skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's been my experience with MacPorts, which does have some binary packages, but much lower coverage than a distribution like Debian, so fallback building from source is common. It can be really annoying when you just want to install some utility and it takes literally 3 or 4 hours to install, because somewhere in the dependency or build-dependency chain is some big and slow-to-compile thing like GTK, X.org, or a newer GCC.
then what's the point of politicians?
Selling a valuable domain name - fanbeat.com
Hey all,

I'm finally getting around to selling a domain name that I no longer have use for. The domain is fanbeat.com. (It's currently just set to forward to another website.) I also own the @fanbeat Twitter handle and am including it with the domain.

I know this isn't a marketplace and I don't mean to disrupt the sanctity of HN, but I thought I should post it here since it's such a great name for a startup and good domains are so difficult to come by these days.

If you're interested in purchasing it, please send an email to FanbeatDomain@gmail.com with an offer.

Thanks and hope everyone's having a good start to the new year.
Wait till US elects the next president, likely a republican.
> It's a bit like jumping out of the bed before the brain realizes what you're doing and has no time to scream "I don't want to wake up!" :)

Here's a good technique for training yoũrself to get up in the morning:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right...

It's the same technique that you suggested: train yourself to get up as more of a reflex of hearing the alarm, not as a series of mental motivations and self-persuasions.
Obama = Change. Change = same shit, different day.

Obama has basically said that he knew about all of this, and he was ok with everything the government was doing. However, now that it's all public knowledge, he thinks that we need changes. Have some testicular fortitude, Mr. President. Either you are ok with what NSA does, or you are not. Don't make a speech where you tell me that you were cool with what NSA was doing all the way up to the point when it became public knowledge. And don't tell me in one sentence that this is an important public debate, and in another condemn the man who brought about this debate, Mr. Snowden.

Obama promised change, but Snowden just might actually deliver on that promise.
Are there any specifics on how the underlying Spark platform handles security? On their product page it says that Spark Cloud "creates a secure environment without forcing your web browser and the Core to speak the same language, which would be taxing on a low-power, low-cost microcontroller." Which isn't reassuring.

They don't provide any specifics in the docs either, only this:

"Security is hard. It’s especially hard on an embedded system, because encryption is resource intensive. But it’s also important, because you don’t want anyone turning on and off your lights, or worse, locking and unlocking your front doors.We hand-picked a set of rock-solid security protocols that are secure and efficient, so they work great on an embedded system. They’re baked into the Spark Protocol, which is open source and ready to be extended to other products."

I get that encryption may be difficult on embedded systems, but I would also argue that if a small embedded system can't handle strong encryption then it's not ready to connect devices to the web. I can't find any links to source code - anyone know what sort of encryption they use?
> Most link farms do not have incoming links from highly ranked sites

That's a good point I didn't consider.
>NSLs remain nearly untouched.

this is the single most dangerous thing about current law enforcement. NSLs completely subvert any recourse to the judiciary without immense risk to yourself. Luckily most judges seem to agree on the ridiculousness of NSLs , and are trying to whittle down the power they have.
Voted for change. Obama is the one who changed.
In order to make homepage, the post should have a catchy title, and be relevant to audience. I checked your Show HN posts. The Seattle film festival one is probably not very relevant, if it doesn't get ~10 upvotes in the first ~1.5hr, it will be gone. Wifi-dynamo-thermometer looks better, just a better title would do :)
The negative side of no-manager companies
> "If in fact he believes that what he did was right, then, like every American citizen, he can come here, appear before the court with a lawyer and make his case."

What you see here is Obama conflating (intentionally, of course) the notion of "right" and "legal".

Snowden thinks what he did was right. He does not believe that will save him in a court room, which in theory determines legality. That is why he fled the country; not because he does not really believe that what he did was right.
I suggest looking for local hackathons or even better, startup weekends near you.

