skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He wrote that he's "shocked, shocked" at what he found as a device to get more people to read the piece. I'm sure that editorial decision was commercial and not public-spirited, but still.

Yes, you are being overly cynical. My guess is that you agree with virtually everything in the article, and, instead of being pleased that someone has not only come around to your position in the most public fashion possible, but also apologized for previously disagreeing with you, you manage to be unhappy about the prominence of the piece.

The impression you leave is that you'd be happier if he slunk off to hide somewhere like a petulant bridge troll. That might be more satisfying for you, but it's an outcome that serves the public poorly.
Interesting, but I question its utility, particularly if a name is ambiguous - like "Alex". Also, I tried it with my sister's name, Nanna, and it returned "null." Apparently she's neuter.
That's how crowdfunding campaigns work, and without enough support to reach the $32M, there's simply no way to manufacture the phones that got funded at such a low price.
Bloopark's incredibly sexist job posting
Who said we should ban M&Ms?
Isn't there a tool that translates Java bytecode into Davlik byte-code (dx I think). Even if not, we have functioning decompilers to go from Java byte-code into Java source-code, and a well maintained toolchain to go from Java-source code to Dalvik byte-code.

In fact, you don't even need a Java decompiler to do this. All you need is a backwords Java compiler. That is, one that treats bytecode as a source languages and compiles down to Java. This is a much easier process because (ignoring things like Enums) you don't need to try and figure out what the original code is, and instead can just do a naive decompile with optimization passes.
About keeping a linear git commit history
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hi this is awesome, thanks for sharing!

I do have a problem with it on the iphone, it only shows like 2 or 3 items, then below this its blank - however you can click the blank spot and the link works.... anyone else?
>"but I'm not a pro"

Me neither. I'm trying to put my money where my mouth is and learn as much as possible. Otherwise, I'll be a broke "retiree" like everyone else!

>"Bill Gross wrote about it recently"

Gross is an interesting dude, and you can't take away from his success. But his fund could be in trouble if we see a "too fast" rise in rates. He likes to talk his book.

>"we may have to keep working"

This, on many levels.

To keep this in the spirit of HN, I think there are going to be some interesting opportunities in the financial education/boomer retirement help space.
He's a practicing neurosurgeon with published research, but, like half of HN, doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to radiologic safety; therefore, his opinions on pharmacology are irrelevant to you?

I guess. I guess you are right. I probably should listen to his opinion about this. I just have a hard time with media personalities who are willing to spout crap when they don't know what they are talking about instead of simply shutting up.
So you started charging for the service very early (almost day 1). that's not the traditional startup approach of build a biggish user base, work out the product beyond MVP and then monetize. I like hearing you got to rev early so props but is there a downside to future growth (even in the short term)?
Having been a passenger and a pedestrian in Beijing, I can confidently say that anyone crazy brave enough to get on a bike there is deserving of respect, from a safe distance.
sadly, this was only really possible in Type 3 fonts which were basically 100% postscript interpreted at the glyph level. this made it possible to do things like actually generate a new instance of a glyph each time it was printed at the expense of printing being incredibly costly. If you find interviews where people talk about using beowulf, they all remark how it basically put their printers' cpus to actual work and that files would take forever to output.

opentype only allows for simple substitutions, but in many cases, those seem to do the trick if you programmatically generate a substitution map based on a target language's corpus. i think there's a robofont or typecon session where they talk about this and the practical limitations of how many gsubs most opentype engines can deal with before they stop altogether. very cool stuff and mega-niche, but it's cool to see how people play with constraints.
I'm not quite sure if the Tesla is to electric cars as Apple is to smartphones analogy works just yet.

Perhaps it will, but I live in the US and have still never even seen a Tesla vehicle. I've seen Nissan Leafs and Chevrolet Volts. My town even has charging stations.

Maybe that's how things will shake out, but I don't think they're there yet.
> the perception of the US throwing a major tantrum over one hacker is the impression that will stick.

