skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm familiar with some similar situations here in California. Families where codependency somehow pulls everyone together despite struggling under the yoke of alcoholism, mental illness, early pregnancies, physical and sexual abuse by various in-laws and other distant relatives, etc. You can pull the children away from the parents, but all of the teaching remains and the children go on to slide into the same situations. Those who get out of the cycle (which actually happens more often than I expected) seem to need every resource that their communities provide, just to stay afloat.

The author of the article seems upset at the city government for their finger-wagging approach toward forcing the homeless along some path to success, and I would just add that when winter comes around and people still aren't moving up your ramp to success, it's time to err on the side of charity.
The Typical Billion Dollar Startup Acquisition
> but there is no evidence for the idea that poor people are less likely to hoard wealth than the rich

You can't seriously believe that? This is the most out of touch "let them eat cake" statement I've seen in a while. Poor people don't have any wealth to hoard; that's what poor means.

> Rich individuals allocate their wealth to longer-term investments

Because they have excess that can be invested after meeting their basic necessities.

> whereas poorer people spend their money on consumption goods

Yea, because they're poor and basic necessities eat up all of their money.
By the way, I also find this page interesting:
http://www.coinometrics.com/bitcoin/bmix
Curiosity Rover Update
I had this problem once when overclocking an AMD phenon. The short story is (I don't know the whole cause) the on-board crypto units stopped being random.

Which wasn't a real problem for 'some' day-to-day use. This was in the mid to later 00's, so https wasn't quiet everywhere yet.

The problem manifested slowly. When ever I'd connect to HTTPS, my browser would crash. One sound card would phone home for an update, and my computer would crash. Randomly certain games would crash when ever anti-cheat software attempted to run.

It was just odd, and took a few days of hunting to find out what was actually going wrong.
But HTML5Rocks is a Google project. It would make sense for them to use Google's replacement for RSS which is Google+. Instead they are continuing to use RSS.
there is demand for bitcoin, i agree it is little demand for very few applications. Fad is something else. bitcoin is'nt born perfect but people are trying to solve its problems.
Actually, I do think some of them are happy when it happens. Why is that so far fetched? For example, the leaders that jumped at the chance for WWI were clearly not hoping for peace. They wanted an excuse for a war. It does happen. Could it happen that there are extremists in the NSA just waiting for someone to pick a fight with them? Of course.

Hell, you can see this kind of behavior in tower defense games; people build a great power and dare anyone to cross them. The only difference is that real lives are at stake, but I think the government has proven they don't see the real lives in their game. For example, they don't even tally civilian casualties. They only even seem to care about such things because they don't want to anger the public.
There's two definitions of "worth" being used here. The investment definition and the laymen's definition. The layman probably adds up all the IP, assets, even the chairs the programmers sit on and comes up with some number << $3b. A more sophisticated layman might even look at revenue and growth and project out 4-5 years and still come up with some number << $3b.

The investor does some other kind of magic math and whatever because it's worth whatever somebody's willing to pay for it anyways so why bother?
Shameless plug: I have also implemented something similar in Ruby using the Curses module:

https://github.com/penberg/btct
"I could see a post Independence Scotland pandering to right wing anti emigration lobby and or religious or anti gay presure"

There are far right nutters everywhere - but I like to think we actually have relatively few of them in Scotland, certainly UKIP seems to be doing remarkably badly here:

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/11/18/ukip-s-scotland-op...
Because anyone who uses more than 5GB a month is a pirate, don't you know?
The color change of gold and CdSe particles with size are due to two different effects.

CdSe is a semiconductor, and reducing the CdSe nanoparticle size increases its band gap through a process called quantum confinement. For smaller particles, it requires a photon to have higher energy (i.e. smaller wavelength) to be absorbed.

Gold particles derive their color from the scattering mechanism mentioned in the parent comment.
I mention it because the author of this article tried to point out how he was a skeptic in 2012. But the same publication was not exercising skepticism in 2011.
Off topic, but:

>>Bitcoin skeptics don’t see the proof-of-work from mining as a good reason for there to significant value in the currency.

Do Bitcoin proponents see this as a good reason for the currency to have significant value? Why?
I don't think anyone knows a representative sample of the population.
Unless you pay for the special privilege by making deals with Apple behind closed doors, as most of the banking apps do. The terms of service hardly apply evenly to all applications.
Simple case is that your machine just halts. If you have a way of looking at them, it might puts a bios code on the LEDs. On servers the baseboard management chip (BMC) will usually record a machine check event as well.
They have names? And they're not called "Smaug" and "Alduin" and "Parthonaax"?
> Insecure much? Feeling violent?

YES. Absolutely yes. BECAUSE I AM HUMAN, motherfucker. Will hitting you in the face repeatedly persuade you that people are naturally violent? Probably not, but at least it MAKE ME FEEL BETTER. I know this is true, because I've done it. It feels great.

