skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry you cannot understand this very real issue -- maybe it's because you're biased? People follow Dan Bernstein because he already has a large following in a well recognized field, and even so, 37% of his followers are inactive and 8% are fake [source: statuspeople.com]

Dan Bernstein is by no means the average user. He is also not the type of people Twitter has to retain in order for Twitter to grow into its full potential.

You're talking about gaining followers assuming you are already using Twitter. That's not what this is about. This is about helping newcomers who don't have followers. The average user is NOT retained on Twitter. They leave. The numbers don't lie.
Ask HN: Unicode text variants?
🅆🄷🅈 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒅𝒆 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖉𝖎𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰? I thought each character was supposed to be different. Is it recognized as equivalent by all text-search programs?
We're nearly five years on with ChromeOS and it's barely a blip in the market. The reason is that latency is deadly and if all that's going on is web browsing and media consumption a slate with touchscreen is more attractive than a clamshell with keyboard.

Google's spreadsheet implementation is pretty much like every other alternative to Excel. It implements some fraction of the things which are easy. This makes it good enough and development stalls and people for whom spreadsheets really matter stick with Excel. Microsoft is often accused of missing trends, but spreadsheets are not one of them. Excel is the killer app that drives Windows sales for corporate desktop systems.

There's a reason it remains uncontested even by Google. Doing what Microsoft does with Excel is really hard...or at least the hard parts are.
The second half is quite true though:

or some other people that is having a few bad weeks, is finding an escape playing at it.
New Jersey Votes to Block Tesla’s Direct Sales
Of course it is. If you don't want to be hit with or lose a patent infringement lawsuit, you'd damn well better search for applicable patents so you can avoid them.

Perversely, if you simply assume there will be patent lawsuits you will lose, you're better off not finding them, lest you then be hit with treble damages.

For a small entity, of course, it doesn't matter. Your legal bills will bankrupt you anyway.
Pretty sure Berners-Lee isn't under the jurisdiction of the Bill of Rights.
Linuxbrew: Homebrew for linux
Kind of like a modern version of a numbers station[1]. I love to think that this is the explanation, but it's probably more mundane.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Creating a moral high ground isn't necessarily a "useless suggestion." Nation-states require the moral acquiescence of it's citizens. Something that is given tacitly can be taken away rather violently.
swipe up down left right?
Emacs is Sexy
Google would be suing the wrong entity and the case would be dismissed by an unamused judge who sanctions Google's lawyers for being idiots who wasted the court's time.

Google needs to sue the limited liability entity Joe is working within.
my AI won the game with a score of 20388

pic: https://cloudup.com/chDTLSElXDN
I'm not completely disagreeing with you - but I'm also not agreeing with you. When I look at the way my company has adopted Google Sheets, I think Microsoft might have more trouble on their hands. While certainly there are hardcore spreadsheet tasks that only Excel can do, I find that most common business tasks that people use spreadsheets for (e.g. present a budget) are more than well supported by Google. Now, this is not to say that this translates to user adoption - I have no idea if they are actually displacing Excel users, but I do think they are aiming for the fat part of the bat.
Man...those comments are a rabbit hole of tinfoil goodness. If you haven't gotten enough unhinged conspiracy speculation, this is all you need. Everything from "OMFG ter'rists!" to "Aliens, of course".
P.E.S Rock SP -- SP Rock City
www.facebook.com / p.e.srocksp
www.myspace.com / p.e.srockspband
P.E.S ROCK SP - SP Rock City Song. This is a clip from PES band in which a preview of the song'' Rock City'' SP Dream album in 35 mm, the latest album by the band is presented.
Magna Carta is more akin to "The Main Letter".
I don't see this sort of product exlanding the market for Docs significantly.

A hundred bucks per user per year is not an unreasonable business proposition. Yet part of the attraction of Google Docs is that it's free as in hog pens and slop troughs and there seems to be an impedance mismatch which only grows as a user winds up with several third party tools of congruent utility and similar cost.
I am always confused by this. I think the primary reason for picking a language is how simple it is to write something in it.

So if I can call scipy and get the result easily in one line, I would do that. When implementing new algorithms, it will indeed be easier with Julia.

Pypy unfortunately cannot be used by most people who would benefit a lot from it because numpy/scipy isn't currently supported.

