skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Github Uses Deprivation Testing To Hone Product Design
Also, I assumes it might be /services/sps, but that page redirects to a login prompt. Do I have to log in to see available sizes?
So even if one is "P"-protected in the "CAP" theorem sense, you might not be able to handle a full split brain partition.

I don't think so. Split-brain (assuming you're talking about totally isolated network components, and not "disagreement about authoritative state between nodes") is a special case of a partition: any partition-tolerant system is tolerant of totally isolating partitions by definition. It might do that either by entering split-brain and becoming non-linearizable, or by refusing requests.
Junglee didn't sell anything but instead offered referrals to third-party seller sites[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junglee.com
And, given the 10k users/mo and requirement to display the logo, that list pretty much ignores the B2B market in NYC which might be even bigger.
If swap (and hibernation blob) is encrypted, then you'll be OK.

TrueCrypt (when used with Pre-boot authentication) will encrypted everything including swap, dm-crypt/LUKS would configure encrypted swap, and with FileVault (actually even without FileVault) MacOS configures itself to use encrypted swap.
Amazon handles perishables by having refrigerated trucks, and putting your groceries in insulated plastic containers that also have cold packs, as needed.

It all works pretty well as long as you don't get too crazy about how long you leave the groceries outside.
Facebook's New Privacy Management
Nice catch. I'll fix the link. Currently only alpha users can see all that info. We are adding more users each day.
Not really sure what your point is here... are you questioning the initial acquisition of OMGPOP by Zynga or what Zynga decided to do with OMGPOP after the acquisition? The former has already been discussed at length and is a dead horse. Now is the time to discuss the latter.
Not that I'm saying Excel's graphing is excellent, but the graphs at https://datanitro.com/blog/assets/img/chart3.PNG are a bit of a cheat since there's very little customization done to the Excel graph.

That may be intentional, but needs to be noted.
Top 5 Processes When Working With Animals
>I have been productive in Go and haven't missed the ability to write generic code so far. Usually it turns out there is another way to achieve what you want without them.

Yes there is. Involving more code, less DRY, or loss of type safety.
Yes, please.

But after reading that rather interesting profile of Samsung earlier today[^1], I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see Samsung enter the ring before Apple did. Copy the best ideas from the PS3/PS4, copy the best from the upcoming Xbone, try not to give in to feature creep[^2] this time, and they might have a shot.

Just saying.

[^1]: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/how-samsung-got-big/

[^2]: Feature creep tends to kill its hosts.
that's true, but there's also minimal customization on the python charts - it's just a "plot" command.
Thanks for being real and talking about figures guys, a lot of people on HN skirt around the actual #s but say things like "You are being paid well below market value" or similar. On a number of occasions I've seen salary ranges posted pertaining to SV but always brushed it off. When I came into the NYC tech field I started out below market value but aggressively negotiated my way up after talking to a few people.

All I can say about those who make 60-90k is good luck, it's harder to work your way up to the rate that you deserve organically starting at that low of a rate.
Personally, I'm opposed to working at a company that thinks a bait and switch type approach to attracting employees is an appropriate tactic. There are many ways the headline could have been worded that would have enticed with paid travel in exchange for work instead of promoting a "free trip".
http://www.neverendingvoyage.com/start-here/
3. The delivery is free for $100 purchases,

Or, if you buy enough (not entirely sure what the threshold is) to get "Big radish" status, delivery is free for $50 purchases.
They expose a "produce rating" from below average to average to good to great to FANTASTIC!

You can even sort by produce rating to see the FANTASTIC! things first.

I've found that their descriptions always met my expectations.
London police start to target pirate websites
Zynga, Suckerfish of the Internet
This has been tried without success. You may have heard about the AI winter, or the failure of the symbolic approach, in the 1980s.

