skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Explained in sibling comments: Room, breakfast, wifi and parking is payed by the company. Minibar and everything else there is: Nope.

I go down to the reception, they look at the bill, ask me if I consumed something from the minibar ("Never!") and wave goodbye.

They are not authorized to charge the company card for drinks or whatnot. They _could_ try to localize me based on the information I provided or .. I don't know - sue me across countries or something.

Disclaimer: I buy cheap drinks (including non-alcoholic beverages) in shops outside of the hotels I stay in. I hate the concept of minibars except as a fridge for MY stuff (those vending machine style of minibars really annoy the hell out of me). But I still insist that here/around me this exploit would work just as fine as the (to get back to the subject of the thread) exploit of the cafe that started this thread. It's not difficult. There are little to no repercussions. You will most likely get away with it. And most people still won't do it.
To be honest, I read that in the voice of a character from the Office Space movie. You know, the guy with thin-rim glasses and suspenders.
Bottom of about page is broken in IE8 http://i.imgur.com/7Mfrw3n.png FY.
The 8080 and the 8088 but no 386? No P6?

This list isn't very well balanced. The 386 revolutionized computing. It introduced an architecture that is still alive today and held market dominance for over 20 years (which is more than half the duration of the micro-computer age itself). And the P6 (Pentium Pro) architecture erased the old CISC/RISC boundary, enabling x86 code to run seamlessly on effectively state-of-the art RISC cores, extending the lifetime of the architecture tremendously.
You don't. And that's why people stop contributing to such projects and forks are created (see MariaDB). But that's not really a fault of the GPL. You could require contributors to agree to whatever you want regardless of the license you choose. Contributing to proprietary software (often as a result of an employment) sure comes with requirements other than the code itself.
"one should program the most abysmally slow correct thing first and then use algebraic theories to transform it along obviously correct paths to something highly performant."

Except that the syntactic variance problem [1] makes this impossible to do in theory. Unfortunately so long we use Turing-equivalent computers there will be a need for "performance programmers" and low-level programming because we cannot automate their job by formal transformations from high-level, "obviously correct" programs (theory proves so).

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/502175.502181
Cool! Can you add a list of exactly what it sets up to the ReadMe? Other than that, I really like it.
Given this, the hype about coworking spaces strikes me as particularly misguided.
nostalgia :) The simple logical simplicity of this

http://pastraiser.com/cpu/i8080/i8080_opcodes.html

allowed, after some short time without even looking at the table, to type the binary code directly in (our preferred way of the Forth words implementation back then, on Russian 8080 clone of course :).
Depends on who gets crammed together. A bunch of developers in a room are possibly going to be pretty considerate about noise.

I was in an 'open plan' office where there were four of us developers at a large desk with a sales guy at one end, a sales guy sitting at the other end of our desk, and another sales guy ten feet behind him at a desk.

We were generally pretty quiet, but the sales guys liked to shout across us all day. That is, when they weren't on loud phone calls.
I didn't mean to imply that it was a good thing that the original author could sell forks but rather that it was better that only the original author(s) could. This is one of the reasons I'm not fond of CLAs (contributor license agreements) and why Julia doesn't have one – the code belongs to the whoever wrote it and we can't relicense their contributions any more than they can relicense ours.
See http://freelawproject.org/ for excellent free/open source legal data.
I was just overseas for 2 weeks and used the free international data and text roaming. Worked flawlessly.
"1: Is what we have now working, e.g. is there still homelessness, and poverty in America?"

You presume that there could not be homelessness and poverty in the optimal system. I'm not sure that's guaranteed.

"2: If our system is already failed, how does trying something new that may fail, hurt anything?"

You can always fail harder.

