skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had issues with the signup process as well, but I will say that a lot of those come from using Bankcorp as their backer. They are, ultimately, the ones that accept or deny you, and I don't know how much information Simple has when it comes to those decisions.
I get making your fortune. My point was: Use the opportunity you get from it wisely.
No. The zone file lives on the nameserver (DNS server) which Route 53 provides. Namescheap registers a list of nameservers for your domain with the TLD.

An over simplified example for looking up "news.ycombinator.com":

1. First query the TLD nameserver for all ".com" domains asking for the authoritative nameserver(s) for "ycombinator.com".

2. Next query that nameserver for "news.ycombinator.com".
Surely that is their problem?
I don't think anyone with just a tiny bit of knowledge of NSA would have said that. After all, the Utah data center was public knowledge. What surprised everyone was the extent of their spying.
You're lazy.
The killer for me is that it didn't seem to have a way to track spending from my credit card. To get the benefits, I'd have to give up my rewards card, and the rewards and customer protection are more important (to me) than a clean interface.

Maybe this acquisition can help that.
Ahhh, you can write webpages in it.
Money for money sake is silly. You can't take it to your grave, and you can't enjoy it unless you spend it. But there are a lot of cool toys money can buy, like space rockets or cool cars and motorcycles. In my case money would buy me time for tinkering with unprofitable projects and building things with my hands, which I enjoy doing
hi already have OK's, but the DNS are all using the same IP :( bad sign?
Or maybe they acquired Simple to gain next-generation online banking for their own customers. If they were feeling very ambitious, they could take further advantage of Simple's bank abstraction layer to license the system to other banks and/or credit unions -- a sort of online banking-as-a-service.
I think the real issue is the distinction between HAVING to drive vs BEING ABLE to drive.

Certainly there are roads if you want to drive, but this is unlike suburbs where you NEED to drive.
Postgres isn't a startup, it's open source software that you implement yourself. If the people currently supporting it decide to stop supporting it, then other people will (eventually) step in to fill the void. In the meantime you can keep on trucking with your working production code.

Rely on a startup and when it fails, the part of your business that relies on it fails with it.
That's absolutely fabulous. I'm a DDG user already, but didn't knew about this trick.
A brilliant time saver.

Thanks for sharing.
I've actually been turning to reddit for a lot of my searches. Yes, you read that right, reddit.

I found that a lot of times when I was looking for general advice from other people (recent examples: how to treat dandruff, how to start a garden) I actually get really well thought out answers from real people who have done the same things. And I know they're not trying to sell me anything or just get page views.

Doing those same searches on google just returns vapid SEO filled articles from ehow and wikihow, and those kind of places, pretty worthless.
>The most important trend today is collecting massive amounts of data and using them to make accurate predictions.

Does it strike you odd that humans have real trouble doing this? We are not good with 'big' data. Maybe from a large population things can be inferred, but why are we programming computers to do things we can't? Did the goalposts move? (yes)

I do think AGI lacks the incompleteness that's seemingly required of everything real. With no constraint (humans have many: low wattage, 8hr GC cycles, fairly static network structure..), it's too perfect a goal.
Your project is horribly architected if you need to do relative requires this deep.

Applications can be decoupled into interoperable components. Separate modules for configuration, controllers, routing, etc.

Separate concerns into modules.
"Any escape might help to soothe / The unattractive truth / That the suburbs have no charms to soothe / The restless dreams of youth... "

- Rush, "Subdivisions"
Show HN: CoinSierra – marketplace with Bitcoin. Just launched our preview site
I have a repo called whatsapp analyzer. Guess it was looked over.
It's a side project for now. But, in theory, I'd like to continue building cool utilities for daily fantasy sports betting leagues. That market is growing quite quickly and the tech is pretty poor.
So, there is NO actual evidence? As in, this is just anecdotal, as in the driver, dealer and technician were all wrong in this instance: http://www.leftlanenews.com/toyota-avalon-displays-unintende...

..and the 400% increase of unintended acceleration events (from the testimony) starting in 2004 is also a complete accident, or brought on by some witchhunt?

Aren't you stretching the limits of what is a reasonable assumption in order to maintain that opinion?
Not sure if it means anything, but they recently signed a long-term lease for their office in Madison, WI.
If your odds of winning the lottery increased by 10x, would that make you much more likely to buy a ticket?
That link appears to show the cheapest Android phone at R 2699 and the cheapest feature phone at R 699. I'm not sure that fits your point.
I'm impressed, it works quite well.