Whose perception is this, and why is that perception important to US interests?

Whenever the US complains about something like the treatment of some political dissident in Russia, Russia has some little response like shutting down adoptions of Russian orphans. Each side has the sovereign right to do these things. Diplomacy has worked like this for ages. It's not at all particular to the US, or to the modern era.
If you want to just "support a new cool idea" and don't pay that much then you can pledge the lower ones ($20, $30, $50)
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I found it interesting they did not comment on the means of using weed. Smoking it cannot be much better for you than smoking cigarettes.

Even after the Feds remove it from the list there will be regulation governing its sale. You can grow tobacco all you want; most people don't because prep is much harder than marijuana; but run afoul of a few laws should you try to sell it.

It would certainly reduce the jailed population of this country and possibly even reduce the usage of harder drugs, after all if there was a legal outlet most people take the easy route
Honestly? A lot better than I really expected it to. That the vote was close at all (let alone close to passing) was something I was impressed to see.
It is not logical to make such a conclusion. If someone is used to cycle in The Netherlands, obviously they will have a difficult time if it is not flat. Further, if the country is flat, bikes of course can adjust to that (heavier bikes, etc). If you're used to cycling in a flat country, then it will be difficult to cycle in a non-flat country. This does not prove anything regarding that you need a flat country though. A typical bike in The Netherlands is crazy expensive, easily 500 EUR+ for one of the regular brands. With a more normal market, the bikes could be way better then what we're getting now.

I'm from the Netherlands, I sweat when I cycle and my bike has 11 non-overlapping gears (similar to e.g. 24 speed overlapping one). There are a load of crappy bikes, mainly due to price of those bikes.
This is pretty old, so sorry if you don't get this, but I have been seeing something similar today:

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu-----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st
0 0 33960 44844 147332 466588 0 0 0 63 130 198 20 2 59 1 18
0 0 33960 44844 147340 466652 0 0 1 66 123 187 19 2 59 1 18

Etc.

I believe what's happening here is that the CPU cycles are being requested and subsequently stolen, and then since the system is still idle, they're re-requested and given, all in the same time period polled by the monitoring tool.

It's just a theory, but it makes sense (at least to me ;).
( Disclaimer, it's a long read, and I've only read one section. )

Florian writes what to me is the most elegant library with respect to Auto Layout on iOS, https://github.com/dkduck/FLKAutoLayout, so being able to get his view on how Auto Layout works, and some tips & tricks have been really useful, and I've already made a few changes to my codebase whilst reading. Highly recommended if you've wrote some Auto Layout code and are trying to get a good grounding.

Also, I'm super excited to see things like Objc.io coming out of the iOS/Mac Dev community, makes me proud of the time I spend on similar pursuits in the same community. Rock on guys.
I wonder if that would have happened in a hypothetical world where the US didn't enter the war. It's impossible to say for sure, but the Russians may not have had enough left in them to take over the continent.

In any case, the point would be better made to say that the US prevented a Soviet takeover of Western Europe, not that the US defeated the Nazis.
I saw that; made it hard to take the rest of the article at all seriously.
I once had a pastor who was a used-car salesman. It seemed like the worst kind of conflict-of-interest.

Young pastors, especially in the independent circuit (ie. not a seminary) are hustlers. They get told "NO!!!" a lot and it makes them very resilient. But, I don't think it necessarily makes them good salesmen which is what you need to be in a startup.

The kind of sales that missionaries (and pastors alike) are suited for is the pushy kind where you force fit your solution on top of any circumstance. The kind of sales a start-up needs to do (IMO) is the kind where you understand the businesses problems and provide a solution that meets the business requirement.
Because there isn't much risk, really. It is very, very uncommon for an experienced Dutch cyclist to have a serious one-sided accident. Children learning, sick elderly and tourists on the other hand do have accidents more often and for them helmets is a good idea. You see more and more young children wear helmets in the Netherlands when they start out learning to ride a bicycle.

