skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're logged out it seems to behave this way, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/news2
Ask HN: How about a rental focused credit union
I recently moved to San Francisco to work at a startup part of this was finding and renting a place to live. In short time I found a nice place to live in the city, and, whilst the rent was a bit high I figured that it was part of the growing cost of living in SF.

I setup a online cheque from my current account, paying the first payment at the start of December (for December), the second on the 15th (a forward payment for January). Somehow the first cheque went missing, the letting agency assumed that the second cheque was for December and /silently/ cashed it despite it being late..

On the 10th of January (Friday) I get a phone call claiming that my account was delinquent. Given the rules of rent control as of Monday a three day eviction will be issued. Naturally this shocked me, I had not received notice of any issues (there was a letter dated 6th, received in the post on the 12th). I phoned the bank to query the cheques, a task made more challenging by the fact that the rental agency does not record cheque numbers.

With the missing cheque cancelled I am in a situation where its either a payday loan, or a legal notice. This sounds like a whine, and for that I apologise, rather I am using it to illustrate an industry that needs to be disrupted.

How hard would it be to create a startup that was a credit union, bank or clearing house, providing accounts to renters issuing payments under a personal name. The B2C for renters could use any sane payment method, with the backend dealing with this legacy industry. This startup could also cover bonds, offer better legal protection for renters, offer late payment insurance, have decent alerting and so forth.

Technically I see this a somewhat easy to manage, legally perhaps its a bit harder to do.

Does anyone here have any insights on how such a startup could be created ?
In more northern states tires play a huge factor in road damage as well. The most noticeable road damage here in the Washington/Idaho/Montana area is from studded tires. The ruts from those tires are often an inch or more deep when they finally start repairs.
Ask HN: Are there schools for kids of roaming parents?
I love to travel; and so does my wife. My work might allow me to roam anywhere throughout the year. The biggest concern is our daughter's schooling. She is right now 4 and in her preschools. We were wondering in this age of internet, is there a network of schools which will allow her to attend from anywhere? It seems difficult because of many reasons; but just checking our luck.
An Open Source Alternative to SMS OTP for Two Factor Authentication
Check out Tengine, it's a fork of nginx made by the Taobao engineers. They also contribute back to nginx.

Couple of links to mailing lists, presentations, papers, etc on that page.

http://tengine.taobao.org/
> they literally own quite a large portion of their userbase.

Not literally.
I don't think so.

Using pure PHP, you need to load a lot of class files. and function calls, method calls, hash find are pretty slow in pure PHP.

- First of all, while using C extension, you don't need to reload these php class files again and again. it reduces the class loading overhead.

- Seconds, looping and string comparison is pretty fast in C. it's because in pure PHP, it duplicates the string when calling functions/methods in the runtime.

- Third, there are a lot of spaces to optimize the code in C rather than in pure php.

- Last, pure PHP consumes a lot of memory, but in C extension, the memory footprint is pretty small.
(Well, if only you would read the article)

This article specifically talks about the fact that in most states it would be required for them to demonstrate falsity or damages, which they didn't have to do under Virginia law. Without this check such practice can be used to suppress negative reviews since most people wouldn't risk legislation.

And then article says that it's most likely unconstitutional and this is why this case is appealed in Virginia Supreme Court.
Hah, fair point. I never really noticed people wearing em till a few years ago.
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. I guess they think of us as big stupid minimum wage cat staff.
> but there's still the issue of getting library support to use all of that.

Much of Node's success in employing the event loop model comes from not having extensive libraries of blocking I/O code to work around. Maybe the difficulty of the 2-to-3 Python migration could be a boon here.
My limited experience is that the German perception of science degrees is that they prepare people for a very broad range of work, not limited to academic science. When I was in Germany studying physics I was always blown away by the large class sizes. I was told that many/most of the students had no plans to continue on in physics, but rather in industry of some kind. I also once saw a billboard in a train station aimed at recruiting physics and chemistry graduates for some company.

In contrast, I'd guess that 90+% of my physics BS classmates in the US went on to do PhD's in physics or something very closely related. Of my PhD classmates, I'm not sure any are working tenure track jobs 3-6 years after graduating... I switched over to data science.
That's debatable, but we are talking about a matter of degrees. Wage-based employment is a moderate improvement upon slavery by direct force. The relationship between investors and startup founders is a moderate improvement upon that, but still has quite a few similarities with traditional slavery.
Calm down. Read about Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Wikipedia [1] before shedding all your fur here.

