skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are lazy and ignorant. Just look at how many businesses default to Gmail without giving it any thought whatsoever.
Probably gocode, which is a daemon that works with different editors to offer autocompletion (i.e. vim, emacs, etc): https://github.com/nsf/gocode
Er, what? The Uber pricing is listed right there in the app, in the same way that taxi pricing is listed: base fare, per-mile fare, and per-minute fare. And if surge pricing is in effect, there's even an extra tap-through step that tells you what the multiplier and final costs are, and asks you to confirm that it's ok.

There's even a trip cost estimator in the app that you can use by telling it your destination.

When the trip is over, you get an email receipt with the total time and distance with the charges listed, as well as a map with the route drawn.

I'm not sure how you can get more transparent than that. What else are you looking for?
So, exactly what part of that qualifies as, "more to add than what the wikipedia article spells out?"
Messaging Service Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Facebook Bid
The docs in the README are a good start: https://github.com/codegangsta/martini

In fact, having now read the rest of the code, they're pretty much comprehensive.
Samsung admits copying Apple, disagrees on amount
Looks nice, but I really love the Google Font API trick there; I did not know that by using the text querystring, you can build a custom font with just the letters you need :)
To be taken seriously, it will have to target javascript eventually, of course. Perhaps you might as well go there directly and just get it over with?
Misinterpreted knowledge could be more harmful then ignorance (as any hypochondriac would know), but that's not the case here - I'm really looking forward to trying to build something like this.

It's nice to see DIY moving from blinking lights to really useful and serious areas.
Why I switched from Ruby to Go
What I find worst of all, is that our governments are using our tax dollars to negotiate and write this stuff behind our backs in order to shaft us, the people.
Or it's a sign that it's a completely stupid idea, with no chance to turn into a profitable business, and that we are in a bubble.
Equity is essentially taking a risk on deferred earnings - you're betting that the company will be a success (otherwise equity is worthless), and that the equity will be worth more than you could earn taking a paid gig instead.

For example;

Let's say you take the job and get 10%, and your average salary over the next 5 years is $30,000. You get $150,000 + 10% if the company survives. REMEMBER: Most startups fail.

Or… If you're a capable developer you could be earning $150,000/year in a soulless job working for a boring financial institution. Over 5 years that's $600,000 in cold hard cash guaranteed.

Consequently, for that 10% to be financially worthwhile the company would need to exit and give you the $450,000 you've given up + a bit more - so a $4.5m deal. How likely is that?

That's a hellishly over simplified example. All sorts of things make it more complicated. In reality your stake is very likely to be diluted over subsequent rounds. Every round roughly halves what you own. So after a couple of rounds you're down to 2.5% (the good news is that each round should raise enough to stick another 0 on the end of the valuation of course). You might be able to buy in at some point in a future round too. And so on.

And, of course, this ignores the fact that startup life is fun and interesting, which makes up for a lot more money than you might imagine.

Ultimately, what you really ought to do is disregard the equity and take the job if it sounds like something you want to do all day, like something that will get you out of bed in the morning, and you can afford to live without an income for a while. Even if it all fails you'll have had fun.
Why would anyone willingly use Windows 8?
Snapchat is a threat to Facebook, just as Instagram was. They want to control it, the price doesnt matter much.
Looks like a lot of reflection. At that point, I would just stick with express and node. All that magic comes at a cost.
I just realised something; why would this agreement curtail European fair use equivalent laws? I thought it was Trans-Pacific agreement, specifically leaving out Europe.
What is your basis for disagreement here? OP pointed to something which literally uses the word "decapitation" what leads you to believe that it's an erroneous use?
... which you can do in the Uber app, as well, though of course it's not a pay-what-you-want service, and the fare estimation in the app is just that, an estimation.
irrational choices of the 'oh fuck it, let tomorrow take care of itself'

Having a high discount rate is not irrational. Multiple discount rates are, but a single high discount rate is perfectly rational.
Absolutely!

If it means helping to define and grow the culture I can do my best work in. To work with people I admire and trust(and may even be around for the next thing).. that's better than most jobs anywhere and incentive enough to be honest. It just so happens I also love designing great products, but designing great places to work can be just as fulfilling.
I really like the look of this. There's some very clever API design going on here, and it's clearly taking advantage of Go's language features rather than just trying to be a clone of a framework from another language.

I particularly like the service injection concept. Django forces every view function to take a request object and return a response object. Flask makes these optional, but then requires you to use global variables to access more information from the request. Martini attempts to resolve any arguments it sees by looking up their static type against a service directory. I think that's really clever.

