skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the flip side of the coin, a long swinging weapon is going to cause more issues than it's worth in the confines of a plane cabin.
Don't listen to the hate and vitriol.

Dart has a nice IDE, good clean types and language design. People are upset because they jumped on the wrong band-wagon and now something shiner and newer came around so they are not the cool hipsters anymore. Kind of like in the kindergarten the kid with the shiny new bike is boasting then some other kid gets the later, better, shinier model, the first gets upset and throws a tantrum.

Look at Dart's performance benchmarks. Its DartVM is about 2x as fast as v8 (JS) and its compiled to JS version is on par with v8.

https://www.dartlang.org/performance/
More contrast between the text and the background in your hero box.
The lag's going to be the killer. I think this will mostly be used by large companies which want to manage (and enable) their employee's access to software. Of course, that's exactly the sort of thing that companies would like to do with Autodesk.
This might be the most complainingist nonsense I have read.
But Apple has nothing to take down, no webpage or PDF document to take offline. This canary would work by not including the current language in the next report, not altering the current one. To me (also not a lawyer) that seems quite different from taking down an existing notice.

It’s not as clear as an explicit sign (in whatever form) being taken down. The interpretation is much more difficult and vague (also to observers like us who would be the target audience for such a canary): Did they just forget to include this language this year or did they actually receive a request? It also requires actively doing something (including the language in the new report) instead of doing nothing (not taking down the sign).

This is very vague as you can see by the many people here doubting that this is a canary at all. If it is indeed one this might afford it legality.
Ask HN: Good Bankruptcy/Collections Lawyer in Bay Area
Hi Guys,

Do you have a good Bankruptcy/Collections Lawyer in the Bay Area?

What are the options for collection against a company that just went into bankruptcy? Or does bankruptcy automatically protect it from any additional collection measures?

I have a number of fairly successful applications for the iPhone. I worked with MobClix (parent Velti) to run ads. They owe my company in the the $X00,000 and after months of trying to collect they filed for bankruptcy.[1][2]

Do I have any options? Can I go after the parent company "Velti" even though they're putting their other US subsidies/business under Chapter 11? Should I get a lawyer? And if so, do you have a recommendation on who to contact in the bay area?

Thanks
Val
valgui@gmail.com

[1]http://business-bankruptcies.com/cases/mobclix-inc
[2]http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mobclix-ceases-all-operations-files-voluntary-chapter-7-petition-2013-11-04?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Has anyone actually heard from Adobe about this? They haven't sent me an email (yet), but http://adobe.cynic.al/ claims my credentials were leaked.
5 keys to building a subscription commerce business
The location of all Bitcoins, and therefore the address with the most Bitcoins, is public knowledge. This is an inherent property of the system. If anybody tells you Bitcoin is anonymous, they haven't the first clue how Bitcoin works. Run away as quickly as possible, for they are dangerously clueless.
You have to be a walking database to be good at chess the same way you have to be a walking database to be a good programmer: hundreds of patterns small and big, thousands of tricks and some learnt by heart information. After all that comes creativity. Chess is very similar in this respect. As to it not being useful... well one thing is it's competitive activity. That teaches you about winning and losing and dealing with it. All the thing which comes with it: dealing with luck, seeing hard workers coming out on top, realizing you are not very special snowflake and there are hundreds people as talented (or more) than you. It's quite a skill. I am for one very grateful I learnt about it when I was a kid by doing competitive chess.
It is. Sony bought out Gaikai, which was a company doing similar work as Onlive. They plan to allow users to stream games, I believe PS3 games, on the PS4. I am sure if it works out for them they will expand it to do even more.
Ask HN: Method to keep track of large number of sets with high cardinality
We're building an analytics service. One of our needs is to maintain ~100MM sets each with anywhere between one member to 1MM members, with each member represented as a long. We need to be able to very quickly:

-Add a member to a set, and know whether it was added

-Update a counter indicating the size of the set

We have a realtime processing loop that ingests new data and needs to be able to update some number of the sets as well as its counter.

At the moment, we have this implemented in PostgreSQL, distributed application side by set name. There's one table with two columns: the set name in the first and the value in the second, as well as an index on set name, value. Is there a better method than this? AFAIK it's not a problem with a standard solution.
Some market caps from Google Finance:

TM, Toyota 203.72B
VLKAY, Volkswagen AG 114.33B
DDAIF, Daimler AG (USA) 85.52B
HMC, Honda Motor Co 71.86B
BAMXF, BMW 68.69B
F, Ford Motor Company 67.33B
GM, General Motors 51.52B
NSANY, Nissan Motor 36.86B
AUDVF, Audi 36.42B
TSLA, Tesla Motors Inc 21.47B
FIATY, Fiat 9.35B

