skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God. I have two different google accounts linked to my android devices -- my work address and my personal one. And Google Finance just Can Not Cope with that. Every time I open it, it prompts me (again) to choose (again) the only account I've ever used for Finance. And then, having chosen my account, it promptly makes all of my stocks disappear. THANKS FINANCE. So then I background and foreground and refresh a few time and it says, "Oh, okay, maybe I'll list your stocks for you."

As its postscript, if you click on your stock, you get a list of articles about that stock! Helpful! Those articles are webpages. So if you click on the article that's actually a link to the webpage, in a Google app, it will open the webpage in the other Google app that's designed for opening webpages, ie Chrome, right? WRONG. What you wanted was a crippled web browser inside the Finance app, right?
A Review of Monthly Operating Costs for a Startup’s Engineering Infrastructure
That's not a real solution though, it's half of a solution at best. All you're providing is a place to dump files, with none of the services that a backup solution would actually provide.

This may be fantastic for technical users, but it would be a nightmare if I used this to manage the backups of friends and family.

Ultimately I switched to CrashPlan, as that not only gave me offsite backups (for far cheaper than you, sorry) but using the same technology also offers me on site backups and the ability to back up to any server I control and choose. This allows me to have my friends backup to the CrashPlan service, to their own local drive, and to a computer I setup just in case both of those fail. Best part is I'm not stuck doing a bunch of work.

As a final note, your service is extremely expensive compared to just about everything else.
For me Google does indeed return Uranium One, Inc.(TSE:UUU). WolframAlpha on the other hand interprets the query correctly and provides sensible alternatives:

Assuming "UUU" is a financial entity | Use as an airport instead

Assuming AMEX:UUU | Use ZA:UUU instead
They should have gone with Tapir. That way we could have made "Calvin"-type peeing stickers that spanned the entire back window of our pickup trucks.

Tapirs - The Super Soakers of the animal kingdom.
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“Go home or face arrest”: the UK government’s latest anti-foreigner stunt
Elon Musk To Turn Lotus Submarine Into Working Bond Car
rather than stating the risks/benefits of fiat vs metal-backed currencies as absolutes, how about you address them as they really are?

what would you rather have controlling your inflation/deflation rates? the rate of mining of a metal from the ground? or, in the case of the US dollar, a specialist committee controlled by a democratically elected government? (and don't come back to me with bullshit fed conspiracies, here).

i mean this question quite honestly: sometimes, your government is so fucked up that yes, indeed, the mining process, if less controllable, is at least more reliable. however, in the case of most modern, powerful countries, this is far from true.
The fact that only a fraction of you have started using the streaming services that give me access to so much great video content. Netflix, by far the most successful Internet-based TV service, finished 2012 with only 27 million streaming subscribers in the U.S., compared to 99 million pay-TV subscribers across the leading cable and satellite TV providers.

Wait, Netflix has a quarter the viewers of all cable/sat TV viewers? Not inclined to call that "only a fraction", more like the hemorrhaging is well under way. Try taking all streaming video customers into account, I'd guess it's closer to half.

This "subsidizing" won't go on for long. My kids are growing with absolutely no notion of what "TV" (the ad-driven kind) is; those who do are used to a plethora of on-demand alternatives. 15 years from now, "channels" will be on-demand streaming sources unlike the schedule-driven content we have now.

The one thing I think is still missing: the streaming equivalent of TV's "here we are now, entertain us" - the pick a source and just watch a curated series of shows (not just same series episodes back-to-back).
This is potentially positive, but many times the patent troll shell companies deliberately hold very few assets. Even if the Supreme Court makes it easier to capture legal fees from them, there may not be a lot to capture (if anything).
Keep in mind that the 2 megasecond exposure was not done all at once. It consists of many shorter exposures (probably about 10-20 minutes apiece) added together. If the exposure had been done all at once, it would have saturated. Moreover, cosmic rays would ruin large regions of a single long-exposure image.
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Wow, that's fantastic. I recently published my own book last month and had a similar experience. Not quite the same profits (heh), but overall it was a great little adventure. I don't really do any marketing or promoting, I'm currently just getting by with a simple link on my website. I tried to bill it as a bathroom reader for the scientifically curious.

http://www.amazon.com/Zidbits-Learn-something-today-Volume/d...

One thing I found is that if you're going to write a book yourself, get someone (preferably multiple people) to check it for errors. Better yet, pay a professional. You may think you can find all the mistakes or grammar errors, but I guarantee that you won't. I learned the hard way.

I don't know if others had a similar experience, but writing an ebook version for the Kindle (through Amazon's KDP) was more difficult than writing an actual paperback. Createspace's paperback publishing seems to be more forgiving.

