skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably cost more than $5 for IBM to manufacture a CXA1129N integrated-circuit chip in the 1970s.
I wonder if there's a way to preserve their cloud.typography service through this. The article states that ownership of the fonts was transferred, but I imagine most designers would disdain the very idea of subscribing if the allegations turned out to be true.

Service aside, how is the company supposed to survive this? Even if Frere-Jones wins the trial and full damages are awarded, surely he'll want to leave the company. I can't fathom how you could keep collaborating with a partner who tried to scam you out of a life's work. That'd leave H&FJ with much weaker creative direction and a tarnished reputation.
" Not to mention the recent brouhaha in which Joyent facilitated forcing out one of the biggest nodejs contributors, an individual who incidentally happened to be an employee of their biggest competitor."

Who was that?
For those that think real estate tech is wide open, here is a guide of 101 tech startups (and some established ones) I found in the Commercial real estate space...

I found these by browsing tags in angellist, crunchbase, and attendee and exhibitor lists of CRE tech conferences, etc...

None of this touches the internal tech many large brokerages build for their own workflows...

http://www.papershare.com/paper/101-technologies
Since PayPal won't accept donations from where I live (Japan), here is an alternative way of donating through the Calgary Computer Shop:

https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order

Having just donated I would like to say that the man pages are wonderful. I like them so much that I have a oman alias and made a quick (and dirty) script to fetch them.

https://github.com/ninjin/ppod/tree/master/hck/openbsd_manpa...

Try them out when coding C or when writing portable shell-scripts, they are a blessing. There is also the official web interface:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi
I've been doing this for years. If it's a compiled language, I prefer a compile error. It's easy and I might as well get SOME value for the compiler, as specious as it may be. If it isn't, I stick to a failing unit test that was asserting the last unit of work I was working on. Helps me get into the "zone" faster and I feel less anxious about getting started in the morning.
Does that mean if they seized foreign currency, it would also need to be auctioned off?
You mean those police auctions that advertise how cheap you can get cars?

Selling at the immediate price they can get in a very volatile vehicle is not 'handing them out at random'.
Would immediately — and significantly — improve my life.

Crossing my fingers very hard. Want this to be reality.
You've discovered a lot of Google X technologies because it is a deliberate strategy by Google to publicize these projects regardless if they will ever reach a commercial stage.

They are attempting to stay relevant and perceived to be an innovative company in the eyes of their various stakeholders (employees, potential employees, shareholders, tech press, the general public, regulators, etc.) while transitioning to today's Microsoft.
FWIW, different discussion. That was from the outgoing maintainer, this from the incoming one.
I never check it in in this state. Checkins are 100% working and passing all tests for me.
likely on the order of years

they have to prove that the monitoring it provides is accurate, measures what they think it does (I.e. no false positives or negatives), and doesn't v endanger the users lives (I.e. doesn't blind them I see the proposed led being an issue here since it can go off at night, and likely that it doesn't have a severe lag time that would reduce the likelihood of a life saving response because the user isn't checking blood sugar otherwise). I think all of these are definitely solvable issues so I would be surprised if it doesn't get anywhere. the specialized nature of the contact is likely not going to be an issue since the market is desperate for something better (every diabetic I know would switch to this in a blink). what I wonder is what the communication with the device is going to be like, smartphone would be nice but some of the smart watches I think would be better, and how is it powered too.
I understand the rationale, but I see a problem with this, and a better system.

The problem is that you might be juggling 30 things in your head while writing that code. When you come back tomorrow, you have to start remembering them all, and you're more likely to forget one of them, and spend time debugging later to fix the resulting lesser-quality code.

The better system (in my opinion) is to finish your code for the day, it will leave you feeling good and accomplished. But before you leave, write a to-do list for tomorrow's code, with detailed notes, while the code is still all fresh in your head. Then you can go home and not think about work, and truly relax, and know you'll get to the office tomorrow knowing exactly what you need to start with, and won't be forgetting anything important.

And I'm not sure the analogy with fiction writing is useful -- writer's can suffer from writer's block, so leaving a paragraph can help jump-start the creative part. I've never heard of programmers suffering from coder's block.
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This is great advice. I know it seems weirdly unrelated to your mood but it has helped me from the same sort of mood issues. Let us know if it helps=).
I think it's Enoch Root that really pushes it into sci-fi territory. He's also a major character in The Baroque Cycle, implying that he's several hundred (or more) years old.
Yes! Set the funding_sources parameter to "bank" or "bank,cc" depending on whether you'd like to give the customer a choice of payment methods.

https://www.wepay.com/developer/reference/checkout#create
Along the same lines,

Write a function that captures your TODO's, and set an urgency level. If the urgency is high, make it a fatal error (or whatever in your given language).