I am curious if you tried running your pypy code with Numba.
P.E.S Rock SP – (City of Lights) 
P.E.S Rock SP - Song CITY OF LIGHTS.
This is a clip from PES band in which a preview of the song'' City of Light'' album Dream in 35 mm, the latest album by the band is presented.
node supervisor.
I don't think there is such a thing, at a personal level. At least I've never heard of one before. Why?
Scammers, too, assuming that whoever paid for the retweet wasn't told that the only followers were other bots.
Why is it more acceptable to disenfranchise 15 year olds than 16 year olds? Would your logic lead to all citizens being allowed to vote, including 1 day old babies? If not, why?
Szabo Discussing Pseudonyms, Digicash on Cypherpunks List in 1993
And here he admits to fake name use:

"In my limited experience creating Internet pseudonyms, I've been quite
distracted by the continual need to avoid leaving pointers to my
True Name lying around -- excess mail to/from my True Name, shared
files, common peculiarities (eg misspellings in written text), traceable
logins, etc. The penet.fi site explicitly maintains a list of pointers
to the original address. All kinds of security controls -- crypto, access,
information, inference -- have to be continually on my mind when using
pseudonymous accounts. The hazards are everywhere. With our current
tools it's practically impossible to maintain an active pseudonym for a
long period of time against a sufficiently determined opponent, and
quite a hassle to maintain even a modicum of decent security. Pointers
to info and/or tools to enable the establishment and maintenance of a
net.nym, beyond the standard cypherpunks PGP/remailer fare with which
I'm now familiar, greatly appreciated. Especially nice would be a list
of commercial net providers that allow pseudonymous accounts."
This explains why politicians who have youth appeal would favour the policy, but gaining political traction is not an achievement in and of itself (to the non-politicians).
How we use HipChat to keep the (distributed) UserVoice team in sync
I pointed Azure at my github account and it automatically deploys - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web...
Give the landlords incentives to legalize the dwellings (rebates on the work for bringing units into compliance for example). In some cases this would require lowering the legal size of a unit, which I believe they are planning to do anyway to allow developers to build sub 300 square ft units. It's not as if San Francisco is above sweet heart deals to get what it wants (see mid Market development).

Would also be good for the local economy as it would generate work for electricians, plumbers, builders, painters and decorators etc.

After a suitable period of time (say 5 years) and ton of publicity then start cracking down on the remaining non-compliant units.
A Bayesian approach would likely show how flawed linguistic analysis is. a false positive rate of say 0.1%, for example, over the 7 or so billion people who aren't satoshi would be huge
A Craftsman and Their Tools – Tools you’ll use when learning Rails
Is it recognized as equivalent by all text-search programs?

The magic words you want to look for are [Unicode canonicalization], which aspires to make that (and other string-comparison needs) actually work. Implementation quality across the universe of programs is... mixed.
Honestly, I haven't even read it because I'm tired and I'll leave it for tomorrow, but this is the reason I check HN, I've gotten good enough at skimming through and article and the comments to know when an post is worth it and this looks awesome, not much of a point, just happy to see quality material in HN (not a rant, just happy to find a great post).
Why aren't auto manufacturers jumping on the idea of selling directly to the public? Do they get some benefit from middlemen that Tesla doesn't, or is it just because they are so established doing things one way they won't consider other ways?
Minus Apple, this is me.

The problem is further exacerbated by the fact that if you go straight to TPB you could have it already downloaded and ready to watch in less time than it takes to try and find a way to pay them. They've set the barrier to entry too high.
For the same thing I am searching from long time
Blaming this on politicians is lazy and narrowsighted. Compromise is a two way street:

Landowners get zoning rules that prevent them from competing with highrise apartment buildings, turning desirable regions into pressure-cookers that drive rents and property values sky-high.

Tenants get rent control that shields them from the from the worst of the landowner-cartel's machinations. Not as well as they were promised at voting time, but they don't typically invest as much in local politics, so that's to be expected.

The real losers are the people who would move into a neighborhood if they could. They don't get any representation in the local government. That's either a feature or a bug, depending on which side of the fence you're on :)
Strange, I just went through the interview process for SRE at Google, and didn't have any such problems. (And I don't even have a degree.)
I have heard that, for most retailers, most of their losses are due to internal theft. Hence lots of video cameras, and background checks to a degree that seem a little absurd, plus loss prevention investigations, record keeping, and lots of internal audits. What really sounds odd are the bag checks and pat-downs. Pat-downs especially, at least partly since they seem likely to lead to sexual harassment suits. I can't think of a solid legal reason not to do bag checks, but it sounds so demeaning and pointless, unless you work somewhere where tens of thousands in inventory could legitimately be snuck out through somebody's backpack. If you're selling diamonds or gold jewelry, I could see it, but sporting goods? What are they supposedly stealing that can be snuck out in a backpack and will lead to a meaningful loss before somebody figures it out?

Ike's situation is what bothers me about the current criminal justice system, though. If you get a conviction on your record for anything moderately serious, you're just done. He could tell the truth, and get locked out right off the bat, or lie, and maybe get caught later. We've probably all done dumb stuff when we were young. If you happen to get busted for something at the wrong time, well, good luck ever getting a semi-professional job again. Years and years of dedicated service are nothing against some dumb mistake a decade ago.

