skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I'm one of the Founders of Sorted (https://sortedlocal.com)

Firstly, Alexa data isn't fresh, I'm pretty sure it's up to 3 months old...3 months ago we weren't live.

The UK isn't as receptive to task marketplaces as the US, hence why nobody is really killing it over here, but times are changing and traction is starting to come through.

We started out as a clone to the original Zaarly, but realised that the data was screaming at us to do something different.

Sorted is now a profile driven marketplace, our Sorters (task do-ers) create profiles and Customers simply search what they want, so a cleaner near postcode x. They browse profiles and request the Sorter, payments still run through the platform.

It opens up a lot more marketing opportunities by leveraging the Sorter base, and the model is being pretty well received in the UK.

We launched and MVP about 2 months ago learnt from the data, iterated and launched another version about 2 weeks ago, we've gone from 800 users on the Zaarly model to 15,000 on the search model, and we're optimising the funnel as we speak.

I assure you, we have not failed, we're a very young business and it's a steep learning curve, but the UK is a tough nut to crack.
Scientists demonstrate ability to store 360 TB/disc
Bitbucket's outage window game, Bit's Quest, open sourced
It being run a program called "Optical Grating". Its a low cost alternative to "PRISM"
Interpersonal issues can be difficult, but the longer it takes for someone to come forward and point out that the process is wasteful and producing poor English documentation, the harder it's going to get. If the English documentation is valuable enough to produce in the first place, it's valuable enough to turn over to someone that can do the translation with little/no help from software translators.

In some cases, the process of translating the documentation can be at fault. It may be easier for someone to produce new documentation in English, using the original only where necessary, or as a guide for the structure and focus of the documentation.

As previously mentioned, it's likely this person's time would be better spent elsewhere, and reviewers would be better off reviewing someone else's translation.
Clearly you've never driven in the DC area. Seeing cars slam their brakes at 25-30mph to grab a spot on a busy street is laughably commonplace.
The FlightAware data isn't particularly accurate, and the update frequency nowhere near fast enough to get good information (vs. FDR).

For the less sensationalist view of the crash and analysis, see the AVHerald information [1]

[1] http://avherald.com/h?article=464ef64f&opt=0
> Per-pass performance gets worse. Overall performance gets better, because fewer passes need to be made.

Yes, but what the users will see is that, instead of his application occasionally "feeling funny" every five minutes or so, the application will visibly lock every ten minutes.

It's a hard lesson that Java learned a long time ago: it's ok to be reasonably fast all that time, but people will immediately begin yelling if you're fast most of the time, but suddenly you get really sluggish, even if just for a few seconds.
Yes - in my dropbox public folder, I keep a truecrypt bucket with scans of everything in my wallet, should I lose it.
I'm not sure what imbalance, exactly, that you mean, but I don't see anything of the sort as the reason that online dating isn't going anywhere. The fundamental problem I see is that meeting new people is hard. Particularly after school, with a full-time job, if you recently moved to where you live, and if you don't live in a city (being close helps, but it's not the same).
my droplets are working, just seems to be an issue with their homepage.
Yes, only parts of the underlying file are changed. TrueCrypt uses XTS mode of operation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory, http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/modes-of-operation).
One of the pictures has a clear visual date stamp with a "/90." Maybe this means nothing.

But I wonder if they are misleadingly posting these as if they were just discovered, rather than over what appears to be at least 23 years.
Well, the nice thing about PRISM is that it's API is so simple that you don't even need to muck around with SDKs, REST, JSON encoding etc. Integration is completely straightforward.
Also a pedestrian, or a jogger, might pull out suddenly in front of you. But this is no ground to make transport by foot a privilege.
Not quite, but I get what you're saying for sure. I think jacquesm said it well in his reply to me that you're more testing the "contracts between two pieces of code right at the interface", and it shouldn't be any deeper than that to avoid what you're describing.

