skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an unfair comment. You're essentially turning a healthy, non-personal discussion on how best to evolve HN submission policies into one where its the dissenters vs. PG.

Worse, you then tack on hypothetical (and frankly ridiculous) extensions like making coffee or doing laundry (both are personal tasks with no relevance to the HN community).

I'd like to believe the community is mature enough to debate this issue without having to be subtly threatened with PG's authority.
The aesthetic politics of filming black skin
looks tempting enough.
check it out http://cloudwalk.io
Good thing you posted, otherwise people would have read the article thinking it was brand new and downloaded an app they already had.
Wow, I forgot how much I disliked the original iMac hockey puck. That said, my least favorite of these (taking into account their contemporaries) is the Mighty Mouse - that little ball was awful.

Oh, and this visualization is of course very slick. I was not expecting to be as wowed by the animated transitions as I was...
PSA: Chromebooks - No more VPN in Guest Mode
After stable update, connecting to a private network (VPN) does not work in Guest Mode.
Reproducible in stable, beta, and developer channels.
It often happens that someone outside new york talks about the amaaaazing food in their city. I used to laugh, or correct them. Nowadays I just feel pity.

Nothing compares to the food of new york city. Absolutely nothing. Don't even fucking try.

"I live within walking distance of two zagat top 10 rated restaurants." There are sixty restaurants within walking distance of my apartment and they're all better than anything in miami. Fuck, 5 of them are run by Top Chef winners. And there are 10 more that are better than those because the food network doesn't even get the top talent.
I don't get why people are under the impression that (a small portion of) atheists are any less extremist than extremists of any religion.

You wouldn't believe the lengths some people go to to spite believers.
angularjs

The good
-Great framework
-You will get things done quickly once you know how to use it
The Bad
-It has a huge learning curve, expect to spend few weeks before getting used.
I created an account a while back to circumvent Academia.edu's signup wall, not using my full name because I don't actually want an academia.edu page coming up when someone Googles me. I don't think I meant to "follow" Jean-Francois Delvenne of the University of Leeds, but unfortunately for Prof. Delvenne I did and now "this is a nice website for me to poop on" is one of his 37 followers (http://leeds.academia.edu/JeanFrancoisDelvenne/Followers?_pj...). And I'm not even sure this is the only account I made for this purpose.

The real question is, how many active weekly users does Academia.edu have?
Oh, get the fuck over yourself. You ain't got the corner on good food.
A lot of weird stuff goes down in florida. The pan handle is deep south. Its basically an odd mix. (My college roomate lived in Tampa after graduating umass)

Collecting the weird stories has become an internet meme.

That being said the everglades national park is one of the most beautiful places I've been. (Just don't go during mosquito season)....

edit: I can't believe I was the second reference to fark on this thread....
Rates are mostly meaningless without knowing sector and technology. There are vast differences in what, say, education and finance can pay. There are vast differences between what a PHP developer and a Scala developer can expect.

For context, here are some of my experiences:

- Finance jobs as a long-term contractor seem to start at about £600 per day for Java developers, with £700pd being more typical. For Scala you can probably get a £50-100 more. For short term work or a good candidate you can easily get >£800.

- Ruby / PHP and other commoditised work of the like seems to top out at around £400-500 pd. iOS might get you a bit higher, but I think the shine is coming off app development.

As always, the key to a high rate is differentiating your offering. Update: This doesn't have to be by offering rarer skills, though this is an easy to a higher rate. Being better known in your community, by writing blog posts, speaking at conferences, and so on, will allow you to command a higher rate as well.
Developing a thick skin and tolerance for the culture of the locals definitely helps you enjoy the good things you find in life.
> As I said, "if you're going to be querying directly on sub-fields of that field. If the json document is just getting exported out to the client without any inspection of the document from the SQL side, then it's fine".

How is that different from, say, pulling area codes from text phone numbers, subnet masks from CIDR designations, or dates from DATETIME fields?