The way it allows you to stack up Handlers is neat too. Django does this with either globally applied middleware or per-view-function decorators, but there's something really neat about just taking a list of functions for things like authentication and "stacking" them on top of each other - or having that same function applied as middleware to every request using m.Use(func...). Using Context.Next() to allow that middleware to "wrap" a request (the equivalent of Django's process_request and process_response pair) is clever as well.

Colour me impressed!
This one was good, I don't know if there is sound as I watched it silently, but it was perfect even without it.

Im hooked, likely to start learning go soon.
P.s. Big respect for being able to make the video below 3 min.
Wink left or right to open and close the parentheses :-).
The founders probably would have started them anyway if other things would be the same - but they wouldn't be the same.

In particular, the whole concept of venture capital wouldn't work, so lack of funding would've prevened the start of most current startups as it happened.
In a larger sample, but it's usually more expensive. That being said, self experimentation is fun. Very fun :-).
I think the first usage would be to recover energy from the brakes, energy that you can use almost immediately afterwords. You would still use another battery as the main storage.
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The advantage doesn't scale up well.

small quadcopters basically speed up and slow down the motor itself to control how much lift is generated. As the size and weight of the blade increase, inertia makes that impractical, so you have to go to variable pitch for control.
On Distributing Command line Applications: Why I switched from Ruby to Go
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. Every single thing in this comment is speculation.

That said, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the following features in the system:

- Point of contact must be available during normal business hours.

- If the point of contact is not able to handle a particular request from the government, the company is legally responsible for making someone who can available, within a reasonable window of time after the contact point gets the request.

- I don't see that the employees can be subject to a legal requirement to appear, or be located anywhere in particular, or be reachable by any means. But the company can.

- I'm pretty sure whether or not the law enforcement requirements are putatively unconstitutional makes no difference.
http://jsfiddle.net/sJXE3/
Here is a simple improvement that should help a lot. Write everything in the active voice. This will make your language less "pretty", but more understandable. Doubly so when talking to people with a short attention span.

Let me rewrite your first paragraph to show the difference.

From a business writing standpoint? that whole sentence is superfluous. The whole thing is an insertion of humility, something that is important when speaking about yourself to other nerds, but is essentially social fluff.

vs

That whole sentence is superfluous from a business writing standpoint. It is an insertion of humility. Social fluff that would be important when speaking about yourself to other nerds.
It's an utterly terrible direction to go. It's basically forcing people back onto the Windows stack which we've been trying so hard to get away from.
Yeah, sorry about that. The sandbox is a stress test and geometry doesn't get thrown away if you've ever loaded it. Can I ask what kind of hardware/browser you're running? Is it immediately unusable or only after loading a bunch of stuff?
pretty much every foundational theory in classical economics is predicated on homogeneity

I have absolutely no idea where you get this idea. Both supply and demand curves are based entirely on the concept of heterogeneity.

The microfoundations of the supply and demand curves are (for simplicity assuming each customer will supply/purchase only 0 or 1 item):

Supply(P) = # of suppliers with reserve price > P
Demand(P) = # of customers who's reserve price < P

If agents were homogeneous, then both of those curves would be a step function.

Similarly, the standard economic explanation of why the poor make "bad" choices is heterogeneity - the poor have a higher discount rate than the rich.
Exponential curves are to be expected for any value whose growth rate is positively correlated with its value - essentially, when you have positive feedback loops where the more you have of x, the faster x grows, which causes you to have more of x, and so on.

In this case, Bitcoin price growth made it more popular, which caused more people to start investing in Bitcoin, which further increased its price. The exponential shape of Bitcoin's price curve is entirely normal.

The real question is, does Bitcoin's current price match its "true" value? I personally believe the answer is "no", but that's like, my opinion, man.
It worked eventually, a little bit, but my laptop has never revved it's fans this much before. Seems cool though.
Yes, but if your business model literally depends on people being lazy and ignorant, you may run into problems.
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With 243 million users by 2014, India To Beat US In Internet Reach: Study
It sounds VERY locked to the Wolfram cloud platform and NOT very open sourced… Just makes me think about Oracle type of lock-ins immediately :P
You can't. Every business over a certain size will still need in house people that understand their problems. All Amazon, or any cloud providers for that matter, are doing is abstracting away IT services from the bottom up.

Need a server? click a button
Message queue? click.
Database? click.
Virtualised Desktops? clicky-clicky.
Virtual Tape Drive? (I'm as surprised as you are).

You're still going to need people who need to know what each one of those things means to your business. But in-house enterprise IT today still consists of lots of people (and payroll) who put things in racks, re-image desktops, restore SQL Backups, install custom software and give the tapes to the dude in the motorcycle helmet...

