skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having just stayed in a hostel not more than 2 days ago, it really felt like a community in the common areas. I really like the idea of long term residents in a hostel, but only if that hostel only takes on that kind of traveller. This effectively makes it a boarding house, of course.

Boardinghouses remind me of Danish cohousing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEHS4plCx0)
The bootstrapped product resource list
It's not just them. Google doesn't talk to anybody.
> The net ratio is close to (<850 women) per (1000 men)...Most people prefer to not have girls at all given these scenarios. Imagine having to spend money on your daughters education, tending to physical safety and then only to find the boy's family asking for big money gifts during marriage.

With a shortage of women, shouldn't the groom's parents be paying instead?
> squeomorphic

This is a beautiful typo of skeuomorphic. It makes it feel more squicky.
It pretty much is - depending on how locked down the system is.

For example, you can install Ubuntu on (some) Android devices - http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/install

It was possible to install Android on Nokia's Maemo phones - http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2009/05/nitdroid-installing-android-...

It depends on how open the handset is to having its firmware replaced.

What this article is talking about is having phones "blessed" by Google so they can include G* services (mail, maps, play, etc).
I believe it's rep, not rap. Rep as a shorthand for reputation: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rep
Common observation also : if you build a car from scratch using parts you'll end up with a much higher price. If a competitor builds a similar PC with the same sales volume, enabling the same bulk discount, the comparison would be valid.
One solution for the menubar shortcuts on OSX is to use the help menu. Hit Cmd + Shift + / and it'll jump to it, from there you can type any menu command and invoke it when you hit return.
The 30th Chaos Communication Congress started today in Hamburg, Germany. All talks are streamed live, here's a link to the schedule for today: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/schedule/0.html

Many talks are held in English, and most others are translated live (select the "translated" stream).

A few interesting talks today are:

16:00 CET "07KINGSTON25 JAMAICA: MALARIA UPDATE Dispatches from Fort Meade" about Chelsea Manning's trial (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5634.html)

16:45 CET lasers in space (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5311.html)

18:30 CET Long distance Quantum Communication (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5536.html)

19:30 CET Keynote by Glen Greenwald (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/events/5622.html)
If you match exactly the specs of an apple system the price tends to be competitive; the reason there's a "tax" is the apple model range is a lot smaller. If you choose the specs to start with (e.g. the system requirements for some game), and then compare the cheapest mac you can get with those specs with the cheapest PC you can get with those specs, that's when a price difference tends to be visible.
Perhaps my view is blurred by being a programmer, but I have never found the skill to be particularly useful in my non-programming side businesses. It is a nice idea that biologists will write helper scripts, but my experience in the real world is more like:

1. Someone has already written the code, so there is no reason to write it again

2. The problem is big enough that you are going to end up spending all your time programming, taking time away from what you should really be working on

And maybe there is a need for biologists working on new research where there are no existing tools that match what they are working on, but I don't think that is something that extends to a lot of professions.
This is interesting. So your brother thinks that in the near future the RBI will say that Buying bitcoin is a crime.

Bitcoins will be the same as cocaine or .. well in India sex toys also share similar status.

I personally find it quite unlikely that a democratic country will prohibit it's citizens from transacting in something like bitcoin. But hey, crazier things have been known to happen.

However, I'd like to ask. Why preemptively assume that bitcoin will be declared illegal ?

I can understand that the RBI is conservative and they forced Paypal to create automatic bank account withdrawals, etc. Basically move everything into their system so that people cannot store huge sums of money in their Paypal accounts.

But how would they go about outlawing bitcoin ? I'm curious about the technical as well as political aspects of such an event.

