skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957282

That discussion includes some breakdowns of possible voting numbers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957513). I don't think it would be a slam dunk for Republican senators but it would be a lot more likely. (dragonwriter's followup to my numbers analysis is important and accurate.)
I'm not sure about the Russkies, but I seem to recall that showing the bottom of your shoe to someone is insulting in the Middle East (?).
> I can't be the only one who refuses to use their service because of it

Certainly not, but the vast majority of people seem to be willing to trust them and pay for service, so I can understand why it's not a priority. I'm not trying to say you're wrong -- I'd like to see source for SpiderOak, too -- I'm just saying that I understand why it hasn't happened.
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Robinhood, the commission-free brokerage startup, releases promo video
I am a customer of theirs. It's quite limited, and I don't think I can recommend it unfortunately. They're nice people and their support is peerless, but people don't tend to choose a bank on those criteria.
Besides, Seattle weather and landscape are a lot like Vancouver (and lot less expensive).
Mint categorizes most of my stuff correctly, it can take a little learning for it to know what services are tied to what category. Also, I see Simple and Mint as different services. At least how I use Mint, I track all of my income and expenses through it (loans, cards, investments, etc...), while simple just handles a single bank card. While there is some overlap in functionality between the 2, I don't see them as the same.
Then one can build a client that mimics one very used bundled client. (so they can't just say "update or you can't log in anymore").

I know that you can't used the outdated version on Android for much longer without being cut off access.
Good luck convincing the rest of the country to give your region 10 new senators.
Can you give a particular example?

I live in the South Bay/Santa Clara and my neighborhood is a diverse collection of Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Europeans immigrants, and African Americans. SV segregation in my area isn't primarily racial, but classist. Most if not all of the people in my neighborhood are white collar professionals -- engineers, lawyers, doctors.

There are concentrated ethnic enclaves in the area like Cupertino, but these are primarily based on school district preferences.
They took hostages from Berkut. Rebels do have police equipment.

Also, notice the gun used? It is not exactly police issue.
Most companies have processes to avoid hiring these kind of cowboys.

LOL!

Do these companies test problem identification skills?

On the mark. Maybe it's because the problems prefer not to be identified.
I use http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/ because it has a better interface and infinite scrolling.
what was the cause of death?
Musk had to make his fortune first...
The problem with the United States is that there are too many states rather than not enough of them. The states are too small and weak to solve their own problems (e.g, health care, high speed rail) so they have to rely on a dysfunctional federal government that can't solve
any real problems these days (e.g., education, immigration, and of course health care).
Presently, correct. But that's the risk of allowing third-party clients with an unpublished protocol spec. Right now they can break anything they want. If they don't limit third-party clients, their hands could become tied by too many people using it.

EDIT: Note: I'm not a fan of proprietary protocols. I'm just describing what I see as the position of a company that wants to monetize a network like this. If the network and client is the revenue source, then third party clients work against you. Allowing the third party clients to gain too large a share of your user base means that breaking compatibility could have significant network effects against you as those users move to another platform and bring their friends and family along.
lol "Mathilde are you back from the pub"?
The FAA also created a new license class called 'Sport Pilot' about 10 years ago that only takes 20 hours of flight training, which makes it much easier and cheaper to get into flying [1]. However, this comes with limitations like only able to take one passenger, only able to fly during the day, in good weather, only in a small aircraft, etc.

[1] http://www.aopa.org/Advocacy/Regulatory-,-a-,-Certification-...
Google are really consolidating in a few offices, mainly MV, NYC, Zurich, possibly London and Tokyo. MV is a whole different ballgame to the other locations and is a world unto itself.
Would this mean everyone in CA would need to get new licenses?
Most of the time when I have tried DDG the results I got back looked like spam I would get if I clicked on the 3 or 4 result page from a Google search.
I keep a few hundred bucks in a Simple account just so I get access to more ATMs. Other than that, they've been pretty underwhelming. A slick smartphone app doesn't make up for all their other lacking features.
And the #1 tip for United States-ers visiting Japan? If you're a woman, burn your dirty underwear to keep every male above the horizon from trying to sniff it.
That's not really Silicon Valley specific. The entire criminal justice system in the US is racist. Just look at how "Stand Your Ground" laws are applied when African Americans are defending themselves.
There's no public report available.
We wouldn’t want to confuse anybody, would we?
I've taken to tipping 18%, and the process I use to calculate that mentally starts with what you mentioned, but with one more step:

Divide by 10 for 10%; double that number for 20%. Take 10% away from that number to get 18%.

E.g.

