skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy about the mobile first approach. Simple things like 100% button widths is great. This was a modification I had to make to every Bootstrap site I built. I like the idea of having a single CDN for it too. Nice work.

Oh, I owe it to the thread - flat buttons.
>>Only if everyone ended up having a million dollars :)

If that actually happened, it wouldn't be that great. A million dollars would just be worth a lot less real fast.
Can someone explain why this is an issue? To me, this sounds like:

"I cancelled x, why am I still not getting x service?"
It's insane that a privacy policy is 3000 pages, yes. It's not insane that they should comply.
You aren't misunderstanding anything. Hospital care in the U.S. is fucking ridiculous for several reasons on a multitude of fronts, this is just one of them.

And the parent comment thinks its reasonable because their livelihood depends on this insane bureaucracy.

LETS TAKE ALL THE WORST PARTS OF FREE MARKET MEDICINE AND THE WORST PARTS OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE AND PUT IT TOGETHER AND CALL IT THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
If you decide to try it, be sure to write a good trip report for Erowid.
Trial ends. You don't want to pay. But the service should still continue?

And this is one of the top stories on Hackers News?
Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is
There are lots of people with Google Apps free accounts. You're able to try out the paid level of service, but downgrading back to the free plan again disables your e-mail entirely for up to 24 hours.
That's true. For example in Python, you declare the query as "Select * from a where b=? and c=d" and then put a tuple (z,) to specify b.

It's something the NYSE should get "hip" to.
Top 5 RPG's
> The point is, you're not actually replicating it if you don't follow all the stages of the experiment.

Disassembling the chip isn't part of the experiment, it's a precursor. You don't have to build your own particle accelerator just to replicate a subsequent experiment that was originally conceived based on data from the large hadron collider.
Two Monks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_%28cheese%29
people were quick to say that Android would never be able to compete since it's 'too geeky'.

Which is why Samsung has layered their own UI and apps atop the core Android experience, and the market has rewarded them for making it more consumer friendly.
Depends on which Exchange you focus on, I guess NASDAQ. You also forgot the tell us in what language you want to develop.

First things first: You know that access to real-time data costs some money right?
I mean a friend pays 3k/monthly (real-time incl. support). Paying upfront before you even have started doesn't make much sense. Don't get schocked by that price, he's doing it professionally and what he pays for his servers is n times more than that.

Some links to APIs:

http://www.nasdaqdod.com/

http://www.lmax.com/trading-tech/access

http://www.hotspotfx.com/technology/apifix.jsp

http://www.easy-forex.com/int/developers/

http://www.iqfeed.net/index.cfm?displayaction=developer&sect...

https://developers.tradeking.com/

http://www.turbotrade.com/content/category/9/61/95/

http://www.activetick.com/activetick/contents/ActiveTickPlat...

Keep me updated, ok?
That is ridiculous strawman argument. How would such stories end up in a prominent position on HN unless enough people from the community likes it.

In any case that was not what my comment was about. I was, and still am, more than surprised by the poster's puerile lament that someone is getting a few odd karma that the poster thought was undeserved. I assumed that this place is somewhat removed from such "Mama ! he took my toy" behavior.
I really take issue with this title and the general attitude it stems from.

Advising everyone in a certain group of people to take any kind of drug should be frowned upon in my opinion. The fact that we are talking about a Schedule I substance, and the fact that author then admits he thinks everyone should try them, make this situation even worse.

I guess if you happen to get caught with them you'll have plenty of free time (five or more years) to fine-tune your startup idea in a federal prison.

A much better title would have been "one entrepreneur's positive experience with magic mushrooms". I'm not saying that nobody should do drugs or that psychedelics can't benefit people, but telling everyone to use a drug because you had a good outcome with it is downright juvenile.
What seems surprisingly ignored by most of the medical community is that many microorganisms harmful to humans can thrive only in environments that have been artificially stripped of the normally dominant microorganisms that humans are mostly well adapted to. Instead of fighting an ever-escalating arms race against resistant microorganisms in some imaginary “war on germs,” maybe we ought to stop screwing with the normal microbial environment and start learning from it instead.

