skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing is for sure. Teenagers are no longer the most popular demographic for Facebook.
Here are user-collected mpg reports: https://www.fuelly.com/
PHP.net resets passwords after malware-flinging HACK FLAP
We can now identify who’s tracking our Internet movements.
That's fine if you want an AI hunter-gatherer. To have an AI scientist or engineer you need a rational thinking layer on top of the ML layer, so it can create hypotheses and try to falsify them. I predict the rational thinking layer will be built with good old fashioned AI: symbol processing, theorem proving, etc. Getting this to talk to the fuzzy ML layer will be a challenge.
Sorry for the typo, It's $1M. I think the commas help to get it right.
Someone pointed out on HN that Python gives segfault. He used a = 1000, a/1000 example. I did it on Python 3 and got the same error. It worked on Python 2 that came with Mavericks but thats about it. I'd think there are more issues.
Also a very nice way for everyone to create their own dossiers, that most law enforcement agencies can access even without a warrant these days, and can even collect en masse.
Ask HN: For people who enjoy buying domains, what do you do with them?
Prediksi Skor Chelsea VS Manchester City
Prediksi Skor Chelsea VS Manchester City 27 Oktober 2013 – Menurut sebuah data yang sempat dikutip oleh cara-main-sbobet dari data untuk permainan Chelsea didalam ajang Liga Champions, dimana The Blues berhasil dalam mendapatkan kemenangan walaupun menjalani laga tandang. Pasukan Jose Mourinho tersebut berhasil dalam mengantongi kemenangan 0-3 tanpa balas dari Schalke. Dan hasil tiga poin ini akhirnya membawa Chelsea berhasil dalam menempati peringkat teratas didalam klasemen dengan mengumpulkan enam poin didalam klasemen Grup E. dan pencetak gol kemenangan dari The Blues kali ini adalah Fernando Torres dan Eden Hazzard. Dan poin yang didapat ini memang sama dengan poin yang didapatkan oleh Schalke, hanya Chelsea unggul dengan selisih gol saja.
Exactly. Democracy, like all government, is about might makes right. That was my point.
Pick the right perfume for yourself according to the date of birth.
Yeah, I had some odd symlink issues.
Introduced to VC/VC is asking for money to pitch him?
After having being introduced via email to a certain VC company, they've responded and requested to setup a meeting with our company. They're asking us to pay for the meeting. Is this normal?
HipHopVM on Travis-CI
Doing this is sort of like getting a robotic limb. I mean sure, a cybernetic arm may be really cool and futuristic... but it means your real arm got chopped off. They are carving this thing out of blighted urban decay. An urban forest may be nice, but what leads up to it is not the sort of thing that you want in your city.

This isn't to say that I'm not happy for them; I just don't want to find myself in the same situation.
Who is already working to an enterprise app with some potential synergies with Salesforce has good opportunities, to get free publicity.
+1, I've been working remotely from Portland for 11 years now, great place to live but tech jobs are scarce vs. Boston, NYC, SF.
Anyone consider what the real estate & taxes savings will be with this? For high demand areas where you'd like to set up a data center, something offshore might save a fortune in land costs and property taxes alone.
> but isn't it a little apples to oranges?

Not really. Twitter is just as good for identity as Facebook, if not more so, since they can more easily verify identity with mobile accounts, which is how most people access twitter.

On top of that, they have a lot of engineers working on how to parse messages with slang and code. So even though there is not purpose-built UIs for events and picture sharing, Twitter and Facebook both solve the same need for 3rd parties.
It's a fairly common (and silly) dismissal of any new effort that "if it worked, someone else would already be doing it".
Ask HN: How to make sure I get this job
In one of my recent posts I asked about pricing for iOS development. Well I set a price and wrote a proposal and presented to this company. I am only 15 but they were impressed I think. They told me a few changes they would like to see and wanted me to revise the proposal and also create a 5 minute video explaining the proposal. I really would like to get this job and I think it could open many more doors for me. Does anyone have any tips, mainly for the video so that I could really sell them on the idea? Thank you very much!
It can also be forked on Github: https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario
Anti-Piracy Group Seeks Sweden-Style File-Sharing Crackdown
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a barge filled with hard drives.
Hah, good point. I forgot about reality! Can we say "lucrative?" There are certainly some houses being bought with SF dollars.
hmm... is there a way to obfuscate that to the outside? Can you wrap the individual certs? Or use the same cert for everyone, but do a zero knowledge key exchange for people who want to log in, and then have them authenticate with a signed document keyed to a public key they gave when they signed up for the service?

Anyway, at least in the physical security industry, security isn't about preventing intrusions. It is about delaying it and limiting it until a sufficient response can be mobilized. Perfect security is impossible
I'm sad to see that EVERY SINGLE REPLY to this comment was "Yes.. but", and the issues raised were exactly the same as in every other thread on this story.