QUOTE

During his time in the State's Health Ministry, he launched Polio Eradication Plan in October 1994.[6] The programme was successful and was adopted throughout the whole nation by the Government of India.[7]

UNQUOTE

Please do your homework before calling others on the task. And look beyond your own version of reality, it is important. I wouldn't have even replied to you had it not been on HN.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh_Vardhan_(Delhi_politician...
ShowHN: Answers OnStartups mirror
Sometime in December, Answers OnStartups (http://answers.onstartups.com/) vanished due to not having enough activity during its Stack Exchange beta period (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6243/startup-business).

With the help of Stackdump (https://bitbucket.org/samuel.lai/stackdump/), I've hacked out a useable mirror from the provided XML data dump.
You can also use a bookmarklet like these https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets
The book that really helped me was Agile Software Development by Robert Martin. It outlines some of the best principles for writing software that will be high quality and easy to extend and refactor for years to come.
The word "fix" assumes it is a problem. You load a page and after a certain amount of time, the next page is expired.

I am not saying, "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" I'm just saying that's how it works.
Sometime in December, Answers OnStartups (http://answers.onstartups.com/) vanished due to not having enough activity during its Stack Exchange beta period (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6243/startup-busin...).

With the help of Stackdump (https://bitbucket.org/samuel.lai/stackdump/), I've hacked out a useable mirror from the provided XML data dump.
Yes, Vladimir Voevodsky says HoTT is based on Martin-Loef type theory, but he discovered HoTT by learning the CoC used in Coq, and is implementing his Univalent Foundations library of proofs in Coq. That implies that HoTT is implementable in Coq (with a couple of minor tweaks), which means that CoC is at least as powerful as HoTT. And anyway, according to Voevodsky, they are the same thing.

Really, Martin-Loef type theory is the mathematics foundation, and the Calculus of Constructions is the computer science foundation. HoTT ties them together.
The users of a resource should, of course, pay for that resource. And there's a compelling logic that the people who cause maintenance to be required should be the ones charged for it.

The issue is, Leaf drivers are very much not the people who damage roads: Leafs are somewhat light cars (a bit more than a Civic, substantially less than SUVs). Cumulative road damage is linear with the number of miles driven and quartic with vehicular weight. Gas taxes roughly capture the linearity from miles driven but only a fraction of the factor from vehicle weight.

If the Republican leader quoted in the article is actually interested in bridging the gap between gasoline tax revenues and expenditures on roads and ending the subsidy the public provides for expensive private decisions, he should look toward charging more of road users in general than a small minority of a couple thousand (it probably costs as much to implement and collect this tax as the revenue it brings). Instead of, you know, sticking taxes to the people whose consumption choices he finds so damn hippy and unpalatable.

(And, yes, I oppose government subsidies for electric vehicles too, whose environmental benefits should be captured by more efficient carbon taxes or permits.)
I'm assuming the minimalism and hackish nature was deliberately chosen to weed out the lowest common denominator and cater only to the niche HN targets.
I pointed it out it because I believed it was exaggeration. To me, similarities don't cut it for 'literally'; it has to be identity.
When I was jung
That's awesome. I like the cheekiness as well. Well done.

I wonder if it will work. I guess it might at least get them some attention.
For practical solution:
Install "Hacker News Enhancement Suite" Chrome extension, it solves this and godzillion other problems.
Yeah, that doesn't fit my experience either. I meet plenty of people with PhDs who aren't in academia but who are perfectly well respected by academics. Many of them still do research and come to conferences, too, because in CS many industry labs also publish research papers [1]. Some of those jobs are more respected than academic positions are, even among academics. For example, Pixar employees are bigger big-shots at SIGGRAPH than just about any academics are.

[1] Example: http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
True about product placement, very possible. However, Microsoft made lots of changes to their entire platform and executive line up so I am expecting nothing but bold changes and interesting stuff coming from them this year- I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I must say this clearly, in the interest of that is the truth:

Eradication of Polio, was a Nation and its people, combined effort, of years and decades, through struggle and patience.
First, the people in the West, who provided the means in form of the vaccine, and the constant push to keep the wheel running. Then the politicians, to set aside their differences, to accept what is for the good of all, both Congress/BJP held the govt and supported this cause without differences during the last 20 years. Thirdly the whole fraternity of Polio workers and Associated services for the time of their life. Fourthly, the families of the people involved for their patience, and sacrifice. And Last but not the least, for people specially parents accross all demographies to actually realize, the future of their kids, the promise of a normal life to their kids, the future generation of this nation is in their own hand. So they must come out in force-en-masse to achieve which is still far away, yet getting closer.. and today, in this time and age we have finally achieved what we set out to do years ago through a combined effort.

Now if someone as if dares to spit on that true wonder of human struggle, for personal satisfaction of supporting a political party, or a person.. putting them up as the lone saviour, disgrace and wrath of everything be upon such a person. (God have mercy on such a man)

Also, I love HN, as it is... dispite what Pushy Politics was played by forged accounts, and vested interests in the comment section of Indian Websites, HN was always clean of such mess, and I thank the people responsible for that. So, lets keep this that way.

