skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don't see many positions for Haskell, either (and I'd like to). OOP class systems are so irritating when you could get more powerful type-checking from less boilerplate. Maybe I should look into F#? AFAICT it seems to be Haskell's sister, who left academia to do finance and is pulling seven figures in her early twenties.
There is a basic Z-Wave driver ( https://github.com/ninjablocks/ninja-zwave ) but (at least to me) BLE and ZigBee look a lot more interesting at the moment. Lots of fun gear being released for both, and decent mobile support for BLE will lead to some interesting stuff.

That breakout board just provides the pins already on the Pi. The Ninja Pi Crust has an Arduino on-board and provides compatibility with existing Arduino shields, as well as wireless 433mhz communication (to turn lights on and off etc.).

(Disclosure : I'm a Ninja, and yes... an Aussie :)
Can a toy car bring robotics out of the research lab and into the living room?
I agree. Security is definitely a major concern for me. Still a cool concept though
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If Litecoin goes up in value, he is far better off just using all that money to buy Litecoins now when they are cheap.
There's nothing particularly evil about Bezos buying the WP, but it's another step in my long-held belief that all of the major traditional news organs will be controlled by people who make their money elsewhere.
And Racket... Those crazy Russians.
If it's not amoral and there is no fraud involved, then it should not be a crime.
> not very exciting

So you are "unexcited" by Glass, Loons, Earth/map/streetview, Go, etc.?
I would estimate that 99% of the people I know that use Facebook / Twitter / Gmail etc. think they are worth basically $0.

After all, who do you know that has paid to use them?

(obviously, I understand the reality, but most don't)
Curse you; you added five papers to my already-full reading list :)
Hey, makes sense now.
Think about how much you hear about Yahoo in 2013.

Think about how much you heard about Yahoo in 2011.
I'm not sure it's that easy.

Logistics is an easy problem? AWS is an easy problem? Overturning the publishing industry is an easy problem?

Put another way: Google has one product (search) that makes them money. Amazon has several.
Streetview is cool. I guess I am impressed by good navigation algorithms. Loons, glass, Go, lots of aerial data -- yeah, impressive, sure.
That might actually be better for said news organs.
Please read the post with a heavy dose of sarcasm mixed with admiration :) I'd very much like to see formidable challengers arise.

And I actually wrote this post a week before Bezos bought the WaPo, although I think it only underscores the point.
sorry brainfart. edited.
Did you guys have receipts for them when you got them used. I picked up some on auction and they need a couple small replacement parts.
It also seems to be four times the price? That's what's listed here[1]. Either way, could you describe your experience? What do you use it for, and is it worth the expense? I'm wary of electric bikes because they are expensive, heavy, and let you exercise less.

[1]http://electricbikereview.com/bionx/sl-350/
I think that's a better alternative than having traditional news organs being controlled by people who make their money from those news organs.

(I would argue the best alternative is ownership by individuals/organizations who have no financial stake whatsoever in journalism.)
I worked for GE out of college when joining a program called IMLP. Feel free to reach out if you want to know my thoughts. Overall very positive. Got to move around 4 different places in 2 years.
It's me or that beta.yandex.com search engine (that I've never heard before) is a complete ripped-off of google? I mean, I know it's a search engine. But in term of UI and design choices, the beta looks very similar.
This is nice. I might give this a try around this weekend :)
Everytime I hear about Yahoo it's because we're all collectively cringing at yet another ridiculous thing they did. Or is that not how everyone feels?
What we currently have is a market with the illusion of honesty. That's what insider trading laws are there to provide. It's not real trust between counter-parties in a market. Eliminating insider trading laws wouldn't change much, just lift that veil. If everyone participating in the market knows that people can be operating at a significant and privileged informational advantage, they will just take that into account when researching the market and executing their trading strategy. They won't stop trading, just trade differently.

It is likely that the repeal of insider trading laws would prompt a greater investment in discovering insider information and making that information known to the market faster. Firms that do nothing but specialize in getting insider information would crop up. Those in the know would eventually have to assume that their counter-parties may have the same information perhaps through the same information contact or through different ones that have the same info.

If you really play through the scenario of removing the restriction posed by insider trading laws, you'll see that things aren't really better or worse in terms of the greater good. Without insider trading laws, there is no victim since the victim knows they are playing a different game. The laws themselves are responsible for permitting victimization to occur in the first place since it implies the expectation of trust where there often isn't any.
Because until IE reaches Opera levels of usage, there are a large number of sites that don't target programmers that won't be able to build on stuff like this, because they don't want to cut out a big chunk of their potential market.
It's really weird reading the comments here. I guess I'm jealous of people who have parents worth seeing.