However, just to put DuckDuckGo's 4 Mqpd into a broader context:

Google 2013: 5.9 Gqpd
Bing 2012: 3.1 Gqpd

Not to put DuckDuckGo down or anything, but it's important to understand what a >1000x difference in scale means, in terms of operating costs and scalability issues. For example, for a single person is very easy to get hold of $10k but it's extremely difficult to get $10M. (I'm not actually interested in money, it's just an example measurement unit, and particular range, that people are familiar with).

Sources:
http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/
http://leaderswest.com/2012/07/02/how-bings-search-increased...
To add to that, I worked with a guy who waited at a top-flight steakhouse. They had about 200 seats and would have as many as sixty people in service (in addition to dozens of cooks and dishwashers). He usually had two to four tables and had to split tips with two or more assistant waiters, a busboy, and the bartender.
I think every communication protocol is destined to eventually be replaced by another communication protocol.
Om Malik Joins True Ventures Full-Time
You guys should add an option for us to put in an optional backup DNS record in the settings.
Fast-growing company in the newest YC batch looking for early business hire
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Like the rest of us on the team, you should be in love with the Internet and everything you can do with it. You should enjoy solving tricky problems and be a great communicator, in person, on the phone and in writing.

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'awkward living accommodations in old buildings'
I always find it amusing when Americans equal old buildings with subpar living conditions. Most of the apartments in Europe's typical 19th century buildings deliver an extremly high standard of housing that would just not be profitable to build today.
Design isn’t just about being really really good looking.
Least Authority's blog post about the audit: https://leastauthority.com/blog/least_authority_performs_sec...
In the US- as far as the FAA and pilot & plane are concerned you need all of your required documentation AND a radio operators license.
Apple Veteran Danese Cooper Named PayPal's First Head of Open Source
Stormpath Launches Secure User Backend for Spring Developers
Yudkowsky is a megalomaniacal dilettante. Sure, there are some interesting ideas at Less Wrong. But don't get sucked into believing that Yudkowsky has the one and only truth, as the majority of the community there believes.

Does MIRI have a single real AI researcher, yet?

Also, as I say down the page, Friendly AI is a silly research project at this stage of AI knowledge. It's like trying to figure out how to make horseless carriages safe before you have an internal combustion engine, or even know what one is. It's an interesting thought experiment, but one that is probably unsolvable before we know a little bit more about what an AI will look like (an emulated human brain? Something else?)
"[I] haven’t seen a new technology in a while that struck me as a real life-changer-at-scale"

C'mon dude... Dogecoin!
Are We Living in a Black Hole?
Probably. I'm having a bad day. I still won't be surprised if it grinds to a halt though.
To put a data point on it, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) put out a study in Nov 2013 that rated the affordability of housing in Canadian major cities.

For Vancouver, it takes 84-88% of your pre-tax income to afford a detached house (page 7 of the report). "Afford" means mortgage (principal+interest), property taxes, utilities, etc.

Okay, so 88% is high right? Well "pre-tax" means before the government gets their cut. In Canada, a high income earner gets taxed roughly 40% of their income and we all pay our mortgages/rent/utilities with post-tax money, so the affordability figure goes up over 100%. That means your entire paycheque is going towards paying for detached housing [2].

IIRC, in the US, you are allowed to deduct your mortgage interest from your income, meaning you get to pay with pre-tax income. But in Canada that is not allowed and you must pay the piper first.

[1] http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/pdf/HA-1127-2013.pdf

[2] Condos are at 42% affordability in Vancouver, which is still disastrously high since it is also using pre-tax income.

edit: 42% for condos, not 47%.

edit 2: corrected to say mortgage interest is deductible from income, based on reply. Thx!
Kiwi Calendar Web app learns your routine to balance work-life
Cloudflare has also been nailed the last 3 weeks in a row causing outages. Just search Twitter for cloudflare DDOS or NTP or etc. etc. etc. At the end of the day there are currently so many slave machines out there we are all vulnerable. It's just the nature of things. At least outages are only temporary. It's much better than the early days were we'd be down for 12 hours at a time. https://twitter.com/search?q=cloudflare%20attack&src=typd
Namecheap DNS service down under DDos
From Namecheap when you login to your account:

