skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Wasting capital on rent" may be the worst nonsense in our financial folklore. Always run the numbers. Rent vs. mortgage calculators and spreadsheets are readily available. Understand the factors they use, and perhaps tweak for your own needs and priorities.

I'm glad that I did, as I completely dodged the disaster that was the housing bubble as a result -- my rent always looked like a killer deal compared to nutso house prices. On the other hand, I know those who "had to have a house" who are now seriously underwater on their mortgages. But good thing they weren't "wasting capital on rent!"
For inspiration: http://www.rohmer.nl/?view=detail&pageAlias=projecten&subAli...
Meet the Family That Shuns Technologies Introduced After 1986
You're not at all obligated to abide by an open source license that just happened to be bundled in with a bunch of files you downloaded.

The thing is, without that license, you're bound by copyright. That means you're not allowed to redistribute those files, or anything derived from them, at all without permission from the copyright holder, with the exception of uses allowed by fair use.

For source code and similar things, there's a default position which is highly restrictive, and the open source license loosens the restrictions. Nothing forces you to accept the license. It's just that you can do much less with the material if you don't.

Terms of Service are a completely different beast, because the default position is that you can use services that are mad public over the internet more or less however you feel like, as long as you don't violate copyright and such. The ToS then adds restrictions.
So the server has been crushed under the boot of hacker news.

Does anyone have a cached copy?
Anonymous Pro – a fixed-width font designed for coders
This is a great idea. I often have the same problem (I'll just turn off the alarm before I'm actually awake, and then oversleep). I actually didn't know about Wemo, and I'd be curious to see if there is a technical reason they are limited to so few devices. We'll definitely look into this, thanks!
I think you're confusing accessing a public version of their data with accessing their API, which this thread is about. When you use maps.google.com you are NOT agreeing to any terms, because they don't really require any to use their data on their site, but when you use the API, you're required to agree to their terms before being able to use it.
Sorry what shill account is that ? I setup an account here today to answer any questions. Sorry for not using HN 24x7. Plus I am not a dev :)
Try this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VWYxxWU...
Priceonomics is a total commitment to the idea of "blogging based traction"

if you blog enough, can you rank enough, to get traction on your product?

what is organic traffic? is it seo? what is the ideal "organic result" for the Logitech G27 (http://priceonomics.com/gaming-accessories/logitech/g27/)?

maybe if you blog enough you can rank in goog??
I don't agree with the taxpayer funds aspect. Why can we not agree that employing people to perform research is a good thing? There are lots of things that are taken as good investments by governments based on the fact that it will be useful in future years. Take for example teaching people to read and write, preventative healthcare, disaster planning, Sex education (it's a long list when you think about it). My point is that research for research's sake isn't actually a bad thing. It's generally cheap (when compared to employment ,social welfare or institutions like Prison or Hospitals) and provides useful outputs(I think everyone can agree that at least some positives come out of research).
Anyway, I think in future years people will consider the fact that people aren't freely educated to 3rd & 4th level in much the same way as we view not getting educated to secondary level(18) in days gone by.
Are there other products that you know of that implement the kind of video+IMU in -> measurements + map out API they seem to be striving for?
Thanks! Yes, please use the form on the site. We're pretty busy today with our launch, but we promise to get it to you ASAP. And yes, usage over longer periods of time is possible.
Foreign key deadlock fix finally after 5 years is out to production! Hopefuly now it is safe to use foreign keys in postgresql :)

Haveing table A, B, C with FK in A and B to C_column1, running function which updates A and other function which updates B, both refering to same C row via FK, but not modyfing it in any way - causes deadlock.

in pre 9.3, now its fixed, so I can use FKs again after so many years and its just creazy:)
Personally, I think it's silly to think that you may be bound to the terms of an agreement just because you clicked a button that says "Agree", without any of the fundamental attributes of a contract being present, and without even interacting with a representative of the other party in any way.
From the original, Ken on the press lionizing hackers:

"I have watched kids testifying before Congress. It is clear that they are completely unaware of the seriousness of their acts. There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house. It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked. The press must learn that misguided use of a computer is no more amazing than drunk driving of an automobile."

Nowadays, I here more about the opposite problem -- using overly broad, non-technical legalese to convict kids of "hacks" that aren't really hacks. I wonder what Ken would think of Snowden, Barrett Brown, weev et al?
[Show HN] MAP - (Indian) MPs Attending Parliament
just to clear up a misconception, the SRTM is just unusable in it's normal form, you need a lot of time to clean it up and cross it with other sources. This guy does a lot of curation: http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html

(and I also suck google's elevation data for a test because that's the simplest way to do it: http://nraynaud.github.io/webgcode/test_threejs.html )
I agree that not everyone deserves a gold star but I tend to try the carrot over the stick in most instances. I do beat around the bush more than I should, and that's something I personally need to work on.

