skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that this startup exists simultaneously excites me and also makes me lament the monumental failure of the postal service in the US.

Is anyone else pissed that we're paying tax dollars to support the US Postal Service while we're now slowly having to pay the private sector to deal with the mess that has become our mail?

It seems like such a waste of resources.

EDIT: I stand corrected. The USPS is not funded directly by tax payer dollars. I still lament the fact that either it's underfunded by us, or constrained by laws and can't offer a level of service similar to what Outbox provides!
I didn't know that Clojure puts function comments between the function name and the parameters. I personally find that a bit awkward - wouldn't it make more sense to have it after the parameters, to allow to simply glance at the function definition and see its signature, especially when comments extend over multiple lines?
Interesting. But GPA also acts as a comparator across schools - if I understood correctly, ranking students in a total ordering wouldn't be the same, right? E.g. the tenth person at one school could be much worse at stuff (by some arbitrary measure) than the fifteenth at another.
Hmmm..how does synchronization work without a server or direct connection?
A New Way to Harvest Wind Energy at Sea
And the original pg "Blub" essay is just about the most cultish thing out there...
We dismiss the possibility of moral regression at our peril
Bitbucket is nice as a Mercurial or Git repo service but Gihub is a phenomenon.
I think it's funny and clever use of his domain name. I suppose he uses it as a kind of action inbox /to-do later list.
Agreed. This is a wonderful talk for anyone who writes code in any language.
Why, I don't mind your kid or any other using pacifier. I mind a bit the "pacifier by default" implied by its presence in the US baby box.

Also, if you can get a kid to control emotions early, it is all the better, and pacifier may postpone this a bit.
Are they above a bar?
> In your example, companies who get sued over patents today, would instead just see their products copied wholesale and sold for much lower prices

I think you mean "companies who sue over patents", not "companies who get sued over patents"; the latter are not the ones looking to prevent copying.

I'd also point out that that issue doesn't apply to software patents, since copyright already handles that issue quite effectively for software.

> Without the possibility of recouping investment, new product development would slow

Standard patent rhetoric. The corresponding anti-patent rhetoric would be that without the issue of spurious patent lawsuits and workarounds, product development would accelerate. Both claims require evidence, not just assertion.

> Which in turn would harm companies that exist solely to copy other products

Because of course the world is divided solely into companies that love patents and companies that exist solely to copy other products.

There's a large ecosystem of innovative companies that treat patents as overhead and cost rather than value.
Show HN: Hacker News for Windows Phone
Amazon's grocery service is a lifesaver when you're too busy to shop. That said, it's not ready to supplant PCC or Whole Foods for the high end consumer: the organic selections suck, and what they do have is frequently out of stock. Some items can't be delivered in the morning, only the afternoon. Solve those problems, and add a service to create grocery lists from recipies, and you have a winner.
EDIT: The article is good for someone like me with very little scientific knowledge.

I thought that ferrous oxide was added because it's a fungicide?

(http://home.howstuffworks.com/question635.htm) Doesn't have any references.

(http://www.grit.com/Community/Why-Are-Barns-Red.aspx#axzz2VI...) seems to at least have read a book or two.
$100,000 a year works out to be ~$50/hr. Enterprise consulting will get you into the 6 figure club. It is not as sexy as working for a startup but a lesson that took me too long to learn is work for the people who have lots of money to spend.

The company I work for is hiring for front-end developers on the project I am working on in Denver. It would put you over $100k. If you have strong JS skills and are willing to come to Denver my work email is in my profile.
Will higher mortgage rates kill the housing market?
Windows Phone users, I am interested in hearing your feedback. Thanks to the HN users who helped with beta testing!
I don't particularly see the difference and switch between both pretty much daily - granted I don't take advantage of Github social features really.
It's too bad that they didn't notice, or didn't bother to find out, that the name "Derby" has already been used for years by an open source relational database project: http://db.apache.org/derby/
OTOH, I genuinely stopped playing because of Zynga. Not out of some reflexive hatred, but because they started using push notifications to advertise upgrades/other games.
Matt aren't you getting sick of having to constantly defend the actions of your employer? You seem like a positive guy but it must be getting even you down.
Merrill is buying top of the line Cisco gear. Google is making its own switches and routers because of costs. Cisco is expensive because the median time to failure is so high.

