skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watsi's a nonprofit, so I'm pretty sure neither YC or PG are getting rich off of it.

I think it's a good reminder that serious shit isn't going down just in Boston right now, and that you can help people suffering right now, wherever they are.
No his plan was 'borrow' $1B for a very short period of time, buy $1B in Apple shares, hope they go up a short while later, sell shares, pay back loan, pocket the difference. He never had the $1B.
That first part would be a hilarious application of ~affirmative action.~ Most people like AA until you apply it equally to other things, which is when the sense of how ridiculous it is becomes hard for even the most determinedly discriminatory person to ignore.
Shifting the mindset doesn't enable for profit private defense contractors and firms providing law enforcement equipment from making fistfulls of profits from taxpayer money.
UDOO: $109 single-board computer is like an Arduino crossed with a Raspberry Pi
That is a reality that I guess I just naively assumed wasn't possible. This bit really kind of shook me. I've always thought of terrorism much like the author and the aforementioned poster you're replying to, a seemingly random and rare event. I'd never thought about what living in a society where it has become common place. I imagine it's a bit like when school shooting sprees line up in the States, each one on the news results in a "god dammit, another one, what an asshole, seriously?" We move on, and become desensitized in the long run and "overcome" time and again, but that doesn't make the situation any better or less negative.

I have no solution to that dilemma that won't put us as a society as low or lower than the terrorists we're fighting...
> More skin in the game should (though there's some research suggesting otherwise) make the market more stable by reducing the ability to speculate. This is a lesson that goes back to the crash of 1929 and the Dutch tulip bubble.

True, but that's not what we have in the market today. You are confusing "should" with "is".
It's the same thing in practice. It's harder to have a female friendly workplace when its a brofest.
What will you be doing? Unless you're spending your day in a heavy application (i.e. Photoshop, XCode, Eclipse), I'd say the Air, hands-down. I'm on my third one and am hoping to never get another brand of laptop - I love it. You just can't beat the size.

It has to hustle to keep Photoshop or XCode open longer than an hour or so, though.
There has never been a sense of pride in getting to work the next day, its just what you have to do. The wreckage on the way is a sign that maybe you got lucky, but also a sign that your commute is going to be FUBARed.

The treatment though of these events is somewhat schizophrenic.

The local take has generally been one of gallows humor/pride(?). One of the most common questions people have is "is everyone I know safe" and "so is tomorrow a holiday or what?" (the answer is always no, it's not.)

Its when people look and compare what Bombay/Mumbai goes through regularly and when it gets kudos for being itself that people suppose they should feel pride, but I suspect this sensation isn't the natural self grown variety.

The best treatment of the phenomenon has been by the Taj staff. During an tour of the art in the hotel after it was re-opened, curious tourists asked about the attacks and where it happened, the guide spent just enough time to be polite and make it clear that such questions were not answered and moved on to discussing his work.

Honestly, what else are you going to do?

I suspect part of the state side reaction is likely media influenced or focus on those aspects. By the looks of it Boston is acting rationally to the issue and will likely carry on as well once there is an all clear.

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Its funny what is being called "several attacks". For context this refers to the train bombings, which opened up railway bogies like sardine cans, the attacks of 26/11, the bombings in Jhaveri Bazaar, random riots.... the list goes on. And the city's response has generally been apathy. The attacks elicited anger at the Government and embarrassment.

But oddly, apathy is probably the best answer to terrorism. The point of terrorism is to make a political statement. If no one cares then while violent, the statement is essentially ignored.
Yes. They will be shipped in batches, as they come off the production line.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/15/first-google-glass-devices-...
That might not happen, credit card fees are usually broken down as so:

1. Receiving Bank Fee
2. Sending Bank Fee (most of the charge)
3. Network fee (visa, mastercard, etc)

And a good amount of fraud built into those fees. Fees often vary by fraud risk, with internet and telephone charging ~3% and supermarkets getting around %1 already. Debit cards can be flat fee also.
The New Google Glass? Like It or Not
Red Hat's John Mark Walker: The Open Cloud Needs Open Storage
A huge percentage of the code you use every day doesn't have tests - Linux kernel? No tests - TCP/IP stack? No tests - Windows Kernel (up till WinXP anyway) ? No tests - Android? No tests - Quake engine ? No tests

Don't make stupidly broad statements like "I've never seen untested code that wasn't crap". Well unless by "untested" you mean "code that was never even ran or QA'd a little". I'm pretty sure you mean "code that didn't go through TDD" though, in which case - you are very, very wrong.
I must have missed the sarcasm. Plenty of people mistakenly believe that online dating is still used mainly by nerds. It was true at one point in time.

