skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh; no comment on the "sex-crazed" ^_^, which I think is orthogonal anyway, but I'm the opposite of a "commie drug-fiend", so that must explain why I too like them.
Safeway would be considered a grocery store or supermarket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_store

In the US, most large grocery store offer a card that you can use which gives you various rewards, and in turn allows them to perform analytics on their customer base.

Historically, these rewards were related to coupons for products in the store. However, this means that there is no benefit to using your particular card instead of someone else's.

More recently, the grocery stores have added other bonuses. The one that I'm most familiar with is for fuel / petrol. They team up with some fuel brand, say exxon, and when you've purchased enough on your loyalty card, you get something like $0.05 of your per gallon fuel costs.

The scheme with the poster above breaks down, because you need the physical loyalty card to use the fuel discount, and it's unlikely that everyone is refueling their car an equal amount each week, and that everyone is purchasing an equivalent amount of product at the store each week.
Gaunt is much more like building a piano than listening to Cage-d silence. Avoiding the need for markup sounds more akin to Cage's sensibilities. ++1 for the provocation though that is very funny.
Another Mormon here, served my mission in Sweden. I don't think the personal gains are unique to startups. As an engineer, the biggest personal lessons were about learning to ask the right questions to understand concerns before responding. That process is identical to gathering customer requirements before providing a solution. Additionally, with the leadership structure in place, I had a lot of opportunities to establish a group culture and see the effect it had on motivation and productivity. Both of these have positively contributed to my career, in and out of startups.
Will such a program be a first-class citizen though?

In other words, will the user have a harder time using it than using a QML/HTML5 app? I could see that be if only QML/HTML5 integrate well with the phone interface.
Thanks for the article. While I disagree with your conclusion, getting a clear view of the the misconceptions that exist allow for more pointed documentation and focus.
The use of tabs in this would completely wreck the formatting of my code. I'm sorry but this is useless until it only uses spaces.
"The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."

-Milan Kundera

I think this form of societal corruption is one of the greatest and most insidious evils a government can undertake. You should read some accounts by people who have lived under similar monitoring regimes.
>1. Because car tax is between 300 and 1800 euros a year, with a few exceptions (some "green" cars are exempt).

It's worth noting that the use of motor vehicles in Netherlands isn't _low_, Netherlands is still a _heavily_ motorized country.

Also, the tax that you've mentioned is even higher in some post-communist countries of Central/Eastern Europe.
I really wish the title of the article was more along the lines "Apple should prevent negative app reviews when using iOS beta".

I felt a little mislead and thought that a developer had somehow figured out how to do the current title of the submission (news) vs. what it was really about (opinion, that I agree with, but not news).
It is a tax on savings. What's the alternative, not go to college? Ha!
Javascript IMAP email fetching in Chrome
If it makes you feel better, I ended up giving away my Pebble watch. They'll be plenty available on the cheap a couple months after/if it comes out.
Depending on your purchases at Safeway (grocery store) a partner gas (petrol) station (Chevron) will give you $0.10 - $0.80 discount per gallon of gas. For that to work you have to present to the gas station the same Safeway "club card" that you used to buy your groceries.

The size of the discount is tied to the amount of purchases made with that card present. So if you make a lot of purchases you get a bigger discount per gallon at the gas station.

If you share the card or exchange it with others, the first one to use the discount gets that savings, the next person does not. The discount resets on use, and it can be re-established by the next set of purchases on the card.

What that does is creates an economic incentive for someone to use the same card (maximize purchases to maximize discount) and not share it (discount is one time only, and to the current holder of the card.)
True that. I would do the same after all... there's plenty of interesting stuff to work on.
Definitely want to let them leverage the storage eventually, including contact sheets, psd storage, etc. Starting with just the basics for now to see where it goes.
How did he extract the content of the sites? "Readability" algorithm?
What is a Copyright, When is a Formal Copyright Needed, and How to Get One
Good copyright 101 article.
Andy, the only reason it's because I live here. I'm happy to see marks also in Bristol, Manchester, etc etc.

Also, the frontend code is on github, feel free to grab it, modify as you wish and add another city.
>every teen here rides mountain bike made of carbon fibre

Every teen in Belgium can afford a $2000 bike?
UI is functionality.
There's citext[1] for the case sensitivity problem.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/citext.html
To answer that question: yes, but I wish it didn't have to be. The only reason atheism is a part of my identity at all is because it makes me a minority, and one that public opinion in the US ranks below even rapists[1]. If atheism were the norm and the religious were a minority, atheism would no longer have to be part of my identity, which I would greatly prefer.

[1] http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2011-25187-001/
Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read
The guy who wrote this article does not sound like a cyclist at all, where as you do.