"Dear Customers,

We're experiencing a DDoS attack on our DNSv2 system at the moment - this means that any domains that are using DNSv2 or FreeDNS nameservers may experience intermittent availability issues.We are currently in the process of mitigating the attack and are working hard to ensure a quick resolution. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused."
Tesla in talks with Apple's head of mergers and aquisitions
Third-party SDK for iOS lets you replace Apple’s keyboard with Fleksy’s
Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots
A bit more info on the SFO question: http://www.quora.com/How-difficult-or-unusual-would-it-be-to...
But it's clear the group he was working within is in the Bay Area. And so it seems like even going to Seattle would mean changing groups (and possibly the focus of his work) within the company. Moving countries and changing the work you are doing is pretty disruptive.
Of Data “Lost” and (Potentially) Found
I guess I should have said more great things, as Tim has already accomplished a lot.
npm scripts on install or prepublish
https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=51 seems to imply that gerrit still does not know how to review more than one commit at a time
Apologies for claiming it was a founder, that was my faulty memory. I see now that he was head of marketing for some time at SpiderOak.

I hope you get the licensing issues worked out soon.
In the part of Europe where I live, in most restaurants you don't even tip individual waiters. At the end of the day all the tips are summed together and each waiter gets an equal part from the total. This is done so waiters don't fight over who gets which table (i.e. the one with the high tippers in good clothes) and everyone gets a fair compensation.
Uh, you do know that the editing and reviewing are normally done for these journals by mostly government supported academics who don't charge for their time don't you? The academic journal business has devolved into tax payer dollar farming with the usual campaign $$$ payoffs to establish and maintain monopolies.
I met Jim through a friend, and I've seen him at numerous conferences. He was inspiring to be around. His energy and enthusiasm for programming was contagious. Just hanging around the guy was great. I played my first D&D game at a conference with him, and a great board game called Cosmic Encounters. I always looked forward to seeing him. It is a testament to how great he was, that people could have such little interaction with him and he could have such a big impact on their lives.
Norvig's Regex Golf Part 2: Infinite Problems
Citation needed! (Actually, this is the first time I'd ever heard of this idea and I would greatly appreciate any additional reading material you could point me to.)
I would think inspecting & maintaining the actual capacity of the battery would be part of the automated charging system. It would be recorded to a fine a amount of detail. Most airplanes have a more predictable energy consumption model than a typical consumer car also, and since the typical pilot is more sophisticated, can afford to show a more complicated energy display for more accurate energy consumption and range assumptions.

Electric aircraft currently would be very useful for people who live on an island or island cluster or want to do frequent short hop flights. For example Hawaii, the Caribbean, Indonesia, the Philippines, Seattle and the near by gulf islands, etc. I can take a ferry boat for 3 hours at scheduled times or I can hop on my plane for 30 minutes at any practical time at the same cost really changes things for island dwellers. I could live on an island and theoretically commute to work every day for 45minutes of total travel time. Going to Tahoe every weekend wont be a big deal, etc.

It would be also useful for future automated air taxis, since the energy costs would soon dwarf the cost of everything else in those situations.
"...American experiment with car oriented cities..."

America is almost 3,000 miles from coast to coast. 1500 miles or more top to bottom. When the auto became popular, most people lived on farms.

What part of that was an experiment? Perhaps you just meant that in a poetic sense, if so, apologies.

But it bears pointing out, especially to a younger HN audience that might have spent most of their lives on an education or corporate campus, living in easy reach of mass transit -- the way things are now are the result of necessity and efficiency. While I'm discounting the role of urban planning, for the most part it's not like there's somebody somewhere pushing buttons on a huge SimCity.

Once again, apologies if I overreacted to your phraseology.
Google recently announced that they're moving their whole Region of Waterloo office (in Canada) into a larger building to accommodate more growth:
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4368031-google-moving-in...
Things that are cheaper than WhatsApp
I was one of the early customers of Simple. When I received their card in that lovely cardboard with a rubber band on, I was hooked. I really wanted to move to Simple.

But did not. I mean I still have an account a few hundred dollars in it, but I have never found a reason to use it.

My main account is a combination of Credit Union and Chase. Chase's mobile App does all that I need, and the credit union staff are so fantastic, I have stayed with them for 15 years.

In addition Chase comes through for "serious" banking stuff like wire transfers, LoCs etc.