http://startupweekend.org/

Startup Weekend is a great way to meet connections while helping them build a fun project for the weekend. Show them you are a badass talent. You'll get noticed.
500 points.
Too damn true, this. Always come in when you're too busy as well. :\
Cryptocurrencies are a good investment?
The market is highly volatile, there is no one assuring that in the next few years someone will still accept *coin, however mining company exists (e.g.: cryptory.com). Should we still continue to hidden money under own mattress?
To lie to the populous in a way that prevents revolution while consolidating the true power in as few hands as possible.
Use mb_strlen and mb_strpos instead where the string may contain multibyte characters.
Ever since the first time I've read that, I've wanted newspapers to do that. Then when I learned about diffs and similar styles, I've wanted it to be done with strikethroughs or red -- and ++ marking up the actual speech's text.
The best tip I can give anybody about mastering a language is "read other's code", pick some good project or author in github (use the search engine there) and read every line, try to understand the "character" of the language, how is constructed and organized, instead of the looking too much at the tokens (identifiers, statements, etc).
'42Coin' Is Less Than Two Weeks Old And One Coin Is Worth More Than A Bitcoin
To hire good devs in the Bay Area, particularly mobile, you'll easily start approaching $150k/yr. in salary. Couple in employment taxes, benefits, etc. and you are easily in that neighborhood
... which are especially ironic, considering Path's marketing as a trusted private network for just your close family and friends.
And if the customer is too busy to visit the physical store, or just doesn't feel like it, Amazon could put the pictures of all of the products they have on a web site, and simply mail the customers their selections.
As I understand it, that would leave open the possibility of charges being brought against him again in the future, provided it never got beyond the "charges" stage.
It definitely was NOT the worst of the breed. I had a couple of different pre-ipod mp3 players, including the original 32MB Rio, and the iPod was excellent. The major thing was the cool design, simple use, and their huge storage capability at the time. The thing that sucked was always iTunes, and the price. Everything else about it was fantastic, including the sound quality.

Yes, their marketing was brilliant, but it won't cause people to buy things they don't want in perpetuity. Eventually, even the most brilliantly marketed product will fail if customers don't want it.
thanks for the heads up. fixed.
It's interesting to me that this is exactly the person that the Republicans didn't want to see elected in 2008 (In 2012 I think they wanted him to win, because Romney never had a chance).

That so many young people who idealistically embraced him can't stand him now doesn't mean he changed, just that they woke up to who he really was all along.

Seriously, no surprises here. If you believed the impossible promises he made on the 2008 campaign trail, I'm sorry, but you were warned.

(Incidentally I intend to pay a lot of attention to the negative reporting done on candidates I support in the future, because it represents a worst-case scenario if the pundits actually turn out to be right)
I only have starting problems. Right now my starting problem is the laundry. I abandon a lot of stuff, but only because I've built enough of it to see the flaws. I don't see that as a problem. It looks like a problem if you predicate the goal on external societal factors like "get attention/money," because a thing has to be finished (to some degree) to be part of society. But we already know that the external stuff is a poor motivator.

So stop beating yourself up about finishing. Play in society and worry about things when you feel it's necessary, but if it's your private, creative work, that is the time to be bold and selfish. Don't try to fit in for the sake of it, do things because you want them. You shouldn't care about "finished", because you should be engrossed in the act of creation.
Sure, on the "different people want different things" comments. But I can hire a house cleaner if I want one. Everything in that list was, in one way or another, compensation for the fact that you are not home. I don't really buy that that is a coincidence. OTOH, I think the comments here are right on the money. Give me a great work environment (whether that is great desks, flexible time, or whatever), and I'll give you everything I have for 40 hours. Only a company can give me that - I can buy my own food, select my own cleaning service, and so on.

I'm not quite as against the list as my kind of snarky comment implied. I'd kill for a driver, but that is because I live a long distance from the Mountain View office where I work, and I hate driving, and the 2hrs/day this eats. But instead, today I am working from home, and that works, too.
Thanks for the heads up with the site not working in Safari. Pesky undefined less var went undetected by both grunt and codekit. Fixed. Thanks again.
Ugh. First, the title of this article is wrong because in the article itself the author says it IS -1/12, just not the way the video proved it.

And, yes, I know in math that HOW you get the answer is somehow seen as being more important than the answer itself, but really? You consider this attention damaging? This is like the people who complain about Mythbusters because it's not "real science".

Look, anything that gets people more interested in math is great, especially when it's a video as harmless as this one (it's not as if this video could actually impact someone's life or well-being).

So drop this "I was the cool form of uncool before uncool became a thing" attitude and just be happy that people are interested in math for a change.
This is an excellent post.
That's what you would think, but somehow people always end up thinking the next one will be different.

I find it particularly unsettling when people off the street justify Obama in their own words.

They've truly been brainwashed--no other way to put it. Scary.
To make more money? That seems like an obvious answer. They don't need a patent to start doing it, they are probably already going to do it.
Nintendo Mulls New Business Model After Forecasting Loss
I'm sorry, was someone under the impression that Yale or any other institutions of higher education are progressive, cutting-edge institutions employing best practices in IT or cost management?

These are reactive, hidebound institutions that have been able to go for at least a century without transformative reforms.

They're rather overdue for it.
offtopic but: http://www.phptherightway.com/
The poor don't work because they are economically rational - redux
Has the relationship between the government and the press really changed that much? The pentagon papers happened before, and the gov't didn't much like that.

