skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tip for the lemonade- in the supermarket, rather than the fridge, go to the aisle with the giant bottles of coke on it. There you can pick up the same lemonade from the fridge, but twice as much volume for 30p. My favourite is fizzy flavoured water.
Interesting that techies and not real estate developers or zoning boards have become the scapegoats for high rents and housing prices.
Fine parody.

But, why not HTML?
Huh? How do women start their own "biological" families today? I guess you mean genetic?

If so, no women can't do that today, and artificial gestation alone won't allow men to do it . Women still require a sperm donor, and (with artificial gestation) men would need an egg donor.

Regardless, I agree that within our lives people will be able to start their own "biological" families as most of the barriers are just engineering barriers.
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You can check out matchist (I'm a co-founder): https://matchist.com

We vet developers and match you to the perfect ones for your project and your needs.
Link to audiophile-cable vs coat-hanger-used-as-audio-cable blind test:

http://consumerist.com/2008/03/03/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-g...
And Opt-Ins first.
And all his examples come from the financial sector, it would seem, but in the article he refers to "hordes of scientists," "people in social science," and even "problems with social and biological science." So even the hard sciences get pulled into his indictment of standard deviation, even though he never once gives an example from them.
If someone were to mock a conspiracy theorist by saying he was like the "Jews did 9/11" people, I wouldn't have any problem with that comparison.
Standard deviation and mean absolute deviation are both useful, but I think it's silly to suggest that we all adopt exactly one measure of variability to summarize data sets. When in doubt, make a fucking histogram.
A guy involved in the drama and self-exile of a key Node contributor is now starting his own company to profit from what has long been regarded "community" infrastructure. He wants your money. For some people, past behaviour and conduct might be a factor in deciding whether or not to support NPM Inc.
It might not be interesting to you and I am sure you know how to apply them.

It is however important if large groups of disciplines are not able to apply it properly.

Instead of calling him a vile idiot and refusing to even look at what he is trying to say you could see this statement as a cry for help, a provocation to start a debate and so on.

The deeper issues here, I think is that he is probably not death wrong nor death right and so it's really impossible to prove anything objectively but rather different experiences yield different opinions.

I personally believe that sometimes you have to simplify in order to get a fundamental discussion started. In fact i find the aftermath of those provocations to be the most enlightening.
"equally" - I really wish some of these folks would define that in technical terms, it would probably help with actual legislation.
Hi, Dan!

Papermine isn't for brochures, only, though. You can create pretty much whatever you want with it.

For instance (and this was actually a problem I had after I got married), wedding albums to send to family and friends via email. I actually think photographers could use this a lot in general.

It's just a nicer format than a PDF (10 times nicer on a tablet, I'd say), and more interactive.

Compared to similar products, Papermine actually lets you create the content, and it's not merely an aggregator.

:-)
Ask HN: Who's going to Burning Man?
Who's going to Burning Man? Any first timers? Past experiences?
well the old saying is, audiophiles listen to equipment, not music
Why is this reposted?
HeyLaughingBoy, that's an interesting idea. I'd like more details, but your public profile has no contact info.
I understand your point, and I agree mostly with it

But I think the headline was sensationalised.

Taleb doesn't seem to be against "standard deviation" mostly, but calling it "standard deviation" (which should be called something else), and providing a more "user friendly" number.

The positive square root of the second central moment of the density distribution function will keep being that.
I told more about this on Cool Hunting [0] but basically I'm manually selecting the best one. So I have a list of ~150 shots, I'm sorting by likes (which most of the time is not relevant at all) and removing all the #selfies using a face recognition algorithm.

[0] http://www.coolhunting.com/travel/smwhre-app.php
Strewth. What exactly do these people think they're getting for their money? And how do their beliefs proliferate? Is it like religion, where the guy who misinforms you doesn't believe he's misinforming you? Or crack-pushing, where the guy knows he's doing wrong?
I always liked what SGI Irix did. From the get go the desktop was all vector based. So you could run at 800x600 or 1280x1024 and either way things would look normal.

Both OS-X and Windows solutions are a hack.
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Ask HN: what is business model of snapchat,whatsapp and others?
Assuming none will be acquired in the future.
The number of farmers is essentially meaningless because of the way the USDA counts who is a farmer. Anyone with sales of over $1000 per year is considered a farmer and that is how they get the 2 million farmers number.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-household-w...

What is more meaningful is to look at farms with sales of $250,000 per year or more. They're 9% of farms but account for 80% of sales. There are roughly 125,000 farms in this group.
I want the painted on 'shield pattern' on the cable which keeps outside interference out of the cable :-)

I had an friend who made up some 'artisan' Ethernet cables on a whim, they had arrows indicating the direction of enhanced data flow, so you plugged the arrows facing "in" to your client, and "out" for your server. There were some cables that had been balanced for both in and out packets but they were twice as expensive.
While our market may not be as free as I would like it to be, the lack of USB cable selection is separate from the issue of market freedom.

