skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gasp You mean you want a bunch of NIMBY idiots to quantify their issue? If they did that, there would be a big problem, because it would plainly illustrate how absurdly greedy they are being.
Swogo: What’s it like to be a young startup in Amsterdam?
Wow, apparently that last comment really hit a nerve, as several people decided to downvote it, but not a single person actually refuted any of what I said. I was under the impression that downvotes were more to be used against trolling or flamebaiting, and not just opinions that people disagreed with. Considering everything I said is quite easy to verify as being true, this downvoting just strikes me as kind of intellectually dishonest. I expected better from HN.
Of course not, it is important that it is being ignored first. Rob Enderle, for example, was never ignored and always ridiculed, or one of the worst movies ever, "Meet the Spartans"
Like it! Great job!!
The only android device I have is a nexus 7. It's very large and I'm nervous I'm going to chuck it across the room.
The Android-First Social Network
I'm guessing this book is more about the process than the actual coding aspect, given its length (129 pages)? Though I do like the prototype and the fact that the OP came from AS3/Flash into this, which hopefully provides some interesting perspective.
It says that it works with Rails and the installation instructions mention 'gem'. It's obvious for the core target that it's a ruby library.
Curious, what are some Toronto startups you think are on never ending life support?
Thanks for the interesting facts, I didn't know that about Comcast. I still think that widespread ISP support will lead to rapid adoption, with 50% of traffic being switched over in a decade once that occurs. How old is your cable modem and router?
Errr, no, Reader would be like the Facebook App. A dedicated app to do something...

I mean, if someone created a full lockscreen/homescreen replacement around the idea of my feeds and my content with the same polish and quality that Facebook did, that that would be my killer app.
Turns out Hiring a Woman is Discriminatory
I just added the Rails part :-)
Yes, traditional literate programming is a bit more powerful than what you get with CoffeeScript.

Have you tried reading the examples at http://www.literateprogramming.com/ ?
I think that 30% improvement you're referring to must be for just the i/o itself. Given that the i/o for the problem amounts to less than 1/1000th of the processing time, a 30% improvement is basically irrelevant. It doesn't help much to speed up something that's not even close to being a bottleneck. I think many of the best algorithm contest coders just use whatever i/o method uses the least code, keeps their answers simple and clean.
They technically are two separate products. Chat Heads is a Facebook Messenger feature while Facebook Home is a separate app.

I currently have Chat Heads installed w/o any Facebook Home integration, as does everyone else I know using Chat Heads.

Great feature (terrible name).
Yahoo's new iOS app includes Summ.ly
Show HN: Redis object mapper for Python
I'm the author of Redis in Action, and over the last couple weeks whenever I've had some spare time, I've been working on a few side-projects (I know others exist, but I don't like the way they are structured or the way they work). One of them required that I build an object-Redis mapper for Python. When I started to want to use it in another project, I decided it was time to polish it up and release it.

Github: https://github.com/josiahcarlson/rom
Pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rom
Docs: http://pythonhosted.org/rom

I've got to head to the office in a few minutes, but I'll be happy to answer any questions when I get in.
Ford to Test Cooling System That Could Improve the Range Electric Vehicles
Thx, happy you like it.
How does this not violate conservation of energy? Anyone know?
Content Negotiation and APIs in NancyFX
Way to use the words "consparicy theorist" - an overloaded term.
Ken Garing – the creator; Planetoid – the comic.
Just hiring designers is not enough
> Not sure what may happen with Intel, as there's still some life left for servers.

For now. But sooner or later ARM will become powerful enough to run servers. The chips are cheaper. The operating costs will also be lower as ARM draws lower power. Before you know it data centers will switch over to ARM, first as a trickle, then as a deluge.

ARM will do to x86 what Intel did to SPARC & Alpha & PA-RISC & MIPS. Intel will have to keep retreating to higher and higher end niches.
Advertisement in my phone's background? Thanks, but no thanks
Weighted/Biased Random Number Generation with JavaScript based on Probability
I thought they scrapped these, and replaced them with "indicators" which show on a cartoon body which areas to pat down?
Redis::Socialgraph gem released for friend-of-friend lookups
At the same time it should probably make itself as easy to find on google as possible.
A couple of concerns:

1. At what point (if any) does high-resolution employee data and its analysis become subject to regulations on health information privacy?