In the medium term the cloud won't replace IT. It will however redefine it to the point that the 'spare capacity' that you mentioned will be seen like an amusing anachronism.
The information is all there, and all public, right from the start. This is no more an attack on Bitcoin, than taking wood from beneath a "Free Wood" sign is theft.
I think differentiating Pinterest ads from content will be tough. The company had previously been rewriting pinned product URLs to include Pinterest's own referrer code. (Users didn't like that.)
In fairness, though, there is a big disconnect between what economists in the media say on average when they feel free to say whatever they like, versus what economists concede in an academic context when pressed on the matter.

Part of this may be due to the fact that most economists who appear in the media are basically paid shills, but no matter the reason, it is definitely a problem for the democratic process.
Ask HN: Thoughts on a service I'm working on?
This is a pet project I've been hacking away at for a bit. I don't expect the audience to be huge, but I'm just wondering if anyone would ever use such a service, or even pay a small amount of money for it. I don't think it would be worth making a company just for this one service; I'd likely run it as a one-man side operation, unless it became popular quickly. My description might sound a bit vague, so please ask me to clarify any points if necessary.

Full description here, as it couldn't all fit into a HN post: http://textuploader.com/d3fk

Technical

A nice, simple API and web application for webmasters to view, search, and manipulate visitor device & network fingerprints and signatures. Various techniques are used to facilitate enforcement of bans, and detection of suspicious activity, registrations, and submissions.

For end users

A security service targeted towards web admins of every kind, specifically to combat bots, spammers, fraudsters, and anyone with malevolent intent. Site owners would register their domain on the service's website, and be given a snippet of Javascript to place in the head of each page they serve.

Customers would log into our site to see recent visits, anomalies, and other passive information. They would have a robust querying interface, and would also be able to tie device fingerprints to user session variables, like username. They will also have the ability to make complex rules and bans.

General

Customers can search by IP address, CIDR mask, location, date/time, or by the fingerprint itself (either a composite fingerprint or one of many more specific ones, to vary the false positive and false negative rate); a more basic interface will be available for those who have no need for fine grained searching.

I list some concerns and similarities to other services in my full description.

I'll gladly take any suggestions or criticism. Thanks.
The Circus
I don't know much of the science, but I think if it can charge that quickly, it can probably discharge pretty quickly as well. I imagine I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that, so maybe there are drawbacks to putting it into a device you hold in your hands?
I often find this one in supermarket in Sydney - http://minichariie.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/img_5044.jpg

As far as the name Sriracha hot sauce is concerned, that is actually the original original. They used to bottled it differently but have changed to this squeeze bottle just recently, probably to compete with the rooster brand.
This is their solution.

http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/

I would imagine it's at least in the ball park if you have 100 servers..
This is almost like saying that fashion models should be short, fat and ugly.
Bitcoin, at least right now, is literally the antithesis of hard money. It has no backing, either political (e.g. Fed) or economic (e.g. gold-backed). Value fluctuates wildly. A week from now it could be worth $1,000 or it could be worth $1.
Yes my immediate concern was that GP clinics could be inundated with the worried well who simple couldn't tell the difference between an 8K and an 80K resistor. However, I doubt many people will actually go ahead and build one of these and, quality control aside, the article does show just how relatively simply some of these devices can be made.

Generally though it does rather seem that there is going to be an increase in the amount of data that patients bring to clinic; what may appear to be little more than silly iPhone apps today might well become the important monitor tools of tomorrow. My guess is that this will create opportunities for online analysis startups to perform data triage an initial review, turning the data into something more valuable.
Which begs the question: what does Mark Cuban allow of his coaches that no other NBA owner would?
Wow... looks like a couple of languages that want to be just like Python, but just... can't... quite... get there...

:)
Being open in this context is like being pregnant, you either are or not. You can't be half-pregnant or half-open.

That's ridiculous. Openness, unlike pregnancy, is a spectrum. And intent matters.

The remark about the script-kiddie able to find vulnerabilities is ridiculous

Script kiddie, random malicious hacker person, whatever. Yes, people like Saurik and other white hats are capable of finding these sorts of vulnerabilities, but certainly other kinds of black hats are capable as well.

Not really sure what you're trying to say here... seems like you're just spouting nonsense and nitpicking.
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I'd say its more like, using OpenGL ES to manage your render buffers and textures ..
The question you lead with may answer itself once you clearly distinguish between "saving" and "investing" -- you muddle those terms up quite a bit in your comment.