So, no, I don't think Tesla is quite at those levels of expectations yet. (As full disclosure, I own some Tesla stock.)
I was curious about who this guy was, since this is full of inaccuracies and yet shows some inside knowledge. It turns out the author is not a YC founder, but a programmer who worked for one of the companies we funded, and who didn't stay with the company long. So for example it's not merely because "this has been covered so many times it’s not really worth mentioning" that he doesn't go into detail about the interview. It's because he wasn't at the interview.
Very interesting facts from MatFacts.co.uk
No description will help this.
NSA: Bound by laws of computational complexity
Compare Bitcoin and Litecoin prices with exchanges in China
Unless you are using Office or Lync which have their own copy of GDI+. Office 2010 only uses their own copy when running under XP though unlike older versions and 2013 don't support XP at all so they don't have their own copy anymore.
We just added a Litecoin arbitrage table to coined.com. Let us know if we should add any other LTC exchanges! We love feedback and are actively adding features to the site.

We used node.js, socket.io, and Semantic UI to create coined.com.
Cool site. I wonder if you would make more on AdSense if your advertisement was above the fold.
I would drop the blurred image background. It adds too much visual noise and makes it hard to scan the page to see what the app is about.

The black text is too small and not contrasty enough so I don't even feel like reading it.

The primary focus is the Facebook button but is that what you want? Don't you want people to download the app above all else? I think the primary focus be given to the App Store button which means it should be given more weight and prominence on the page.
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Stupid question expecting stupid answers: Is there a reason why Bitcoin can't just be treated and regulated like any other foreign currency?
Why you did not like Blair Witch (2000)
So support him by contributing to his political/legal efforts, but not contributing to or supporting his technological efforts, unless you understand the technology and really do support it.
I am kind of in this camp as well. I understand there is nothing much now to replace js on the client (kind of like js as an assembler language so stuff compiled to it), but I am ready for something better. But also, it is 2013, []+[] should stop being equal to ''.

Also think if anything or anyone is going to make a change it would have to be Google. Can't image a small company out there coming up with a new browser with a new language. It would have to come in Firefox or Chrome. So I am excited for Dart.
I hate to be the "revenues-dont-matter" guy, but stock prices could be based on the fact that they demonstrated that they are 4.6x more likely to succeed based on their performance this year. If stocks only followed revenues, trading would be pretty meaningless. A company like Tesla has a tipping point in value based on the viability of their model. I am in no way claiming that I think they will succeed, but this year has probably shown that they are more likely to hit a tipping point than last year. This matters a lot in highly speculative investments like Tesla.
Suddenly lots of spam on HN?
Just noticing this tonight. Are there lots of spam submissions happening or is this normal and I just don't see it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680248

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680032
I used Angelist to find a job once. Salary said $110-120k. Interviewed. Offered the job on the spot.

"Since we're just going into another fundraising round the most we can offer is $80k."

Didn't take that job.
This is what happens when you promise the sun, moon, and stars and only deliver the sun and the moon.
It's a shame that TC carries any weight. Let's stop beating around that bush...
That sounds pretty close to the 500 Startups strategy.
I predict this will have a big impact on gaming. It basicly means that games can be delivered from the cloud, and it seems quite plausible, this is how games will be delivered in the near future. For the consumer it means you dont have to buy games, you can subscribe to a service and rent them. For the game developers, it means they don't have to worry about illegal copies.

This idea has been floating around for years. A company went bankrupt trying to do it.

I predict it won't happen unless/until Valve makes it happen. No one else would be able to convince enough gamers to switch. And Valve has no incentive to do it, because there's really no incentive for anyone to do it. At least, not for the gaming audience at large. This tech has the potential to be a godsend for 3D artists wishing for realtime previews of their work. But gamers? Not so much.

Remember the other day an article was floating around like "Desktop PCs aren't dead, we just don't need new ones"? That's finally starting to become true for gaming PCs as well. Gamers are quite content on their current gen boxes.

You may argue that this tech will enable higher graphics fidelity, and will blow people away with how real it looks. But considering nobody knows how to make games look any more real than they look now, I wouldn't hold my breath. Gaming graphics has plateaued.

In summary, "games rendered via the cloud" is the pets.com of the gaming industry.

EDIT: Oy. If you're going to try to refute me, then put some effort into it.
Oh, interesting. Is it really a standalone transpiler or is it a set of tools?

As someone else pointed out, SO isn't a great metric, but finding github activity by language seemed to take more time than I was willing to invest.
I enjoy driving. I don't enjoy sitting in traffic or mindlessly plodding along a freeway alone in a steel box. I bought a car that I enjoy driving, but I'm also actively looking for a house in a location that means I don't have to drive to work. That's the ideal for me: a car for doing auto-x or HPDE or road trips or whatever, but not having to drive to work or the store or the bar or…

Edit: Gen Y here (24). I also agree with most of sentiments that OP has.
How can we report? Like "BR" style: "I report U"
I would imagine that paying back their loans will be worth quite a bit in PR.
Instead of speculating about what may or may not perform better, are you actually collecting analytics data? Are you tracking clicks on the AppStore link, the Register link, and all other calls to action?

