skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing the long game, if the split was right, yep they would because then California could not pull some of the stunts it has in the past[1]. Textbook companies are another area that would change because of split CA.

1) latest one http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/04/4798111/missouris-koste...
Same here; we use it for our separate accounts, but the primary joint account has to remain at a more traditional credit union. They even sent out a notice to all customers regarding tax returns – the IRS requires joint returns to be issued to a bank account listing both names.
Promise delivered.

Think of the first question. If you're going to use a function to transform data, you're going to take a performance hit vs. just doing and indexable operation against the data.

If you want a facility that will magically figure out what you want when you are unable to express what you want, good luck. That's unicorn territory.
> Apple iMessage, can't inter-operate between Apple and Android devices (very stupid tactic, it will get marginalized).

Apple's iMessage works fine with Android in the western developed world where you can get unlimited/cheap SMS. Also android support won't help iMessage in markets like India where there are very very many feature (j2me) phones out there.

Apple and WhatsApp have different goals. FB is far more threatened by WhatsApp than Apple.

What's at question here is whether you think the emerging market telecom providers will ever see their doom and lower SMS pricing before WhatsApp, Viber and the like remove all their messaging income.
I actually think that a lot of good could come from splitting up California. This would allow the intense stupidity of its politics to be less monolithic, and would permit more experimentation with policy, which might have a good outcome.

That said, as a former San Luis Obispan, the notion of being an adjunct of Los Angeles (see http://www.sixcalifornias.info/) makes me shudder. And having Los Angeles and Orange County in separate states makes no sense. If you were going to carve up California along lines of economic and cultural interest, then I'd adjust the Six Californias as follows:

Jefferson (blue, in the far north) -- looks about right (and has a great history, worth reading about).

Northern California -- I'd swap Alpine, Mono, and Inyo counties into this state (from Central Valley), as this creates a state which is dominated by wilderness, tourism, and natural resources.

Central Valley (red) -- I'd take San Benito from Silicon Valley, to create a state which is unified by agriculture.

Silicon Valley (yellow) -- I'd shift San Benito to Central Valley and Monterrey to Central Coast (green), creating a more technology-centric state.

Central Coast (green) -- take Monterrey, but send Ventura and Los Angeles to Southern California. This is a rural area dominated by nature and tourism, and shouldn't be swallowed by Los Angeles politics.

Southern California (orange) -- take Ventura and Los Angeles from Central Coast, so as not to split up the overall conurbation.

Chances of this (or any version thereof) actually happening? Nil -- but it's kind of fun to think about.
Most DDOS attacks against a company like yours are actually attacks against a specific customer. If:

a) you had a pool of DNS server names, say 20, all with unrelated hostnames

b) you assigned 2 to each customer, randomly, when they configured a domain to use your servers.

Then, a DDOS attack would impact 10% of your customers instead of 100%. (Assuming other practices, like null routing the target until resolved)
Yeah, it's something that can consume a ton of hours manually -- and, at the end of the day, there's no way to be certain that you've actually optimized given your budget constraints.
Sounds similar to YouNeedABudget. It's switched the way I think in a very similar way.
If you check the press release, Simple is still considered a separate business entity and the Simple CEO is retaining his position. Apparently nothing will change.
The problem is not that they couldn't, but they wouldn't. Most of the large bay area companies believe that there is more value in the chit-chat and overheard conversations at the micro kitchen, than in solving the remote work problems.
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Sure, a capitalone360 Checking account will give you 0.85% for certain balance minimums.
Yes, which is why the light cone is actually described as a 4D object that exists in spacetime, not a 3D sphere.

Some back of the envelope calculation indicates that the spacetime "volume" of the light cone of an object is 1/8th of the spacetime volume of the universe up to that point. So using the light cone would net you an 8x speedup over a brute-force Universe render. Nothing to write home about if you have infinite computing power.
One thing that stood out to me was that the minimum wage type work was almost exclusively staffed by one particular ethnic minority.
Ugly compared to what query language of equal power and expressiveness?
You forgot china/Skorea/Japan, all big markets.

