skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.. We're preparing for a launch in the next 2 weeks...

Many thanks...
Angular: Removing the unneeded watches
That doesn't make Edge any more rational. Who makes designs their own "flagship" phone and makes a run of, say 100k units?
Come on, this is Hacker News - stepping on an upturned PCB in the dark has to be some sort of prerequisite of membership? ;)
Glad to see a non London company added themselves - there's a lot more to the UK startup scene that what is going on in London. In fact there are many reasons against starting a company in London
Teaching kids science history using rap
Hopefully MariaDB can incorporate SQL window functions:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/tutorial-window.ht...

These have been part of PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc for quite a while and still absent from MariaDB/MySQL.
There's any number of ways this could be improved. Better layout, better textures, different building types, stochastic city planning/zoning. But this is a nice starting place that shows off a few easy techniques. Probably good enough to use in a JS1K demo.
Beyond the Task List
US treatment of American Indians? Slavery in America?
Verizon's Femtocells Let Hackers Listen to Calls, Read Text Messages
>"Now, Russia gives Snowden temporary asylum, so in retaliation, Bush.... sorry, Obama cancels meeting with Putin"

Oh ho ho, what a clever ruse, pretending to confuse Bush with Obama.

>Or US politics could grow up. The US gov could admit over reach. It could thank Snowden and hail a new era of openness.

Your command of politics and reality is astounding.
Multicolored bean bags for everyone! We are an internet business!
This is being done all over. Here in Miami we have
http://mapyourstartup.co which is trying to do this in several locations.
I believe the OP is actually speaking about saving in general, not specifically in a tax beneficial investment. He appears to be arguing more for the idea of saving in general over spending all your income. Obviously a preferable strategy.

The notion - not to save anything - actually comes as a bit of a surprise to me, so I thought I'd point it out.
It wasn't clear what 'fixed' was, since that isn't normal terminology. I took 'fixed' to mean "pick a single timezone and stick to it".

If you need to pick a timezone which does not observe DST, that rules out (generally speaking) most of North America and Europe and a lot of other places. So maybe you want your new time base to be Asia/Tokyo, Asia/Shanghai, Asia/Kolkata, Europe/Moscow? You're still at the whim of governments who constantly tinker with DST -- sure Europe/Moscow is "fixed" now, but it wasn't as close as 2 years ago.

To each their own, but I would not get into the business of depending on any particular zone in tzdata staying as it is currently defined for any amount of time in the future.
Sorry, secretly storing and analyzing the private communications and browsing history of everyone on the planet absolutely is evil. Doesn't matter what the reason is.

If you don't understand this, there is something severely wrong with your moral compass.
Tarsnap too expensive?
"The 'recent'-ness of common ancestry (or lack thereof) is what separates you from a Chimpanzee."

No, it's the composition of the species' genomes. If they were created in a lab yesterday the situation would be the same. Unless you believe in some kind of supernatural effect, the way homeopaths believe that water has "memory".

"we see no sickle cell disease in Europeans as we do in Africans"

There is sickle cell disease in southern Italy, and in many other parts of the world outside of Africa. It cuts across "racial" divisions, and follows the historical distribution of malaria.

You avoided the simple question about 23andMe. You claimed they would have "no problem" categorizing people as "white" or "black". So how would they categorize the child of a "white" and "black" parent?
Getting into an Ivy as an undergraduate is very tough if you aren't a potential legacy admit, that is, a child of an alum. Once all those slots are filled, there aren't all that many left over.
>I'm from Uruguay, and I can personally attest that people in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil are fully aware of Snowden (and rooting for him and against the U.S. government in this case).

That's because your government pretends that it can taunt the bull that is America in order to manipulate its people into thinking its government is somehow decent. The only government that does not spy on its populace is that which is too meek to pull it off.
"UX designer" is a bit of an ambiguous phrase, and it gets the correct amount of sarcastic scorn for being a buzzword.

But I think it means something more important: as you say, good UX requires a recognition that everything that goes into your application contributes to the experience. Software design, copy, marketing, UI, etc. etc. Everything. We all know this and understand this.

What UX is, then, is software quality systems engineering. "Everything that goes into the experience" is no longer simply visual design or UI components, but a complex web of inputs and influences to manage in order to ensure quality. A good UI designer has one piece of that puzzle and ensures the visuals and interactions are spot on, but a good UX designer takes all that and more into account and extends their influence to many other areas outside the visual. It's not their job to do all the work, but it is their job to manage the systems in place to ensure the experience is high quality.

Software is getting more complex and more interesting. The "UX designer" moniker is just a response to that; a recognition that UI designers are becoming more holistic and with wider reach. They are becoming quality management systems engineers. This requires more than just UI design, though most UI designers probably naturally have the skills and knowledge to make it happen.

