skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to sound like a parrot here, but I'm VERY excited about the feature set of your product but I'm not going to try it with the current permissions model.

Do you have any communication channel into Github through which you can let them know that their permissions model stands to kill your business?
Weird, I thought the Bay Area was the perfect place to live! </sarcasm>. I also agree with this "Plus I find the Bay Area congested, racist, incestuous, and overpriced."
> Calgary might be more racist? Based on?

And CA is more racist: based on what?
Not yet... But we're working on it. We already have 2 Operators lined up to start offering rotorcraft rental via OpenAirplane. Stay tuned.
Is there an open source neural network library for iOS?
Google needs more data so that Google Maps can map the inside of your house. :-)
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If you don't know how to do a JOIN you really don't know how to use SQL, and that's not a tricky use of JOINs at all. If you're hiring for a position that mostly uses an ORM or something and raw SQL is only important in cases where the ORM is giving bad performance, maybe not knowing how to do a three-table join is fine. If actually writing SQL is part of the job regularly, though, the sort of thing grandparent is talking about is absolutely a bare-minimum of knowledge needed, maybe even below the bare minimum.
As yet another Canadian, I've gotta say:
Canada's great and all, but not perfect. Everything that you've said about American society and its treatment of minorities can equally be applied to natives in Canada.

And I think the problem is that, just as many Americans don't necessarily recognize the racism that still exists in their society because they live it and it's normal (or because they choose not to see it), I think there are an awful lot of Canadians that don't quite realize: in 50-100 years, we will all be ashamed of the way natives continue to be treated in Canada.
Do other internet-only banks offer such a feature? I'm pretty done with "360".
I had to make this exact same decision in 2001 and I chose PHP!

I subsequently fell in love with Python and am still active with it today. I think a choice as far back as 2001 doesn't matter too much, programming is programming. However, I feel like I became a better programmer by having to deal with a language as shitty as PHP. There were so many pitfalls that I quickly became an expert at working around them -- this took a lot of painstaking investigation into the inner workings of the language.
Google's interface seems to have improved recently, now that they have removed the duplicate left-hand column and put the options on top.

As for search results: I tried DDG again last week, and was shocked by the poor quality of results compared to google, bing or yandex. Search for "html table tag" and you'll see no w3schools or MDN results. Instead a lot of other, crappier sites. Google, yandex and bing all show w3schools and MDN near the top, so DDG must be filtering these results (which is ironic, given that they say they don't put you in a "filter bubble").
https://en.rsf.org/venezuela.html

http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/venezu...

Suggesting some sort of similarity between press freedom in the US and Venezuela seems pretty absurd.
I love your comment.

I'm hoping as tech takes over and democratizes the capital allocation schemes, these fat cats will actually have some true competition.
No, the libertarian political philosophy is that incentives matter, so that if companies can make easy money by getting the government to play favorites (primarily by regulating smaller competitors out of the market, as well as straightforward politically connected loans), they will. The solution is therefore to make it so the government can't play favorites.
Simple was/is a dressed up version of a prepaid debit card with a good mobile app and a good web ux. Typically prepaid cards net $1-$4 per active user per month depending on the level of fees. An active user is someone that has loaded cash onto the card. So if Simple had 100,000 customer which could translate into 100,000 loaded cards, its gross revenues would be between $100K-$500k per month (1.2-6m per year). My guess is the 100K number is simply customers that ever signed up for it and that their active accounts (loaded cards is much much lower). Kudos to the Simple board, investor and team - selling at that sort of price is unbelievable. I would happily work with any investor who could help me get that sort of valuation for my companies.
That link seems dead to me. This article has more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7272849

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/google-launches-project-tan...
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Good point: a DFA can do exactly what joosters asked, namely, distinguish between "matched regex '(a|b)' to input 'a'" and "matched regex '(a|b)' to input 'b'". However, it may be worth noting—as I'm sure you know, but others may not—that there is no way for even a juiced-up DFA to say, for example, how many a's were actually in the input when the regex is 'a * ' (spaces to fool the Markdown processor).

P.S. I might as well mention that I obviously meant to refer to a DFA reaching its end, rather than start, state.
What you describe is another problem: a high degree of naiveté among libertarians when it comes to the connection between economic power and political power. Large concentrations of economic power almost always proceed to purchase political influence and subvert the free market. It's usually far more profitable to do that than to play by free market rules.
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To be honest I'm not even sure what reactive programming means. I took the Reactive Programming course from Coursera, by Odersky, Kuhn & Meijer, and in the forums Kuhn explicitly said it's not functional reactive programming.