The nice thing about Amazon's publishing services is that they allow you to update and/or change your books if necessary.
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The Next Level Of Advertising: Object-Aware Advertising(tm)
Shutting down reader will give them stock value. Google plus is now the aggregation of your niche content. Reader was obsoleted by Google plus. This makes it easier to track an individual as well as create more intelligence on ads for that individual's likes.

More ads in the email app gives more revenue. Youtube is integrated into Google plus which helps them target ads even more.

It makes a lot of sense to me.
The thing I kept thinking when I was reading this was pedigree, pedigree, pedigree. Brown grad, University of Chicago, met at Harvard Summer School. Invested in a YC company already. One works at Stripe. This is quite the resume for two people.

On the other hand, it kind of worries me, because a lot of the most successful founders don't have anywhere near the level of accomplishment that is listed on this application. I think pg mentioned this at the last Demo Day. More and more "qualified" people are applying to YC now. I don't say this to diminish the quality of the application, I just wonder if these types of applicants are pushing out the young hackers that might have made it to an interview a few years ago.
Why the downvote? I was responding to the claim the impact of a Chinese bond dump is "misunderstood" because most bonds are held in the US by retail investors and mutual funds.

In fact, most treasuries are not held by retail investors or mutual funds in the US [1]. The largest buyer as of late has been the Fed [2], indicating that when the Fed is pursuing ZIRP, there aren't a whole lot of other buyers. If China were to dump its bond portfolio, either interest rates would spike, or the Fed would have to expand its balance sheet by another trillion dollars.

[1] http://useconomy.about.com/od/monetarypolicy/f/Who-Owns-US-N...
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-03/treasury-scarcity-t...
I get the feeling that he sees himself that way and I can relate to that a bit.

Seeing these applications... well, they're full of people coming from the best schools in the world, having the best connections one can imagine, usually having several successful startups under their belt - or, barring that, they're often behind immensely successful open source projects. They're people who seem to have been recognized as absolutely amazing from early childhood on.

I think it's natural that this can feel a bit intimidating, and yes, sometimes these amazing people can come off as a bit standardized themselves, too.
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this bullshit example gets trotted out every time somebody tries to prove this point, but it never gets any more relevant.

yes, google shows a lot of ads for a vague, contextless search query. but nobody ever searches for anything so vague unless they're trying to prove how google search results are going down the toilet. if you search for the name of a category of information, it's impossible to know what aspect is relevant to you and you're either going to get ads or irrelevant results, and google has chosen to serve ads instead of irrelevant results..

try searching for bitcoin mining, bitcoin exchange, etc, and you'll see relevant results.
I don't use RVM anymore and don't know whether this specific bug was fixed. The point of my example wasn't "RVM sucks because I once encountered a bug". The point was that RVM's model of tampering with the user's environment in a global way is problematic because when bugs inevitably arise, as they do in all software, they break unrelated software in ways that an inexperienced user wouldn't be able to tie to RVM.

This is what I think your Python example below misses. If Python is slow because it doesn't have a JIT and that causes someone's program to run too slowly, they can see that the problem is that Python is slow. Python's lack of a JIT would never cause "man traceroute" to stop working in a shell session where the user hasn't done anything related to Python and couldn't possibly guess that Python is the culprit.
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Why we revert to original titles
In the HN guidelines, we ask submitters to use original titles when
possible. When they don't, we often change the title of a post
back to the original title of the article.

There is an ongoing trickle of complaints about this, as if we were
engaged in some sort of sinister conspiracy.

Titles on HN are not self-expression the way comments are. Titles
are common property. The person who happens to submit something
first shouldn't thereby get the right to choose the title for
everyone else. This would be clearer if we didn't let submitters
enter a title-- if our software simply let people submit urls, and
retrieved the title from the page. We don't do this because it's
too inflexible. Some articles have titles that are too long. In
others the subtitle makes a better title. But the fact that a title
field is editable doesn't make it comment.

It's true that when submitters change titles, their new titles often
contain more information than the article's original title. But a
significant percentage of the extra information added in this way
is false. The only way we can tell if a newly created title is
accurate is to read the article, and we're not about to read every
article submitted to HN. The only option is to revert to the
original title, which is at least what the author intended.

(We do sometimes change titles from the original when the original
title is egregious linkbait, or false. We have also, since the
beginning when our users were largely YC alumni, put e.g. (YC S13)
after the names of YC companies in titles. But these are not the
types of changes users mean when they complain about moderators
changing titles.)