It's a positive development IMHO. You may not like the broad nebulous term UX, but I think if we think of it more as systems design, maybe we can start to pin it down and make it a useful job title.
As far as I can tell, this makes the assumption that American stock market returns are normal. I would argue that global stock market returns are far more normal. What have returns on the German stock returns looked like over the last 140 years, just to pick a counter-example?

In the past 140 years, the United states has gone from backwater to superpower, has enjoyed stable & good governance, has not been invaded, has been able to plunder a large amount of "greenfield" resources, et cetera.

The next 140 years cannot be as (relatively) fruitful for the United States. When you're number 1, relative growth is hard/impossible, and you must rely only on absolute growth.

The trivial answer to the question in the title is "you cannot save enough to account for everything". If you're saving in dollars, you can be wiped out by hyperinflation. If your investments are on the NYSE, what happens if it gets nationalized after a revolution?

Of course, the answer is that you pick a level of risk that you're comfortable with. Anybody that tells you anything is 100% safe is misleading you.

And remember that rare events are much less rare than most models predict (cf Taleb).
This case is almost completely unrelated to Bitcoin's treatment under tax law; the court finding that Bitcoin is "money" for purpose of the Exchange Act and thus that transactions involving it meet that prong of the test for whether they are "securities" transactions subject to that Act does not say anything about their treatment under tax law.

In computing terms, the definition of a local variable in one scope doesn't tell you anything about a variable with the same name in a different scope.
I'm inclined to think that finagle-redis is a much less bulky (akka) library to choose.

https://github.com/twitter/finagle/tree/master/finagle-redis
No, I don't think so. This is prevented by kernel namespaces and default privileges of LXC in Docker. That doesn't mean you can't bind mount a directory from your host into your container though; there's also the concept of volumes.
But "work with" as a very euphemistic term. Are they instructing the PMs etc., or are they acting on their orders?

I know that in an ideal world it's 50/50, but I don't think a position that is involved in every single step of the project has any chance of success unless you happen to also be in charge.
It seems like you can hedge this, to some degree, by investing in biotech...
I guess I'm a bit spoilt, but these days I kind of expect "procedural", in graphics demos, to also imply "infinite in all directions, without repetition, with deterministic results in regard to position, generated in real-time, and without caching anything you're not currently looking at." Maybe I'm too picky...

But it shouldn't be much harder in this case! Layer some octaves of simplex-noise to form a terrain, and then for any non-occluded map region, "grow" a building from the center of each noise feature. Might be possible to only tell the GPU about the terrain-texture, and create the buildings entirely in a shader, actually.
What the heck is the 'chocolate factory'?
I know. Every time I pick up a pen it feels foreign.
Around 8 times more expensive than this, yeah.
Politics often has a tenuous connection to reality.
Agile2013 keynote Abhi Nemani preaches user experience in gov't software
I really like the minimalistic approach of backbone and it is what has draw me to this framework. Unfortunately the only thing I really miss from backbone is memory management. It really piss me off to have to use another framework just for that.

I currently learning it the hard way with a mobile app/framework I created. My biggest problem is managing views cleanup, beside that I find that backbone provide me with what I need to create a simple app.

The other thing is, when you start creating an app with backbone for the first time, you really don't know what lies ahead as far as memory management goes. It's really not something you expect to have to debug that at 3 weeks from launch.
This article is bad on so many levels...

1) The lifehacker article doesn't list the 2 most important sanity check #s. What is the rate of return that they're assuming for the equity and fixed income?

2) If you dig into the actual research, with the hard to find link, it's actually not really 60% equity, 40% bonds. It's 60% large cap equity (which performs worse than all equity and low cap) and 40% short term bonds (which over long time periods underperform long term bonds, though are less volatile).

3) Despite digging into the linked article, I still can't find assumed rates of returns.

4) Why are we to believe the next 40 years will be like the last 139? The last 139 had a different set of wars, different stages of development, a different tax regime, and different government.

All this talk about "Starting early" assumes a few things:

1) That you can afford to. How many retirees who today contribute 10k/year could have afforded that in 1973?

2) There are no massive events that wipe out returns. We've had two in the past 13 years.

