skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't you just close the lid or press the power button on the computer?

http://i.imgur.com/allxzAQ.png

The reason this stuff is buried in a 2nd-level menu is that you're not supposed to need it. It's power-user stuff. Normal users are expected to either close the lid or press the power button, as they do on every other type of computer-y device now (phones, tablets, ereaders, etc). Software power buttons were a UX mistake this OS is correcting.
But no, there are many, many children of every age in Germany.
Of course mainly by 'new-Germans' who originally are from Turkey or other islamic countries.
I have to say I agree with you. Selling businesses at the brink of collapse for $1B+ is admirable.
MCSE was renamed in Canada, thanks to the Quebec case as well as intense pressure from Professional Engineering associations across Canada.

I addressed this in another post, but this is not true. Microsoft temporarily advised holders to use the abbreviation instead of the full name, but then reverted to the full name (see my other post on this for a story on this from the PEO themselves). Years later they changed the whole program to "IT Professional" worldwide in a new marketing push to split the development track from the administration track.

I think it's one of those things in Canada where nothing happens until a complaint has been filed.

The Professional Engineering groups have absolutely no success in trying to coopt the dictionary, nor should they.
QR Codes for nutrition information
Today, virtually all food products in (US) grocery stores have UPC codes. You can use apps like MyFitnessPal and others to lookup the UPC code and get information (some of it from USDA, others crowd sourced).

This seems like the perfect place for a QR code on packaging, that contains all the nutrition information, ingredients, dietary/allergen compliance status (gluten, vegan, etc).

Where would a push for this kind of thing happen - from the food producers, or from a vendor or reseller of some kind? It makes tons of sense, but it seems to be a chicken/egg scenario.
BTC isn't inherently painful to use. Things are improving a lot.
Nice. The output is similar to that of my rss ingest pipeline for http://jkl.io although I've yet to add my custom document/topical hash, sentiment and topical classifiers directly but it has article, stemmed article, first sentence (which will evolve to summary), named entities and resolves url redirects.

I am thinking I should clean up the code, add a few more extractors and release it soon as a url analysis library (I was thinking "demands" would be a good name to pair with Python's "requests"). I would like to get entity disambiguation from Wikipedia in it first though as I think that is a vital feature. My funding pitch largely failed though so I will approach that somewhat more slowly, but the methodology and libraries for constructing reasonable entity disambiguation from topic modelling (rather than heaviest sub-graph approaches) are out there.

I recently saw an API on HN selling basically this type of extraction from urls, but I think it's necessary (along with Common Crawl and other such things) for this base layer to be there for free so people can properly compete with Google. I think Google currently runs 200+ extractors and classifiers on every page, so they have a huge advantage over startups (and non-profits which is my area of interest) in this area which Common Crawl can't help with by just providing the raw data.
Ugh. New York Times: Bourgeoisie drivel and white house propaganda.

We need to regulate the NYT.
How about the fizz of co2 bubbles pointing towards stuff?
And worse, Windows 8 itself will remain completely unchanged. Any fixes will be in the next os release.
Angry comments about the TSA's body scanners
I'm not asserting that all successful people are that way because of luck, but those two examples are certainly valid in that sense. The citations can be found all over the place, including Wikipedia. That doesn't mean those people didn't have talent. I'm simply stating that they could get by without changing their style because their success predated their need to get along with people.

A lot of extremely successful people got there because of extreme luck. Their extreme luck became an essential component of their success. It's not that they won a planetwide lottery without doing anything for it. It's that they won the lottery and were very competent, and in some cases, hard working. Again, please note that I'm talking about the extremely successful people that we like to iconize.

To be phenomenally successful you typically are extremely young, come from a reasonably affluent background, have enjoyed a very nice education, and your early life is characterized by crossing paths with lots of influential rich people. Contrast that with "normally" successful people, they are just different. They can be any age, come from a variety of backgrounds, and typically they had to deal with (and improve on) a longer streak of rejections.

I don't think it's poisonous to acknowledge luck, it is one of the necessary ingredients of extreme success. And extreme success is usually a necessary ingredient for trend-setting the styles and mannerisms we have come to expect from all successful founders.
because that's better suited for a library?
A fundamental advantage of BTC is that it's supposed to be free of government regulation or other forms of centralized control. The correct response to this is to (be absolutely sure that the government can't regulate it, and then) just ignore whatever the government says.
It sounds like it would only impact miners. Americans can participate in Bitcoin without mining.
You can submit your own comments (angry or otherwise) at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=TSA-2013-0004
Signup seems to not be working for me.
I keep seeing a bar on the top that says "undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass"
Not a bad start, but it could still use some work. When people sign up for something, they still have a lot of questions. Address those by including links to FAQs or sending them an users manual. That will increase your numbers by a good amount. Plus, you can upsell without much problem.