I find that more disappointing than the undoubted privacy issues in the application itself. I would note that the privacy issues in this application are no different to those in any other application with a serverside back end.

But I guess we feel we need to prove how smart we are by dissecting them.. again.
I guess that depends on how you define reliability.

If we were tracking it like uptime, what does BART look like after the 2 strikes?
> Can somebody explain the point behind the secrecy? What does Google have to gain by taking all these steps to hide they're the ones building it?

It's too big to hide the fact that someone is doing something, so by making obvious efforts to keep it secret, they prompt people to look into it, find clues that its tied back to Google, and give more press to the effort than it would have gotten if Google had issued a press release about building floating data centers.
neither of those is specifically for tablets.
Building it in on an island in the Bay doesn't mean you plan to operate it in the Bay.
You can do anything you want at do.com.

The impossible is not a barrier at do.com.

Welcome to do.com.
Which is why I think that phrase in the Declaration of Independence is philosophically deceptive, and perhaps deliberately so. To someone who does consent to most or all other their government's actions, it will give them a warm fuzzy feeling. To someone who doesn't consent, even if they're in the minority, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. What's the real philosophy there? Is it really just that, if 50% plus one person consents to the government, everything is cool, but if one less person consents, they are all obligated to alter or abolish it?
We made some moves, and she some sacrifices, that expected I would make a lot more than I did. That is on me, as are some of the issues driving that. I have complaints about other issues bearing on this, but that gets messy.

That said, we were making enough, if we budgeted. And she wouldn't, and we fought about it a lot.
No. Walk away.
Pretty much what I was trying to figure out. I can't see a use case here, since we already have things like Berkeley DB and LevelDB. But main memory? Your use case would have to be such that your entire dataset can fit in memory and for some reason you need extreme performance from that dataset, and from multiple processes running on a single machine. I just don't see it. Is the caching performance of other databases so horrible that this is really necessary?
Pentagon agency creating digital map of the world
If you have a good idea about what to do with the do.com name, maybe they will give it to you if you partecipate to their $1M first price hackathon ;-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614973
21 Nations Line Up Behind U.N. Effort to Restrain NSA
The company has committed to... mowing regwlarly

I was a lot more excited before I read this. What's the point of a forest if you have to mow it? Seriously, though, sounds like a good idea.
1,500 lots is more like a bit of skin off the tip of your finger.
Armed agents seize records of reporter, Washington Times prepares legal action
World's first Bitcoin ATM goes live in Vancouver next week
The thing is, everyone reads the news and thinks they can come up with some alright idea and make a few million in a couple years. Most of them don't know how hard it is because they've never done it.
> "planting 15,000 trees, and mowing regularly."

I guess the idea behind the mowing is that you want to prevent the weeds from choking out the saplings? Otherwise "mowing" and "forest" seem kind of mutually exclusive to me.
The interesting and invisible-from-the-outside bit of Medium is the collaborative editing/review system. It's not just a pastebin; it's really laser-focused on editorials and essays.
The Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution.
From talking with a friend who's a retired stat arb quant, the fundamental idea is sound.

My guess for why people aren't doing it yet is that first, there are still untapped locations on land that are easier to get running (example: the Chicago to NY fiber run), and second getting the data to the ocean point isn't trivial.

I think if you want to look for early signaling of someone doing this, look for where telco folks route new fiber runs. If they take a longer path to go near one of the points in the paper I'd bet they're at least hedging for the possibility of using that fiber run for arbitrage.

Edit: a more mundane explanation may be that the arbitrage is so low margin that the payback time isn't practical vs the initial investment.
Better title: Google claims that Google cars are safer than competitors.
Victory for tech giants on EU data laws
I'd be interested to see solid evidence supporting this theory. Without it, I'm sort of inclined to believe that people wouldn't settle into anarchist madness without someone telling them not to do that.
Yes, it seems obvious. But it's nice to see that the experiment doesn't invalidate those assumptions. Personally I also find it interesting to see the measurements (it's nice to know that about 12 seconds is "enough", that's certainly longer than "just a little").
No deal. I currently have HBO Go via paying a relative who has normal cable access and sharing the password. This way HBO Go costs me exactly $20/mo: what I would expect to pay to HBO directly. I also wouldn't be tied to Comcast which isn't bad in my area but isn't great either.
You know who else built cool things? That's right. Hitler.
I'd like to know what those autodrivers do for failsafety. What about software crashes? bugs? sensors giving bad readings? intermittent loose connections? chips failing?

They should at least talk to the engineers who design airplane autopilots, who know how to deal with that stuff.
In this case, I think calling it "designed" is a journalistic stretch.

