skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment doesn't make any sense. The whole point of this story is about how cops waste enormous amounts of time profiling, harassing and arresting people of color.
Is that an Arrested Development reference?
More problematic is that Texas also has interesting laws in regard to these things.
The latest HHVM update has seen CPU usage reduced by 20% across Facebook. I wonder how many thousands of servers that works out to.
Can someone confirm or better explain how Mt Gox's relatively longer amount of time to process USD withdrawal requests is causing there to be a premium over other exchanges quoted USD/BTC?

This is how I understand it: people already have dollar denominated accounts with Mt Gox, either by selling BTC on Mt Gox or depositing money there. They want to get these dollars out, but since it takes so long for Mt Gox to process these transactions and complete the requests, people are buying BTC on Mt Gox and transferring them to other exchanges that can process the withdrawals in a quicker fashion. This is in exchange for a discount on the USD/BTC rate they will get, i.e. they will lose the premium offered by Mt Gox so that a dollar denominated withdrawal request will happen more quickly on another exchange. The net result is a higher demand for Mt Gox BTC offers, and the premium results.
I don't think anyone is surprised. But it's happening and is a good lesson in biodiversity, genetics, international trade, food pandemics, food sourcing, and history for anyone interested.
The reason the satire works though is that this thread of paranoia does exist. I remember right around the first Obama election Costco started selling huge piles of emergency food in the stores, and I'd see people pushing caravans of carts down the aisle and pickup trucks and vans getting loaded up with 5 gallon buckets full of the stuff.

They still sell it, but only online, no doubt left over inventory from those days.

https://www.costco.com/Food%2c-Fire%2c-Filter-72-hour-Emerge...

https://www.costco.com/11640-Total-Servings-Variety-Food-Sto...

https://www.costco.com/11640-Total-Servings-Variety-Food-Sto...

They even have versions for the opposite end of the political spectrum!

https://www.costco.com/8%2c671-Servings-of-Certified-Gluten-...

These are not quantities of food that one purchases for the occasional camping trip. This is Armageddon/Rapture preparation.

In case you have trouble getting safe water to reconstitute this stuff into food after the nukes fall or live uncomfortably close to Chernobyl or Fukushima they even sell radiation filters

https://www.costco.com/Seychelle%C2%AE-Radiological-Filter-T...
So, in your world, we'd all have to compile our stylesheets? I don't like that idea at all.
Libgcrypt 1.6.0 released
On the ZA, who says mutation is the mechanism, maybe someone wants the ZA to start....

On non-coding regions, we are indeed learning more and more, but these developments are relatively recent and there is much more to be discovered.

As for the grey goo... well, that would be quite the singularity, wouldn't it?
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I know Angry guy! He sits next to Chatty Kathy! No one likes a Chatty Kathy.
I find your priorities peculiar. This guys so called "waste of valuable city resources" was very well spent. He unconvered how enormous resources are being spent prosecuting and pestering people who are not really criminals and the cruelty of the system. You really think exposing this and getting attention brought to this problem is not worth the resources of processing one guy for spraying grafitti?
Yea, IMHO the Neuroon's a pretty neat project as well.

The Napwell's still a prototype, so we're not going to look as polished as IntelClinic's product. However, we think our simple mask has at least the following advantages over the NeuroOn:

1. It's comfortable. Our number 1 concern with the mask was how to make it something you can actually fall asleep in. We looked at the market and while other masks are wonderful technical solutions, we felt that were not conducive to sleep.

2. It works everywhere. You don't need wifi, bluetooth, or a smart phone to make it work. This makes it more optimal for travel use.

3. It wakes you with diffuse lighting. This might not be a significant issue for many, but for us when we were testing, we found that just having LED's in the mask makes it look like aliens are about to abduct you. Diffuse lighting gives the warm glow that's ideal for waking up gently.

4. Price. When looking at the market we were shocked that other masks retailed for over $150. Napping is an everyman activity and we hoped to have a price point where we wouldn't be considered a gadget but instead something that would be a valuable part of anyone's life.
Friend of my parents is building this

http://000fff.org/watches/523223_10150679399796150_150139365...
That's not "justice." That's blanket license for a violent minority to prey upon a law-abiding majority.
How about not having one and we can finally have some of these companies offering actual remote work.
10 Lessons learned building a travel startup
Ride Joy - Social Bus Chartering.

People say where and when they ant to go. If enough people sign up charter the bus.
Finding Your Inner Pegg
They might even like Houston better than Austin. Cost of living can be a bit lower, and Houston loves the mega-wealthy, with lots more room to add mansions. The city is probably only slightly less liberal than Austin. Houston will probably fair better in the future water shortages as well.

