skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you come through looking like a ski bum with all of your worldly possessions in your back seat then you shouldn't either try to tell the border patrol that you're a wealthy tourist getting ready to kick the US economy into high gear with your lavish spending!

That being said, I'm getting super psyched for ski season and have been wanting to head to Canada this year. Recommend any good places within or near Ontario?
Who paid for the 6 kids college?

(I enjoyed the story and feel tons of compassion for him. But there do seem to be some unexplained factual gaps in the story that my brain wants to make sense of. Who paid for college is the main question I haven't seen anyone else mention yet).
It's true that it's not a fair comparison. The corresponding fair comparison is interesting, though. The thing I worry about is long term. As technology gets better, running banks should become more energy efficient. Because bitcoin mining is inherently competitive, it can't become more efficient in aggregate - if it's cheaper per hash, people will generate more hashes (and/or the difficulty will rise).
AFAIK the only bits of Sony making money right now (well, prior to the PS4 launch) are the content (music/movies) and insurance businesses. So my guess is the PS3 has been a net loss for Sony (unlike the PSX and PS2).
Mouse gestures. I've tried gestures extensions in every other browser and found them all flawed or limited in some way.

Unfortunately other than that the new Opera is just a skin on Chromium. In the switch they've ruined password manager, fast DOM-preserving back navigation, and tons of others goodies.
I replaced the knob on my garage door with this one which opens with basically any manipulation of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odA_OaVA0PU

I also installed this magnetic door stop on the same door. http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Hardware-Magnetic-Doorstop-Nic...

These two combined have given me godlike powers of grocery transportation.
I think if you're feeling really cynical you might believe the company share the opinion I've originally expressed here, but know that they are merely exploiting a very lucrative market through this approach. I happen to believe in this case they are sincere, but sincerely annoying :).
One interesting thing about UI design - it all seems so obvious. But a guy who designed airplane cockpits told me that those "obvious" aspects were all paid for in blood.

They're obvious only in hindsight.
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> Recommend any good places near Ontario?

Unfortunately, Ontario is as flat as a pancake.

You really need to come out West, and you can't go wrong. All the resorts in the West are getting dumped on right now, and everyone's loving it. BC is where it's at for Canadian skiiing.
Child-proof covers for lever door handles work pretty well and cost less than $10. They also can keep clever pets from opening doors with lever handles.
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Wood was pretty interesting before the age of plastic, too.
So what exactly is chat.meatspac.es?
Everything that happens in the universe, and your life, is controlled by the laws of physics. Trying to stop bad things from happening is like trying to prevent gravity. Control over anything is an illusion. That's how I see it, anyways.
Yes, separating this logic is tedious, but it's core to the concept and it scales just fine.

If every time you want to enable/disable an object you simply write an SQL update query, if you ever want to add any other requirement when an enable/disable occurs (example: you want to record the reason why an object is enabled/disabled) you've now cornered yourself into a situation where you need to identify all the code where you've written the SQL update query.

A RESTful API makes a lot of sense when dealing with plain data, but starts making less sense when you're attempting handle full fledged use cases.

However, your core API logic should be separated from whatever network layer exposure you're giving your API (and ideally should handle endpoint negotiation for you)
But ASCII null-terminated strings can't contain null either, so I don't know why he says that it's just a problem for UTF-8.

Also, if you represent U+0000 by 0xC0 0x80, then it's "Modified UTF-8", and it's not valid UTF-8.
I presume these APIs interact with Tesla's web servers and not a Tesla Model S directly.

So the protocol the car uses to receive commands and firmware is likely different.
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Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why is giving each message a signature worse than just hanging onto the message itself? Unless I'm missing something, each of these messages is sent to Google's servers, and presumably stored (forever).

In that sense, even without the signature, the record itself still exists. I'm thinking maybe they're trying to say that in the case of an end-user having a signature, they could look the message up? In that case, if they have a copy of that message in their inbox anyway, again, what is the difference?

Not trying to discredit the article, I think I must be overlooking something.
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What is the deal with the allcaps menus? It just looks amateurish, like a Visual Basic program made by a teenager in the 90s.
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Saw a demo the other day of a lever that you can also push and pull:

http://brinksppr.com/
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Awesome. It's interesting to see that the data doesn't support the existence of "evergreen" and instead, what we see as "evergreen" is just content that gets resurrected on a very regular basis.
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That amount sounds outrageous. I wonder if they can keep backups of all that stuff.
This is where the bitcoin boosters start to seem a little looney to me. 99% of my experience with currency has been with USD, which have been relatively stable from month to month.

