skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a Naturebox ($20/month) for my mom and she loves it. I'm considering doing the same this year for her and myself and I think its the right price point. If my company stocked Naturebox treats, they would be a huge hit. Most tech companies seem to be using the same service for their snacks. Whenever I visit another office I always see the same assortment of Popchips, Doritos, Pirates Booty as well as Vitamin Water, Crystal Geyser mineral water, Odwalla, and soft drinks.
261 days ago, I stated:

Facebook's market cap is $63,000,000,000. If the market cap of Bitcoin were just 10% of Facebook, each Bitcoin would be worth about $500. 1% and it's about $50.
Can a global financial system conceivably give the world just 10% of the value of Facebook? Because just ten percent ... and one BTC is $500.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398140

I couldn't have possibly imagined that Bitcoin would soar so quickly. In all honesty, the infrastructure has NOT improved noticeably over the last 6 months. This runup in price was fueled by shameless speculation, or possibly the Chinese seeking to evade capital controls. I've followed the Bitcoin market closely since the time I made that post, and what you'll notice is the price moves up considerable amounts based on miniscule volume. Liquidity is dire.

I would advise very cautious optimism if not pessimism at this point. Is Bitcoin worth really 20% of Facebook right now? That's a tough question, especially considering the open regulatory question in America, which I personally don't see doing so hot.

I think Bitcoin was a fantastic, visionary buy at $10-$50 back when nobody was taking it seriously, and I enthusiastically stated as much to everyone who would listen. However, at this point I'm telling people they've missed the boat. There's still plenty of value in Bitcoin, don't get me wrong. It's just that this run up was 100% speculative, and based on people hoarding coins because the price was going up. Not the sign of a healthy foundation.
as I understand it, bootstrap-sass is going to become the official SCSS version of Bootstrap, and as such bugs on bootstrap-sass will be considered bugs on bootstrap itself.
I honor this man and his principles.. Rest in peace..
That doesn't follow. The way these changes are being billed in Congress is that they're necessary to keep trolls from taking advantage of the patent system. Taking measures to prevent gaming of the system is not the same as weakening the system.

Undoubtedly some proponents of the bill see it as a first step towards weakening patents generally, but that's not how it's being billed.
Yeah, I think so. What a swell guy!
Freemium is how things like Dropbox and Evernote make money, and they seem to be doing okay. =)
Isn't there a QFC on Lake City Way? There's also a nice new Safeway on 125th and 15th (though not technically Lake City, I think).

On another note... never thought I'd see talk about Lake City on HN :)
C programmers have better culture. Than say Java programmers.
If I was a swordsman and had a rusty sword and you had a new one, the sword does not decide the fight.
The tile is so vague, please:

ShowHN: I've launched an app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
ShowHN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
Thanks Ryan! Appreciate the support.
Care to give pointers/mindset/whatever helped, for quitting smoking?
Reasons they listed for going to the moon seem pretty weak. Need expert opinion on their lander/engine tech for I am no rocket scientist. I find very interesting use of word "proprietary" in design of their lander, why would they emphasize that?

All that said I applaud all and any efforts to advance space technologies.
Yes, Rails does support case-insensitive queries. Or does it?
Mandela founded the MK, a terrorist organization that bombed both military and civilian targets.

Mandela: "...without violence ... no way ... to succeed in .. struggle against ... white supremacy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe#Motivation_fo...

He might have turned into a pacifist, at some point, but he certainly gained political capital, intially, through violence. As with Arafat, I think he reached a point where violence as a tactic wasn't possible or useful.
That's not the way the phrase 'premature optimization' is usually used. Usually, it means spending time optimizing something that is not a limiting factor, or that otherwise will not make a difference in the final result. Keeping your code simple in the hope that eventually it will become fast is something else, probably falling closer to 'Sufficiently Smart Compiler' http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler.
firstOrder,
It was also a written policy of the communists to infiltrate rear of UN forces by mixing in with refugees. Maybe there were no communist soldiers in the particular group fired upon, but it's well known communists mixed in with fleeing refugees to get advantage on the battle field.

1980, what year was that? Yes, in the middle of the Cold War. Both sides on fingers to possibly launch hundreds of nukes. I'm sure the US held their nose as they 'supported' the newly emerging military dictator in SKorea. Simply, US had no choice.

And guess what the testimony from 11 years isn't the only related story. It's even more relevant as there are lots more, depressing stories coming out of NKorea.

