skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most sellers are too lazy/cheap to properly set-up their fulfillment operation with good enough security. If you read accounts of the seller busts from Silk Road 1.0, the authorities can trace where your packages have been sent from and where you bought the postage from. If you don't operate as if the police are actively using this information to track you down, they will be able to.
Difference in quantity turns into difference in quality sometimes. It is stupid to disallow taking pictures on public streets. It is not stupid to say to the government "you should not film everything on public streets 24/7 and keep it for years, because we don't want you to". Citizens are owners of the government and can set rules of what it is allowed to do.
I generally agree, if you need YC for personal validation you should probably reconsider.

There are a lot of reasons why someone might not get into YC, and not all of them are bad ones so its best to keep that in mind.
An interesting mix of benchmarks. Hopefully the latency tests drive more investment in that area.

Results for me (on Windows):

Chrome 30: 21051

Firefox 25: 18804

IE 10: 4093

IE 11: 6720

Firefox got 2x Chrome's score on the asm.js benchmark!
And I bought Keynote a few weeks ago — I have some disc with Keynote 1 (maybe 2?) on it somewhere, but instead of digging that out I thought I may as well get something up to date — and I noticed in my Applications folder earlier today that some recent update has installed Keynote '09 alongside the new version.
I wouldn't necessarily say it's much easier to work with. Could not manage to pull down anything representing the front page, and from what I could tell from a lot of searching, no one else could either. So yes, you have access to the data but for 99% of uses it's either too old or not representative of what you would see in a browser.

Awesome resource for querying + running analytics, but for an HN client, not as much.
No, taxes are payment on debt you owe. Ben Franklin explained it quite well:

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The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be compell'd to pay by some Law.

All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.

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Source: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12....
New Instapaper for iPad app
Don't forget Final Cut Pro (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/29/apple-fcpx).

It seems to me as if Tim Cook basically believes that Apple's secrecy about products is a good idea, but is also pragmatic and is willing to be open about screwups/future plans when he thinks it will pay off.
Now China has taken manufacturing jobs, and India is taking IT jobs.
Wonderful insights.
The Javascript Event Loop Explained
>People should just get together in large groups and pool
their money, it would be much cheaper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takaful
That was because of FCC regulations: they had to apply for licenses that the public would find out about. It hasn't happened with any subsequent iPhones, which have all been announced with < 1 month lead time (I think 1-2 weeks was normal).
Never, ever, ever trust anyone or anything that suddenly reappears after a major bust by the authorities. NEVER.

Move on.
This.

I had to look it up, so to save you the time:

intransigence: Unwillingness to change one's views or to agree.
Two free forums populated mainly by people bootstrapping their own businesses:

http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz
Yep, typo on my part.
For SSDs, where the time-to-read/write-full-capacity is typically much less than HDDs (both due to higher speed & lower capacity), it can be less of a poor decision. SSDs also have somewhat more advanced machinery for data integrity checking and slightly friendlier failure modes (e.g., the sectors "wear out" over time, but the firmware tends to warn you as that starts to happen, and you're not going to hit a sudden mechanical failure).
Man the "money" argument for the drug war is so stupid. Private prisons are a small minority of prisons even today, and were very uncommon in the 1980s and 1990s when the drug war really heated up. Blaming monied interests is a cop out here. They are just the opportunists. Its "just say no!" moms and dads, teachers and school officials, that keep the drug war alive.
DigitalOcean's pricing page indicates that "All cloud hosting plans include automated backups". (https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing) From the email you received, it sounds like this is clearly not the case. I wonder what other claims DigitalOcean is making that are not true.
Yes, any digital signal has a limited bandwidth

However, MP3s throw more high frequencies than the digital signal at that given sampling rate allows.
I bet even in the home nation, there are more Indian staff than native ones.
| but the drugs (in general) are still coming to the US th bloody, violent way via paramilitaries, druglords, etc.

Not necessarily. A lot of them appear to be shipped in via post from outside the US direct to the buyer.
Even if true, why do you assume it was the US? There are many actors with the willingness, capability and motivation.
'Biohacker' Implants Massive Computer Chip In Forearm
DigitalOcean proudly advertises that they use SSDs... A dual drive failure with data loss should be very rare. I wonder what happened.
"Autistic Genius" Story is Touching, But How Much Will be Made Off His Smarts?
Sniffing unencrypted wifi packets and (apparently accidentally) storing them is just as bad as deliberately breaking into someone else's network to steal data? Come on.

