
I don't think there is a problem with press releases, as long as journalists acknowledge them for what they are: press releases. It's fine imho for a newspaper to reproduce a press releases verbatim, if it makes it clear to the reader that no post-processing has been done.

What is not ok is to trick the reader into believing that a piece of information has received adequate treatment, when it really hasn't. There's an implicit contract of trust between the newspaper and the reader, and if that app does what it advertises, it will make the contract harder to breach.
That is really interesting. I had to look it up.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

The fastest Nvidia showing is the Tesla S2070 which is a $18k Server with 8 GPU's! It can just barely keep up with a slightly over clocked single gpu HD7970.
Not everyone can afford to move, for me its cheaper to stay where I am and drive to school then to move. If I were to move I would have to work more and go into debt more, school is not cheap in North America. Even if I did move, I still would not be able to see friends and family living in the city I'm in without a lot of hassle.
And that brings us back to the critical point: Of the people who are smart and have 12+ years experience, a significant portion will (A) be wise as to the going rate for good people, and (B) have families so that a below market salary has a clear negative impact on their daily lives.

Is it really worthwhile to choose to avoid hiring ~50% of the best people in the industry at the outset, on a vague fear that personal happiness will doom the startup? Is that a winning recruitment strategy?
Not if the point is to donate the profit.
> Buy a poster *and* fund medical treatments through Watsi.
Why Amazon Supports An Online Sales-Tax Bill
Unless I've interpreted BTC wrong - this means that as soon as they go live, the current miners are going to see their returns drop by 2/3? And if many are already at the edge of profitability in terms of electricity/BTC, they'll drop off the network?

The BTC network may be utterly dominated by ASIC players within a few weeks.

Are they any more energy efficient than racks of GPUs?
Thanks for responding.
Rockets don't have stages because they run out of propellant, they have stages so that you don't spend 99% percent of your fuel pushing engines and tanks into orbit which you don't need once you get there.
Facebook App Internationalization in 3 lines of JavaScript
Using SiteApps to internationalize Facebook apps.
Agreed, some of the major pages in reddit get a lot of traffic, but that sort of subreddit doesn't get the viewership.

I too am glad that they didn't get the right guy, that would have gave some justification to this kind of behavior. I do like the one-way data idea. That would be awesome.
Any idea how fast it's going when the first stage separates?
> I noticed the $1 million exemption for small businesses. How will that work? If you sell for 11 months without collecting taxes then find yourself going viral around Christmastime and crossing the $1 million mark unexpectedly, are you suddenly liable for all those prior sales?

No, the $1 million is for total remote sales in the preceding calendar year. So up until the first year you make remote sales of $1 million, you are exempt; once you reach that threshhold, you are not exempt in subsequent years until the first year after the first year in which you fail to make $1 million in remote sales.
From the article:

> While Sync uses BitTorrent technology, people’s files are not accessible to outsiders. Only those who have the unique private key can access the shared folder.

>

> “All the traffic is encrypted using a private key derived from the shared secret. Your files can be viewed and received only by the people with whom you share your private secret,” BitTorrent explains.
> You get the feeling that the author has spent so long thinking of women as 'us' and men as 'them' that she actually sees the two as two completely separate species.

That cuts both ways. Maybe you see gender in terms of "us" and "them" which is why you felt that article didn't apply to you. Just because the subjects are a different gender doesn't mean you can't relate to them.

> Terribly sad, maybe the next generation of feminists will be able to break out of the box they've made for themselves

That's a mighty broad brush you're painting with. Does the author speak for all feminists here, or just herself?
I understand. https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/download

There is a set of command-line utilities, a library with source, and a codec for Windows Imaging Component which has no parallel in Linux that I am aware of. (save imlib2 and friends)

I don't know any project that uses image formats in any way and does not link directly with libpng, libjpeg, lib(un)gif, or other directly supporting libraries that are tied to individual formats. There is an evas webp loader on eina, which is no help to Gnome or KDE users, and there are dozens if not hundreds of projects that probably need support to be added.

Don't know how ubiquitous Windows Imaging Component is in MS-land, but it seems like a much easier problem to have solved.
Our experience was that the first 4 or 5 months is exactly like that. You learn to cat nap, sleep and soothe the baby in short shifts. Think of it as being in the military now. Dads (co-parenting ones anyway) need to expect to be partial zombies at work for a while if they are giving Mom proper breaks at night.