I like the cable you're describing. If you start selling them, I might buy one.

You might know this already, but I'll mention it anyways because I was looking at it recently: there exists something called "ultra flexible wire" that has a very high strand count compared to normal stranded wire. For example, standard 28 AWG wire has 7 strands of 36 AWG, but ultraflexible 28 AWG has 41 strands of 44 AWG. This makes it considerably more flexible.

http://www.daburn.com/2671ultraflexiblesub-miniaturewire-u/l...

USB/headphone cables made from this wire could be quite a compelling product.
It's much harder to write correct software in Perl because there are so many bugs it doesn't catch. Almost everything converts a string that isn't numeric to zero instead of dying. ++$a{$x} doesn't even check that %a is initialized, much less actually has $x as a key. By default syscalls that fail set $? (which can be ignored and usually is) and don't die, and making them die breaks a lot of library code that only "works" because it ignores errors. And the production version still makes ridiculous legacy distinctions like

@a = (1, 2, 3); print "@a\n";
$a = [1, 2, 3]; print "@$a\n";

which have no expressive value (if lists and hashes had been first-class values there'd be no reason for references to exist as a type) but only cause subtle mistakes.
The comments on TFA seem to be taking it seriously. The linked "audioquest" manufacturer's site is too extensive to be a practical joke, though it's also quite slow.
Looks cool. Browsing the referral market quickly and easily (a la Tinder) is a big step up from the disjointed asks made by most companies.

In a similar vein, I started Mighty Spring (https://www.mightyspring.com). Candidates get a discrete Tinder-like experience for browsing jobs, while companies browse anonymous candidate profiles and request interviews. Anonymity helps passive people use the service without getting spammed by recruiters and protects employed peoples' current work interests.

In private beta, but expediting invites to the HN crowd. Let us know what you think!
Love the idea of a GSM handset that believes in protecting my privacy, however all their features seem to revolve around a secured Android OS.

Does anyone know if the actual baseband/wireless side has been designed with security in mind? -for example I'd love to be warned when I'm connected to an A5/0 "encrypted" GSM network, but I haven't been able to find a handset build in the last decade that's willing to warn me.
The enterprises that think that large software projects can be completed with "pay X get Y" are the ones that fail, historically speaking, because software projects are subject to a much higher risk of budget and schedule overrun than other types of projects (such as civil engineering projects). Large IT projects have put more than a few large companies into bankruptcy.
Reuploaded the pdf, because this link requires a Google account: https://mega.co.nz/#!hFxCVJjb!IMKg8wKzu8F9CxnQaFDn1CrAoH5_Fi...
Suggestion: buy a friend one of those 'record your song in a day' experiences. Get them into a commercial recording studio, and sit with the person who does the final mastering...

...unless of course they only buy direct to disc vinyl analogue recordings, or 96KHz sampled 24bit digital ones!

PS: One of my retirement ideas is to knock up monoblock 'boozehound' amplifier based on 6j5/6v6 and locally wound 'special' output transformers...
"Who could use this" and "who will pay enough for this to build a sustainable business" are two different questions. I was addressing the more important one.
Original article: http://www.pgbovine.net/tech-privilege.htm

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7015222
It is hilarious ... a friend of mine builds high end, custom, all-digital (Class D) amplifiers. Basically, if you want a good review, you have to give the reviewer a free unit.
A question to those of you that know more about this than I do:

I'm a mid-career professional programmer. I'd like to make this situation better. What are some concrete things that I can do to help?
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In context of a serious business move, I am not keen on seeing tongue in cheek link bait titles for articles. Seems to be in poor taste IMO.

Congrats to the Cobook team. This seems like a logical fit.
Ask HN: Sketch alternatives for Linux and Windows
Sketch has received a lot of attention on here - and in our designer communities - over the last 6-8 months.

As vectors are now established as a design trend, I want to start drawing my own quickly and easily. So far I have been depending on Noun Project, and other fantastic resources.

Can anyone point in the right direction of a Sketch alternative for Linux (and Windows), so I can start to get my hands dirty?

BONUS: Are there any top-quality tutorial/essential reading for getting started?
And of course, it would always plug in the right side up, first time
There were a lot of people "involved" in the drama. The overwhelming majority were against the guy who exiled himself. I guess I'm really not seeing the issue here, and think that "this guy who is setting up a company was involved in drama he did not create himself" feels tenuous.
Node.js is a scam.
> people stay irrational

In this case I take comfort that the irrationality is self-punishing. If you're that dumb, you deserve to be sold a $700 usb cable.
My favorite part is where the $275 USB cable is described as "mid-priced".