I realize that a lot of times terse can be better, and you modified your own comment better than I ever could.
>"You can do better! Here is how it can be improved!"

That little bit of encouragement could be the support that changes the recipients reaction from "F-U man you don't know me" to "Wow, thanks for that criticism, I'll get on that." And you've only added 11 words.

High ranking HN comments tend to be negative, which leads me to feel like HN is not very supportive. This isn't the only metric, but having a good ratio of positive to negative feedback (assuming everything is equally actionable) is important. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/the_ideal_praise-to-criticis...

>Also - "yeah I know I haven't had my account here long" are defense mechanisms, don't use them. You're a member of the community now, you get a voice like everyone else.
Thank you, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5636314 this kind of thing has made me hesitant to use terms like "our community".
>>The great thing about the non-governmental world is that there are CHOICES.

I don't know about that. Where I live, the only Internet provider available is Comcast. I would guess that many people here have the exact same problem.

Sometimes regulation can eliminate choices, but at other times it can enable them. For example, when the government forces cab companies (via regulation) to not discriminate based on neighborhood income, what it is doing is creating more choices for areas people can live in comfortably without worrying about whether they will have a fairly essential service (i.e. transportation).

Tell me: how would libertarianism solve that problem?
Relevant: This comes on the heels of their acquisition by RichRelevance last month (http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/14/richrelevance-acquires-prec...).
But Windows 8.1 isn't even released yet. It says clearly "Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview should be installed on a test machine. Following the preview period, it is not possible to upgrade to a licensed working version" http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn237246.aspx?...

So they haven't shipped it to zillions of customers yet, and the incompatibility did get caught in time, it's just that you'd have much preferred to fix it before your big privileged vendor customer found it. Do I have this right?
Wow.. this is amazing. I'm kind of blown away by how cheap it is. Is this your permanent residence or a vacation home? Does it feel weird to not have neighbors?
That's an interesting problem. I frankly would have thought someone would have done this by now. We'll do some research, and I'll definitely ping you if we decide to pursue it. Thanks so much!
Oh, I mean I wasn't impressed with the terminal emulator itself. At least when I tried it, it seemed to have problems with some ctrl-sequences (as in, other things would get them instead of whatever I was running in the terminal emulator). I also was not very impressed with the weird cursor fading thing it does.

Right now I'm running Debian Wheezy on my Pixel with a recent kernel that I built myself (the 3.0.whatever kernel Wheezy is on right now doesn't have touchpad support for the Pixel).

The Pixel is only worth the cash if you have very specific use cases. First off, I don't consider it worth the price with ChromeOS at all, so you've got to put a regular distro on it. ChromeOS might be tolerable with cheaper hardware, but for what I paid for the Pixel I just can't stomach it. The hardware itself is underpowered (i5, little ram, runs hot as all hell if you start running a long build or something (seriously, I've burnt myself.)) and has very little storage, so your usage pattern should be lightweight (I've used tiling window managers instead of fancy DEs for years so that is a-okay for me.) The screen is absolutely fantastic; best thing I have ever seen, and the real reason I bought it. The screen is so good that, despite the downsides I've listed, I am very pleased with my purchase.

In short:

Upsides: Fantastic screen. Linus uses one, so shit works. Solid build quality.

Downsides: Expensive, underpowered, can get hot as all fuck.

I think Google missed the mark with the Pixel. It makes a nice tech-demo for the screen and their ability to make things out of aluminum, but it isn't something I could recommend to anyone with 'normal' usage patterns. Don't buy one unless you absolutely know a high DPI screen is what you want, and know that the specs will accommodate you.
This. Why doesn't everybody use UTF-8? Nobody seems to have any problems with UTF-8. It seems to work almost perfectly, and it's efficient.
It isn't quite true that student loans can't be discharged through bankruptcy. Student loans are not excluded from discharge if excluding the debt would "impose an undue hardship on the debtor and the debtor's dependents":

11 USC 523(a) Exceptions to discharge
...
(8) unless excepting such debt from discharge under this paragraph would impose an undue hardship on the debtor and the debtor's dependents, for --
an educational benefit overpayment or loan made, insured, or guaranteed by a governmental unit, or made under any program funded in whole or in part by a governmental unit or nonprofit institution; or
an obligation to repay funds received as an educational benefit, scholarship, or stipend; or
any other educational loan that is a qualified education loan, as defined in section 221(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, incurred by a debtor who is an individual;

