skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great. I've ordered many bouquets and it's always been somewhat stressful. I used to be in a long distance relationship, and so ordering a bouquet online required finding 1) reputable florists that could 2) deliver on time to the 3) region I want. So something like this is more than welcome.

I would suggest that Bloomthat also expand their offerings. Don't limit yourselves to flowers and bouquets. Gift delivery goes way beyond that -- chocolates, stuffed animals, etc.

I can see a new market emerging from a service like this. A market of people who engage in daily on-demand gift delivery. Someone did something nice to you this morning? Send them some flowers after lunch. Wife text you about her bad day at work? Have flowers at her desk in under an hour. Normally this wouldn't happen considering all the research and logistics involved, but this could spur an entire back-and-forth gift-giving frenzy!
Not sure if they already allow having your own domain, but the rest is covered: https://mykolab.com/ based in non-EU country Switzerland. Of course it's not free, but keep in mind: if it's free, you are probably the product being sold.

If you need to use your own domain, set up your own server or VPS and install https://kolab.org/ (it's all listed on https://prism-break.org/)
I don't really think the government should be in the student loan business at all -- but if the government absolutely has to be in the student loan business, then they have to be in the cost-control business as well.

That's pretty much how Canadian higher education worked when I was an undergraduate in the mid-90s. There were no private universities, and the government set the university budget. It more or less worked. Canadian universities looked and still look a lot shabbier than their American counterparts, since not nearly as much is spent on facilities, but the education is fine.

In America, perhaps the government could only give loans to students of universities who kept cost increases below the rate of inflation or met certain tuition targets. The best of the private universities would opt-out, and the rest would fall into line. Unfortunately, the American government doesn't have the will to do any meaningful cost-control, so this isn't going to happen.
is this a joke? If not, awful awful awful name.
Snowden Not Interrogated by Russians: Assange
How economies have fared since their pre-recession peaks
Interesting idea, but I don't think I could go back to that style of phone without a QWERTY keyboard.

It's the form factor - I think iPhone 4 is the perfect size, iPhone 5 if also fine, so around a 4-inch screen . Everything these days seems to be 4.7-5 inch, which just feels to big in my hand and esp too big to carry around in my pocket. It used to be possible to reach all corners of the screen with just my thumb, i.e. one handed operation for most things.

I would get an iPhone but I refuse to install iTunes on my computer, enjoy the freedom of Android and have no idea how to navigate with just a single ([]) button :(
Bitcoin is a currency, rules US judge
What do you have in it that takes up so much space? FYI: I'm not being argumentative, I am genuinely curious.
You cannot simply look backward to assess what would happen to interest rates on student loans going forward if a) the federal government significantly reduces its role in the market and b) allows for discharge of student loan debt in bankruptcy.

There are way too many factors that cannot be ignored, but that you choose to ignore. You need to look at the interest rate environment (which determines the cost of capital), banking regulations (which have changed dramatically in the past several years), the unemployment rate (you might have noticed we're in the slowest "recovery" since the Great Depression) and inflation-adjusted wage growth (hint: there basically is none), amongst other things.

Finally, you fail to note that the federal government was a participant in the student loan market well before 1996, so you cannot look at the history of private student loans without understanding that the government has influenced the market to varying degrees for some time.

If you want to assume that private lenders would rush to provide student loans at low rates at the same pace the federal government has in this economic environment and without the discharge restrictions currently in place, I'd love to introduce you to someone looking to sell you his 100 year J.C. Penney bonds. They yield over 11% and you can buy them at ~70 cents on the dollar - a great deal!
Got it. I figured you guys would have done deeper research. the flip side of your wireless device research is there might be a partnership opportunity with wireless manufacturers or networks as I agree you'd drive more adoption and usage of their devices.
The two following comments are spammy but the only real issue with jmduke's comment was the form. Had it been:

>You could also say: "Personally, I like to understand problems, rather than grok them."