Check out "On Intelligence". It talks about their reasons for following biological constraints, in opposition to your point of view, common among computer scientists.
Do What You Say You'll Do.
The graphic novel version of the Bradley Manning trial
I've attended a talk from one of the co-founders in a python for finance conference, the demos looked really good, only draw back I thought was that if you develop anything using DataNitro, anybody wanting to see the spreadsheet and run your code would need a licensed copy of DataNitro on their machines for it work.
Yup it is similar to google shopping www.google.com/shopping
I'm sorry! I misread your question as 'Would this be a good book for my level?'.
I know people who work in IBs and are treated well. There is more then one you know. Sales still make more money then devs in Google but you could think the opposite based on their marketing. Maybe working in IB is more honest. You are not trying to "change the world" by working on some small feature in another smartphone OS or something like that.
What's the password for that account?
inventory turnover also has to be taken into account
Finding it odd that they are using an image instead of unicode for INR, ₹. Is the browser support simply not there?
Looking for a programming tutor
I'm looking for someone to each me backend programming. I have taught myself HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery but need to learn the backend (and lots of other things) to complete a website I'm working on.

I'm located in NYC and am happy to pay well to meet and learn from a talented and experienced individual.

Please send resumes to Jack.Long95@gmail.com
No worries - the original line is from the Operative to Mal, in one of my favorite scenes:

"Nothing here is what it seems. You are not the plucky hero, the Alliance is not an evil empire, and this is not the grand arena."

followed by Inara saying "And that's not incense."
also, people without cars. I lived in seattle for 2 years without a car, and ordering online becomes much more worth it if there are heavy items or light but big items.
I agree that a chunk free from vesting makes sense, but translating sweat to dollars is contentious. For a couple reasons I can think of:

1) Why should the investor retroactively pay your made-up salary for the privilege of investing? Valuation has something to do with the assets or future assets of the company; a salary is a liability.

2) How much is that sweat equity really worth if the company turns into the next salesforce/facebook/etc? Many millions upon millions. Any typical estimate ("let's call my salary $100k over the last 2 years....") is going to fall so short that it's useless.
As founder/CTO of HubSpot: We don't really sell much to local businesses. We're in the SMB space but with an emphasis on B2B companies.
"Dive into something that compiles. ... Take some time, and write a small webapp in Django, Rails, Play Framework, Node, and anything else that sparks your fancy (and learn their accompanying languages)."

Err... None of that compiles - they get interpreted.
Maintaining a Large Test Suite: a DRY Approach to RSpec
Are Wildcards a Failure?
Also find it odd that Google's calculator doesn't pick up that symbol in unicode for currency conversion.
FireEye, New Relic, AppDynamics
I believe that within a few years most of the JavaScript programmers out there who are afraid of VMs are going to realize that it really isn't that hard to deploy Node (or anything else for that matter) to Linode, Rackspace, Digital Ocean or AWS.

Until then, they will continue to pay crazy markups to Heroku or live with limitations like with the new Parse service that doesn't let you install any Node packages (there are 31000 and counting now in the npm registry https://npmjs.org/).

Linode even has a StackScript that sets up Node for you. And AWS has something similar with a Node AMI (in the marketplace at least). Or you could just copy paste like 10 lines of code from the Node.js wiki. Or find a script online to do it.

I would honestly like to know what is it that, say for example Parse, has done with their VM configuration that is so much more sophisticated than what people could get from following a few wiki pages on the web, or just getting a good bash script. Because I doubt that there are a lot of extra security or performance features or anything like that.

Configuring and running an Ubuntu server is not that hard.

But maybe it is. Maybe I am just really ignorant and there is some kind of complex configuration or tuning or firewall or daily task that Parse or some other Node.js hosting company is running on their servers that is completely beyond me or that I would never be able to find out about from the web. But I think that for 95% of people nothing complicated is really required.

I really appreciate any hints about Linux server management to clue me in if there are a lot of commands that I should be running on my servers that I am not aware of.

What I know is that my Ubuntu Node servers get running and stay up without me entering a lot of commands or doing a lot of monitoring or anything else.