I haven't seen my mother in well over half a decade, and am much healthier for it.
The copenhagen wheel looks pretty cool. Too bad nobody can buy it. I guess those copenhagen people can put whatever they want on their press release since they will probably never turn it into an actual product.
Excellent point. There is another category of bad owners too, state owned. I'd almost prefer that to the square metre of adverts per story that the local rag produces though.
Internally each FE runs HAProxy to round robin between all of the shared backends, no ESB involved. Hoping to write another blog post about this soon.

Agree that the link is kind of not-good, this might help a little... http://www.slideshare.net/twilio/highavailability-infrastruc...

I wish I could say more about our infrastructure and experience with SOA, but I'm a little limited in what I can share. We are hiring though :)
> RAID-0

do you really need that extra bit of performance to justify increased risk of loosing data and inconvenience of a rebuild?
Hah! What I meant was that it's a beater laptop that I've banged around and carried everywhere with me. And it's always worked. It's so low cost that I didn't give replacing the keyboard and taking it apart to dust the fan a second thought.

It's the difference between driving a Ferrari and worrying about a minor scratch and driving a station wagon through a muddy road.
Great analysis, looks like someone is a Pokemon master.
That's certainly how the article explained it.
As someone with insomnia AND eye problems, this makes monitors a lot less painful for me. Downloading the new version now!
There are protections against outright fraud, rolling the odometer back or not disclosing a rebuild title.

If the engine is about to burst, caveat emptor.
Usually if you buy a product with a one year warranty you don't expect it to be unusable after 13 months. I don't know if they can swap batteries though, that would change things.
IMO a startup in general typically exits through acquisition.

Do you have any data to back up your claim that lean startup is more likely to get acquired?
Show HN: Sync Google Drive (3rd party app) to Raspberry Pi
The primary function of bitcoin is as a store of value, its utility as medium of exchange comes after that.

The only reason people choose to store their labour in bitcoin today is that they predict the same amount of bitcoin will buy the same or greater labour in the future less the costs of converting to/from bitcoin (transaction costs). The only reason they'd store their labour in any other way is if they were getting a better deal.

Said another way, if bitcoin's primary use was as a currency the silkroad shutdown should have lowered the price of bitcoin proportionally. People using bitcoin as a currency could convert into it at the last possible minute instead of holding it. You need people treating it as a store of value for it to have a price tomorrow.
How on earth does the timing affect this?

The government's claim: Mark Cuban was on a phone call where he was told information and promised not to trade based on it. He immediately went out and sold his stock.

Mark Cuban's claim: Mark Cuban was on a phone call where he was told information but didn't promise anything. He immediately went out and sold his stock.

Both of these claims would exhibit the same timing, so I don't see how timing can help decide the important question, which was whether he was technically an "insider" for the purpose of the law.
Having done e-bike mods in the past, rear-dropouts tend to be stronger than front-dropouts, and on any steel bike you can put a lot of torque on the front dropouts.

Only problem with rear-dropouts is accommodating the gearset, which they cleverly handled by eliminating the gearset; that will suck if you run out of power downhill from your destination, but will otherwise work fine.
Brilliant!

When my friends have asked "why is it orange?" I've launched into an explanation of how blue light at night is unnatural and causes insomnia. Somehow, I hadn't thought of just temporarily deactivating f.lux and letting them see for themselves!

Will do next time.
You kidding right? I hardly think Amazon Prime 2 day shipping an easy problem at scale. Fortune 500 companies outsource this kind of problem to companies like IBM, and they deal with it on smaller scales.

This is not an easy problem to solve while being profitable. And they are working on introducing perishables into the problem statement. Hardly easy.
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All I have to say is that is awesome
Maybe consider scraping bulbapedia into an SQL database? :)

-- i'm dreaming
SELECT pokemon.name
FROM
pokemon
JOIN pokemon_learn_moves ON pokemon.id = pokemon_learn_moves.pokemon_id
JOIN move ON pokemon_learn_moves.move_id = move.id
WHERE
move.name_en = "Hydro Pump"
ORDER BY pokemon.sp_atk DESC LIMIT 1;

Actually, from this perspective there's a lot of boilerplate, no wonder people like key-value stores... Then use python-nltk to make an english wrapper (and say goodbye to your free time for the next month!)
If the seller of stock fails to disclose all knowledge about problems with the company would that seller be committing fraud by withholding that information? It seems to me that the comparison is quite easy to make.
f.lux only changes the color temperature and that is what I use it for. Changing the display brightness is easy: just use the brightness adjustment keys on the keyboard. I set my display brightness as low as possible, while still keeping the screen easy to read.
Google gesture patent would let Glass wearers 'heart' real-world objects
While we're plugging ones we've used, I like http://www.ampedbikes.com/ I have an old ugly battery; they now have a shiny frame battery that I can't justify buying.
Your sarky and condescending parent comment made it clear that you believe the US government is useless and should be abolished. As you did not propose any alternative support systems, this would mean starvation for those on food stamps.