Sure, the Silicon Valley big-wigs don't much grace the third coast, but there's plenty of money waiting to be tapped, and a lot of millionaires who'd love t be in on the action.
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It's 27 degrees right now in Cleveland, need I say more?
This is very well said. Thank you for posting.
You don't even need to have an idea of a project to apply
You can see our full team, and their responsibilities here (http://teamtreehouse.com/about)

The content team (teachers, video, audio, motion design) is a sizable portion of the company. They focus on writing, producing, and supporting the learning content and video.

The app team (devs + designers) focus on things like the the web app, the learning tools like our code challenges, and quite a bit of other stuff.

We have support team members who are always interacting with and helping our students. Marketing, sales, and operations are doing what you would expect them to.

It's interesting to watch the scaling in person. When I started it was just Nick Pettit and myself as teachers ( and we did our own video/audio work), Ryan the CEO, and we had a contract dev and designer. Now it's ~60, not even sure of the exact number, and everyone keeps really busy.
With the psychotic amount of crap he wrote in this post, and that Twitter handle, I can only assume he was just mad he never gets invited.
Over here in The Netherlands, about 10 years ago, there was a lot of commotion about a group of white supremacy-gangs wearing Lonsdale bomberjacks, and people wearing those were banned from certain clubs, etc.

According to your logic, in this case, everyone wearing a Lonsdale bomberjack would have to be arrested, and they would have to be banned by law? Isn't that outlawing the symptom, instead of outlawing the actual problem?

EDIT: Apparently this was not just an issue in The Netherlands, but more widespread: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/147...
This and That is interesting in that it's satirical and yet it can leverage CBC's known integrity for news to spread virally. Regularlly. This isn't the first time I've seen a this and that item shared, often on facebook you only see the CBC.ca link which in almost any other instance a shared piece of CBC.ca content is legimate news. And before Glyphobet took the bait my own office staffer was telling me about this guy over the water cooler. My suggestion to her was to find me an article from a legitimate source and send it over, i'd love to read that story.

We'll see if I get a linke to cbc.ca in my inbox before the end of the day.
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Go everywhere and nowhere. Move bits, not bodies.
How to Use Facebook Ads to Get a Job You Really Want
The ad targeted 16,560 Facebook users “who live in the United States, age 25 or older, who graduated from college, who work at Google.” In two days, the ad got 48 clicks (0.103 percent click through rate, or CTR) at a total cost of $30.68.
It would be interesting to hear from a YC partner about what they saw in Ridejoy, its founders, and what they thought when they made their investment. Its a rare opportunity when a startup publicly speaks about hitting the deadpool (something I admire ridejoy for doing) and hearing the flip-side perspective might be even rarer.
More generally, tech workers who enjoy healthy six-figure salaries want to live and raise families in nice places. Even if they don't have ocean views, the SF Bay Area offers excellent beaches, skiing, biking, hiking, sailing, surfing, golf, parks, etc. -- all within ~3 hours' drive and for a good portion of the year. The weather and geography are such an important factors.
A huge factor that the author fails to account for is weather.

Public transit might have it's pitfalls in SF, but there are no snow days. There's no ice on the roads. There's no hurricanes, or tornadoes, or summers that require A/C at all hours. You don't really have to pay to heat your home or office all winter. You can drive to the snow if you want to ski, or you can hang out on the beach in January.

The Bay Area is a paradise, meteorologically speaking. It's the reason that people who live on the street congregate here, and it's the same reason people are willing to pay exorbitant rent. There are very few other places in the country that even come close to competing, and it's not something that even the likes of Google can take with them to Cleveland.
If you use Windows, you deserve it.
I'm not sure if you noticed. Bt 50% of the time that i'm interacting with the internet its a native application. Maybe a platform shift is already happening?
You could also just add a "scrollwheel:false" parameter to the google maps options.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2330272

BTW, just watched your mixergy interview today - great stuff! Learned a lot.
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As I repeated here multiple times:

- customers request JavaScript written by humans, not tools. As it makes them easier to get "resources"

- source maps are only an option on a few desktop browsers, no fun testing generated JavaScript on specific browser issues
I was actually thinking that. Plenty of schools there including RIT and U of R, lots of office/warehouse/factory space available, unique local culture, cheap (for now) housing...
Many great european cities grew entirely out of deliberate projects. Some noble family would want to harbor a thriving marketplace so they could tax it.