Where first normal form is sometimes (productively) violated is something like storing a list of tags in a varchar[] array. Since the ordering doesn't matter, it is merely a set of tags (not a field which stores a single value as a whole), and violates 1NF, but is can be a reasonable tradeoff in certain cases.
Jesus.

If that's all it takes, I have no idea how this wasn't found much sooner.
If I hadn't just been to NY recently this comment would have sounded really conceited. For everyone wondering, if you get a chance to go to NYC just do it. Even if you think you hate big cities, do it.

And get out of my way. [1]

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LmPBPWHJu4&noredirect=1
Very useful post -- shows that in the Internet age where connectivity is abound and growing, expansion is accessible to all businesses, large and small.
"Lastly the weather is unparalleled from Nov thru March." Yeah and it's fucking gawdawful for the rest of the year. You can put on more clothes when it's cold but you can't put on more cold when it's hot. But you do get warm water for 6 months of the year. To each their own. Just don't tell me I'm stupid for picking mine. Tell me what's better. Fucking Hot and Humid is not a reason.
At $173 today, that $266 spike isn't looking quite so ludicrous. It's not like the math in bitcoin is useless, the math is what verifies transactions.

Anyway, I find the "lack of intrinsic value" argument pretty flimsy. Bitcoin has more use to me than the equivalent dollar value in grain or livestock. One person's "intrinsic value" is another's useless dross. There's always a way your investment can lose value in the eyes of others.

The only real misgivings I have with bitcoin are over the dark bitcoins out there (mined in the very early days). Who knows if they'll ever pop back into circulation, and to whom they belong. Other than that, it's all pretty exciting stuff.
Having once lived in Florida, there is a greater culture of AC in the far south than in the far north. I have been more uncomfortable during the summer in Connecticut than I ever was in Florida.

That said, I think there is a mindset to enjoying the heat as well. You should probably not expect to go hiking through the woods in the summer in Florida. It's just not pleasant to be in such places in such humidity with such insects. If you live in Florida, your weekends should be spent at the beach (and please do not call it the shore, it's like calling it soda vs. pop). Sand will get into everywhere and everything, so learning how to deal with sand is a major part of enjoying Florida.
Hey, there's no contact details in your profile but can I borrow some of your time to chat about tech work in Vancouver? voltagex at voltagex.org
No, I've been around the block. There is a legitimate and drastic difference between everywhere else (in the U.S. and Europe, at least) and this city. The only other place in the U.S. that competes is L.A., and S.F. but only for burritos (why doesn't NYC have burritos?).
your bbq and pizza sucks. seriously, it does. your "immigrant" food however is quite good.
Add a hash of the userAgent in the session. How about adding some shared secret in the browser's localStorage?
Hey, I'm really sorry! I didn't mean to come off as suggesting you're any less smart for your decisions. I just wrote this up as a formalization for when my friends ask me why I live in Miami. I didn't expect for it to front page HN.

Again, I'm sorry for offending you!
I love how the first item in the screenshot is "Does everyone hate MongoDB?". Good old HN.
Come back here and I will show you pizza. Clearly you missed it. Or maybe the donald was your guide: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-1-2011/me-lover-s...
This is probably a bit off topic, but I notice that they implemented their own hashmap with pluggable hash functions. Awesome in theory (and practice), though I notice that the performance of their custom hash table is poorer than Go's built-in hash map (Go's hashmap takes 1/2, 3/4, and 9/10th the time of their hashmap for small, medium, and large keys, respectively - though this could be related to the updated aes hash in Go, and that my processor supports it).

While looking through the implementations, the Gnatsd hashmap implementation is a simple table with buckets, where as the Go hashmap also uses a table with buckets, though each "bucket" has 8 slots by default (and does subsequent chaining). Go's chunking of buckets helps caches work better, reduces random reads, and helps to minimize overhead (fewer pointers if you have fixed-size data). Read the first 83 lines of http://golang.org/src/pkg/runtime/hashmap.c to see what good structure design and experimentation gets you.