Saving decisions by households primarily mean less spending, hence less demand, hence less incentive to invest in the first place. This is a plain common sense first order effect.

That there may be a second order effect via interest rates is somewhat plausible, but it just boggles the mind how many people seem to believe that this second order effect would ever trump the first order effect of savings decisions. And I think this is explained by the simple fact that people do not correctly distinguish between savings decisions and investment decisions, where I mean investment not in the sense of "buy some shares/funds", but in the sense of "create new means of production".

Just like it has been said that physics is understood through the search of the correct sign, it seems that economics is understood through the search of proper definitions of what we mean by "saving" and "investment".
I guess that comment was cynical, but just to be sure: http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/how-long-do-disk-drives.... Especially in the beginning there is a higher failure rate for disk drives. So it is actually the opposite: backups should be one of the first things to arrange for new machines.
Okay - this actually looks very good. Almost like Sublime Text in the browser!
Viber wants monetization by stickers
Dartlang 1.0 is out
That pamphlet is called a schedule, it is posted in every station, and it is surprisingly readable and understandable. Only the larger stations have copies of the schedule to take, as well as on board every train. The only cryptic things are the train numbers, but you don't really need them, especially now that stations have real-time train arrival signs.
The 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 system is quite clear to me.
Dart 1.0: A stable SDK for structured web apps
edX and other great open education platforms are crippled when it comes to actually discovering courses. Thank you for this menu card of course, very helpful :)
Looks pretty good compared to the 'On Demand' instances though, even including the MS and (I assume) Teradici licensing. Somewhere in between On Demand on Reserved. If you can script yo sh!t together, spot instances is where it's at..
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PHP CMS with mongoDB, extJS, ZF2, ElastiSearch
Announcing Dart 1.0
Yea of course they will. That doesn't mean they spend their days explicitly enumerating limits of functions, and limits are pre-calc anyway. The point isn't that calculus isn't /integral/ in mathematics, just that it's not _necessarily_ (I did say necessarily) the workhorse of the applied statistician.
Has anyone developed the bitcoin equivalent of the "Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (FUSSP) Response"[0] yet?

[0] http://www.dmuth.org/fussp.html
For encryption, check out SpiderOak. I used to work with the CEO and know a few of their engineers. The privacy use case is looking stronger and stronger. https://spideroak.com
Virtualized Desktops are getting better, try to use Visual Studio with some form of PCoIP protocol (VmWare View) and you probably wont notice a difference to a real local desktop.

Modern virtualization capabilities somehow collide with the webapp approach and i wonder where this will go.
Yeah, agreed on that one. When I read that line, my first thought was, "GAH! Why wasn't he storing this in source control somewhere remotely?!"

And then I stepped back for a second and remembered that just 4 months ago my laptop was stolen and I lost 6 months worth of photos... which of course I hadn't backed up anywhere.

We all make mistakes. We all forget things in a time crunch that don't seem so important until something really bad happens.
Thanks. We are actually missing some edX courses but they will be added in very soon.
Facebook is the most resource hungry app in a lot of workplaces...
The pilot will be obsolete pretty soon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ
Ask HN: Download as CSV on a travel site?
Would you use a "Download as CSV" option on an accommodations search engine? If so, what kind of tools would you use on it once you downloaded it?

This is something we're thinking about for AllTheRooms.com.
http://coursebuffet.com/cb/computer-science/295

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Is Twttr Interesting?
> we value the creative output of individuals

This all sounds good, but it is very theoretical. Let’s look at the more practical effects. As noted by many, the fact that the creative output of individuals can currently be owned has rather large drawbacks. So what do we gain to potentially offset these drawbacks? Note that these gains would have to be things we would actually lose if creative output of individuals would cease to have property status. Finally, are these gains large enough to overcome the drawbacks?

Furthermore, there are many who argue that, should the creative output of individuals cease to have limits on their dissemination and use, society would gain more than enough to offset any potential drawback of this. It could also be argued that the cost would be entirely transitional, i.e. people would have to get used to new business models and move to different ways of doing business, and there would be otherwise no actual continuous loss by making the creative output of individuals non-owned.
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- Taking cheap shots about their measures of efficiency is hypocritical. TFA says that the researchers did investigate the efficiency and calculated a 25% gain. Presumably their calculations will be in their research paper. You on the other hand have just given a YouTube video and battery capacities as your 'proof'. Heck, the researchers went as far as constructing a device to test their efficiency claims.

- The stability might be an issue for completely manual flight (but then, people fly ordinary helicopters just fine...) but with computer-assisted balancing, the problem can be much reduced. Even existing quad copters often have computer-aided stability.