American cities did used to be planned. Philadelphia and New York didn't just assemble as grids. It's only in the postwar era suburbia build out that urban planning became haphazard and driven by developers.

The idea of a polity building a well planned city from scratch has loads of successful historical precedent.
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Dump windows.
Wow - So are you saying this is a case for GMO (create a resistant banana) or against it (for killing biodiversity)?

It's a shame because bananas are very cheap. On the one hand they're cheap enough to double in cost and many can handle it. On the other hand, they're a cheap staple for low income folks.
Houston has the nation's first openly lesbian mayor.
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Should I expect something in return for my beer taxes?
Because central planning doesn't work.

Ok, it might work if the central planners could accurately predict the future. But they can't, so centrally planned economies and societies tend to fall behind.
I wonder if the submission detector is broken--second issue I've had with this in recent memory.

EDIT: Does HN use Mongo to keep track of duplicate submissions? :P
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Bananas are cheap enough that many of us can afford a 2x or 3x cost increase easier than with other fruits.

What's so bad about banana seeds? Are they hard like in grapes?
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"What’s needed is for a critical mass—say Google and Apple and Facebook and Twitter—to move all at once, to the same place, thus immediately creating a new tech hub."

Most of the millionaires who cashed out of those companies have already left, and many others would be unwilling to relocate. I don't think moving the ecosystem of angel investors etc. which powers the valley is so easy.
Awesome, not least for the commitment to a monthly update schedule. What's nice about that is that even if the project stagnates at some point in the future, this will become obvious in timely fashion.
This whole idea that you can simply define an equivalent tech hub is misguided. Like it or not, there is nowhere in the world that compares to silicone valley. This, despite the high land prices, poor public transport and high rental prices.
Houston is pretty boss--enough room for everyone and enough variety that you can find some place to live that suits your style and price point.
Miami anyone?
I have a friend at the Savannah College of Art and Design that was a student under her who mentioned this. Apparently its quite the accurate portrayal and her students don't receive an A unless its something she would put in her own collection.
Don't move to Austin, our traffic sucks[0]. Plus we're still in a drought[1].

Though, there are a lot of nice things about the city. If you want suburban life, Round Rock and Cedar Park lets you get a large house for fairly cheep, and it's not much of a drive.

There is lots of live music around downtown, and even when large bands come here, they tend to play smaller venues. The F1 track open just over a year ago, and that's been a bit of a boon to the city (on-top of SXSW and ACL).

[0] http://www.npr.org/2013/12/17/248757580/even-an-85-mph-highw...

[1] http://hydromet.lcra.org/riverreport/report.aspx
SuiteCRM, the open source CRM alternative to SugarCRM officially released
All it takes is an unrebutted affidavit to get a Judge to retire, or have disciplinary action taken against him. It's a wonder more people don't hold them accountable.
Can you expand on your point a little? Does any other group behave this way because of "how society treats them"?
1. The product definitely can be used for nighttime sleep as well. Several of our initial testers actually use the mask to sleep at night and it wakes them up later in the morning via its simulated sunrise. (perfect for people who like to sleep and wake up late and don't want the son glaring on them through the blinds).

2. The final product will not be Arduino programmable, but if you'd like a developer/Arduino version in lieu of a production-run mask, drop us a line on the KS page and we can hook you up. Also, if you happen to live in Boston or the Bay Area and sign up to be an Uber early tester, you'll get both Arduino version and the final prodution versions (and all versions in between) of the Napwell.

3. This has been something that a lot of people have requested, and we're considering make a separate velcro-able module for such functionalities.
Why Is Kato Better Than Skype?
Support team has a slightly different schedule to make sure Fridays and even weekends have coverage. I'm not exactly sure what the schedule is, I'd have to ask.
In my case I work with people which are located in different areas of Germany and I have to meet them face to face quite often.

No, you don't. unless you're a handyman whose physical presence is absolutely required, both you & your client are simply indulging in such an idiotic wasteful behavior because it makes you both feel good.
1- Your client is holding up to some anachronistic notion that having an employee physically present informs them about your competence or diligence.
2-you like traveling 400 km & being at the office at 9:30, it makes you seem important, which you may well be. just not enough to justify this ridiculously expensive card & all the environmental impact its ownership entails.

For years, I used to fly coast to coast every week, consulting for a major IT company in the US. It was completely idiotic even then. A knowledge worker's physical presence is not really required in this day and age, it's all part of some old heritage of employer-employee relationship we can't quite let go of.