Does someone have an example where a 'go test --bench="." -gcflags="-B"' call in the gnatsd/hashmap path actually comes out ahead for the Gnatsd hashmap using a recent Go?
Cool tool, but the search interface could use a little work. Some sort of autocomplete would make it easier to find congressmen by name (I typed "Bernie Sanders" when I had to put in "Bernard Sanders").
I assume you're talking about LCD? Not too many LED displays around (though the principle is still similar).

While there's no scanning electron beam the electronics on these displays are still optimized for scanning. That is they push a whole bunch of adjacent pixels in every clock cycle. If you try to use those for random access your refresh rate is going to fall dramatically. The problem isn't whether or not each pixel can be switched independently it's how to efficiently address them and move data from the display controller to the display.

(editing with some more info)

If you changed the monitor's protocol to push X, Y, pixel and souped up the on-board electronics your pixel rate would probably fall by an order of magnitude. So your 80Hz display is now an 8Hz display (for full frames). In terms of how each pixel behaves they are independent (each has it's own transistor and capacitor) but the addressing is on a grid. So you can select your row and then set a whole bunch of pixels in this row (for example)...
If BART became automated they could afford to run more trains, especially later at night, as they do in Vancouver: http://www.humantransit.org/2010/02/driverless-rapid-transit...
> With what? You're an economist, not an MMA fighter.

A) you don't know that, B) everyone else would be an MMA fighter?

> Right, so the nerds get together and beat down the MMA fighters and create laws against "murder" and "theft"...

Premise construction

> ...and pretty soon you've got government.

Magic

> We're living in your nice little equilibrium.

Conclusion

I can't even accuse you basing your argument on a logical fallacy, because there isn't an argument present.
IBM super-quiet room
Former Floridian who've lived all over the country and couldn't agree with you more. It's not just it's in the South. Texans are far better and nicer than the average Floridian. There's something very, very wrong with that state. People there are so cynical and always assume the worst about everything. More often than not though, they are right.
ActiveMerchant is a good one for Rails: http://activemerchant.org/

There are a few for Django, but none that I know of that have the full range that ActiveMerchant does.

Another option is to look for processors with an iframe solution like Stripe Checkout or WePay Iframe Checkout (I think PayPal used to have one but they may have killed it). The nice thing about these solutions is that they take care of 100% of the payment form and annoying stuff like AVS, luhn validation, error response handling, etc.

Good luck! Payments is hard.
As Miami as the Miami Dolphins.. are you suggesting that Miami is drastically different than it's surrounding area.. the city limits of Miami are quite large, and have many different types of neighborhoods. I love that everyone that lives in Miami thinks they are different, and never want to be grouped with 'outsiders' (folks that live in neighboring counties), but anyone that doesn't, considers all Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach the same. It's always referred to as SFL, South Florida.. All the startups, investors, etc mentioned in articles like this are not located IN Miami.. they are spread across SFL.
Plus there is the zoom and whoosh factor, which BART already has: http://www.humantransit.org/2010/01/transits-zoomwhoosh-prob...
That form is filled in by engineers before they give interviews, to help HR get good coverage when setting up a series of interviews. It's not used for anything else.
wow, you've been to the US AND THE EU... impressed. I'm impressed that only SF and LA have burritos. YOU ARE A WORLD TRAVELLER. Whee, immediate -4 karma.

But seriously nyc has some good food but it doesn't have a stranglehold on great ingredients. The west coast in fact has better access and makes better use of it because it's natural to just assume that those things exists.

Some of the best food I've had is actually in local quality resturants in detroit, stl, pittsburgh, and boston, when they are showing off their natural 300 mile radius ingredients and how to use them in season.
So my NYC experience is Buddakan, Hillstone, LAVO, DINER in Williamsburg, Foodswings in Williamsburg & Lombardi's. They're all pretty great, but I can name very very competitive restaurants for each of them in Miami (Scarpetta, J Alexander, Prime Italia, Gigi in Wynwood & choices in Brickell).