WeChat - china

S Korea - kakaotalk 90% market share

LINE - Japan 50 million users with 300 million worldwide

And all three have significant revenue in double digit US millions a year, unlike WhatsApp which has no real revenue...
Everything related to DNS says it'll take a day but that's "worst case"... I've successfully transferred DNS for 5 Namecheap-registered domains to Route 53 since this all started a couple hours ago, and they're now up & running smoothly.

Their "update DNS server" page was acting a bit wonky, kept saying some of my nameservers were invalid when they weren't, but I eventually got them all switched.

This isn't a dig against Namecheap, it sounds like this attack is pretty bad, but for important domains Route53 just seems like a much better setup (geographically dispersed, different nameservers for each hosted zone, etc).
these proposals pop up every season - interesting that it looks like it could be reasonably balanced (from a senate perspective - central, west, and another could vote more 'red'), that means Democrats would lose a part of the gigantic electoral votes CA brings. All in all, probably not going to happen.
Not really. If you're in one of those smaller offices you have absolutely no control of your destiny at all, and the glass ceiling is very low.
Not having separate status hosting is liken not salting passwords. As a NC user, I may leave just for this reason
Yes for all licenses with the possibility of different rules. The redone letterhead will be a major cost (no, I'm not joking).
If you don't use namecheap's dns servers, dns requests for your domain do not go to namecheap for redirection. They don't go to namecheap at all. Your specified dns servers get registered with the top level domain servers.
Here in Texas, with the tax rate of 8.25%, simplest method is to simply double the tax rate to get your tip.
In addition to what was said below/above, there also are a few relevant meetup groups.
I've been living here for the last six weeks. Coincidentally, yesterday was the initial induction session for candidate startups shortlisted for 'Go Silicon Valley', organized by the Austrian Economic Chambers (WKO). For such a small city, there certainly seemed to be a respectable number of startup teams...

Today was sunny and warm(ish), so I left my apartment and computer, travelled 30 minutes across town to Heiligenstadt,and shortly after was lying on a hillside overlooking the city. Quiet and refreshing.

Coming back into town by tram, then walking, the bustle of the streets around St Stephen's cathedral was quite a contrast. Now I'm back here in front of the machine, picking away at a cake, amused at this timely article. Vienna certainly is beautiful in parts, grungy in others. But so far, all the people I've met have been friendly and accommodating. Transport is excellent. The cakes are amazing.

Definitely liveable!
Love Simple. Congrats to the team, well deserved. Please keep it simple!
Vienna is nice IF you speak German sufficiently well to get along with the Austrian dialect and you are willing to cope with those four months of harsh winter where you hardly ever see the sun.

Apart of that it's pretty much like every other German speaking city, quality of life is high, but so are the taxes.
Well, what's the actual rate for the worse one?

"Safe enough vs incredibly safe" isn't as interesting a comparison as we tend to make it out to be.

(But still, there are lots of U.S. areas where I would prefer not to live...)
That's my point, you can get free access to AllPoint ATMs with a capitalone360 checking account and they pay interest and you don't have to worry about multiple bank accounts. Which is why I'm surprised anyone would bother with Simple.
Heres basically all the free "small" (<10MB~) packages I could find in my aur installs:

android-sdk-platform-tools
archlinux-artwork
audiothumbs
bup
darkplaces
dolphin-box-plugin(-git)
eduke32
firefox-aurora
firefox-beta(-bin)
firefox-nightly
fontconfig-infinality
freedoom
freetype2-infinality
glmark2
google-talkplugin
grive
gzdoom
hexen2
kcm-ufw
kcmsystemd
kde-servicemenus-imgur
kde-thumbnailer-epub
kdeconnect
kdeplasma-applets-veromix
kup
lib32-sdl_mixer
lib32-simplescreenrecorder
lib32-smpeg
libjpeg6
libx11-ldpreloadnograb
mprime
nwn-gog
openoffice-thumbnail-plugin
php-dio
plasma-mediacenter
qgears2
qt5-jsbackend
simplescreenrecorder
speedtest-cli
tor-browser-en
transfusion
ttf-neverwinter
ubuntu-mono
yamagi-quake2
zandronum