I've been riding bikes in traffic for almost 30 years and never had a serious accident one-sided or not. For about 6 years I also did cycling racing and wearing a helmet was obligatory to participate in training and official KNWU races. And that's a good thing for I did have a number of accidents while racing: falling in the bunch, not holding a bend, jumping from small sand cliffs, breaking equipment, and so on. However, these accidents only happen because while racing one takes risks one does not while riding a bike to work: the speed is significantly lower, they way one sits on a bike is different, the stakes (i.e., winning) are lower, the bikes themselves are a lot sturdier than those racing bikes, and so on.

I think many foreigners don't really understand this difference between riding for transportation and riding for sport or challenge.

To add: I've had many more accidents, serious and not, while walking. Tripping isn't uncommon for me, I've tripped at least once or twice a year. The same for injuring my ankle, walking against a door or window, falling from stairs, and so on.
But has 10 persons limit ;-)
I live in Austria and cycling is very popular here. E.g. I use my bike everyday often multiple times it's the preferred transportation unit and I do not have to own a car and can reach every part of the city and all the things I need in 30m.

There is just no need for a car here. If I want to get further away I can use an excellent (although, admittedly rather expensive) public transport system.
Check the footer.

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Isn't any effect that marijuana has on patients going to be confounded with the placebo effect? Not that I disagree with what is being said, I still have my doubts about the actual medical usage of marijuana, and the studies that have been done on it.
I really like the idea of selling/giving away incomplete projects. Seems like this site could easily facilitate that(don't think I saw it mentioned).
I'm not saying it's a good thing the guy was CNN's subject matter expert on camera for radiation safety, just that he's got a legit claim to subject matter expertise regarding pharmacology. CNN is still awful.
Based on this article, it sounds like you already have to be a developer (which costs a $99 fee) in order to get the beta. I don't think Apple can reasonably set a bar higher then paying $99 dollars to join the Developers program.
You should read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Debt-Free-Outstanding-Education-Schola...
They started with Python and their own webapp framework; Java support came years later.
Very far from totalitarian Soviet Union, but not far from non-totalitarian Soviet Union. Which was which?

Remember that a lot of people in the former Soviet Union remember it fondly (at least over certain periods, or places) and would not agree that it was "totalitarian," where this is understood as derogatory.

Otherwise, Putin would not be able to maintain such a persistent hold on the country.
You can change to a dark theme in the settings.
You don't expect it because it doesn't occur with other OS's, but it's common functionality with web search. I'd prefer that it was off by default, but if the only price I pay for what I find to be an excellent free OS is that I have to toggle ads off, then I'm OK with that. Your opinions about the UI are subjective, of course; I find Ubuntu's search UI to be better than OSX's Spotlight. I also don't find sluggishness to be an issue at all, in fact I experience just the opposite.
Quantum materials can “can do just about everything.”
Oh, just that maybe the USA is not the world's worst example of tyranny that you seem to make it out to be. Especially in comparison to Russia, but even in comparison to some of the "more advanced" European states.

After all even with slavery, it was something America inherited, instead of going out of their way to do. Much of Europe, on the other hand, chose to murder their undesirables, and far after when America was able to finally free their slaves.
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True, I've always been curious about Flippa but leery of jumping on what seems like good deals, because I feel like a lot of the postings are pretty sketch.
The results are exactly the same? Are you certain? Can you substantiate that?
>You could say the same thing about MS-DOS

And maybe that's why nobody uses it anymore.

If you want to compare, compare to something current. MS DOS was not that amateurish looking for its age and its user base at the time.