Once you have accurate tracking set up you can A/B test many of the suggestions here (using something like Optimizely or Visual Website Optimizer) to see what works best. Otherwise you'll just be changing from one guess to another.

I do this sort of thing (conversion optimization). Get in touch and I'll be happy to give more pointers.
Funny how when php.net has malware(?), everyone shits all over it, but when Rubyforge goes down, nobody cares.

Though rubyforge isn't the main ruby website.
After traffic stop, man forced to have x-ray, enema, anal probes and colonoscopy
Interestingly, Eric Schmidt had no idea what Bitcoin was until Julian Assange first explained it to him in June 2011.

http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt?noca...
I believe those with high karma can flag submissions
Tesla Says Model S Driver Unhurt in Mexico Crash
Here are the servers, spin one up and give it a try!

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results/ref=gtw_na...
Nissan will sell its 100,000th all electric LEAF early next year. They sell around 15,000 a quarter.
I'm in Canada these days, and my understanding is "Software" is not recognized as a kind of "Engineering" here, so I actually can't call myself and Engineer.

Am I wrong on that?
For it's not so much the database aspect, but the risk-reward curve is awful. You're probably better off pushing your child to become a professional athlete, in those terms (not that I'm encouraging that).

The time commitment to becoming a world class player is such that consumes most of a young person's life.

I was a Master level player by the age of 17, through some talent, supplemented by hours upon hours of studying and coaching. This was not pushed upon me by parents, but more out of my own competitiveness. This is not a prodigious level - you should probably be an International Master by that age to be called a prodigy. I was only a top 10 or so player nationally for my age category, with a 0% probability of making a living or anything close to it from the game.

By the time I reached University, I all but completely abandoned chess. Studying Computer Engineering meant I couldn't devote enough time to it to stay competitive, and real life happened.

Same as you, I will teach my kids chess, and help them get to a certain competitive level, because I do believe that playing chess at a high level improved my brain function in a way that has helped me in other analytical tasks (e.g. engineering), but I won't push them to continue with it beyond a certain point.
Before the TSA, I routinely carried my Leatherman on my person in the cabin of commercial aircraft. When I passed through the security checkpoint, I'd remove it from its sheath and place it in the basket for your keys and change and such, and hand that to the uniformed person manning the checkpoint. I was never once stopped, questioned, or even looked at twice for doing this.
While blanket statements like that sound true on their face, I think it's safe to say that an unknown person may have a large number of coins spread over a lot of wallets. Especially people trying to hide their total balances, including people using tumblers.
Microsoft narrows CEO shortlist to Ford, Nokia, Skype and Azure leaders
I think people actually use PHP though
You know, lotsfields are named that way. Its just that the some of them are less obvious because both the part of the name identifying the domain and the part saying its the science (or "study", but with the same intended meaning) are in Latin, instead of plain English.
In the US (which this survey seems to have been limited to), that is rarely the case. Only Florida and Texas consider "Software Engineer" a protected title, and even in those states you are usually only restricted from using it if you are offering engineering services. In most of the country, a "Software Engineer" could just as easily be working on a social networking website as on embedded software for an airplane. It is extremely common to use the title "Software Engineer" for people who are not actually doing engineering.
Surely Apple can hide behind corporate person-hood and just say "The corporation did it, not any person..."
You may have gotten a false positive (as the bottom of that page explains). Try http://lucb1e.com/credgrep/ instead.
I think the anonymity of Bitcoin makes it tougher to regulate when compared to other currencies which generally pass through regulated intermediaries.
awesome, thanks for writing this, and for whoever posted it here.
Reddit subnetwork visualization
I was part of the team that created Crunchbase at Techcrunch and it is really sad to see what has happen, since the way People+ are using Crunchbase is exactly as intended with the design.

I can remember the specific conversation about picking CC-BY+A, it was because we wanted other apps to use the data, even if they were competing with us (and they were)

It also seems they have dumped the open API, previously you could just add '.js' to any page and get a JSON representation of it, no developer signup, no stupid API key, etc.

http://api.crunchbase.com/v/1/company/facebook.js

My impression now is that since the AOL acquisition Crunchbase has tried to retract a lot of its openness, which was a big reason for its success.