I subscribed to The Absolute Sound for many years, and found it to be useful in many respects. If you're going to put together a sound system that sounds anywhere close to realistic you need to be open minded and insanely dedicated. In this case though it seems clear they've gone off the deep end.
"I'm probably going to step back from libuv and node.js core development. I do it more out a sense of duty than anything else. If this is what I have to deal with, then I'd just as rather do something else."

That sucks. This is why we can't have nice things.
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Poked around their site, it's definitely caters to the rich who are dumb and think a 600 dollar usb cable will make their digital sound files sound better on their 60K speakers driven by their 100K amp. I've seen references to a $300 dollar power cable that they think is a steal. The site is real, just ludicrous.
Exactly. I think that the woeful state of US broadband and wireless infrastructure today is the strongest proof of the failure of a poorly regulated private sector that effectively has captured telecom governance. That sunny world of virtual worlds and holographic telepresence will happen in Singapore a lot sooner than in the US if government allows the Internet to look like Cable TV.

I consider Andreesson to have zero credibility in this matter, for reasons stated above and more. Why not allow rich and powerful corporations to control access to US consumers? Our smartest consumer startups, denied US consumers, will start to build Twitter and Pinterest and other services for consumers outside of AT&T and Verizon's control, and we will be more and more irrelevant as a market and a technology innovator.
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I considered that, but thought the context of the readme would be helpful.
Congrats, Jessie! :)
No, unfortunately it is not a parody!

There is so much bullshit going on... It's really really sad.

Do some research on jplay for example:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9285...
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Big congrats, guys! :)
Oh, I got you.

I don't take care of the financial aspect, but I do see your point.

I'll take a look at ShopLocal, to be honest I'm not familiar with it. Is it used by most big companies, etc.?
Twitter is down?
I see on the front-page (https://twitter.com)
Something is technically wrong.
Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.

Is it only for me?
Thanks! I am interested in the startups in the rest of the world, especially in SE Asia. I just got back from a trip to Thailand and Singapore, where I talked to several startup investors, accelerators, and founders to try to figure out where market opportunities might be. I didn't get to the Phillipines on this trip, but hopefully will in the near future (planning Indonesia at the very least this year).
I think that would be a little too squishy.

For me, when most people say "scripting language" they really mean a dynamic language.

Perl, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Lisp... These are all considered "scripting" languages and the main thing they have in common is the dynamic linking and type systems.

Statically typed languages like Java are generally not used for scripting purposes.
I remember mercury filled speaker cables being discussed briefly in the 80s. [1]

Hypothetical review of such cables:

"This wire lends a liquid transparency to strings. The fluid quality of horns has to be heard to be believed. There is a silvery quality to the brass, with no sign of the hard-edged, coppery sound normally associated with speaker cable...."

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/sci.physics/Ba...
NPM "app" store? Should I laugh, cry or try to monetize?
same for me, internal server error if already logged in

Edit: Nothing showing on http://status.twitter.com/
I thought this was going to be fixed when user namespaces were added to the kernel. I think user namespaces was merged early in 2013, but I haven't heard that it is now fixed. Is it now safe to give root inside an LXC instance?
I think I have had exactly that cable in the past, and it was a quality piece of cable. I know most people vote "buy the $0.02 cable", but after buying some truly cheap cables, I have come to appreciate cables with decent construction. Yes, they both pass data the same, but only one falls out and falls apart.

Oh, and shielding. You never get shielding on cheap cables. Doesn't matter for USB, but I've never appreciated my stereo or headphones picking up an incoming call to my cell.
In the android app the line "Create a ListView that groups the recent commits by author in a custom view." is confusing to me. What I get from that is something of this form:

author1:
commit1
commit2
...
author2:
...

however the example jpg doesnt look like it.
If you execute on this plan, you are probably an unlicensed MSB. If you don't know what that means, don't execute on this plan until you do.
Twitter works for me.
Also checked against isitup: http://isitup.org/twitter.com
Most US companies incorporate in Delaware mostly because their courts and laws are business friendly. The filing fees are also cheaper than most states. See:

- http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-advantage-of-incorporating-a-...
- http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/brandywine-to-broad...
- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/business/how-delaware-thri...
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Or, transmit random data on a schedule indistinguishable from the actual data, I suppose.
I don't know about them being dumb. It's a choice, and if you have the money to spend on it, and it's important to you, why not?
No. Something is technically wrong.