I think countries like Germany and Singapore may have been the first to realize that there isn't really much you can do to 'ban' bitcoin. You just have to play ball and then come up with solutions as problems come up. A move like China wouldn't be possible in Germany (maybe in Singapore though.. yes..).
What popular entrepreneurial advice do you disagree with?
The Year on Designmodo: Best Articles, Flat UI, Startup Framework
Does "big data" style network graph analysis of people's social circles actually work to find people to date? Is there any evidence that the analysis bit of online dating does anything to promote successful relationships? Would simply showing people a randomised list of single people in their vicinity work just as well? I'd love it to be true that it's possible to work out an approximate level of compatibility using available data, but I've never seen any real evidence that it works. Undoubtedly online dating works; plenty of people find someone to date online. But pretty much 100% of the time it's down to the photo and the messages sent rather than anything in the user's profile (based on anecdotal evidence of myself and many friends).

Interestingly, KRUSH could actually test their algorithm for this really easily - just measure whether people message matches more often when they've rated the two people as compatible. Unfortunately you'd have to not show people their compatibility scores though otherwise you might be influencing the likelihood of someone sending a message, which presumably would devalue the perception of the product for users.
Ask HN: Where do you discuss new approaches to solving big problems?
Can you even have that high level of discourse over the internet with strangers?

Co-workers is the easy answer, but what if you're a sole founder, or just want to go outside the company walls?

I think the biggest problem is connecting with the right discussion partners. Maybe you want an invite-only system, or maybe you just need to be discoverable and let people self-select?

It's pretty hard, for example, to just show up at a meetup and hope to 'run in' to someone.

It seems like a hack for this would be really valuable for anyone who is opportunistic. What's the trick, or is there something we could build to make this possible?
Local State Is Poison (2012)
If you use Mac, kobito (http://kobito.qiita.com/en) is also a nice editor, there is not much English information though.
If you compare an Asus Zenbook to a equivalently specced Macbook Air, they actually come out at pretty much the same price.
The browser itself and its installed plug-ins are not subject to same origin policy. You are thinking of the restrictions on the original site. If this were not the case then the browser woud be unable to download content from any site but the one in the browser's URL.

I came here to say that this article is dynamite. I had not followed this story before, but it is at least as important as Snowden / NSA. However, the article loses its force from the middle and the call-out to US liberal politics towards the end is just pathetic. It is as likely that those who need to take action on the data industry are from the right, libertarians, or simply not aligned with parochial US political divisions.

Edit: re-reading the thread, the SOP objection is right. A plug-in is required.
The US Government Has The Biggest Bitcoin Wallet Worldwide
> It seems to me that the NSA finds it a lot harder to get at data that never enters the US at all.

Could you please explain why you think that?

> That kind of thing should be kept on-site.

I could not agree more.
I've got both qwerty and dvorak printed on the caps. I use dvorak though.
This might be an interesting perspective, reflecting on recent events: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinternet
Android user here. When you link with Dropbox, Lightpaper wants to create its own folder to store documents in, and cannot get out of that folder.

It would be nice if I could access, oh you know, all the pre-existing Markdown content I have arranged in multiple folders and already syncing down to different places.

This is a fail for me. [Draft](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mvilla.dra...) does nicely on Android, and [Dillinger.io](http://dillinger.io/) on desktop/browser.
Keyboard shortcuts are a mess in all common DEs I think. Windows mostly use win+something for commands that have a scope wider than the current application. But there's always ctrl + x, c and v.

Mac might have a better tought out keyboard [1] with @ on a key of its own and \|/ all available on a single key just using modifiers (isn't mentioned anywhere in the manual or help system and not printed in light blue on the keys).

I think the biggest problem everywhere might be that there is no scoping. E.g. if ctrl + something would never affect anything outside of the currently focused window then any application could happily use any and all ctrl-shortcuts for its own purposes. In the same way Super could be defined to only be available for DE-level shortcuts (e.g. cut, copy, paste, switch windows etc).