100 check
move the decimal => 10
double that => 20
move the decimal => 2
subtract previous value from the one before (thus 90% of 20%, or 18%) => 18

This feels like a good mental math exercise to me on a 4- or 5-digit number since it requires a couple of values to be remembered while you're calculating. Gotta stay sharp!
The best I've found are with Ally -- 0.85% for a MM account and 0.25% for a checking account. Still pretty meaningless, which is why, despite banking with Ally, I keep a sizable amount of my money in Betterment.
There's a very black-ops feel to the Venezuela protests…
There is no way you can be an expert in your software's functionality and in packaging, especially for more than one distribution.

The goal of packaging your own software shouldn't be to spin up a public repository of your own, but to get it into distribution repositories. You don't need to be an expert to make decent packages, nor do you have to toil on your own for perfection. Just have something to show for yourself when you get the package reviewed by the distribution maintainers.
You don't think that Vienna is drivable?

It doesn't strike me an any more or less drivable than anywhere else in Europe. It's certainly not Amsterdam.

The entire SWPL fascination with non-driving cities, or for that matter opposed to sprawl, is just weird. So some people like to drive: That doesn't oppress you.

I personally love suburban cities. Everything is so easy: You can hop in your car and be anywhere you want in 5-25 mins. Meander about, get lost, have fun: Driving itself is relaxing and enjoyable (I never go during traffic times).

I now live in a walkable city and just do not enjoy the 5-25min walks to get where I want. I'd rather drive. Public transport, even in cities with great infrastructure, is soul crushingly slow and inefficient. I've lived in places with some of the best subway systems on earth, so they say, and I choose: Never again.

Call me lazy, that's exactly what it is, but some people do prefer driving.
Simple just recently added free instant transfers between Simple accounts. Not as convenient as a joint account, but that's good enough for my wife and I to make the move to Simple.
Beware of renice
There's something deeply moving about his last commit becoming a memorial to him. I actually shed a tear when I saw this.
This sounds to me like a case of a people problem being blamed on tools.
There are 10 times more murders per capita in the US than my home country.

An entire order of magnitude makes one stop and think.

If I offered you a drive in two different cars, and one was an order of magnitude more likely to burst into flames - which one would you choose?
Interesting to see how the priorities beginning to shift once somebody gets ready to make a deal with the devil.
OP's motivations might be different, but a non native english speaker might find that this kind of short, unoffensive and straight to the point corrections could be very useful indeed.
Cultural difference ahead.

The idea that I am getting "a nice treatment" because I pay more makes me a little uncomfortable. I'm ok with, let's say, discounts or anything that could be considered "commercial services" (like a gift or an extra), but knowing that someone is nicer to me because I pay extra makes me feel weird...

All the "we're spending an obscene amount of money, so we're going to need a lot more help sucking up to us" kind of thing is something that baffles me, as it obviously fake...
Compilers course I had
The question I was answering was about incest and racism.
While it's not a customer friendly viewpoint, it's not exactly what happened here. You have to consider what is being provided and how much was paid into it for said service. Had they been paying a lot of money for solid DNS I could agree with you, but they weren't.

It's a completely free service. With an extremely low price for domains.

Even though it's become almost a standard for domain registrars to provide DNS, it's still free. I've been using NC for years for my business (also a free service) and the downtime for what it provides has been mostly minimal.

Now if I was paying namecheap specifically for enterprise DNS something like $10/month or $40/year and it included DDoS protection then yes I should be compensated. Namecheap gave people what they paid for - a domain, the DNS is just a really great perk.
Google not able to get remote working working? Seems flawed that a system requires everyone to move to one location to work, and a broken system that lives on from the past (why take hours of employees days commuting?). There are times when that is needed, there are other times when that is bad and external insight is easier remotely.

Yahoo and possibly Google doing this, leading to more congestion in the Bay Area, and not spreading the innovation around to other cities. Google can do better.

Maybe their next move is a Costco sized open office where everyone can sit right next to one another, no need for Hangouts.
I have a simple account, and I don't find it hard to budget money or track, nor really use the bank interface to do much than paybills.

I really found it as an unnecessary layer.
Talk about A Singular Christmas at the Automatic Music Hackathon
Yes, multiple DNS providers should be the way to go.
So? Asking earnestly, what exactly is your point? That the title offends you because it uses the phrase "work around"?

Adding a relative path to a *PATH variable is clever, elegant, useful, and uncommon. It resolves a problem not directly (by changing how 'require' works internally), but indirectly, aka "working around" it.
I live in Oakland. It's "East Bay", but that's still "Bay Area". There's clearly differences, but much more of the bay is bordered by Oakland than SF. Oakland is more like SF than either is like Marin, which is also still "Bay Area".
Chute’s (YC W12) new commerce offering turns any online store into a social hub
> Duck duck is barely usable ... but they don't spy on you.