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/29/149061951/escape-from-camp-14-...
The methods they describe to "confirm" the backdoor are simply silly. The ping results observed are not indicative of anything in particular, and the 30.150.x.x network that they're observing connections to isn't even routed. (BT is probably using 30/8 as a semi-private network space.)
"Test Your Morality" experiment
I don't think there's an official definition anywhere, so I think it's fair for companies to call it whatever they want as long as they are clear about what it all means to their customers. The word doesn't really matter, what the word means is what matters.
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matthieuh seems to be saying, don't buy the story that rosy nonviolence accomplished all this. Strategic use of violence, and the threat of it, were necessary to force negotiations and compromise.

So liberals are singled-out apparently because they tend towards this particular narrative of pure nonviolence.
google mountain view employee here - there is no stigma that i am aware of surrounding the nap pods; people just get caught up in the "so much to do, so little time to do it" cycle and don't want to leave their desks to go nap. i've even seen a surprising number of coworkers eating at their desks, something i can guarantee you there is no cultural expectation of within the company - again, it's just a case of individuals feeling the real or perceived pressure of work piling up too fast for them to step away.
You do what you think is right. If you think designing weapons helps the greater good, you should design them well. Remember nuclear weapons prevented at least one global war and a couple regional ones.

And no. I have refused to design weapons early on in my career and I would refuse to do so now. I took my oath (a slightly different one, because I am Brazilian) and I take it very seriously.

Being called "a good robot" is beyond offensive.
It's a beautiful app, and I like just about everything about it.

Generally, when I look at apps like this, I immediately think of ways I could be doing it better (often, I'm wrong, but nevermind that) -- but with this, it seemed like everything I thought of was in the very next screenshot as I scrolled through.

It looks great (thought I would make the logo on the website much bigger -- probably twice as large). The site is fantastic -- and I especially love being able to flick through the iphone on the page.

I'm an Android user, so I can't check the app proper, but I'd expect good things from it from what I see. Congratulations on shipping.
The News Hours article does not say "only 1.3% of hires came from Monster" but instead says:

"Monster.com was reported by employers as the source of ALL hires only about 1.3 percent of the time." (emphasis added)

So 1.3% of employers on Monster got 100% of hires there and 98.7% got less than 100% of hires, perhaps none, on Monster. If this statistic, from a survey by the way, means anything, it does not mean Monster was responsible 1.3% of US hiring. Ditto for the 1.2% at CareerBuilder.

This is pretty typical of articles on News Hours's business blog - provocative and seemingly informative but generally poorly written and researched and often ideological. You will often know less after reading their articles, or more accurately, know more things that are wrong.

Here's the actual survey from careerXroads that this was based on. I have no idea how reliable it is.

http://www.careerxroads.com/news/SourcesOfHire2013.pdf
It's probably my own conservativism speaking. The way I justified spending a bit of money on Bitcoin when all of this hype started up a few weeks ago was to imagine Bitcoin taking over Western Union's role in the market (which is a no-brainer...it's already happening, and is very, very, very likely to be the first casualty of Bitcoin...Western Union has no reason to exist in a world with widespread Bitcoin adoption and availability). That one little aspect of the financial industry alone justifies a several hundred dollar Bitcoin valuation (I was doing this math when it was trading at $200, so that looked like a no-brainer investment to me).

Then, when you start looking further up the chain...PayPal, Visa and MasterCard, gold and silver for value store, and you try to figure out how PayPal could beat Bitcoin in a free market. I can't see any way for PayPal to win. There's nothing PayPal does better than Bitcoin. Literally nothing, and Bitcoin does it for less. So, if we assume Bitcoin subsumes Western Union and PayPal, it's actually looking undervalued by a lot. If we follow that line on out, it begins to look more and more undervalued.

So, I like the method, but disagree with stopping at silver and money transfers. Those are the low-hanging fruit. Those are the things that will first feel the wrath of their customers for being more expensive and less convenient and more intrusive than Bitcoin. But, those aren't the only things that will be disrupted by Bitcoin. It just takes a little imagination to see that the market cap for Bitcoin is potentially the same as the market cap for every currency in the world.

It's damned near impossible to predict how this is gonna play out, but if it succeeds, Bitcoin is gonna be huge.
> some leftists believe that liberals stand in the way

I'm still not 100% sure if mathieuh (and you) are using the word "liberal" to mean "left" or "not left". I first assumed "left" but he's not making much sense that way.

I suggest that if you insist on using that word, be aware for the potential for great misunderstanding and confusion, and define somewhere what you mean by it. matthieuh's statement "I meant only what I wrote" is really not that, it presupposes that we speak the same language. And we don't.

> mathieuh is very much a leftist, and likely considers Mandela to be the same.

I also consider Mandela a leftist. This is due to the fact that his political party, the ANC, was in alliance with the South African Communist Party, and produced the Freedom charter http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=72 (see particularly nationalisation advocated in the section "The People Shall Share in the Country`s Wealth").