The symptom of many tests failing during refactoring is something I'll be keeping in mind, however.
They could also be buying the assets(servers).
I think to get maximum innovation on anything technology related, it should always be simple enough to get started at any level, then as you gain more experience you can (and the specs allow you to now -- AS2/EDIHTTP spec for one has encryption, compression, on top of HTTP/HTTPS - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4130) do more for performance, optimization etc otherwise it is premature optimization and a bit of a wall.

Like with gaming, each game should be simple to start but deeper to master. That is what this layer is all about, lower down the OSI stack it is much more of a wall to beginners. Never lock out beginners as they can be better masters with time, don't hide the entrance to the labyrinth. Leave things as approachable, but with better professional experience, modifiable to perform better. We have all that now, a competing binary protocol will never see the innovation that a more simple one like HTTP will. Higher up the stack you can see how this was better for exchanging data in standard ways from old school binary blobs, to CSV files, to XML files, to JSON. Same reason REST services won over SOAP, simplify... There is a JSON binary format BSON in mongo and also MessagePack but guess which one is used more in service/exchanging data the textual one or the binary ones? The binary formats work well in certain situations where both endpoints are controlled by the same entity.

Binary and more locked down/optimized formats and messaging have their place but the start/base should always focus on simplicity over optimization.

The general rule in exchanging via standards is be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send. Being all binary all the time is a backwards step and is conservative on what is accepted, I also think it would lead to a host of difficult to debug problems just based on work I did with AS2/HTTP RFC implementation one of them being streaming and of course encoding/decoding which can fill hours of work if you can't visually see the content at some level.
Very awesome! <3 <3 <3 I have used pedestal previously for a basic pet project and learn some clj, the docs from it are very impressive.

For those trying to get started with datomic I advise you to try it out with the pedestal.io tutorial, it worked very smooth for me.
Plotly graphing API for Python, Matlab, R, and Arduino
A de facto surveillance state is created simply by the networking together of the companies which give you internet service, search service, serve all your pages, connect your VOIP calls, handle your transactions, analyse your purchases, collect health information on you, etc. And trade all your data among themselves freely. And startups are in the vanguard of all this data collection.

We lost when we allowed all this data to be concentrated together in this way. We let it happen because it was done by private industry rather than the government, which we wouldn't have stood for. After we let that happen, government access to this data (by subpoena if nothing else) was a given. But even if we somehow forbade the government from using it tomorrow, it would still be accessible to these corporations and their political allies, with even less transparency and less accountability.

The public doesn't know what private corporations are doing, because there is no transparency. If the public knew, it wouldn't care what they are doing, because they are understood to have carte blanche under capitalism. Corporate obligations are supposedly exhausted by making profit or looking out for stockholders. And even if the public cared about corporate surveillance, there is really nothing they could do about it, because the corporation has a 'right' to do almost whatever it wants as long as it has a strong income stream.

If you care about the surveillance and its abuse in itself, you have to go much deeper than sanctioning the NSA.
> The companies themselves are still the ones who end up providing the data to NSA though

Well that's certainly what the companies are saying. Whether they are telling truth (personally I think they are) or not is something else. Snowden is definitely not the one lying about this, since at worst his interpretation was very sensible, and at best it is the very interpretation intended by the author.
Honestly, those examples are great reasons why I would support some kind of form of publicly shaming those drivers (via some kind of www.thisiswhycyclistsdie.net blog): Get cyclists to be diligent and record their rides and post the obvious asshole drivers and their plates.

Yes, there's probably giant privacy implications there, but fuck it. They're trying to kill people out there.
The idea behind Plotly is: to build a platform where people can collaboratively graph, analyze, and share data. Two months ago we launched Plotly on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671831).

We received extremely helpful feedback, and are grateful to everyone who commented and used the product. Hearing from readers and new users was exciting, helpful, and insightful. So, thanks very much.