It would have gotten the point across that the grandparent's comment was an unfair dig at a style of speech rather than the content of that speech.
Jed Shaw claims revoking GPL is possible, demands fork relicense as BSD
Usability design?
Every argument is ad hominem nowadays. It is the sickness of the post-modern era[1]. Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner. Charles Bukowski kicked a woman. Paula Dean once used a racial slur referring to a man that robbed her at gunpoint. Leonidas probably opposed women in the military.

Let's throw out all of human history and art and listen to the pious, sniveling PC morons of the last 10 years. That is the modern world for ya.

[1] http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~kwesthue/regiftedxmas12.html
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This week was the inau­gural South By South­west con­fer­ence in Las Vegas. With about 1,500 atten­dees (as opposed to Austin’s 50,000), it was eas­ier to con­nect. Many SXSW alumni said this is how the early days of SXSW Austin felt.
Ask PG: Please fix flagging.
It seems as if all it takes is a few flags to kick a post right off the front page -- posts that have had a reasonable number of upvotes and discussion. I've been noticing this for a while, but what prompted me to make this post is that it seems as if two YC company launch posts were flagged and sent right to the bottom of the front page. So it's not really in your best interest, or of others that have legitimate content.
>Perhaps there's a better term for APIs you can technically call but will get your app kicked out of the store for TOS violation?

So, first you make a claim about "since the early days of windows" OS APIs useful to others have been hidden that apparently only MS applications get to use. Yet you have failed to point out a single shipping microsoft application that benefited from those APIs or even actually mentioned what those APIs are or what they do. And now you're talking about some fringe windows 8 RT app store restrictions. Windows history spans from 1985 to 2013. Surely you should have hundreds of thousands of examples that you can google?

> Anyway, I only brought it up to highlight that there are some things Microsoft has decided we can't use for whatever reason.

Sorry. I still have no clue what are you talking about. Internal OS DLLs contain the implementation of the OS itself. Applications run on TOP of the OS. They don't re-invent what the OS already does.

I strongly suspect you're attempting to construct a non-technical argument about a purely technical topic. Anyway, I doubt you're going to present any evidence.. So, goodbye.
WHOA!!

Huge mistake here - he says he cycles his battery! DO NOT DO THIS TO LITHIUM ION BATTERIES! Lithium Ion will last longer by NOT allowing the cells to be fully discharged!

This is the opposite of Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium - these types of batteries DO require a full discharge and full recharge in order to provide a longer life.

In addition, the number of discharges, the temperature, etc all come into play with lithium ion. These thinner laptops are actually lithium ion polymer, where the materials are folded into packs...much more susceptible to the elements, like heat.

Disclaimer: Spent 3 years in the battery field. http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_li...

Edit: Just want to point out that charging a laptop while using it could potentially create more heat, degrading the battery. I'm not sure what is more damaging - letting the li-ion battery drop below 70%, or charge it while the laptop is being used. So many variables!
In my experience in working with seniors, I still worry that very long battery life is a competitive advantage. The category of seniors for whom this device is almost a necessity starts to significantly overlap with the category of seniors with some form of dementia or physical ailments that make regular charging more challenging.

Good luck!
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humm, I suppose I should not be too upset then about my Mac Book Pro's battery. It is now a little over 3 years old and I just hit the 500 battery cycles mark this week, about the same time that I noticed my trackpad is no longer working properly. I have had the computer for a while and have not used extensively for over 1 1/2 yrs (have work computer), so I am unsure what it could be, but think it may be the battery. This year we have had a hot weather in the East Coast and my laptop sit out in the changing weather (can't leave the AC on for it), so this may have impacted the battery's lifetime. In general, I can just add that for moderate average use, my Mac Book Pro's battery has lasted quite a bit, but would have liked it to last closer to the 100 cycles promised by Apple's system specs.
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If people need college degrees to perform basic functions in a company, why don't employers subsidize the colleges. After all, they need employees!
I consider myself to be consciously observant of organizational issues. I would say it took me about 4 years to develop a reasonably rounded picture of "how things work" at Microsoft, and then only from the point of view of a low-ranking employee. Big companies are vast, layered, intensely game-oriented social universes.
> Incredible things have come from MBAs.

