skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my city (Leipzig), all apartments have these. All the last names are listed on doorbells, and you have a phone in your flat, from which you can unlock the apartment building's front door without coming down.

So, in total, your name is three places in the apartment: at the entrance next to a doorbell (which effectively "calls" your flat), on your mailbox, and above the actual doorbell near your flat's front door.
The "translateZ: 0" description is a bit misleading -- I wish he'd provided numbers for the improvement. In general using composited layers is more expensive (since the CPU still does rendering of the image, must upload it to texture, etc).

It might be a win if the thing you apply it to:

1. Never changes, but the content around it changes often.

2. Is hard to render (lots of shadows, etc).

The layout and paint thrashing is a really good optimization though. You should be able to insert as many things into the DOM as you like without triggering a layout SO long as you don't read back (like consulting offsetLeft). I think the Chrome inspector will mark read backs with a little exclamation point in the timeline with a tooltip "synchronous layout forced" and a backtrace to your JS...
I have an Android app that's use to find local bus times for my area. It makes around 150$ per month after optimizing AbMob ads. It generated around 50$ per month at first.
"McKinlay had popped up in her search for 6-foot guys with blue eyes", I'm completely out of touch with dating but is it normal or accepted nowadays to search for narrow physical attributes? to me this is an example of shallowness.
Fair enough; I respect your desire and right to do so. I don't think it's for everyone, though, so I asked why you wanted to encourage everyone to do it. Thanks for answering my question.

I, personally, believe that I'm statistically likely to make a situation worse or possibly hurt myself if I own a handgun. So I choose not to have one. I might choose differently at a later date, depending on where I live.
Bodging up old crap is part of the industry. We now use HTTP mostly for asynchronous RPC, TCP streams for reliable datagram protocols that suffer from head-of-line blocking as a result, and a scripting language thrown together for basic form validation as the focus of intense JIT development and back-end work. Oh, and let's not forget NAT and bodging HTTP/2 (which fixes HOL blocking) to, likely, only exist over TLS on TCP port 443.

Facebook were forced down the road of supporting PHP because, just like everyone else everywhere else, they found it is several orders of magnitude more expensive to bring good features and lessons learned to a completely new language, stack or framework.

Its kind of awful that new projects will see this as a new lease of life for PHP, rather than life support, but that's just inevitable. I guess it's both.
Change Collective-The Next Big Thing in Boston's Health/Wellness Ecosystem
Which suggests that it would be in Google's interest to start fostering some competition.

Hrm....

They've been playing with that in the fiber-to-home space. But running cable is expensive.

I'm familiar with some wireless Internet providers in a few markets. The cool thing is that they can poach high-value, high-concentration subscribers first. Since the model is based on transmitters, typically rooftop installations, and the like, if they can hop onto a building, run Cat-6 throughout, and plug it in, they've got the whole building, plus can run local connections throughout the neighborhood, and beam line-of-site to other tall points. It's a pretty cool gig.

Thinking maybe you set that up in a few major markets as a competition play.
Oh, the whole page is a flash video and I have no idea what this might be or why it would be worth my time to allow flash block to play it?

...Back
Hi, does the JSON offer a straight global average (rather than individually by market) and then ideally a USD conversion from bitcoinaverage (that site is open-sourced if you didn't know - but integrations need to built per exchange.) You may want to open this one too.
> Don't forget one of the most striking differences between free software vs open source software is the promotion of a community of people who add to the public knowledge of software engineering, not merely to make better software artifacts.

Even if that is a real ideological division between the two, pragmatically I think that the permissive licenses that the FSF argues are less than ideal have done more after the initial demonstration of the value of F/OSS to promote a community of people who add to the public knowledge of software engineering than have copyleft licenses.

I think the divide over licensing approaches is as much over differing views of effective tactics and the real conditions in the environment as it is about differing views of values and strategic goals, and that permissive vs. copyleft is the real current divide more than free software vs. open source, and that, over time, the permissive side is gaining ground for reasons that have nothing to do with the main cited ideological differences between the open source and free software camps.
Show HN: Donut slider UI component (with D3.js & Dragdealer.js)
A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names
I didn't this happened elsewhere. Here in France it's a huge problem, providers even talk about youtube in their ads to get people's attention. Free is the most famous case in France because they constantly refuse to do their jobs thinking that it's google's job to do (I don't know who's right but I left them because of their problem with youtube). Few months ago (or was it a year?) they upgraded their modem to block Google advertisement by default. A pretty bold move.
From my point of view MDM is more and more getting legacy and most corporations have already chosen a MDM platform, MobileIron has to hurry to find a vendor who is late to this market - like Microsoft maybe?
The about page doesn’t show anything either.
They're proposing essentially that: start at the 24th slide http://www.slideshare.net/zerutreck/taking-php-seriously-kei...