Google and Amazon own their datacenters, but they're playing the bargain basement game. You won't see racks upon racks of Nexus 7k gear in Google, at least not to my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong).

You're right that live loads are different from test loads (entropy) but having a separate set of test servers still holds a lot of value.

It's just like Aphyr said, when your tolerances are higher, but your costs of delivering said tolerances as an aggregate are lower, you can afford to over-provision. A lot of these failures come from blocked I/O or network capacity failures that just wouldn't happen in a production finance environment because of over-provisioning.

I hope this lends some light onto your queries :).
>> NULL

> So, in essence, it's not a hodgepodge of newfangled PL research like Haskell.

Pretty sure repeating Hoare's 1965 mistake should not be glossed over this way.
Functions can have several different parameter lists and separate implementations for each one. In practice, this is done by grouping the parameter list of each version with it's body. Where would you put the docstring in:

(defn foo
([x] "bar")
([x y] "baz"))
?
Cambridge Uni not so great for CompSci after all?
U.S. ITC Finds Apple Violates Samsung Patent, Issues Limited Import Ban
Napkin math?

Math. I don't think it means what he thinks it means. All I see here is "proof by picture" with some stretched definition of "proof". The only relevant part of this entire piece was this:

>Because when something is easy to build and sell — and appears to make money — a lot of people are going to gold rush the market and drive your margins into the ground. Now there are a million alternatives.

The low-cost gaming industry makes money off one-hit-wonders. You can't consistently manufacture one-hit-wonders.
To solve this problem when I store sensitive things, I use attr_encrypted like this:

Gemfile:
gem 'attr_encrypted'

account.rb:
attr_encrypted, :account_number, :key => ENV["some_key"]
Excel can do that via VBA.
Any particular reason that from addresses outside the US aren't supported?
Had dnsimple failed to do so? Did it help?

Because Easydns http://blog.easydns.org/2013/06/04/post-mortem-of-the-june-3... said "While most of these typically use open resolvers, it is also now common to use authoritative nameservers in reflection attacks".

Can we end the "War on 'Open' Internet (Resolvers)" now?

Because I don't think an organized crackdown on "open" authoritative nameservers is in the best interests of our freedom.
I'm not sure why they get upvoted either, but I get why they're written. The real point of this article is the second-to-last paragraph, where he says (paraphrased) "check out my startup website that I didn't even use Bootstrap to make."
This idea faces two major problems.

The first is that the premise is trivial at best and detrimental at worst. Let's evaluate my current mail situation. Considering that I'm a junior in high school, I receive a substantial amount of college-related junk mail (between five and ten pieces per day), in addition to perhaps three other items. I don't understand why it is preferable to sort though my mail digitally. It is already trivial to remove my mail, quickly glance through it, and toss the junk mail into the recycling bin in my foyer. Being able to do this via a web interface means nothing to me, and certainly isn't worth my money. In fact, I would argue that this worsens my mail-reading experience inasmuch as it creates a level of abstraction that increases the time necessary to deliver the mail I do care about, like The New Yorker. Our mail system is already a travesty. I'm certainly not going to do anything to make it even slower.

The second issue, as mentioned before, is trust. I simply don't trust a startup to open my mail.
You mean the circle shaped plastic toy at the bottom? That's not the same purpose, it will not block the crying orifice as do the pacifier.
Pivotal Tracker has been the most pleasant team task management experience I've had. Have previously used JIRA, Github Issues, Lighthouse, Mantis, and even a shared Google Doc on one project (works surprisingly well for small teams/projects over a short time period).
> because the invention languishes undeveloped for 20 years.

