skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's the kind of increase we saw year after year just a year or two before the bubble popped, and prices fell by 50% or so (around 2005-2006 I guess).

IIRC, while prices in many parts of the state fell by that much or more, prices in San Francisco did not (and the much smaller amount they did fall in SF was much later than the general bubble collapse, around 2008-2009, as a result of the general economic slowdown caused by, among other things, the collapse of the real estate bubble nationally, not because there actually was a bubble in SF particularly -- SF prices were pretty flat, IIRC, 2005-2008.)
And next quarter will defer almost a billion more than they did last year.
Engine Yard's sponsorship of RVM is coming to an end
Most of the article's criticism was directed at the USA, with a contrast to the social democracies in, e.g., Scandinavia. Regardless, if you want to think about the global impact, smartphone unit sales are likely to hit 10^9 this year.
Ask HN: Duolingo or Treehouse for cooking?
I've been looking for something like Duolingo or Team Treehouse for cooking. Some place to learn to cook in a semi-structured, guided but fun way.

Evan Cooke (CTO of Twilio) wrote a post awhile back about wanting to see this [0].

Has anyone seen something like this?

[0]: www.evancooke.com/2012/01/22/gamification-of-cooking.html
"It’s for creating not consuming."

This is exactly the problem with my Ipad 2. It is just the opposite.
You can legally carry up to US$10,000 in cash without declaring it at customs, I believe.
"I’m not a computer guy. I don’t know about processors and rams or megs."... and you lost me there.
Drinking Dom Pérignon On A F#ing Boat
Are there any differences at this point with a Scholarship account? I checked the FAQ and didn't see any details.

I think the general advice is to put a photo of yourself on the "sure you don't want to pay?" page - might encourage people to reconsider their stance if they can see that the creator is another musician like them.

(Just curious and a fan of what you're doing, not a potential customer.)
"It probably helps that I’m guessing this game had to be rushed out the door and perhaps had some inexperienced programmers working on it, which led to a more fascinating and strange world for speed-runners to explore."

Every piece of software has bugs. But, the kinds of things they exploit in OOT you wouldn't find in %99.999 of normal playthroughs.
The data connection might happen - in the US. My money says they won't be getting that $1.99 a month in Australia. Otherwise it's just another dumb lock.
I grew up in the Northeastern US, snowy winters and all that. But its strange, even when I lived in sunny Southern California and it was 80 degrees and clear in December I'd still feel a little depressed and would sort of hibernate in the winter time. It was frustrating, because I knew damn well that it was beautiful and sunny outside and I shouldn't feel this way but I did.

Something inside of me is just biologically hardwired to know when its winter and that I should be hunkered down inside when it comes around. It wasn't nearly as big a problem in SoCal but it was still there. My guess is that my generations of northern-dwelling ancestors developed a genetic predisposition towards conserving energy in the winter but I'm no expert...
White House says additional intelligence constraints needed
One person in hunger is too many, as I'm sure many politicians before me have said. But there's a massive difference between 1/6 and 1/18, and if we can't be accurate about just how bad things are, how can we know if we're improving? (And of course, we are: Hunger was a much greater problem among the poor decades ago).
> and that's only because, there are forms of abuse that arise from non-notable people feigning notability.

I'm not understanding why this is important. If someone wants to write well cited articles about their personal exploits, I see no issue.
losethos, you're dead. just thought you should know.
Ok, sure, it is great to consider the extra minutes added to the taste-window which a bigger ice block vs several smaller ones gives... But, really, what I've wondered about when I go to drink such tasty drinks is that the bigger target seems ignored. The ice wouldn't have to melt so fast if it wasn't having to counteract so much heat getting in unnecessarily. But drinks are mostly put in contact with container walls which are directly connected to the external wall in contact with the air, table/bar, and human hands. Heck, one could go all out and pick some material(s) with a lower thermal conductivity than glass. That might be worth some bother too, but I don't know that it is needed.

Why is it I have a Thermos (made of stainless steel, so not optimized for thermal conductivity at all) which can keep coffee mouth-burning hot all work day, but when I go to some fancy scotch tasting establishment they hand me a chunk of glass engineered more for looks than for the task at hand?
Windows doesn't have the best power consumption--the facts are irrefutable--it's empirically visible.

In the Surface's defense, it is running a wacom digitizer over a 1080p IPS display. Not only is it pushing 2x the pixels as the 11" MBA, but it's doing it over IPS (up to 15% greater power consumption according to Wiki).