These packages are also in that group, but all have huge package sizes so I imagine that would contribute to their exclusion (mostly due to bundling image or sound data):

android-ndk
android-sdk
caledonia-bundle
eduke32-dukeplus
humanity-icon-theme
kdeartwork-sounds
kdeplasma-applets-starfield-wallpaper
ksplash-archpaint2
light-themes
openarena
qt5-examples
wallpaper-archpaint2

These are proprietary, or are only used by proprietary software, but to me seem to fall in the same class as Steam / Flash / etc, in that they are all at least freeware.

binkplayer
btsync
btsync-autoconfig
desura
dropbox
hon
honpurple
minecraft
minecraft-server
spideroak

"Top" would be most of the kde stuff and all the foss id-tech engines for games. Though I imagine the reason none of them are in is due to some licensing reasons concerning the game data, though it is worth mentioning the demo data for most of those games is also in the AUR.

And simplescreenrecorder. Best desktop screencasting software I've ever used, wondering why its in the AUR.
Here are the results from the 2012 Senate election by county: http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/Senate/2012/CA

I'd venture a guess that 2 maybe 3 (if also looking at the numbers for the house elections) of the 6 new states may go republican.
"Turtles all the way down" made my day. Brought me back to my highschool days of reading all of Hawking's books.
Cats have already been linked via toxo to mental changes, so it's not quite as bad as the usual research.

(I wonder how much it'd cost to randomly assign cats to volunteers? Pay for their food and vet bills and there'd probably be a lot of takers.)
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Agreed, my reply was about people canceling to get a "better offer". :) Other than the glitch he mentioned, I think that part of the system actually does work pretty well. Always room to improve though.
Then why do people from around the world flock to American hospitals?

As one example, the Texas Medical Center, one of the best in the world, treats 18,000 foreign patients a year who've traveled there specifically for the quality of care.
I'm pretty surprised to read this, I've used Rietveld (Gerrit is a fork from Rietveld) and it is entirely possible to review more than one commit at the time (with the option to review them as a unique patch or as individual steps)

But what I love is the option of squashing the commits (or perform any other operation), as the review is independent from the repo, meaning that I can push a clean commit instead of adding a lot of commit fixing issues, which gets a dirty commit tree.

That can be considered as "not showing the full code history", but I prefer to think about it as "only pushing to the repo code that sort of makes sense instead of lots of confusing ver small commits fixing typos"
Google doodles are distracting. I don't need to see a clever flash game commemorating something-or-other every time I open a new tab when I'm working, thanks.
I've been with Simple for about a year and a half, and slowly moved from my TD Bank account to using Simple exclusively for personal banking. They've blown me away with how a bank can operate if it just joins the 21st century. Everything from their UX to their customer service is outstanding.
Calling them on the phone reminds me of going in to my local bank when I lived in a small town in Iowa.

Then again, this is pretty much the way I felt when I joined Commerce Bank in 2002. They were leaps and bounds above any other bank in everything from their down-home attitude to their evening and weekend hours. Then they got acquired.

Things weren't too different with ING Direct. Joined up for their interest-bearing checking and used them as my savings account. Had wonderful experiences. Then they got acquired.

Tangential, but relevant, I got HostGator as my hosting provider many years ago—they were a little company in Texas with great service and great people. I'm leaving them this month. They got acquired, and everything changed.

I hope this goes well for Simple. I really do. But I'm preparing myself. I know the signs to watch out for. First they'll get an automated phone tree, and I'll have to tell the robot what I want. Then it will get just a little longer to wait for a person. A couple fees will show up, nothing much, just little stuff. Tiny, unobtrusive, totally defensible, annoying policies will start taking hold. And soon, it'll be just another online bank—albeit one with a very pretty iPhone app.