That's not a strawman, comrade - that's called a logical conclusion.
It's almost like you are trying to misinterpret my post. Large volume of code? The site displays roughly 600 lines of code, is this a large volume of code to you?

Like I posted - just below - a day before your post: "My post was not meant to trash the code, but rather to point out that this code shows us that the primary objective shouldn't necessarily be writing the perfect code."
interestingly, f.lux is also free, at least for me. i use it yet haven't paid a dime. so it doesn't exactly look like they're trying to make a profit.. and i'm glad for that.
It's a good question: who in technology is afraid of Bezos?

While a lot of technology leaders might admire Bezos for his leadership of Amazon, I wonder how many fear him. Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut.

For example, despite years of effort, the Kindle Fire has not significantly harmed the market share or margin of the iPad. Google and Samsung have done far more damage to Apple. And Amazon's media sales are not much of a threat to Apple: they haven't stolen significant share, and Apple does not try to make money on content anyway.

I think there are a lot of people who do fear Bezos, but they are mostly retailers and hosting companies.
Not much new here — who doesn't already realize this — and Heroku does not belong on the list of EC2 competitors, given that they actually host on EC2. There's a big difference between IaaS and PaaS.
They don't really make any money on those things, at least yet.
I'm no feminist, but look up Mayer's background before making idiotic statements like that.
no. we are a school wanting to help start-ups learn marketing and become better start-ups. we are not a lead gen company or an affiliate that sells names or leads. read our site, look at who our founders and advisers are, and you'll see we are legit.
The chances of me sticky-taping my phone to the front of my bike are non-existent.

...but also, won't charging this be a complete pain? I'm just imaging a bicycle sitting next to all the other USB charge devices on my desk. Awkward...
Maybe I haven't been reading much, but what else has Yahoo done recently besides bring in Mayer and do a website redesign?
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A bought a Dell with Ubuntu once. I recall calling tech support asking how does one update the firmware. If memory serves, support wasn't sure how to deal with it not being Windows. Since then, I'd just bought Dell laptops with Windows and either dual boot Ubuntu or replace Windows entirely. The Ubuntu Dell was lousy spec wise. It's easy to update firmware with a FreeDOS boot disk.

For my next laptop, might get a System76.

Slightly OT, but had money to burn for a work desktop and went with a Supermicro workstation. Very nice hardware. More expensive but much better than Dell/HP/Lenovo workstations. Ironically, still cheaper than a Mac Pro desktop. Also better -- Mac Pro RAID was a poorly thought through overpriced garbage, last time I worked with it up a couple of years ago.
1) Not a problem and very understandable. I don't require work-related samples, just code samples in general.
2) Also understandable, but it's really no different than doing it on a whiteboard in my office. Might as well take 30 minutes to write some code in an environment where you're comfortable versus doing it on a whiteboard where you're under pressure, yes?

A would rule you out as a candidate for me. Passion is almost always a requirement.
B would be acceptable -- in general, language doesn't matter. It's the ability to write code and explain it that matters.
C would be a tossup. If you write crap code for fun, then why would you write better code for real? But I get that. Sometimes I write code for fun just to see if something works, and I never refactor it to make it more efficient or whatever. That's understandable. Again, it's more about the ability to master the basics to begin with.

I can teach you to be a better programmer, provided you understand the basics (which your code samples should demonstrate). I don't have time to teach you the basics (unless I'm specifically hiring an intern or something.)

Also, consider that in my original post, I said this is my process and how I do things. It has worked very well for me so far. I may rule you out, but I'm willing to bet that there are others equally as good (or better) than you that are willing to do what I consider to be far less annoying than the way interviews are conducted now.

I don't want to waste your time -- nor my own time. That's the end game here. By having code samples ready for me, you are eliminating a not insignificant amount of redundancy for both of us.
jQuery is a tool (not framework) to manipulate and control DOM elements.
State controlled media is certainly bad, but that is not implied by state ownership. In my experience state owned organisations provide better quality journalism than their commercial counterparts, and the gap is widening as commercial media race each other to the bottom.
Sweet product. But am I the only one who has noticed that the "locking" feature is an absolute joke? Esp. in NYC, where the most burly bike locks money can buy keep you a mere step ahead of only the least-committed thieves.