I'll admit that I tend to think that a lot of petty thieves are doing it for the thrills rather than desperation for survival. But what do we really expect them to do after they get caught? Even if they do some time and learn their lesson, it looks like they have damn few options for making a clean living, no matter how skilled and dedicated they are. I don't have any idea how many ex-cons are making a legit effort to live a clean life after they do their time, but we sure don't seem to be making it easy for them. And we're surprised that most of them go back to crime and get busted again? I'm not sure exactly how to solve it, but it surely needs some work.
I would love to hear what kind of rationale can be given for banning a car company from directly marketing and selling its own products to consumers.
Speak for yourself dude. emacs has gotten me laid.
I had no idea ".sexy" was actually a real TLD. Huh.
Are you sure the value you got from the metrics exceeds the bad will generated by annoying your potential customers?

To me it's a lack of respect for your users and their time.
This is also the state that doesn't allow self-service when you pump gas in your car.
So, as the freshman junior Senator who just unseated Dianne Feinstein, you must be pretty confident to take on some of the most contentious issues in contemporary legislation: restructuring capital gains, redistricting, and expanding the voting age. What will you do if everybody else laughs at you? There's almost 250 years of structure and tradition in the Senate, they aren't going to respond to a suggestion they run everything according to the Agile Manifesto.
So Obi Obadike purchases retweets, since she retweets him a lot.
Ask HN: Films for Hackers?
Hey everyone,

I normally avoid television like the plague, but a few friends have convinced me of the beauty in film. Out of curiosity, what movies would you recommend? Whether related to hacking or not, what have you found most fascinating / meaningful / intellectually stimulation / etc?

Forgive me for being off-topic, but Hacker News provides some interesting perspectives, and I'm curious.
See also: http://vim.sexy/ (if that's your thing)
How to Build a Power Station at the South Pole
I think someone is paying someone else off. The automotive lobby is big and powerful.
Wise people can learn from fools. The opposite is not true.
They already have the dealership networks...
That's exactly what the auto manufacturers want. They're blocked by the dealership lobby.

Relevant Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/12/171814201/episode-...
Disclosure: I'm a happy HelloSign user.

This is what HelloSign has done since the beginning. Take a picture with your phone, send the signature in, and you can attach it to most anything. It sounds like it's not directly exposed in the Google docs addon, but you can still jump to the full app to do it.
Solitaire is perfectly winnable.

I have finished solitaire a lot of times.
What's his blog hosted on...?
I didn't realize this was so common:

> Tesla has won recent legislative battles in states like Washington, Ohio, New York and Minnesota, but states such as Texas, Arizona and Virginia have retained or added laws limiting the company’s ability to operate stores.
The introductory paragraph of the article makes my head hurt.
Ditto. It's very short and I only barely managed to read the title as condescending at all, and it's a stretch.
Sparse Matrices and the London Electronic Music Scene
Plan for 3-6 months just for contract approval, AFTER a yes.

Also be very careful about IP when collaborating. Budget lots for lawyers, especially when selling to academic centers.
What's stopping Tesla (or Elon Musk) from starting a new dealership corporation that happens to sell Teslas?
These bans were first put in place to ensure there'd be local service shops available from dealerships, I believe.
Next up: New Jersey prohibits registration of cars bought direct.
iTunes isn't available for my many platforms, now what?
Tutorial on how to convert AVI to MP4 with DVDFab Video Converter
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Thanks for open-sourcing. I just released a Chrome Extension for Twitter this weekend, to make building Twitter lists easier[1]. It's handy to compare approaches.

[1] https://github.com/ryanwi/listbuilder-ext
Here are the major exemptions to Rent Control in SF:

1. You live in a building constructed after June of 1979.

2. You live in subsidized housing, such as HUD housing projects.

3. You live in a dormitory, monastery, nunnery, etc.

4. You live in a residential hotel and have less than 28 days of continuous tenancy.

So most of the new developments in the last 30 years aren't covered by RC.
A lot of these are solved problems. In one neighborhood in NYC the local mesh wifi was able to provide better internet service than Verizon. http://rhicenter.org/redhookwifi/

Bittorrent could be scoped to the country too, it doesn't have to seed or download across the ocean.
Candy Crush is NP-hard
> Fortunately, SD cards are on the way out,

I don't know about you, but I'd rather not sacrifice my freedom to manage storage for a little temporary security...
The short answer: very few state legislators have auto manufacturers in their districts, but every one of them has car dealers.
Direct link to PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.1911v1.pdf
The most significant bit of that being that you have to break the law in order to use the content you've payed for.
Not to sound flip, but my programmatic experience with Twitter, leads me to believe most of it seems to be one big botnet. Do any largish API crawl of Twitter and you'll be amazed by the large % of inactive accounts or non-sensical accounts (which I assume to be bots)

My personal experience (where I mostly follow news organization feeds) is different.