I hope that doesn't happen. But I'm bracing myself anyway.
How would you propose they do that ? - there's nothing magical they can do that will identify official clients that third parties couldn't replicate.
Does Berkut also have Ukrainian flags sticking out of their pockets?
The difference between 15% and 20% on a $15 bill is 75 cents. The difference between pre- and post-tax is even smaller. You might not get bonus points for ignoring that, but you'll definitely lose points (in my eyes, at least) for fretting about such a small amount of money.
This is ultimately the thing got me to switch the DDG about 2 years ago.
Agreed. You should not be able to drive across a state in less than two hours.
Yeah, Route53 isn't as feature rich though. Also I have the same problem, keeps giving me errors about bad nameservers. I guess I'll keep trying.
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Mint is terrible compared to having the budgeting tool directly integrated with your banking account.
If you use Route 53, your zone file is still at Namecheap (registrar). Doesn't that still make Namecheap a failure point?
I don't think that its sucking up. If you get good service, the only way you can show your appreciation is by tipping.

I've been to many places where even tipping higher does not give you better service. I think its a case-by-case thing; some waiters/baristas/bartenders accept it and others don't.

On a more personal note, a minor annoyance is on small purchases (like $2.50 coffee), how much can I tip?
Did you read the description of Threema before commenting? Hangout and Facebook don't provide a secure text messaging scheme like this one or Telegram.
Yes, this. Hopefully they take heed after this painful experience.
Need more proof that Comcast is throttling Netflix?
Chances are you're a spoiled Viennese CS student.
The onboarding process on the other hand is opaque and nigh-useless. I got shot down for an account with these guys due to a .23 (that is not a typo.. twenty-three cents) report on chexsystems from five years ago.

Every bank I've had the ability to talk to an actual person was able to see that this is clearly absurd, I am not a serial check bouncer/overdrafter/etc and to get my account going. Simple..notsomuch. I'd love to use them if they'd let me.
The Snabb Switch* people have been talking about it a lot on HN, and there was a link to their github the other day.

*My understanding is that it's a similarly architected system, but built on a Linux/luajit stack
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[For me and most people I know SMS is virtually free, but I guess that's not the case around the world]

Define virtually free? I pay like 10 bucks a month for unlimited SMS, that's hardly virtually free!!! If I didn't they cost like 10 cents a message. That's an insane price for sending or receiving a very very small message that costs the phone companies almost nothing to send. I see it working well for say prepaid plans or barebones plans.
Implying XML is not great? ;)
>5 years ago, $500K maybe was enough to launch a serious version 1.0 of a product. Now you might need $800k or $1MM.

I'm struggling to make sense of this. By "a product", do you mean a piece of software sold for its own sake (as opposed to some other type of product that merely requires that someone in the company write software)? Either way, has the barrier to entry really increased so much in so little time? Why?
Probably should be on fisteggplant.com
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It's one thing to remain a separate entity, but anyone who's ever worked for a company that's been acquired can tell you that's not the end of the story.
Profitability targets get set. Quarterly pressures are exerted. The parent company doesn't tell them how to do their job, but they set goals. Goals that may or may not fit with the way they do business, and may be more focused on short-term profits than long-term health.
Most acquisitions start out with promises like "we don't want to change anything," and remaining a separate business entity is a much easier way to integrate than jumping in with both feet from day one. But that's not usually the way things play out after a few years.
Thanks for your feedback and your interest in Crypton!

First, for the record, from that Reddit AMA, Daniel isn't a SpiderOak founder and is no longer with the organization.

Next, we throughly agree of the necessity for open sourcing our desktop backup and sync product, and are working towards that. There are licensing issues that have to be worked out.
We started SpiderOak in 2007. Everything new we've created since 2009 has been open source from the start. Our expectation is that the existing SpiderOak product will someday transition to using Crypton internally.
I've seen plenty of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indians on posters in the Bay Area. (US representative for my district is Mike Honda) I have not seen many Arabs or Sikhs, but that may be more a function of population percentage and profession, than racism towards these groups, which exploded mostly after 9/11.