Mind you, I'm in favor of a basic income and there are some interesting things about this idea (though I don't think I favor it); I'm just skeptical of your rhetoric.
Wtf? I frequently tether my T-mo 3G phone when needed, and I got some sms saying I needed to sign up for a tethering plan when I used it for apparently long enough for them to detect it. What plans have tethering included?
As the stream opened (just now), the head of enginehere.com just mentioned he was worried about concurrents, specifically saying he thinks 65 concurrent viewers with video is about the max...

Hopefully it works, I'm watching and interested in how this works out! Just wanted to provide that tidbit before we Slashdot the feed.
I have a large number of memories from age 2 and going forward. I can even remember the details of conversations I heard and the physical appearance, location and orientation of various objects that were in my environments, and can accurately recall the floor plans of places I lived in or visited. I can't recall a single thing prior to my second birthday, though. I'm age 37, presently.

I've met people who, if the subject of very early memories came up in conversation, thought it was completely normal as they have similar ones. I've talked to other people, though, who insist that I can't possibly be telling the truth, perhaps because they can't even imagine remembering anything that far back.
I've been resisting getting a smartphone for years because I didn't want to either pay $300+ for a phone or $80+ per month with one of the big carriers.

Then a couple of weeks ago, someone on an HN thread told me about the Nokia Lumia 520. I checked it out, decided to buy one, and I'm damn glad I did! Windows Phone is frankly amazing - it does everything I need it to do, it's beautiful, and it just works. I ordered a sim card from Straight Talk for their Bring Your Own Phone program for $7, and voila, I have unlimited everything on ATT's network for $45 a month.
Unfortunately "Bad" results for cURL:

$ curl https://www.howsmyssl.com/a/check | python -mjson.tool
Nice site, I've been looking for something simple like that (It sure beat https://cc.dcsec.uni-hannover.de/ in niceness, the website I've used before to "check" my browser).

Anyway I'm getting a nice "Probably Okay" using the latest Firefox Nightly.
Well, it's a tough balance, and much of it can't be expedited just by applying more manpower -- beyond mythical man month considerations, there's also the fact that we're often waiting on other partners. Given that, working on new features doesn't necessarily slow our international expansion.

But I hear you. Hope to have more to report before too long.
Speaking as a user of commercial software, and speaking as someone who prefers to enforce no copyright whatsoever over the code that he writes: STOP IT.

Stop this condescending, paternalistic treating me like an imbecile who can't make informed decisions about what kind of software to use. Stop acting like you can decide for me what rights I do and do not wish to exercise. Stop acting like the freedoms I want to have, including the freedom to enter into a lawful contract with a provider of proprietary software, don't count because they don't correspond with your values. Stop preaching that my entire system for deciding what software I do and do not want to install on my own computer is wrong because it doesn't match up with your ideology. Just stop being such a @$%^! ideologically-motivated authoritarian. And most of all, stop pretending that your authoritarianism is somehow defending my liberties.

I've got no problem with the GPL. If you want to maintain some sort of legal control over how others are allowed to use intellectual property that you create, you've every right to do so. That goes for releasing the source code with limitations on incorporating it into proprietary software every bit as much as it does for keeping it all proprietary in the first place. What I do have a problem with is you trying to tell me that I'm doing something wrong by choosing to be less controlling about the code I create. And what I have a problem with is you trying to tell me that my choice to place no restrictions whatsoever on what people do with the code I share is somehow stomping on somebody's rights. That includes allowing third parties to incorporate it into proprietary software. If you're uninterested in using that proprietary software, fine, it makes no difference to you whether the software existed or not. OTOH, people who are willing to pay for a proprietary modification might benefit from one existing, and in that case, more power to them - I don't care, and I don't see why 4th parties who don't have any basis for claiming ownership of the software should care.
The gameboy uses an LR35902 by Sharp, which is not exactly a Z80. It's kind of in the middle of the 8080 and Z80 chips IIR, so you could consider it a variant of either.

It was also the audio co-processor in the Genesis/Megadrive and the Neo-Geo alongside the M68k CPUs.