1. You don't know that.

2. No search engine ever spied on you when they started.
Dogs Understand Human Emotion, Says Study
No.

You're factually correct that it is like premature optimizing code, but it is a hobby for quite a few people to optimize their lives. Others collect money. Some friends do board games. Or sport. (Personally, I spend a lot of time learning about some odd interests.)
> Simply (no pun intended) building a layer on top of the existing banking infrastructure...

This was what turned me off. I signed up for an invite right after they announced the service (something like 2-3 years ago at this point, when they were still BankSimple). But they took sooooo long to launch and in the meantime I became disenchanted with corporate banking. With Simple, the money still ends up in corrupt financial institutions and that's something I can't morally justify (I realize I am probably still doing business with corporate banks, but why do more than necessary?).

I now use a local credit union and I get far, far better service than I ever did with BoA. The credit union has a branch 3 blocks from my apartment, across the street from where I work, and on campus at school. Plus they have ATMs in many of the local businesses I visit. Simple just can't compete with that, so for me, it's all upside.
When there are elections in the Vancouver area, you see people of all backgrounds and colors running for office. The same is decidedly not true in the US. How many election posters have you seen where the candidate is wearing a turban, or has a name that's difficult to pronounce for "native" Americans?
Nice work. My brother has been doing this manually for sometime... useful tool.
Entrepreneurs used to start banks knowing they were building a lasting institution.

Banks have survived hundreds of years, through hardships like depression and war, long after their founders were all gone.

Now the business model is "shop around for a buyer if your growth isn't high enough in the first five years."

Kind of sad.
I suspect that moving countries becomes a significant issue when you have a family. In a weird way, Seattle's proximity and similarity might count against it - you'd have to go through a lot of hurdles just to end up in an incredibly similar situation, a short ferry ride away from where you were.
ASK HN: SAAS Update Feed
I am trying to find a SAAS feed for building out the conversation and updates feed on a new product. Ideally something in the vein of google+ update UX. I am aware of many of the social API's for the big networks and the frameworks API's but find most to try and take on so much of the social stuff (do not need profiles, groups, pages, etc). Thought maybe a startup has/was taking this on.
Ok - let's say you made no suggestion - just pointed out an 'advantage'.

In this case, it is a severe disadvantage, because it exposes unsophisticated users to malware and spam just so that they can install clones of a bad game they've heard about because of a media flap.
Better ask the folks researching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation
Take the two top states (purple & blue) and make them vertical (one coastal, one inland) as opposed to horizontal. That would probably be enough to tip the scales.

I do think it might be a problem for Democrats in the first place because CA would no longer be an electoral fortress. Much like the plan to split NYC and surrounding counties from NY state.

I am more interested in water policy once a split occurs. I would imagine some desalination plants would finally be built.
I stand corrected. It's on Rackspace, which apparently is also experiencing issues.
These Mercer livability rankings are based on quality of life for expatriates working for multinational corporations. Every year these rankings make the headline rounds but articles fail to mention that detail or explain why that's important. In particular these rankings don't account for cost of living in the way you would expect if it were a real "quality of living" survey. This becomes a ranking of "how well you can live in a city on an unlimited budget".
If by "consolidating in a few offices" you mean that growth in MTV, NYC, and ZRH is outpacing growth in places like Boulder, Cambridge, and Kirkland then you're correct; that doesn't mean that the smaller offices aren't growing as well, however.
"life" which comes with consciousness is simply the universe reflecting on itself. Everything in the universe is made up of atoms including "ourselves".

Cells are the basic building blocks of life. We are made up of trillions of cells. If each cell were "conscious", they would think of you the same way we think of the interconnected consciousness of the 7 billion humans on this planet.

What I'm trying to say is that there are layers upon layers of "life". I believe it goes on endlessly in both directions and sometimes we get trapped into thinking too much about "I" or "me".

Life is what it is. Enjoy the fact that you're able to see and undertand a very small glimpse of it. That is truly a miracle.
Do you have a good link for numbers on this css point? I would expect speed differences, but my naive view would be that they wouldn't be much.
I wonder if this could be solved by creating fake personas, like "computer geek", or "professional programmer".

You opt into one or few of this personae and each query sent to a search engine would track this persona.

The key is that these categories should be few and predefined (i.e. offered by the search engine) so that they cannot be used to track individual users.
No, they probably don't work the same amount.

(and there are probably more people taking a share of the larger tip)
Google Chrome.app is pretty much constantly on the list of apps using significant energy so I don't think that's unusual.

I'm using 13" Air and have 10hours+ of battery time with it.
I'm a simple customer...

First: $117M? That seems like an astonishingly low amount of money.

Second: The service you get from simple really is that good, probably better than what most people would expect. The app is amazing, their website is amazing, their customer support is amazing.