So it's not really a subjective matter, it's historic fact.
This entire thread is like a WebMD page. Somehow a food coma resulted in a Celiac disease diagnosis. Not that it's impossible, but it's certainly implausible.

Sounds like your lunches include a bunch of carbs, too much sugar, and/or maybe a drink or two. If it happens frequently, habits form.

Get real, guys.
> Stop wasting time on 23andme, and pour resources in that.

AFAICT, the time wasting that has gone on with regard to 23andMe has been the FDA bending over backwards to try to help them get into compliance.

I agree that the FDA, in retrospect, shouldn't have done that and should have spent that time more productively.
I agree. Sortfolio was a natural fit for a sale. Nice product, consistent revenue stream, easy to separate from the other products, not too expensive for a buyer so lots of potential buyers, etc.
Thank you so much, that's such a nice compliment to our team. We're working on Android as soon as we can, but we're a very small team of 9 people.
It is important to make a distinction between shipping manual labor overseas vs cash stores. Apple came under fire for holding most of their finances overseas, and their argument was one of taxes.

The higher the tax rates go, the more fortune 500's will move their cash to places where it is not being taxed as heavily.
You think the Senate testimony is fabricated?

How about this story?
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/29/149061951/escape-from-camp-14-...

If you think camp 14 is fabricated, how about detaining 85 year old American veteran with no due process?

But i know, you will keep saying it's all fabricated...
This is a brilliant example of why you'd want exceptions. Look at what you're doing for error handling, manually every time.

You say that like safely handling exceptions is trivial. Exceptions are emphatically not "better in every way", they are a mixed bag. They offer many clear benefits (some that you have described here), but at the cost of making your code more difficult to reason about. You essentially end up with a lot of invisible goto's. Problems with exceptions tend to be much more subtle and hard to debug.

I'm not against them at all, and often I prefer them, but there are certainly downsides.
This is great! I could definitely see myself using this if my life was more interesting than home -> work -> home (mon-fri).

And if weather permits, home -> beach -> home (weekends).
While i'm glad about taocp being more available, my experience with Pearson and their ebook systems (due to their grasp on academia) quickly made me stop considering the purchase.
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Private SSL/TLS certs, ssh keys, and 1Password database are all stored on encrypted fiesystems (EncFS) and synced across four machines (two at work, one at home, and my laptop) using Dropbox (which is another off-site copy, and has revision archives) and/or BTSync. Those four copies are all OS X Time Machine backed up (and revision archived) - and two of those Time Machine backups are rsynced nightly to separate drives in opposite locations - so all up (not couning Dropbox) I've got copies on 10 separate spindles in two physical locations, two of them in a locked filing cabinet (the work time machine and rsync disks).

I've had a "primary computer" stolen before – and I don't intend to ever have that much grief if (when?) it happens again. I'm confident that even if all the electronics from either one of my work or home get stolen, I could be back into fully productive work-mode in half a day and one maxed-out-creditcard at the local Apple store. (If someone hits both my work and home locations simultanously, I suspect I've got bigger problems that whether I'll have angry clients shouting at me before the weekend…)
Is there a backup or data download function?
> Isn't this more or less a problem of the past?

You are using Unity 3D, so NO, it's not a problem of the past. You have multiplatform because Unity developers decided to go with OpenGL.
I love the name choice.
The current state of the patent system is such that having been granted a patent legally supersedes in power the act of enabling technological advancement. That is to say that the power of the patent system has surpassed its social justification, and therefore should be scaled back to bring those two things in line. Doing so would weaken the patent system, but bring it in line with its intended purpose.

If you prefer to think of it in terms of loopholes, I would point out that loopholes in a system of restrictions act to increase the powers enabled by that system. To close those loopholes is to decrease the power that the system is capable of imparting.

All of that is to say that taking steps to make it harder for non-practicing entities to abuse the system in a way that has a net detriment on technology and innovation is the very act of closing the areas of copyright law that empower non-practicing entities to the detriment of practicing entities. Ideally such a change would decrease the power of the patent system just enough to shut out those who have a negative net impact on the advancement of technology and innovation.
Ha! That's basically what mine looks like too most of the time, but I've found that it makes me want to make my life more interesting.
The only thing that would attract me to a "personal archive" product is being able to completely and totally own it. I want to have ownership not just over my data, but also of its presentation. If you decide you want to redesign the app and I hate it, then all of my previous time and energy is wasted.

This product immediately asserts, 'use me forever', but everything about the project says 'we raised money, and who knows how this will play out.' It always frustrates me that companies are willing to gloss over that obvious conflict when entering in to such a potentially long commitment with their users.