This doesn't mean don't save, but it does mean don't overestimate the value of saving early. (It's not worth eating out of tin cans to squeeze an extra $500 into a pension)

Edited to clarify my comment on bonds and starting early, and fix a formatting issue on the second list.
How can you say it is slow? It isn't out yet.
When it will come out it will basically be a high-end Android device that can be used as an Ubuntu desktop (all current HDMI adapters require power, so it won't drain the battery when you are using it as a desktop).
Perhaps this is a concern to you, but it won't be much harder to keep charged then it is to keep a current smartphone charged while using it. And if you really are concerned, buy an external charger / car adapter.
What's wrong with having a few years of pure, wasteful, hedonistic fun in your youth while you still have the chance. You'll have plenty of time to live a respectable, balanced, upper middle class, suburban life later on. Don't waste your early-mid 20's doing it.
McDonald's food is far from healthy, but there are a lot of poor people in the world working two jobs and still struggling to get by. They may not have the luxury of buying fresh vegetables, let alone of having the time to prepare and cook meals involving them. They can pick up a decent premade hot sandwich for just a buck at McDonald's.

Again, it's a habit you don't want to be in if you can afford to do otherwise, but it seems to me that eating is better than not eating or repeated sleep deprivation because you spent your little time off cooking rather than resting.
We did a team-building activity a few years ago that included creating catapults and launching water balls 50-100 feet. One group made a trebuchet-style device that threw the payload so consistently that the team members could catch the payload. One team member decided he wanted to video it, and had the team launch his smartphone. He caught it, but then dropped it to the grass-covered ground.

I imagine the strong horizontal acceleration and in-flight rotation of the phone may "throw off" (heh) the height calculation, but it likely would have earned an impressive score.
I doubt it. A good retirement plan will make you a good taxpayer for decades longer.
"Optics" do matter. I think this move was made to a greater number of political points at home than fewer ones abroad. In any case, it shouldn't be too big of a surprise since the US administration has been very clear about Snowden and their intentions from the very beginning.

For whatever set of reasons, going to summit would have made Obama and the administration look weak at home.
Most insightful comment I've read all day. I had never thought of it like that before, but it rings true and now Twitter's success makes perfect sense to me (at last). I'm now wondering how (if) you could tread the line between volume and quality such that you could create lots of content that avoided the "Had ketchup on toast for breakfast - #YOLO" kind of content.
Already debated there:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177857
> If I see a review that contains the word "iTouch" I don't just report it to Apple, I report it to the proper authorities.

Eh?
Also offer a way for users to contact you and let you know about the issues other than through the reviews. I've found a number of apps that don't work with iOS 7 and I contacted at least one developer through email or there website to let the know. With another (a large company) I couldn't find any way to contact them on their website so I gave them a medium review not for incompatibility with iOS 7 but for being uncontactable.
There was a story on HN a few weeks ago by a photographer wanting this kind of service. I found the discussion very interesting.

Is this in any way inspired by that? Or is this a coincidence?
Where is the actual language site, I couldn't find a link.
Parallel construction is lying.
Well, it uses Three.js (too heavily to easily remove the dependency, I think), so it wouldn't work for js1k.
STACK4 (Beta) - try my first game for blackberry 10
Same here. I am writing this on an Ubuntu machine. But I am using it strictly for writing and a bit of web surfing. I would never use it on my phone. It seems to try to emulate a user friendly touch and feel but it fails at doing this (at least for me). Since removing the program listing menus I am forced to use the search option much more ( hello amazon!), the working spaces are completely unusable because they not separated entities and interfere with another, etc. As the only programs I am running are more or less Firefox, Libre & Acrobat I am to lazy to install a different distribution, but otherwise I would be long gone.
We're not too far removed from that, here in the US.
While I share your optimism, there's a very large gap between "demonstrated in the lab" and the point where you can laugh at that assumption.

Are there any proven life extension techniques beyond calorie restriction and regular exercise? I see a lot of possibilities and early research projects, but essentially nothing in the way of results.
Snowden, Greenwald and Wikileaks are winning
> Since containers are not secure at all

I feel like you're just spreading FUD here. This was definitely true a few years ago, but "Citation Needed" applies. The worst thing I found in the article you linked is that guests use the same kernel as the host, so if the host kernel is vulnerable, it will still be vulnerable from the guest...

Then it goes on to say "we have seccomp2 to lower the dimensions of attack surface." It does not sound to me like your citation agrees with what you said at all.

I just hope you've read the top-rated comment, where it's explained that containers are not virtualization, and they solve different problems.
$830 with a limited $600 early bird option.
Later they added several tiers ranging from $625 to $820 with limited slots in each. I think $625 and $675 sold out.
http://www.wordchamp.com
I prefer the headlines here over Reddit’s. What worries me is the quality of the comments. The community and their insightful comments are what keeps me coming back.