It feels like a bank from the 21st century, not from the stone age.

This acquisition actually makes me really sad. Simple is awesome, and I really hope that it doesn't get screwed up by this.
http://gwern.net/docs/1985-hofstadter
How does Simple compare to something like Ally (http://www.ally.com)? Thinking about switching banks recently - are online only banks pretty nice, or do they have drawbacks?
That's not a market failure, but that's rather using a market failure as a hook impose a particular ideology about what the internet should look like.

The ideology is what you think is the result of the market failure, whether it's being used as a "hook," or something else. Heck, whether it can even be defined as a market failure can been argued to be a value judgement these days.
When I was a kid without a bank account, a 401K or other investments to worry about, I used to put my money in envelopes: one for a new bike; one for a video game, etc. I could glance at my cash and know exactly what was safe to spend without performing mental math.

Simple's Safe to Spend feature is the digital equivalent. I can aside money for rent and emergencies in digital envelopes. I never thought personal finance was fun and easy until I began using Simple. It changed the way I think about money.
Greater Vancouver is at least as racially segmented as SF, perhaps more so. The major difference is the ethnic enclaves here aren't poor so it's not as disturbing. For example, Richmond is the largest Chinese city in the world outside of China. It's a relatively affluent place.

As far as housing goes, Vancouver's is among the most unaffordable in the world, along with the likes of Hong Kong (as measured by price to rent and price to income). So yes, it is indeed worse than SF. Maybe Bray isn't up on the latest from Vancouver or something.
This isn't about Dem versus GOP imo. It's about Silicon Valley against the rest of the world.
Yeah - at least right now this worked for me. Thank you for the tip!
Except you know... they won't be the same state anymore. It won't be too many years before they act like six competing states because of competing interests.

By staying one state, California has the benefit of being one of the most powerful economies on the planet which, even without having things pass at the federal government, allows significant world power.

California's car efficiency standards over the years for instance basically forced every car company that sells a car in the US to up their efficiency. There is no chance that would happen if it was just 1/6th of California.
Chicago and Seattle/Kirkland are still growing, however. There has been a lot of consolidation, but also to offices other than those listed.
PhiSix Fashion Lab Acquired By Ebay.
There are millions of guns in the US. Consider it a power keg if any of this events you see overseas ever happened here.

Hence the police know they better be even better armed than the civilians and shoot to kill first. This is why we have police officers that kill kids holding phones or game console controllers.

I cannot say the US is worse than elsewhere as is, I am saying it could be worse than elsewhere if the events you see elsewhere happened here. It would be a wasteland. We kind of got a mini-preview of that after New Orleans flooded, there was some seriously criminal police behavior.
More importantly it actually comes out alongside crude oil so the cost of getting it out of ground is minimal. Many oil rigs simply burn it on site instead of containing it due to the difficulty in containment and transport. There is actually a big issue in North Dakota at the moment where all the natural gas that comes up along with the oil is simply burned as there are no pipelines out there yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flare
They are getting closer and closer so we're at a somewhere in the middle design where it doesn't really feel out of place on either platform. In some areas you can admittedly tell we leaned heavily towards iOS (i.e. pickers). Three factors led us this direction.

a) We're a small company, we can't make having separate android and ios teams feasible. Writing and maintaining a single code base and separating out ui/platform concerns from that was ideal.

b) User training is much simpler if the app walks and talks exactly the same way when you have a large number of not-necessarily-technical users. Especially when some of those users may have android phones and iOS tablets and hop between the two.

c) Similar to b, customer support is much simpler when things work the same way and look the same way, again, especially for not-necessarily-technical users. Sending screenshots, directing over the phone or email, etc, all get much much simpler.
>>"Supporters of a plan to divide California into six sates"

I would take this news article a bit more seriously if they had spelled "states" correctly in the first sentence...
I'm not sure that either side is exactly lacking in money or political power. One of the characteristics that many of the tea party members share is a skepticism with regards to climate change (or global warming), and the tea party has a lot of money and political power.

That doesn't affect who is right, of course. But everyone on both sides of this debate seems to have this notion that their side is the scrappy underdog going against a political and corporate behemoth manipulating the truth for profit.
Well even if you switch to a different (working) nameserver, the old nameserver will still be cached all over the place so it will still appear down for many people.
> We give everyone their own dev environment that's a full stack of DuckDuckGo. It's a full machine. Some people are using eMacs.

Is this like how foreign words get remapped into Japanese syllables? Fast Company tech writers only speak Apple? chuckles
Seattle is still growing, expanding its office space, building new cafes, etc. I'm pretty sure Seattle (and Kirkland) are in it for the long haul.
No, but I don't choose a bank because they have budget tools, you can easily use Mint for that for free if you need that sort of thing.