If you go with AWS, they have a built in interface for the firewall in the browser. You don't even have to use a command line. Although honestly in Ubuntu how hard is sudo ufw enable; sudo ufw allow [port]
Others have already mentioned "On Intelligence".

Their latest whitepaper is available here:

https://www.groksolutions.com/technology.html#cla-whitepaper

Some of the earlier Numenta documents are archived here:

http://blog.mohammadzadeh.info/index.php/hierarchical-tempor...
My experience mirrors yours. One thing that I would add is that their mobile apps are also pretty good. I actually keep a 1st gen iPad velcro-attached to my fridge that I use pretty much exclusively for adding things to my Amazon Fresh cart, so when I realize I'm running low on a staple, I just pop it in and then it shows up my next order.
Silicon Valley Startup Funding Map
Is the startup scene actually moving to SF? I put together some actual (SEC) data on this. The answer is yes. But contrary to popular opinion, the startup scene in Palo Alto is not declining, it's just flat (measured by funding dollars).
Ask HN: Good Resources to Learn Django for Beginners
Howdy y'all,

I'm going to be running a "summer boot camp" to teach my youngins how to make a website. My niece suggested we make a social network for her and her friends so I figured it would be a good time to teach them some Django. But I can't find any resources that can get a beginner up and running.

Can anyone recommend some sources? I don't mind paying for 'em. We just got through the Think Python book a while ago, so they have some fundamentals down.

Thanks a bunch
I think if someone was suing me that re-examination taking a long time would be to my benefit. How much does re-examination cost the defense? Does the defense typically notify PTO which claims should be invalidated and why? Why does the defense have to do the PTO's job for them?

I completely agree that the primary problem is too many patents issued for trivial, obvious or not-new technology.
Bitbucket hits 1m users
In trying to figure out what I was trying to say, I found the following on wikipedia: "Durable sculptural processes ... used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay) ... A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded, or cast."

It seems that building up the material could fall under sculpture, which is called "modelling."

Maybe we should call them 3D modellers instead of 3D printers. Except that "3D modellers" is kind of ambiguous. It sounds like a person who makes 3D models.
Ask HN: How often do companies help relocate?
I'm in a position right now where I'm living in a small town in Idaho (pop. is roughly 60k) and I am doing consulting work and making enough money to pay my bills, take care of my wife, etc. But my ultimate goal is to move to one of the big tech hubs such as San Francisco.

So I'm curious if anyone has been in a position such as myself, applied for a job with a startup or big company, and had them help you relocate?

What I'm doing now isn't something I want to do forever. I am a back-end developer (PHP/Laravel) with quite a bit of front-end experience, I've developed web applications entirely by myself, built servers, etc. I guess some consider that a full-stack developer? Anyways, working at home and by myself (most of the time) is getting old, I want to work with an amazing team in a cool office space and build something amazing.
LayerVault launches free online backups and version control
One last point, in the CAP theorem proof, "partitions" really just means loss of packets to/from one node. That is the smallest/general case.

I don't know where you got this idea from. The formal model in Gilbert and Lynch's proof is arbitrary packet loss, which is equivalent to an arbitrary pattern of isolation between groups (of any size) of nodes. See section 2.3:

http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/pubs/BrewersConjecture-SigAct.pd...

Even if one can handle single node failure well (eg: dynamo systems) it may or may not be able to handle full split-brain mode.

Just so we're clear, Dynamo does handle totally isolated components during partition. This is an explicit goal of the paper, and it provides specific guarantees about availability in those circumstances.

That is a lot harder and there isn't any real CS to help you here (not that the CAP theorem is helpful)

There is a great deal of CS to help you deal with partitions. You might start with Lamport, Lynch, Gray, Brewer, Chandra, Cheriton & Skeen, etc...
So was I. It didn't work. Try again.
The business by contrast appears to have been a complete failure - but at least they got paid?
No, Thank You
Show HN: Hacker Nation Pilot [video]
In the UK, we call it "cut and shut": http://www.autotrader.co.uk/safety_and_security/cut_and_shut...
Umm, it wasn't "porn" app they were banning, but rather an app that has a very serious potential for abuse -- in the form of non-consensual POV shots of unsuspecting subjects.