Come on. See if you can explain to me how my natural pacifistic soul is not inclined to slam your skull against a brick wall. If your NAP allows you to hit back? Fuck that. It just means I need to hit you so hard you can't hit back. That's my choice, and the consequences are awesome. I get an adrenaline high; I get to assert my animal dominance; I get to feel the crunch of your bone. It's obvious and natural; you pissed me off, so you made me hit you. I didn't start it; you just shouldn't have pissed me off.

What do I get out of following your stupid NAP? All it means is that I don't get to watch you double over when I kick you in the balls. What good is that to me? If I have a baseball bat, then I really ought to cement my ownership of it by cultivating its usage as a knee breaker. Maybe knock out a few teeth.

You go on. You follow your NAP. Maybe we'll meet someday. And maybe I'll get to watch you cry like a bitch. Maybe I'm insecure. But as the childhood lesson goes, if someone calls you names, you get some sticks and some stones and you go to town. I hope you feel superior. Maybe I'll get lucky and we can see some piss and vomit in addition to blood and tears.

Come on. Wish me away again. If you call on your fairy godmother, maybe you'll see me coming and you can run away in time.
"almost half of New Yorkers living near or below the poverty line" This really looks crazy to me.
The Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From The Dead
It's interesting how people ignore the irony of the nature of Snowden's new home -- odd pairing for a 'whisteblower' to seek refuge under the wing of a country led by the former chief of the KGB. Snowden's supporters certainly wax eloquently when they condemn the history of the Western world. Where are all the pithy insights regarding the history of human rights and liberty in Russia, and that of the KGB?
The data is not enough: Creative data scientists make the difference
Seems like if he splits winning into big wins and small wins he should also split losses into big losses and small losses too.
Is there some law that keeps power and gas companies[1] from doing internet?

1) they have right of way to the home
Ask HN: Thoughts on subscription services?
I recently built a landing page for an idea I had: Salsa of the month or Salsa-as-a-Service ;)

The HN community loved (and hated) it. But definitely enough supporters to validate the idea.

I built a site @ HombreSalsa.com and it is super basic.

I was wondering how much the site’s aesthetic will turn you off as a potential customer? Salsa is a niche market, so understandably many of you will not be interested, but I’m more interested in your thoughts on subscription services and the site in general.
Any Mac user who uses "hobby" apps knows how to edit their System Preferences.

For people like my parents, who never use any third-party apps and routinely move the entire Safari app to their desktop (I think they think it's a shortcut or something lol), Gatekeeper is useful. I'm just glad they're off PCs now; the number of tech-support calls I get from them has dropped dramatically.
No matter what you do - be sure to post it up on HN (maybe even blog about it as you go). Would love to see what you end up with :)
Most people own a fraction of their home, and hold a mortgage that is largely backed by the value of the home.
Tech Giants Tell US: Limit Spying
Use git and a free bitbucket.org account (free private repositories for unto 5 users...)
It's probably worth noting that the New York Times has, since 1912, run a fund called The Neediest Cases, which raises money for social welfare agencies throughout New York City. Though it seems like this particular article isn't part of the series, the paper runs pieces daily that tell similar stories of those in need throughout the months of November, December, and January.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/newyorkandregion/neediest...
Single IP != Single Machine.

There can be multiple paths that all end with the same address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
Want To Get Rich Building An App? Don't Use Any Of These Terrible Ideas
I have never heard of this trick. It must not be popular in Washington, DC.
Thanks for the responses everyone!
CUA's C-x/C-c/C-v bindings aside (which don't actually conflict with the standard Emacs prefix keys), it has a wildly useful rectangle selection mode, as well as convenient indent/outdent commands for the selected region.
What if I started a company, and all good candidates were male, and the women weren't on par? What if no women applied at all? I don't get this whole gender thing. If statistically less women apply to a STEM degree, or tech related job, how is it the fault of "white males"? White male guilt at it's finest if you ask me.

If you actively see discrimination, do something about it. I actually work with a team that is 90% women, it just happened that way. The male applicants sucked, the women were great. My friends teams however, are only male, because they had no female applicants.

Why try to force equality? Am I missing something?

What if the person doing the hiring silently disregards all female applicants? How would you tackle that problem?

OP if you had a company would you hire a less qualified woman than a more qualified man in the name of equality?

This movement seems counter-intuitive. If the applicant is good, hire them, male or female, young or old. Our team consists of elder women, young fresh grads, interns, and working class middle aged women as well, all across the spectrum. We all mingle just fine and still shoot the shit.