Edit: I find it strange that you deleted your previous comment after you wrote a reply to my comment, which said you've enjoyed using OkCupid for 8 years. That comment was part of what prompted me to respond initially, and why I didn't think it was sarcasm.
Excellent, thank you very much. I use KRDC and a bit of googling shows that that uses rdesktop in the background. I shall investigate.
In that case a startup showcase app (basically a fully fledged show HN).
I dont believe so. Since the heart rate could be much higher, it would alias, and the camera wouldn't be able to tell the difference between normal heart rate and low heart rate.

This is what I suspect could happen, with two possible heart rates matching the same set of samples:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/AliasingS...
The title "Marathon Bombing" does not give right vibe. :(
Why does the Facebook app for Android, iPad, iPhone still suck?
I have never known Node.JS developers to be quiet.

Quite the opposite. With a single thread, gaping security holes if you want large memory support, and until about 3 weeks ago nothing that even came close to resembling compliance with HTTP standards, the onlything Node is changing in the OpenSource community is that a crowd that would have been called script kiddies 5 years ago can now put that on a resume and for some reason think that should earn them 6 figures.

Changing the Open Source community (for the better) requires doing more than hacking together a few lines of code that dupes the functionality of someone else's lines of code. Node.JS doesn't have a single innovative project that is moving all of computer science forward. If node wants to be taken seriously it needs to prove that it can play big data, or science, or linguistics with the rest of the communities.

Every language has a niche where it dominates in resources for a given field. Node has none.
Do you need to have relevant background before you can touch that code? How does that work?
>>It's funny that two out of the three things you said are additional expenses that the house enables.

Those same two things may also be valuable to the owner, regardless of expense. Expand my basement so I have room to continue working on the hobby I love? Sounds good.
The only relevant thing in that link is dual-licensed software. But looking at binpress it seems like much of the software there is only available under a proprietary license. The license generator can easily be configured to generate a proprietary license.

I didn't say that source code has no value, but providing source is not the same as an open source license, which has significantly more value.
To be fair the buyer sounded like a big douche. Med Express immediately offered to reimburse the buyer for the $1.44 postage fee they were charged, it's a minor mistake that the buyer overreacted about. I find it kind of silly Med Express thinks they have a case here though, they probably have more money and will end up settling because the buyer won't be able to afford to fight.
Intel Launches HTML5 App Development Platform
Idea HN: Bomb proof bins
Had an idea that I can't do anything about, except suggest it on HN and see if it catches anyone's imagination.

The idea is Special Bomb bins - a lot of bombings occur by terrorists placing bombs in bins. I don't know anything about bombs but I wondered if all bombs all contained an element that a bin could pick up on and auto alert authorities that that element existed within the bin. For example if all bombs contained 'x', and you had special bins that alerted authorities when the bin came into contact with 'x'. Or something along those lines. Happy to be told this idea is incredibly stupid. If that is the case, has anyone got any ideas about how we could possibly build a better bin so that terrorists can't hide IED's in bins without anyone knowing - or is that impossible?

Thanks,
Steve
Let me put it another way; if I'm facing or even in a car accident, at least I know what to do about it in general terms. I've been in a few already and on the scene to help in several others. While the probability of car accidents is high enough to be a worry, I have many options for mitigating that risk.

Now, I'm very unlikely to be in a bombing attack, thank heavens. But I have been in one already, when a car bomb went off right outside my office just as I was getting ready to leave (I wasn't a target or anything, it was a car bomb parked outside a subway station in London that I happened to work next to). What happened was that there was a huge bang and I watched the windows swell inwards like they were covered in plastic sheeting instead of glass. Lucky for me, they didn't shatter, and lucky for everyone else it was late at night and there were no people on the street, so nobody died.

But at the time of the explosion, I was keenly aware that if the windows had burst inwards, the glass would have hit me faster than I could have ducked down behind a piece of furniture. It's this lack of opportunity to alter the outcome that bothers people; it's a situation they'd understandably rather not be confronted with at all. Helplessness is unpleasant because it negates your normal defense mechanisms.
what if someone created passwords based off of your brainwaves (assuming every brainwave is unique as a fingerprint)
Here in Poland, you can't rent a flat even if you want. There are extremely few offers, partially because there's a culture of owning. Renting is frowned upon.
Plenty of people survive plane accidents; in fact if you are involved in a plane accident in the US you have a greater than 90% chance of surviving.

Which highlights the point; it is fear that drives your viewpoint (that car accidents are preferable plane crashes) rather than statistics :)

EDIT: I don't have my copy of Risk to hand, but from memory the numbers work out something like.. probability of being in an air crash and it killing you is 1 in several million. Probability of being in a car crash and it killing you is 1 in several thousand (or ten thousands, can't remember). Either way - an order of magnitude more risky :)
The author is giving up on Android because handset makers are producing large phones that can't comfortably be held in one hand? How is this the fault of Android itself? Android is an operating system, it doesn't enforce screen sizes, it's like saying you're quitting Windows because the 24" monitor on your new Windows PC is too small.