The smart part is that it's opt-in so you could gradually migrate a large project in-place. The only question would be whether they've broken compatibility with standard PHP or if it's simply stricter — it'd be really easy to get major projects to switch if it was like JavaScript's "use strict" where you can develop in strict mode but run on a legacy runtime.
Ask HN: Bringing in a finance guy CFO
My cofounder is the business end of our startup. I'm the tech. He's been talking to his professors in college and one suggested we get bring in a finance guy. My question is, at what company size is a CFO justified?
And what benefits, what can such a person do, that we can't do for ourselves?

I think it's way too early for us to be worrying about this.
There will be no "oh shit" moment, Matthew.
This looks pretty cool, I'm a happy Pinboard user but my bookmarks toolbar is still full of stuff I want to check later on but don't want clutter up my Pinboard with. I was able to sign up and install the Chrome extension, but clicking the extension's button on my toolbar does nothing. No login dialog or anything, nothing at all happens. Then I tried to see if I could play with the web interface, but there's no link to login on the home page. So I went to the signup page, guessed the login URL from there, and was finally able to log in. The interface is nice, if a little finicky. Deleting items and collections is not intuitive, overriding right-click in a web app is awkward. There's also no hover indicator when you're dragging a link onto a collection, so if you miss somehow Chrome redirects the tab to the URL you just dropped onto the page. These problems aside, I like the idea behind it and I hope you keep plugging away at it.
Looks like an upround to me, but the question is what the liquidation preference was, and whether there was any money leftover for the common (I.E. employees)
Learning From Churn: Getting Feedback When Customers Leave
Fair enough, but for me, I've generally used a quick peek at CNN and a relatively large newspaper site as my "Is there some major world event happening right now" filter. Clearly, I was mistaken. Switching to the international edition of CNN seems to be a reasonable start.
Yeah a simple house like that is easily 800k here, compare that to other places were you can purchase a similar house for 100k yeah housing prices are crazy here. 2k/mo for a 1BR 3k/mo for a 2BR.
And yet there is no real reason why render time should scale at all with content hidden below the fold, and I suspect that one second of lag is considerably higher on ARM. To go somewhat off topic, on native platforms there is much more fine-grained control of when things get rendered, without hacks, and taking advantage of parallelism is easier. When will we have a stack (with a WebGL backend or something) that replaces the browser's rendering from the ground up and achieves better efficiency?
Anybody else see "Results from your location are not yet available." when you hover over "Your Results"?
I can totally see this helping me with my 2,618 bookmarks and currently 313 open tabs....
Monopoly is defined by market share or market power. In the strict sense, it means "single provider", but a sufficiently large company can exercise an effective monopoly.

Having a monopoly is not of itself illegal. Using it in certain ways is.

Google are effectively a monopoly in search space. They're a massive presence in online advertising and video, as well as email.
Yes correct it's a loop fr Ipswich to BT tower and back.
The worker isn't forced into anything. They can choose the job or not. Further, they're available for other tasks in the 2 hour window. Write a book, advance their careers, invent something. If they take the 2 hours and spend 30 minutes each way going home and 1 hour on Xbox, then they're going to lose out because they didnt make use of the 2 hours.

BTW: I had split shifts before when I was a teenager, and I didnt like it. I told my employer and they greatly limited the number of them we had. We also had "Call" shifts, where you had to be ready to work, and call in an hour ahead of time and see if you were working or not... Made it so you couldnt book any hard plans for that whole shift, but 95% of the time you didnt work it anyways. Overall it was a good job, traded my teen years for subway and clothes (spent all my paychecks like any teen would :P )
Anybody knows why recently Youtube re-buffers every video when I hit replay? It might make sense for long videos but for relative short videos (music videos and the like), it's really frustrating.
I think some in the US might laugh at "prick" by itself but "thumb prick" would be fine.
OP Here - this is the first of a few posts where we share some twists and turns in our story (particularly around our failures, losing customers, botching product launches and the like). Hope it helps and if you have any questions direct them to me (ayo @ hipmob).
Neat idea. Couple of comments:
1) Maybe include some text to go with the video on the landing page.
2) The name made me think of a glucometer, not bookmarks. JS.
Rural has a very different meaning in the UK than in the US. Anywhere in the UK that is actually rural would be described as isolated.

We're not talking about small villages nestled in the Welsh hillsides hundres of miles from the nearest city. We're talking about towns of tens of thousands of people, close to major cities, close to major rail and road networks.