A friend's father, who works in embedded environmental control systems once showed me a control board for a heating and a/c system that was powered by a Z80. It had inputs for a dozen or so temperature sensors that were to be placed throughout a building and the CPU only needed to be fast enough to poll them every few seconds. The number of sensors was limited to the addressability of an 8-bit CPU, so under 256.

They should also mention the Japanese MSX standard which was Z80 centered for the first few generations and is the source of a great many very recognizable video game series (most of which were ported to the 6502 used by the NES). The last generation used a crazy variant called the R800, which I suppose would be like the 80286 was to the 8080.
Chernobyl disaster
Why do people think this has anything to do with the bus protests? Can't Google be trying to find a more efficient way to get their employees to work ergo getting more labor out of their salaried employees?

<code> We certainly don’t want to cause any inconvenience to SF residents, and we’re trying alternative ways to get Googlers to work,” </code>
While the deal sounds good, I have heard multiple bad things about T-Mobile's support of the military. I have multiple friends who T-Mobile tried to prevent from being allowed to abrogate their contracts due to poor coverage surrounding military bases, as allowed by law.
You could almost argue that your 1, 2, and 3 are the same thing as my 3, 2, and 1.
Or a rock inside a big stuffed animal?
However if there's a sale on bread you like, you can freeze it.
The Fin Is A Bluetooth Ring That Turns Your Hand Into The Interface
You would need the Simple Choice plan with unlimited data to receive 2.5GB of mobile hotspot [1]. If you click unlimited and look at the panel on the right you'll see it. "Unlimited high-speed data on our network. Up to 2.5GB of Smartphone Mobile HotSpot (SMH) service."

1. http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/individual.html
I live in San Francisco and have T-mobile service, and don't see what you're seeing. I'll hop on up to Bay and Hyde tomorrow to double-check, but in the past I've gotten adequate coverage everywhere aboveground I've been in the city.

Also, you are aware that ATT and TMO have a roaming agreement? http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/20/2649023/t-mobile-to-get-s...
The whole modal aspect takes time to get used to, and some people never get over it. Even given a fair shot, I don't think vi is for everyone. For my part, after using emacs for more than a decade, I knew I'd stick with vi after about 2 weeks.
If you look at my profile: I got a limited experience with Israel. The OCR company I work for? Sits in Israel.. ;-)

I'm reasonably sure that you're not in the market for the things we do, but if you like to chat/want to talk about the project you're doing: Again, feel free to drop me a line. I .. really wouldn't even think about selling things or something, I'm mostly curious about fellow HN users' projects and have an affinity for IL.

Good luck!
It looks like Dropbox just shut down the account's transfers. I take it a couple dozen people started mass-downloading each state's data.
This would be the ideal use for a torrent network, right?
> Why not just cut the space up more efficiently and give everyone a private space? ... Workers still feel like they have no privacy and are constantly distracted

Maybe it's just me, but for me it's not just about the privacy, it's about having a place for my things.

Having a desk and some drawers, some desktop space that is mine to leave papers on, etc. makes me feel a lot more at home and productive. Having to keep everything in a bag I can tote around leaves me feeling kind of uneasy and like the situation is impermanent, much like staying somewhere and living out of a duffel bag.

I'm a lot more inclined to do good work if it's for a company I feel like I'm at home at, that I'm going to stay at, than one that feels like I'll be gone from any moment now.
Fear is not what's holding you back
So what do Kickstarter backers think about this? Was open-sourcing Light Table always the plan?
Health insurance startup Oscar to announce $30 million fundraising round
If you liked that, check out his follow up - Turning Pro. I read the second book first & loved it; thought The War of Art was a liiiittle bit self-helpy.

What I took away from those two books were that the /only thing/ that will help you is sitting your ass in the chair and doing the fucking work.
> It's unfortunate to characterize a monitor that Mac OS doesn't support very well right now as Windows-only.

Specially since changing dpi is usually trivial on any X server since the mid 80's.
>I think there is more to learn here about engineering mistakes than about Go: Why pick Go for this project in the first place?