[1] Also note that apple laptops like ibm/lenovo laptops have fn|ctrl instead of ctrl|fn. Unlike lenovo though it c a n n o t be remapped. (At least it was not possible last time I tried back in 2011.)
how is this different than Tinder/CMB? Also, if many of my friends have a friend in common that I'm not connected with there is a high probability that I know this person and decided not to be connected with him/her. Not cool if my profile pops up on his/her phone (may be my ex who I've unfriended on fb..)
Show HN: idea for widget to accept donations in multiple crypto currencies
Offer a widget that displayed multiple receiving addresses of pre-selected currencies for accepting donations from visitors of sites that displayed the widget.

Any multi-currency exchange (or perhaps payments provider) could produce the widget for site admins to use on their site. It could also be produced by independent developers who interface with an exchange. (just not sure which one to use as yet)

I think the issue at hand is that if a website wants to receive donations, it's likely going to use the goto currency: bitcoin. This idea would expand that thinking, whilst simplifying that process as well for site admins: one signup, one widget, all new wallets, all new receiving addresses, instant site code.

To configure currencies on the widget, the following setup form is used:

1) "donation widget to request selected currencies only"

--- options:

a) show a [select currency] address

b) convert these received coins into [select currency] (optional)

c) then send to [address input] (optional)

[button - add another currency]

------------------

OR

2) "donation widget to request in all 10 exchange currencies"

--- options:

a) show addresses for all exchange currencies [pre-checked]

b) convert any of these received coins into [select currency] (optional)

c) then send to [address input] (optional)

------------------

[checkbox] - notify me upon every donation received

If an exchange were to produce the widget, such an idea could be spun off into a whole new site, with a "powered by x exchange" branding. I think it'd be a good way to drive new trades on the exchange, bring awareness to it, and promote other cryptos.

On the other hand, it could be an independent site that interfaced with an exchange to enable the conversion option (1b,2b). Security would be more of an issue if funds were stored in wallets for collection, rather than forwarded immediately (1c,2c).
Mineraludens
Nabeghlavi dabigais mineraludens tiek ieguts ekologiska kurorta Nabeghlavi teritorija, kas atrodas kalnos Gruzijas rietumu dala.
[] Improve my English,

[] Learn any functional language (I tried to learn Haskell, now I'm looking at Clojure);
One of my work mates uses this technique too. I remap my caps to ctrl. Hilarity ensues whenever he tries to use my keyboard for pair programming.
Loaders Kit
I think that's an excellent opportunity for the EU scene to rise and gain leverage now.

Let's not fool ourselves here, we might be friends we're not family though. I'd rather 'trust' an EU company with my data than a US one.

Hopefully that economic punishment might be enough to wake up your high ups, but if not it's still good for us.

We can't let you have all the fun in one place.
For the heck of it, I did the breakdown

CPU: $2,789 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116...)

RAM: I could not find the identical type but it seems like it's in the ballpark of ~$800 given the ones I found were either a tad slower or came in 8 pieces instead of 4 (but then they were faster).

GPU: It seems like the exact GPU was introduced only for Mac Pro so it does not seem like you can buy it normally. But let's say ~$700.

HDD: ~$500-$600 http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-2-5-Inch-adapter-Internal-CT96...

Motherboard: Seems like best LGA 2011 motherboards are in the the ~$500 range.

Total: ~$5300 (given you'd probably spend a couple more hundred on a power supply, case etc). Note that when I was estimating the prices, I was generally estimating higher than lower.

So I'd really like to see their cost breakdown of the 11k they mentioned.
Caps-Lock should of course be remapped to Control.
Having the ability to kill somebody before they were born is a recent medical advancement. Before that you had to simply accept what ever was born to you.

Dowry system has been going on India since ancient times. The system works like this. By and large Indian society still works in a system where your parents choose your spouse. So when a boy is of marriageable age, their parents go a matchmaker- and put forward their clauses. There are some typical things they look in a girl, The girl must be fair, beautiful, not taller than the boy, shy, and obedient. She must not be too intelligent, or bold or sometimes not working or well educated.