I'll admit I'm confused by the relationship between FRP, RP and Akka's brand of RP. The only thing I'm certain is that Akka's RP != FRP. The assignments from the course were full of side-effects, mutability and global variables.
First, asking yourself if you did the right thing is silly, you made the best decision with the information you had at the time. To be honest, technology ebbs and flows. What's hot right now may not be hot in the future. I think the key skill is learning how to learn, so you can learn a new technology quickly. Also, don't just focus on technology, understanding how a business operates is just as important!
A more general statement can be made:

A central problem in all modern economies -- whether socialistically or capitalistically organized -- is the accumulation of monolithic stores of wealth exceeding the cognitive capacity of small groups of human beings to intelligently allocate it.

We might call this the "big dumb money problem." As the original article points out, it's a bigger problem than merely one of waste. Big dumb money often operates in ways that are actively harmful.
The problem is that companies will do anything for easy money, full stop. Governments, private individuals, other companies--whoever can be exploited, will.

Libertarians don't always have a good counter to this fact of life.
Apparently so. ;)
"Mr. Babage if I were to feed wrong inputs to that calculation machine will it still produce correct outputs?"
Google's answer to iBeacons?
Well it did have if you dragged in Workflow Foundation and Silverlight. To have that yanked from under us was a massive and really expensive pain. If we'd picked a Java BPEL solution and WebStart with Swing, we'd have been better off.
i am creating software for just this purpose. please see the software page at www.pilotride.com
please like the facebook page if you think the idea is appropriate for your needs.
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Agreed. Also, coming from iChat before Hipchat, sending files on the same network was so fast. I hate that Hipchat requires me to upload the file to an external server... It's handy for members of our team that are out of office though. I'd rather everyone's files ended up on our internal server, even if it was a little slower for outsiders.
Libertarians would say that it's the traditional liberal response (try to make it hard to purchase influence) that is naive: you've only been trying for a hundred years, and it hasn't worked yet.
Ask HN: How do you do accounting for your startup?
Its tax time for our (bootstrapped) startup, and we're deciding the best way to do it. We have subscriptions that people pay for using stripe, and we offer discounts on longer duration signups. My ideal solution would connect to my stripe, and put things right, including prepayments, stripe fee, and refunds. Hoping to gain from the community's experience.
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This comment is embarrassing. Venezuela nationalized the country's largest television station. The media wasn't fervently pro-Chavez; it was pro-Chavez by government mandate.
I don't understand how that undermines the Libertarian point that if a government has no power to make the playing field uneven, it doesn't matter if it's corrupt.
That's the way the system was designed, yes, and I'm not failing to understand that. That doesn't change the fact that it is undemocratic, and if democracy is something we value then it's a legitimate consideration. More is not always better, but at extremes it's a concern. I'm not saying we should turn the Senate into a purely democratic body. I'm saying that when we consider how we draw our state lines "how democratic it makes the Senate" is one relevant factor. As I said, it is also unreasonable.
WhatsApp just works and it works really well - you don't have to sign up, you don't have to add contacts. Isn't it obvious what a big deal that is? Also it is really reliable and fast. Often it seems even when my phone has only the slowest GPRS internet connection available to it, WhatsApp is still as good or better than texts in terms of speed and reliability. Facebook messenger probably wouldn't even connect in that situation in my experience. I'd be surprised if Hangouts wasn't the same
Every single bank allows you to do what you want.
After spending a good deal of time reading about government funded nutritional 'science' over the last 50 years, in which high-carb hysteria took over (making many of us much less healthy, but making certain large businesses much richer, edit: and making food price inflation appear low), it's quite easy to make a case that research institutions dependent on government grants will absolutely not want to upset the status quo, and junk science is the result.

Let's also look at how many economists said "nobody could have seen the debt crisis coming". Clearly, skepticism that would harm the elites is not welcome in respectable academic institutions.

Let's say a democratic government does 99% of what rich or connected people want it to do. (Perhaps that's marginally better than a dictatorship) But the government wants to prove 'scientifically' it's doing the right thing. So it funds nutritional scientists and economists (and I will assume climate scientists) that see the 'right things' and give the policies legitimacy.

You say conspiracy, but the supreme court would disagree - this is just 'free speech' - corporations are people too! I'm sure you've heard "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
the software i am developing is called pilotride.com
see the web site. its one big difference is the software is designed for flying clubs and FBO's that rent aircraft. this is NOT a public free for all where someone posts a flight and the world sees it. this software secures all rides and members data to the club or FBO.

michael
pilotride.com
So namecheap would need a few different, separate IPv4 subnets.

Like the ones they already have?

http://bgp.he.net/AS22612#_prefixes
It's really because we (seattlites) just don't like Californians very much; they are turned on all the time, shifty, and drive super aggressively. Makes sense that he feeling would be mutual (e.g. Too passive, naive, and drive super cautiously). This was a real thing in the 90s at least.
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Play has composable futures (like JDK 8's CompletionStage) which are indeed a component of FRP. I don't know if it's got something similar to Rx's Observables, which let you compose streams of values. Also, it's tied to HTTP services and isn't a general-purpose FRP solution, which is why I didn't mention it in the post.