If we had infinite attention to spend on moderation, we could read
every article and decide whether each user-created title was better
than the original title. But we don't. Moderating HN is no one's
full time job. And frankly it's not that big a deal anyway. If
we're going to expend cycles trying to fix something about HN, the
increasing prevalence of mean and stupid comments has a much higher
priority than the fact that authors' original titles are not maximally
informative.
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Would you rather pay $80 to watch Game of Thrones and Homeland, or $80 a month for a year ($960 total) to watch those episodes plus old rerun movies and syndicate shows? I suppose it's a matter of preference but I choose the former :)
I spend more on drinks in one week. And besides there's just something nostalgic about live television you can't (currently) replicate on the web. I can instantly watch programming on topics I would otherwise not seek out myself.
How to get started creating status bar apps for Mac OS X using RubyMotion
Okay, fine. I will pay more up front to watch TV as it happens. But, you can't complain that HBO Go isn't available without a cable subscription anymore.
Insight comes simply from having read the linked page. But at a guess, I'd say it comes from "let's do something small and simple in bash" combined with a bad case of incremental feature creep.
I have sleep apnea and use a CPAP machine nightly. My CPAP device comes with a humidifier chamber to keep the humidity of the air I breathe in high.

One of the side-effects of using a CPAP machine is that sinus congestion never bothers me as long as I have the device on. It provides enough pressure that my sinus are forced to remain open when turned.

So maybe look into using a CPAP machine to help you out.
But but but, concussions! Surely that one word instantly changes your opinion on sports and fills you with regret and shame and makes you no longer want to watch live sports.
There are a lot of benefits to running the same operating system on bare metal and cloud, even if the cloud instances are not as performant as the bare metal.

Move containers around, scale out easily, etc.
Oh, well, that's totally different, of course!
Ask HN: How do you organize libs and repos you like?
I've now starred 148 repos on Github, which is probably nothing compared to some people but it's still a lot to hunt through when I am looking for something.

Anyone have a good way to re-find utilities or libraries when you need them later?
I wish I would have bought some calls. Google always seems to smash earnings and jump up a nice percentage.
It was all in good fun, all of my teachers/the administration liked me (so far as I can tell), they just hated dealing with me.
My mom has been one of them. This has been also happening to her, but the overall risk of losing your government job vs. the private sector is still a better bet to make.
If you have any example bad queries

Hey Moultano,
how come Google's ad clicks increased by 22% this quarter when Adsense was largely flat? Oh, I see. You decided that Google's properties are more "relevant" especially the ads.

Nice scam you got going.
> I'm going to assume that people don't, and don't like to, read documentation, and adjust my software to that fact.

Fine, but rvm has chosen the completely wrong way to go about adjusting the software to that fact! Rather than build a simple system that has an optional easy-mode layer on top, rvm begins with some crazy complex shell-builtin overriding functionality and works backwards from there. If at some later time I want to use the just put shit on my path mode, I'm shit out of luck.
I did the copying by a for loop copying In32 Arrays which is an acceptable solution. It slows down the worker thread by 1-2% by using 10fps and a screen size of 640x400x32. I think the reason why I didn't used more advanced ArrayBuffer functions to do this was the IE. Probably this has changed.
The color transformations and so on can be done in the master GUI-thread.
What Garrett Stanley and Yang Dan did in that work [1] is very cool, but it's a reconstruction. It is "what a cat sees" in the same sense that a false color image is "what a satellite sees". Essentially they regressed the activity of an ensemble of LGN neurons (visually responding neurons in the thalamus) with pixels on a camera to build a set of linear filters in space and in time. Then they used those filters to reconstruct the scenes based on the neural activity alone [2]. So it's what the cat sees in a kind of information-theoretic sense.

1. https://stanley.gatech.edu/publications/stanley_dan_1999.pdf

2. And actually on a reread this morning, it doesn't seem that they cross-validated their reconstructions. So perhaps their reconstructed movie frames are actually an overestimation. Regardless, there is no doubt that their technique works and it was a great starting point. Keep in mind: they did this in 1999!
The fact that they are not helping people move their data is very un-apple of them. Apple used to be a customer focused company but they seem to have lost that in the last few years.

Telling my mother in law to "back up her computer" and then giving her a new, blank drive that she has to install her own OS on and then restore from backup is completely useless -- she'd have no clue where to even begin.

So now Apple has told her "you're going to lose all your data and we can't help you". Not cool.
FDA website is misconfigured
For the lazy programmers who don't want to write some quick JS to simulate what a dichromat perceives as green:

http://ill.cc/colorz.html

click on the page, toggle between red & green with any keypress
Governments typically spend more than they earn

Funny how at the end of the 90s, we had set things up to pay down the national debt, and how one of the issues in the 2000 election was what to do with the projected surplus. I believe it was Gore Vidal who referred to the "United States of Amnesia."
Who 'we'? And why do they feel its better than the alternative? I can see why the digital dollar trumps gold, the transaction costs are way lower but I don't think bitcoin has the same problem.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, store-of-value > medium-of-exchange or the other way around. Darwinism in all its glory.
Key reasons this was accepted (in my opinion, anyway):

1) Stripe employee.