The real question is why are bicycles not popular in more places. In Australia especially, wide roads, the cities are not that big, the weather is mostly nice, and so few people cycle.
This is Google Reader, no? ;)

I like the idea and it seems to be a public, vetted (courtesy of votes/comments), version of a feed reader. The only problem I see is if the content creators object if anything more than the title itself, and maybe a brief blurb, are included.

Now that I think about it, it's also very similar to Google News.
That's pretty much what I want, but it requires you to have as much free space as the thing you want to back up.

What I wanted to do was mount EncFS in reverse mode (so it gets plain files and creates an encrypted virtual volume) and rdiff-backup that to a remote host, which works very well. However, the problem is that, when your directories are disparate, you can't easily make them appear as one directory, so, to back up 5 locations you'd have to do this 5 times.

I can fake it using AUFS or similar, but it's too large a dependency. Someone wrote an EncFS patch to let it follow symlinks in reverse mode (https://code.google.com/p/encfs/issues/detail?id=147), which would solve the problem, but I don't think EncFS is maintained any more.
This is not true! The Netherlands switched back to bikes in the 1970s and 1980s. It was the result of organized activists (with the slogan "Stop the Child Murder"). See this: http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/how-the-dutch-g...
YouTube Founders Introduce MixBit To Crack The Code Of Video Editing On Mobile
"How to Control a Computer With Your Mind," from DEFCON 21
Haha, I made the a comment about something related to this the other day.

Funny how things just spring to life.

"Here's an even cooler idea: instead of listing emerging ideas, ,and beta projects, what about creating a website service for finishing almost done apps (alpha projects if you like). That would be a more interesting list. People could upload their started, but not finished projects and outline what's left. There must be millions of good ideas that has been started, but never finished due to the fact that the developer didn't find the problem interesting anymore. Specialize in one thing, like iphone-apps."
You probably know this, but for the sake of HN: Beijing used to be a lot more like Amsterdam. This wasn't a choice on the part of the population: cars were simply unavailable and affordable. You still have some pretty sweet separated bike lanes attached to major roads...but often I was the only riding a bike in them.
A bigger question on my mind has been why would a shop as smart as Google not have started out with a sane language like python in the first place instead of foisting this java idiocy on another generation of devs.
Further, reporting non-GAAP figures alongside GAAP is fairly common practice. In some cases I view it as an increase in the honesty of the reporting. They're adding information here, reporting things they don't otherwise need to.
Patent Troll Dismisses Frivolous Lawsuit
I don't use Smugmug but what possible advantage does this have over Smugmug? Even their top tier plan with lots of features is only $300 a year. All their plans have unlimited storage. $300 a year would only cover 625GB at $0.04/GB.
Ironic that you bring up WWII for how the US is better than the Soviets. The Soviets won that war. We helped, some.

American contributions were certainly significant, but it's not the same magnitude. Without American involvement, the Nazis still lose. Without Soviet involvement, we're all speaking German.
I was riding in the back of a bus with a few Elders through northern Ecuador years ago and one of them said "Hey, i have something to show you" and pulled out a bunch of pictures of... cheeseburgers and fries from TGI Friday's in Quito, they were "just like you get in Salt Lake!".

This kind of showed the challenges they were having in remote parts of Ecuador, close to the Colombian border. A couple of them didn't speak Spanish very well, but they were coping well, in my estimation. So I see the connection
There are plenty of other flat and dense places in the world that have almost zero cyclists. It's the infrastructure that makes the Netherlands special.
Can You Solve the 10 Hardest Logic Puzzles Ever Created?
Anyone know a good library for getting the header menu to stick like that on all mobile devices?
Lessons Learned the Hard Way - Building a Founding Team
I'd be interested to see the fatality rates for riders without a helmet. The article seems to suggest that it's fine to do because cars are careful around cyclists - but that misses the point completely. The helmet is not there to save you from a car crash. It's there to save you when you get distracted and miss a pot hole or hit something.

Perhaps my perception is skewed because I've had two friends be saved from a serious head injury only thanks to their helmets. One rode into a parked car (she doesn't remember how it happened due to amnesia), riding at relaxed speed, and was unconscious for a couple days.

It seems really weird to take that risk just to avoid a slight discomfort.
There is a quote that is often attributed to Margaret Thatcher about that people who still ride a bus when they're 30 have failed, but she probably never said it. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Margaret_Thatcher#Bus_.22f...
It's fast and stable. Canonical write core parts of their OS in C. All my experience with their software indicates it will be fast.

Even some of their ubuntu one storage engineers know graphics programming well enough to win game programming competitions. They're good, and have copious free time to make this perfect.
Hi! Lead developer of MediaGoblin here.