But yes, Windows has much poorer battery life, my speculation is that since Apple targets their hardware to a few small (comparatively) number of hardware permutations, they can take this to their advantage, and power-optimize the shit out of everything.
They are fantastic. Very supportive of the startup scene here in NZ too.
Federal judge rules part of Texas' new abortion law is unconstitutional
"Now it's a very long time since I did fractal geometry..." Yep, same here I'm afraid. But A Pollock at the fundamental level is just atoms, which I would think is just another countable set. Still, research has been done into the fractal nature of his paintings. Apparently as he matured the HD dimension increased.

I'm thinking of real phenomena exhibiting a 'partial' fractal nature. I think you are thinking in the pure maths realm.

BTW I still don't like his paintings generally. Manet and Holbein are more my thing, or Morandi on certain occasions.
With all due respect, I think that is just a strange conspiratorial type of thinking.

Did he basically find himself to the top, being a writer for HBR by just being purposely controversial?

Maybe it is a strategy, but it's clearly not the end goal. It is maybe just a means to an end, that is conceivable (although unlikely, in my view).

I think the way to go in instances like these is just to engage specifically only on the points presented by the author -- not raise suspicions about their motives. Incidentally I think in this case the evidence points to the contrary: I think his motives are good. I actually happen to be concerned about capitalism in much a way Umair is, and I can promise you that I have good motives: I want my childhood friends (who I know are not doing well, they're living in poverty) to be doing well, in many respects I see them as victims of the current system. If I were to write a long piece of political commentary, criticizing the current system, I know that it would hurt me to be labeled as an "attention-seeker". I would, on the other hand, welcome any and all responses that go directly at my arguments.
An Open Letter To Mark Zuckerberg
It would be reasonable to assume that instead of having some inexplicable prejudice against our Brazilian brethren, they are simply tired of getting a thousand emails from shitty off-shore chop shops. It's a very real problem when you post any "low-tech" position.
What you're saying is you've solved problems that other people can't solve themselves... isn't that the basis for almost any startup?
Love the idea, not so sure about the name. Glancing at the title I thought it was an actual "swear jar", not a figurative one. That brought a little angry thought to my head, "What is this? An office for children?", then I saw the actual idea and thought it sounded pretty cool.

You could make a fair bit of money just allowing people to pre-buy a block of fines, then swear/smoke/turn up late all they like until it runs out. Might defeat the point of the jar, but you'd make a good profit!
U.S. Senate intelligence panel chair pledges 'major review' of NSA surveillance
"I definitely agree that students should have a good foundation for how to use technology as a tool in their lives, but going as far to say that students should be able to program the tools they use is a stretch. Do we emphasize writing skills to the extent that every student should become the next best-seller?"

Should we expect every student to be able to build a full-fledged (say) statistical modeling package? No, of course not. Should we expect students to know their way around "programming" well enough to express what they want to do in the domain they choose to work in without clicking through menus? Absolutely. To compare the latter to "writing a best-selling novel" would be inane. We should teach kids to write well enough that they can write a moderate length letter, and we should teach kids to program well enough that they can write a moderate length script.

The notion that the kind of programming instruction we give to anyone pre-college (outside of exceedingly rare circumstances) is more like the former than the latter is, I think, entirely off base - generally, we don't even give the latter.
Windows 8 is still very schizophrenic. Pick one, either the tablet optimized one, or the desktop. You're going to do a lot of back and forth stuff if you have both on the same device, like devices like Surface Pro are trying to do.

Also, on a non-tablet device, Windows 8 actually feels like a downgrade because of the many annoying UI quirks it's throwing at you. You're better off sticking with Windows 7.

> Full disclosure MS did give me this Surface Pro 2 since I was so vocal about my love of the first one.

So the lesson here is that if you like/pretend to like Microsoft's products in your reviews, they will give you free stuff?

That's not an attack on the author here, but on Microsoft. They find out which reviewers praised their devices most, and then send them free stuff, so they're more likely to review positively their future products, too, knowing that they will probably be "rewarded" afterwards, again.
I agree, more space for the keyboard. Using a Trackpoint on a T400 was suboptimal, but very much improved from a standard windows touchpad and I would be happy settling with one on a Surface.
To everyone complaining about the password-protected login, there is something you need to understand: this is about copyright, not the library being fake-open. This repository apparently consists of copyrighted works, and by the Fair Use provisions of US Copyright, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee have collected these works together even though they presumably do not have rights to all the works.

You, too, could pull all these works together without arranging the rights, and you could probably make a fair use argument for it. However, I guess they're saying that they aren't going to re-transmit the archive in bulk. It is insinuated that it might run astray of fair use to do so.
Technically, he uses modulus. Technically.

http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing
>Its a perfectly forgettable commercial //

I don't think it is. I'm no fan-boy either - I use Kubuntu and the only MS think I have is a mouse (the only part of my system that doesn't work, needs replugging half the time to be recognised on startup, only half the time though).