(nobody as in "mostly outliers", for you pedants)
Flat is irrelevant. Don't believe me? Go to Montreal. Outrageous topography, terrible weather, everybody bikes. Biking is about infrastructure and social networks. I live in Orange County, and nobody rides to work, but once they find out you ride, they begin to think that maybe it isn't such a big deal.
It's an article of faith that cannabis is a major contributor to US incarceration, but I think that's a belief worth questioning. I looked into this briefly for a thread a year ago and in the states I researched, domestic violence was far and away the leading cause of incarceration.

In many major metro areas, you're more likely to be ticketed for cannabis than arrested.

I haven't taken the time to come up with a conclusive answer for myself on the extent to which cannabis criminalization imprisons people in the US; maybe it's as bad as people think it is. I just think it's worth doing some research on.
indeed, they should be commended. but equally, that's not a very high bar.
Wow, website looks down from here. Hackernews DOS attack i guess.
I would like evidence for that statement. Because I have heard many Hollywood stars just exude insecurities. Heck, we talk about it all the time, and it even has a name "imposters syndrome". If you can achieve great things while feeling like an imposter, I would say that is an unanswerable rebuttal to the claim that confidence is a a pre-requisite.
Commentors point out that Elon is not really backtracking, though I would still be curious what he means by shooting himself in the foot. The article says he regrets mentioning the Hyperloop. So despite his intentions to open up his designs, there must be some downsides he is considering, whether outstanding personal profit or otherwise.
Open source gets its own crowd-funding site, with bounties included
GetTaxi launches in New York
I found your pricing to be unclear. You say it starts from $0.04/GB, but is this for the cold storage or active storage. If I uploaded 50GB of photos to "cold storage" immediately, what would be the monthly cost? What if I then uploaded another 10GB into active storage, what would the monthly cost be for 50 cold and 10 active?

I've signed up though. Email is similar to username ;-)
Neat!

It would be nice to get some sort of "confidence level" - http://api.genderize.io/?name=jackie
Heya! Well, our architecture is very Flask-like, but yes it does not use Flask. There's kind of "historical reasons" for this; at the time that I started MediaGoblin Flask was fairly new, and we started out using MongoDB (so we couldn't make use of some of the nicer Django features anyway). I also really strongly prefer Jinja2 templates over Django's because of the ability to pass in arguments to functions, so eventually Django didn't make sense. But the real root of it though is that it's not actually as much work as people think to hook together a WSGI application that uses the libraries you already know you want... not really that much harder than using Flask anyway! http://docs.webob.org/en/latest/do-it-yourself.html is a good read in that vein.

Will MediaGoblin stick with its own direction, or move over to using Django or become a Flask app? It kind of depends... at the moment, things seem to be running well, and aside for waiting for some of our libraries to catch up to Python 3, we don't seem very hampered by it, and we're also very nimble... changing core parts of MediaGoblin to fit our needs is presently very easy. It also might be interesting to see what happens if eventually we end up adopting some XUDD technologies: https://xudd.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ but admittedly that's a ways out (though MediaGoblin already can run on XUDD, as of yesterday ;)) if that will happen at all.

Sorry, kind of a rambly response! Hope it was interesting.
hmm.. line feed for open paren, carriage return for close paren, non-breaking space for token seperator?
Government-backed law to require 15-minute delay on Uber irks Parisians
Start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Science:_measuri... .

Helmets only protect from certain types of injuries and they are often misworn. The larger analysis also need to consider that some people won't ride a bike if required to wear a helmet; eg, to prevent helmet hair while on the way to an opera. There are also health benefits to biking, vs. driving or taking mass transit.

My personal view is that biking slower than 10 mph (which is the same as running a 6 minute mile) doesn't need a helmet for the cases you are talking about any more than street runners need a helmet.

10mph is considered a slow biking speed, but it's what you'll find with city bikes in an urban environment like the Netherlands.
Agreed. They've already been doing their own research and if they haven't they're ramping up now because of Colorado and Washington.
agreed - obviously everyone thinks some sort of a different "change" needs to occur
300 seizures a month -> 3 seizures a month is unlikely to be a placebo affect, but plural of anecdotes and all that, sure.