Lately I've seen an increase in memes and trollish comments from new IDs. I worry that if HN doesn't move to limited account signup period or invite only, it will end up another Slashdot.
In my view, the US is also quickly turning away from democracy, along with many other western nations. They are becoming more and more integrated with organized crime (banks, military complex, surveillance business, cyberattacks, ...). And they are some of today's worst mass murderers (Afghanistan, Iraq) and torturers (Guantanamo, Manning).
There are downsides and pensions are not right for everyone, that much is true, however to describe them as "significant downsides" is misleading and is the sort of claim that has led to a lot of people now approaching retirement having nothing[1]. Pension rules could be changed by any government (as they have been a couple of years ago) however there is little incentive for this to happen in any impactful way: private pensions are what reduce the dependence individuals have on the state at retirement and the more individuals with pensions then the less the state (through taxes) has to pay out, this is good for the government, this is why the government provides tax incentives to contribute to a pension[2]. There's no difference between the government stealing from pensions and stealing from bank accounts or taking back property, if you were concerned about the government stealing from your pension wouldn't you have other concerns too?

Pensions are certainly not a magic bullet that is perfect for everyone, they are however something that should be seriously considered by most people. You don't have to make the decision between saving for a house or having a pension, if you can afford to save for a house then it's very likely you can afford to contribute towards a pension too!

[1] During the 80s and 90s a lot of people looked upon pensions with suspicion and opted out, now personal finance forums are full of people regretting this and blaming the media for the hysteria that has left them penniless. Most people didn't opt out of contributing to a pension to instead invest in stocks or property, they opted out to spend an extra £100 a month on luxuries.

[2] For every £60 I put into my pension the government matches it with £40 (roughly).
The idea of protesting the Olympics in Russia while we merrily went to China would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic.

Many bad things the Russians do, we do right here. If it's a contest for stupid, evil behaviors, we would only come out slightly ahead, certainly not win any race for humanity.

And by the way, Russia has nuclear weapons still pointed at us - thousands of them. Canceling ANY kind of talks is a bad idea, you never know the mentality of someone behind the button.
Fair point. Jets (as far as we know) were not scrambled when Evo Morales plane was searched, they just banned the plane from entering certain airspace, something which if disobeyed generally leads to scrambling jets.
How do you parse article text?
In ROTC programs, you also get military training while in school. They just don't pay for your tuition, it's an entire program, done with other recruits.
The last time I checked USSR stopped existing about 20 years ago. Also:

> is currently criminalising a whole class of people based on what they chose to do with their genitalia in private.

I do not think you know what you are talking about.
Very much inspired by it. Wish I could find the post actually. I had some services running for my wife's photography business, but nothing that could really be released in any way. Seeing that other post though made me start taking the steps to turn it into a SaaS.
And please - if you have a pet - consider getting them microchipped. It does wonders for connecting pets with their owners.

To the site creator, you may consider adding the microchip # as an attribute for the lost pets.
Native Android developer wanted for UK payment startup, remote working OK
From my experience the knowledge of a university course topic should be a reasonable conpromise between full understanding of all concept in detail (which could require too much time) and the study of the key concept, and the capability of apply it. I often found in university course (in Italy) an excess of theory and detail on all the topic and subtopics, and a poor teaching to apply the key concepts that are the ones you would use in practice. (Even if the test require also the capability to practically apply concept)
adverb - hard work?
How did this get upvoted? This is an old coversation and the article didn't actually add anything to the debate. Very spammy. Let's keep HN fat free.
NYPD To Stop Storing Names Of Those Stopped And Frisked
I can afford other stuff now but I still crave McD once in a while. Some of their menu items are far healthier than others. Skipping the fries is a good start.
Xbox One is as big as a BetaMax... why is it so big?
Why is Science Behind a Paywall?
I've spent some time thinking about this, and for me (and a lot of other people I've talked with) the line in the sand is "enough for us to be able to build newer or versions of the userland and kernel." This does not require that we're able to modify every bit of code.

For instance, the Raspberry Pi has a binary blob of firmware that contains a lot of the code for using with the graphics hardware. While we can't modify or recompile this part, the (minimalistic) interface to this firmware is an open source kernel module. This allows you to build newer or modified kernels, and build other distributions for the RPi and still have access to the graphics acceleration. I consider this "open enough."

While Android is fairly open, there is a large part of it still that is closed source. This includes the front-ends of Google's own services (I consider back ends out of scope), binary drivers (graphics), binary firmware (radio) and binary libraries (OpenGL implementations, closely linked to graphics drivers).

The goal of Canonical's project is also to make the drivers and OpenGL part open source, but I've not seen anything about the radio bits.
> And Russia support some of today's worst mass murderers/torturers.

Are you arguing for or against symmetry? The US has gotten much better since the end of the Cold War, but we still prop up the House of Saud, for example.