skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For produce you might look into local farms. Some have great subscription delivery services; some go the CSA route and require a little more work on your end.

I (in California) use farmfreshtoyou.com, which is subscription delivery from a local organic farm, and they're great. Your area should have similar offerings -- check out localharvest.org if you're interested.
I think the silliest thing Microsoft did with the XBox One (and Windows Phone 8) was give it a separate app store from Windows 8.

In technology, it runs a version of Windows 8 under the hood for apps Microsoft pretty much admitted this, and opening up that platform to Windows 8 developers would help justify the XBox One more for consumers.

At the end of the day we don't know why we want apps or an OS on our TV and for most use-cases it's a dumb idea and because of that Microsoft should open up the platform for developers to think of solutions for the few use-cases that do make sense or even invent brand new ones that haven't been thought of yet.

Instead the XBox One is limited to companies that already have business models in place and goals to follow, instead of companies that would dare to take a risk and try to invent something new.

The same goes for games as it doesn't have any self publishing system for indie developers.
So if someone were to invent the next Minecraft, it would probably be done on a different platform.

Also more on topic with this article, isn't the Oculus Rift a PC accessory? With games on Steam supporting it? (Team Fortress 2)
And why does the author think that Call of Duty will just suddenly become a better game when played on an Oculus Rift?
After a while you'll just get used to the thing and the game will just feel like regular old Call of Duty.
Indeed, in terms of complexity theory I would guess, not in terms of milliseconds.
With regards to matrix multiplication[1]:

I think the hidden subtext here is that many people believe there exists a O(n^2) algorithm for matrix multiplication, but it has not been discovered yet.

[1] Wouldn't be surprised if this is the case for the other problem too, although I don't know much about it.
I'd say a fear of the color blue or clowns is irrational. A fear of earthquakes, snakes, and huge hailstorms is rational (if extremely unlikely to occur).

Not to, you know, encourage your imminent agoraphobia.
I highly recommend Fargo and its underlying OPML format. It is pretty much the only tab I keep open on my browser all day.
>Do you seriously think it's the responsibility of the service provider to make sure its users don't engage in any potentially illegal activities?

If the illegal activity is "using their system as it was intended" then they have a degree of responsibility, yes.

They should at the very least provide a warning to users in quebec that they need to pay the $250 or they will be in violation of the law by using the airbnb website.

This does not seem like a particularly onerous thing to implement (10 lines of code?), either, and any judge reviewing a case against them would likely bear this in mind.

If they were small and did not have many hosts in quebec I doubt it would be an issue. They are clearly not any more, however.
In semi-conductor devices, silicon atoms are considered to be 0.25 nanometres in diameter. I cant imagine the orbitals of a much smaller atom to be bigger.

This scale would have to be a size projected onto a detector. The scale of the source would then be determined by the details of the experiment.
Amusingly enough, I've had the exact opposite experience. I would much rather use Amazon Fresh than go to a traditional grocery store. Fresh will bring items from Amazon's local delivery service and from other local businesses around Seattle and, in my experience, has been better for produce and meats than the Fred Meyer near me. Some neighborhoods of Seattle (and the suburbs) have walkable access to PCC, or Whole Foods, or Trader Joes; sadly, Lake City seems to be left out of that for now. That, I think, is the best part of Amazon Fresh's promise: even if you're not able to walk to a market with a wider selection, one will come directly to you for a nominal price.
So, when will we have prepared statements upon persistent connections? This would be the biggest speed up of all factors.
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Decisions like supporting and moving to Mir, Unity, etc... have been technical. You can't say they are douche-bags because of that.

And on Ubuntu moving away from the rest of the Linux world, do you know what's the most popular OS that uses a Linux kernel and that will probably be the most popular OS period? It's Android. And besides the backing of Google, which definitely helped its popularity, given that other big companies tried variations of Linux on phones, you've got to wonder, aren't there technical reasons too for Android's popularity?

And of course there are. Android maintains binary backwards compatibility. And Android simply skipped on all the X.org / GTK+ / Gnome / Qt / KDE cluster fuck. People complain about Android fragmentation, however compared to Linux on desktops, development for Android feels like you're in heaven.
> Why does HN seem so eager to collectively give AirBnB a free pass?

It may have something to do with AirBnB being one of the two top YC backed companies (the other is dropbox).
The sales process is just starting when the customer first says no.

I'm going to go "no" on this, and add that I think this is misguided thinking:

Now to be fair, I'm hardly an experienced sales-person, so I may be proven wrong. But a lot of the sales material[1] I've been reading and working on applying lately suggests a different approach. Instead of focusing on your product and going into "presentation mode" right away, and finding yourself in the mode of having to "overcome objections" the idea is to "Always be leaving" (not "always be closing") and focus on actually diagnosing the customer's needs and actively seek to disqualify them if they don't actually need what you are selling. If they do, you go through a guided process of diagnosis, something akin to the way a doctor diagnoses a patient: you think your doctor is going to try to sell you some angioplasty because they're running a special on it this week, without even checking to see if maybe you really do just have heartburn?