An email subject that tends to work well with this approach:

"Here are some helpful links to get you started with $name."
This makes me curious -- let's say Mark Zuckerberg himself applied to YC with the objectively worst idea you've ever seen on an application.

Do you give it a shot?
IMO, "most of the software written in any language" would be a good fit for that sentence.
It is required to get the same quality if the suppliers of your quality content won't give it to you without it.
While this might work for small networks, and indeed appears to provide a considerable increase in security there, I doubt that this can easily be extended to the whole internet – after all, the usual problem is not that some evil person peeks into an Ethernet cable, but rather that some router (at your ISP, the other party’s ISP or anywhere in between) is compromised. This approach effectively requires all routers (of the quantum messages, that is) to be ‘trusted nodes’.

So, cool, but, yeah…
The iPad doesn't have a start menu. Android doesn't have a start menu. That doesn't seem to be terribly disruptive to many workflows.
So LINE (http://line.naver.jp/en/) for a more US-centric audience? What kind of plans do you guys have with this?
A chattel is moveable property (i.e. not land). So a chattel currency is any currency that involves transferring property such as gold, flour, etc.

Re: Slavery use. Slaves were called chattel because they were property; that was the disgrace.
For lapsed accounts, it should be a user-initiated process. If you're genuinely bothered about lapsed accounts, a "We're going to deactivate your account as you're not using it" email is probably fine.

Still spam by the definition of the top comment.
> Of course it depends. Getting the ball rolling is probably not best done by giving an NP-complete problem (subset sum) as a first exercise.

2 things:

1) Being asked to solve an NP-complete problem would actually be very simple for a person with CS knowledge - just brute force it! Your solution will be reasonably close to the best-known algorithm for arbitrary input.

2) That isn't actually the subset-sum problem since they are specifying that the subset must be of size n.
I'd love to see some benchmarks if you make any.

From my gut, I'd say that the WebGL renderer is fast at rendering lots of shapes with only translation / rotation transformations applied to them. SVG is highly optimized on Webkit and handles shape morphing really well and so the SVG renderer handles that really well. Canvas sits somewhere in between the two.

This is a test of a lot of shapes morphing. It visualizes SoundCloud songs: http://jonobr1.github.io/Neuronal-Synchrony/?url=https://sou...

It may take awhile to load...
Sure, we can do a preliminary investigation of some media contacts for you, to give you a better idea. Send me a quick note at team@prhacker.com and let me know a little bit about what you'd like to promote and I'll give you a sample of some of the media contacts you'd get.
Cloud66 Down – API used to delete customers' servers
There has been an incident at Cloud66 which has resulted in customers' servers being deleted from their cloud providers' account(s).

DigitalOcean has confirmed that there is an issue with Cloud66 and their API credentials were used to delete all servers from our DO account.

status: http://status.cloud66.com/
You might want to take a look at this: https://github.com/mjumbewu/django-rest-framework-gis
The reason it's being talked about is because Netflix's recent transition plan is a milestone--the only Silverlight application I knowingly use is finally going away.
Offtopic, but have you got a source for "Iran is seeking to produce a nuclear weapon with the openly stated goal of launching it against another country."

I had a quick look on the Wikipedia page but couldn't see anything there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran
In Durham, NC the food trucks have been a big part of the city's revitalization. It is, oddly enough, an area with plenty of vacant business space, but I believe the food truck owners here value the shorter time to launch, the lower start-up costs, and perhaps they find the perceived barrier to entry to be lower (in truth, I've seen some vendors go brick and mortar, and it took them a great deal of effort to get it rolling).

In some areas the food trucks form synergistic relationships with bricks and mortars; a local brewery that doesn't serve its own food, hosts them every night and the entire area around it has become "The Spot" with 4 new businesses opening in the last year.

Having moved here from New York, I'm familiar with the situation there as well. There aren't as many swaths of urban "blight", and there is already a good amount of foot traffic so the benefits don't feel quite as dramatic -- but then I didn't work in midtown (where the food offerings are so so bad).
> Someone from the USA who calls themselves 'American' appears arrogant to someone who believes that "America" is the continent composed of North American and South America.

Genuine not rhetorical question: Instead of "American", what would be the preferred, less-arrogant way for a U.S. citizen to refer to oneself?

(I mean in normal conversation not border control; so presumably not "U.S. Citizen". And I mean seriously; so not "Arrogantian".)
Einh, she specifically claims she had a system.

"I walked out of the casino at a profit just by being aware of what the actual odds were and sticking to a system that would milk the machine of as much money as possible. That it did this bit by bit was irrelevant. Cash is cash."

It's certainly conceivable that the A.C. slots have a negative vig under some circumstances, but I'm skeptical. My conclusion from the references to the slots is that the author probably isn't as smart as she thinks she is. Preliminary finding.