Germany being Germany, rigid & set in its customs & ways of doing business, if given no other choice & out of fear for my income, I would relunctantly agree to such an arrangement. I just wouldn't go boasting around about how great of a deal this card is.
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Ask HN: When should I apply for a patent(and if I should)?
Hi,

I would like to ask you when it's better to file for a patent. I have an idea for a system(software+hardware) and I could turn this into a prototype in roughly 6 months.

The question is, should I apply for a patent now, with only the design on papers or should I wait till I have a working prototype?

And a bigger question, is there any point in applying for a patent in general? I mean, if you manage to get your product out in the world, before everyone else, do you really need protection?

Thanks
>> In which case you're preaching pure, deontological bunk with no relation to the real world whatsoever.

I just gave you a real-world demonstration of why minimum wage is harmful, and in very clear terms too. But I'm done with you for now.
It is a damn shame the Texas Coast isn't more developed in that area. The only city I could see being close to Austin is Houston, and attractiveness isn't one of its strong suits.
> I'm surprised you describe Europe as lacking in world class innovators. There are loads of conferences in most of Europe and the scientific and academic output in general of European countries is incredibly high.

I don't think the quantity of conferences and scientific / academic output are really good indicators of innovation.
That's a case of assuming the worst without knowing the decisions that went into the spec. The idea of using a simple `$` syntax for variables came up and was discussed but was eventually rejected. If I recall right it was rejected because they thought they might want to use it for a separate feature in the future. And they thought the function syntax better fit in with the rest of CSS (which uses functions a lot) anyways.

I know I used to think the var syntax was incredibly ugly, but I have to say after using it for a while now, you actually get used to it.

But read through the CSSWG mailing lists and you'll gain a lot more respect back for the decisions they make.
And she gets shit done. She's not just a mayor because "welp diversity".
Great concept, but add NYC please!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#United_State...

CA sounds pretty much like an exception. This is why i live here :)
By the way, do you know if it is possible for the employee to refuse severance, and therefore retain the rights to litigate? What happens in that case?

Of course, it is possible. It's unlikely that he will. Most people want to move on with their careers, not sue an ex-employer.

A properly calibrated severance is 1.5-2x the expected length of the job search. Since people on severance are generally able to represent themselves as employed during that time, the job search won't take terribly long.
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I support the vote for Austin. I live in Chicago. After reading "The Fate of the States"[1] by financial analyst Meredith Whitney, I believe Austin is a very viable alternative to Silicon Valley purely for how the state of Texas manages its finances.

I took the relevant information from her book, which is about how debt-burdened states like California are hurting their long-term economic prospects and how states like Texas are currently growing and poised for future growth, and wrote a blog post titled "Is California's Budget Threatening Silicon Valley?"[2]

It didn't get much play on HN, but I think it's full of very important data that should be discussed by the startup community.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/159184570X

[2]http://loganfrederick.com/blog/is-californias-budget-endange...
> Edit: Also, where's Ember Data?

I'd like to hear about this too. When I tinkered with Ember (v1.0) Ember Data seems to cause most of my problems. I still like Ember but it made me wary and I'd probably avoid Ember Data if I went back to Ember.
Paris has strict rules on how tall a building can be within the city core. That certainly puts a dent in any plans to increase the density of the city...
I used to believe a long time ago (when I was younger) that anything is possible -- so long as you work hard. But the reality is it's more complicated than that. Some people have pure talent; no matter how hard you work, you can never achieve their level of talent in a lifetime. Some people have access to the proper network effects, i.e. genetic lottery. It all comes down to analyzing your situation and making the best out of it. Who cares about some shitty programming job that's 9-5? That's overrated. Build something you're passionate about, that you love to show others. It can be something simple at first, but slowly you'll gain insight into what you really want to do.
Basically, because the street finds its own uses for things.

Moreover, any place that is planned, instead of evolving organically, tends to be boring as shit to live in--for evidence, consider suburbs. Very planned, very boring.
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TC coverage: http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/17/yourmechanic-iphone-app/
First, fine, waste the resources. NYC deserves it.
Second, the police deserve to be consequences for not succeeding in their work, as do we all. And they ought to punished punitively for betraying the publics trust.
These results are tempting me to do my next project in a modern lightweight Java framework. No Hibernate, bloated frameworks of yore, or weird complex build and dependency management. Play is ruled out - it's Scala (Java is a second-class citizen in Play).

Maybe something that ties together things like ebean ORM, Jetty, Jersey, Jackson, Guice. Dropwizard is the right idea, but is geared towards building REST backends.

Any suggestions on a pure Java framework that has critical mass and would fit the bill?