I agree, the frontpage of mediagoblin.org can use some improvement. We're working on that. If you want a fast summary of things, you can still watch the video from the crowdfunding campaign we ran last year with the FSF (hell, you can still donate too!). http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html

We also have an intern helping us clean up the homepage. Things should be getting clearer soon, I think. I agree that http://mediagoblin.org/ could use some improvement.

In the meanwhile, if you're wondering what it offers, right now it already supports nice photo, video, audio, document (pdf.js!), and even 3d model support. It's written in Python, so it's easy to get hacking on. We have a lot more exciting things on the way too, most noticably federation; we currently have someone working full time on adding federation via the Pump API: https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/blob/master/API.md

This will make it so that even though there's a bunch of separate MediaGoblin instances out there that you should be able to have a lot more of the same social features of other media hosting sites as if they're in the same place.

I'm happy to answer questions if anyone has any!
Half Of Us May Soon Be Freelancers: 6 Compelling Reasons Why
Expendables 3: Sly Stallone bashes Bruce Willis upon cast exit - Stabley Times
10 overhyped tech products that crashed and burned
"While Spain said it gave Morales’ plane the go-ahead to fly over the Iberian peninsula after receiving assurance that the NSA leaker was not on board, the European nation’s foreign minister did admit that a U.S. request had led it to delay approving the over flight."

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/07/10/bolivia...
I think I know why they are confused. You need to:

1. Get rid of weird Select/Upload tabs. Put Upload button at the end of the page.

2. Much less instructions, nobody reads them.

3. Make character table hidden by default (with an option to show it).

4. Change "Create template(s)" button to "Download Template".
I have been meaning to this for years! especially in college when faced with a teacher who forces you to submit hand written work :P

PS: Helps copy pasting in those assignments
I've always wondered this as well. I mean, Google loves Python as evidenced by App Engine, how many of their internal/external tools use Python and other projects I'm forgetting. Basically I would have at least expected it as a built-in option to use (kind of like how Windows Phone 8 has a higher-level and lower-level way of accessing the phone).
Big Data Startup Recorded Future focuses on the art of predictive analytics
SpiderOak provides encrypted backup for any types of files for around $0.09/GiB. When i signed up for a free account, i got a 10% off email a few days later.
News flash: titles are useless. what does a "CEO" do at a five person startup. You can call them anything you want, but someone needs to be responsible for owning a design process.
International calling card services are cheap to implement. The main issue people run into is fraud. I think that after DNS reflection, SIP attacks have to be one of the most common assaults. In addition, I've never seen a prepaid calling company that didn't get defrauded, you just build the losses into your margins.

The typical way this is is done is to get a carrier route to a specific country and then arbitrage between that rate and the expected rate from say AT&T. There's usually a lot of margin when you compare it to AT&T costs, but you'll find the business is ultra competitive. We call voice the race to zero.
For comparison purposes, this would mean $130-140 to fill up a minivan type vehicle in the USA.
Objc.io issue #3: views, graphics stack internals, auto layout & more
What do you mean by "self-organizing system"?
Ranking the world's best (and worst) scientific institutions
My girlfriend now wife put her bike up against a post near the train station in Leiden, with a chain. Later that day? Gone. Had to pick it up at the cities yard of bikes. Happens regularly if you're careless about where you park.
Being a US company who is to say they havent been "leaned" on
> English is a great language in that it (almost uniquely) decouples rules from meaning, thus giving it great flexibility. This is in my opinion it's greatest strength.

What does this mean?

> The way something becomes an acceptable part of the English language has less to do with following some arbitrary set of constraints, than what becomes accepted by actual human beings who use the language to communicate with other actual human beings.

You mean the way most languages evolve? You're gonna have to have a pretty authoritative enforcement of the use of a natural language to keep it from evolving at all.

If someone wants "proper" English, they also have the Oxford Dictionary.

> There are more ways of saying any particular thing in English than most if not all other languages, and while you may view this as a weakness, I rather appreciate being able to decide what sounds good on my own.

That might be great for an English connoisseur (hey, there's another word for a potential spelling bee), but not so much for someone who is learning the language. And learning languages was what the person you originally replied to was talking about.

> There is also a larger point to be made. If English was such a hindrance why is the world like it is today? Language is one of the most important components of society, so if English really sucked, we'd probably be using some other language on HN. Please explain why, despite what you consider it's shortcomings, English is and will be the lingua franca of the world for the foreseeable future?

I guess by "larger point" you mean a historical point, which has nothing to do with the linguistical properties of a language. No-one has said that English sucks to such a degree that it couldn't have gained traction as an international lingua franca, but nice try with the straw man. But that doesn't mean that it is a arguably sub-par in some ways, in this case the original complaint was about the seemingly random phonetics and spelling of the English language.