The "your favourite apps, next to your favourite apps" didn't make sense to me without checking back - so they allow a fullscreen app next to a phone-mode app. Seems ... interesting.
> Intentionally "anonymous" individuals don't use real email addresses.

(http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html)

Here's an analysis of de-anonymizing posts to alt.anonymous.messages - those people want to stay anonymous. They make some trivial mistakes.

> Then I go into a large analysis of the types of PGP-encrypted messages there are. Messages encrypted to public keys, to passwords and passphrases, and PGP messages not encrypted at all!
I discovered recently this sort of things works amazingly. At my company it used to be that it would be impossible to hold a punctual meetings (theres was always at least 1 person who would arrive 10+ minutes late).

We made a rule, if you arrive late you invite everyone to donuts. It didn't work. Then we made it donuts + coffee. Boom it worked flawlessly. Every single meeting now starts on time. People make a huge effort never to arrive late and it's had a great impact on productivity.
Operates in slow motion on Metro IE11, interestingly, desktop IE11 performs well although it starts off slow. It flies in FF and Chrome though. I suppose the Metro IE11 is missing some WebGL optimizations. Very cool!
There's also a lot of missing fit and finish.

For example:

watch( watchExpression, listener, [ objectEquality ] )

vs

watchCollection( obj, listener )

Yet in watchCollection, like in watch, 'obj' can be an expression that is evaluated.
I get the concept - you're trading space for certainty. It's more the bit where it says:

"The more hash functions you have, the slower your bloom filter, and the quicker it fills up. *If you have too few, however, you may suffer too many false positives.*"

Just made me wonder - couldn't badly chosen hash functions actually give you more false positives?
Or for regional/rural areas, building stalls for animals or shelters or even simple holiday houses. Or emergency or refugee accommodation.
There's also massive wordlists in the form of scraped and compromised emails to look through.
But that is not the argument he makes leading up to the quote. It may seem like semantics, but mixing absolute and relative inequality makes an increase in equality seem unfavorable.
I'm surprised Gravatar claims the hash is about privacy in the first place. I thought it was about generating a short, standardized URL.

If sites wanted to protect their user's anonymity, they'd cache the gravatars with different file names on their servers. Also, as a user I would never sign up for a site with my "real" address when I'm not comfortable with it being known eventually, Gravatar or not.
Gopher by itself is actually not hard to extend, as far as people standardize on how to extend it. That is why most of the discussions on "gopher enhancement" never resulted in big changes. Several ideas must be spread across the gopher project mailing list (now hosted at alioth, see archives at gmane), and some of them are quite good. The only consensus, though, seems to be that any extension is going to be done over plain gopher, not gopher+.
> This is exactly the problem, people think Microsoft shops have an allergy to open source?

Yes. That's exactly what I think. So, what I'm about to say isn't in any kind of defense. I'm just going to document my personal bias for all to read and hope to be enlightened:

I don't think anyone really chooses to run a Microsoft Server, other than Exchange-Server[1]. I think people are forced into it because of at least one of the following: 1) Their corporation demands it, 2)They don't have the skills to use Linux or OSX, or 3) That individual may have the skills but the other people on the team that need to be able to help out, do not have the skills.

Anecdotal: I once interviewed in a place that had Microsoft servers and SQL Servers, I asked them if they'd consider using Linux. They said "Oh, we're a Microsoft-Gold-Partner, so no Linux here." This was in 2007 for a small-to-mid company somewhere in San Francisco.

So IFF I'm correct about the above, then anytime someone chooses a Microsoft server(not counting anything related to Exchange)... I assume the whole shop is on MS-stack. I might be horribly wrong; I'm posting this to have other HN people correct my terrible thought-process.

1. Because Exchange really, truly, works and it's hard to get everyone to agree on a tech to handle emails+meetings. Exchange seems to be the most widely supported choice.
Thanks. No difference yet, though scholarships accounts are flagged as such in the database. So we can treat them differently one day if we want to.

Good idea about the picture. I was thinking maybe even a YouTube embedded video of me explaining how scholarship accounts work.
> I was surprised to read that the right to freedom of speech is not recognized in France.

It is.
The french constitution state:

> La libre communication des pensées et des opinions est un des droits les plus précieux de l’homme ; tout citoyen peut donc parler, écrire, imprimer librement, sauf à répondre de l’abus de cette liberté dans les cas déterminés par la loi.

Which mean that you have free speech, BUT, you can be prosecuted if you abuse it as defined by the law. Example of common abuses: defamation (the most common), incitement to ethnic or racial hatred, privacy violation, historical revisionism, intellectual property infringement, etc.