2. How do we control the risk that data-driven employee management may introduce some practices with unforeseen and systematically bad consequences? Can we expect that businesses will use the best available designers and interpreters of psychological measurement instruments? How relevant is the current state of that art to this purpose?
The Entrepreneurial Gold Rush: Why I moved from San Francisco to Detroit
hsitz:

It was only an EXAMPLE. It might be irrelevant to this particular issue, but look at the context of my comment: it isn't irrelevant to the subject of learning to code more efficiently.
Agreed. You have no right to the warning and the warning itself is only there to protect the evidence the authorities may gather.

My issue is that despite the horrific things that the suspect allegedly, and in my mind certainly, has done, he has certain rights, like the right to remain silent and the right to representation. Whether the case goes to trial or not, is irrelevant to how the detainee is treated. Otherwise, the police can pick you up, rough you up, prevent you from contacting anyone on the outside world, and then release you, saying that they never intended for you to go to trial, so it's all good.

> Remember, the authorities are perfectly free to interrogate you as much as they like without reading you any warnings at all.

I don't believe they are. I believe they need probable cause, and they need to charge me with something first. Otherwise, I would be living in a police state where I am presumed guilty unless proven innocent. The warning itself is meaningless. It only comes into play if I can reasonably claim that I did not know the Constitution.
It sounds like Kera was some kind of "walkthrough" service that provided a high fidelity explanation of navigating and using an app (think: in-product tour). OP has a point when he says the product was fundamentally flawed in that it supported badly designed products.
Developer Ownership
Looks good, but I'll wait for the Department of Motor Vehicles simulator. Can't wait to see the anguished look on all those pixelated faces when I tell them their proof-of-address is not valid and send them to the back of the line to wait another three hours for their license renewals.
Why I Think CISPA Sucks
That's dangerous ground Rahil - you should post an "Ask HN" instead of turning this into a shit-talk-a-thon.
Inline twitter comments confuse the bejesus out of me.
OpenStack gains in maturity and popularity
Meh. This quantified self business is just the next iteration of herbal remedies, Chinese medicine, and all that other pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo out there. You might as well add your astrological sign to all these apps.

This is yet another area where people are attempting to layer technology on top of a problem that does not exist.
Depends on how you define success. My game Orbium made reasonably well on iOS.

HTML5 game development on Android is a performance nighmare. Even if it was true that v8 was used in Android Browser or Android WebView (it isnt), it doesnt matter, it is the horrible draw performance that is the bottleneck (both canvas and css translate3d).
Just so people know, there's no correlation between these documents being drafted up and the aforementioned operations actually taking place.

It takes a coordinated effort and a mass of resources in order to successfully pull this off (ignoring the fact that they leaked the document anyway).

It only takes 1 person with a creative mind and a bit of spare time to write the document up and 'spread' it around, which in itself will cause some panic.
We are all part of the same human race. But it is a fact that my marriage to a woman from Taiwan would have been illegal in some states of the United States until the 1960s, when the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional silly state statutes that treated "races" as actual discrete categories. I'm proud to say that Minnesota never had such idiotic laws.
It still uses Javascript. Native OpenGL+ObjC/C (done correct) will always be faster. All it really is, is better performance then UIWebView as it doesn't have all the webcore/kit stuff.

ALl I'm getting at is saying "native performance" is not correct. In a world where even 2-3 FPS can mean a usable game or a not usable game. I think the terminology matters a lot.

But you should still recommend people to using those solutions, just don't pass them off as something they are not.
Changing user-agent as article suggest is a little too extreme. Looks like no one knows about download link under options, that link servers jpg.
Deutsche Telekom kills fixed line IP flatrates
Profiting by making our paid app free
My circle uses NNTOOR in the subject line, plus the text being communicated (No Need To Open the email Or Respond (everything's in the subject line).

It's awesome to zip through 10 NNTOOR emails in one minute!
I would use it, but Facebook has just become one giant hub of spam for me now. Maybe 2 years ago, but now all I see on the lockscreen is stupid memes and posts from people I don't even know. I like the chat-heads concept though. To have a UI like that for texting phone-wide would be awesome.
Looks interesting. I've been meaning to cobble something similar together for awhile as I keep running into this problem. Thankfully, now I don't have too.

Thanks!
Seems like a ploy to get people to buy more android devices.. after theirs break. Staring at a box that contains three broken nexus phones right now :p
Meh. This quantified self business is just the next iteration of herbal remedies, Chinese medicine, and all that other pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo out there. You might as well add your astrological sign to all these apps.