You know, like that old mirror-tied-to-the-front-of-your-shoe trick, but way, way creepier.
Looks quite nice. But it definitely needs improvement.

I think it would be much better to specify a repo using user/repo syntax instead of "-u user -r repo". Also if I'm in a git repository it should use the origin repo and NOT myusername/currentdirectory.

For now a combination of hub & ghi works better for me.
I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years from now, Amazon starts directly competing with FedEx (not just delivering the products they themselves sell). If there is one company that thrives on volume and razor thin margins, it is Amazon.

Just look at the range of markets they are entering - it is scary. cloud storage, selling almost every physical product we can imagine, online video, tablets (and phones soon) ...
Nice, this removes the need for JavaScript redirects. That was the one thing holding me back from using their AB tests.
Bitbucket passes one million users
In Seattle, they have been partnering with small specialty retail shops, bakeries and restaurants.

Some examples: Pike Place Fish co, Top Pot Doughnuts, Trophy Cupcakes, Macrina Bakery, Beecher's cheese.

Now I'm all hungry. Thanks.
How specific can one get with postmarks?

For instance, it would be nice to send from Santa Claus, Indiana during the holidays.
An interesting read but, boy, was that a needlessly long article!

TLDR; Some car donation schemes are run as for-profit entities but we can't tell how many because the Governement don't keep accurate records. If you donate, do some research before you do.

Maybe someone should do a Priceonomics article on the length, and usefulness, of articles vs, cost of time spent reading it.
Cheap and plentiful land with very good infrastructure for water and power.
Well, why is it so imperative that we talk about the costs if we're in a agreement that there's a net benefit? Perhaps I am projecting, but generally when people are at pains to point out that things are not free and there's a cost, what they mean is that there's a net cost to society (or think that there is) and that the money would be best spent somewhere else or not collected at all. When you lead off with a complaint that the money from social programs was extracted from you by 'coercion' the implication is that you're being forced to pay for something people should have to finance themselves.

I really don't get how you think this is a net good move but couch your argument in the form of a complaint about the government taking your lunch money. By definition, a net good is economically less costly to provide than to withhold. Even over the very short term (ie within the same fiscal year) I suggest that the opportunity cost of supplying the baby box is no more, or possibly lower than the costs of autopsies and lost productivity resulting from a higher rate of infant mortality.
Your link is broken. Luckily, there's Internet Archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110412231749/http://www.dileepg...
What kind of postage is used?

For small businesses using direct mail (well written sales letters) real first class stamps convert at a much much higher rate than bulk mail postage in many cases.
I think they are still doing the same thing. Doesn't look like any products are actually sold by Amazon.
Yes Junglee.com
The Bizarre Fake Storefronts Northern Ireland Is Building for the G8
Do you feel your experience is representative of how their sales teams generally work? (genuine question)
If that's the case I'm surprised, since decision makers (especially at C-level) overlap a lot, their products' basic use cases and value propositions are relatively straightforward and they have armies of pre and post sales specialists to refine the proposal and worry about implementation details. Maybe I'm overestimating their sales organization based on their growth figures achieved...
not that specific yet. We only have a few edge locations. You can however specify the return address.
It is also the case that Debit Cards are insanely popular in India, a lot more than Credit Cards. Secondly, Online Banking (banks exposing merchant APIs) is also very popular for internet purchases as it removes the middleman.
"Everybody who matters can put that kind of money up."

Everybody who matters to whom? I understand what you're saying - it just seems like a very deterministic view on the state of the gaming industry.
you set them up with not only a bad plan but explicitly bad motives

They aren't my plan or motives, so don't blame me for them. I simply labeled them. I think you're more offended that I'm daring to point them out than anything, which is a shame because you should be offended by the people pushing low accountability agendas.