Further, if you buy this approach (no pun intended), part of the idea is that the diagnosis process keeps the customer involved and you actually get them to take ownership of parts of the process... so that, when you get to the end, IF the need actually arises, you won't usually encounter much (if any) objections, as the answer will be obvious.

Of course it'll never be quite that easy in practice, but I'm planning to start applying this model and see how it works for us.

[1]: http://www.masteringthecomplexsale.com/
Annoyance is a good thing in startups
Going there next week for the trek :D

But why is this trending on HN?
I read the lead in the same way. I thought,"oh, haha, silly innumerate journalists, they must have meant tenths of nanometers, and they even got that wrong!" and I felt the superiority that comes from catching someone in a factual error.

However, it's the imaging mechanism that produced a correspondingly large picture of an atom of hydrogen.

So then I felt normal again, perhaps a little more ashamed than when I started reading the article.
Why should the entertainment industry get special treatment?

Local, state, federal police, IRS should install rootkits to monitor all transactions and activity, turn on audio and video capture from webcams.

Of course it's absurd and would destroy consumer trust of any device connected to the internet.
It does. You can currently do this with an external Django DB Pool module, for some numbers see: http://mixedbit.org/blog/2013/02/06/django_db_pool_on_heroku...

I also can't wait to have such mode fully supported by the core product.
> Not all disruption is good.

Tor is very disruptive. On one hand it's allowing for political dissidents to speak and access the internet freely. On the other it's used by criminals and child pornographers.

Even if it causes a certain level of harm, as long as there is legitimate benefit, attempting to force everyone to go back to how things were before the technology existed is ultimately futile and unproductive. Just like copyright (bad for record labels) and automated factories (bad for unskilled workers/unions). Or even Walmart (bad for small shops) and drugs (bad for economic productivity).

We should learn to attempt to adapt our laws/policies to the new technology instead of trying to ban it (which is currently the default reaction).
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It's talking about big O time complexity, which means you have to prove that there can be no faster algorithm. For example comparison sort (so no radix) can be no faster than O(nlogn).
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation

Basically it's talking about time complexity, or how fast does the time it takes to compute the solution grow as the input grows in size.
Next up: HTML5/browser-based rootkit?

You never know with W3C these days.
This was submitted (via a different site) over two years ago. It's quite intriguing now looking back on that and seeing how close the suggested explanations were.

Or not.

Here's that previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2233584
There are external apps that provide this.
https://github.com/gmcguire/django-db-pool https://github.com/kennethreitz/django-postgrespool
https://github.com/niwibe/djorm-ext-pool
How would that enable same day shipping ? People usually do groceries once a week, but buy other stuff any day of the week.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5109549
Governments exist to tax citizens, not protect them.
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I don't mean to split hairs, but you might be exaggerating just a bit.
Dan Rather Tells Us About The Time He Used Heroin
The "fast" here refers to the complexity of the algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory
Ask HN: How did you build a relevant audience on Twitter?
I'm a freelance Ruby on Rails engineer trying to build an audience and develop a personal brand on twitter. To do so, I want to understand how to provide consistent value to a technical audience in 140 character chunks.

I'm especially interested in hearing from folks who've built a large audience themselves. What works? What doesn't?

Thanks.
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Yep, totally agree. I like to juxtapose it with the relative likelihood of exits at various orders of magnitude. A $1mm exit seems way easier than a $100mm exit, right?

In the ideal case, how much would you make on that $1mm exit if you were the sole, bootstrapping founder?

How much are you going to make in the ideal case as an employee at the $100mm exit after Series A and B rounds of funding when your initial stake was 1%?
When you start selling them is exactly when "only in America" mattered earlier - it makes the difference between a hobby and a business innovation, free market and all.
there are already laws for such disturbances. as for airbnb already being illegal in some places, I wonder why those laws exist in the first place.
Bitcoin 2013 conference videos on YouTube
I sort of want to see that just because it would be the single most surreal debate about gender identity ever.
Self preservation is just a selection function. I personally think that all it'll take is a mutating algorithm that can pay for its own hosting by somehow acquiring money and a self preserving algorithm like human intellect could eventually emerge
That's a fair point. If you do choose to accept a salary reduction, do it for the right reasons, not because you're going to rolling in dough in two years after your SoLoMo startup IPOs.
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I compare Ted Nelson to Alan Kay in the continuum of visionaries. They both have and have had far-seeing, inspirational, empowering visions of applied computer technology. They are both, of course, incredibly quotable, even outside IT.