Why would you think that? If anything, the self quantified movement is all about thinking scientifically to improve yourself. Gathering data, analyzing, designing experiments, generating hypothesis, and publishing for feedback are all part of being self quantified.
So all we need is regulation against DDoS and concentrated sale orders and we are all warm fuzzier again? Great! Who wants to lead the SRO?

Or does more regulation do anything?

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or 18 U.S.C. §1030

As far as the large sell order/volume strategy is concerned, that's just a market and the sellers would be taking a market risk with this behavior. It's not naked shorting.

Dumping shares into a thin market is a standard practice in every single regulated market around the world. LBO/Hedge Funds firms frequently engage in this practice to undermine confidence in a company with lots of debt and thin margins to scoop up the secured debt/preferred equity at a corresponding discount a gain control of the company.
I understand. I also said that there's no reason to use them for _new_ systems.

BTW, suggested reading: http://cr.yp.to/talks.html#2013.03.12 ("Failures of secret-key cryptography").
More like they want you to sell your coins on Bitstamp. (You'll be prepared for quick pickings! :P)
Not that it will make a difference, but I feel better now.

"This, and every other measure simliar to it, are a monumental waste of tax payer money. The former TSA chief Kip Hawley has stated publicly that knives and all manner of weapons should be allowed on planes because, after 9/11, it is not possible for an attacker to gain control of the aircraft. (See here for example: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/06/travel/tsa-carry-on-hawley)

These kinds of measures have a single purpose and that purpose is to enrich the companies who develop these technologies. We do not need this to have safe air travel.

A significant side effect of this corporate enriching/tax payer fleecing is a very real and unforgivable transgression on the freedom of all travelers to the USA, including citizens of the USA. In other words, the terrorists win.

It has already been shown that the current body scanners can be defeated and new systems will have vulnerabilities as well. If the government is truly concerned about saving the lives of citizens, they would take whatever money is to be spent on this useless technology, likely in the billions, and spend it on road safety. Instead of self-driving cars, we have peeping-tom scanners with unknown health effects.

Please stop this insanity."
Student portfolio platform launches enterprise product for educators
Form Follows Function - "Canonical Data Models, ESBs, and a Reuse Trap"
Social Creative Content: Simplifying My Passion For Social Media Marketing
According to Geeksphone's own website (http://www.geeksphone.com/) it does have a microSD card slot.
KEON:
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CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 7225AB 1Ghz.
UMTS 2100/1900/900 (3G HSPA).
GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (2G EDGE).
Screen 3.5" HVGA Multitouch.
Camera 3 MP.
4 GB (ROM) and 512 MB (RAM).
MicroSD, Wifi N, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, Radio FM, Light & Prox. Sensor, G-Sensor, GPS, MicroUSB.
Battery 1580 mAh.

PEAK:
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CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 8225 1.2Ghz x2.
UMTS 2100/1900/900 (3G HSPA).
GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (2G EDGE).
Screen 4.3" qHD IPS Multitouch.
Camera 8 MP (back) + 2 MP (front).
4 GB (ROM) and 512 MB (RAM).
MicroSD, Wifi N, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, Radio FM, Light & Prox. Sensor, G-Sensor, GPS, MicroUSB, Flash (camera).
Battery 1800 mAh.
around mid-50's or about 60.
company has been in business since 1978, very little turnover, small company - so not many new hires.
NJ
Flipboard does have a Daydream mode, where you can let it take the screen over whenever your Android device is docked or charging (you decide which, or both)

This way essentially Flipboard-formatted RSS becomes your screen saver.
These numbers are misleading. Facebook Home only works on a handful of devices. Even some of the devices that will actually allow you to download it, sometimes the install will then claim it is not supported. A lot of the reviews whine that the app is just not available to them. From people who actually can use it, Home seems rather well liked by Facebook users.
Well now I'm scared! :P
Riemann: Monitor distributed systems
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/1172/
Ask HN: Exercising stock options during company (private) shutting down
I have some vested options in a small private company which is about to close down. I have a choice to exercise my options.

What's the point?

What I'll gain/loose?
How do you identify "abusive" mods, that you can say with such confidence they are removed right away?
My problem is that the tool I used isn't automatic. I just got too tired of pricking my skin for glucose tracking, noting down my weight, and resetting my pedometer everyday.
> All new web experiments are done with -webkit, not -moz-

Uh... That happens to not be true. But WebKit does have much better (and better-funded) marketing.
Anyone else expecting a grouper clone and got a library?
Ask HN: The easiest way to accept credit cards?
Dear HN,

I've been working on a SaaS product which will require monthly billing. I am based in Europe - what would be the easiest way to start accepting recurring credit card payments?