It'd be really nice if the UK had strategic plans to increase the amount of fibre in the ground. People building new housing estates or roads or etc should be strongly encouraged to install fibre optic cabling, and more than is needed.
Yes; what's the point? Nobody's making you use Xcode (I don't), and nobody's stopping you using the Clang/LLVM features like static analysis outside of Xcode. If you want, you're free to call clang's static analysis from GNUstep's Xcode clone¹ (assuming GNUstep's license allows that; LLVM's certainly does), or any other IDE or editor.

¹https://github.com/gnustep/gnustep-xcode
> To the FSF, "free" is just a shorthand way of saying "Free Software Foundation-licensed".

Not entirely true; the FSF recognizes lots of other licenses as "free".

Its true that the FSF thinks that its licenses are the most appropriate for promoting software freedom.

I think they're wrong: if you can convince people that Free Software has value, you don't need a copyleft license forcing them to give back, and if you can't convince them of that, a copyleft license doesn't help you get them to create free software, it just prevents them from engaging with it at all, gets them to commit to an alternative, and makes them less likely to to commit back even if they later realize a value in Free (since if they commit to a non-Free third-party alternative, the cost of switching it out is higher.)
It factors into the length of the breakeven (on the hardware investment) period, which can be a big deal. Not just because return is slower, but also because in a market as volatile as Bitcoin, who knows if a projected 6-month breakeven period will ever actually break even? Breaking even sooner dramatically reduces capital investment risk.

(A low price-to-performance ratio, or conversely a high performance-to-price ratio, will mean a shorter breakeven period)
Your argument suggests a certain naïveté, or else a desire to claim there is no subtext whatsoever in organizing a mob to serve as the medium of the "communication" to which you refer.

Whatever the overt message, and especially when the purported message is as confused and vaguely threatening as in this case, in the act of arranging that someone should awaken, to find a crowd surrounding his house and shouting imprecations, there cannot but be a subtextual implication which amounts to "And you'd better listen to us, or else!"

Of course, I'm sure that, finding yourself in the position poor Levandowski did, your first instinct would be to argue semantics with the mob! What more reasonable response, after all, could there possibly be? And what more reasonable creature, than a shouting mob, with which to carry on such a discussion?
“And just to get this out of the way, we’re in no danger from this explosion. It’s far too far away.”

Also, it happened 12 million years ago, so I think we are pretty safe.
What makes you think that only 2 of the exits will succeed? Or that the projects slated for $50M won't turn out to be worth $500M when new approaches or uses for the work are discovered?

There are too many hidden variables and no one knows what they are doing. I don't.
Interesting timing giving the Docker funding news.
Stevens' whole quote:

"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.

And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

This doesn't strike me as someone who knows what they're talking about.
What does the Y axis mean on these graphs?
I would love a guaranteed speed and contention, even if that is much slower than theoretical max speed.
Build-your-own-Dropbox service AeroFS releases iOS app for private clouds
OK. So, if your aim is to be moral then why not have your advertisers include a note that they've been paid for their endorsement? Surely it's because you aim to deceive the viewer that the endorsement is organic rather than motivated by your client/employer - is that moral?
Algolia gets backed by Y Combinator
(Per above comment, I work at the VC that invested in Airwatch): Because Insight is a growth stage VC deploying a significant amount of capital with each investment (in AirWatch's case, it was 200M), it's aiming for virtually all hits (unlike an earlier stage VC that's aiming for 1 out of 10 of their portfolio co's to succeed wildly)-- which it almost always succeeds in achieving. This also means that it gets lower returns on its funds relative to an earlier stage VC. Given the growth stage focus, that's to be expected and its LPs prefer the reliable (and relatively substantial) upside given the fund sizes. AKA Insight's not dealing with 55%-100% losses on other investments.
By their messed-up logic (I can't tell whether this is parody or not), their use of jQuery on their website would put them among the military-industrial-surveillance supporters since they are lending their implicit backing to a project/library that the NSA uses on their website.
RIP Productivity, Thou shalt be missed.
Introducing Comsat and the Parallel Universe Stack
I've been using SeatGeek for my ticket searching for years now, glad to see they are still rolling out innovative new features like this. Their web app really puts all other ticketing sites to shame (I'm talking to you StubHub and Ticketmaster).
How is this an argument? If I shoot a bullet from a very distant planet and it will reach Earth after 12M years, will you be safe if it came directly towards you?
I assumed it had something to do with diabetes -- an online glucose tracker, for example. The fact that it was invite-only made me think "oh, they're trying to create a community for diabetics."

It looks good, though. I'll check it out shortly.
Pull request delayed, we have a revolution going on
Yeah sorry about that, it is a little buggy! After installing, just go to google, then click on the icon in your browser bar and it should work.
Intel seems stuck at 2P and HT still has massively lower latency but 80 GByte/s worth of PCIe lanes is huge. As big as main-memory throughput huge! Hence DDIO, which you reference, which allows IO to write to cache and skip the historic data-path it used to take through main memory. AFAIK AMD doesn't have anything equivalent. And they only have 16 lanes on chip: the rest come out of io-hubs.