I hate this type of non-productive comment.

"Why he picked Go" is beside the point. That was his personal choice, and it's of no concern to us if it was a good or bad choice when he made it.

What IS of interest to us, is his findings, ie. about how (non) fitting was Go for the kind of work he describes, and for what reasons. Because that can helps us access the language ourselves for such uses.

>Those days the biggest productivity difference that arises from language choice comes from the availability of libraries

Again, not true for his needs. For what he needed, core library built-ins have sufficed in Java (Set etc). As for Go, he did find 2 libraries implementing them, but he still wished for a good core implementation.

>The bit on poor performance is unconvincing because the source of the difference has not been identified.

No, but it's well known that Go lags behind the JVM, something even the Go team aknowledges and attributes to maturity of the compiler/GC.

Plus, from the writeup, he sounds like a thoroughly decent programer to not be able to code his way out of Go performance bottlenecks. Doesn't sound like the guy who can't use a profiler (and in fact, he points in his article that he DID use one).

>This kind of "magical" thinking about black boxes one doesn't understand is unfortunately all too common across software engineering.

Random rant unrelated to TFA.
I don't read articles that require me to click through a slideshow.
You're right; I'm not sure why I wrote about lowering them.
What percent of their profit was that and how few months will it take for them to make it up?

I think society would happily trade that for actual prison time for a bunch of execs who knew exactly what was going on.
The funny thing is that the biggest operator in Germany, T-Mobile, offers the biggest horseshit there.
Related reading:

"Your new '4K' TV isn't true 4K"

http://www.avsforum.com/a/the-not-so-subtle-distinction-betw...
Show HN: Free guide I wrote on getting traction
Does anyone else think it's kinda crazy that banks are required by law to act like policemen? Seems like that's the government's job.
That's only 3 people and they have all come up as entertainers first. Why entertainers first?

I agree that hip hop is packed with sophistication and cultural consciousness, but hordes of young wealthy teens listen to rap music almost exclusively as entertainment. They often don't parse the emotional and powerful context of the lyrics - as they are often tied to racial, social, and financial issues they have never had to deal with. They often listen to it as outsiders in that regard.

By prefacing his posts with lyrics, Ben is focusing on the good parts of rap music - hustle and determination - as opposed traditional media which very rarely does that. In that regard he is "legitimizing" rap in the eyes of many people, or at least opening up their eyes and mind in a positive manner.

Excluding entertainers - if you look at CEOs, executives, tech startups - I think what he's saying is extremely evident. It's also especially strange how few there are considering how influential hip hop culture is in current youth culture, and how influential African American culture has been in the history of America.

Are investors rational decision makers? or gate keepers? It's hard to say in a system he so eloquently and accurately described in the first few paragraphs, and where so few companies actually get funded.
Your new '4K' TV isn't true 4K
I'm not an encyclopedia of AT&T offerings but...

The Nexus 5 is more comparable to the iPhone 5C which AT&T offers for $199 on contract (let's compare 32GB models since Google only charges $50 vs Apple's $100 for the upgrade). At $399 the extra $200 works out to $8 more a month. This is about what I pay monthly to AT&T including fees.

Like I said T-Mobile does a lot of great consumer things. For some people it will be worth it to go with T-Mobile. For others the difference isn't quite so large and in many places the T-Mobile network simply isn't good enough[1].

[1] http://opensignal.com/network-coverage-maps/t-mobile-coverag...
Links are down...
I've had luck recently with the Pomodoro technique. Actually, switching to Vitamin R2 on Mac which lets you adjust Pomodoro lengths - sometimes if doing 1/2 hour feels daunting I'll start with 10 minutes, or even start by allocating myself 1/2 hour to do something trivial - feels great when you can mark it as done in a fraction of the time.
My brother did 1.2 GB of tethering in a couple hours on my T-Mobile phone while I was driving down I-75 from Detroit to the middle of Ohio. No coverage problems, no overage fees (I'm on the unlimited data plan), and we had a movie to watch by the time we got to the hotel.
I believe you need to make an account on Accel.io to retrieve it.