I agree that this usage is idiomatically consistent with the HN-standard use of "hacking", though.
Cool. Where are you getting these deals? I stumbled into Casino Royale a month or two ago and got one of their fun books. The problem was that the only way to cash out was if you got one of the jackpots. So your expected value is > 0, but of course the chance of winning is very low. My email's in my profile if you feel this has now spiraled sufficiently off-topic.
>> The encrypted file – if The Register understands the paper correctly – embeds actions that are permitted on that file (for example, the ability to read and write to parts or all of the file. The Evaluate function is able to use the combination of the public key and permitted actions (described as circuits) to operate on the file without decrypting it.

> I'm pretty sure that this has nothing to do with permissions. Homomorphic encryption maintains certain properties of the plaintext (through some isomorphism) to allow pre-defined operations (operations that the isomorphism are designed for).

I've read 'permitted' as 'operations that can be performed on the ciphertext when using this encryption scheme'. While it might be ambiguous, I don't think they're incorrect in saying that.
I have a feeling that the language in this order will give rise to a renewed effort in this regard. This order and its breathtaking vitriol didn't exist at the time of that hearing.
I've had the opposite experience. I bought an MS Surface Pro and I absolutely love Windows 8 and Metro. It's the best tablet experience going. I like it so much I bought a Windows Phone too.

The Surface presents new interesting dynamics in that my tablet can become a full fledged PC whenever needed. I do dev work in Visual Studio on it. So I find Windows 8 to be very successful for this particular device. Admittedly, the desktop experience is a tad awkward and in that mode some of the Metro stuff could be toned down. But I am very happy with this "hybrid" machine overall, and think MS is on to something.
Someone should make an app like this for expatriates looking for the closest Starbucks or McDonald's.
Isn't the name "Horcrux" trademarked by JK Rowling? Seems like a bad idea to name your app after that.
The level of perceived persecution in the bitcoin community is pretty humorous.

Chattel is just tangible personal property that is moveable and hard to value. [1][2]

Bart Chilton is probably most well known for his outing of the manipulation in the precious metals markets.[3] This guy is not bitcoin's enemy.

Edit:

From a writeup in which the EFF describes Trespass to Chattels in the context of digital goods[4]:

"A trespass to chattels occurs when one party itentionally uses or intermeddles with
personal property in rightful possession of another without authorization,"

Does that not sound entirely relevant to bitcoin exchanges?

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chattel.asp

[2] http://www.trustees.org.uk/review-index/Chattels-CGT-and-Cha...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-26/silver-market-faced...

[4] https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Trespass_to_Chattels
Only time will tell if it can serve humanity as well as ZomboCom. With this, pizza is possible .. with ZomboCom, ANYTHING is possible.
Not sure why you bring up laptops, some of us use Windows to do what it does best, on PC's with good graphics cards.
This is the next step for me - providing additional onboarding tips. The questions I get in response to the current email identify gaps in documentation and clarity.
Not having a job is bad. Having a job that you hate is worse.
It should say, 'because Excel is bundled with MS Office, the only software Joe Sixpack can buy at the computer store'. Monopoly also has a long tail.
Ludum Dare Game Browser (built with Lapis & Moonscript)
It's also open source: https://github.com/leafo/ludum-dare-browser
It would probably help if you shared more anti-zuckomorph stats / anecdotes so people could chew on those endlessly instead.

Got any?
True, but another republican core constituency is people who hate paying taxes, and I argue that it's a more important constituent group than the small business lobby. This might seem like a good move for the republicans now, but I suspect they'll regret it in primary season when their challenger can paint them as "the incumbent, who brought sales taxes to the internet."
I think you have a point, but context is important. And I say this as someone who has been repeatedly accused in this forum to make abundant use of "weasel words" just to qualify the boundary between fact and opinion. As a result I don't do it as often anymore, especially when the context of the subject itself already serves as a good indicator that whatever follows will be opinion.

Still, I have to admit that I do believe it to be factual that extremely successful people did not have to work on making themselves pleasant or conformant to the same degree as normal people. I explained the reasoning for this in the sister comment, but the upshot is that I indeed see this as a fact that probably could be supported by biographical evidence.
I was using my wife's experience as content. I have a different perception of how to attack problems. She knows there is a power button 'somewhere' in the desktop environment. She knows clicking the mouse twice turns on the computer. However, luckily, clicking the mouse twice does not turn off the computer. Our power button is not easily accessible or recognized from the restart button (case design issue).

On your edit, I believe 'power-user' is a strong term. It was only a decade ago when pressing my power button could mean corrupting documents. These ideas stick.