The #1 request was an API to generate plotly graphs from desktop environments. In response to that feedback, we are launching a new service so you can now send data from Python, MATLAB, R, and Arduino to your plotly account. Calls made with the API will return a link with a graph of your data, i.e. something like this: https://plot.ly/~chris/421/. You can sign up through the API.

The graphs are interactive: click-drag to zoom, double-click to autoscale, shift-drag to pan, hover to view data points.

You can view the graphs inside plotly and style them with our GUI. For example, I sent data with the API to make this: http://plot.ly/~chris/554/ and then styled it inside plotly to create this: https://plot.ly/~chris/653/

HN: What do you think of the API? What else can we do to make Plotly a tool that you would realistically use every single day?
Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
...both car's passengers are surrounded by a metal cage that is trying to protect lives.
Good trolling skills, I must admit. :)

So there are some anecdotal stuff nobody actually seen, but it will change the word anytime now.

Don't hold your breath: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...
I am a Georgia Tech alum. I had taken the Advanced OS class and High Performance Computer Architecture classes. My then roommate had taken the Networks class too.

I strongly recommend taking those classes, if you get the chance. The concepts they teach blew me away completely. These classes helped me make a conscious decision, to not be a regular programmer after I graduate. I wanted to be an engineer working on the hard stuff. For folks who have such motivation, these courses are amazing.

The professors are really great and love teaching. They will try to make the class fun (in nerdy ways). They are at the bleeding edge of research in their domains and know stuff inside out.

Beware:

- These classes are non-trivial. Most of these classes cannot be done without full focus. So, if you are employed full-time, please reconsider. You more than likely need to devote 3+ hours everyday to study.

- For example, Advanced OS class will require you to read 40+ research papers. You will actually have trick questions in mid-term and finals where you'll need to know intricate details of each paper to answer them correctly

- Adding to the above point, the HPC class will have intensive math homework. There were problems to calculate IPC of a fake machine which took me 3 WHITEBOARDS to figure out the level of parallelism. If you have never taken a Computer Architecture class before, please re-consider.

- Georgia Tech, notoriously, grades everyone equally. Meaning, you will not get any benefits for not being on campus. If they end up grading you with on-campus students, rest assured you are already behind. Not to mention, students taking these courses are mostly PhDs. They know the stuff inside out already.

- Urban dictionary actually is very true in its definition of what this school is: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=georgia%20tec...

- The grading system is ruthless. You will either get an A or B or C or D. There are no +ves and -ves. A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C = 2.0. In short, it is unacceptable to get even a B in all classes

- These classes are not like a regular Udacity or Coursera classes. You will not learn any programming in them. They expect you to know programming cold. The students who take these courses want to know how computers work and are highly motivated. See the top answer by a Georgia tech student: https://www.quora.com/Computer-Science/How-do-computers-work...

All said, if you come out of this coursework unscathed, you'll have a new-found appreciation for life and computers. I do not regret doing my Masters there.
A bicycle can and occasionally does kill people. An old woman was struck and killed just a couple of blocks from my house. Children would be even more likely to die in a collision I would think.
the "nor do we plan to have one" seemed unnecessary and mean.
> The roads were built for cars.

This is untrue.

"The coming of the railways in the 1830s killed off the stage-coach trade; almost all rural roads reverted to low-level local use. Cyclists were the first group in a generation to use roads and were the first to push for high-quality sealed surfaces and were the first to lobby for national funding and leadership for roads. Without cyclists, motorists wouldn't have hit the ground running when it came to places to drive this new form of transport."

http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/
By that logic, pedestrians should be able to walk in the middle of roads, since they're not a threat to a car.
Don't Mint basically provide at least the "email alert" section that you're looking for?

You can basically do all what you're after with scraping, though the banks may want you to keep it down to one scrape a day.
Also, it's prudent to consider one of those conditions to be aggressive behavior from a car behind you (horn, etc). They're proudly boasting of their non-understanding of how to fluidly pass non-lane-width traffic, so it's just safer to take the full lane and ensure they'll either change lanes or wait for a lull in oncoming traffic instead of half-passing then cutting into you.
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That isn't a legal constraint, it's a physical one.
That's not ATC's job. A pilot should be able to land the plane himself/herself in visual conditions.
I'm not sure I follow the thrust of your comment.