You're all talk and no substance; let's have some examples.
Yes. I've learned tons from the vim setups of individuals and from some vim "distributions". A rather non-exhaustive list of examples:

Steve Losh's dotfiles: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src

Drew Neil's dotfiles: https://github.com/nelstrom/dotfiles

Tim Pope's vim plugins (the vim-* repos): https://github.com/tpope

Kana Natsuno's vim plugins (the vim-* repos): https://github.com/kana

spf13-vim distro: https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim

Janus distro: https://github.com/carlhuda/janus

I don't use any of these "stock" or consider them authoritative -- I've slowly cherry-picked from these and other sources to learn about patterns, plugins, tips, etc. Each source has its biases, implicit and sometimes explicitly documented. Those biases are usually a good thing as they reflect the workflows and customization needs of the authors. I want to learn from these to better tailor my own customizations.
Good point, but what ways are there to solve this problem and why solve it? Having 4 different tags for RoR show up under an item is probably not a good idea for a variety of reasons. One of the problems would that some items might be tagged with only 'RoR' and not 'Ruby on Rails' resulting in the user having to aggregate more tags to get a fulfilling search. However the point you make is valid, so it is a problem which should be looked into imo.

Maybe an implementation of an underlying thesaurus could solve this? It might however be hard to maintain it. Any other ideas for how to solve this problem?
Plenty of googlers on the record in this thread that this is bs, I don't see what my anecdotes relating friends' experience would add to that.
At work, I use the LF (reds). At home, I use the browns with O-rings (40A hardness, 0.2mm travel reduction):

http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/cherry-mx-rubber-swit...

I think the LF with no O-ring modification is the way to go.
I guess not surprisingly, Debian was the distro that switched me off of Slackware. I remember the defining moments for each distribution for me: in 1993, when we set my computer down on a friend's pool table next to a stack of 20+ disks with Slackware on them. (Took the plunge.) And the moment a coworker told me "just install Debian, and use apt-get." (Stopped having to fiddle with configure and make files for things that I "just needed.")

Linux has come a long way... =)
Node.js v0.10.16
Does anyone know if it is possible to change the phrase from "Ok Google Now" to something else?
The cycle count is in System Information, as is the age of the system. Their own docs say it should get 1000 cycles before you're down to 80% of the original capacity. They have diagnostic tools to test it at the Genius Bar and measure the actual full capacity of the battery.
Good Wired article on the subject [1], especially about Fabrizio Benedetti [2], a neurologist who has mapped the various hormones and mechanisms that underly the placebo effect.

(One fascinating claim mentioned in the article is that in clinical trials, Valium can no longer be statistically distinguished from placebo, possibly due to patients' expectations. This statistical skew in favour of placebo is problematic for a lot of drug research, essentially preventing manufacturers from proving that their drug works.)

[1] http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo...

[2] http://brainsciencepodcast.com/bsp/neurobiology-of-placebos-...
Ask HN: Learning Ruby beyond Codeacademy
I've been learning Ruby of late - my background includes some coding, mostly enough-to-get-by Javascript and PHP, but I'm in marketing and not currently any sort of engineer. However, I've got a side project I want to get going and I'd really like to do it myself... at least get it up and running, as much for ego as anything else. So, I'm teaching myself Ruby (at 33 and married, going back to school isn't a particularly feasible idea).

I've gone through quite a bit of the Codeacademy classes, but I'm not sure where else I should be looking. I'm also curious what complementary technologies I should be looking into - Rails, I assume, but should I be digging more into things like cloud server administration? I've set up web servers on AWS, but never anything particularly complicated.