I mean, is it really so surprising that when you salt sliced cabbage and let it sit in a crock for a few weeks – no preservatives, no antibiotics – that what you end up with, after the ambient microorganisms have had their way, is not only perfectly preserved cabbage but also delicious? That fermented foods naturally arise when you let traditional foods “go bad” and that they taste so good ought to suggest something. It’s almost as if millions of years of natural selection in an environment devoid of modern preservatives and antimicrobial agents has made humans well adapted to (and even crave) the microbiota that naturally dominate the places where humans have traditionally lived and the foods that humans have traditionally eaten.

Taking us out of those environments makes our bodies and foods and hospitals competiton-free zones for modern “superbugs.” Seems like a really bad idea.
Nave[1] works like a charm for me.

[1]https://github.com/isaacs/nave
Personally, even if I conceded Coffeescript is worse in some scenarios [1], I still evaluate Coffeescript as far preferable to Javascript overall. There's multiple dimensions to consider. (Disclaimer: I've only compared the two on the backend, so far.)

[1] Like representing datastructures. Or that subclass-without-constructor subtlety (https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2956).
> says the receptionist
That's a pretty BS excuse, they could trivially provide guidelines for input systems that don't fragment things subtantially.

They simply don't care about the segment and would rather support a good-enough solution than a best-of-breed.
> That's not how it works, VCs are like record publishers, doesn't matter if most of your companies suck as long as one is a hit.

I know how venture capital is supposed to work. The problem is that it hasn't been working out the way it's supposed to.

Over the past decade, venture capital has underperformed the stock market.

Thus, pension funds have gotten their money into illiquid and risky VC investments -- but they haven't been getting paid the liquidity and risk premiums that they thought they were going to get.

(Incidentally, the record labels haven't done that great over the past decade, either.)
The problem with the incarceration rate is that it's not just 'US does more', but 'the US is an extreme outlier'. Pretty much all the developed nations are in the band 50-150/100k population, from memory New Zealand is an outlier at 200, and the US is... 750. It's such a mind-bogglingly extreme outlier. South Africa at the height of Apartheid 'only' had 550.
gumroad.com
They just change one atom in the big ole organic molecule that doesn't change the effectiveness, and boom: new and patentable drug.
Has anyone else tried purchasing a server from the US? The require you to send proof of id, but I haven't received a response from the yet (I sent it 2 days ago).
Without having to open the man page:

$ whatis ab
ab (1) - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

Or with bsd-games installed:

$ wtf ab
ab: ab (1) - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
The addition of the Let statement to ES6 makes this discussion moot, while bypassing coffeescript's sketchy globality.
Soylent Subterfuge: When a Bad Joke Turns into a Business
The code keeps using high registers for no discernible reason, instead of sticking with EAX--EDI; this means that each instruction is 1 byte longer than it could be.

This has consequences to the instruction fetching and decoding circuitry, where (in the Core 2) you can only read 16 instruction bytes per cycle (or 6 instructions). It is possible that the extraneous MOV instructions are just resulting in a better instruction alignment.
Naval probably hatched this plan when VC's screwed him in Epinions. Brilliant payback.

In the USA one still can't crowdfund (from non-accredited investors) yet, but in a couple of months one will be able to share with the general public that they're fundraising.

These raises are possible because of Rule 504, 505, & 506 of the SEC.

Seed offerings: http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule504.htm
Series A: http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule505.htm
Series B & later: http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule505.htm
Especially when combined with companion services such as bootswatch and wrapbootstrap.
It's good that he's being contrarian, because the general opinion here stems from a bunch of tech enthusiasts being riled up at an imaginary boogeyman that's supposedly an affront to their internet rights — because in the end, they really only care about their ability to be jerkoffs online. When the NYPD started frisking every other black person, where was HN? What about when the right for women to have affordable birth control was being oppressed? But suddenly the government is peeking at your search history and it's "tyranny!" and "the government is out of control!" on the front page each day.