This is a great way to make TODOs much more functional and actionable.
That may have to do with their cancellation of the Vdio service. I was a beta tester of the service but received an email last month that it was being cancelled.
Or Scenario 1.1:

Buyer and Gov settle as a well below market price, possibly to rid of these e-tokens. Buyer then floods the market with cheap coins that are still a markup from what he bought them at. Market panics ($1000 vs $100), price of bitcoins drops.
I'll give it a shot.

The really painful part comes from wanting to do so much while being paralyzed. People have told me to get myself checked out, but I was in therapy for a while and it turns out I'm perfectly healthy - just anxious, and mildly neurotic.
Agreed. Rdio is heads and shoulders above Spotify in both interaction and visual design.
"Luxury housing" condos often get bought as an investment by someone outside the city rather than by someone within the city looking to move. They tap into demand from outside the city and fail to increase the housing supply and lower housing costs. New York has had a huge problem with foreign investment driving up housing costs [0], and according to realtors I've talked to, foreign investment is playing a large part in driving up SF prices too.

Increasing the housing stock is definitely the solution to out of control prices, but the type of housing built does need to be managed so real demand is met.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/nyregion/paying-top-dollar...
If SQL server supports UTF8, Microsoft manages to hide that fact well. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176089.aspx:

char [ ( n ) ]
Fixed-length, non-Unicode string data.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186939.aspx

Character data types that are either fixed-length, nchar, or variable-length, nvarchar, Unicode data and use the UNICODE UCS-2 character set.

So, (var)char is "non-Unicode", and n(var)char is UCS-2 only.

That is in agreement with http://blogs.msdn.com/b/qingsongyao/archive/2009/04/10/sql-s..., which claims the glass is half full ("In summary, SQL Server DOES support storing all Unicode characters; although it has its own limitation.")

On the other hand, we have http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143726.aspx that seems to state that SQL Server 2012 has proper unicode collations. UTF8 still is nowhere to be found, though.
Since the Supreme Court doesn't give advisory opinions, agencies always have to make educated guesses about whether the Supreme Court would find some course of action legal. E.g. The Supreme Court did not find the healthcare mandate legal until after attempts to implement it were challenged. In this case the NSA can very reasonably expect that the Supreme Court wold find metadata collection legal as a straightforward application of Smith v. Maryland.
I think conceptually that the hope is still the same.

If you leave your code in a broken state, it will take some practice, but the idea is that it will liberate you from having to try to carry the cognitive load, because you have a natural reminder.

Also, if you are juggling 30 things, you're likely not writing your code well as a principle; limiting your work in progress will allow your "breaking" to be limited to a specific function/algorithm/task/unit test (or whatever).
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Why research data about Apple sales is a bunch of bull
"Employed"?
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:) I think I understand your position, because I'm living it right now. I've found that at times like this, what helps is:

* Actually take a day off, don't pretend to be productive, actually walk away and don't feel guilty about it. Everyone needs a break.

* Get some perspective. Take two steps back, and remind yourself why you're doing what you're doing. Screw, 'becoming a success,' there's a bigger reason that you're making something. Tumblr has fan mail posted all over their fridge [http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/4f0e2ff7ecad04b0640... ] and, I've printed out and stuck up some positive facebook comments and emails from our users. It's a lot harder to procrastinate when you know that you have an audience.

* Start over something. There's mixed opinions on this, obviously you should try to get it mostly right the first time, and iterate rather than scrapping and restarting at a whim, but sometimes the invitation of a blank canvas can get you over the wall.

* Embrace your ritual. There could be something, some process that you use when you need to get started on something... As counter-productive as it seems, whenever I'm about to start a big project, I sit down for a night and clear my harddrive, and set up a fresh installation of my Linux distro... the act of 'cleaning out my workbench,' frees me up to start working again..

And finally, I'd point you at [ http://hellenroxx.com/fighting-cam-burnout/ ] which I found yesterday... it's slightly NSFW, but surprisingly relevant to our problem.

Good Luck,

Jean-Le
"n00bs"?
You seem like someone who knows something about markets and you accept that there are very few, if any, natural buyers of bitcoins, and that the price of bitcoin is largely driven by speculators. I'm just trying to understand how you think this thing doesn't end up at $0 some day in the not too distant future.
These architectural connections are fun. Another interesting St. Louis one: the guy who designed the World Trade Center towers also designed the most notorious public housing project in the U.S. [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe
Did you find a better job by just thinking?
How is this powered? are they generating electricity from the body somehow?
> ______ IBM Typewriter Ribbon (2) 8.15

wow. like teletype stuff?
Great. Now your are going to sign up with Google+ to blink.
The "we/you can just fork it" argument really doesn't work out. And when it's used by maintainers to justify something, it's a total cop-out.