One mistake my niece made: While you are drilled about "breast milk is best" until you feel like an abusive parent to think otherwise, sometimes babies reject mother's milk. Talk to your pediatrician but formula might make it easier on everyone.

I'm sure everyone has suggested the "What to expect..." books. They offer tons of baby hacks that could make your nights easier.

Also, being exhausted and mad at the adorable screaming ball of primal needs is normal (sometimes) but if it lapses into post-partum depression, that's a serious thing that involves tsunamis of hormones and brain chemistry. You can't expect to jolly her out of that and needs to brought to the attention of a professional.

Hang in there. Our oldest had colic which required nearly round the clock rocking but once we hardened ourselves to the daunting routine and got tuned to what he wanted we were able to zombie-shuffle our way through.
My First Year in the App Store
How cool!!
It indeed is broad, as I said it is what I do.

I've found that some of the URL security that people setup only apply to GET/POST, they're unaware of these other methods (TRACK? WTF?). As such, it's nice to have these off by default, and turn them on when needed. I saw a good note some time ago from people essentially stat'ing files they shouldn't have been able to see at all via OPTIONS or HEAD because they were secured against GET and POST only.

There is a nice discussion going below on whether you need these for AJAX, conditional gets, etc. If you need this enabled for AJAX, consider enabling it for the URL or directory where your AJAX interactions occur. I run a large wordpress site and haven't had issues with any of this.
Maybe each and every citizen can be forced to reside in a steel cage.
I'm amazed that this runs wholly on the CPU. Seriously tempted to build a WebGL demo using similar concepts, with the addition of lenses and other optical geometry. It'd be tough to beat this in terms of the sheer cool factor, though.
Artifactory Repository Manager: Deployment and Use
Usually I'd say pirate it, put 10 hours into it, and buy it to support the authors if you like it.

But right now, you can't play the new Simcity without shovelling dollars into EA's pocket, and reward them for producing a fundementally broken game.

You just have to decide for yourself which is more important to you. Providing feedback to bad corporate behavior by refusing to give EA your money, or your curiosity to play (and ultimately be disappointed by) a shitty sim with all depth and complexity removed in favor of "social" interaction and microtransactions (buy packs of 2 buildings for $5, i.e. http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-German-City-Online-Game/dp/B00...).

However, if you care about the future of games, please don't give EA money.
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/927/
Feel free. The save/load functions save directly to your browser, so you don't have to publish.
I read the page, but that doesn't seem clear to me. If they have encrypted versions of my files, they still don't technically have access to them.
Mining verifies all transactions in the network. That's the whole point of the system, making sure that transactions can't be faked. In order to fake a transaction, you would need to control 51% of the total hash rate of the Bitcoin network, which is impossible.
When the number of deaths by pressure cookers exceeds the number of death by guns, maybe then.
Interactive Youtube Maps, Daily Inspiration, And The Shortest Route To Fun
In which context were you solving this problem? I'm trying to optimize products distribution.
Wow!! Synthetic biology is so cool!!
It was utterly rude and a bad way to treat any commenter, but especially a new one who was trying to add something very valuable—a fresh perspective—to this site. If I were anxx and that were my first impression of HN, I'd think [something that probably shouldn't be printed here] and just go away.

Edit after quick glance at comment history: luckily this isn't anxx's first impression of HN, and hopefully she'll be sticking around.
You should strike or You can quit this job without notice.
Well, until the people of New York stand up against him and vote him out they deserve what they get. They seem to really enjoy a nanny state that even restricts what they can drink. You can't by a 32 oz. Coke but you can buy a jug of vodka.
(Edited to change "first-wave" to "second-wave.")

A quote springs to mind:

“Can’t you see this game is crooked?” Devol asked. “Sure I know it, George,” sighed Bill with resignation, “but it’s the only game in town.”

Prior to the rise of feminism, a male dominated workplace was arguably the only game in town.

From talking to my wife, the notion that you're obligated by feminism and by your sex/gender to pursue success seems distinctly second-wave feminism, whereas I suspect the likes of third-wave folks' opinions are a lot less uniform.

(As an aside, I find these differences kind of fascinating. Supposedly the word "ladies" carries different connotations depending on your generation; older generations are likely to see it as patronizing, whereas younger ones are likely to see it less negatively.)