This is Personal, if you haven't got it by now!

http://media.cleveland.com/world_impact/photo/10442222-large...

PS: The Punchline for Indian Polio program was-- Do Boond Zindagi Ke(2 Drops of Life)

One of the adverts (WITH ENG SUBS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbCEualxnRs
I thought Percona's Xtrabackup already supported parallelized recovery using binary logs: http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.1/ (Though I'll admit I've never tried to do so)
I found it hard to work out where to get the most up to date information on the outage. I checked the blog, but the last message was their New Year message. In the app and on the main website (mobile version) I couldn't see anything...

Glad I read HN otherwise I don't know how I would have come across this information. =)
Your New "4K" TV isn't True 4K
You know, like return entire page instead of an arbitrary cut off?
My observation is that math PhDs who don't go into academia end up at the NSA more often than any other public or private entity.
A male lion, when taking over a pride, will kill all the young lions that are not his offspring.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan was the BJP's (India's main opposition party currently) chief minister candidate for the recently held elections to Delhi - India's capital city which is also a state. You've tried to ascribe credit for India's multi-decade polio eradication efforts to him, including a link to his Twitter handle, with zero references to back this claim up.

It's a sad way to add a partisan sheen on an achievement that actually belong to the tens of thousands of people who've worked for this over decades.

Here's a better summary of India's efforts by the WHO's representative to India: http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/JD8uPXvircS0rU60AIUvUN/Polio...
I believe it will keep going up but I am not 100% certain (anyone who says they are is an idiot or clueless) so I am invested only with an amount I am comfortable with. It's not an all or nothing kind of situation; you can be be exposed to an asset in proportion with the risk you associate with the said asset. It's called risk weighting and it's considered basic investing knowledge.

At this point I am not comfortable investing more in BTC but I would also be very reluctant to bet against it. I currently believe that the chance that BTC will reach the levels the Winklevii are talking about is minuscule, otherwise I would've already dumped all my savings into it.

I have a dislike for people who keep preaching either about BTC completely failing or overtaking the entire world economy. Both belong to the same camp of irrational thinking and simply hoping their preferred outcome happens. There is a certain probability distribution associated with the future price and the chance that the price will be at the either end of the curve (0 or max) is tiny. This is why I always tell people who make black and white "predictions" about price to simply invest according to their beliefs and certainty levels. It usually reveals real quick what they really believe (more often than not, they're full of shit).
Something that was supposed to be secure is not. So you stop calling malware, malware?

Move on.
Higher saturation, perhaps, but definitely not brighter.

Being that the intention of this map is to bring attention to census tracts with higher percentages of poverty (instead of bringing attention to census tracts with a lower percentage of poverty), a cooler color (associative with 'lower') with saturation increases (associative with 'pay attention to this') seems to be the way to go.
Hmmm... in that case may I recommend "The Passionate Programmer"?

The guy who wrote it had a pretty interesting career trajectory - went from being a jazz musician, to a self-taught dev, working his way up to a manager of a large scale outsourced team, to a dev again doing Rails and the like.

It had a feel and structure like Robert Greene's books - little 3-5 page segments focused on one idea, interspersed with personal stories and interviews illustrating the points. It seemed particularly focused on working within a corporate structure in a positive manner.
Where did you obtain data about 'changes in numbers of employees' for 'all companies registered with Companies House'?

I'm genuinely curious about where to access that data, because AFAIK employee data doesn't exist in either of the regular statutory filings collected by Companies House (the Annual Return (AR01) and the annual accounts).

HMRC _does_ have that data (as it's included in the P35 Employer Annual Return) but I'm not aware of any way to access it.

Similarly, the best data I've seen on 'main products' for _all_ UK companies is the SIC code, which isn't particularly specific.

I'd appreciate any pointers to accessing the data you described (changes in # of employee; main products) for all UK-registered companies.
Whitespace insensitivity and inability to return void in generic contexts are "critical flaws"?

Anyway, no one's saying C# is flawless. Personally, I would love the ability to declare immutable graph references.
Much like every other paginated site with constantly updating content in existence. Just link to the next page with whatever the current content for that page is. People can figure out that items they're looking for get bumped from one page to another semi-frequently.
I'd characterize that article as saying it "may be" correlated at strongest - sounds like the WHO says oral doses have been decreasing for years while AFP cases were still increasing?
I agree. The first thing I thought was that this framing is really just showing people think they'll be happier with more money, which is the orthodox that the 70K study claims to refute.
This is inane. Why is a cat friendly towards human visitors, yet hostile towards feline ones? We show human signs affection towards cats, why wouldn't they use their own body language towards us?
Very cool, makes me think all job adverts should be done to a Bob Marley song ;-)

Hope you get some great responses.
Seems as though he was in the SF area. For those of us who are not in California is there anything we can do? I'm in Texas...
Can plants think?
I'm always fascinated by the implications of the very common approach of people to anthropomorphize cats when discussing them and to put down human intelligence in relation to the cat in the process. I don't see it done nearly as commonly when dogs are discussed. It seems nearly universal in the discussion of cats anywhere online.