EDIT: Twitter is back. Must be a glitch.
It must be parody. I can't imagine it's anything else.
Isn't the problem more connected to the hardware and the fact that most people are already willingly using tons of applications who are giving information about you to companies like google (maps) twitter, facebook etc. If you install the apps with consent on your phone, and those apps have access to the linux or ios kernel runtime and syslogs then you're basically fucked from start.
this wont secure the memory just prevent it from being paged to disk, if I had access to your user or to root I can just read it directly via say proc (or any of the other attack vectors)
If you use Google Voice, there are a couple of apps that let you make VOIP calls using it. Not sure how much longer that will work.
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ah ok, so what is the recommendation for storing password in a scripting language like

Ruby, Python, RingoJS, NodeJS, PHP, etc? Don't think they have fancy function to determine to store the variables in CPU register or encrypted memory?

I got the feeling that all these should have being taken care of on the hardware level, but someone just got too lazy during the design process and forgot to patch up the security flaw.

Kinda like how everyone was still using telnet to get into their *nix servers in the 90's.
we make an easier target.
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isitup.org is useless in that case becase the front-page returns HTTP OK/200.
His previous article on hiring[0] wasn't for freelancers and also included programming homework (a longer task, even). Like I said before, for someone that doesn't have previous work to show then this might be a necessary evil, but if I have a deep portfolio already then it just seems so... masturbatory.

Paying for the developer's time is awesome, and if you have to assign coding homework during hiring then paying for their time is a classy move. Most people won't, even though they should.

[0] http://www.donnfelker.com/how-to-hire-programmers/
He got called out for making a dodgy call; it was by a lot of people, which can't have been nice but does is this not part of the job? I honestly don't know, I've never been in that position.

I get the feeling (and please tell me if I'm reading too much into this) that you take exception to the pull request and what many people would call political correctness.
Yes, it is down. Got a message saying something is technically wrong
> Psychoacoustics are still very much apart of the audiophile world

Psychoacoustics[1] is the study of how people interpret sound -- things like loudness, limits of perception, how localization works...

I think what you're talking about would better be described as placeboacoustics.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics
Would it help to store a long string of data in memory, say 10mb. Then place the key somewhere in the middle of it? The placement could be based on the password. Just an idea..
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Nothing about Hammer? Pity.
Pretty much sums up my go-tos: Github + Django + AngularJs + Asana.
Too bad no upvote button. I agree with you. I find the comment also a little too worked up with a little useful counter argument. I agree STD has its uses in situations. Nassim is not saying to get rid of the concept, but more like saying a lot of people are not using it correctly. I don't know why so worked up about that... Quite a lot of pointless insults.
Yeah, real activism vs. hard targets is hard so let's bash the nerds.

Slacktivists.
Well that is going to make for more ringing on the line, better pick up some USB terminators for the other ports.
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+1 for no ~foreign people are dumb~ undertones I've seen in other posts. I'm brasilian and I'm sure my skills could punch the skills of some developers elsewhere in the face, even if I make less. If you don't respect people who you work with, what are you? That's why, also, I'm at my last remote job, after this one goes, I'm getting back to local and corporate stuff.. Current one is great, but I've had enough bad experiences
Uploading obfuscated movie to your story on Snapchat can crash iOS-devices
What is Taleb's own black swan?
A couple of transcribed episodes from 'Startups for the Rest of Us':

How to Hire and Manage Virtual Assistants

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-68-ho...

How to Hire Like a Bootstrapper with Special Guest Laura Roeder

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-143-h...
It's not just theft protection though. Bitcoin provides protection from forms of fraud which specifically use mechanisms in a currency or transaction system, like chargebacks on PayPal (a ubiquitous form of fraud), or fake Western Union payments.
Sounds more like the market is stuck at a local profit maximum instead of a global profit maximum. As in, they think they are making as much profit as they can, but in reality if they invested more into something that's not directly consumer facing they'd be end up making more money in the long run. Except this long term thinking is less appealing than the status quo so they just stick with what they know.
> Can't tell if joke or not.

It's not. "Audiophiles" are generally off the deep end, the only serious (as in seriously committed to reality) community I've ever seen is on Hydrogenaudio's forums. And they're generally strongly disliked[0] by those roaming sites like TFA.

Christopher “Monty” Montgomery, the creator of Ogg and Vorbis and founder of Xiph, is also awesome. He's slowly but surely doing a series of videos + article support on digital media which is accessible to anybody and very interesting: http://xiph.org/video/

[0] due to stuff like http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1144..., how dare they require ABX testing?
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I didn't mean like ZFS, but like installable filesystems. It should be possible, with some effort, make ZFS run on Windows.

ReFS is beta-quality and lack several features ZFS has since its first production-grade release. It's not really an apples to apples comparison.