For pain management and quality of life, we probably don't need to worry about the placebo effect too much; instead, we should just measure whether cannabis gets people off opiates.
Weirdly, there's this paragraph:

"Alexeev then sent his updated agreement to the bank, and shortly thereafter received the bank's signed and certified copy, as well as a credit card."

It's been a while since I signed up for a new credit card, but I don't recall getting back anything "signed and certified." Terms and what-not, sure, but that sounds like the bank sent back his (updated) contract.

Apparently, I've gotten more houses than credit cards, because that's exactly how you handle contract negotiations there.
Snowden's future directly affects us all. If he was incarcerated against the will of other powerful countries, it would send a strong message that personal freedom is a thing of the past, and that if you do the right thing at the expense of the government, you will be hunted down and punished.

I would really like to see Snowden being more vocal and discussing his beliefs more. I think he could be a very powerful leader in the fight for privacy and policies that restrict the government's snooping activities.
TechStars Boulder demo day live stream today at 1pm pacific (4pm eastern)
I mean, it's not decentralized. It's simply hostable.

Decentralized would be like GNUNet[1].

1: https://gnunet.org/
love this.

some of the discussion notes here seem to center on whether the requirements of serving mormon missions is a driver for entrepreneurship, but i think the obvious real story here is that 2 years of truly focused, single minded dedication to a cause is the sort of tenacity that most people in (American) society never really experience.

Tenacity and focus seem to be huge drivers in startup success.

I don't know about "mission == ultimate startup accelerator" but I'd back the claim that it's the sort of mental training ground that I don't think much else in American life stands up against.
Did you mean the Lego Modulex Set?

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&catString...
"Areas around China" suggests perhaps Chinese waters, or a limited distance from them - rather than India, the Koreas, half the Pacific, all of Southeast Asia...
That's not a fair assertion. Hyperloop has the potential to change the world far more than tesla and spaceX
I'd also love anything other than anecdotal evidence from Mormons that UT or Mormons produce a disproportionately large number of businesses or entrepreneurs -- I'll happily bet on CA, NY, and FL for state entrepreneurship rates.
What is special about programming that hinders a designer's skill development so much? It seems like you could just as easily say that learning how to play golf could have the same effect. There is, after all, only so much time in the day – something has to give, but the sentiment, which many people seem to share, only seems to be directed at programming specifically.
Yes, it does 200 000 requests/second

Benchmark : http://bit.ly/12QZsRs

Readme : https://github.com/etaty/rediscala#performance
For a long time MySQL was easier to get started with, and the integration with PHP made it a popular choice on shared hosting services. A lot of developers cut their teeth on MySQL, many haven't felt the need to seek out alternatives.
This gives me the feeling that the referee guy from 'King of Kong' is about to be replaced by a very small shell script.
Those are often not two groups of people. They are one and the same. That’s at least my experience here in Germany (where people bike less but still quite often). And that creates lots of empathy.

Also, it’s you – the motorist – who is moving around the several ton metal monster so of course you have the responsibility to make sure not to hurt any of the squishy meatbags around you. That just always seemed obvious to me. Keep a good car’s width distance to bikes when overtaking them (and not overtaking them if there is no space for that) and so on. (Also, I don’t know how the laws are in the Netherlands, but at least in Germany it isn’t so dramatic. Yeah, you are always responsible for keeping pedestrians and bikers safe but your liability is limited in certain ways.)
He points to this review of the actual set http://thebrickblogger.com/2013/07/lego-architecture-studio-...

It seems quite positive.
I just read that yesterday.

I think it's sad that Musk doesn't have (public) plans to actually work on the hyperloop. As many here have said in the past, him being behind the project is what moves it from fantasy to actually having a shot in a lot of people's minds.

It's probably smart of him to not start it himself though, as it's risky, and a failed venture of that sort could bleed uncertainty into the minds of investors when regarding his other ventures.