Per http://www.moranlaw.net/student_loan_brunner.htm, "undue hardship" means '(1) that the debtor cannot maintain, based on current income and expenses, a "minimal" standard of living for herself and her dependents if forced to repay the loans; (2) that additional circumstances exist indicating that this state of affairs is likely to persist for a significant portion of the repayment period of the student loans; and (3) that the debtor has made good faith efforts to repay the loans.'
They use the standard file open dialog, which in turn supports shell extensions.
Or http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alexander-shulgin/3/a24/aa0
Wish every country had something like this.

Maybe you should show the aggregate as well. It is difficult to find out what percentage of "MPs" attended a session.
Your opponents can define you by your edges and they will...Many incidents are misreported to fit their narrative

People frequently do the same thing when complaining about the government about the government of course - like the OP's article implying people are being herded into camps: 'At best our government considers us meaningless sheep to be herded/slaughtered at will,'

This is based on the shooting of an old man who shot his gun at police. Now, I'm not a fan of SWAT teams or the militarization of police, but I can't help noting that the police were called to the residence after he had threatened to shoot his roommate/host and his daughter, and that police spent time trying to negotiate with him after he had shot at officers. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/09/arkansa...
Let me try a guess:

They draw radical conclusions from their research which cause alarm/concern/interest to those who have no idea about the body of research but grant funding in order to get more funding?
Friendly?

I guess a prison camp with CERN people might not be pleasant. Hitler might think CERN was a weapon. (Lets assume no way to do more time travel.) Let's say butterfly wing ripples destroy all historic knowledge certainty.

I guess, if this movie were to work, the good guys would have to be clever. A depressing movie would be destroying equipment -- that would be the smart thing. War is actually not fun and pleasant.

God says...

Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Monday September 09, 2013 20:30.31 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 93843

our rule abundantly, 10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond
you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to
our hand.

10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

10:18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the
Lord commendeth.

11:1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and
indeed bear with me.

11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin
to Christ.

11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve
through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ.

11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received,
or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with
him.

-----

Rome sweet Rome invented fog of "What just happened?" -- don't copy them, much.

If CERN could contact allies, then stuff could happen. I guess it would be a race against time. meh.
This is the second "coders' font" to hit HN today.

Personally, I like the font. And its license.
But then you need structural supports to hold up the shelves, which is what the dome is designed to avoid. The low wall weight would help, I suppose, but you still need to hold up everything inside the units. Once you're pouring concrete onto rebar, it seems like you might as well just have an apartment block.
They should expect to get cut off from accessing Googles API at any time if they are not operating within the bounds of whatever Google has deemed appropriate usage.
"It is contrary to corporate responsibility for a company to
assist in the creation of artifacts, such as server farms,
routers, or analytic engines, intended for mass surveillance."

Is there a list of companies which supply equipment and/or services to the NSA?
I've been using nitrous.io for a month or so. It looks like this is the same thing, except without the browser-based text editor, which I kinda like since I haven't gotten really used to working in any of the terminal text editors yet. It's not clear if they support real ssh access or sftp either.

I'm not sure how nitrous is expensive. I can't find any ways to give them money right now at all, or even any proposed future pricing. I have a few quibbles with their system, like the way their servers seem to shut down if not used for a couple of days, the ssh sessions disconnect semi-randomly, and no root access to install things that aren't already there, but cost doesn't seem to be an issue.
@fogus this is brilliant! thanks for sharing.
http://alfaproductions.com
Tell the U.S. Government What You Really Think About NSA Surveillance
It even gets more complicated as `dewitt mentioned: "And the cases in which the terms aren't programmatically enforced right away isn't necessarily a choice; often it is difficult to differentiate at scale between legitimate usage and disallowed usage."

This sets up a situation where people/companies can effectively 'get away' with it. So what is an aspiring entrepreneur to do when they are able to take advantage of a situation like this in a way that the other company isn't in a position block it (without throwing the baby out with the bath water) nor are they even trying to do what you are doing when you combine such usage with other "legal" means or data one collects themselves that is providing some value to people they tested their service/'hack' with?
The irony is that we are in an age of scientism (as Feynman would say) and it's precisely the popularization of science itself that has led to 'pseudo-measurability' that you speak of.