Locking the computer when I walk away at work is common work. Leaving an unlocked computer at a financial institution is a dangerous scenario. These are Excel wizards, data entry, and so on who might be baffled by the premise of anything that is not Excel or Word.

Hitting the power button is not as intuitive as closing a laptop lid. The power button is considered dangerous except for turning on the computer by most normal users.
It also should be able to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. Clearly, that is a key requirement.
This works fine until real-world businesses start being shut down for accepting it.

Not saying this will happen, but a determined government could easily put a huge dent in bitcoin usage.
Well, I think the key reason for the name change in this situation is to completely remove the old name from consideration. Having any papers referencing the old name brings up exactly the same issue, whereby a potential employer would say "oh, their name used to be Clayworth? I wonder what I can find about that on Google..."
I can't find the article now, but I'm positive I have seen cases of higher open/click rates in emails with grammatical errors as it seems more "human" and less a template.
> Law enforcement agencies claim that ALPR systems are no different from an officer recording license plate, time and location information by hand.

Sure, if the officer thought several thousand times faster and had an encyclopedic memory. In practice it's like having an entire team of officers hanging around on the street corner noting down the numberplates of every single car. And people would, I think, find that far more objectionable. Having large amounts of law enforcement in any area tends to put people's backs up.

There's a difference of degree going on. People may allow the occasional surveillance, but it was occasional - and because it was relatively expensive it was liable to be used for reasonably good reasons. It doesn't really seem a great idea to have these systems in place as a matter of routine.

And there's a worrying liberty angle to the whole thing too - in many ways how advanced a society is seems like it can be judged by the degree of privacy that it allows its members. The need to confirm that everyone's following the rules, acting appropriately, smacks of tribalism and oppression. Inevitably we're going to have the ability, but that doesn't imply the will. And seeing these things actualised is consequently rather troubling.
They have a location in Manhattan that's just as good and usually doesn't have a line.
It tagged me as "Inland North", which is exactly where I mostly grew up.

I once heard this is the preferred accent for news anchors?
Watch Out, Google: Here Comes OpenStreetMap
You are missing the point. The ring is about your obligation to the public.
Who Decides Who Can Raise Money Through Crowdfunding?
Wow, that comment made me feel old.
Great and simple explanation.
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Facebook Appoints Ad Vet Nicola Mendelsohn As Its New VP For EMEA
We love our food trucks here in Portland and anyone who loves good business should too. Carts have many great advantages:

1) Cheap(er) proof of concepts. Why open a big restaurant that can cost an insane amount of money and (likely) fail? Try out that niche food option and see where it goes, if you need to pivot it's not going to bankrupt you.

2) The American Dream. You can start something with passion and little capital and become fairly successful.

3) We all win because we get great food options.

4) Low overhead if you run it yourself and/or with your family. No need to deal with employees and the accounting that comes with them.

5) Flexibility. A great Thai food cart up near Portland State (Thai Pasta) was closed for a month due to a family trip to Thailand. Try doing that with a brick-and-mortar restaurant.
> i always assumed you were a transplant from up north - ohio maybe.

LOL! No, I was born and raised in good old North Carolina.
Atlas Mobile Calendar Brings Real-Time Scheduling
iPad? Workflow? :)
Venmo.com

that is all
Glad you pointed this out! We could add another check (though I'm sure it will almost always be moot) that you have to do something on Beeminder that only humans do to be considered active (either sign in or manually add data).

The more I think about it though, if you're not signing in at all then you'll almost surely derail before long, which means your graph will freeze and you won't be active any more, automatic data source or not.

In fact, it now occurs to me that this is an example of when it is fair to charge you for a month even if you weren't actively paying attention. It's like my example with SERPs.com in another reply here. If Beeminder is actively collecting data for you and storing it and graphing it then that's value that it's fair to pay for.

If you do entirely wander off then even with an automatic data source -- unless you set preposterously unambitious goals (don't do that!) -- you'll end up marked as inactive before long. So I think the spirit of auto-canceling is still being honored.
> Chattel is just tangible personal property

Yes, this is what I wrote. Now type chattel into Google with autocomplete and tell me the first item that comes up for you as an autocomplete option...
I didn't know about Wafels and Dinges until today. Are they any better than roasting them at home?

http://m.ny.eater.com/archives/2008/04/fw_wafels_dinge.php
It depends which alumni. A handful are good judges of startups. Most just loyally recommend their friends. Off the top of my head, I'd guess alumni recommendations are a factor in maybe 5-10 of the 255 groups we invite to interviews.
Beacon - personal distress messages
The Problem with Rails Callbacks
You can star any Coursera class to receive notifications whenever new sessions are announced.

Also, I believe it's still possible to join the current session (first assignment was due this weekend, but you can turn it in late with just a 20% penalty.)
Reference? StatCounter data seems to show the opposite of what you're stating.