All of these arguments are looking increasingly like conspiracy theories.
This is actually akin to a antibiotic, it's a protein, an enzyme that a bacterophage virus produces to attack bacteria. See a bit more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysin Also see all the antibiotics that are peptides in the Wikipedia list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antibiotics A peptide is basically a small/short protein, by convention less than 50 amino acids.

One issue which is noted in the Wikipedia article is that it's subject to attack by the immune system. Maybe that won't be a big problem, or it can be gimmicked, but it's still a big protein, would require topical or IV instead of oral dosing, and it's not going to be able to get to a variety of places that much smaller mold, indeed fungal produced antibiotics can get into.
This needs more visibility. There should be clear indication on the page that this is just an API for the freely available MaxMind db's.
>Where are you drawing this conclusion from?

Personal experience.

>Perhaps there are people who like to spend money and buy things because it gives them a rush and makes them feel good.

I feel bad for these people.

>What exactly is wrong with buying "shiny things"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism#Criticism

>This is capitalism and there is nothing wrong with it at all.

This is a non-sequitur. I can be against Consumerism and still be a proponent of Capitalism.
I think patio11 was the one who said that a lot of successful things sound scummy like that...because that works really, really well, outside of the specific demographic that inhabits HN.
Piwik already has GeoIP with the same database (Maxmind) built in.
I have a few applications running on App Engine and am using Google Apps to connect domains and do business e-mail. I've had these apps for over 2 years now and they are my livelihood. I'm a Passive Income Hacker.

When App Engine and Google Apps made their debut, I poured hours into learning them. I evangelized them to other developers and balked at the idea of vendor lock-in affecting me. I knew that Google's "Do no evil" mantra was probably hyperbole, but I figured they couldn't be worse than Microsoft.

I COMPLETELY regret using App Engine and building a business based on Google technologies. I will not make the same mistake again. Since I have launched my apps, Google has

1. Completely changed the App Engine pricing model from one based on CPU time to datastore writes.

2. Deprecated their first attempt at a datastore and replaced it with one that costs 3x as much (called HRD). There's lots of reports of people having problems with their migration tools.

3. Created a $500/mo support plan that you need in order to get any sort of help from their engineers--even when you have a disruption localized to your environment.

4. Deprecated the ability to write to the Blobstore using an experimental API - However the API was experimental for 3 or 4 years, so a lot of people grew to depend on it.

5. Removed the ability to associate a domain with your app engine account for free through Google Apps. Now you have to pay $50/year or $5/month and you get an app engine credit you may or may not use.

6. Have taken away e-mail quota for new applications so you can only send 100 e-mails a day and you have to file a support request if you want to ramp it up. You may or may not be allowed.

7. Forced users to upgrade their MapReduce version to a new one which uses a completely different API and requires significant code rewrites.

8. Maintained a "take it or leave it" attitude with an iron fist.

When I started with App Engine. I bought into the idea that I'd have them take care of the infrastructure and I could "sit back and scale out." I've had to put so much work into maintaining my apps because of their infrastructural changes it's ridiculous. If I would have just gone with a VPS or EC2, I might have had to replicate a database and write some scripts to automate backups, but at least I would've been able to decide if I wanted to change my code or not. With App Engine, I've been completely at Google's mercy. All that, and NO database joins :-(
Because of all the imported US media bleating on about harsher penalties for criminals, that mentality is starting to take foot here in Australia, too. Prison sentences are never 'long enough', and the public perception is shifting from the previous one that was a punishment/rehabilitation mix to one that's punishment only.