It is a difficult situation because it appears that when people take the time to learn about it, they become big fans of bitcoin but also start worrying about the total collapse of the fed and the USD. I am trying to understand the argument, but I remain skeptical.

It is very interesting to watch and play with though.
Lately, there seems to be an uptick in Perl posts on HN. Does anyone else notice this? Is something afoot amongst the monks?
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What about the other 99.999999999995% of search queries?

I think the OP's point is they are mis-representing what they are offering.
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I did the transition from Java to Groovy (because of Grails) which helped me to become familiar with closures and a more functional style of programming, which eventually got me interested in Clojure.

I still think Groovy is valuable as a "better Java than Java" but it's kind of hard to explain to newcomers how much ahead Clojure is. It took me a while to leave my prejudices against the parens and try to understand why it was so powerful and why the LISP family of languages is still alive. It's not by mere coincidence.
Might sound that way, but its a good book. Short and cheap, well worth the read.
Thanks for the tip. I actually just got a second monitor (third screen) but wasn't able to time-lapse it, so for this week I was unbalanced mostly looking at just one of the screens. I shall now rearrange my gaze targets.
If you take the original idea of the search shown in the ad, and reformat it to look like a rather ordinary search query, you get this:

https://www.google.com/#q=biggest+candy+store+near+Austin%2C...

Not using ad-block, you can see some of the ads OP is referring to.
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Surely it is just what bitcoin miners have been doing anyway, the difference remaining being their profit.
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Visual Studio 2013 sp1 now includes Scott Hanselman?!?! This will do wonders for my productivity!!!

Edit: Scott initially said "I will be in the update", not it will be in the update...
Haven't really dived into it because of the nasty CSS issue with narrow(er) screens (My Safari window is at 1110px, it's an issue below 1350px): http://imgur.com/Na6cLfo
Plus technically Java does not use UTF-16, it's UCS2.

Well then I've got good news! EFI, too, also means UCS2 when it says UTF-16 in the spec.
Your last line is so racist.
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As everyone says, depends on what you are trying to do.

For all interactive/exploratory analysis, for statistical graphics, for more advanced statistics, for most statistics-related research work in general, I would definitely pick R out of these two.

If statistics is only a small part of the application, if you already know exactly what you have to do (i.e. no data exploration), if you have to do a lot of web/text processing -- probably Python.

Also, check which one has more/better packages related to what you are doing.

For some stats projects I would go with something else entirely though.
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I love this development and it's something I fight to try to get places that I work to adopt. Building your service through the eyes of a client gives so much clarity about both the what and the how. It pairs really nicely with TDD as well. You also end up getting an API for free out of it and have an easy transition to Service Oriented Architecture if you so choose.
Infrastructure resilience, fast VM restart, and Google Compute Engine
DIY human cyborg biohacks his own body with circadia implant
I just love unfalsifiable theories.
In my mind, this is an important bug report. Often when you deal with users, the problem is between the keyboard and chair: "The calculations are all wrong!" "Yes, that's because you uploaded an excel spreadsheet with all the wrong numbers..."

But sometimes it isn't the users fault. Sometimes programs crash because you made a coding error. So you fix your code and the users become happy.

To me, this story is the latter. Guy didn't do drugs, isn't a suffering a mental disorder, have a gambling problem, alcoholic and still becomes homeless! Then I think the problem can not be blamed on a user error, but is a system problem. Perhaps this user didn't behave exactly as the system programmers expected, but there still needs to be enough error handling builtin so you don't get homeless from the errors he made.
"pizza" is whole different kind of query than the one shown in the ad. "Best toy store near dupont circle" has no ads.

The worst you could accuse them of is picking a type of query that doesn't usually have ads. I don't think that's lying.
Uh huh. I love the British people. Really. Lived half a year in London and worked down in Mayfair back in the 90's.

But I'll admit that I found the fact that the UK has no Constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech a shock. And I'd wager that any American would find your system of ASBOs to be downright Orwellian.

Speaking of Orwell, you folks have had government surveillance on a scale unheard of in the USA for decades now. How's that working out? Wasn't there a near-simultaneous bus bombing in a heavily patrolled and videoed area?

My point is this: I find the constant US bashing that occurs on HN to be nasty and misplaced. Don't like my country? Great. Don't come here. Don't use US products. Don't use US services. Don't contribute financially to the US. I'm totally cool with it.