But except "incitement to ethnic or racial hatred" and "historical revisionism" it's mostly the same in the US.

Also, it's not all about the law, during the same sex marriage debates, a lot of homosexual people got beaten by far right / nazi-like groups.
"I would have thought it would have contracted without new iPads launched." Say what? That product line is only 3 or 4 years old and it's already flat? That was very surprising to me and very disappointing. Isn't the iPad now the new iPod? Only that I think took 7 years or more before it went flat. Apple's now a growth company only based on one single product that comes in two flavors and the entire rest of the tech world is gunning to take that away from them.
Niche? I have a Pro 2 (in fact it's the 8Gb/256Gb model). I use it to take hand-witten notes in meetings. I draw diagrams on it, read and reply to mail using Outlook, and create documents and presentations.

Best of all, I have Visual Studio, SQL Server and everything else I need for my job. Oh, and Video, which is awesome. It's the best non-desktop device I've ever used.

So niche it may be, but definitely broader than just pen computing.

For the record, I have a MBA too. It hasn't been switched on since the Surface arrived last week.
I will keep my old Toastmaster 1B14. Fully automatic, drop toast in, it goes down, toast is done it comes up automatically. Haven't changed the setting in years.

A Nest Toaster? So three hundred dollars to make toast, I wonder if it would chat with you like the one from Red Dwarf?

Some items don't need new incarnations, there are many old appliances you can buy on auction sites that will cost you about the same as new ones and provide you years and years of great use. Best yet, most are super easy to fix, if they do break.
Buy on rumour sell on news. Have to contextualize the run up over last 30 days.
Hi DjangoReinhardt!
Good question; I can answer this one...

The site uses html5 to pre-render pages to improve the user experience / site performance... Part of this includes storing the query parameters you make (when running a query) in the new HTML5 web-storage.

This allows the webpage to be rendered before the user actually clicks the "submit" button on any of the tools (Making the site load faster it would normally). The query you specify is then pulled out of the HTML5 web-storage (when the pre-rendered page is made visible) and sent to the backend API servers.

Hope this clears this up for you :)
Ah, good catch with the weather screenshot! The good news is that there's a widget setting where you can change between fahrenheit and celsius.
I've been working in a public facing creative arts role for a while now and my appreciation of the likes of Pollock has become somewhat more favourable over that time.

Hadn't heard of Morandi, not sure his stuff means much to me, however I like this photographic interpretation of his work - http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/06/dc03_ins.jpg (to sell a dinner service). Thanks for the pointer.
You can at least try to hide ugly optimizations in subroutines while keeping the subroutines' "contracts" clear.
Sure, there were 1700 YouTubes before YouTube and yeah, the YouTube we know and use today just happened to make it due to a serendipitous combination of "execution, focus, timing and luck."

I have an idea for Twitter that's better than Twitter. I have the focus, I have the execution plan - I just need the luck and the timing. I'm willing to join forces with an Irish co-founder for the former. I'm willing to keep probing and pushing until I achieve the latter. Now, is there anybody in the house willing to throw their multi-million dollars at me?

I was hoping to read the story of how Twitter managed to fill the niche that was being slowly created by long blogs and short attention spans. The timing part wasn't serendipitous, either. IIRC, Twitter spent a year in the shadows before it really took off. I'm sure someone can structure the YouTube story in a similar timeline.

In other words, rather than ambiguously stating these four (relatively) 'oft-quoted' factors for success, I was hoping the author would explain how the serendipitous combination actually came about. And if anyone feels inspired by the authors post, I have a bridge in San Fransisco I would like to sell to you. It's not all that new but it works great!
This would make a nice screensaver
Those things are harder to control, so generally less worth thinking about.
In the meantime you might want to notate some ideas: http://scorecleaner.com/ (uses also C++) or do yourself a bit of algorithmic composing (http://www.symboliccomposer.com/page_main.shtml,. since the 90's). And together we wait impatiently for http://opusmodus.com/ to be available (down for maintenance right now).
This is really impressive. It makes me wonder how particle effects in Javascript running in a web browser can run so well, while a native desktop application like After Effects takes ages to render something similar?

Here's another mesmerising javascript experiment
http://brunoimbrizi.com/experiments/#/01
Why not take programming as main skill and then pick something else as secondary skill?
Play-i launches today: Delightful robots for children to program
I suspect (this is entirely speculation) based on conversations with Hoteliers in Italy before that they find it an onerous, silly requirement.

They simply have to show that anyone they authorized to access their network was logged.

Following the letter of the law, not the spirit, as it were.