2) Very clear product. Potential market is huge and has money and is willing to pay for this service - they already pay banks for it. First successful product in this market will create huge barriers to competition by essentially setting the standard in banks. Also very clear descriptions of how/where they are tackling the problem shows a lot of understanding.

3) Second time founder, already built a successful product - Giftly.
Slick, although looks promising, is not ready. Lack of documentation, examples, and voodoo syntax. If anyone can tell me what $, #$, and +? inside sqlu statement are?

So here is something I found. Its a benchmark for some of the ORM frameworks out there. Slick doesn't do too well.

http://databen.ch/
Interestingly, $12K is over twice the average advance in the publishing world, which says something about the health of the technical publishing ecosystem.

If you don't mind my asking (customer discovery process here), what tools did you use to write the book?
You mean to say, 10^7 isn't KKK?
Yglesias' extreme language always gets me.

>> It doesn't give China any leverage over the American government

They get some leverage. China's bond buying lowers rates on everything from mortgages to student loans. I agree that fear mongers overstate this, though.

>> the Chinese ... could order enormous quantities of Chipotle burritos and then throw them out. But that would be so hideously wasteful as to become politically untenable.

Even if it were tenable, it would still be a bad idea-- China want to suppress their currency now, but they're smart enough to know they may need to lift it later. That's why they buy US Bonds, similar to how the Fed buys or sells bonds depending on what effect it's going for. We've been in an extended period of buying so people forget that there are extended periods of selling, too. This gives them another tool apart from the usual raising interest rates, etc.
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Thanks for asking. It was fine after driving few girls from bar to their homes and getting back home to sleep until 10 am and then I went and did chemistry exam at university. After that I played little GTA 5 and then I went and took ~10 kilometer bike ride in this cold Finnish autumn. While on the bike ride I took a break at a student restaurant in the town and drank few coffee cups alone. Once I got back home from the bike ride I have just been lazing off and been thinking what to do the whole next week as autumn holidays from university started today.

So how was your day?
This is an interesting series of articles, but I have to ask a question that's been nagging me for a while (after working on the plumbing / design of a multi-tenant architecture)... doesn't the whole cloud deployment / VM environment kind of undermine the benefits of multi-tenancy? You can arbitrarily make the separate container for each "tenant" a separate VM and not have to worry about the down-sides of multi-tenancy at all. The one thing that you tend to lose if administrative cross-tenant reporting, but you can pretty easily handle that by tying the instances together with a message bus or something and pipe relevant events / metrics back to some datastore (external to any of the app instances) and report against that. Basically -- not sure if this isn't a dying model.
"No online demo yet. It might be awhile before we have a dashboard and mocking up a fake API for you doesn’t seem worth it."

Honestly my favorite part of the application. It gives the implication that "you're smart enough to understand that this would be a waste of both our times"
I don't see why he's helping incite the bizarre religious wars that have started up lately about Mir vs Wayland, Systemd vs Everyone, Unity vs Everyone.

The great thing about a Linux system is we can choose the components we want. If he wants Mir and Unity and Upstart in his distro then great.If I want Wayland and Systemd and Gnome 3 then I can go with that.

The arguments eventually come down to technical merit. Whichever one is best will eventually be used. If not, the competition leads us to an arms race of features. Everyone wins.

Nobody does well by there being no competition though, down that road lies IE6.
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The point of the 5c is to make the 5s seem premium. It's also a higher profit phone than the 5 would have been even at this point, so if people happen to buy it, they make marginally more per unit.
Ask HN: 150 beta signups – what should I do next?
I recently thought of an idea then quickly set up an invitation page.so far, approximately 140 people have signed up, this is beyond my expectations as i thought that only about 20 or so people would sign up.I really need advise and suggestions on what to do next.I would like to know whether this is a sign of something that could become a business opportunity for me. Thanks.
Here's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572467 a much better/more reliable account from the Right, echoing the CMMS did the integration meme (which apparently first came from the New York Times), and at the end of this long piece the author looks at possible consequences.

Particularly the "danger of a rapid adverse selection spiral", that is, the people who will put up with a very difficult site are the ones who really need healthcare, whereas the "The healthy young man who sees an ad for his state exchange during a baseball game and loads up the site to get coverage—the dream consumer so essential to the design of the exchange system—will not keep trying 25 times over a week if the site is not working."

Also how fixing the upfront/front end problems will exacerbate what look to be some bad back end problems, particularly the calculation of subsidies, which all the state exchanges depend upon. Ah, and according to the 3 insurance types he talked to, they "believe that only Nevada, Colorado, Washington state, and Kentucky have what could reasonably be described as working systems at this point.", although in general they're in better shape than the federal one.