A pretty weak argument in my opinion. Maybe the author might find solace in an old Nokia 3315 instead.
A Beginning...
Cloud Platform Heroku Offers Free Ruby on Rails Training for Developers
I've checked out binpress a few times before and they do have some interesting stuff. I say its more like a source code marketplace, which makes it easy for code authors to sell small utilities and libraries at no or low cost. I hope they succeed and become more popular, since sometimes it is very difficult to find easy to license source code.
Ask HN: Can Twitter determine your client via api calls made?
I'm using twitter as an example, but I'd like to know more generally as well.

From twitters end how do they tell the difference between:
1) API call made from a user on the website
2) API call made from a user on the mac client
3) API call made from a user on the ios app
4) API call made from a an application I have built

Cheers.
You are aware that "we" basically created the Unabomber, yes?

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/06/chase.ht...
"All you have to do is get 26 out of 35 multiple choice questions correct"

Pardon my ignorance, but what are you referring to? A license? Purchase choices? Thanks!
I will hand it to Weev, even though he's spending 41 months in a jail cell he's still trolling people this time it's the justice system. Pretty clever how his friend setup an anonymous PBX service for Weev to record and upload to Soundcloud via a phone call. Once they revoke or monitor his calls he'll have to resort to writing a good old fashioned letter and then someone scanning it and uploading it somewhere.
Our "developer" license is very similar to a free open-source license in the liberties it provides, except for a non-compete clause which says you can't redistribute "as-is" (you can, however, as part of a larger / modified work). This is a big concern for a lot of people working on commercial products - if adding this clause gets them over the hump to release their code - we think there's tremendous value in that.

On the other hand, almost all of our licenses include an SLA - which no free open-source license does. In fact, one of the main reasons often cited by people releasing code with FOSS licenses is that they don't have to support it (doesn't mean they won't, they just don't have to). We think the guarantee of support is worth a lot in certain sectors (such as SMBs and enterprise).
When someone can run Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer, someone will become very rich and the world will change.

Although I think quantum encryption will become common place before someone builds quantum computer with enough qubits to factor large numbers.
Ask HN: What did you put in your DeveloperAuction profile?
I am currently building my DeveloperAuction.com "resume" and am curious what other people who have been accepted to and successful with their profiles have put in to them. Can you share here on HN what you put in down? Any screen shots to share?
I think it's just a reflection of the underlying transaction facilitators (CC processors vs Bitcoin exchanges).

And thats one of the reasons Satoshi started Bitcoin to begin with - transactions within the traditional money network have become very complex and expensive. One of the aims of bitcoin is more economically efficient transactions:

The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions, and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for non- reversible services. With the possibility of reversal, the need for trust spreads. Merchants must be wary of their customers, hassling them for more information than they would otherwise need.
A certain percentage of fraud is accepted as unavoidable. These costs and payment uncertainties can be avoided in person by using physical currency, but no mechanism exists to make payments over a communications channel without a trusted party
Better technical content is the better choice for a technical conference.

That's only partly true, and even that part depends on what you mean by "better technical content"

It also depends on whose perspective you're measuring from.

If a conference is run purely as a business, then the "better choice" for the organiser is the one that has the highest return on investment (presumably "highest net profit"). And there are lots of things, over and above the merits of the content itself, that contribute to that. If your target audience is 30% women, but your speaker line-up is only 5% women, that might be a problem for you. It might cause some percentage of those women to decide not to attend. The alternative - creating an artificial quota of having women make up 30% of speakers, regardless of quality - might cause an even larger drop in attendance. There's a balance that's needed, and it takes work.

But even if we don't worry about that, "technical content" isn't a simple measure. If your conference has even a moderately broad scope, then you need to worry about the breadth of talks. Clearly a Ruby conference where all the talks are on Rails, is not an ideal lineup even if the best submissions (on individual merit) were all for taks on Rails. In terms of content, if nothing else, you need to worry about diversity.

So, if you're planning a Ruby conference, and you know that only 50% of your target audience are Rails users, but 90% of the papers submitted are for Rails talks, then it would appear that something has gone wrong in your process. It look like people have pegged you a a Rails conference, even though that's not your intent.

I'd argue that same applies to speaker demographics as well. If you think that 30% of your target audience are women, but only 5% of your submissions are from women, then there's a reasonable chance that something in the process caused the women not to submit papers. If that's the case, then your conference is going to suffer for it.