Apart from these behavior and cosmetic demands. They also put down financial clauses- Generally the demand is in gold, or real estate. Or a car, Or just hard cash. The demands for gifts never really ceases. Women are harassed, many women set themselves on fire unable to bear the torture and harassment. Dowry deaths are common and you will often hear of them in the news papers. In many cases women commit suicide, or worse there are cases where the mother in law burns the girl alive. As much as shocking to you all this may seem, it happens all the time here.

This has been happening since a long time. There are trends of these demands. If the boy is a doctor/Civil Servant the money demanded is highest, engineers/rich business men come next and so on... And this is so common, if you have to marry off your daughter you have to often pay up!

So you need to undo that much of cultural thing. I don't think it will go away anytime soon.
You can download source code and blobs for some Sony phones. Something things work, some require closed source blobs. Some things don't work because the driver providers don't allow Sony to redistribute them separately.

Edit: info http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/open-source/a...
In Amsterdam we have coffeeshops for this. People get high, talk with strangers, and come up with the craziest approaches to even the smallest problems ^_^
As far as I know importing/exporting any currency in India is controlled, so unless it's explicitly permitted by the regulators, buying bitcoin can be treated as smuggling currency over the border without declaring it and (IANAL) it's a crime in India.

How would they go about outlawing bitcoin? The same as cash deals, catch some of them and prosecute them harshly enough to scare others from making the practice widespread.
> Could you please explain why you think that?

This may be naive, and if it is please elaborate; but as the NSA is a branch of the USA's government, it has legal power over companies in the USA and over infrastructure in the USA. Their legal writ does not hold in Germany for instance. I'm interested in seeing how this whole "broke German law on German soil" thing plays out: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nsa-s-alleged-spying-on-merkel-...

The NSA's methods of surveiling the internet seems to have been to tap into "destination" data centres in the USA, and to tap into all passing traffic as it crosses US borders. If internet traffic passes through neither of those checkpoints (e.g. originates in Leipzig, goes to a server in Berlin) then the NSA will find it a lot harder to tap it. Not impossible, but a lot harder to do it and lot harder to make a convincing legal justification.

This leaves aside the impact of the sharing agreements between the "five eyes", that basically the UK et al are doing the same thing as the NSA here.

The second problem is of "American" companies which operate worldwide. Even if the server is in Berlin, no doubt the US government will lean on the US parent company, if there is one. Which is why we're seeing stories like this one.
Glad that you like it! PonyDebugger is indeed a pretty powerful tool
I'm surprised to see the focus on jurisdiction versus other more effective methods, like open-source encrypting locally prior to moving the data off-site. Key control and eliminating the need to trust third-parties is the way forward, not trusting that some government somewhere is going to follow the rules perfectly. This also has the added benefit of protecting against unauthorised third parties gaining access via back doors or hacking, etc.

These ineffectual laws and regulations you warn about are already in place. That's a dead end. It is time for people and corporations to take charge and make their data safe before it leaves their control. We've seen this happen on a big scale with Google now supposedly encrypting data between data centers, and on a (much) smaller scale with people like me using EncFS to encrypt before moving online backups to Dropbox.
Because it was asked how we knew we "got them all", referring to points on the line. The reals are a way of modelling the line, the line is a way of visualising the reals. Each is complementary to the other.

And besides, the rationals are totally ordered, and their completion is totally ordered, so it makes sense to think of them as arranged in a line. The problem is that the reals are very, very strange in some ways, and people do get seduced into thinking they understand them, whereas usually it's just a case that they've got used to them.
am I the only one who doesn't like envato?

from a web design point of view I believe their popularity is keeping designers from innovating. the whole portfolio is polished but extremely repetitive.
If anything I would expect the ad related engineers to be more talented, given that it ads are the bread and butter of Google's business.
> So I'd really like to see their cost breakdown of the 11k they mentioned.

http://www.futurelooks.com/new-apple-mac-pro-can-build-bette...

they put the cost of the GPUs at ~$7k
Thanks for sharing! I’ve added LightPaper to my curated list of Markdown editors.