[1] http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/...
Another vote here for Ally. Been using them for years. Pick up the phones right away; website works well; easy transfers and the interest rates paid on deposit products are decent. Additionally when your cd's expire they kick an extra .15 loyalty bonus.

(Fwiw and ntim ally is from the remnants of GMAC a division of GM Corp.)
If you don't see white people working low-income jobs in SF, you need to get out and explore. Nearly everyone working retails jobs in the Castro, Noe Valley, Hayes Valley, and a half dozen other neighborhoods is white.
Not sure where the cut off is or should be, but it doesn't feel standard to me.

On my anecdotal desktop install there are two packages that use cmake; awesome and taskwarrior.

Grep'ing the ebuilds on this Gentoo box, shows me ~400 packages out of ~16000 that use cmake(excluding KDE where it clearly is standard). A lot of the remaining ones seem to be very project specific too(70 leechcraft, 11 fcitx, 10 opensync).
Totally different. iBeacons are a low power Bluetooth transmitter that can notify phones of their presence.

This is a prototype phone for mapping scenes in 3D
If you aren't familiar with Rob at all, it's likely easy to not get the context or personality. This guy is as transformed as you will find someone who rode/rides the .net paths.

His affinity for everything non-.net and the effort he puts into helping keep feedback loops going between platforms while focusing on surfacing the better patterns, overall, is pretty admirable. His religion seems software dev, not platforms.

He might get acerbic to some, but it seems part and parcel to his personality. He's not content with friction, ceremony, and negatively reinforcing paradigms. The final output from this is most often quite beneficial. If for nothing else, I appreciate that he spends the time doing the things that I would do if I hadn't yet sold any of my start-ups.

I'd only suggest, in this case, that one can be better off carrying awareness of the time wasted in suffering. You may well waste less time going forward with the lessons learned. You will waste less time and suffer less prospectively. Hopefully you haven't missed the last plane off the island... in Hawaii... where it's not so bad to be stuck...
Browsing google incognito doesn't prevent Google search from receiving your IP address, which they are still able to do tracking and geolocation by.
Must have downloaded a snowden.exe while researching.
Opps, sorry.. guess it would have been good to actually answer the question.

Any private pilot can fly at night. There is a newer class of license called sport pilot that does impose restrictions on night flight (and quite a few other restrictions), but just about all pilots can fly at night.

I'm really confused by why people think it would not be ok to fly at night though. Just about everyone I've told that I'm a pilot asks about it though, so it's a big misconception somewhere. I always follow up with "Why do you think it wouldn't be ok?", but no-one's really been able to articulate why they thought that.
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Is it just latent paranoia, or can I just see evil uses for this?
Yet, it's still _not_ Canada. I live in Buffalo, and the major reason why I stay here - is because its _not_ Canada. At least the greater GTA (Greater Toronto Area). But I _do_ enjoy visiting ... to the extent I have been known for stretches to be there 10-12 week(ends) in a row visiting friends, eating, exploring, etc. I really do get the SF point of view for sure. But that's a'typical of the tech industry on the whole - I mean its a male dominated industry, and its a rat race down there. I can see how easily jaded an outsider can become. But I do enjoy its Southern California culture, weather, and in particular asians - because of the food/design/culture they bring to the bay area.
This technology inside Google Glass would be pretty killer.
I'm looking forward to the first first-person shooter built on Tango. E.g. a ghostbusters game in which you walk around in your own house, the ghosts only being visible through your Tango.
In Seattle with AT&T I find that I often have to disable LTE because it's so slow. I just ran a test and I get about 1.5 Mbit/s downstream on LTE. Pathetic.
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Same here. I'm in my late 30s and am by far the youngest at any pilot gathering I attend.

I really don't know where the airlines are going to get the next generation of pilots from. Of course with the horrible pay and hours, I can't blame anyone from not choosing that career path.
It would be very interesting to see an application for this using Glass. Could this potentially help blind people navigate in unknown environments?
seddona - he has. I'm the CTO he's referring to :)
Play's futures are just Scala futures, they aren't tied to HTTP requests.
Tango looks a lot like The Structure Sensor by Occipital - http://structure.io/
I really love my experience with Schwab as well, and have been with them for a long time. Last I checked, the major restriction on their checking account is that you also need to open an investment account, but neither one has a minimum deposit so the overhead isn't actually super substantial.