The mere fact that we have a torrent of immigration applications only demonstrates that despite the nasty border guards, the crazy laws, and the weird politics, that we still remain one of the best places to live a life. We're not perfect; we're just better in a lot of ways that matter to people.
> Well, explain how fiat currency is better for the median income family? Standard of living, wages, purchasing power, debt load, etc have all been terrible for the middle and lower class since 1972 (relative to the periods before).

All as a fairly direct result of fiscal (and, more specifically, tax) policy. But nice post hoc ergo propter hoc there.

> I'd choose instability over a system that transfer wealth from lower to upper class (which debt based inflation does).

Deflationary currency transfers from debtors to creditors, whereas inflation transfers wealth from creditors to debtors. I think you've got which currency system represents an upward transfer of wealth backwards.

> Who cares if the economy is more stable if it is not increasing the standard of living for the lower and middle class?

The problem is that transferring from the current currency system to a deflationary one based on Bitcoin would not only make stability worse, but it would also increase the upward transfer of wealth.
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I suspect this is a HMAC-SHA1 similar to what the blog author surmised. It's possibly a response to the recent fiasco where they misrouted IMs.

I think they use this signature in their backend as a last defense when routing a message to a recipient. Being meant for the backend explains why messages with corrupt signatures are accepted (the backend notices that incoming signature is bad, so it doesn't use the signature to check the message when routing).

2) I'm curious about what people who say "crytpo in the browser/JS is bad" think about this. This seems to be a pretty good application of crypto to achieve a very narrow goal.
I think the sprinting analogy is a good one. I think the biggest piece to take into account is that the harder you sprint, the longer you need to rest. I think just like a good coach, a PM needs to play with the sprint/rest/slow cycles until they get to a cadence that pushes, but does not hurt the team. Also, as with running, as the team adapts, the cadence can and should change to better suit their progress.
The iPad 2 does not support Bluetooth 4.0, unfortunately.
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I don't buy TVs anymore. I just buy a monitor that takes HDMI input. After all, the output of the cable box is HDMI.
Isn't that a bit harsh? I just wrote what I thought at 18 — doesn't mean I still hold the same views. Just that's what I wanted at the time.
Blu-Ray "won", right? So it sounds like that was money well spent.
I wrote a lot of the code for https://www.airbrite.io/, which we are quietly launching on hackernews today.

The dashboard is all backbone, the backend is all node.js.

We wanted to build something that could become a core toolset for all developers. Hopefully it'll help frontend developers with e-commerce sites, but I'm excited to get to use it myself.
It seemed to me that Apple could really have screwed Sony and Microsoft by announcing a game-capable AppleTV successor based on iOS (either requiring an easy port or simply running existing iOS games using other iOS devices as controllers). But thinking back on it, it would be even more devilish to wait for Sony and Microsoft to sell a few million consoles at a loss and then do it just when they might have started making profits.
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Why do all websites have the same design? It's boring and lifeless?
I see claims like this all the time but it's important to realize that the price you can buy a small amount of something is generally the lowest price any seller will take, not a price all sellers will take.
True, the fires per 1000 vehicle number would be more indicative of the chance of experiencing one in your choice of vehicles. And then he leaves out the fact that gasoline powered cars have caught fire idling in traffic (my sister's MG did that, but its fuel pump was a not exactly the best engineered part of that car) and during non-collision activities. Its about 1/week on the Bay Area highways you have a car fire reported during the commute.

That said, he had to say something. The press was enjoying the chance to bash 'the safest car ever tested' and the stock price was falling from unsustainable highs.
+1 for Misha's response.

Yes, luck and timing are a big part of startups but there are processes and ways of thinking that you can learn to increase chances of success.
6 kids and similar plan, but...

A life of no kids + no mortgage + no spouse really lowers the bar for when you can tell someone to go fuck themselves. :)
>> Handles are bad[3], that is why we use door knobs.

It's a bit off topic, but, I was working at a summer camp where a counselor got his lanyard caught on a) a door knob, b) a fixed pull handle and c) a stair railing. He was a taller guy and constantly dropping stuff and bending over to pick it up. The door knob gave him a black eye, the other two just bruised his pride.