So they made a Red version to sell for massive money at a charity event. Good on 'em.
Yea you can download it from this link and then follow the instructions

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?sof...
The project seems to be a fork of the more mature UnQLite project (http://unqlite.org) except that UnQLite support pluggable run-time interchangeable storage engines (B+Tree, LH, R+Tree) and has support for on-disk databases as well in-memory operations.
I think the blessing and curse of Knockout as compared to a more complete framework like AngularJS is that it's incredibly easy to get started and doesn't force you into any sort of structure, but at the same time if you're not forced into a structure it's pretty easy to go down the "one mega JS file" route. I felt like AngularJS is more annoying to get started with because you have to follow its conventions but in return it gives you a nice structure to organize your code.

I also personally prefer how Angular doesn't force you to use getters or setters, although it does involve more "magic" behind the scenes stuff which can be confusing.
Turning 1,500 lots of urban decay in Detroit into forest is more like putting a band-aid on a gangrenous limb. 1,500 lots is only the size of the blighted land that is going to forest, a mere fraction of all the blighted land in Detroit.

Edit:

From the article: "There are over 200,000 abandoned parcels of land and—by debatable estimates—30,000 acres of abandoned property" (this is according to the developer). Wolfram Alpha puts the entirety of San Francisco at 29,998 acres.
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia
Nsa.gov is down
How to take your whole company overseas, and live to tell the tale
No it doesn't discuss other self-driving competitors unless you think of humans as competitors. Let's get real, very soon self driving cars will be tremendously safer and more efficient by many factors than human drivers.
The video they used for launch was great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7myUgmtFPkc
in my opinion, if you want to help africans, go to africa and spend money in local economies.
The only upside to "looking for startup ideas" is that it is better than sitting and doing nothing or watching 13 episodes of house of card on netflix for example. The key is to not commit to an idea that was generated in this essentially random manner. Treat such ideas as "projects" where your main objective is to learn. Perhaps do a few in parallel. Experience naturally follows and then real ideas can spring forth. The mistake is to "come up" with an idea and then blast full steam ahead when there is no basis for real conviction.
Yep. I still laugh at the 2nd usage. When I went to school this headline would have meant "Ways to get sued getting startup ideas".
Facebook is becoming more unpopular among other groups, as well. I am tempted to say that everyone is getting sick of Facebook. Many of my friends now have a love/hate relationship with it, trying to make a higher quality experience by shaving down their friends' lists or just deleting their profile altogether. I feel Facebook burnout as well...it's this thing I have to do compulsively, which offers no joy, yet it's where everyone is, so I don't really have a choice but to go there to keep in touch with everyone...and I think that is the general sentiment these days at least among my mid-30s peer group...many of whom don't bother checking their page anymore...
Amazon.com counterexample - Jeff Bezos was a VC before he started a bookstore.
You may as well argue against having parks because one happened to have been built on similar ground. This instance might just have been recovering from a bad situation, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea in general. Granted, it would be better to set aside space for it at the planning stage.
TL:DR if you don't want to signup:

Google, Facebook and other US tech giants have won an important victory against EU efforts to restrict the sharing of customer data after UK Prime Minister David Cameron persuaded the bloc to postpone the introduction of tougher privacy rules by at least a year.

The climbdown is a blow to advocates of stricter data protection standards, especially as it comes amid an international scandal that has seen the US accused of snooping on EU leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and millions of European citizens.

The delay will give US companies – as well as the Obama administration, which has been frantically lobbying for the reforms to be watered down – the opportunity to make their case more forcefully once the attention shifts away from the US spy scandal, said some EU officials and privacy advocates.

“It looks like we won,” said an executive at a large US tech company. “When we saw the story about Merkel’s phone being tapped and that 35 leaders’ phones were also compromised, we thought we were going to lose . . . Britain’s common sense prevailed.”
Day 2 GTB Lagos Fashion And Design Week With Orange Culture
What do people do when their cars fail or there are drinks behind the wheel? I agree with what you're saying sort of but there are very serious people working this technology (it's not just Google) but there will be accidents but much less than with human drivers. It may seem fantastic but if you actually look at the current state of the technology and even conservative projections by people like the Economist ... It's quite impressive.
Show HN: Making Russian news more readable (weekend project)
I'm wondering that if all of the spotlight on Detroit will also lead to enough canny entrepreneurs trying to revive it for a buck, leading to a phoenix-like (or Alex Murphy-like) resurgence a few decades down the road.

Will Detroit be the hot new startup city of 2045?
So it'll get deployed, a bunch of people and startups will come to rely on it, then the guy who's driving this as his "20% project" will get moved to another group, and it'll sit un-maintained for several years slowly rotting, then sink without a trace…
Pinterest to pay Getty for data on images
from a recent major website re-programming / redesign (now 11 months in development now) i would say the following:

1: don't mix business and pleasure; i know the client personally (my wife works for them) so it gets sticky at times

2: make sure the contract properly outlines the work that needs to be done in DETAIL - and don't deviate from it without changing the contract

3: watch out for feature creep - this ties into 1 and 2. they will ask for more. Minor changes aside (color, text size, etc...) is ok; major changes (adding a wholesale section) is NOT ok

4: stick to your deadlines; at one point, they wanted a person in house to design the website. I said ok and stopped programming until she was done with the designs. I've had nothing but problems ever since. designs have been late; they've given me the design only to turn around and make more changes to them. SAY NO TO THIS unless the contract is revised and everyone agree's on new deadlines.