I'd love to see someone actually try and use all that Intel PCIe IO and report on how utilized those pipes can get. Perhaps someone wants to send the PacketShader people a box loaded with GPUs? That'd be great, thanks!

http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/
Founder salaries: Younger entrepreneurs earn less
Online Educational Resources to Learn to Build Web Sites
1) People broadly tend to perceive it as "unfair."

2) It tends to hurt American companies, who have a competitive advantage in design, which is easily copied, and help Korean/Taiwanese/Chinese companies, who have a competitive advantage in manufacturing, which is not easily copied. Apple versus Samsung is of course the paradigmatic example of this.

3) It tends to lead to commoditization of markets which I don't think is particularly good for innovation. When you can't compete on design, because someone else can easily copy it, the industry just becomes a race to become the biggest/most outsourced/most vertically integrated. And once that vertically integrated leviathan emerges, it is unassailable. It can destroy everyone on price and also copy any competitive design that gets traction with consumers. Samsung in the Android space is the paradigmatic example of that.

I probably have an atypical, at least among HN-ers, view of the cell phone industry. I view Apple as the underdog, fighting to keep the industry from turning into something like the PC industry, where innovation is more or less dead because everyone is too busy fighting for the thin scraps of profit that are available.
Crude fuzzing can be done on the command line using dd.

The command "dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1000 count=1" will spit out 1 KB of psuedorandom data you can pipe, POST or otherwise send to your application. (GNU's implementation lets you use "1K" as well.)
We currently work with Distributors. I was referring to the manufacturers themselves, like buying directly from Seagate/WD. We currently work with a few different distributors to get different types of drives.
In many cases, PHP very definitely being one of them, what we ended up with wasn't invented at all: it grew organically for a while from something much smaller (or sometimes even something quite different). People use it because it is good enough and additions keep being made with little call for standards until you have a huge pile of stuff that many people are relying on. At this point a proper redesign from the ground up is impractical, you have to make step changes, so fixing the mess takes a long time.

PHP was not initially intended to become what it has: it wasn't invented to be what it has turned out to be. But don't complain too much: dealing with that sort of legacy is what keeps some of us in active employment! (not them I'm implying anyone causes these issues on purpose, you'd have to be both a special sort of evil and a special sort of intelligent to create PHP4 (I've not used it since then, things may have improved massively recent years (they were certainly promising to) and I'd be non the wiser) with all its problems on purpose)
Study of 45 Million names.
> I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday.

See, this is the funny part, not the "tubes". His staff sent him an internet? Yeah, I can see why that might take a while to deliver.
If the password is truly random (and uses the entire keyspace - upper/lower/number/symbol) then 18 characters is fantastically long. At 1 trillion guesses per second it takes ~1.3 Trillion Centuries to exhaustively search the 18 character key space that uses all four things (upper/lower/number/symbol)
I wish I were. They agree with the protesters, don't you see? And, because they feel themselves to be on the "right side of history", whatever that means, they are utterly innocent of fear that they should ever themselves awaken to find a shouting mob on their doorstep.

Of course, they're also utterly ignorant of history, or they'd know what happens, in a revolution, to people who consider themselves on the "right side of history", but are found insufficiently so by those to whom all weapons are friends. Little Dantons, all of them! -- and I'd be perfectly sanguine about the sanguinary fate to which they'd unknowingly consign themselves, did it not take such enormities to slake the thirst of the mob; one of the Terror's distinguishing characteristics, after all, is that it is always so very hard to steer.
I love linux. It's my operating system of choice. I think, all other things being equal, it's a superior operating system for just about any use case (other than really edge-case scenarios). I especially enjoy the freedom of the operating system, in every sense of the word as applied to software.

But understand this: the vast majority of the population just doesn't care about "freedom" when it comes to software. They care more about two other things, about in equal measure: 1) does it work well enough to do what I want; 2) can I hold somebody else accountable if/when it doesn't? The latter may be even more important at the "big enterprise" level, where generally "I need to make sure my ass is covered if something this thing touches breaks" outranks "I need to make sure this is a good solution for my company" on the list of priorities. The fact is that FOSS does a decent job of filling (1), but a really poor job of filling (2).

In light of this, the notion that people will switch to linux simply because of the free-ness is a bit, well, naive. Sure, it happens. It isn't happening in large numbers and, in my opinion, isn't likely to.
How many uniques/month does it take for you to turn a profit??
Ok, so we now have Bitcoin, Litecoin, and...Dogecoin, "an open source peer-to-peer cryptocurrency, favored by Shiba Inus worldwide"

Can we officially declare that crypto-currencies have jumped the shark?