Thanks,

- A marketer who wants to be a coder because coding is more fun
Get a browser with "show images" toggle of some sort and disable it (opera before 15 has one, and I'm sure others can get something similar as an extension). Your only problems would then be videos and super large fonts on headers.
Yeah, I see that. I will fix that asap.

BTW it is because your email is > 30 characters long.

edit: fixed.
All the best corporate cultures are a form of brainwashing.

My form of brainwashing happens to include 40 hours weeks. It's pretty nice.
How did you fix your charger? I have always thought that we (users) shouldn't have to worry about charging, over-charging, stretching the battery (I have honestly heard people talking about this) and so on. We have the tech to make smart chargers, why aren't they here yet?

{OT: has anyone else thought why we don't have a full bay size laptop battery that can be put inside a desktop for those times the power goes out, but we don't want/need a UPS?}
The Death of Steve Jobs Means the Rebirth of Apple
Awesome, thanks! As I get close to signing up, $10/mo still feels high. $5/month does not.
Which of course is no guarantee that they are able to grant, and then you can get in trouble for patent infringement while samsung gets in trouble for distributing software against the terms of the gpl.
Yeah, I cannot believe he said that. The more real state the better. Why not spread out if you can afford it?
LTS was a big deal for me switching over to Ubuntu for servers. We had compliance issues (all software must be vendor supported) with Debian, and not having to replace the entire OS on otherwise perfectly functional servers just because a new release came out six months ago.
You can download Coconut Battery [1], which will show you the battery capacity and number of cycles.

1: http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/
Awesome. Glad to see that you got it out the door, Arthur!
> Should more be done to push people into in-state schools, where tuition is often orders of magnitude cheaper?

State schools have rapidly become diploma mills over the last 10 years where tuition has sky rocketed.

> No one forced them to go to college, especially not one that leaves them $40k in debt.

Spoken like someone that has taken a blind eye to the societal pressures we've continued to put on each other: "go to college, get the job."
currently you cannot (according to their docs), however it sounds like that will be possible in the future.
> I was wrong about China, but apparently it is free in India.

Yeah, if you can get into the limited government education programs. Most people pay oodles of money to be educated in private colleges 'affiliated' to universities.

Let's take the example of Tamil Nadu (a prosperous Southern state in India). Compare the colleges that comprise Anna University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_University#Campus_and_coll...) and the colleges _affiliated_ to Anna University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Colleges_%26_Institutio...).
The source contained sections directly copied from the Linux FAT driver, which is only available under GPLv2. Shipping it under any other license was a GPL violation.
This is very cool, but I'm curious as to why they stuck with ZMap. Nmap's graphical interface, Zenmap, sounds very similar and has a huge following among security researchers.

For the technically inclined, a good white paper describing the advantages of IPv4-wide scanning for security reconaissance and the advantages of ZMap vs other tools like NMap can be found here:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
You're putting barriers up where there are none. A user cares about "can I get Facebook", and with a modern smartphone browser, the answer is "yes".

Obviously there are fewer choices available than in the iTunes Store, but the phone is also incredibly cheap when compared to an iPhone.
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>Missile Command embodied the Cold War nightmare the world lived in

The reality that at any moment, without warning, we could all be incinerated in a fireball made for some serious "live for the moment" scenarios. Playing Missile Command at that time was quite surreal. No matter how well you do you lose all you cities.
I have 378 cycles, 90% capacity. Original capacity, 4680mAh, current capacity 4228mAh. Same laptop as him. Mac is 18 months old. His must be flawed.
Ask HN: Has anyone here attended Draper University?
I was just accepted to Draper University. I'm very happy about the invitation, but I am scared about quitting my job and having to take out a loan to afford the tuition. I'm afraid because the school is new and I still feel a little uniformed about the results it may yield.