Civil rights have definitely gotten worse in the past 15 years, but I'd say they're still better than before 1978 (when FISA was written). Before things like the FISA, the executive was pretty free to do almost anything (and did, see Hoover). As a long term trend, civil rights have been increasing, not decreasing. We've made mistakes that we need to roll back, but acting like this is the fall of the United States as we know it is pretty myopic (people have been predicting the fall of the United State since the 1800s), and not putting much faith into our institutions (which aren't the worst).
Right. Much better to send the message that even if the disclosure proves warranted, even if we end up agreeing that reforms are needed, even if it's clear that the 'appropriate channels' are broken, if you disclose we'll hound and pursue you to the ends of the earth.

/sarcasm

Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers led to charges, that were later dropped, and we didn't see some huge number of whistleblowers.

So I assert your claim is a poor one. History has not shown that granting a pardon to a whistleblower has led to inappropriate leaking, and the chilling effect of not doing it when appropriate (or deciding it's not appropriate when it clearly was, such as now), is not worth the trade off.
> it's basically carte blanch permission for people in the government to start leaking privileged information.

No, a pardon received by one person is not a promise of pardons to anyone else. A pardon is an exception, not a rule.
Any language with module support has fast compile times.

Turbo Pascal 5.5 was compiling 34,000 lines/minute in 1989 in MS-DOS systems!

http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803

Compared with module based languages, C and C++ toolchains have been always slower.
Or next door...
Yes, the infamous 2007 speech that has come back to haunt him. Every politician has a speech like that, but this one is a real whopper, up there with "You can keep your plan".

First rule of politics: never make a promise you can't keep.
Second rule of politics: never keep a promise you don't have to.
Startup's eBay app auction ends, receives 0 bids
Complete nonsense.

Negative and positive rights (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights) are a critical part of Libertarianism.

Negative rights are permissions not to do things,
or entitlements to be left alone. Often the distinction
is invoked by libertarians who think of a negative right
as an entitlement to "non-interference" such as a
right against being assaulted.

Rights considered negative rights may include civil and
political rights such as freedom of speech, private property,
freedom from violent crime, freedom of worship, habeas corpus,
a fair trial, and freedom from slavery.

GPL give the user a right to not get legally or technically assaulted for using, modifying and sharing a computer program regardless of which future version it is. To do "whatever you want" infringe on others peoples liberty to be left alone. Freedom from slavery is not the opposite to Libertarianism, nor is any other of similar negative rights.
Terry Tao on how to compute non-converging infinite sums (2010)
Not at all, since 99.999% of homes have at least one light switch per room, and probably 80% of homes have only one thermostat.
Seconded. This is already possible.
From 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7032153
No, the title is right. The sum is not -1/12, there is no sum because it diverges. The Ramanujan summation is not the real summation, its a way to assign a sum to divergent series which can be useful in some cases.
I hope that a good question makes you happy. I don’t know the details of the Ramanujan summation and don’t want to dig too deep in the subject now.

What is the Ramanujan summation of S_3 = 1+1+1+ ... ? (With a liberal interpretation of the Wikipedia article, I think it’s 0.)

Where is the fault in 0 = S_3-S_3 = S_3-shift(S_3)=1+0+0+0+...=1 ?

Is the shift a legal operation? When?
jlees,

Definitely they are hit and miss; but I have found that to be true in all forms of networking. This should certainly not be your only avenue for networking.

I take multiple approaches to networking. Meetups, events, conferences, calling/emailing people I already know, cold emailing companies directly if I know they use a technology I specialize in. I also wear T-shirts almost constantly that are simple and state the nature of my business and a phone number to reach me at.
Dropbox raises about $250 million at $10 billion valuation
Because making a successful living heading a $10-20 million company that took 5-10 years to build isn't the lottery ticket we've all been sold on.
The Nest's ring is metal (brushed aluminum?).
> Step 1: Let S1 = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...

Because it's not so clearly stated in the article, step 1 is already flawed.

> the algebraic rules that apply to regular numbers do not apply to non-converging infinite sums

I'm sure the author knows this but they don't even apply to all converging infinite sums. (Only absolutely converging ones.) E.g. 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 ... converges to a value, but you can also re-arrange the terms to get any value you want.
Total tangent, but this really jumped out at me:

> The secrecy that’s so deeply embedded in the organization facilitates their distribution strategy- can you imagine building your company culture around your marketing strategy? That’s what Apple’s done, though it’s not often talked about.

I've never thought about Apple that way at all. To me Apple was always about the product first, and the secrecy and marketing was built around that. They don't announce a product until it's ready to ship because it's stupid to talk about something that's not finished yet (unless you're Microsoft and you need to do it to keep your long-term enterprise customers on the hook). Jobs greatest strength may arguably have been as a pitchman, but wasn't his greatest passion the product itself? At the very least, Apple could not hire a retain the level of technical talent they have had based on being marketing first.
Seems like he's set up quite a strawman of his opponents. He's made some very complicated and unfounded assumptions about people who criticize the language he likes.
Ben Horowitz: The Hard Thing About Hard Things [book]
I dunno, the Nest's ring is aluminum which is almost certainly machined from large stock.
Why anyone would willingly install this kind of surveillance software is beyond me.
Dropbox (YCS07) Raises About $250 Million at $10 Billion Valuation
Notice that this article is from November at the time of the shutdown, and Everpix has released a lot more data now.

https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence
I'm not a FB fan, nor have I developed Notes apps in a good 8+ years, but Facebook might be like notes in another way: Both seem to do what they do, in their time, better than anything else out there.