There a lots of things that conference organisers can do that either increase or decrease the diversity in their submissions/selection process. E.g.

- Placing too high an emphasis on previous speaking engagements in an industry segment where diversity has been lacking in the past.

- Having a selection panel that is overly skewed towards one group of people (selection bias)

- Putting out your call for papers in the wrong places (one that is skewed)

- Having a call for papers that contains biased language

Even if you are firmly decided on selecting speakers based purely on their content (even though, for some conferences, that might not produce the "best" result), there is work that can be done to make sure you're at least considering the widest selection of papers in the most effective way.
Original comment doesn't state that online dating is used mainly by nerds, but that nerds mainly use online dating.
Do you have some tips for someone like me ? Unemployed for 3 years, graduated from IT but worked in another industry (nautical charts). I have little to show. I got an interview quite often, but that's where it ended. 80% companies just have HR department and don't ask any technical questions.

Should I focus on building my portfolio ? (recently focused on Django)

Is it easier to find a job in some "common" field, like software testing or PHP, or rarer like Django where there are much fewer offers but also less competition ?
While I don't know many of the particulars, I believe that one possible good example is Etsy. Etsy started a deliberate effort to employ more female engineers, and they did it by hiring junior female engineers and training them.

They don't call it a quota, but it certainly fits the loose definition - they wanted more females, and so they hired junior female engineers when they could have hired more senior male engineers. I'm sure that at some point, a team of theirs was considered at full capacity and some male resume was passed over that might have otherwise been considered.

But it's really, really hard to argue that they did something offensive there. They created more engineering talent, got some good press out of it, and I wouldn't be surprised if it had some sort of small effect in making programming a more viable-seeming career choice for women.
Until Bitcoin normalises it sadly doesn't matter who accepts it, the currency is experiencing so much instability you're better off buying a prepaid Visa debit card and using that for paying for online dating services. It;s good to see more services accepting the currency but it doesn't change the fact it's a hotbox for hacker attacks, old fashioned bank-running when the price rises and all of the investors it has attracted looking to make a quick buck.
It may not be a legal document but it certainly more than just a "bunch of nice sounding words." I hear this argument get trotted out all the time as if the only way to value a document and how it should inform policy is if it is a legal one.
Well, to tell the truth, that story has happened almost twenty years back, before outsourcing really kicked in. Equipment was developed in Russia, for Russian market. And I also had some five years of playing with C/x86 asm, by the time I was 13.

So no, it actually was not that bad. No kids were harmed, and no QA teams in India were involved.
Well, if your argument is that it's easier to contribute to NPM, then you should consider that Perl has been managing the same output for 18 years that the Node community has for the past four: about 6700 modules/year.

For what it's worth, uploading to CPAN is not very difficult. Getting a PAUSE account is easy and uploading is no problem. It's really no harder than the PyPI system.
Web application testing - overview
Property values for tax purposes are reassessed less than once per decade in many jurisdictions in the US. This is true on the downside also. In some cases, houses sell for multiples of their tax assessment, yet even a transaction will not trigger a reassessment.
Whenever people say stuff like this, I wast to bring up the idea of the "net good" of the implementation.

Twillio doing this doesn't take away from the tragedy and it's not preying on vulnerable people. It's helping people through their service. If they get press for it, so be it.

It's unfortunate that people think that in order for one party to "win", another party has to "lose." I think this is a good case of win/win.
> My first reaction on seeing the goat ad was negative. Why they chose to advertise this as an antisocial product which helps you disengage from ACTUAL social activity escaped me.

Because they want to promote disengaging from actual social activities and browsing facebook instead.

> Sharing "experiences" is nowhere near as good as actually having experiences, being present fully in the moment, in the company of others similarly engaged.

Yes, but "actually having experiences" doesn't give you a chance to watch facebook ads, while "sharing experiences" does.

It's your business to know what's better for you and their business to know what's better for them. Facebook isn't a charity.
Some Indian start-ups shun funding in bid to retain independence
He said "as a collective group", the smartness of the leaders is averaged down by the low quality of the foot soldiers who actually decide to die for the cause.

It is hard to find willing terrorists normally, it becomes easier if you provide your enemies with daily motivation and determination. As others have mentioned, and excluding home grown lunacy, it is easy to avoid terrorism, just don't occupy other countries, oppress their peoples and kill their children.
BTW, I'd also point out that if you got rejected because of your genitals, you probably wouldn't know it. They'd probably have plenty of other defensible reasons they could hang their hat on, even if your genitals did have something to do with it. And you'd be left with a disquieting suspicion that is probably correct, and no way to prove it.

Which is very similar what institutional sexism is - except that women deal with it to a much greater degree than men.