Has anyone attended Draper? Can you give me a little insight into your experience and what you got out of it?
When I thought about that malloc question, I starting asking myself "so I knew the old way was eventually libc calls sbrk and the kernel adds some more pages to the page table. But I can't remember if that's still considered the right thing to do; I've heard of people using mmap for malloc for some reason I can't remember." But that's probably sufficient for his purposes.
Check out Learn Ruby the Hard Way [0]. You don't have to do every exercise, but check out the titles and do the ones with names of stuff you might have only skimmed over in code academy. CA is good for teaching syntax, but L*HW is good for teaching you to actually make stuff using good practice.

[0]: http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/
A.I. robot can hold a conversation
Dell Posts Staggering 72% Decline in Quarterly Earnings
The plan is to get that, and let the community to their work from thereon. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I (for one) wouldn't want to do their job for free.
The problem is, if wikipedia did alter articles based on advertisers demands (Which seems pretty far fetched to me), the public would just alter them back. Or see the edits wikipedia is making and put 2 and 2 together.

>and then instruct editors to do nothing.

Yeah good luck with getting wikipedia editors to comply with that request!

A site like wikipedia would likely have thousands upon thousands of advertisers. They wouldn't be dependent on a few big advertisers. If an advertiser came to wikipedia and asked them to change a page, wikipedia would just say "no", publish the details to make the advertiser look like a douche (cue internet witch hunt, boycot naming shaming etc), and not care about the 0.000% temporary drop in revenue.
TypeScript: Still a long way to go
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Really? I got a 2006 MacBook Pro in Dec 2006, and each year I had to buy a new battery from Apple as it generally got down to 30-40% capacity.

First time it happened (and was still under warrantee), I took it into Apple, and they said it was normal, and they only replaced batteries if it was defective.

I went through 5 batteries until I got a 2011 MacBook Pro.
Creating a private CI with Strider and DigitalOcean
There were only 2 games growing up that really made me sweat, and this one was the first. As a kid I didn't understand the psychology of game development, only that I had a single mission to save these cities some how. I actually learned how to prioritize rapid tasks and make split decisions on when to sacrifice something and when to work to save it.

I know, sort of strange for a game. But as a high schooler back then I simply couldn't stop trying to save every city every time and until I learned to let some die for the great er good I sucked at that game.

Now I feel the need to find an old cabinet and get it in my basement.
15" 4:3 monitors were standard before year 2000. You have to go back to probably the early 90s before standard monitors had less real estate than a 15" widescreen. Of course resolutions and panel quality have increased since then, which mitigates the problem of working off a laptop monitor. Personally I find im far more productive on a 24" monitor than a 14" laptop screen, but its not impossible.
Full proof I tell ya.
As someone who has both a liberal arts and a STEM degree, I resent the insinuation that STEM majors are drooling sociopaths who don't know how to relate to other people. Also, there's more to liberal arts than "empathy". Thanks.
>There's a way out of the looking-the-part problem. Cultivate an image of an eccentric genius

Yeah, this is what I was talking about with our industry being different. This is... common for programmers. You don't even have to be uncommonly good, just useful.

But I think this is dramatically harder in other industries; to the point where I've never met, say, a real-estate agent like that, or a lawyer.
Hi dhrp,
I assume you work for Dotcloud?

Nice job so far. Where do you see this heading to? What's your view of what will happen in the virtualization world?

Best,
There is a place for that, but the thing I like about the student loan system is that the people who benefit from the system pay for it. I think we have too many taxes in the US where the benefits aren't broadly distributed, which undermines support for those programs.
Damn full proof. Why don't you believe it?
Ours instead does one week a year. They get scheduled like any other project. It means they can't be as ambitious or unbounded, but it also provides uninterrupted time to work on whatever-it-is you are interested in.
<citation needed>

Also, please feel free to get off of Michael Church's dick.
Really liking the look of that page.
This is a recovery?
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange praises young libertarians
what are the pathological cases one runs into with gevent?