The thing is, that when you talk to people about a criminal - "they did -foo-, and were locked up for -bar-", it's common to hear "that's not long enough! there needs to be a message sent!". But the Law Institute of Victoria (my state) did an interesting study: they polled people about what sentences people should receive for certain crimes, but actually gave them details of specific cases. Instead of being the shallow news "it was a burglary, the sentences was -bar-", they were given more detail. It turns out that the respondents suggested sentences were actually shorter than the sentences given in court.

It's pretty easy to say "lock 'em up for longer"; it's both quick and simple. But when you actually have to think about it, you realise all the implications - from rehabilitation and reintegration, to cost of incarceration, both fiscal and social. Zero tolerance has the least amount of thought available to it, so...
Exactly this; ProblemFactory has shown how the guru provides directly actionable information for the simplest case of the problem (1 blue eyed islander) and also highlighted the inductive step that leads to a proof for any number of blue eyed islanders.

Reducing to the simplest scenario and building (as ProblemFactory) has done, makes the result much more intuitive -- as it does in most proofs, really.

Also, the logicians comic is wonderful :)
I do the same thing that RMS did on many (but not all) occasions and it really annoys the hell out of people.

A year or two ago, I rented one of those storage units to put a bunch of stuff in (although really I should probably just get rid of it). The guy hands me a copy of a "rental agreement" to sign that's several pages long (printed on both sides) and says, "Just flip to the back page and sign there at the bottom."

Having never rented one of these units before, I was completely ignorant as to the "rules" or what might even be included in such an agreement so I really did want to read it (whereas most of us can probably guess 98% of what the standard HIPAA/Privacy Policy says).

When I get to the bottom of the front of the first page, I look up and the guy is clearly annoyed (despite the fact that he didn't appear to be doing anything important when I walked in -- he was on Facebook on his computer).

I apologized to him and explained, saying, "I'm sorry, I've never rented one of these before so I really don't know what's allowed and I want to make sure I don't do anything wrong." At the time I was genuinely curious as to what could or couldn't be stored in the unit. Could I keep some really old guns in there? Maybe I could park my motorcycle in it during the wintertime and free up some space in my garage?

I asked him if he had a FAX machine in his office and he said that he did. "How about if I take this with me so I can read it at home and then I'll sign the back page and FAX it to you?" I asked, thinking that he'd be happy that he didn't have to sit impatiently and watch me for the next 20 minutes as I finished reading the document.

"Okay, that'll work." I slid the document back over to him and asked him to write the FAX number on it. I gave him my credit card to cover the initial payment, he ran it and I walked out.

I actually did sit and read the whole document when I got home but I didn't really like that I was required to give them 90 days notice prior to terminating the agreement (30 days would be more reasonable, IMO). If I decided today that I was going to move everything out of the unit tomorrow, I'd still have to pay for the next three months (at $46 USD per month) even though I wasn't using it any longer.

I never signed the document and I never FAX'd it back. I'm sure the guy probably forgot all about it before I even made it home and I haven't been contacted by the company since -- regarding the document or anything else. Every month they charge my credit card $46 and life goes on.

I'll be moving everything out of there in a few weeks. When I do, I fully intend to walk into the office, hand them the key, and point out that I never signed the document and will fight any attempts to charge me the next three months worth of rent.

Like most people, I usually just blindly click through EULA's and sign whatever documents wherever somebody tells me to but in this case not doing so paid off. I certainly wouldn't have expected that I'd be required to give them 90 days notice before vacating the storage unit.
The shiny things, value you impute being zero, they sell are in fact products built by companies because they think people will in fact buy them. Somebody went thru non trivial trouble to make that bronze Sasquatch, and others are making an effort to sell it because they think it will sell.

The more I see of "valueless crap" the more I'm amazed at how much value people see therein.
My pharmacy sometimes goes out of their way to offer me a consultation or indicate they are available if I have any questions. I usually respond that I've been taking the same medication for my entire adult life and I think I have the hang of it.
> if you create something so great that people hundreds of years later still cherish it, why shouldn't your grand grand grand kids have a slice of that pie?