I am interested in why sequoia asserts that it's correct (or at least permissible) to prohibit bicycles from interstates but a violation of rights to prohibit them from other roads. The fact that bicycles are not prohibited from all interstates seems somewhat orthogonal...
> Note that none of these confiscated weapons by themselves necessarily constitute an intent to use them.

TSA themselves have been saying that, once a week, every week, for some time now.

(http://blog.tsa.gov/search/label/Week%20In%20Review)

> Unfortunately these sorts of occurrences are all too frequent which is why we talk about these finds. Sure, it’s great to share the things that our officers are finding, but at the same time, each time we find a dangerous item, the throughput is slowed down and a passenger that likely had no ill intent ends up with a citation or in some cases is even arrested. The passenger can face a penalty as high as $7,500.00. This is a friendly reminder to please leave these items at home. Just because we find a prohibited item on an individual does not mean they had bad intentions, that's for the law enforcement officer to decide. In many cases, people simply forgot they had these items.
That might be a point of Redis, but it's certainly not the whole point, as I don't care about it but Redis is still useful to me.

And again, just because I can do it myself doesn't mean I should. I came into adulthood as a sysadmin. I can take a project from bolting racks into the floor to writing front-end code, but I don't. There are better ways.
Miles,
If you want to apply what you learned hosting other NoSQL databases in the cloud, please contact me HN AT nosql dot com.
I'd love for there to be an AWS photo transcoding service as well. If you have a large site, creating your own photo transcoder workflow is not a big deal, and you can make it elastic by combining a bunch of other AWS services, but for a small web site it's a different picture.

For me photo transcoding comes in batches that take 5-15 minutes to process, a few times per week. This work bogs down the tiny instance, so I have to keep around a medium instance just for the occasional conversion work, but 99% of the time it's a waste of hardware. It's also a waste of my time having to write code to deal with things like iPhone picture image rotation and so on.
As someone who routinely uses python, R, and matlab for data analysis, I am going to have to give this a try. Matplotlib can be cumbersome and I am always looking for alternatives. This looks great! Can't wait to try it.
Arguing the degree of hurt is pointless - you can kill pedestrians if you hit them with your bike.

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/03/07/san-francisco-bicyc...

http://dcist.com/2012/06/woman_dies_after_being_hit_by_cycli...
Is that a bad practice just because that kind of code is optimized for desktop use or is it just bad practice in general?

I think the point here is that if you use Javascript to animate, that runs in, well, Javascript, and has to be called constantly. If you set a CSS property to achieve the same animation, the computations for it are done in native code. It still gets drawn the same way, but it's basically throwing away CPU for nothing (unless you do something that can't easily be replicated by CSS of course).
> There is no evidence that TDD provides any benefit.

You originally said, "TDD has no benefits," which is a definitive claim and not supported by evidence. That's vastly different from saying, "There is no evidence that TDD provides any benefit." You seem to be conflating being unable to draw a conclusion with drawing a negative conclusion. They're not the same thing.

> If you've read it, why do I need to re-show it to you?

Because the research I've read doesn't support your conclusion that "TDD has no benefits." I'd like to know if there's a body of research out there that I haven't read yet.

You seem to have an axe to grind with TDD salesmen. That's fair enough. Salesmen aren't in the business of advancing knowledge. They're in the business of persuasion. If you want to criticize salesmen for not being scientifically honest, be my guest. Sometimes, this tactic causes harm. For example, if a salesmen persuades someone to buy homoeopathic remedies instead of traditional medicine, people could die.