When I saw Notes being mentioned, flashbacks of LotusScript, NotesSQL and came, especially it's non-relational DB (nosql a decade earlier than the rage it became later).

Notes incredibly clunky mail and document system did a few things well before anything else -- great two way replication of data for online and offline work. Domino took Notes apps and rendered them for the web, allowing complex web apps to be built in a time where there was little like it.

I didn't hesitate to leave Notes, but it wasn't for lack of respect, it was just one of the half dozen or so stacks I worked in at the time. Every line of code we write will be crap in 5 years. Every stack we use will be crap in 5 years. Everything's new, but everything's the same too.
Forgive me, but I really don't understand your point. Do you think they believe it?

This is proper geek fun with serious points underneath and a good smattering of why it's actually valid to consider these things. This isn't established people with proper reputations setting out to con the unsuspecting public. There is solid math going on here. See Terry Tao's recent blog post[0] about why we can and should play with these things.

And now it's late here and I'm going off-line for a while. As I said elsewhere, I need to detach for a bit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7078744

Added in edit: Just checking before signing off for the night and I see that the submission of Terry Tao's blog entry on this topic has been killed. By mods, flags, whatever, I don't know. here's the link[1] if you're interested, and this is me, signing off.

[1] http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclaurin...
I would love to see them donated to the Dojo!
I don't think history can help us here, as 1960/1970 was a fundamentally different time than now. It's infinitely easier to proliferate information to the population, and there are no barriers to doing so now, whereas the newspapers were gatekeepers of public dissemination when Ellsberg did what he did.
The current messaging on the Spark.io website is that you can do everything locally.

From the "Common questions" section at the bottom of https://www.spark.io/:

If you want the simplicity of the Cloud but you want it on your own server, we'll be releasing an open source version of the Cloud designed for quick and easy deployment.

(They also don't seem to restrict the device very much)
Not just that, Poettering has said that he believes the only platform worth targeting is Linux.
s/heard of the Silicon Vally/heart of Silicon Valley/ in your profile. Sounds like you're doing something right there, good luck.
I had a similar issue, typed in my zip code (32773) and it listed Summit Broadband with a 100mbps fiber connection. Looked at their site, they're close by (a couple cities over), but not in my area. Couldn't find anywhere to report the issue.
I agree completely ... and I never said I voted for him but rather that the "corporate we" elected him. On the other hand, I AM a bit surprised that so few of his 2008 promises were even attempted, and that more people didn't revolt over his lack of commitment in 2012. People may not have recognized the impossible promises, but they would have expected an attempt at enacting those policies.
Homes with electric heat have many more thermostats, which probably isn't as uncommon as you think. But still, $20 -> $250 is quite the spread.
Why did why the lucky stiff quit? (2013)
> where the Rails serves solely as a RESTful API

Honestly I can't imagine not doing that, why wouldn't you? I'm not trolling, making the backend RESTful and interacting with it only via REST calls is a great way to separate your data from your user interface. You can base mobile on this, web, or even legacy applications and reuse your backend service. So if you didn't do that, what model did you follow?

I'll admit, I've flagged this post to read the article later, so if it's addressed in the article, I can read it there.
I seem to recall there was a recent election where this could have been corrected. If you vote for the lesser of two evils its not like your going to benefit.

Until no politician/President can guarantee himself a second term will they ever feel accountable to the public.

Yet the one thing they will count on is the ability to play on voters irrational fears/views of the other guy.
Because it's peer reviewed science and has the data, as opposed to opinions in an interview.
It would be nice to see the browser versions supported by all these projects in one place... this simplifies the process of elimination for those who have to support older browsers.
Dropbox Closes $250M round, $10B Valuation
I don't know, I always found the perl and zsh man pages to be rather pleasant. They were sprawling, sure, but having long ago given up on brevity, they have no fear of meticulously describing how a feature or flag works. And they're just man pages, so you don't need to read the manual-for-the-manual first like I always find myself doing when I'm forced to use info.
People will still think they're going to get pardoned, even if you're right and it's just "an exception".
And yet both had their legions of die-hard supporters who acted like said president could do no wrong. What's that say about the people they governed?

There's just really no way that future textbooks will have anything good to say about this era of American politics. (Unless they're biased or propaganda.)