I’m maintaining a repo¹ with a collection of Markdown resources, listing the abundances of 𝗠⬇
dialects, parsers, editors², stylesheets, … Please feel free to commit!

[¹] https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources
[²] https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/blob/master/m...
This copy-paste job adds nothing to the original article: http://bgr.com/2013/12/26/mac-pro-windows-diy-cost/

Edit: And the article they copied from is a shorter write-up of the actual original: http://www.futurelooks.com/new-apple-mac-pro-can-build-bette...
I have a friend who uses Mou daily, and he complains about Mou leaking memory. Also, Mou is for 10.7 and up only.
Yes! It seems like these are always only tested on one browser and OS too so it's broken for like 90% of the people. Super slow and awkward scrolling or just choppy and confusing.
The best markdown editor for me would be a minimal web app (vertical split, implicit URL generation, no settings). There is no particularly good solution for efficiently writing and sharing Markdown notes.
>There is a core of sadness there. 2nd world war was rough on a whole generation of Europeans, and the writer George Perec exhibited similar frenetic activity and the use of arcane games to fend things off? Erdos's chosen game field was more useful of course.

I think you are completely missing the point here. Erdős chose to live like that. The title "the man who only loved numbers" is not a hyperbole.
This is the real article that talks about the parts chosen: http://www.futurelooks.com/new-apple-mac-pro-can-build-bette...

The problem with this is it tries too hard to match things about the Mac Pro that would never matter to someone building their own. No one is going to choose a twice-as-expensive AMD card that adds thousands to the cost for no reason, and honestly no one ever seemed to care about a workstation being a small form factor until Apple made one that looks like R2-D2.
People still host things on sourceforge? Most user hostile UI ever.
> These graphics cards currently are available for $3,400.31 US a piece. Although on the PC side, if you are using the system for Adobe Creative Suite and using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, the NVIDIA Quadro K5000′s for $1799.99 US a piece might be a better performance option since CUDA implementation is a little more mature than OpenCL in those apps. You have no choice with the Mac Pro because it’s AMD or bust.

Lolwut?
"The old man the boat."
Rust: Nothing else offers guarantees of memory safety without garbage collection.
Got to agree. It's possibly the worst website I've ever seen. Besides maybe the iPhone 5C bright green scrolling background madness. Apple these days seems to be leading the charge on terrible design when it used to be pretty good at it. Pity.

Luckily their hardware design is still good (laptops and phones anyway), but I guess that's only because they haven't 'redesigned' them yet. Pretty sure it will be a train wreck if they try to do that too.
Can anyone explain how I can just install the G-suite on Cyanogenmod then? Is it blessed by Google? Or does it recognise that my phone is appropriately blessed via the bootloader?
If you install crouton, you can learn prolog or anything or if you just hit Ctrl+Alt+T you already have access to bash and chroot into any linux distro or ssh to a cheap vm.
Handling asynchronous requests with WordPress
That was unexpected. Why would Google be so ignorant of Android China? China seems like such an obvious part of the mobile big picture that I can only assume "big" things.

In no particular order:

• Google's decision to leave China [1]

• Political interference to protect a Chinese mobile OS [2]

• Some sort of license restriction that doesn't effect Google services over the web but kicks in for mobile (completely a wild guess here)

• Political interference to keep Samsung out (so implausible I don't even believe it, but for the sake of discussion...) [3]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/furious-google-th...

[2] maybe http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/28/why-htc-is-making-a-m...

[3] http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prCN24344613
Because James Joyce is taught in English Literature, not English Language.
The Google apps are significantly better at present. What is needed is a community effort to work on one set of replacements that work well, rather than the fragmented alternatives.