All the best. I still have the cardboard they sent me as an example of how something simple can be lovely.
I'm not a Simple customer but the way I do this at my fuddy-duddy bank is having a separate "spending" account and a "bills" account (two checking accounts). Every week I "pay" myself into the spending account from the bills account (spending is basically food + gas + shopping). Paycheck goes into the bills account which at the start of the month has enough to cover all expected bills for the remainder of that month.
Most people I know who've done it are older and need a hobby and have spare money when their kids are gone and mortgage is paid off.
Well, the post was probably a combination of a bit of hyperbole and lack of details. We go on a 'big' shopping trip once a month or so, where you get all the staples. Then, on a more frequent basis you get the perishables. This lets you efficiently go to small markets for produce, use the quick lanes in groceries, and so on.

But, I am not sure I buy that this is the reason. I don't even know if the report is accurate. Are we really (on the whole) slower than the average Japanese market? I know we have a culture of 'friendliness' at the check out - lots of 'hi, how is your day going' nattering, and if you have a club card they peer at it, mangle your name, ask if they got it right, insist on you giving the correction, then say 'good day Mr Xybpppphhht.' All that slows things down a bit. But laser scanners are pretty fast, and a lot of cashiers really rip through very quickly.

It also might be regional. Thinking about it I think the grocery clerks where I grew up all went hell-bent, and things seem more laid back here in CA.

It's challenging to make pronouncements about an entire country as large and culturally diverse as the US.
This isn't actually surprising, to me. I'm indirectly with BBVA through SmartyPig, which is pretty in line with Simple as well.

Good deal to the Simple team, I hope this works out for everyone involved well.
Tray.io: streamlined app development
Or how about this: a single regex, but with groups that you can walk like a tree:

(((a)|(b))|((c)|(d))) | (((e)|(f))|((g)|(h)))

The number of groups will be O(n * log n). So 10-20 times the number of urls at most. It's certainly not quadratic.

The groups will in depth-first order. It's slightly complicated by the fact that the regexes contain capturing groups themselves, but you can precompute an offset table that accounts for them.

Or give each tree-group a name:

(?<0>(?<00>(?<000>a)|(?<001>b))|(?<01>(?<010>c)|(?<011>d))) | (?<1>(?<10>(?<100>e)|(?<101>f))|(?<11>(?<110>g)|(?<111>h)))

If you use names like that, walking the tree is easy. Just concatenate "0" or "1" to the current node node to find the child nodes. Also, the final matching group name is a binary number corresponding to matching route's index into the list of routes. For example, url "e" has the name "100". That's a binary 4, which is url "e"'s position in the list.
absolutely true, but basically it just means, we need to make it easy to build search engine infrastructure
Too many have bought into the utter bullshit that advertising makes things free, a delusion that helps bury the fact that one had made a deal with the devil. There is no free lunch, and there is no free web. The cost of the "fee lunch" is simply shifted to the price of the things being advertised. In other words we still end up paying. It may even shift costs regressively, to products predominately consumed by those with lower incomes, in which case the poor are subsidizing the better off.

BUT IT'S WORSE...

We end up paying a lot more than if we just paid for our content and services straight up. Not only are you still paying for the costs of the "free website", you are paying for all that advertising overhead, the costs of advertising technology and infrastructure (huge, btw), the agency and creative costs (Don Draper and company have to pay for the hookers and scotch somehow, not to mention what’s-his-name who basically just lounges in his office barefoot thinking Japanese), and big marketing departments that often outnumber the people who actually write or make things.

You are also paying the opportunity cost of inferior product, because that’s what happens when websites have to design to please advertisers over pleasing us, the users. Dalton Caldwell makes this point comparing Sourceforge to Github: http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal.

Our identities and privacy are bought and sold to the highest bidders. So we foot the bill for those bids AND we pay the cost of lost privacy. A double whammy! It's personalization? Bullshit. Personalization means optimizing something for me, not optimizing for the advertiser. Again, who's the real customer?

IT GETS EVEN WORSE...

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.
– Tyler Durden, Fight Club

Think of the social costs of advertising. The web is infested with misinformation and manipulation. Beside the lying ads themselves, relying on a revenue stream entirely dependent on how many ads are seen severely affects the moral choices of those who decide what gets produced and how its presented. What are the costs of a misinformed and variously manipulated citizenry, of distortions to the free-market?

Knowledge and discourse are the lifeblood of both democracy, free markets, progress. The web, from the little scammy websites to the big brand ones that so many blindly trust, has a huge influence on who we vote for, what we buy, and most importantly, what we believe.
extensive data

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7272429 for the data.

It includes the report from RBC that provides data on Canadian housing. Unfortunately it does not include US housing affordability numbers.