> My ancestors are from India, and I've visited there from time to time. Anyone with anything to contribute there speaks English, even if as a second (or third or fourth) language. If someone doesn't, that person isn't usually educated or hardly even literate.
Indian languages developed from the same roots as European ones, which is why the term Indo-European exists#. Yet somehow, amongst all the possibilities, the most successful Indians use English. There is something to be said for that.
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages

Yeah, there is something to be said for that: the British Empire (which you've already mentioned and other historical developments. Or what do you hint at with the last line, that the English language itself played a key role in the cultures and civilizations that made English an international language? That they wouldn't have been as successful if they spoke something like Romanian?

Meanwhile you've said nothing about the original complaint, which is the spelling and phonetics of the language, but if you want to talk about history I guess that's cool, too.
I think wishful thinking twisted the title in my head, into reading of a lisp with a type system like Haskell's.
> If this is an intelligent and proper strategy, why shouldn't companies formally declare that they follow it?

Because it's a way more effective strategy if you practice the cut-throat approach while portraying a fuzzy, caring public image. To some extent, you can have your cake and eat it too.
It's arguably a sign of larger happiness: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/06/17/danish-happine..., or at least that's one reading from American Philip Greenspun.

See also his post on "Danish Happiness" and its relation to relatively low material needs, at least by American standards: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/06/18/the-secret-to-...
Better Quantum Entanglement Measuring Method Paves Way for Future Applications
I think don't think many New Yorkers love cars. And they have just started a new bike share scheme, so hopefully things will change.

And Parisians still love there cars, which is damn ridiculous. If one city needs to take action, it is Paris. Far too many cars, so many they can park anywhere and not get in any trouble. Awful narrow streets, and badly designed as well. One way streets heading into each other. They have the Velib, but most people I know are just too scared to use it. I do, and I have no problem with cars, but I have ridden among cars since I was a kid. Even on a beautiful sunny day, as we have had the last few weeks, people would rather take the underground. They need to take some clues from London, introduce a congestion charge, lots more bike lines. But they will not. Paris would have been a nightmare if it had the olympics instead of London.
This is posted up thread, but the original "source" for the cremation story says it's bunk.

https://twitter.com/Rambobiggs/status/357352728499978240
We <3 Erlang. Lots of startups use it including what's app, Goldman Sachs and even the big FB.

Erlang was basically built for telecom so it made sense for us to build kazoo on top.

Keep your eyes open over the next 60 days, we've got some fireworks coming out.
its ok bro, we're all key-board people here. our handwritings SUCK! Heck the best part about a computer science college was that most of the work was on computers so no more writing! :P
Carrot-and-Stick Startup
There's a slight delay after pressing the gear. Makes the site feel sluggish.
I currently use SpiderOak, but I'm nothing if not paranoid, and they aren't open-source. Other than that, it's pretty good for backups, and quite cheap, too.
Hi,
are you selling your web site?
https://flippa.com/2958049-dog-finder-web-and-apps
Google Hangout works pretty well too!
I can imagine that if you do that sort of thing around a very busy object, such as a station or a hotspot for tourists, then the city authorities will step in. But if you chain it to a post somewhere in a quiet part of town, or if there are already a thousand bikes chained there, they're not going to throw a fuss.
+1 for an app manifest!
Bah. Mere semantics. Stop quibbling.

We don't need any more articles like these.
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> Because it's often faster for short distances

Every city I have lived in this has been true, cities in the UK, Europe, US and Australia, lots of distance are a lot faster, when you don't have to worry about finding your car, getting through traffic, and then finding a park.
Driving a Chinese copy of a German multi-ton mammoth would be more appropriate wording ..
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Flatness is also a very conspicuous feature of Copenhagen, which also has a lot of biking. Not sufficient in itself, but it sure makes it easier.
App Engine has, if anything, better support for Java than Python.
There is interesting article about hyperloop desing, based on Musk's hints: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/how-elon-musk-can-build-the...
An s-expression syntax would be nice.
Half can afford two, and the other half steal.
Smugmug only backs up the jpegs you upload for display. If you want to store your RAW files on smugmug you have to use their separate smugvault service which costs $0.09/GB/month
Show HN: wsend - we're solving xkcd 949
Responsible Refactoring
Huh! Interesting. Thank you! I hadn't seen this.
Imagine integrating this with the whitespace programming language.
Do not host yourself. Find a better provider.

With collocation you'll end up responsible for all of the hardware and still be dependent on remote hands so service could still suck and likely get much worse.

System Administration is hard and unless you have the $$ to pay one full time, rent the HW.

Most hosting companies will suck if you don't have much business with them. I worked for Rackspace years ago and bigger fish always get much more attention.

I do some consulting work now and find myself on calls with Hostway pretty often and they seem to know their stuff. You might check them out.