Meanwhile, no common sense reform happens in Washington

You're hardly demonstrating how Washington can do things any better when you spew a bunch of vitriol against me that had zero justification to support the low accountability agendas that are actually in the context of the article this whole thread is based upon. Then you threw in some hyperbole that wasn't even close to being in my original post, referencing Stalin and Austrian Economics.
> You can see taxes as a necessary evil, or hate them, but defining taxation as coercion is pretty loaded and rather close to Orwellian newspeak.

By your own copypasted definition, how can they be anything but?

Even if you love taxation and government spending, this is factually true.
New li-ion battery retains 85% of capacity after 10,000/cycles
mandelbrot in excel: http://fpgacomputing.blogspot.com/2007/10/mandelbrot-set-in-...
It's definitely achievable. I'm and independent consultant in Minneapolis, with a mortgage and kids. I went independent just before I turned 30 and have passed that threshold every year since. How? through a ever changing mix of consulting clients (throughout the US) and my own product dev. I agree w/ benjamincburns - focus on solving client problems rather than being a tool operator. It's both more lucrative and more fulfilling.
Seriously, some of the most cynical people I know concerning China, are Chinese. They know what's going on...
I agree.. how do scrap yards manage to make money by breaking up cars? Surely there are so many different materials, contamination must be an issue and modern cars don't even have that much metal.
How do car-breakers make their money? That's the Pricenomics article I want to read.
Junglee is a product discovery site. It was basically created to give them an in with sellers within India and make feelers in Indian e-commerce until they could work out their own logistics and other issues.
> The performance of z is so "good" that it will never be disclosed publicly.

Is that true? I know nothing about mainframes, so it's an honest question
You may find related technical information here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5822058
Neither is paying their legal fees out of the ordinary. Doesn't necessarily make it right. I don't think there's any good reason a company should pay board members travel expenses.
Another thing worth mentioning is how the plots were made. Here, the author seems to have just taken screenshots from MS Excel, and not actually exported anything to a portable format. Even the jagged, choppy Excel graphs look fairly smooth when exported as a .PDF file (as Excel does save the vector data for smooth curves) or another comparable vector format.

Specifically, in the author's first example (the exponentially decaying sinusoid), viewing that graph in MS Excel will always appear jagged and pixellated. However, if you were to export the chart as a .PDF, the aliasing artifacts would completely disappear (or at least be comparable with the Python-rendered example). I use this technique when I make some quick charts/graphs in Excel and want to include them in a LaTeX document. You can move a chart/graph to it's own full-page "worksheet", and then Save As a PDF file. Since the PDF output is in vector format, it works nicely with LaTeX documents (as you can use \includegraphics{} natively with .PDF documents), and scales well to any size without artifacts.

That being said, there is one thing I do agree with here: the way MS Excel renders graphs/charts when editing them is pretty horrible. You can, however, get around the issue by choosing an appropriate output format (you might just have to zoom in a lot when editing to avoid the aliasing temporarily).
I participated in Free App of the Day promotion about 4 years ago. For the week that it was featured, we experienced about 360% growth and made it to the top ten in our category. Free App of the Day took a percentage of our profits afterwards for a few weeks riding the long tail. In the end, it was win win for both of us.
junglee might refer to amazon or shutdown now
Calling all bedroom programmers
"Obama gave me a phone!"
If the car is of an age old enough to be scrapped or donated, to buy an ECU or other Electronics for a similar car of a similar age probably means the replacement bits are worth more than the car is, which would make the whole exercise uneconomical, further increasing the number of scrap cars and thus, number of replacement ECUs, thereby increasing supply and reducing price.
Why does the article refer to this as a tax loophole?

Isn't this a tax deduction working as intended? It's giving a tax break to people who support charities.
Bigger thing was the opportunity cost for the team; that team probably was worth $50-100k/mo to be working on something else. Which is why they pivoted.