I remain amazed at the ability of people to project their own biases (Google is Evil in this case, probably via extrapolation from Apple is Insanely Great) onto things that one would hope would be objective moral points (spy agencies shouldn't be attacking the networks of non-enemies!).
The LeadSift Fingerprint uncovers details about Twitter users such as the following:

· Do you have a pet?

· Are you male or female?

· Are you interested in sports, fashion technology, business, etc?

· Is this a corporate or a personal account?

· Are you married?

· Are you a parent?

· Do you own a car?

· Do you own a home?

· Are you employed?

· What is your profession?

more info here ... http://www.prlog.org/12237661-leadsift-announces-social-medi...

Disclaimer: I work @leadsift
Will be very interesting if someone does a benchmark comparison of Presto with Cloudera Impala, Amazon RedShift and Apache Drill.

Also, very curious to know (from any Googlers browsing HN) if Dremel is still the state-of-the-art within Google, or if there is already a newer replacement.
I like your description. Indeed one of the best things about ui-view is that states can be inherited.

Say you want to load search.results.details, and it will render search page first, then results inside, then details.

Also, in sub-states you can use templates defined in parent-state template. It means you don't need to render cache templates all at once. Just for sub-states.
If Apple wants to conserve bandwidth against scrapers, they should offer pre-ordering or their own product alerts service.

In any case, it's trivial to write a Google Apps Script to scrape their product page, ran routinely via triggers, that sends you a text message when specific text changes.
Wow, another 'China' is going to steal more jobs. lol
To illustrate, here is an example of zeroing the lowest frequencies:

http://imgur.com/a/wVjYk
I wonder if this type of fasting is only advised under doctor supervision. I'd be interested in trying it, but is there enough published of the 'unsuccessful' stories? What are the risks?
Well, to be clear, you've still got to be worried about guns and violence. They just happen to be wielded by thugs who happen to have a badge and uniform.
Stay away from Twitter, advisors say in survey
I also like this idea but it just seems difficult to get the business started and making enough money to compensate yourself. Just to be sure, I don't mean working from home for elance comes under lifestyle business.
It's good to know how lawyers overcharge, but it's better to find a trusted lawyer who you don't have to worry about.

We work with Yokum Taku and Jesse Chew at Wilson Sonsini, and they've been awesome.

Because I'm a former lawyer, I started out our relationship by scrutinizing every bill.

I stopped when I realized that we were getting an amazing deal. We have only paid 1 legal bill in 2 years and we haven't been bugged at all about it. Our legal bill is being subsidized by your Airbnbs and the like. That's the luxury of working with a great startup lawyer that works with top startups.
Changing primary care . . .
I have done many water only fast in my teens and 20s. I also did a weekly Thursday daily water only fast.

Here are my experienced benefits:

1) Self Discipline! Talk about learning how to control yourself. Best reason to do it.

2) strangely after 3 days the stomach stops shrinking and I swear I have the most energy and focus for 3 or 4 days. I use to stop once I started getting tired again.

Had several people I know do 40 day fast and well they got more energy again around the 2nd week.

3) Sadly You can't LOSE weight long term on fasting.

P.S. I need to try it out again it has been almost 15 years since my last big fast.
I think Google knows more about how Google works than whatever SEO source you're trusting does...
Hardware fails, there's no way around it.

At 5$/month, I think it's not too much an investment to have some basic redundancy if you care about your data. Anyways, if your data matters to you, do backups.
Internet Kills the Video Store
Introducing Slate — TripIt’s Static Documentation Tool for Developers
I was at a conference in Germany as part of my job at the Free Software Foundation, had my photo taken by a random attendee. Wound up in The Guardian and had my image sold to various stock agencies, and I'm frequently used in a photo about cybercrime.
> I'd be more excited about an Etsy of drugs

I think you mean more of an Amazon Marketplace of drugs.

> the drugs (in general) are still coming to the US the bloody, violent way via paramilitaries, druglords, etc.

If the information and payment infrastructure is good enough, it should make producers and shippers invisible to other producers and shippers, including the paramilitaries and drug-lords.
The previous silk road claimed to have many listings where the chemists themselves produced and shipped from Europe
This is _exactly_ it. My morning commute was essentially free time. Public transit is a glorious thing.
I agree that andrewljohnson's statement is debatable but I think it's also defensible. I'm envious of the quality of your reading material if you haven't read anything dumber in months.
So is alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine.
Why is there a ?hn referral in this submission its URL?
I am confused how the Finder has become a train wreck.

It is fundamentally the same as OSX 10.0 public beta.
Was going to say the same thing, Dual drive failure on a RAID5 system with five 2TB drives is 1 in 12. With 3TB drives that goes up to 1 in 7.