In short, in my experience it seems Twitter is great as a broadcasting medium and not so great as a two way communications medium.
Whats to stop a NJ resident from going to NY to purchase a Tesla direct? Is their a a big financial penalty for doing so when registering? What is to stop a grey market of NY residents reselling them to NJ consumers if so? This makes no sense.
It also hinges heavily on how you're tracking these A/B results. There's less certainty and value in simply saying "Group A ended up booking more" — if metrics indicated a statistically higher percent of users complete the purchase at that particular page with the single change on it.

Now that we know it worked for Kayak and not another company, we can delve into why to further inform everyone's future decisions. IMO a padlock with more pure language would do better, but only another A/B test by Kayak or similar company would validate this.
Guys, you really have a problem if you find a piece of software sexy... I absolutely love software, software development, and everything about it, but WOMEN are sexy, NOT software!
Please don't degrade women with phrases like this!
It doesn't count when you fuck emacs. No matter how many .el files are involved, there has to be another human participating for it to count.
This is a huge deal. Right now it's an absolute bear to package software for linux. It's almost too cumbersome to even bother because even after you figure it all out there is an endless vetting process that is different for every distro. It's purposely designed to be like hard freshman classes in order to weed people out.

The pain of package management (using apt, yum), pain of software distribution (builing DEBs, RPMs and setting up a distribution point) is especially apparent when juxtaposed to packaging software for and using homebrew on my mac.

When we finally get distributions that use this as their main package manager we will have overcome a huge barrier for getting people involved with developing and distributing software on linux. The ripple effect of this is enormous. We need more people involved in this process. Collaboration here is many times better than a lone maintainer toiling away.
Speed up your site by loading Font Awesome asynchronously
Gadgets to Boost Bike Safety
Isn't this "Bridgegate" Christie?
Apparently it's fine in New York though. Can you somehow just buy one in New York and drive it back? It's not too far away.
>What difference does it make?

to me it does. I think as a society we're at the level when we can allow and thus must allow to cut some slack to disabled people, and temporarily or permanent lack of ability to reason is a disability just like not having a leg for example. When some limping guy with a stick say stumble and hit you while falling, would you deploy your anger like it would be in the case of intentional hit? The same way with people who may not be able to function in the society and manage their societal responsibilities at the level we think of as minimally acceptable. Whatever reason for their current condition, to me these are just ill people who need help instead of full legal violence deployed against them. Though, from pure logical point of view, we can just say to this woman that last 20 years she should have learned her some Python, and thus her situation is her own doing. In my personal view, our ability to rein in such logic and deploy compassion instead of it is what determines whether our civilization goes forward or backward.
I hate dealers, every time I buy a car it is always a stressful experience. Dealers are trying to cheat me on every my step.

Last time I was via PenFed Car Buying Service, got a "guaranteed" web quote:

Got the dealer:

Sure, we will honor the price. But all of our cars have door guards installed - that's $500 extra. We just don't sell the cars without door guards.

Got the contract for the car:

Some extra maintenance plans included for an another $900, forced to remove them. Oh and the dealer made an another mistake for $1000, couldn't add up two numbers together (damn liar). An hour later got a fixed contract.

Got to the financing guy who is trying to sell me extended warranty and gap insurance for about an hour.

And that's over 6-7 hours at the dealership... /vented
I'm friends with the person who made emacs.sexy, and that no doubt was an influence. He loves emacs & wants to share it with the world (while vim.sexy clearly has a big element of parody to it).

I'd forgotten about the awesome tron legacy article he linked until I saw this.
Do you have any specific suggestions on how to connect with the higher level decision maker when you were contacted by a lower level employee? Thanks for the great article.
no it doesn't produce a "livable salary", it pushes costs of "livable-salaried" employees to the public.
I'm going to assume that this is parody? Poe's law and all. I know folks of various genders who love & find emacs sexy.
This game is ridiculously addictive
You should lookup gobolinux
No, this is my honest opinion: if you find software sexy, you have a sirious problem. You should interact with people MUCH more.
The difference is today, flames are hugely aided by convection.

Or in other words, there's a world of harm that can be done by putting a huge number of these malcontents in contact with each other in a way that they can all cooperate, with laser focus on a single subject.
One Laptop Per Child may be done
I can make your CSS smaller.
This is what pg tweeted earlier today:

Banning Tesla is an index of the corruptness of state governments as banning Uber is of city governments. (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/443469758369767425)

A very astute observation, as usual.