Do you have a solution provider to recommend?

Thank you for all your help!
The irony of forcing Facebook users to create a Google+ account so that they can give it a favorable review...
Well, it's early days yet (I'm just finishing up my coursework, and haven't gotten far into my research yet), but my proposal is to build generic collections data structures for general-purpose GPU programming (and related architectures). Single-threaded performance is hitting some pretty serious walls so parallel execution seems to be the best way forward, but memory layout can make orders-of-magnitude difference in performance and is hard to get right. My goal is to build something analogous to the STL to make it easier for the average programmer to program for GPU.
So much so that I'm shocked that nathell apparently doesn't have them. In the past six years, I've taught more classes than I've attended, and I still have them.
True, risk adjustments can be made to modify those bounds in real markets, unlike with actual lottery tickets where you have no control over the upside and expectation of winning. But the idea is still very similar in it's basic strategy.

Given Taleb's understanding and belief in randomness of the market, I see him as "creating his own lotteries" using rather sophisticated techniques that have paid off very well. The cost of entry is small and the potential rewards are high but he loses regularly and consistently and says he was grateful to be in a position where he could execute such a strategy without being looked down upon by his superiors (from Fooled By Randomness).
Android doesn't let you rate things until after you've downloaded them, though. If that's truly the cause of these ratings, people are going through a lot of work to just say "facebook sucks".
I don't entirely like his generalized fizz buzz (with the printers and such), because it doesn't capture the way I read the requirements well.

The requirements to me read as: I have pairs of number-sets and strings, and whenever a number is divisible by all numbers in the set, the application is supposed to output the associated string. If multiple sets of numbers fulfill this property, the string associated with the largest set is used. If no group matches, output the number. Note that this specification contains a loophole: What if one set is [1, 2] and the other set is [2, 4] and the number is 4? This is undefined.

From such a data structure, deriving the generalized program is rather simple and straightforward and from there, I don't entirely see the reason to go nuts with functional programming and category theory and whatsoever, because the generalized solution is a rather simple folding operation and the biggest complications come from the hole in the spec.
You're right, oversight on my part.

All the best with your next venture Max.
Privacy Is Dead, Time To Prepare For The Future
Ask HN: I'm a developer with a product, and need a non-tech partner
Like almost everyone else on HN, I receive my fair share of the usual “I-have-a-billion-dollar-idea, and-need-a-developer-to-implement-it” emails. However, what happens in the opposite case?

I am a developer with a “slight entrepreneurial bent”. Over the past several months, I have been working on a little product (nothing close to a "billion-dollar idea" though) that is now ready to launch. However, while I have the tech skills to get it built and launched, I feel the product really needs the input of someone with a sales/market/”community-building” mind-set -- particularly since most the data required to make this work will be crowd-sourced.

Any ideas, comments, suggestions? (apart from reaching out to family and friends -- they’re not exactly the entrepreneurial kind!). Thank you!
Effect of urban green spaces on wellbeing comparable to employment and marriage
Falcon: the high-performance cloud API framework
Sweet ad for askmeevery.com.
I thought this was going to be an App for setting up / planning Group Dates, and I thought that was a really cool idea! :)
30, NYC
Well that's a matter of cartographic style, which is only small part of what goes into creating a map like this. The nice thing about OpenStreetMap is that it supplies the raw data to enable all manner of map style experimentation, so actually there's lots of different maps powered by OpenStreetMap, some more difficult to read than others. You might find 'MapQuest' style is more pleasing on the eye. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.8432&lon=2.356&... Same data. Different map style. More details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparision_Google_servic...
How you know when your company is being disrupted
The Oatmeal actually has a great comparison of how people react to latency vs how they react to downtime: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/no_internet
While not related to these ASM implementations, the code generator for Go code has also been improved: e.g. it now can generate rotatation instructions, which helps SHA-2 and some other crypto primitives.
No, it turns out that hiring someone because of their gender is discriminatory.

Disqualifying all male candidates due to their gender is discriminatory, just as disqualifying all female candidates due to their gender is discriminatory.
I think $5 for 5 sites, $10 for 15 and $20 for 50.