5: make sure what you need up front, you get. I always ask for 50% down. I got this, but as deadlines were broken, I never got 50% of the remainder at each additional stage. As a freelancer, this hurts.

6: Contracts usually don't take into account time you need to figure things out. One of the things I needed to figure out was how to store a file on a CDN with a link expiration so that even if someone viewed the source of the website, the files I was linking to would be invalid after 2 seconds (the best security i could offer and it was accepted by the client). But, it took 1 week to figure out how to do that even with talking directly to support staff at Rackspace. 1 week doesn't sound like a lot over 11 months, but its a lot when every week that passes is another week you don't get paid.

these are my personal views obviously and not all my freelance work goes this way. This was the biggest project I ever took on by myself and it ended up requiring a lot of engineering. Thank god, it's almost done but it was for sure a learning experience.
I always thought its laser-focus was on having overhyped headlines for underwhelming content.
HBO right now has a huge lead in terms of content over Netflix. By dragging out the unleashing of HBO Go they are actually letting Netflix catch up to them. They know that untying themselves from Cable is their route in the long term but are dragging it out (probably because Comcast pays them handsomely for it). But by dragging it out they will hurt their long term attractiveness. It only takes bad bets on new content over a couple of years to make people doubt HBO, given Netflix is also making their own content now.
Where Have All the Geniuses Gone?
Can you share how much this cost you?
There are real legal questions on what happens when robotic cars are really ready. For instance, what happens IF the vehicle actually does have an accident? Who is liable? Is it the "driver" who wasn't actually controlling the car, or the company who wrote the driving software? There will be several hundred ambulance chasers ready to sign up victims of any accidents in order to get a class action suit against Google.
Old man held at gunpoint on Valentine's day.
Kicking ass in the name of love.

"Sweethearts" is a short film about an elderly couple celebrating Valentine's Day... except that Melvin has forgotten about it. Quickly excusing himself to make a run to the store, Melvin purchases some last minute gifts and believes all to be well.

And then the store is robbed. Leaving Melvin with a choice to make.

Written & Directed by Cannes short corner director Sarah Louise Wilson.
Making coverage.py faster under PyPy
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/07/olxii-w...
Patri only worked on prediction markets at google, so far as I know, and left to spend more time on Seasteading and related projects.

Source: he's a friend of a family member.
> This isn't to say that I'm not happy for them; I just don't want to find myself in the same situation

I'm not arguing against this happening, I am happy they are improving their city. All I'm saying is that I hope I never find my citing in a position where we say "whelp, we have massive chunks of deserted unkempt land, lets knock down these abandoned condemned buildings and make a forest". While that action is an improvement, being in that position in the first place implies a shitty situation all around.

Kind of like how somebody getting a new fancy robot arm is great, but I certainly don't want to get one myself because that would imply that I had lost my arm.
I'm reminded of the old adage: "You can't prove a negative." While I'm not smart enough to know if this statement is philosophically sound, it occurs to me that when you're working on something, the number of possible suggestions is infinite, and conclusively refuting any suggestion is futile. Thus, endless suggestions of the form: "Why don't you try such-and-so?" are counterproductive -- especially when they come from the person who writes your performance review.

For suggestions, I have a place where I can politely write them down for future use.
This is one of the items being auctioned for (RED) in a month. Jony Ive and Marc Newson have had a hand in designing them. Here is a list of (almost) all of the items: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2013/null-n09014.html

Other items include a pair of Apple solid rose gold earpods, a (RED) Steinway & Sons grand piano, a solid aluminium desk, a Leica camera, an authentic Stormtrooper helmet, and a thermal window for a space shuttle.
Has anyone in the U.S. had any success signing up for and using the HBO Go standalone service "HBO Nordic AB" through a VPN? It's only $12 a month in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark.

Is the content automatically subbed or dubbed, or is English the default?
Except that the government has a monopoly on force. If a private company harms you, there are often civil and potentially criminal concequences. If the government uses your private data against you and violates your rights, who do you turn to?
Yeah that last part of your thought is the only important one. Nobody, _nobody_ has better undersea cabling tapping abilities than the NSA.
Don't know how this'd work in actual international waters, but no, this is in a bay, nothing international about it.
If someone could post a link to a Google Maps view of the area, that would be interesting to see.
What is the rate of class action lawsuits against airliners and airplane manufacturers?