I'm not saying the food is better than NYC, you guys win on sheer volume, I'm just saying it's damn good & really easy to find (unlike the suburbs I grew up in)!
So would I. I'm a student who has a passion for web design and programming (and no passion for classes). I want to learn not only how students get started in freelance, but how they have TIME for freelance. I have trouble doing good in school and working on personal side projects at the same time.
Being in Vancouver/Victoria helps. It's basically Bay Area climate.
The implication of this post is that people in Miami are dumber, less creative, and "worse at life" than those in San Francisco.

The population of Miami is around 410,000. When someone tries to "comparing the people of X", where X is a population of 410,000, I think the bigger insight is to be gleaned from the writer's preconceptions than their conclusions.
Such a time wouldn't exist.
http://i.imgur.com/7ZAnqlh.jpg
As others have said, it's not particularly hard. Just practice and memorization.

A few years ago I was determined to learn for some odd reason. From watching videos like those linked, I took a week of 2-3 hours after work to be able to reliably solve a cube using one popular simple method.

Now I seem to be able to get close, but can't remember the last couple of steps. Meh.
Reflecting on the problems with metals-backed currency (eg FRNs) it's a wonder that nobody thinks BTC is the ultimate form of money.

It's especially a wonder that us hackers don't think it'll work, and that HN is so opposed in general (at least judging by the number of comments against it).

I wonder if this reflects the US-centrism of HN. I believe it's become a lot more popular in Europe (especially Germany, where Satoshi may well have been from).
Its really sad that you took the time to write this explanation, when a significant percentage of the folks who responded to it don't even seem to have read it.

They just went right back to arguing their positions in a manner that doesn't even begin to respond to the points that you made.

Sure, some of them clearly did read it, but I think they are outnumbered by the people who either didn't read it or didn't understand.

It would be great if they took your advice and refocused their efforts on coming up with a solution to this:

>the increasing prevalence of mean and stupid comments

It would be a tough problem to solve, but it would make HN a much stronger community, and a much better place to hang out.
Sweet, I attended a talk about this this spring in our university.
The one big question was about the enormous energy density in these cubes. It must some way or another get into them, which seemed quite impossible to do.
But, I for one hope this leads to some big leaps in performance that were previously not within reach for the foreseeable future.
As a native born Miamian studying CS the University of Miami, this excites me. I grew up in Bal Harbour and around college time I knew leaving would be a mistake. Nothing compares to the Aventura/ South Beach/ Coral Gables environments. However, It's been really hard to get into the tech community here, even though theres an amazing potential for startups in this city. I'm working on something myself but it seems as if theres no support and I always assumed I'd have to move to California or up north if I wanted to be a serious programmer, so this is great news!

P.S. If anyone needs an intern, I make a great cuban coffee! jacobmizraji@gmail.com
No really, it was a greasy pile of shit.

- You win no favors with the trump and SP on that

- http://www.restaurantpi.com/ is good but it's not the best. Obama loves it and pissed of chicago for it though

- Seriously though, pizza is a regional thing. I'm not going to convince you that your pizza is shit no matter how crap the ingredients and the velveta topping are. You're not going to convince a CPK fan that their pizza is shit.

- The best Chicago style pizza is actually in STL. That's a challenge and a threat.
You don't understand his point.

He's saying, how do you know that the system hasn't acquired some sort of configuration/software/hardware degradation in the meantime that only manifests on boot?

If you don't regularly exercise/test a critical function, then you substantially increase your risk that the critical function will fail when you really do need it.

Q: What's the worst time to find out your system won't boot?
A: Right after it crashed.