Hiring GOOD people is the only thing that should matter. Throw out all this ideology and affirmative action nonsense.
Don't tell me what to do. Tell me why I should.
Debt-collecting Machine
Imagine that it had worked. And imagine that the allegations were true: they had stolen the cathode from one company and purchased a sample of an anode from another, and that, together, they consistently stored 400 Wh/kg. Would all the intellectual property rights have stopped production anyway? Or are there circumstances when one or more governments would waive the IP rights and say "the world needs this technology to save itself from air pollution -- just make it and we'll sort out payments later"?
Building a Flask Blog: Part2
Perfect for when I run Node.js apps locally and need to test the results very quickly. Saves a lot of context-switching.
The aim is that they will come for the fun part (lol check out this guy) , and stay for the cool part (dating, guys don't care if a girl is cute or not at least that's what they say here in France).
The ugliest photos will be rated and everything, well it's an idea, feel free to contribute. What do you think ?
I lived in Wilson before that hooplah. It was fantastic. My job moved back into the Raleigh area so I moved with it (cheaper than a 70mile+commute every day, especially at 15mpg). Ended up on TWC where I got 10Mbit/second at $60/month versus the 20Mbit/second at $40/month (I recall paying less, but that's the currently listed price on the Greenlight site).
This highlights another point: as an employee holding common options, your interests are not aligned with the investors or founders.

Investors still win in the "small win" scenario outlined. Founders will generally still get something financially (depending on just how bad the deal was) and can almost universally turn the "small win" bad exit into "advisory" roles or more favorable terms next time they play the startup game. As an employee, you get nothing.
“Hour of Code” Aims to Ease Programming Crunch
The flying car will be here in three years, but not the kind you really want
How any company can expect to build a sustainable long-term business when not one of their 14 Partners/Advisors is female is beyond me.

This piece seems... I don't know the right word for it. It's not reverse sexism. But anyway, even if the world was completely un-sexist and genders were perfectly equal, would we not expect simply due to chance to see some boards with 14 members of only one gender? So while it is conspicuous this particular board is all-male, how can we say a business cannot possibly be viable with only one gender on the board?
Well... I don't know how to make a lossless WebM video. And according to the bottom of this page https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq it would probably be bigger anyway.
Clearly you ought to parcel out the women on your team to the other teams until you've reached parity across the board. Change begins with you!
I've been waiting for the day when Apple axes the "Add To Home Screen" functionality entirely. It's a holdover from pre-App Store days, and has been sadly neglected; iOS7 shipped with several show-stopper bugs [1], only some of which have been fixed.

I have a feeling that they only keep HTML5 apps around as a pre-emptive defense against anti-trust.

[1] http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios7-html5-problems-ap...
Gemnasium support for Python
Thanks for the comments. It is actually a space and volume problem, as you cannot be sure that the weight of the coins can actually fit in a truck either, unless you've made both calculations.
I'd imagine it'd go the same as the thousand other incidents of people trying to game commodity/currency markets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant_presidential_a...
> What if I started a company, and all good candidates were male, and the women weren't on par? What if no women applied at all?

Then it's pretty clear you've done a bad job of advertising your job openings. Did you, perhaps, just ask for referrals among your own personal network?
hmmm, the ocean's pretty heavy. i wonder what extracting an incompressible fluid from the seafloor's support structure will do to weaken it. will they fill it with saltwater instead?

i guess it shouldnt be much different than oil drilling :\
Snapchat Files For A Temporary Restraining Order Against Ousted Founder
The fall of Sparta? Sparta relied neither on Spartan nor immigrant labor, but on helot labor.
The examples you gave don't use Bitcoin; they all use USD. The currency itself is illegal; we're not even talking about what you're doing with the currency. Bitcoin's legality is disputed in China, Thailand, and the state of California. Since Apple operates out of California, it makes sense that they would hesitate to allow such functionality on their apps.

Edit for clarity: I interpret "facilitates, enables, or encourages an activity – that is not legal in all the locations in which the app is available" to mean that the act of making a Bitcoin transaction is illegal in certain jurisdictions.
needs currency conversion option.. so I can display all the markets in one currency, and perhaps an formatted output option (like json)
Gtihub would be your best bet. code.google.com also support git projects.
While I agree that it would be awesome to see more women represented in companies, particularly at higher levels of management, I'm not sure this post makes sense to me.

If one of those top management executives were female, what makes them different from the "TOKEN FEMALE" on the other associate-level pages? Is it different if there are two women in C-level positions? Where do you draw the line between women being powerful in their own right vs simply TOKEN FEMALES on a team?

(Note: I'm all for hiring women, and I encourage my friends (male and female) to take up programming, and I do my best to help them get jobs in the industry. But this guy's argument just strikes me as a fundamental misunderstanding of feminism and what that means.)
Homelessness is something I've been thinking a lot about lately and all I keep coming back to is: I want to help, but I have absolutely no idea how I can do so. In the short term, volunteering at soup kitchens and things along those lines is always a help, but it feels like a bad ROI; I don't mean that I get little out of it (on the contrary, it certainly makes me feel good to do volunteer work), but that there must be a way to make my efforts go further.