Ted Nelson futzed around and, mostly after the fact, other people discovered that the web was kinda sorta really close to Xanadu, but that it would be really awesome if it had been designed with that vision in mind.

Whereas Alan Kay followed through on predicting the future by inventing it.

I'm still astonished that, even with the backing of Autodesk, we don't even have transclusion as part of the web.
I had this as a question on a freshman physics problem set. A few of us were skeptical, but we tried it and it works:

http://ugcs.caltech.edu/~ohazi/cd_tower.jpg
Not necessary. Most hobby OS projects stop at that stage (including mine, many many years ago...).
Payment for a service is not always with hard currency, but as in this case, with information about ourselves and our connections.
Wait hold on. I'm doing an evaluation of Rap Genius so I can cure cancer.
New Android Virus Forwards Text Messages To Hackers
I can't figure out why they're doing this themselves and not partnering up with the smaller local and regional grocery stores that are getting clobbered by the Wal-Mart supercenters. Like 1800 Flowers does. I order, the local place gets my order, the convenience fee goes to the middlemen, and I can be lazy.

I know there were failed startups that did this in the past, but you'd think Amazon could figure out ways to make it work. It has to be better than rolling their own.
Javascript closures and scope of objects are important
Google Keep is an iOS/OS X Notes competitor, not an Evernote competitor. Their Evernote competitor was Google Notebook which preceded Evernote and was already shut down.
Quora has a data problem
I'd prefer that there is no invention by this guy, than I (or anyone) get hit by some of these inventions and become handicapped for life.
The declining profitability of Google Adwords
So...on the off-chance that the default SDKs for Java / .Net do not implement this natively, anyone have a link to some (preferably free) libraries that do make use of this implementation?
The opposite is also a possibility. And that's even more concerning.
An Algorithm with a lower time complexity will always take a shorter amount of time once the problem size grows large enough. You could run one algorithm on a modern cpu, utilizing Simd and tune for cache coherency and the other in QBASIC on an old 386 and the O(n log n) algorithm would still terminate earlier than the O(n^2) one past a certain n.
Can hail storms be predicted accurately by the way ?
C-source to deal with OS X Finder aliases 
I hope those it concerns enjoy it. That is, those that wants their shell tools to work or play along with Finder Aliases.

The source is provided in the form of a shell-tool that lists aliases and broken aliases.

Enjoy!
NASA: Asteroid 1998 QE2 will pass Earth on May 31
Yes, I agree that malware scanning is dumb.

But in this case it would have prevented malware from being taken into space.
I'm going to go ahead and say Cracked.com is probably correct on this one - avalanche.

http://www.cracked.com/article_16671_6-famous-unsolved-myste...
But they are petitioning for legal theft of control over your computer. I think they know what they are saying.
Yandex and Mail.Ru tap into Android music apps
Great! Very convenient in comparison to a smartphone too.
I very much agree. I find it amazing that he does not get more credit. What is very unfortunate is that Ted never took the time to learn more about programming languages. For example file systems are there for a reason and only now, with all the computing power, can we partly realize alternative structures.
Why are you putting open into quotes? Anyway, the Nineteen-Eightyfour approach to what is true or right never did it for me.. utilitarian love for wisdom is not something that can actually exist.
This is just par for the course for MS. Remember PlaysForSure?
Are there any congressfolk actually buying this specific report?

I could release reports all day long about how incredibly beneficial it is to eat my soufflé, but that doesn't mean congress is going to pass a "t0mcat soufflé protection act of 2013" bill.
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fargo is most definitely an interesting web-app,
and i can see it being useful for many people...

dave is a little bit over-enthusiastic about it
-- there are literally dozens of writing tools
that've been using dropbox for a long time now,
to correct just one of his main brag-points --
but it's not a crime to love what you've made.

(nate kontny is similarly proud of his "draft",
another writing-oriented web-tool that's newish
and attracting a lot of fans with its qualities.)

we'll see what dave's users end up doing with it.

-bowerbird
More details about the imaging techniques given in the article submitted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5767401
I kind of agree with you here. The writeup is not clear about why the CM is so important.

They could use a diagram of opposed forces along the interface between the block and the table showing how, if there is no force applied to both the left and right sides of the CM, there is no way to get the torques to sum to zero. That would connect their assertions to the fundamental equations of state.
how many have done more than $40M in net income?
how many times does it have to be repeated? correlation doesn't imply causation!
Quick intro: I (and contributors) made this list a while ago for technical entrepreneurs who want to identify startup opportunities in other industries but lack exposure to them. Anyone can edit the sheet so contributions are welcome.
If everyone was thinking like you, science would be handicapped. Explore Newton, for a prime example.
>>What is going to happen when China does start working on high skill high margin stuff?