Anyway, the bottom line is that as far as modern feminism is concerned, it's more important that you are empowered to choose whether you want to climb the ladder; be a stay-at-home parent; have a child without being married, etc. It's more about empowerment of choice, for women in particular but for individuals in general (e.g. more time at home for parents, better childcare options, and so on, would all improve quality of life for men and women).
6 signs your boss hates you - the Redux
> So, it American companies are imposed sales tax burdens no matter which state they're selling to

They aren't even if this bill passes; this bill allows states to tax sales into the state no matter which state they are selling from.

> wouldn't that just encourage companies like Amazon to move outside of the United States?

Amazon has already reached the point where its given up trying to relocate outside of individual states to avoid sales taxes, because the efficiency it gets from having facilities close to customers is worth more than sales tax avoidance.

So I doubt very much it would try to move out of the US for sales tax avoidance reasons.
How Nature Builds Computers
Yes! Green clean light!!
My read of the article agrees with you: they are claiming the removal of the waste heat as "efficiency" without taking into account the efficiency of using the waste heat. I was hoping they would claim better cooling made the PV cell more efficient (I know, a silly claim- but by analogy that larger temperature differences make more efficient heat engines). And there may in fact be no use at all for the waste heat (who needs waste heat in the Sahara?).
Yeah, we debated the price for a long time and consulted PG. Keep in mind that the poster was made using high production standards. They are screen-printed by hand and embossed on really beautiful French paper. We are also just trying to maximize the amount of money we can raise for Watsi since this is a limited-edition poster.
I just want to note, also regarding the comments on this, that the ability to set up a dedicated server that always has the newest file exists.
It would be more convenient and cost effective to do so, if we could. But we lack the technology.

The rocket equation is a harsh mistress, it demands exponential amounts of fuel the faster you want to accelerate a given stage (specifically, as a ratio to the exhaust velocity of the rocket). Given that orbital velocity is quite high (about 8.5 km/s) relative to the exhaust velocity of the best chemical propellants (about 3 km/s for LOX/Kerosene) this results in impractical mass fractions to contend with (17:1 to get to orbit, and that's with no payload). But you can cheat. If you use staging and drop away the dead weight of empty fuel tanks and no longer needed engines from lower stages then you can make an end run around the rocket equation. You make a rocket that can accelerate a payload up to a certain velocity, then you make an even bigger rocket which can deliver the entire other rocket as a payload to a different velocity, and so on, until the sum total of all the velocities is the necessary total speed you require to get to orbit.

We're actually fairly close to being able to make single-stage-to-orbit (or SSTO) launchers workable, but it's a difficult problem. We can just about make a single stage with a high enough mass fraction to do it, but then there is almost no payload remaining. And the only way to make a vehicle with such a tiny payload cost effective would be to make it reusable, but enabling reusability would add additional weight which would destroy any payload whatsoever and probably prevent it from even reaching orbit, catch-22. Potentially we could use advanced engines, rocket fuels, and lightweight materials (like carbon fiber) to build a reusable SSTO which would have a reasonable payload, but such designs are hugely untested and very risky. So for now the best hope for reusability seems to be to incrementally advance the design of existing multi-stage rockets.
This seems considerably more potent than the Raspberry Pi, especially with the real-time co-processors and proper analog in/out support.
Stop watering it.
Even better to get a solid 30 than a poor 40.

I've noticed something happening to me since I've become an "adult". I'm so busy 9 to 5ing it that I don't look out the window anymore. Whenever I do, my pondering is overshadowed by a sense of dread -- that I can't day-dream for long because I've got things to do.

The sum effect of this is that I don't have any good ideas any more. Good ideas are the natural result of day-dreaming. Sometimes I believe the only thing that separates the "innovators" from the "workers" is that one group happens to have the luxury of time such that they can afford to day-dream without any sense guilt.

Where and how do we start to change this?
Well, for starters, that music is absolutely ridiculous. I can't really see the point of having music at all in the screencast.
Well, the portability can be a killer feature. I've been writing quite a bit of OpenCL code lately. I have an AMD GPU, so CUDA is a non-starter. I'll eventually replace the AMD card with an NVIDIA one, so it won't be as big of a problem, but my OpenCL code will still be fine then.
I'll bring you one point closer and do that for you!
The link will not load.

This article is about the same thing, presumably:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6911/intels-return-to-the-dram...
For what it's worth, I probably wouldn't have paid with a credit card (too much hassle!) but since I could pay with bitcoin you converted me into a customer.

:D

Thanks for accepting bitcoin!
That's what I was thinking... certainly much cheaper than chartering a helicopter.
“Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms ..."