I partnered with GrowtHacker.tv, Moz, CrazyEgg and Knowledge.ly so hopefully you all can take advantage of those deals :)
Subjective, and goodness of coffee is not binary. Starbucks coffee is, IMO, better than what you find at most "affordable" restaurants, sandwich shops, diners, etc.

If you a coffee connoisseur, it may not be good. But most people aren't, they just want something better than Folgers.

There's also the McDonald's effect: it may not be great, but it's pretty much the same everywhere. You know what you are going to get before you go in.
I thought that type of place only happened in tv/movies.
>This reminds me of that one guy on the go-nuts irc channel who asked for help with his Ruby port over to Go. He was scraping a set of web pages in Ruby and migrated that over to Go for its easy parallelization. His claim was that Go was 3x slower in speed. He pasted some code that seemed fine, but left out the context of what he was doing.

Yes, with the exception of that being a story about some random idiot with an axe to grind, and this being a totally competent guy, that goes into detail about what he did and how, what trouble spots he found etc.

I guess, it being a hired project, he can't share the actual code. But he provided tons of pain points, well articulated.
White House agrees to fund International Space Station until 2024
Which might be an interesting role in this case. Any time congress tries to pass a bill, it not only needs the President's signature, but it also has to pass a randomly selected panel of ordinary people?
If you don't have any need to save the customer and card for subsequent charges, then I believe (on Stripe) you can simply pass the token to the payment object API, eliminating 2 of your 4 steps.
This is awesome, thank you for sharing these. I was able to get a couple states, but it looks like Dropbox has cut you off.

Connecting to dl.dropboxusercontent.com
(dl.dropboxusercontent.com)|23.23.88.93|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 509 Bandwidth Error
2014-01-08 23:36:42 ERROR 509: Bandwidth Error.

Dropbox limits personal accounts to 20GB per day of public sharing.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/45/en
How is it not free?
after protests against ferry, the next mode of transportation will be a private plane i guess, something like Osprey. Or may be submarine.
From this very short piece:
Serving New York City as well as a few other counties in New York state...

It is possible this company only serves New York state. It is a quirk of state law in New York that in order to sell insurance in New York, you have to be incorporated there. IIRC, it is the only state like that.

(Also, this piece is so short, I am baffled as to why it was even submitted to HN.)
A few questions come to mind that aren't answered by perusing the site, though I haven't yet looked at the downloadable files.

1) How comprehensive are the court decisions ? For example which Federal Courts are covered and for what time periods ? If there are variations in coverage of state courts what are the high low and typical cases of coverage - both for dates and court levels ?

2) How was the court decision data obtained ? I was under the impression that there were significant obstacles to obtaining much of this data since although statutes are available freely online for many jurisdictions access to court decisions is typically very costly. I once payed several hundred dollars for a months access to NYS court decisions and I believe that service no longer exists, having been replaced by much more expensive long term plans that are out of reach of anyone except law firms or large corporations.

Getting court decisions online for free or at an affordable cost would be of great benefit to anyone needing/wanting to do legal research in the US and would help improve the increasingly dismal state of democracy in this country.
> That said, the hotel isn't allowed to charge minibar/massage/champagne at 3am by room service on the company card

This is the part that nobody understands. This isn't how things would work in the US (and many other countries). And how is this enforced?
Why is that not set by default?
Every X11 server release since 1991 may be rootable by buffer overflow
Sounds like halfway to a decent ploughman's lunch.
FCC ready to intervene over AT&T's sponsored data program
New TLS versions (1.1/1.2) have been included since Firefox 24, but won't be enabled by default until Firefox 27.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733647

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=861266
CES booth babes are apparently predominantly 'women'.
Are there any downsides of changing these settings?