This could be fixed. One approach that comes to mind is to require a sub-20-year renewal process that, if not followed, terminates the patent. This might be due to simple non-execution (e.g. patents held by a defunct company, or entities otherwise unable/unwilling to pursue development), failure to pay renewal fees (e.g. you must pay an ongoing lease on your monopoly right), etc.
What specifically about an open floor plan demoralizes hackers? Would you still be demoralized if the company provided noise cancelling headphones?

The kitchen one is also really bizarre to me. I've never worked anywhere with a "company dishwasher". It's just assumed that people should clean up after they eat.
> giving them Aid
It's not a monopoly because there are competing products sold by other dealerships.
Right. The economics just don't make sense, and I'd be shocked if they were still in business in 2 years (unless they sold your private data.)

This would only work efficiently if it were part of the USPS.
Makes Shay Pierce's decision look sane:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/167244/Turning_down_Zynga...
Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
Building Google Trust Through "The Internship"
Off topic, but it turns out that eagles don't actually sound anything like that. A real bald eagle cry is an amusingly unintimidating high pitched chirp[1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlq2kcYQcLc
You actually suggest, there is a HN user with a `Windows Phone'?! I find this difficult to believe. Are you a Microsoft shill?
You're kidding, right? Aptly-named products that are popular in the everyday vernacular are pretentious?

In this day and age, it's impossible to own the .com for anything but asdjhlsadnklsajkdaskljjkldas.com without paying through the nose for these domains (see Color).

Simply-named descriptive apps are a step in the right direction.
First, we're not paying tax dollars to support the US Postal Service; the recent USPS budget shortfalls are a congressional fabrication [0]. You're uninformed on this matter.

Second, even if we were paying for the USPS, a legally protected postal system is the price we as a society have chosen to pay to preserve complete freedom of the press and ultimately of speech. Freedom of the press and of speech means much less in a world where privatized means of delivery can refuse to carry unpopular opinions (compare the ToS of various domain registrars with the completely unrestricted content of newsletters mailed via the USPS).

[0] You can read about this anywhere just by searching "congress usps pension" but http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/the-u-s-pos... is a good start.
I'm currently using Trello quite a bit and also Asana for some newer projects. I really like the "physical card" feel of Trello. I'm a post-it note kind of guy. Asana seems pretty nice so far but is more grid-based. It's very clean and slick though.
I'd argue that in a real-time system, the GC should be tuned such that it should never need to 'catch up' (i.e, in each round of collection, the collector always collects all garbage produced since the last round). If it does, that should be a non-fatal error condition. But I digress.

Keep in mind that real-time systems are unique in that -- unlike most software -- they have well-understood requirements and limits. There shouldn't be anything 'irregular'. If there is, then you don't fully understand your system and need to do some analysis.

But that said, it's not up to you or I to determine what is 'reasonable'. That's up to the certification body, and they're notoriously conservative about what they will certify (with good reason, I might add). If something causes non-deterministic behaviour, and is not necessary for the function of the system, they will almost certainly ask 'why is that there?' and you'd better have a good answer.

Anecdote: I once had a similar thing happen. As a rookie, I once had to implement a search algorithm for one reason or another. I decided to use a recursive implementation of binary search. This routine was flagged during certification. The problem with recursion is that, unlike an iterative solution, as the problem size grows, a recursive algorithm grows in memory as well as time (we couldn't assume the compiler would be smart enough to use tail recursion) and it's hard to prove the maximum stack usage statically. I know, I tried and ended up replacing it with an iterative implementation of binary search.
I don't see why you could not, in principle, prove it statically.
In my country, all the barn are the colour of iron - galvanised iron. I don't think I've ever seen a red one. Ye Olde wooden barns aren't red here either - if a barn is painted, it's usually white.
This isn't unique to Ruby - this is a property of hash tables in general. Hash tables are Data Structures 101 kind of stuff.
It takes me only ~30 seconds per day to filter mail manually & toss 90%+ into the recycling. That's not a big problem needing solving.