Chinese manufacturing was a threat, Indian outsourcing industry was also a threat. But the nature of threats was different. Chinese manufacturing and Indian software services was a threat ONLY because of their cost factor. And that was hardly any advantage these big nations had over the US, and the US didn't care because the day a cheaper alternative was found- It would mean the end for both China and India.

The scary situation is when you find populations of the scale of China and India. With all their human resources, desperateness, passion and energy attack the big-ticket problems in the world.

That is the kind of scenario which builds next super powers which replace the existing super powers.
I like how the POPLmark sounds like popel-mark in german. Which would mean something like booger-money in english.
On money yes, but the overall impact is much bigger this way. And the experience is in a certain way more like founding 300 startups not only 2 or 3.
You actually expanded it into something that by definition is less succinct.
We need a YC mutual fund to invest in
Remember when you couldn't watch DVDs on Linux? And then someone wrote DeCSS, which provided decryption of DVD for Linux users.

It'll be similar if this law passes. There's a binary blob for Windows and OSX. It's illegal to reverse engineer that blob. It's illegal to circumvent the need for that blob.
I'm not sure if we'll get to this point, though it interests me. We originally started as a cost-saving measure (I took a pay cut to move to a better city; mortgage; and a wife-to-be still at university), and my beautiful wife actually enjoys cooking so we'll outsource other time sinks long before food preparation.
Nice link - thanks for sharing.
I don't tweet a lot but most of my ~250 followers came mostly from my blog (as far as I know). My blog traffic comes mostly from HN and Google Search.
Probably, but you're only counting the tangible value. In my mind what they've done is far greater in intangible value. What about HN and the community it has nurtured? And let's not forget being a sort of pointer to true north to most of the people thinking of creating something out of nothing. Sure, money is easy to count and imagine, but there's plenty of people that make that, how many PG's appear every 10 years? To paraphrase Michael Scott - you think PG's grow on trees; well they don't; there is no PG tree.
No it won't be harder for the entertainment industry to create rootkits. You just buy a proper certificate and sign it like any other driver developer. Secure boot does nothing to protect the users from the entertainment industry.

And if we remember what happened the last time that happened when an entertainment company deployed a rootkit. They made it much easier for unskilled malware writers to hide their work. And IIRC it wasn't trivial to remove the rootkit Sony deployed.
Possibly. There exist weather modelling and prediction techniques to assess the risk of hailstorm. A typical weather agency does do that already [1].

The key challenge here would always be to inform the disconnected locals in millions within a small area or region. A lot of equations fail when you consider the population density and economics of an average or below average citizen in Asia.

[1] http://www.hailstormforecasts.com.au/
If you look at the guts of the XBoxOne, or at least those of which we have been so far exposed to, it seems plainly obvious to me that this is a device for the long haul, meaning it will likely evolve to add new functionality/apis/ecosystems every year.

And frankly, we've reached a point where that is not only feasible, but sensible.

You only have to look at how the 360 has evolved platform-wise from launch.
How to undo the last Git commit?
Thanks for that... Fascinating to see how similar this approach is to the start of my own series (which is also bottom up) - up to and including using gcc output to figure out what to output.
Last time I checked MS was still in business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sony_BMG_copy_prot...
ECMAScript 6 support in Firefox
http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html
Hello.

I just want to make a point of the fact the code doesn't use Carbon, so it should work with the next releases of OS X.
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Is it really helpful to provide numbers that you know are many years out of date? If you're really interested in this, try to import a big repository like, say, the Linux kernel using the latest version of Mercurial and see how it compares to the latest version of git.
Will this startup event suck? (2010)
I've been a network engineer for 15+ years, and I'm saying that 95% of all employees I deal with in the Bay Area would not think twice about opening up a firewall rule and allowing you to ping a lab machine, particularly when the purpose of your engagement was to verify end-end network connectivity. They would make the call, themselves, on the spot.

The reason I bring this up, is that I've been told by a number of my colleagues that german culture, in particular, has a tendency to be more rule structured than in the United States, so, if there was a security policy in place, it had a greater chance of being adhered to in Germany, than in the Norcal.

And the entire point of my little anecdote was to make it clear, that there is broad diversity of attitudes towards rules, policy - and that the "United States" doesn't have a lock on following rules/policy.
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How to run Android Apps on Google Glass
Interesting. I got an impression that you can choose from different types of interviews - "Systems Design Interview" vs "Coding Interview" vs "Algorithms".

Did you apply for the position where Algorist was needed?
Benchmarks: http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/PyPy_benchmarks....

Note that the benchmarks are preliminary as in there is both a lot of improvement possibility and we're not 100% sure if those are reasonable numbers. Also, the memory footprint mostly shows the base-interpreter size, your mileage may vary a lot.
Indian telephony startup Exotel launches developer SDK for app developers