There are some interesting feature gaps in what they let you do on the site, that occasionally mean you might have to send them a physical letter or fax (!), but on the whole I'm pretty content with the functionality there as well.
Google + Adblock is your friend. All results are now relevant :D
Mobile A/B testing without an engineer!
Nice but can you have any API integration?
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uncertain
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I feel like Wikipedia gives a better explanation of how his can be linear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_sort
Haters gonna hate. Potatoes gonna potate.
I was thinking more of their iteratee stuff:

https://github.com/playframework/playframework/tree/master/f...

Again, don't know the state of pulling it apart but earlier versions were tied to Play in name only.
Link is to "verbatim mode" which is basically "Google classic" where all the words entered are required to be on the page in the order entered - kinda like a single set of quotes around the full query.

Not exactly what I'm after but might be useful, thanks.
>the Microsoft web world was (and to a large degree still is) all about "Visual Component Development". What that means is you basically do a lot of drag and drop

If were doing it wrong, then maybe. Allowing "VB6" programmers to drag-n-drop stuff to make forms is still a fine way for them to make applications that run on a high-speed connection and just happen to be using HTML by accident. Being able to use a "datasource" was apparently valuable for some people, although I could never get it to work well.

Was it a bad idea to only focus on that and force the control model on everyone? Sure. It wasn't necessarily a terrible option for a lot of people. I did demos of ASP.NET to PHP developers, and some of them were pretty blown away by the idea of having events fire and being able to do something like "foo.BackgroundColor = bla" and have the whole page "just work".

But being forced into the control model with viewstate and all that, it certainly didn't make ASP.NET competitive with other technologies for having total control over the experience.

Had MS gone "MVC" from the start and focused only one web techologies, and had someone else made the easy "forms for the web" toolkit and got marketshare, we'd be saying how foolish MS was for not providing a similar toolkit.
In Romania WhatsApp is fairly popular, but it's declining. About 60% of my phone's contacts have had it installed at some point, but I noticed that many of them have uninstalled it.

Its popularity has been declining due to Facebook and Android - Facebook on Android works really well lately, most of my acquaintances are on Facebook already and everybody with an Android (which is most of my acquaintances) has either Facebook or Facebook Messenger on it. This is happening because Facebook is the messenger that finally dethroned Yahoo Messenger in my country - really, I'm serious, Yahoo Messenger was still really popular until about 2 years ago. And Android penetration has been phenomenal, due to cheap models being advertised by mobile carriers and sold instead of feature phones.

> Their logical endgame is to move all messaging to the Hangouts protocol, and fall back to Google Voice to deliver messages to users who don't have a Hangouts client.

You're a US citizen and so you might have missed the part where Google Voice is not available outside the US - no alternative can win over SMS, unless it is international.

I actually hate them for trying to take over my SMS messaging and I'm glad that I still have the option of not allowing them to do it on my Android, even though I'm also a regular Hangouts user. What is it with these companies trying to be everything to everybody?
Yes we do have API's for integration.
Realtime markdown preview with go + websockets
That isn't free (as in open source), so I left that out.
You can find all documentation with use cases here http://docs.vessel.io
As far as I can recall, it hasn't ever happened to me in the 24 years I've been driving. Are you doing the required maintenance?
Yea but it does have much higher quality of life.
If you were to build an Android powered robot isn't this exactly what you'd need inside it?
Thanks yes we aim to make it super simple for non technical people.
The first thing I imagined is a wearable with a clicker for the blind. You say navigate me to ___, and the clicker gives you hot and cold signals (lots of feedback vs. less) as well as maybe a buzzing feedback if you're approaching a hazard.
A government that does not have the power to make an even field uneven will also not have the power to make an uneven field even.
You mean like tech has taken over and democratized San Francisco?
Ha ha, that's what makes me a Pythonista and you not one :)

I like the idea because it (presumably) forces conformant html. The end result that gets sent to the user should be compressed and minified anyhow.
In the Libertarian framework, the government still has a monopoly on force and justice, and so therefore always has the power to make the playing field uneven. Dropping that assertion, we arrive at anarcho-capitalism. And while a very useful framework for understanding the world, if we try using the nominal tenets of ancap as a foundation and hope to welcome their implications, it quickly becomes useless. There is no distinction between the present situation and USG being a corporation that owns all land and that our parents assented to.

Stop infighting. This article is dead-on in describing a major modern problem. Only by holding the conflicting thoughts of multiple philosophical decompositions in your head can you ever hope to see a solution.
Every new technology, as well as every old technology, can be used for "good" or for "evil." More broadly, many activities to which "goodness" can be assigned will vary in "goodness" based on the context (in many ethical systems).
I like your comment, but I think it creates a false dichotomy between a deterministic universe or one with a higher power. What about a middle option, where there is no higher power but the universe isn't deterministic?

If the laws of physics include randomness / some amount of vagueness, then maybe it changes things from a philosophical perspective.
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