I think it's good that you're skeptical of the salesmen, because they're business doesn't require them to be scientifically honest. But that shouldn't inform your opinion of TDD (or any other subject), because there are others in the world whose business does require them to be scientifically honest. And they're the ones whose words you should read to form your opinion. And that is why I asked for sources.
I didn't intend to highlight lack of respect so much as lack of general awareness amongst motorists of the rights of bicyclists as road vehicles. In the worst cases, this manifests itself in more aggressive responses. This here was a case of negligence, not malice.

Neither source linked from the article says that the driver went off-road, both say that Seth Vidal was traveling "on Hillandale Road," that he was "a bicyclist traveling north on Hillandale Road." It makes no sense for a bicycle advocate and experienced rider to be riding off-road, so I will have to see a source to believe that.
I got sign-off to release the code as an Atlassian open source project. I'm hoping someone will want to make it better.
I've tried literally about a dozen times at this point. Only once did I get some sort of response from the server; now clicking "place order" simply does nothing. Too bad; they got all of this publicity at the expense of their target audience not being able to use the service. I hope everyone who was interested remembers to try again tomorrow.

Edit: Alright, I finally succeeded. It took less than three minutes to arrive once my order was placed!

The packaged meal: http://imgur.com/JHrZbTd,WDG574u,2z9KKxn,350v3fd#2
Unwrapped: http://imgur.com/JHrZbTd,WDG574u,2z9KKxn,350v3fd#0

"Carnitas Enchiladas $6.00 Braised Pork with Red Onion and White Cheddar Wrapped in White Corn Tortillas Baked in Red Chile Sauce, Served with Black Beans and Spanish Rice"

What it looks like: http://imgur.com/JHrZbTd,WDG574u,2z9KKxn,350v3fd#1

What it tastes like: Rice: very tasty. Beans: the opposite of tasty; this is actually un-appetizing, and if I was the type to waste food, I would not continue eating it. Enchiladas: doesn't taste bad, but is also not very flavorful.

"Butternut Risotto $6.00 Arborio Rice with Tart Apple, Butternut Squash, Sweet Onion on a Bed of Baby Spinach, with Roasted Cauliflower, and Braised Fennel"

What it looks like: http://imgur.com/JHrZbTd,WDG574u,2z9KKxn,350v3fd#3

What it tastes like: Risotto: tastes mushy, kind of like paste. Caulliflower: doesn't taste bad, but is also not very exciting. Bed of baby spinach: tastes like poison. I don't know how to describe it better, but it tastes terrible.

I guess this is a decent meal for $6.00. It's certainly better than fast food. I have a hard time calling it "gourmet" and I'm not sure if I would order it again. (Living in Berkeley, I am spoiled on the local food, which can be properly considered "gourmet").
Or it could be that not everyone wants to live in a crowded city in a small apartment. Some people prefer to be a bit more spread out, perhaps near nature.
Personally, I see this as an attempt to add humor and levity to a repeated and horrible violation of our rights and person.

"Hey, check out this gun! It has pink glitter! Aren't you glad we confiscated it!?"
Test Driven Development:Resistance Is...Perplexing?
To play devil's advocate, what is Apple's "purpose"? How often has it changed?
> Even the most foolish and aggressive cyclist is almost never endangering the safety of drivers around him, even indirectly.

I highly doubt that. I have seen dozens of bicyclists cause absolute chaos in traffic. Granted, I've never seen any collisions, but I can't imagine that the chaos I've seen is "safe" compared to the normal flow of traffic.

> Yet all it takes is a nudge, honk, door opening, unsignaled turn, etc. to kill a cyclist.

True, but if your implication is that bicyclists should be able to freely use roads because of how vulnerable they are, then pedestrians should also be able to freely use roads.
Malware Infection Leads Government to Destroy $170,000 of Computing Hardware
"No one writes HTML manually anymore either."

I was up until four last night doing just this. It's commonly done for templating purposes all the time, or quick hacks and placeholders.

Have you lost your mind?
And yet Seth Vidal is dead, and the driver remains alive.

In an ideal world bicycles are given equal respect and stature on the roads. In practice, however, riders have a lot more to lose in a collision with a car.