So sayeth Mayor Bloomberg, in the midst of a speech that explicitly proposes taking away another of our freedoms.
The secret to success? Make laziness embarrassing.
Sure, but I'm pretty sure that the only reason you need to keep adding and adding ever more capacity is to prevent someone else coming along and doing the 51% attack, right?

Other than that, adding capability doesn't benefit the network, it burns a lot of power as people effectively just burn electricity to try to increase their share of a fixed payout.
How does the first stage not get damaged by the backblast from the second stage seperating?
Kobo Glo eReader Can Be Hacked To Increase Storage
What Python developers need to know before migrating to Go
It won't be long until the first accident involving a genetically modified puppy that's so supernaturally cute it causes fatalities.
No, it will only download copies of data you are interested in. All parties in possession of the same file act as distributed backups of that file, since it is bittorrent.
Open and peer-reviewed... its like Wikipedia of certification!
There was a rumour that musicbrains was going the route of CDDB (now gracenote) and I registered the domain on the off chance they were going to close the data.

A similar thing happened with freedb (hence freeddb), which ended up powering daz.com for a couple of years but with better replacements out there the project was shut down.

Funny how everybody is always so ready to see malice.

Check out reocities.com for one that did work out as planned (at least, according to me, I'm not sure Yahoo would agree with me there).
The Year in Hacking, by the Numbers
I think typically people start them out in 'services.js' since effectively models in angular are constructors that are created, and then injected whenever you need a certain type (so you have a service that returns the constructor function).

A good example of this is how the tutorial treats the restful 'Phone' resource, creating a service that injects the resource where necessary. I've started calling them 'models' rather than 'services' internally as well, so it's interesting to me that others are too.

http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_11
> Is it possible to write about a newly announced iPhone without lifting data from Apple PR events or releases?

No, but writing about the newly announced iPhone shouldn't really be called journalism.
Drop a TrueCrypt partition into your Dropbox [1], and you get the Dropbox QoS as well as the encryption for your kids' swimming pool photos. Plus, for non-swimming photos, you can just use the regular Dropbox folder.

[1] http://tonyonsecurity.com/2012/08/05/securing-your-data-on-d...
I would love to see what it looks like when its glowing? Have they not grown any yet?
This is great; however, folks can still securely store data on cloud services. They just need to take a Trust No one (TNO) approach and encrypt their data to disk.

For example you can use TrueCrypt and create/mount a drive volume that is fully encrypted while synced across a file share storage/sync service like DropBox.

The only downside is that you have to install the TrueCrypt application on your client device, which does limit is platform offering (currently, no mobile).

http://www.truecrypt.org/
Feels like the future is here :)
To me, the far more interesting thing is how he lets the mask slip regarding the Constitution itself, namely that they are not bound to go through the amendment process, nor even the judicial facade of interpreting how to apply the Constitution to some new circumstance. Instead, he shines a light on what has long been true, that the Constitution means whatever some small but critical mass of powerful people say it means, and the common people will accept it as true.

Lysander Spooner had it right 150 years ago:

"[T]he Constitution is no such instrument as it has generally been assumed to be; but that by false interpretations, and naked usurpations, the government has been made in practice a very widely, and almost wholly, different thing from what the Constitution itself purports to authorize. ... But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain --- that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."

http://lysanderspooner.org/node/64
These guys look to be doing something interesting.
When did lunch become dinner? Is this some kind of reference to the time difference?
I'm not sure the actual history bears out your assertion that 1995 was the fix-point date for all/most of these concepts.

AIUI, functions were not originally first-class citizens. My understanding is (and I may very well be incorrect), in these very early days, functions not being objects precluded an awful lot of what we currently "know" to be true about how JS emulates "classes" with function.prototype. I tried to find good citations for this fact, but I'm having trouble finding good "early JavaScript" history.

I do know that at least as early as ES1, in mid-1997, we had constructors with prototypes and "new". [1]

In any case, besides `Object.create()` which you've noted, here are some other milestones in the evolution of "OO in JS" I could find:

`instanceof` was added in JavaScript 1.4 [2], which was sometime after Oct 1998 [3], probably officially in ES3.

`Object#isPrototypeOf()` was added in ES3 [4], which was around late 1999.

`Object.getPrototypeOf()` was added in ES5 [5], which was around 2009.

[1] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript#Version_history

[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...

[5] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...