Because you could no longer be incentivised to create more, since you'd be dead. Kids should be satisfied with wealth accumulated while you could still create.
LinkedIn API library ported to Python 3.3
" unable to scroll smoothly and animate smoothly between apps, at 60 fps, with no lag, and respond instantaneously to touches"

I am still yet to see these on my Nexus 4. Maybe some devices have the problem, but it was blown out of proportion? I don't know..
Wow I had no idea about colocation - seems pretty cool!

Yeah I'm hosting it from a home connection, and it's hosting dynamic content - even though it could just be made static I wanted to test it - using php and hitting redis - looks like it works pretty well!
We can because of the JOBS act. Basically, if you have 1 million in assets or 200k/year in income, you can invest as a member of the general public.
If there is a non-zero chance of causing an accident and harming someone by breaking traffic laws, and the only benefit is saving time or not annoying residents, how do you justify that?

I justify that because I am not an absolutist. If you're really going for the 'what price a life' argument, unless you're giving your entire income and free time (excluding enough to keep yourself alive) to a relevant charity (say, clearing minefields), you also don't believe in 'any-percentage-over-zero-is-too-high'.
The person in the castle is a non-native speaker of the valley-people language. The dialog is blurred to give the impression of a mix between the two different languages. Some phrases are translated into the valley-people's language better, and so the non-native speaker's text is less garbled.

http://readwrite.com/2013/07/26/xkcd-time-saga-comes-to-the-...

This gives a better explanation of the plot, I feel. Essentially, it is a possible future wherein the Mediterranean Sea has become landlocked and dries up considerably, similar to the Dead Sea today.
I think you probably missed the wry ironic subtext in my comment. How fucking entitled are we as people that it isn't enough to have machines take care of the hard part of laundry, they have to do the easy part, too?
I guess when Priceonomics finds their business model has also fallen on hard times, they can resort to ... uh ... journalism.
What is the name of that book that goes into this? If so do you know if any of them are worth reading? Power of habit or somesuch? Thank you.
SGI no longer exists? That would be big news to their many employees.
You lost me at "built a solid digital agency team", and you're using euphemisms instead of just saying "spam". There's nothing solid or legitimate about what they were doing.
The winning engineer is currently doing an AMA on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j6qo4/i_am_joseph_bon...
I doubt it's actually 3,000 pages, but even if it were, it should at least be available in the office if someone wants to review it.
I don't think I've ever submitted anything here but I quite like that format. I wish others would follow it and I certainly will if I ever "repost" any content. Thanks.
Simplifying OTR's cryptographic deniability property
Yeah. Too bad that IBM company went under.
Great...but how about turning down the music volume. It's 2:20am here, I opened the page and had a trouser changing moment and woke up the neighbours.
> Given that I'm a physics major and will probably be encountering matlab quite frequently, I sure hope that it won't be so horribly documented, and just so unreadable.

Coming from another physics major... don't get your hopes up. Just do your thing and hope that others follow suit.

> I was so offended, I had to rewrite over 2000 lines of code in python, and on completion, the python code was a little of 700 lines, clean, and so god-damn readable.

It's amazing how easy it is to rack up 2000 lines of matlab repmat mashing. On the bright side, at least your lab didn't insist that you stick with their nightmare of .m files.

> the first computational physics course we will be taking at our university teaches us python

Indeed, that should be fairly pleasant. Particularly because you can easily implement a lot of the iterative algorithms without needing to translate all of the mathematical 1-indexed stuff into c-like 0-indexed memory. Can't tell you how many bugs I had because of that.

My first comp phys course was taught using only barebones C. We had to implement all the numerical routines from scratch, with nothing but stuff like stdlib.h, math.h, etc. In later courses they allowed us to use whatever we wanted really, but often the techniques would be very complex and the prof would provide some matlab code for us (e.g. an n-dimensional meshing routine) that was too much of a hassle to re-implement, so I ended up doing a lot of it in matlab anyhow :-/