"Given that he believes cats are semi-feral and that they think we are cats too, we must surely consider that cats aren't all that stupid -- because they must realize that we are, in fact, quite that stupid."
Not anymore.

"Why editors are 'literally' changing the dictionary" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23729570
Seems cool but doesn't work for me on OS X Mav w Chrome Canary.
Nope, it's at least 2 years old http://web.archive.org/web/20111207064744/http://www.opendns...
That can't be right? Last time I heard they were all about inclusion by being a gateway.
Peopleware.. to understand taeam dynamics
Absolutely not applicable when brought down to the census tract level in large cities. Compare, for example, the percentage living below poverty line in Manhattan (density of 27,227.1/km2) with the percentage living below poverty line in Brooklyn (density of 14,037/km2).
This is great. It would be even more great if it were possible to see further back than 1 month.
What the OP is saying is that Twitter, Facebook, etc. have turned into soap operas.

Nothing wrong with a "never ending story" and there's a considerable clientele for that in older media too. The LoTR trilogies also have that similar feeling for me - I'm left with a bit of a craving after watching just one.

What is, perhaps, new is the immediacy of the never-endingness. One phone-screenful is all you get at a time.
For half the US population (those in regions that use more renewable power sources), electric vehicles are equivalent to about 70mpg in terms of emissions, so they're a clear win. In the regions that use mostly coal, it's more like 35mpg, so a really efficient gasoline-powered car is a better choice.[1]

However, I'd argue that even a car that gets 35mpg is better than average and its use should be encouraged.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/07/21/are-electr...
>so I can only imagine it's skewed by Cal Poly students

It's not skewed, those students really live there, so that's what it is.
Sandboxed applications that take care of all of the dependencies is a no-brainer for me. Amazingly I see quite a lot of focus on separating out all of an applications dependencies into separate containers and then linking them. I feel like in most circumstances that is not taking advantage of Docker. Unless you have quite a huge amount of time invested in learning Puppet/Chef or whatever, have nothing to do except play around with Puppet/Chef configs all day (its your only job), and are looking for a reason to keep using them with Docker, which is what I think is why some people are using links when things would run just fine and would be simpler if everything was living inside one container.
that's a bit extreme. in order to log into gmail accounts via imap, you have to have the email and password for an app like that:
http://jeffreifman.com/filtered-open-source-imap-mail-filter...

It's not unethical to build such an app.
Wow that is so much nicer. Thank you for suggesting this!
Petition Stephen Colbert to drop his speech at the RSA Conference
>Frankly, even if true, and they actually vaccinated the children, I'd still consider it a positive.

To get hepatitis b immunity, You need to get two to three doses of vaccine. In this case children only got one. I don't think it was an effective immunization effort.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/14/cia-fake-vaccin...
Your scale is way off. I see electric cars everywhere.
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Cecil Martin
Well, it's not going to end. Right? I think the answer is we just have to know when to shut it off. Infinite scroll is a gift because we are going to have to rely on ourselves to know when to stop. Which could be a useful skill, given the oceans of information we haven't even seen yet.
I agree actually literally is the wrong word. Its embarrassing that I used that word incorrectly when I just meant to add emphasis.
Thank you. However I must confess that I am conscious of the decisions I make, and I am capable of evaluating the impact those decisions have on me and my particular circumstances.

The outcome of this is :

Some days I am full of energy and clarity and I eat at my desk and keep working.

Some days I am tired, stressed or for some other reason can't focus, and then I might go out and eat in a park and take my time.

Some days I have friends who want to meet for lunch.

Some days my colleagues want to go out for lunch as a group, typically Friday.

Some days I go eat in the common area because I am eating something smelly.

Some days I skip having anything substantial at lunch and go home early.
MKP is another support group (for men). Here's a link to the Australian chapter: http://mkpau.org/
"A finite list of news. An Instagram feed that can be finished. A Twitter feed that ends."

Isn't this confusing source and outcome? Even if your app (or website) adds an 'end' point, it would only be artificial. The news never ends. Instagram and Twitter never sleep. If you can't be your own gatekeeper (eg, by following a very small number of users on Twitter) then I doubt an artificial 'end' point from another gatekeeper will help you. Rather, I suspect, you'll simply add more apps to your daily reading list - an infinite number of finite apps to keep the infinite consumption option available.