Metrics, metrics, metrics... even if your metrics mean nothing at all, they're still very convincing!
I'm not sure JPM getting out of the student loan market means it's about to burst. The government's entering the market means that simply no one is interested in getting private student loans.

Under the government's new program, PAY-E, your payment is capped at 10-15% of discretionary income and unpaid interest capitalization is capped at 10% above the original principal amount. Debt is forgiven after 20 years.

Basically, there is no way for private lenders to compete with these generous terms. For the moment, at least, the government's program is running solidly in the black (indeed, with a big profit margin).
5mm thick, 500GB HDD announced by Seagate
The Joys of Redis
I too wish people would attempt casual acts of creativity and be more proud of the creative act itself. But they can do that without being "a(n) ______" after their first and possibly only attempt.

I'm not saying that there needs to be an objective standard of quality or number of hours put into an endeavour - even a terrible fisherman is still a fisherman if s/he practices it. But I wouldn't go fishing once and declare myself a fisherman if I had no followup experience. If I were to say "I'm a fisherman" in conversation, I think it would demonstrate a lack of common understanding about what that sentence implies, or duplicity at worst (trying to curry favour from a fishing enthusiast boss, for example).

I get what you're saying and I know you're coming from a positive place. I just think that it runs counter to the common interpretation of "a(n) _____", and I'd rather preserve that interpretation because it's useful.
No it doesn't. It employes about 4.5m people, including the entire military: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-docu...
Just plugged in some of the test endpoints I used with MapQuest. YourNavigation seems to have two bicycling modes, "bicycle" and "bicycle (routes").

The former seems to disregard bike lanes entirely and generates some pretty hazardous recommendations (including cycling down 5th Ave, or busy sections of Park Ave in Midtown).

The "bicycle (routes)" mode does better and seems to respect bike lanes, but not consistently. There are some endpoints where it still maneuvers you into dense traffic with no bike infrastructure, when a bike-laned street is nearby and takes only marginally longer. I just checked the OSM's dataset and the data is good - so it isn't a matter of someone inserting a bike lane where one doesn't actually exist.

The app I'm working on is for NYC's new bikeshare system... Still not an acceptable alternative unfortunately. I may just give up and use Google Maps in the iOS app, but the performance of Google's native map component is extremely, extremely bad.
The intermediate, untrusted computer (in this case koding.com's VM) can read my password.
No, for-profits are a problem. They account for 10-13% of students, but 25% of student loans, and 50% of defaults. They have no academic standards, because they have no concern for academic reputation in the way traditional institutions do, and can seek to enroll the largest possible classes without worrying about keeping up GPA/SAT medians.
How deep is the water table? Is that why the land was so cheap?
The Most (And Least) Lucrative College Majors, In 1 Graph
Old idea, nice execution. The design is refreshingly different. You may want to show the price(s) (if any) before signing up.
I would love to see this combined with object extraction to make 3d models from the measurements. Here's an amazing demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oie1ZXWceqM
Student Loans Can be Discharged in Bankruptcy
I felt compelled to address this issue as the result of (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6355936)

It's pretty well known by now that student loans cannot be discharged through the normal bankruptcy process.

Instead, Congress requires student loan borrowers to initiate an adversary proceeding, a separate lawsuit filed within the bankruptcy case, to prove that repaying their student loan debt would be an "undue hardship." In the absence of any further guidance from Congress on what constitutes an undue hardship, most courts now apply what is called the "Brunner standard."

That standard requires a borrower to prove three things: One, that the borrower and any dependents cannot maintain a minimal standard of living based on current income and expenses; two, that additional circumstances indicate this is likely to be the case for a significant portion of the borrower's repayment period; and three, that the borrower made a good faith effort to repay the loans.

Here is an interesting article that claims one of the greatest reasons people do not avail themselves to this legal mechanism is because the urban myth student loans can not be discharged -http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rhode/bankruptcy-student-loans_b_2416031.html

My goal is only to highlight this myth, not to argue the existing system is perfect. To that end I will leave links to 2 possible legislative solutions The Private Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2013 and The Fairness for Struggling Students Act of 2013. - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr532 -http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr532
Voxel virtualizes mobile apps to disrupt mobile advertising
I am so very proud to be at UCD right now.
Codes of Ethics mean so little, this would be a good time to make them more than lip service.
Is there a better linux terminal than bash?
Ugh. The conference call, web meeting, google hangout, whatever technology you want to use, you spend 15 minutes on "can everybody see me" "can everybody hear me" "I can't hear you" "can everyone please mute their phone" "I can't see the slides" I mean it's almost always a fiasco. I can't stand it.