Also, can this thing run without a smartphone? If it's raining, you certainly don't want to keep your phone on the bars.
New York City Is Getting Wireless EV Chargers Disguised as Manholes
> his argument was that he never agreed not to trade on the confidential information.

Close, but not quite. Here's the TLDR of the case:

Mark owns a bunch of Mamma.com stock he bought on the open market.

The CEO of Mamma calls Mark, tells him the company is planning a new private offering of stock, with the hope that Mark would participate as a buyer and add more shares. However, Mark is not interested, probably because he is no longer confident about Mamma.com, and since the offering would dilute the value of the shares he already holds, he sells them immediately.

So Mark traded on inside information, yes. However, that does not make his action illegal. It would only be illegal if Mark had agreed to keep the information confidential.

It is important to note that Mark here is not an officer or similar in the company, and so he does not fit that definition of an insider. However, the legal theory is if someone who is an officer, such as the CEO, communicates with a third party like Mark with an agreement to keep the information confidential, then the fiduciary responsibility to keep the information confidential transfers to Mark. This would make Mark's trade illegal insider activity.

This was the crux of the case: the CEO says he told mark the conversation was confidential and that Mark agreed. Mark says he never agreed to any confidentiality. The Jury believed Mark at least to the standard of reasonable doubt.

The reason the confidentiality must be explicit is because otherwise bizarre and immoral situations could occur, such as overhearing a conversation at a restaurant making you legally responsible as an insider. Or a sociopathic/manipulative person could communicate information to a group in an on the record context creating a legal liability on the others present without their consent. Obviously that's not workable. If you've ever been on shareholder calls where it seems the executives are sticking tightly to a legal dept approved script, this is why.

If you're getting the feeling that insider trading cases are highly ambiguous and circumstantial, you'd be right. It's probably due for reform, but I won't pretend to know how to fix it. I would point out that insider information passing between third parties is a de-facto currency among professional traders, so enforcement does seem rather capricious.

In any case, I am not a lawyer, not your lawyer, and have no first hand information on this case other than what I've seen go by in the media.
Solves easy problems at large scale

I would love to see you in an Amazon interview. 80% of the interviewed melt down in the middle of it because they can't solve a problem that is 10 orders of magnitude easier than the problems they would be tackling on the job.
I'm not asking you to work for free. I'm asking you to provide code samples. There's a big difference. It's no different than coming into my office and coding on a whiteboard for me.

And for your other argument, I have a full time job but will sometimes take very short term (5-10 hours of work) contracts for interview purposes. Usually this is a last step before getting a job offer, more as a way to gauge whether I'd work well with the team than whether I can code in general.
This is pretty much Rails/Ruby related only, and I believe that even though there are points to be taken for other programming languages, people who still haven't contributed to OS and working with, say, PHP will not benefit much.

And have to mention:

> "2. IMPROVE AN EXISTING GEM TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE"

This is such a cliché ("[doing something] to make the world a better place"), misused everywhere from CVs, random blog posts like this and missions of companies.

Seeing this phrase just downgrades the opinion and value of the source for me.
>also made android

This is a common misconception. Google didn't "make" Android. They acquired it by purchasing Android, Inc.
> Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut.

Since when is AWS not a juggernaut...
Bulbasaur may have an edge, type wise, but I'd put money on Pikachu actually winning. Pikachu with Light Screen, Thunder Wave/Knock Off, Protect/Wish, and Hidden Power (Ice) with Light Ball, would completely take on a Bulbasaur. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pikachu_(Pok%C3%A9mon...

Bulbasaur would need Toxic/Sleep Powder, Growth, Energy Ball/Petal Dance/Giga Drain, and if you must, Hidden Power (Ground) with leftovers. Would NOT suggest using Leaf Storm unless you know you could knock out the opposing pokemon within two hits, even with the two stage lowering of the Special Attack. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bulbasaur_(Pok%C3%A9m...

The problem with your strategy is that it doesn't take into account crit attacks. Bulbasaur could get a critical hit on it and get all the way down to around 30% health left. The problem what that is that Bulbasaur is MUCH slower than Pikachu, so by the time that round is over, you don't have enough health to survive another neutral hit. The only way I could see Bulbasaur winning is with crit hits, or with just stalling out Pikachu (by changing growth to protect, hidden power ground to leech seed, and going with Giga Drain, you would have a really great chance to stall out Pikachu, if Pikachu doesn't 3HKO Bulbasaur), and hope he didn't have hidden power ice.

(If you're not using physical attacks, why waste a slot on Sword Dance, a move that increases the Physical attack stat??)