I used to volunteer at a clubhouse for the mentally ill, a place where people could get food, play pool, take classes on computer skills, find employment, etc. My efforts were relatively small, but due to the fantastic management of the place, everything I did was magnified; fixing an old PC meant another 20 people might've been able to learn the skills they needed to find a job. It's been many years since then, but it's what I hold up as a good example of the sort of lever you can use in volunteering, and I just don't see an analogue for helping the homeless.

What am I missing? How can I help?
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That would be kind of mad. The teams might not even be doing the same things!
> But anyway, even if the world was completely un-sexist and genders were perfectly equal, would we not expect simply due to chance to see some boards with 14 members of only one gender?

A board of 14 with only males does not logically prove that there must exist discrimination. It's also true that we as humans aren't limited to only acting on provable logical conclusions, but are entitled to make inferences from factual circumstances.
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> All of the firms making investments into the Snapchats and Ubers of the world are sophisticated private equity funds with capital pools so large they can afford to take large risks. After our little discussion, you can now see that their bets are actually not quite as high risk as commonly thought.

> No, the real danger still comes later when the public markets get involved. When those retail investors with their mixture of envy and disbelief try to cash in on something they don’t understand. That’s when we should be nervous.

Somehow reading lines like this makes me nervous now.
So damn cool it's scary and so damn scary it's cool.

I laughed as it made me reflect a little on how boring my life is lately.
http://colorpeek.com essentially does the same
Fully insured bitcoin storage. Would you use it?
A service which accepts bitcoin deposits and holds them for you securely. Fully insured and guaranteed. Instant withdrawals.

Supposing you were happy with the guarantees & underwriting. Would you use it?
"Nearly a quarter of Dasani’s childhood has unfolded at Auburn, where she shares a 520-square-foot room with her parents and seven siblings."

Okay, not to victim blame, but eight children when her parents can't even support themselves?
You shouldn't force equality, but actively work towards it. There's a huge difference.
This problem isn't solved yet. For me at least. I turned on the passive notifications, and they started going off when I was traveling on above ground sections of the subway. Or when I got out by my office.

So I turned them off. Somehow Foursquare needs to crack working out when I want those notifications and when they're irrelevant. They should have enough data to do it.
I'm sorry am I supposed to go out of my way to directly extend a hand to women as well? Are they part of some other entirely exclusive development network that I haven't specifically advertised to? I reckon if we're all on the same page of development, we're frequenting the same communities, forums, and job listings.

Why not look at majors where there are nearly no men. We should start actively making men seek fashion degrees.
Rasberry Pi would be a great gift :)
idea for a realllllly naive ranking metric...

Take the words for the domain, so "airport smell" for airportsmell.com (yes that was one of the random domains heh). Then do a search on Google for the phrase, and fetch the number of results as a 'score'.

I'd be interested to see if this can pluck out "better" names from the pile.
My daughter's in STEM, along with a few other girls, though it seems that the class is mostly male. I would wager that, at least at the middle-school level my current daughter's in, STEM involvement has more to do with the parents and less to do with the child's natural inclinations.

That isn't to say that kids don't have free will, obviously, or that they can't effect their own preferences in their lives, but I'd wager that my daughter's inclination for math and science has more to do with both of her parents having that inclination, and hence, her more frequent exposure to it.

While I tend not to worry about these sorts of things, and/or how big a deal they are, I would wager that much of this is self-perpetuating. Mothers who aren't inclined towards technology aren't able to impart technical inclination to their daughters. I couldn't swear to whether my daughter's interest in tech comes from me or my wife, but if we assume that daughters often take after their mothers, and their mothers aren't technically inclined, it's easy to say that the problem is not self-healing.
This is extremely dangerous and often gives the opposite effect. An example is situation with universities in Sweden. There was a parity for all degrees. As a result, lots of women didn't get to uni because 50% was reserved for male, even though they had higher grades. They filled a law suit and won (European Court of Human Rights).
he proposes backwards scheduling from the sink to the sources inside each function.
I don't know how much complexity is that (because np-complete is not that bad when n is low)
I totally agree, and OP went about this the dumbest way. Didn't go through with a job because it's all white males... so he's going to be replaced with another of the type he's actively trying to avoid.

Why not volunteer at some womens development workshops/conferences/classes/groups? I've seen them around.
Solid Learning Resources for Raspberry Pi Arrive
Ask HN: How do you objectively review a tech book?
Given the popularity of review systems that use a combination of "star ratings" and "commentary" like Amazon (and elsewhere), what criteria should you use to objectively review books?
Starfish Wasting Disease