And, they don't explain how they "pickup" securely. Do I need to be home? Then you've lost all time savings, as I have to answer the door to do the transaction with you.

If I don't have to be home, then how can you get into my mailbox securely?
Offsite data backup of the entire repository for free.
It benefits no one to have employees sitting around vesting because they can't pay their taxes to leave, hence RSUs have become more popular.

I'm more interested in the emergence of derivatives markets against RSUs. It's started already, and I wonder if companies are going to attempt to put that cat back in the bag, or just ignore it as it largely doesn't affect them.
How to destroy the future
Simplest EU Cookie Law Popup Solution (Free)
My weekend work: a free tool which makes it easy to create customized widgets that prompt for user’s cookies consent so you don't have to pay hundreds of euros to webdevelopers.
There's obviously a direct connection between the machines. Synchronization works exactly as it does when you synchronize with GitHub. It's just SSH.
I use Bitbucket with private repos for my code and websites. It makes it easier for me to use any of my computers or laptops to work on the same code and it also makes it easier to deploy to my webserver. When I want to deploy, I just do a git pull on the master branch. Easier than uploading files with SSH and it makes it a lot easier to rollback the server if needed.
I agree, they're definitely not mutually exclusive. Sadly only one seems to be emphasizes in the current education system (for obvious reasons) and for two years of college I was victim to it as well -- obsessing over my GPA lest I not get into a good law school.
That is a nice action you've created.

Are there any use cases anyone can think of for this?

It would be nice if it were possible to drag between windows, but that might be asking a little much.
> You're kidding, right? Aptly-named products that are popular in the everyday vernacular are pretentious?

How is Outbox -- which presents a digital version of a snail-mail inbox -- "aptly named"?
I'd be more interested in hearing from people making 500$ to 5k$ a month on the app stores (particularly on Android). Is it easy to reach that level? Would you call it a good way of generating passive income? Or is it only a big spike in the beginning and then nothing if you don't market?
The postal service operates, largely, as a private business which is massively constrained from certain changes due to Congress. For example, they _can't_ shut down many post offices, since Representatives complain when it hits their district. They're trying to remove Saturday delivery too — that's causing major problems.

DESPITE this ridiculousness, they're not utterly hemorrhaging money. They've got an extremely impressive automated system ... and talk about an audacious business model: They'll move your piece of paper acros the country with incredibly reliability for <$0.50! Not to mention packages — their flat rate pricing is brilliant.

I'm generally deeply impressed by the USPS, and I think you should be too.

Clearly they can do some more automation, and maybe that's in the works, but it's very hard to change people's behavior, and big systems move ponderously ... what's easy for a tiny startup is hard for a service which delivers mail to a few hundred million addresses daily.
[Your Product], Better for Whom?
But more likely it was because red barns just look better against a green field.

I feel similarly. This discussion of dying stars and heavy metals is interesting, and it certainly could explain why barns are often painted red, but I tend to believe that color theory has more to do with the tradition of red barns than the physical state of the entire universe.
SourceTree is great and it has both a Mac and Windows version which makes it easy for me to switch between my Mac and other PCs around the house.
Porn app for Google glass, "It's sort of like you're near a woman"
Author here if people have feedback.
How does it stink? Honest question.
ITC to ban import & sale of 3G iPhones, iPads after Samsung complaint
I disagree; a "RESERVED for a private party" sign is effective even if you only understand the first word, and it's certainly not misleading.

Whereas a "RESERVED for fun and games" sign can easily confuse someone who understands the first word (perhaps they've seen it on other English signs before) but not "fun" nor "games", and they'll be misled into thinking they're not allowed to go into that area.
Fedora for short-lifespan server instances
This is one of the best questions I ever got asked regarding product positioning.
Funny, I've had the opposite experience; Rally has been mostly a joy to use, especially by comparison to Jira and Greenhopper.
I think the problem is that we're not paying enough in stamp fees and costs to keep the USPS running. Instead, spammers and mass mailers essentially have bought out your mailbox (you can't turn this spam off).