You are better off with scheduled maintenance periods where you can reboot the server and it isn't critical if it fails. That gives you a chance to correct anything on your terms rather than fire-fighting.
Some retailers use the last digit to encode information about the price, like whether it's controlled by the manufacturer, whether it's a seasonal price, or whether its been marked for clearance.
I've eaten well in every major city of the east coast, and a few in the UK. NYC is a monoculture of food. A distinct culture of its own, but a monoculture nonetheless. You won't find good BBQ in NYC. Decent fried chicken is easier to find in some backwards farm town of Pennsylvania than it is in NYC. I still assert that the best burger in the world is in Harrisburg, PA, and I specifically look and test everywhere I go. Pizza comes in one form, as do Ramen noodles. Yes, there are some amazing French restaurants there, but there is no shortage of amazing French restaurants in the country. And they have no clue what they are doing with a crab.
Thank goodness someone mentioned Tom Lehrer. He's "exhibit A" in the case for funny mathematicians. I wish there were a Youtube clip of Tom performing "New Math", but this is close:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHuRcDnJOAQ
Plenty of good non-mormon places in WA and OR to reside. While not quite SLC for outdoors, they aren't bad. Bend for example
Shoot an email off to the guys at growlab. They were really helpful and inviting when last I talked to them.
Probably because it's so simple.
Relevant HN post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6107815
State sales tax in FLA is %6 currently. Obviously it varies by jurisdiction but thats a pretty good rate for the US. Sales tax == VAT in the EU
No, the GPL only requires you to share your changes if you distribute the product (and no, issuing it to your own soldiers/employees doesn't count). If they give/sell these to other countries, though...
Actually, 4k screens are useless for TVs (despite what all the TV manufactures want you to believe), since you generally sit so far away from them. A 4k monitor would be very nice, since it would be large but still very high DPI (ie, "Retina").
Amusingly Miami has 3 schools on that list (Florida has 5), and all of California has 2 (neither in the Bay Area).

Though unless you're planning on sending your kids to one of these schools I don't think this really tells you much of anything.
Could you imagine the graphics that are possible with a one petaflop computer? Simulation status right?

I'm praying we (humanity) don't nuke ourselves to death during some stupid WWIII type situation before we get there
Your posts are so well-written that I feel compelled to point out these few errata while you may still edit this one post:

- Your post is incoherent.

- why, based on the historical record,

- were relieved of their

- They won the central

- what you're getting at

- , for free,

I actually pointed out the mistakes, then worried that the malformed sentences would remain, and so I've posted the corrections instead.

Also, I think you might be responding to a troll. Or at least somebody with no hope of understanding or redemption, which is almost worse. Sigh, such is HN on matters of inordinate privilege.
I think the implication is more that the tech talent you find in Miami tends to be of a lower caliber, not that the people are generally dumber.
IMHO that's good. I've done some OpenStack work (a JS client), and I think it could benefit from an alternate implementation - there was too much reverse engineering involved.
Unfortunately that test-case passes against 0.8.25 as well. So I'm not quite convinced it can be used reliably to reproduce the problem.
A similar non-OS example - early versions of the Patriot missile had to be rebooted every 8 hours or less because their clocks built up rounding errors over time.

http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/~alum/patriot_bug.html
Is it really under the radar though? If you're aiming for TechCrunch front page then being in SF is probably a much better bet, but beyond that hype bubble you can still do very well. There are certainly talented people all over the country and of course you're going to save money on rent, salaries, and basically everything else if you go outside of San Francisco.

Not having ever founded a company I could be extremely wrong here but my take is that SF could be detrimental to certain startups.. If you have $x saved up to support you while you start a company it's going to last you much longer in basically any other city in the country other than perhaps Manhattan. At that point you basically have to decide which is going to be more of a factor in your success, extra time with which to build your product or physical proximity to an entrepreneurial community? Of course there's no one right answer, but I suspect that for many web-based startups the extra time and savings would be more important than the surrounding environment.
"Source Released".

Good scientist.
Superfluous?

Ok, so the face value of "sorry" implies apology but putting the situation in context it seems less a question of culpability and more of a shared sense of frustration against/for a common goal.

How does it make you feel when you are peeved off at the rain and someone comes up to you to share in the misery?

It's about a shared sense of understanding more than anything else. If some people choose to take advantage of this for ulterior purposes - well, that's the very definition of emotional manipulation.