People who run for office are usually lawyers, and there is a definite ethnic divide in professions. Moreover, immigrants usually don't come to be lawyers, since being good at law requires a mastery of the language and the nuances of the local culture, and native born citizens have a natural advantage.
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The truly smart move would be if they skipped the even numbers after 9. I know it's a superstition, but you have to realize that the superstition, since it does exist now, pre-inclines the users to hate the even versions.
Its the one with the "dude" who is listening to his messages while his wife is in the passenger seat. The last message is about a tattoo. Its another "stupid husband" commercial.
That's up to the state. In Washington, restaurant workers are required to pay the regular minimum wage (currently $9.32/hour), with none of that comprised of tips.
If you use requirejs for node, defining paths in requirejs.config solves this problem too.
If you think wait staff are accurately declaring income to the government for tax purposes, you are fooling yourself. There are people 'getting off the hook' for certain.

I'm not objecting to this stuff, but it does happen. Still I'd like the few grand I'd have if I didn't pay taxes either, but I suppose we have QN obligation to subsidise those who can't make it on their own.
The difference is not worth talking about at all.
I made a python tool for doing this a couple of weeks ago. It solves the "knapsack problem with multiple constraints", using the OpenOpt knapsack module. Find the maximum sum of FPPG (fantasy points per game), with the constraints of $60k (fantasy) salary sum, and player positions.

It didn't work very well though, my generated NBA picks finished in the bottom 50% on FanDuel. For the next iteration, I'm going to try optimizing for MPG (minutes per game).

Fantasy betting has the benefit of a legal loophole, so it's growing much quicker than traditional sportsbook line betting.
Why be jealous? They solved a hard problem - and executed on that really well. They got the traction and the audience - they did everything right - and it was a lot of hard work.
"Instead of spending that $100 on the get together every other night save it. Build your skills." --if I didn't
spend so much on chasing tail; I could have retired at 30.
Honetly! And yes pathetic, but you are only young once.
I thank my packager by paying them ~$12k a year for "support".
Well, I can show appreciation coming back... Just as I do in a lot of other things I consume.

(Anyway, I understand is mostly a cultural thing)
Posting up-to-the-minute updates on Twitter is also a good idea. Lots of tweets come back from a search for "Namecheap" & you want to be sure you're a part of that conversation!
I like this. Thanks for the idea!
I don't know what the hell you mean, "barely usable". I basically just use it and I search for things and find things, there's nothing "barely" about it's usability. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing, but I've never experienced search as though it magically reads my mind.
They also had to change the name from global warming to climate change so that whatever happens they can blame it on man. Cold weather is now blamed. I noticed the Sunday morning political shows had to explain the cold weather
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We've been testing it for Brackets:

https://gitter.im/adobe/brackets

It's a really cool service and I think one of the big considerations for us right now is that our freenode channel (#brackets) has 86 people in it as I type this. We've potentially got some inertia to overcome.
Think about all the flags that the whole nation would have to replace.
Congrats on launching! Nice looking site, too. Was this a scratch-your-own-itch type of project? Did you do it on the side? I'd be interested to hear where it came from and where it's headed.
72.34 per year per 100,000 registered motorcycles * 30 years is 2.17%.

Worse plenty of people own more than one motorcycle so the rate is probably higher than that.
Alaska is one state with many pilots. Distant towns and the road conditions make it quite normal to fly.
It has calmed down slightly. I got to release bubbles just now!
California isn't exactly a shining beacon of problem solving.
My brother lives in Vienna. He usually parks his car, which he needs for family visits and the odd trip to IKEA, and then leaves it untouched for weeks, since it is easier to move around the city without it than with it.
I won't comment on the racist part, but by incestuous he means "lacks outside influence". That opinion is not uncommon even among people who like living inside the bubble.
Most of the original team is gone. We have a startup that is trying to innovate and fill the gap in this space. If you're interested, check out https://www.budgetsimple.com
It sounds like it was more of a competitive jealousy.