He probably should have had one of those wrist lanyards instead.
Poll: Which Web Server do you use in production?
Answers should related to the "front end" webserver, i.e. a node behind Apache setup would be apache. (This list is, as it must be, woefully incomplete.)
apache(prefork)
apache(threaded)
apache(evented)
lighthttpd
TFS has a lot of features and a lot of configuration options. What is nice is that all of the parts can be put together to work across the entire development team's workflow and life-cycle. So developers, QA, project managers, Ops, etc all have a part with-in how TFS is intended to function. As a solution, this integration allows for a single solution for various aspects of team reporting, projecting, etc. So rather than having to put together all sorts of different tools for the various parts of development, TFS is a unified package. Like all software development panaceas, there are issues and problems with TFS because it can be a big and bulky thing to administer, train people to work with, get team buy-in, etc. So in some ways, it is better for an organization to grow itself with various tools that have little to no integration with each other for their specific development needs.

Anyhow, I say all of this because I was, not too long ago, brought into a medium sized organization that was using TFS and was asked to evaluate it against other options. What I found for this organization was that TFS was probably a best solution for their particular development process (very much a MS shop) but that they had both a poorly administered system (with most all of the reporting and project management features broken and with almost no direct QA feedback) and developers that were untrained on how to utilized all but the most basic features of the system. What made this audit particularly interesting to me was how the most productive people in the organization disliked TFS while most others were either indifferent or liked TFS because they had figured out how to game the few features that worked. So, yeah, in that case, TFS was "beyond terrible."

TFS is not a solution I would run in a recommend wholesale but it has a lot of nifty if you look under to hood.

Or maybe you think that TFS is visual source safe and well, that wasn't too great.
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And I would happily pay more for a top display and decent audio, if I could have it without all the junk. I don't even need a tuner or channel selection. Just let me point the TV at the input source I want and then do what that input tells it, but do it well. My PVR/Blu-Ray/console/whatever can do the rest.
Seriously how long should it take to grow a beard like that? I think the longest I've gone is a few months so maybe I just need to man up and let it go for a year.
It's already been done. https://www.ncmedical.com/item_187.html
This comment sums it up: "Performs as advertised; WILL NEVER PAY FOR ITSELF. Interesting piece of history."
What I did to fix this error was first back up my configuration, then uninstall packages nginx, nginx-common, and nginx-full. Then I installed nginx again and there were no problems.
Before having a child, and while she was at home (and sleeping) most of the time, I enjoyed playing the PS3. I actually bought very few AAA games, and mostly played games that came with my PS+ subscription. I did put untold hours into Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3. The last game I bought was GTA IV when it was $20 with all of the extra content. I sold the system when I realized I could only scratch the surface of this massive game that was otherwise enjoyable, and that would be the same story with virtually anything else.

I feel like it's impossible to keep up with big expensive AAA games, because they are simply too big and too awesome. So, I got a 3DS instead, and I can play Animal Crossing with my daughter in the evening, or play strategy games by myself on the train. Even if they are expansive games, they are still portable and don't require big startup time.

I also have a deep desire to build games, along with other things, and I simply can't do that while I am playing these big titles and have a job and a family.

I can see some circumstances in the future where I would feel better about spending lots of time playing immersive games.
Can you clarify your point of bitcoin as a method to move ¥ out of the country? I don't quite understand it. Either way the thing that got move out of China would be bitcoin or USD, the Yuan never actually got moved out of the country. How is it different that it's bitcoin, instead of USD that is sent out?
well it doesn't have to be, it's just a convention -- feel free to violate it, you just have to deal w/ your usage being a bit surprising, and lectures like the original blog post. :)
Most people dont actually care about picture quality, if they did they wouldnt buy a tv based on how it looks in the store. From my personal experience there are a lot of people who either cant tell or dont care if the current cable channel is in HD or not.

Most people care about how big it is and much it cost, hench why LCDs beat out Plasmas.
Yeah, TSA has been pilot-testing behavioral profiling at Logan for a couple of years now:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/02/passengers-face-behavio...

Your description sounds like a guy who wasn't particularly good at it. They're supposed to be direct, but not argumentative ("Never heard of it.") If they're too pushy or intimidating, it's hard to spot genuinely suspicious answers or behavior.

One of the main problems with this kind of screening is that it requires training, practice and skill. Ex-cops are pretty good at it, from what I understand, but that kind of experience is in short supply.

How did you like Santarpios?
For those shopping for a Pencil type device, their site might be really effective.

In my opinion they have failed at creating an experience, it just comes off as ridiculous - marketing a stylus like this. I might still buy the device if I ever needed a quality stylus, it's interesting, it's just pretentious marketing. So product may not be a fail, but artisanal positioning is.