I think the key difference is that we saw Crunchbase as a free service to the startup community that would reinforce Techcrunch, while AOL see it as having a distinct and independent commercial value.
Hmm, the Google safe browsing diagnostic doesn't show anything out of the ordinary:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=rubyforge...
The point is that the price is disconnected from fundamental value. Remember you are buying something, you want to know how much you should pay, not whether the thing underlying the security is going to be "successful".
Ops, I put the wrong email. It's j.horne2796@gmail.com
We're trying to build a work space and community for people who do true remote work in Seattle. We hope this model spreads:

http://devlocal.io
We can & do. Yes, this is a lot.
I don't see it in Japan, either.
A friend of mine travels internationally constantly for work. During one trip to Cambodia, he went to a range to shoot machine guns, and he slipped a few 7.62 nato rounds into his pocket at some point. They ended up in his travel bag, where they were forgotten about and remained for several months. The bag was brought as a carry-on on more than a dozen international flights with the bullets clanging around inside, and eventually the bullet detached from the casing on several of the rounds, causing gun powder to spill all over the pocket. It was not stopped once.

I found the bullets when he told me to grab some goggles out of his bag, and my hand came out of a pocket blackened with explosive powder. That was during a trip about 2 years ago.
Is this payroll over one year? If so, that's absurd. No one should be making $200k+ in salary at a startup that still has yet to turn a dime of profit. Just shaving 10% off that number would have covered their AWS costs for another 3 months.
They may also throw in a little 'anyone can anonymously fund terrorists!'

"...just like Peter King."
There is now less expectation of future profits than before.
Is the JS handling the streaming or whatever that aspect of it might be called?
I think I would include that airline in my normal considerations for my particular flight. If the price, leg room, route, timing, etc. was right, I'd choose it.
What complicates this analysis is the fact that these other companies sell in the millions--hundreds of times more cars than Tesla does in a year. Tesla's market cap is one million dollars per car to be sold in 2013.
The original assertion was about a single address having the most coins, which is true.
I thought the exact same thing lol
I think we have deeper issue here:
Users expect services to be cheap (because it's internet) and founders give them it using investors money. After they use all money they just shut down. Everpix is only another example.
Not annoyed by the question, more bemused. Every few months as I meet new people, I routinely get a linux fan telling me how awesome everything is on desktop linux. It's the same enthusiastic fanboyism that drew me in in 99/2000. When ubuntu came out, the "everything just works" mantra was pushed heavily in the circles I was in, but... everything didn't work. The fact that you had a nice installer - great. My wireless cards still didn't work well. Sound drivers were a problem. Etc. I've posted most of it before.

Sort of like movies I guess - people pushing their favorite actors who were in some remake of something from 20 years ago. The actors are OK, but I'm not becoming a crazed fan over that stuff; life's too short.

As for linux - it's on all the servers I manage, and I can run virtual machines of what I need from linux, mac or windows when required. It's just not my cup of tea for desktop/laptops, and probably won't be for a long time (again). The macbook "just works" far in excess of any hype from the ubuntu crowd (again, thinking back to 8-10 years ago - "it just works!")
Interesting. That tidbit of information puts a whole new spin on the article. Slightly off-topic: Do a lot of companies end up hiring during YC? I thought that didn't happen.
Sure, you're not going to completely squash it but it will then be considered a "dirty" service and only be used for illegal activities. No U.S. business will ever touch it again.
But I saw the videos of the TSA groping children and the elderly, so I think we're safe.
back of the net! ;)
Yes — assuming it was otherwise suitable for my travel needs.
> not whether the thing underlying the security is going to be "successful".

But that's exactly what determines how much you should pay. Fundamentals are "How much will this be worth in the future".
Yeah, apart from the general aura of "change", the only really concrete things I remember were health-care reform, and closing Guantanamo. At least one of the two did happen, sort of.
You think so? If there was a fight on a plane, I think I'd rather have that club than any object that is normally handy on a plane.
""We follow the law in every aspect and we follow policies and protocols that we have in place," Chief Gigante replied.

"Do you think those officers in this particular case did that?" Ramirez asked.

Gigante didn't answer, instead he referred Ramirez to his attorney."
"Statistical significance does not mean your result has any practical significance."
> What is the pathway for Dart adoption?

dart2js: https://www.dartlang.org/docs/dart-up-and-running/contents/c...
If, say, you find that your results are not statistically sigificant at a reasonable p-level, you don't get to claim your conclusion is right in 'broad strokes', maybe has some 'significant errors', a bit 'sloppy statistics', but it's broadly true, right?

Nope, instead it's not statistically significant, so there's no reason to think it wasn't just random chance that made it 'close' to statistically significant.

But if your results are statistically validated, but only because you used statistics incorrectly, you've crossed the line to broadly-true-but-with-sloppiness?

Nope.

There is room for qualitative research. I like qualitative research. But qualitative research has, righty, a different sort of impact.

If you are claiming your research is quantitative, then you need to live and die by good statistics. That's the implicit promise of providing the statistics in the first place, otherwise why do statistical calculations at all?
Honest question. Isn't giving someone a $20 bill for something more anonymous than BitCoin?