The underlying issue is that the uncorrectable read error rate is 1 in 10^15 bits, this is just physics (thermal noise, read/write signal loss, etc) But with 8b/10b encoding that is only 90TB worth of bits. Rebuilding a RAID group of 5 with four 2TB "good" drives (8TB of data to be read) you will see a failure in one of the other 4 drives 1 in 11.25 times. (90/8). With 3TB drives 1 in 7.25 times. Using simple mirroring you won't be able to re-silver a mirror 1 in 1:45 or slightly more than 2% of the time for 2TB drives.

Dual parity, or triple mirrors (x3) are now the minimum bars for making storage reliable.
I don't assume the US (merely using it as an example when we question the possibility of conspiracy theories being true).

Arafat could have been killed by other (more radical) Muslims, by the Israelis, by any number of people (though the method suggests a government was probably involved). Milosevic was likely killed by some western government, based on circumstance (being in custody at the Hague), and the fact that he revealed that people were trying to kill him before it happened...
In the early 1990s there was a Nintendo game released called Wally Bear and the No! Gang. It was an insipid platformer with graphics from a MECC Apple II game and a thudding "stay off drugs" message. It got some attention in the mid-2000s when the Angry Videogame Nerd reviewed it.

And then in 2006, on some message board, a gamer discovered that the 1-800 number advertised in the game was still running, and you could still call in and hear the voices of Wally Bear, Toby Turtle, and all their friends. As soon as word spread about it, though, the 1-800 number was disconnected. By the time I had discovered it, Wally had already been silenced... forever.
IBM and Accenture are American in that that's where they were founded. This matters a lot: company culture is very different to change, and with the exception of departments that came forth of an acquisition, you can find elements of the founder's culture in most large multinationals.

Of course there are exceptions, as there always are, but I guess that from an employee's perspective, IBM looks and feels like an American company very much. Same holds for how sales teams interact with customers.

I would be interested in a comparison between experiences of Indian employees of Oracle and SAP, for instance. I have no clue, but I bet that it's tangible.
> How would you convince a Solipsist that there is an objective truth?

I can't. But let me quote Bertrand Russell from "An Outline of Philosophy":

Solipsism (the theory that I alone exist) is a view which is hard to refute but still harder to believe. Solipsism is not really believed even by those who think they are convinced of its truth.

A solipsist would have no objection to jumping from a cliff, would he? But he won't actually do it.
It's an undocumented binary format rather than a documented XML one. The format seems to have been designed with low RAM / CPU usage (ie: iOS) in mind.

But seeing as nobody else seems to have bothered to actually add support for the old iWork formats despite them being documented XML, the situation is basically unchanged in reality.
I think a lot of people may agree that "of course he was killed," but it is particularly interesting because of the poison used (polonium-210) which has only been confirmed in one other poisoning case, that of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian dissident.

Secondly, it is of interest because Arafat's movements and those he had contact with were very limited around the time that he fell ill, so it raises interesting questions about who could have done it.

Hopefully this won't have a negative impact on ongoing peace negotiations.
The litany of hidden service marketplace failures in the past month alone is enough to make me have little faith in this endeavour. I'm just glad im watching on as am outsider: quite a few people in desperate situations are losing lots of money.
Voting is not working. As far as the media is concerned, there are always going to be only two candidates, both of which are in bed with corporate lobbyists. Without every voter doing significant research on their own to make meaningful third-party voting blocs, that will not change. Money determines the primary candidates, and that money comes from the same places year after year.
Re: VMs

Leaving aside the management issues of huge vm images and the less than ideal io performance, the ACID guarantees of pg rely on the underlying hardware obeying some specific restrictions, including real fsync and not lying about when things are on permanent storage. Getting the drives and raid controllers to obey that has historically been a difficult, ongoing job that has to be redone with each new generation of hardware. SSDs have been particularly interesting with that, the actual flush to disk can be quite delayed from the logical write. Some have supercaps, some don't. Those that don't are vulnerable to power losses while the data is still in the drive's ram awaiting a block erase and write. The IDE drivers used to flat out lie. Enterprise SAS drives often come with the write caching turned on (since it looks better in benchmarks) even though they're often times used behind a battery backed raid controller.

Adding a VM layer to that just to get snapshots seems overly complicated and prone to issues.
They said "Later in November". More of a general time frame than a release date.
As far as we understand physics, actually traveling through interstellar medium is very very slow. Light itself takes next to forever to go from here to there. Most likely, intelligent species realized it was much more fun to explore inner space rather than outer space. I'd wager we won't see them: they've surrounded their local stars with Dyson Spheres, communicating with highly directed, encrypted, massively wide-band, low power communications that would look rather like background radiation unless they were pointed right at us and we were meters away.