Regarding taxpayer funding, the USPS is a fully self-funded organization that can be cheap because it happens to have exclusive access to your mailbox. It's only running deficits because GOP congress decided to ask it to pay it's pension plans for workers not even hired yet [1].

You can question why only the USPS can deliver to your mailbox, but your tax dollars are most certainly not funding the USPS.
Hmmm...I don't know. I look at Zynga and feel like it is/was in a position to really continue succeeding. Games may be easier to build but it's still difficult to get users. Zynga should have been the best at building cross-platform. Zynga should have moved much more forcefully off Facebook (I never really understood the idea of going to Facebook to play Farmville). Zynga should have been snapping up/copying cool new games before they got too big. True, it is a hits business to some extent but there is a lot more you can do with data and an installed base/captive audience.
If you don't take advantage of the Github social features, which is essentially what Github is all about, I don't think your opinion on the matter is worth sharing with everybody, no offense intended.
Right, but github only allows, well, git repositories. If they added hg support I'd have a strong reason to think about putting repositories on my github account.
Is a win for Ubuntu necessarily a loss for Debian?
I'm not convinced that morality can be added/substracted ala forum karma, so I question the presupposition of your question. :-/

I would say, however, that a company which damaged other people's livelihoods, but on their own time worked to ensure that the displaced people had other ways to live was acting reasonable right.

---

Many things we do fall in a moral grey area. Suppose my genetic computation software that I've released as open source is used to optimize logistics for (say), a concentration camp in North Korea. Boy, that makes me feel a bit ill. On the other hand, I did not exercise the choice to choose to specifically give away my software to that particular group. But it could, theoretically, be used for that: it's a github download away. Here's another one; suppose the company I work for sells devices (let's say these devices are internet routers) to Foxconn, who uses it in a plant where they work people for excruciatingly long hours. Well.... Is selling routers harmful? No. But is supporting the exploiting of the working people harmful? Yes. Can I personally refuse to work on the router? Sure. But that's a generic tech. Can I personally refuse to work on the sale? I think that's within reason, but as an engineer, I doubt I'll have that luxury.

In other words, for a lot of mundane businesses, I think it's very grey.
BBC homepage clock is 'inaccurate'
Clock removed because it displays local user time, rather than 'true' time.
It's worth noting that GitHub charges per repo whereas Bitbucket charges per user. So GitHub might make sense for product businesses where there are only a handful of repos, but Bitbucket is much more cost effective in an agency environment where you might have a repo per client or even per project.
>(I never really understood the idea of going to Facebook to play Farmville)

You clearly don't understand why Farmville was a success then.
On-the-fly WEP/WPA2 decrypter, forwards decrypted traffic to a virtual interface
Power your writing and draw traffic this summer using some simple techniques
O.k. I live in Derby and that is also slang for a blowjob in America and a horse race. Plus much more I don't care to mention because the others already did. Do you have to do this?
This:

Taking a job just to make money, on the other hand, is probably going to be corrosive, even if you use the money for charity rather than sports cars.
An interesting difference I've noticed about Bitbucket vs Github: While Github has had a "deploy key" feature for quite a while, and Bitbucket only added such a feature just under a year ago, I think Bitbucket's version is a much better fit for what deploy keys are usually used for.

With Github, a deploy key has read-write access to repos, and each key can only be attached to a single repo.

However, with Bitbucket, a deploy key has read-only access to repos, and each key can be attached to more than one repo.
As someone once commented, git is a great library for building a VCS system. Great design.

The tooling around it? Not so much. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
Currently only books and TV shows. If I was rich and in India, I'd buy hundreds and hundreds of dildos to get them to the front page.