The fact is that forking it will fragment the community, confuse users, slow down adoption, and generally have negative effects for years and years. Even if everyone eventually moves to the fork (best-case scenario!), the ecosystem will have lost tremendous amounts of momentum.
I'm not sure Google specifically needs to be doing something, but the tech community at large certainly could be. Hence the original author's question, I presume: why isn't the tech community doing something?

It seems like a reasonable question. Most tech companies are focused on products for healthy, wealthy people (wealthy enough to buy tech products, I mean. Which is far wealthier than the homeless people living on the street)

What's to stop tech companies creating systems or products that directly help people at the bottom of society? Nothing really. It's a hard problem but that's what the tech community likes to boast about solving.

I know those sorts of products aren't particularly appealing to most companies but they'd be a darn site better for society than facebook is
This was opened 11 months ago:

https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/268

But it appears it was updated just yesterday by someone with WP experience, so maybe it will be done soon? Would love to test it out.
A subpoena requesting documents relevant to an investigation is presumed reasonable under the 4th amendment. Generally, the government can compel you to turn over information relevant to an investigation of someone else. The subpoena power is very broad and also very old (predating the 4th amendment).

If the government hacked into Facebook's servers and took the data, that would be a violation of Facebook's 4th amendment rights, but it still wouldn't be a violation of yours.
Cars at auctions are typically pretty damn cheap. That happens because there is risk for the buyer when buying a car at auction.

If cars at police auctions were unnaturally cheap, everyone would be making a killing with arbitrage. (To be clear, many people do, but as more people get in on that, prices at police auctions go up... the balance that is struck gets you relatively close to the legitimate value of a car at a police auction).

Trust me, they love that money. They use it to buy fun new toys for themselves. That's when the property itself isn't their new toy: http://www.clumsycrooks.com/media/files18/pictures/drug_deal...
Ironic, huh?
He could have kept an encrypted copy of the wallet with a trusted friend, and given them the password when he was caught. The FBI would be powerless.
The secret is to stop thinking of what you have to do as being 'hard' or 'stressful' - and just start doing it. It sounds very simple, because it is.
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I'm not going to complain too much, RDIO is the only streaming service available to me in canada. I'm grateful to them just for existing, if they can't be free that's okay.
Ben Noordhuis: http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/12/03/bnoordhuis-departure/
Microsoft was working on similar technology 3 years ago [1]

It looks like Google poached MSFT's engineers to work on this -- Babak Parviz was working on this at Microsoft 3 years ago, and is now cofounder of the smart contact lens team at Google.

[1]: Functional Contact Lens Monitors Blood Sugar Without Needles (http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=150832)
I said expensive [AND] disposable parts, not OR.

I'm sure it will be expensive, but doubt it would need to be disposable: current CGMs rely on injecting a metal sensor into subcutaneous fat. After about a week your body starts to heal around it and the sensor becomes ineffective. Do to the nature of the application process, there is no way to re-inject a sensor once used. The sensors are on the order of $50 each, so $50/week.
Ben Noordhuis. See [1] for Joyent's opinion on the matter.

1 - http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun
You are absolutely correct on the price they get for them being dependent on how they are sold. The industry jargon for this is how you execute the buy or sell. One option is they could sell the bitcoins using a VWAP algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume-weighted_average_price

For all other asset classes VWAP execution is a thing and a common one at that. Basic idea is split your large order up into slices and sell small amounts during a given interval. Bitstamp & BTCE have 24 hour volume of ~18k bitcoins. As a fun aside, if you don't randomize your time slice someone like me will see what you're doing and move the market to screw you :).
I highly suspect that is the case. On-demand (picking specific songs) has significantly higher royalties than radio. turntable.fm's model of picking a bunch of songs to be played but playing them with a batch of other user's requests was an interesting way around that.

In this case, however, I don't see the reason for skipping the currently playing song. I'm assuming that they've already had to pay for the current play so they might as well let it play out before skipping to the cheaper rotation.
I would point out Qt as a very well and cleanly designed project that "won" as in it's one of the if not the top GUI frameworks out there.

http://qt-project.org/
Google ads target Canadians using personal health info
They could invest in a device, but making an app for a touch screen tablet would be a good first step and it would be more accessible. You could build in good security.
Okay, that's it. Next time I have to put my ethnicity on any paperwork.... I'm now a "Software American".

- I immigrated from Softwaria.