Think about how important latency is to high frequency traders. In an information ecosystem, the laws of physics become paramount: latency and bandwidth are king. Physically being far from the action is essentially choosing to banish yourself to the hinterlands when everything exciting/valuable is happening at the hot core as close to the ball of fusion in the middle.

update: Thinking further, if anyone has in fact developed FTL, you can bet your ass they don't want anyone else to have it. In space, Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest MotherF&@$%^# around. A baseball going 99% C is a weapon of mass destruction (http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/), much less a ship, which would essentially be a planet destroyer you literally couldn't see coming.
> No, it wouldn't. DRM means someone other than the hardware owner restricts what the hardware can do.

Why doesn't it include someone voluntarily giving up what the hardware can do?

> Now as the server owner, you can remotely verify it's still running the software you specified. But without that third party role, you can't prove this to anyone else!

Why couldn't the license holder of the software take this role?
> Why wouldn't law enforcement pose as buyers, as well?

Because as a buyer you don't know who the seller is. You just receive your package.

But as a seller, you know your buyer's mailing address. It becomes trivial to catch the buyer.
Blockbuster caves
This says he drank distilled water, which seems to imply no electrolyte. Any idea how soon you could expect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia ?

(I only skimmed bits of the article.)
Matt, here's a few things:
- on page 4 you might mention that Google may change your title tag on the search results.
- on page 8, you might mention case sensitive URLs (can cause dupe content if not used consistently) and the use of hyphens vs underscores in URLs.
- on page 15, I would updated the heading "Create content primarily for your users, not search engines" so it takes out the word 'primarily'.
- Page 18, would it be helpful for users to add location and tags, titles, in EXIF data in images?
- Page 21, I would mention specifying xml sitemap location in robots.txt file.
Show HN: Resize images using the FFT
>Your neighbor will have a bad day but won't won't get in trouble

This may result in your neighbor being raided and possibly being injured (and small chance they might be killed). Please read the description of some of these botched raids http://www.cato.org/raidmap before you willfully endanger people you should be looking out for.
The IDF had him more or less confined to a small area, IIRC.
It's for creating a scaffolding project with yeoman: http://yeoman.io/generators.html
Black holes naively look like a great way to get 100% mass-to-energy conversion, but when you really look into it, things aren't that great. To get more energy output, you want the black hole to be small (to have a high curvature in the event horizon); but, black holes that are small enough to give reasonable output are also too small (smaller than an atom) to reasonably feed new matter into.

Meanwhile, black holes big enough to feed fuel into have an incredibly terrible power-to-weight ratio.

And that's assuming that black holes even work the same way when they get that small. Quantum gravity could easily screw things up even more (or make them more convenient; who knows?)
I love the FFT even more than you and enjoyed that it is getting lauded, but would have found more algorithmic details even more interesting. Breaking down DFT, etc. and then showing the performance magic of FFT is a great way to approach discussion of many issues in problem analysis and algorithm design.

So, Nice enough article for slipping into the topic - now give me more! harder! faster!
Domain registered by FBI
This is actually really valuable feedback and one of the things I like about the HN audience. I struggle to strike a balance between precision and simplicity, and your comments raised many interesting subtleties that I had overlooked. So thanks for helping me get a better handle on this.
If I were still an IT consultant and a client raised even half these issues with me, I would probably terminate my relationship with that client, because I don't want to be nickel-and-dimed.

If I would find this sort of pushback so irritating as an IT consultant, I presume a legal consultant would find it just as irritating. Why would you want to annoy an important consultant in this way?
Oh, so your brain can still mostly recreate the shape even with no low frequencies!
> How you reconcile which app gets which gesture then?

The user decides. All of the callbacks get registered with a name and description, but the user picks which one is active.
One would think that they'd start moving to technologies that are decentralized using technologies such as distributed hash tables. This puts the onus on the users to have a client app that helps host the transaction system for everyone else.

The clients would openly share the buy and sell orders and then communication would moved to an encrypted channel that supports perfect forward secrecy.

The only part that ostensibly needs to be centralized is a ledger maintaining the reputation tied to some pseudonym.

i.e. the identity of DPR is passed along to all the users of the site collectively.
How does water compare to Soylent?
One of my sites was a victim of the negative SEO trick, I kept getting warnings from Google (Site violates Google's quality guidelines) that there were links to my site that violated their guidelines.

It didn't matter what I said in my reconsideration request to explain I had no knowledge or control over it (I've no interest in spammy link sharing or buying links), I kept getting similar canned responses.

I gave up in the end.