I don't mean to be overtly negative, but instead just want to point out something you may have overlooked. I would expect that you want to attract users who don't take these choices lightly, right?
In Australia, where drones are allowed to fly up to a 122m ceiling, they'll soon be used to deliver textbooks:

http://qz.com/152788/australia-and-china-are-way-ahead-of-am...
Since everyone has access to decent c toolchain these days you tend to see this over and over again. The "wisdom tradition" of UNIX? There is some kind of need for this kind of counter factual "the ancients had powers we can't believe" thing... the thing is that languages and frameworks surface sets of techniques for solving problems that if not present end up needing to be reinvented... this goes for C and UNIX, mainframes, os400, erlang...whatever. Maybe I'm just being contrary, but it seems to me that the lessons I learn in one language apply to all the others at least in some facet.

I worked my way through SICP last year and it really changed the way that I think about code...while also not making me a lisp nut. It seemed to me that lisp could have been anything else and the techniques would still be there.
We do sync the data to our servers, which you can switch off. We've engineered it so that if you just want to keep the data on your phone, the app will still work fine, and you can rely on your iTunes/iCloud backups.
Security against NSA/espionage really shouldn't be a concern considering nobody that paranoid would even use this app, let alone pay for it.
Congrats! I'm on a plane now so haven't been able to download but it looks like it addresses the major complaint I have about journaling apps (i.e. Day One, which I use and, for the most part, love) -- which is that if you forget/are too busy/get behind, the queue just gets bigger and bigger and more overwhelming.

I go through phases with Day One where I write every day, but sometimes I'm just too busy and instead take pics. But then you have to manually add, tag, geo-locate, and it still gets overwhelming.

If this addresses that, you've got a convert on your hands! (and probably many more...)

Congrats!
The token is held by the client using the API.
Believe it or not, getting the extra 20% out of the grid is peanuts compared to the ability to move power wherever.

In West Texas there is a huge amount of wind power installed but it's difficult to get that power from West Texas to anywhere that people use it like Houston or Dallas.

Right now people pay different amounts for electricity depending on where they are in the globe because electric power is actually a locally produced, locally consumed good. It's a commodity to be sure, but it's actually harder to transport than oil is. So oil prices are fairly flat worldwide but electricity prices can vary by a factor of 10 or more.

High temperature superconductors would make it really feasible to interconnect the world's energy grids and allow anyone with the ability to generate utility-scale power to sell into the wholesale market.

That means you could cover the Sahara, the outback in Australia and the deserts in the Americas with solar panels and run a fairly flat and smooth solar-only electric grid.
Because Google is the biggest name of the companies supporting it and the one that will probably get Techcrunch the most clicks.
I work from home (home -> home -> bar -> home).
Came for world changing technology.

Got vegetables.
You are totally correct about the engineering that goes into complex software development being the cause of the stability this guy mentions.
I feel the same way. That's why we spent time building it so that all of your data lives fully on your device (it's synced to our servers for backup purposes, which you can switch off). So even if we run out of money, you can still use Heyday forever.

But less factually, I'm in love with this product and I intend to work on it for the rest of my life. Even for free.
I'm going to stop making New Years resolutions
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I was wondering when you were going to pop up here. Ersatz has a lot of potential, but as it stands now it's more or less a web UI for ensembling the pre-implemented models (correct me if I'm wrong). So if you don't want an autoencoder, convnet or a RNN, you're sort of out of luck, no?

I know the original website advertised 'custom architectures', but it's not entirely clear to me (... not that it necessarily should be) what the route for Ersatz's current implementation to something like that is. Comments?
You're definitely the only person I've ever heard describe Super Mario Galaxy as one of the best looking games of the past few years. I looked at some screenshots and I have no idea what you're talking about.

While there may not necessarily be more features like ambient occlusion on the horizon, increased raw processing power and memory are going to lead to higher fidelity scenes at higher resolution. You're going to have orders of magnitude more detailed props on screen, and there are going to be orders of magnitude more of them. You're going to have more animation and more flexibility. You're going to have tons more lighting and particle effects acting on those multitudes of more detailed props, and you're going to be doing all of this at 4K.

I don't know when the last time you upgraded your graphics was, but I just went from a pair of GTS250s to a GTX770, and I've had my fair share of holy shit moments looking at games like Crysis and Metro.

Saying that graphics isn't going anywhere is the same as saying 640k ought to be good enough for anybody. It's incredibly nearsighted to assume that progress is just going to stop because things are "good enough," especially in the technology field.
This is exactly why we built Heyday! Please try it, I think you'll love it. =)
Anyone know of a of an XML aware merge app for OS X? Something akin to Project Merge?
Any plans for a kind of "export"? I like this idea a lot, as someone with a terrible memory but that doesn't use social media like Foursquare. I would only worry about a way to have my data permanently. Outside of the app which could be pulled from the AppStore at any time.