- Our flag is a bunch of 1s and 0s.

- Our national anthem ends with "return 0;".

- All of our city streets look like logic-gates from a bird's eye view. http://doc.union.edu/PL/ee_master_gate.jpg (yeah, I know... this is more on the side of hardware)

- Our homes & buildings square footage are always divisible by X where X = 2^N, where N represents all real numbers. (what was that symbol for all real numbers again?)
I call bs on this tests have a cost mantra. They may have value, i.e. be useful, and then it is ok to spent a few minutes fixing them if needed. But if fixing them is costlier than their expected value, then just skip them.

I see many reasoning for not writing tests everywhere and very few reasons are acceptable. In some cases in some non mockable languages it is really too hard, this reason is ok. The only other good reason to not write tests is "I don't want to."
Net neutrality basically says, these are the legally acceptable network protocols and architectures. It inevitably requires a specific technical definition of acceptable traffic patterns and network uses, either by Congress or by case law.

So much of what we think about neutrality is based on a hand-wavy assumption of natural monopolies, that our current lack of last-mile competition is inevitable. At different times, we thought the same of package delivery, voice calling, sending messages. The things that obviated them were not obvious, a la “faster horses”.

Thought about this way, neutrality legislation actually locks in the incumbents’ current arrangements instead of opening them to (so far unimagined) asymmetric competition.
About every hacker starts by doing too much. We work very hard to learn to think before doing, so if you want to know how it feels to do too much, just remember the times before you learned to think.
I'd suggest shipping something soon. Give yourself a deadline of a week or so to get something, anything out the door and in someone's hand. Any little feedback you get early on will be invaluable and validate/ realign your mission.

It doesn't even have to be all fancy and coded up. Any little thing would do once it demonstrates your idea.
Find a co-founder, he will encourage you and also help in "marketing, selling etc " which you think you are not good at.
Having had those periods, thankfully brief, it's all too easy to fall into the spiral of "Another hour/day/week wasted, why a sorry sack I am", while not yet feeling, "I need an intervention". Maybe you (or I, or anyone in a down mood) really do need outside help. But while you debate that, exercise is, for the most part, something you can control. And if you haven't exercised in awhile (which is for me, basically any given day)...you can also benefit from the phenomenon of "well, something is being done, so things must be changing for the better"* (even though you're the initiator of the change). Really, the most important thing is that it's something within your control.

* there's a name for this...it's related to some study where researchers kept repainting the walls of a factory and observed workers becoming happier, regardless of what the color was...
back when i did c and c++, i used #error for this, with a helpful note.
It's a super niche market, nobody I've met is into it.
The people that _were_ into it told me to make sales and contact them again.
The cost is $15 per month for one account, but you can add other accounts for free if you keep a min bal of $3k. And you can manage all accounts on one page of their website. It can be used by any business, including an HOA.
If you leave broken commits in the history, you'll make it very hard to use tools like "git bisect". You can "skip" broken commits, but that should be an occasional exception. It doesn't matter if that was on a personal branch either, because once you merge it's all part of the same graph of commits.

I have no problem with broken commits locally, but I don't want to see those in a public tree. Merge or rebase with squashing, please.
I think it's still available, just not advertised on the main page. When editing my subscription, the $4.99/month option was still there.
NASA now seeking proposals for commercial robotic lunar lander capabilities.
Continuous glucose monitors have been around for a while. I'm not sure who this would help.

The fundamental problem is that glucose levels in non-blood fluids do not exactly match blood glucose. The current monitor solutions use interstitial fluid in the skin. They still require the user to test themselves several times a day and recalibrate the monitor based on blood glucose, and they can't alert the user if their blood sugar is low until it's already a serious situation. They also frequently give false positives.

This is a new (but very clever!) way to do something that has been around for a while, not a revolution, unless tears track blood glucose much closer than interstitial fluid does. Simply based on first principles, that seems unlikely.

And there are basic hygiene problems wearing contacts while you're asleep, which is when monitoring would be most useful. If google has the technology to make contact lenses that you can wear 24*7 without getting ulcerative keratitis, that's more revolutionary than another way to monitor blood sugar.
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When will YClist be updated again?
Good question. Maybe from body heat. A polymer thermoelectric converter seems like it could be a good candidate.
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You have a point about not leaving with the big fragile stack inside your head. But see my example's TODO - it's really leaving after I've just resolved a lot of tension by solving a big problem and now I'm able to restart with more of a low-level grinding task. So I guess there's really more to it than just leaving the code in broken state. I mean it's broken in that you've deliberately created a syntax error, but the next step can still be very straightforward. Sort of like a broken test, which others have mentioned is a good variant of this practice.